Good evening. My name is Carl Engström. I am originally from Uppsala, Sweden, and on the recomm

Good evening. My name is Carl Engström. I am originally from Uppsala, Sweden, and on the recommendation of a friend who is a regular visitor to this page, I would like to share the following photograph of a document that I found among the belongings of my great-grandfather, Martin Engström.

My great-grandfather was born in 1895, and worked as a school teacher in Stockholm. In the 1940s, he travelled to Mexico with a British professor from his university, James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence.

Among the many articles he brought back from the country, this document was one of them, and from what my grandfather can remember, I know that he obtained it from a priest of a church located in a town called Yagul, Oaxaca, alluding to the fact that it was part of the evidence from a well-known case of the Spanish Inquisition against the Indians of the area during the 1650s.

I know that he came to acquire more documents of this kind, but one of his friends by profession, Elthon Kirowan, a scholar who had a shady reputation, asked him to examine them, without returning them. We know that he lived on a farm in Sussex, England, and if it is possible, attempt could be made to locate the family on the possibility that his relatives know the destiny of the other documents.

We do not want to give them to any museum, because they are part of our family legacy, but I have considered sharing a photograph of it, because apparently, it is a unique piece of Mexico’s past and it deserves to be shown to a wider public. I want also to avoid what I have heard are very long protocols in the investigatory process to expose such documents.