Title A Jesuit missionary in eighteenth-century Sonora : the family correspondence of Philipp Segesser / edited by Raymond H. Thompson ; translated by Werner S. Zimmt and Robert E. Dahlquist

Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2014 ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxxix, 336 pages .) Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; The Missionary Career of Philipp Anton Segesser; About the Translation; Letters from Ingolstadt (1-9); Letters from Altötting, Straubing, and Neuburg an der Donau (10-14); Letters from Hochdorf, Constance, and Ellwangen (15-20); Letters from Genoa (21-22); Letters from Seville (23-36); Letters from Puerto de Santa María (37-41); Letters from Havana (42-44); Letters from Tepotzotlán and Durango (45-46); Letters from San Ignacio, San Xavier, and Guevavi (47-52); Letters from Tecoripa (53-61); Letters from Ures (62-76) Summary "In the very last year of the seventeenth century a ten-year-old boy in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland, announced to his parents that he wanted to become a Jesuit missionary and save souls in faraway lands. Philipp Segesser got his wish when he was sent to northwestern Mexico in 1731. For the next thirty years he carried on an active correspondence with his family and religious affiliates. His letters home, translated and edited in this fascinating book, provide a frank and intimate view of missionary life on the remote northwestern frontier of New Spain. The editor's introduction sets the letters in biographical and historical context"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Translated from German Print version record Subject Segesser, Philipp, 1689-1761 -- Correspondence SUBJECT Segesser, Philipp, 1689-1761 fast Segesser, Philipp 1689-1761 gnd Subject Jesuits -- Missions -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) -- History SUBJECT Jesuits fast Segesser family -- Correspondence Subject Missionaries -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) -- Biography HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico. Missionaries Missions Mexico -- Sonora (State) Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies History Personal correspondence Autobiographies. Biographies. Autobiographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Thompson, Raymond H., editor ISBN 0826354254 9780826354259

Other Titles Correspondence. English

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