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- Letter from Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada to King Charles V - - - - - - - Number of pieces: 1 Pages: 3 booklets, 12 folios - Handwritten letter dated February 20, 1558 and addressed to the King of Spain. of Spain. In 1538, after founding Santafé de Bogotá, Jimenez de Quesada returned to Spain. de Quesada returned to Spain with the purpose of asking the King for the of the kingdoms he had discovered and conquered. In 1550 he arrived again in Santafé with the title of Marshal of the New Kingdom of Granada. According to Raimundo Rivas, (El Gráfico, No. 609, 1922) this is one of the two known letters of Jimenez de Quesada sent to the King before 1550, the other is in the Archivo de Indias, in Seville. In his letter, Quesada suggests ideas to improve the conditions of the New Kingdom, such as the appointment of an investigating judge who would go to the Indies to punish the bad treatments made to the Indians; the prohibition of charging the natives as if they were horses and punishments for those who martyred them; he suggested a rational and equitable way to collect tributes and the prohibition to the encomenderos to divide the repartimientos of Indians. A reference to this letter appeared in the article titled "Una carta del Conquistador D. Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada" published in the Revista México Moderno, No. 5, December 1, 1920, by Alejandro Quijano, where the possession of this letter by the Colombian intellectual Carlos Salazar del Camino is mentioned. Between February 16 and March 31, 1979 this letter was part of the commemorative exhibition for the four hundredth anniversary of the death of Jimenez de Quesada held at the National Museum of Colombia.

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Estimate 5 320 - 7 250 USD
Starting price 4 840 USD

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