HERNAN CORTÉS. (4th and 5th letter. Casual mention.)
PEDRO DE ALVARADO. Seventeen letters to Hernan Cortés, the first of which is dated: Utlatlan, 11 April, 1524. Only two of those letters were printed, the remaining fifteen are yet in MSS. Mr. E. G. Squier owned MS. copies of the whole, but whither they went at his sale I do not know. The two which were published (11 April and 28 July), appeared in the following works: "Delle navigationi et viaggi, &c." by Gian Battista Ramusio. Venice, Italian version. The "due lettere de Pietro d' Alvarado," are contained in the 3d volume, editions of 1556, 1565, and 1606.
OVIEDÓ. "Historia y natural de las Indias." Vol. III. Written between 1535 and 1557, but printed only 1853. Madrid.
ANDRÉS GONZALEZ BARCIA. "Historiadores primitivos de Indias." Madrid, 1749, Vol. I.
H. TERNAUX-COMPANS. "Premier recueil de piéces relatives à la conquéte du Méxique." Paris, 1838.--French translation.
ENRIQUE DE VEDIA. "Historiadores primitivos de Indias." Madrid, 1852. (Vol. I.)
These letters, from the conqueror of Guatemala, are very important, and the 15 unpublished ones should be printed at the earliest possible moment.
FRANCISCO LOPEZ DE GOMARA. (Quite full, and mentions the earliest author giving the etymology--or rather, an etymology--of the word "Cuauhtemallan"--This is the earliest _printed_ notice about it.)
GONZALO FERNANDEZ DE OVIEDO Y VALDÉS. (Has other information besides Alvarado's letters.)
BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS CASAS. (Very important, particularly on the interior provinces pertaining or adjacent to his bishopric of Chiapas.)
GIROLAMO BENZONI. (Visited Guatemala himself, and although brief, he still is valuable.)
PETRUS MARTYR, AB ANGLERIA. (Brief notice, in connection with the movements of Alvarado, in the last decade, Cap's V. and X.--earliest reports on Guatemala in general, received in Europe.)
FRAY TORIBIO DE PAREDES, SURNAMED MOTOLINIA. (Not only the "Historia de las Indias de Nueva-España," contains incidental reference to Guatemala,--but there is a trace of a "Viaje á Guatemala."--Yet the latter is still in doubt.)
BERNAL DIEZ DEL CASTILLO. (Although a citizen of Spanish Guatemala, his reports are not very full.)
"REQUETO DE PLUSIEURS CHEFS D'ATITLAN." Addressed, under date of 1 Feb'y, 1571, to Philip II. Published in French, by H. Ternaux-Compans, in 1^{ st} "Recueil de piecés concernant le Méxique," 1838.--It is valuable.