Contents and Arrangement
Series 2: Correspondence, 1918-1947
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
Ortiz de Montellano corresponded with many Mexican writers and writers in other countries. This series is notable for his extensive correspondence with Mexican writers who also worked as diplomats for the Mexican government. There are two folders of correspondence (1918-1940) with Jaime Torres Bodet, a poet, critic, and government official who lived and worked in Mexico and Paris. Genaro Estrada, a writer and Mexico's ambassador to Spain in the l920s, wrote letters (1932-1937) describing literary figures in Spain. Alfonso Reyes' correspondence includes letters sent to Ortiz de Montellano (1930-1933) while he was Mexico's ambassador to Brazil. There is also correspondence with American translators Dudley Fitts (1937-1946) and Edna Worthley Underwood (1932), and French novelists and translators Valéry Larbaud (1932-1934) and Francis de Miomandre (1932-1937). There are letters received from other notable Mexican writers Mariano Azuela (1929-1930), José María González de Mendoza "El Abate de Mendoza (The Abbot of Mendoza)" and Emmanuel Palacios, editor of Bandera de provincias (Guadalajara, México), and artist José Clemente Orozco.
- Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Collection History
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
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- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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- Credit this material:
Series 2: Correspondence; Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano Papers, C0664, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss)
- Boxes 3-4
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- Bibliography
Several articles and many other prose pieces are included in María de Lourdes Franco Bagnouls, ed., Obras en Prosa (México: UNAM, 1988). Ortiz de Montellano's poetry and the letters comprising Una botella al mar are included in María de Lourdes Franco Bagnouls, ed., Sueños. Una botella al mar (México: UNAM, 1983).
- Names:
- Nervo, Amado (1870-1919)
Torres Bodet, Jaime (1902-1974)
