Transcriber’s Note

There are three types of notes in the text. The lettered notes (originally asterisks) were printed as standard footnotes on each page. References to these notes now appear in brackets as [A], [B] and so on. The notes themselves have been moved to directly follow the paragraph within which they are referenced. Occasionally, an asterisk is used for some other purpose, usually preceding rather than following a word or phrase, and remain asterisks.

In general, Spanish names, when used in English phrases, are printed without accents. The country is referred to as ‘MÉxico’ when the language is Spanish, and ‘Mexico’, without the accent, when in English. On occasion, the printer fails to observe this distinction. These are considered as printer’s errors, and have been corrected here.

Where variants in spelling occur in quoted passages, they are always retained.

The use of accents in Spanish proper nouns is not consistent. These have been corrected, where detected, to assist in searches.

On p. 338, the reference to “37. Scott to Conner, Mar. 16” seems a corruption for “164Scott to Conner”, which agrees with all other references to this source.

On p. 486, a reference printed as “6 Memoir on Mex. finances.” most likely should be “61Memoir on Mex. finances. Sen. 19; 30, 1, pp. 2–4 (Scott).” There is a separate reference to that memoir in note 2, using 61.

Also on p. 486, the asterisk appearing in “Amer. Review, Jan., 1848, p. *2” is not explained.

In the Section A of the Appendix, the ordered list of numbered resources is missing #368. Nor are there any references to that number.

The following table describes other textual issues, and the resolution of each. The [x/y] annotations mark the additions, deletions or substitutions made to the text. Minor inconsistencies of punctuation in the Notes have been silently corrected. On several occasions, letters or numbers have gone missing from the images used to prepare this text. Where the word intended is clear, these have been added silently.

The references in the Index are for both Volumes I and II. The volume number is included in bold type when the entries shift from one volume to the other. On occasion, these volume numbers were missed and have been added where indicated in the table below. Although each page reference has not been validated, any other corrections, discovered incidentally, are noted as well.