Written by Justo G. Cantero, illustrated by Eduardo Laplante. The illustrator, E. Laplante, was the first Spanish lithographer to acquaint the public with the world of the Cuban sugar mills. The vivid, color illustrations offer a superb view of activities in and around Cuban sugar mills. Mar a A. Garc a Carrera-Justiz donated this volume to the library. Wimberley took as the theme of this play the story of the Indian Chief Atala, created by Chateaubriand in his 180l novel, Atala.
Pencil corrections to the manuscript appear to be stage directions.
The American descendants of Tom s Estrada Palma, the first president of the Republic of Cuba, donated a collection of correspondence, clippings, photographs, invitations, obituaries and other documents related to Estrada Palma and his family. Between the two wars against Spain, Estrada Palma lived in the United States and opened a school for Latin American boys in Cherry Valley, New York. In 1901 Estrada Palma was elected president of the Republic of Cuba and was inaugurated in May 20, 1902. The Pepi Delgado Collection, contains published and unpublished music scores, correspondence, clippings and awards of Delgado, a Cuban exile musician and composer. Pepi Delgado was well known as a great composer in Miami, New York, and in all the Latin American countries.