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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word 2000, created by Lottie Baker, Dec. 18, 2001 Description is in English Feb 18, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::viu01990::A Guide to the Letter to Ramon Sopena)//EN" "viu01990.xml" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Mar 02, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Letter to Ramón Sopena, 1935 A Collection in The Special Collections Department 10155-af

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 2001 Special Collections Department Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Descriptive Summary Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Letter to Ramón Sopena, 1935 10155-af This collection consists of one item. Spanish Jorge Luis Borges Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Jorge Luis Borges Letter, 1935, Accession #10155-af, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

 Acquisition Information

This letter was purchased by the Library from Alfredo Breitfeld of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on June 19, 1996.

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Also available on microfilm on Manuscript Division reel #M-203.

 Scope and Content Information

This is a signed autograph letter, 1935, from Jorge Luis Borges, Mar del Plata, Argentina, to Ramón Sopena, director of Editorial Sopena, Buenos Aires, Argentina, written on the verso of two postcards of scenes in Mar del Plata. Borges mentions authors [Alejandro] Xul Solar (1887-1963), Manuel Peyrou (1902- ), Amado Alonso (1896-1952) and Pedro Henriquez Urena. He refers to several of his own published poems and other writings, including: Fervor de Buenos Aires, Cuaderno San Martín, Muertes de Buenos Aires, Luna de Enfronte, Historia Universal de la Infamia, El Espantoso Redentor Lazarus Morell, and El Tintorero Enmascarado Hàkim de Merv.