(MEXICO'S FINANCES ARE RUINED)
$225.00
60078-55
A.L.S. of "Juan Mateo Garcia", 2pp. 8vo., Nuevo León, May 8, 1847, a letter from the district judge to his friend José María Parás, the first constitutionally elected governor of Nuevo Leon. Garcia comments on the taxes levied and other strains inflicted by the occupying American army, in part: "...it is, in truth, very disagreeable. . .To what state our political upheavals, which for so many years have devoured our country, have led us!". Ink show-through from verso, else very good.