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Jorge Luis Borges Letter, 1935, Accession #10155-af, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This letter was purchased by the Library from Alfredo Breitfeld of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on June 19, 1996.
Also available on microfilm on Manuscript Division reel #M-203.
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 .