The King and Queen of Castile and Aragon, famed in history for dispatching Christopher Columbus on his epic voyages across the Atlantic in search of a shorter route to India, write to the Bishop of Malaga and his council: "We have seen your letters of the 15th of November in which you notify us of the departure of the Princess, our children, on their way to us, causing us much happiness and because to see them is what we most desire and in order to be more at ease, for our peace and to our service we wish you to help hasten their trip without any inconveniences and in such good news we will find complete relief." The death of their two eldest children left the succession of Castile to their third daughter, Joan the Mad, and her husband Philip the Handsome, and they were to make the journey from Flanders to Spain. A significant letter from perhaps the most famous and influential of all Spanish monarchs, a most desirable set of autographs, the basis for a collection of American historical documents.