urn:taro:utexas.blac.00081 Gabriela Mistral Papers, 1911-1949 Finding aid encoded by Christian Kelleher, CA 15 November 2003Finding aid written in English. 20040503First upload to TARO Descriptive SummaryMistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957 Gabriela Mistral Papers 1911-1949 Spanish 1987-20, 2004-01 42706327 3 linear inches Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Letters and manuscripts of Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate Gabriela Mistral. Biographical Sketch

Poet and Nobel Laureate (1945) Gabriela Mistral was born Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga in Vicuña, Chile, in 1889. Mistral was an active member of the League of Nations and served as Chilean consul in Italy, Spain, and Portugal. She taught Spanish literature in the United States at Columbia University, Barnard College, and Vassar College, and at the University of Puerto Rico. Her works include Desolación, Ternura, and Tala. She died in 1957.

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Letters and manuscripts, 1911-1949 (2 inches), of Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate Gabriela Mistral. In one folder and three thin bound volumes, the Gabriela Mistral Papers include letters (1911-1923) of Mistral (writing as Lucila Godoy) to poet Antonio Bórquez Solar; letters (1937-1949) of Mistral to Guillermo de Torre and his wife Norah Borges (sister of Jorge Luis Borges); and two typed manuscript essays: the epistle "Respuesta a un Manifiesto de Españoles" (1935), and "Calpe-Argentina y el Libro Español en la América" (n.d.).

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Cite as: Gabriela Mistral Papers, Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, the University of Texas at Austin.

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Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957--Correspondence Authors, Chilean--20th century--Correspondence Women authors--Chile--Correspondence Torre, Guillermo de, 1900- Borges, Norah Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957 / Respuesta a un manifiesto de espanoles Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957 / Calpe-Argentina y el libro espanol en la America Box and Folder Inventory I. Respuesta a un Manifiesto de Españoles 1Vol.IRespuesta a un Manifiesto de Españoles, Lisboa, Octobre de 1935 II. Correspondencia Literaria con Guillermo de Torre y Norah Borges 1Vol.IIALS, 23 March 1949, 2p. 1ALS, n.d., 3p. 1ALS, 1 September 1937, 2p. 1ALS, 13 September 1937, 3p. 1ALS, 4 November 1937, 3p. 1ALS, n.d., 6p. 1ALS, 23 January 19--, 6p. 1ALS, 22 September 19--, 1p. 1ALS, 27 October 19--, 2p. 1ALS, 30 October 1936, 3p. 1AL, 29 September 19--, 2p. 113 November 1946, postcard 113 November 1946, postcard 113 November 1946, postcard III. Correspondencia con Guillermo de Torre 1Vol.IIIALS, 30 November 1937, 2p. 1TLS, 8 May 19--, 2p. 1Calpe-Argentina y el Libro Español en la América, n.d. [typescript] IV. Correspondencia con Antonio Bórquez Solar 1IVALS, 2 February 1911, 3p. 1ALS, 18 February 1911, 6p. 1ATS, 10 August 1912, 1p. 1ALS, 1912, 2p. 1ALS, 1912, 4p. 1ALS, [1912?], 2p. 1ALS, 9 May 1923, 3p. 1TLS, 11 June 1923, 2p.