Abstract
Since the beginning of Mexican independent life, literary magazines have had great importance in the development of our literature. This article describes issues treated by El Museo Popular (The Popular Museum), a magazine founded in 1840, which includes samples of work and author indexes, Mexican and foreign writers, articles and translations with and without signature, scientific topics, poems, biographic reports, chronicles and historical reviews. The author concludes that these “papers” are only instruments designed to help and give support to those investigators interested in the subject.