Evening star., 1923-09-30
DR.. and Sonora Freyre
Make Residence on
Massachusetts Avenue
Bolivian Minister. First to
Present Credentials to
President Coolidge, Has
Many Distinctions.

/ Senior DIR. Rica rdo Jaimes Freyre
| the minister from Bolivia, will be
| an outstanding figure in many ways
one being that he is the first envoy
to present his credentials to Presi-
| dent Coolidge. DR. Alfred SEE, min
] lister from China, had the honor OF
| being the first who was received by
| President Harding, and Prince BIZ
besco of Rumania the last who hand
| ed his official papers to President
! Wilson. DR.. Freyre is one of the
| most distinguished men of letters in
| his country today and perhaps in
| all of the southern half of the west
ern world. He is a poet of recog-
| nized ability, and the older genera
ton recalls the many sweet singers
who have been members of the
diplomatic corps in Washington
owen Meredith. son and secretary
/ of Lord Bulwer-Lytton, and aft
! erward the second Lord Lytton, who
wrote much of +Lucile" during his
service here, and Senior Joachim
Nabuco, first ambassador from Bra
| zil, whose verses are to his country
| men what Longfellow's are to Amer
| leans.
The minister from Bolivia was for
many years a professor of history
and letters in that oldest seat of
learning in the new world. the Uni
yersity or San Francisco Xavier de
| Chuguisaca, which was founded
about a quarter of a century after
! the coming of the Spanish con-
! quistadores. Chuguisaca was the
nrst capital OF Bolivia and is its
his degree there, was called to a
chair which he occupied until he was
/ invited to become the private secre-
| tary and confidential adviser of one
! OFT or the most revered chief executives
which the republic has elected, DR.
mariana Baptista. About ten years
! ago he entered the diplomatic sery-
ice and has served at several of the
Latin American capitals and always
. with distinguished success.
| Sonora Freyre is a native of the
! present capital of Bolivia, La Paz. and
| she belongs to an eminent family
| there, and received that finished edu-
| cation which is always associated
with the Latins. She was before her
| marriage Senorita Felicidad Soruco
and the romance eliminated during
DR.. Freyre's employment with Presf-
F.! dent Baptista. She has lived in many
| other capital cities since then, but
| this Is her first experience in the
fluent French and Spanish scholar and
| has already taken hold of learning
| English, a task which the minister
! also is facing. But he, too, is accus-
! toned to study and to conquering
| languages. He wrote a stupendous
| history in six volumes of a portion
| of Argentina, in which several dia-
lects are used and he was compelled
to learn them all.
There are. three children in the fam
| lily, but the Oldest son, Ricardo, is
( married and living in Buenos Aires
Victor Jaimes, the second son, will
! be an attache of the legation, and a
| daughter, Senorita Jolande Freyre,
who is In the sub-deb class She will
! pass the coming winter, at a finishing
! school. though she will be permitted
| an occasional glimpse into the dipio-
matte amenities. DR.. Freyre has
brought with him an additional sec
| retary of the legation, Senior Xavier
das Campero, who served under him
| in Buenos Aires and who, being a
good English scholar, Is the present
| medium of communication.
+, DR.. and Sonora Freyre lost no time
| in acquiring a suitable home for
| themselves and for the chancellery of
Bolivia. This is the residence, 1926
| Massachusetts avenue, we'll estab-
/ lished in the social history as that
! of Admiral Dahlgren and his accom-
/ plished wife, Madeline Vinton Dahl
/ gren, who wrote u comprehensive
| book of Washington etiquette The
house Is now the property 7ef the