Mornings in Mexico is a collection of travel essays by D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation...

, first published by Martin Secker

Martin Secker

Martin Secker , born Percy Martin Secker Klingender, was a London publisher who was responsible for producing the work of a distinguished group of literary authors, including D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Norman Douglas, and Henry James...

 in 1927. These brief works display Lawrence's gifts as a travel writer, catching the 'spirit of place' in his own vivid manner.

Lawrence wrote the first four of these essays at the same time as he was completing and revising his Mexican novel, The Plumed Serpent

The Plumed Serpent

The Plumed Serpent is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, begun when writer was living at the D. H. Lawrence Ranch near Taos in U.S. state of New Mexico in 1924. It was first published by Martin Secker in 1926...

. Three of the others, about Pueblo Indians, were written earlier in 1924 in New Mexico, and the final piece "A Little Moonshine with Lemon" came later as Lawrence remembered his New Mexico ranch (Kiowa Ranch) from Italy. The Cambridge Edition, Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays edited by Virginia Crosswhite Hyde(2009), adds an additional twelve essays, most of them concerning American Southwestern peoples and places.

The eight essays in the original volume are:

• "Corasmin and the Parrots"
• "Walk to Huayapa"
• "The Mozo"
• "Market Day"
• "Indians and Entertainment"
• "Dance of the Sprouting Corn"
• "The Hopi Snake Dance"
• "A Little Moonshine with Lemon"