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(LITERARY ARCHIVE.) Archive of letters to Abraham Zacarías López Penha.

(LITERARY ARCHIVE.) Archive of letters to Abraham Zacarías López Penha. 60 manuscript letters, various sizes, condition generally strong. Vp, 1894-1925

  • Notes: Abraham Zacarías López Penha (1865-1927) was born to a Jewish family in Curaçao, and spent most of his life in Barranquilla, Colombia as a novelist and editor of the modernist journal Revista Azul. This collection features letters from a wide variety of significant Latin American and European literary and intellectual figures, many of them Jewish. Correspondents include Venezuelan journalist Nicanor Bolet Peraza; Peruvian novelists Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera and Clorinda Matto de Turner; Cuban authors Aurelia Castillo de Gonzáles and Enrique Hernandez Miyares; English novelist H. Rider Haggard; Mexican poet Amado Nervo; European Jewish activists Max Simon Nordau, Angel Pulido, and Israel Zangwill; Spanish authors Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Emilia Pardo Bazán, and Miguel de Unamuno; and many others.
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