Antonio Aita correspondence
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of approximately 130 letters sent from various writers and cultural figures from Latin America and Spain to Argentine educator and writer Antonio Aita (1891-1966). Notable literary figures represented in the collection include Germán Arciniegas, Mariano Azuela, Rómulo Gallegos, Victoria Ocampo, Mariano Picón Salas, Alfonso Reyes, Francisco Romero, Jaime Torres Bodet, and Arturo Uslar Pietri.
Dates
- Creation: 1920 - 1965
Creator
- Aita, Antonio, 1891-1966 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
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Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Biographical / Historical
Antonio Aita (1891-1966) was an Argentine educator, writer, and president of the PEN Club in Argentina. Aita also directed the newspaper El 9 de Julio for most of the 1940s and 1950s.
Extent
1.08 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
Spanish; Castilian
Abstract
Collection consists of approximately 130 letters sent from various writers and cultural figures from Latin America and Spain to Argentine educator and writer Antonio Aita (1891-1966).
Arrangement
The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by the surname of the author of each letter.
Subject
- Aita, Antonio, 1891-1966 -- Archives (Person)
Genre / Form
Occupation
Topical
- Title
- Finding aid for the Antonio Aita correspondence
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated; along with Bo Doub.
- Date
- 2023 June
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu