LIMA

VOLUME II

Most important Literary society: Club Insula.
Ecuadorian...

1. Ecuadorian Minister in Lima, Carlos Manuel Larrea, has literary connections and pretensions, could make some valuable connections there for

2. you. Albert Giesecke, at the American Embassy in Miraflores, has the reputation of knowing a great deal about Lima, but his value will lie mostly in connecting you with the older writers.

3. Fernando Bebaunde Terry, Peruvian, educated in Florida and Texas, has an office in the Banco Industrial Building and lives at Plaza Washington 185. His telephone number is 10-4-17 (diez, cuatro, diecisiete). He will put you in touch

4. with Hector Velarde, brilliant essayist, and with

5. Estuardo Núñez, whose cooperation is most necessary. Núñez is a poet and critic; his wife is an artist and a lovely person. He has an office in town, address,

6. Rifa 332, room 10. César Falcón, editor of Nuestra Voz, was not in Lima when I was there. I have read his works. He is important also as a link with the Vallejo Espelucín crowd. Espelucín is

7. still very much alive (Alcides Espelucín), and in Lima, but as he is an APRISTA, you will have to get Ingeniero Humberto López, Avenida Wilson, 482, to get you in touch with him. He is the most important living poet of the Trujillo group. César Falcón, Mail-address, apartado 1702, might also be

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8. in touch with Espelucín. José A. Hernández, (Casilla 1659, Lima), wealthy young poet, one of the editors of the magazine TRES will be very good company and great help. He will introduce you to his two

9. close friends and fellow editors, Luis F. Xanmár (Casilla 1480, Lima), and Arturo Jiménez Borja, both writers. President of the Club Insula, mentioned above, and a very excellent

10. short story writer is Capt. Fernando Romero, (Casilla 1161, Lima). Romero has just been to Washington, and knows Concha Romero James. His phone number is 91222.. Every day from 12 to 1, and from 5 to 8, the Instituto Cultural Peruano-Norteamericano is open. The address is Pando 780, and the phone, 37628. The director is a young

11. poet, Alberto Tauro, and the secretary one Elias Tovar. They know everyone and keep an address file. Near the Plaza Dos de Mayo sit the National Museum.

12. The director, Luis E. Valcárcel, is a good writer of short-stories, legends, and history, as well as a helpful and valuable friend. Some of these people are real epicures and enjoy being treated to the best food on the West coast in the à la carte dining room of the Hotel Maury.. People like José Gálvez, Jorge Basadre, Clemente Palma, you will meet inevitably without my assistance.

GUAYAQUIL

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Intellectual Tourists
Thornton Wilde series
Volume I

José de la Cuadra is dead. Remember in conversation that they all loved him in spite of his faults, and that Angel Felicísimo Rojas, a Lojano, author of BANCA, was particularly close to him as his law-partner. Enrique Gil Gilbert is in the U. S. as runner-up in the Pan American Union Prize Novel Contest, but I think he has left his wife behind, and you will enjoy knowing her. She is a talented, intuitive person, a painter, and

their address is Villamil 218. Her name is Alba Calderón de Gil Gilbert. By the way, Rojas' (see above) address is Plaza Colón 200. Across the street from the Grand Hotel is a large building on the second floor of which is a National Municipal

Library, the Director of which, Dr. Carlos Romano, is in touch with Concham Romero. Your friend Lydia

will put you in touch with Modesto Cháves Franco, in the same building, director of the Museum. The

novelist Alfredo Pareja Diez-Canseco has an office on the Malecón not far from the U. S. Consulate General.

Joaquín Gallegos Lara works during the day time at the Dirección de Estudios, Calle 10 de Agosto, near the Malecón. His address is Manabí 208. The novelist

and dramatist Demetrio Aguilera Malta lives slightly away from the center of town. It is best to get in touch with him through any of the other younger writers.

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Get any one of them to show you to the Librería Vera, run by the brother of the poet Vera. This bookstore has the best collection of National works. **Abel Romeo Castillo**, one of the editors of *El TELEGRAFO*, is a poet, and loves to show visitors around Guayaquil and arrange meetings among the intellectuals. He was very helpful both to me and to J. Dos Passos. With this as a starter you should have no trouble meeting everyone.