Note 48 — Chapter VIII · THE "CONQUEST OF MEXICO" AS LITERATURE AND AS HISTORY
Reading edition
"Though remarkably fair and judicious in the main, Mr. Prescott's partiality for a certain class of his material is evident. To the copies from the Spanish archives, most of which have been since published with hundreds of others equally or more valuable, he seemed to attach an importance proportionate to their cost. Thus, throughout his entire work, these papers are paraded to the exclusion of the more reliable, but more accessible standard authorities."—H. H. Bancroft, History of Mexico, i. p. 7, Note.