Casual Letters From South America (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Casual Letters From South AmericaThese letters were written at odd times during a journey which occupied the year and a half between the middle of 1919 and the end of 1920, and which included in its range some of the most interesting countries in the world: Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.The mission Which took me to South America was a difficult but interesting task confided to me by the Hispanic Society of America, whose labours in the field of Hispanic Art and Literature are well known: namely, to write brief bio graphies of the leading men of each of the republics. These casual notes and jottings were in a sense by-products inci dental to that mission. They were cast in the form of letters to a friend, to amuse him with accounts of my daily life, and to remind him of scenes many of which he had himself in the past visited. Not intended originally for publication, they were rather in the nature of a record of day to day meetings, sights, impressions, and tribulations tempered by many de lightful experiences. They were jotted down in chance half-hours, in the hotel, on the train, in railway stations, whenever the occasion served, and partake inevitably Of the transient and ephemeral character of such casual impressions, while Whatever value they have rises, in some part at least, from the same causes. Like the photographs that accompany them, which were for the most part taken by members of the family or friends in the party, they are direct transcripts of experience, written on the spot, and set down before the image could fade from the retina or the impression grow dim in the mind. And while, no doubt, one might here and there correct the perspective and eliminate much that is purely momentary in the record, it would be at the cost of whatever spontaneity and immediacy it contains.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.