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from England's Master of the Rolls to find, list, and summarize the state
papers at Simancas that related to English history and to prepare a
volume for the Spanish series of the endless Calendars of State Papers.
He forgot his Tudor history.
He arrived at Simancas in September, 1860, and established himself
in a kind of hotel, the Parador della Luna, where he would do much of
his cryptanalysis. An Englishman who visited him painted the scene:
"Simancas is a collection of wretched hovels, half buried in dust and
sand. There is not a good house in the place. The one in which Mr.
Bergenroth lives belongs to a farm bailiff, consists of two storeys, all the
rooms of plaster, and the floors of brick. No fireplace in any of the rooms,
and, as the winter is very intense here from November to February, and
the walls full of holes, nothing but the strongest desire to do service to
history could reconcile
any man to so much hardship." Bergenroth had, moreover, to
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