By its frequent publication of careful translations of original documents, Out West (formerly known as The Land of Sunshine) is making its files a valuable source book of Southwestern history. The January number contains an important source hitherto unpublished in English. It is a critical translation of a letter from Don Miguel Costansó, dated at Mexico, October 9th, 1772, transmitting to Don Melchor de Peramas two other letters, one from Fray Juan Crespi, at Monterey; the other from Fray Francisco Palou, biographer of the great missionary, Fray Junípero Serra. The March number prints a part of Serra's diary of his journey made in 1769 from the Mission of Loreto, Lower California, to San Diego. On page 280 is a clear fac simile of a page from the diary. Both of these documents are from the Ramirez collection in the library of Mr. Edward E. Ayer, of Chicago.

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"Out West", Volume 005, Number 4, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 352 - 353. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v005/n4/review_15.html
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