Hal Croves third and last letter to Henry. I would suggest reading Esperanza's letters to Henry 1950 and 1951 either before or after reading it, as Croves here appears to be "gaslighting".

Henry has no way of knowing that Esperanza has died from a gun. In the previous letter Traven says Esperanza died as a consequence of her operation of 3 years previous (which was itself a consequence of the accident). She told him many times she had an accident, of her progress, told him not to worry. In Oct 1950 she says she can walk perfectly. The news that she has died is a sudden, severe shock. Traven types 3 pages and says, "I had been with her only six days before when we had talked for hours and nothing indicated that she was so close to leave this world." Traven tells no news other than they talked for hours. Then she left the world. Henry was not told she was shot. He was not told that it was ruled a suicide. He was not told an attending doctor said it was not self-inflicted.

Traven says here that Esperanza had a skiing accident in Henry's company in Switzerland. Henry was not in Switzerland and I don't think the accident happened there. For some reason everyone has a different story of that accident. The Figueroa's and Henry both have it happening in Mexico on Popocatepetl. Esperanza says "it was June 23 (1948) when I began to be dying." If she was in Switzerland it was Dec-Jan 1947-48. A lot of the letters that are clearly lost are the ones in 1948-1949. I have no primary source other than Henry's 1992 letter where he says "Returning from a climb in Mex. her horse stumbled. She fell over his head and injured her back on the rocks." The Figueroa quotes are in the book by Poniatowska. They say it happened on Popocatepetl when her car overturned in the company of her husband.