Jorge Luis Borges papers

Location of collection:

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

University of Virginia

P.O. Box 400110

160 McCormick Rd

Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110

Contact for questions and access:

POC: Brenda Gunn

Email: bg9ba@virginia.edu

Phone: (434) 924-1037

Phone: (434) 243-1776

Fax: (434) 924-4968

Web: library.virginia.edu/special-collections

Web: library.virginia.edu/special-collections/services/reference-request

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research use.

Summary

Extent:

0.07 Cubic Feet 1 legal size document box and 1 oversize box

Language:

Spanish; Castilian English

Background

Scope and content:

New collection of eleven manuscripts by writer Jorge Luis Borges which have been combined with the Borges collection. The new acquisitions include Herrera y Reissig; Soneta Para un Tango en la Nochecita; La Cabala (1943), Los Espejos Velados; Prologo a Mester de Juderia, de Carlos Grunberg;El Milagro Secreto; Nota Sobre la Paz; De Alguien a Nadie; La Biblioteca Total; El Dios y el Rey; and Prose Poems for I. J.

Other Borges manuscripts include : Juderia, Ciudad, Calle Desconocida, Villa Mazzini, Trincheras, La Vuelta a Buenos Aires (and letter), Essay on Flaubert, La Pampa y el Suburbio son Dioses, A la Doctrina de Pasion de Tu Voz, La Cabala (1930), A Mia Padre, El Muerto, La Casa de Asterion, Viejo Habito Argentino, Plaza San Martin (and letter), S. S. Poem, Manual de Zoologica Fantastica, The Mirror and the Mask, and La Fundacion Mitologica de Buenos Aires.

Correspondents include Carlo Mastronardi, Ever Mendez, Ramon Sopena, Atillo Rossi,Ernest T. Manfred, Mr. Cohen, Macedonio Fernandez, and Jorge Luis Borges.

Also included is a lecture by Jorge Luis Borges on Shakespeare's birthday (1976) and a photograph of Jorge Luis Borges from 1931.

Acquisition information:

This collection was purchased through Buenos Aires dealer Victor Aizenman from Alfredo and Gustavo Breitfeld, Libreria De Antano, and from Byblos Service Corporation by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library over a span of 40 years.

Physical description:

Good.

Physical facet:

oversize box is in the vault V-7

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Manuscripts (documents)