Call Number:

C0690

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.25 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Bernardo Canal Feijóo Correspondence, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1922-1981 (inclusive) and 1930-1945 (bulk)

Creator:

Canal Feijóo, Bernardo, 1897-1982.

Form:

Correspondence.

Abstract:

Bernardo Canal Jeijóo was a lawyer and poet in Argentina during the twentieth century. His correspondence consists of letters with other writers and artists about both the arts and everyday life.

Bernardo Canal Feijóo was a lawyer and poet who wrote and lived in Santiago del Estero, a city in the interior of Argentina.

Consists of correspondence of Argentine poet Canal Feijóo with other writers and artists, including Macedonio Fernandez, Eduardo Mallea, Manuel Mujica Láinez, Ricardo Rojas, and Emilio Pettorotti. Mallea wrote several of his letters to Canal Feijóowhile he was literary critic of La Nacion. The letters of Macedonio Fernandez discuss Fernandez's aesthetic beliefs and theories on prose writing. Pettoruti and Ramón Gomez Cornet are two artists whose correspondence documents artists' activities in Argentina in the 1933-1940 period.