Since last reviewed in the Quarterly, The Land of Sunshine (hereafter to be known as Out West ) has printed another valuable source for Southwestern history hitherto unpublished in English, namely, the report made in 1632-3 by Father Fray Estévan de Perea, successor to Benavides as Custodian of the Missions of New Mexico, to the Commissary-General of New Spain, on the Perea expedition to New Mexico and the state of the missions there. The abbreviated title of the first part of the report (printed in the November number), is the Truthful Report of the Magnificent Conversion which has been had in New Mexico (Verdadera Relacion, de la grandiosa Conversion que ha avido en el Nuevo Mexico). The title of the second part (December number) is the Second Report of the Magnificent Conversion which has been had in New Mexico. As the editor comments, “this rare document advances by nearly three years our knowledge of affairs in this important period of the early history of New Mexico.”

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"Out West", Volume 005, Number 3, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 252. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v005/n3/review_8.html
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