Rodolfo Usigli Archive: Correspondence 1927-1979

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Rodolfo Usigli Archive: Correspondence 1927-1979

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The Usigli Archive is a repository of the papers of Rodolfo Usigli (1905-1979), Mexican playwright, essayist and diplomat. The Archive is a comprehensive research collection relating to Usigli's life and career, including correspondence, both manuscript and typed drafts of original plays and translations of works by other artists, personal, theatrical, and diplomatic photographs, essays, books, playbills, posters, theses written about Usigli, awards, newspaper and magazine articles, memorabilia, and ephemera. The correspondence section of the Archive, detailed here, includes letters to and from George Bernard Shaw, Jose Clemente Orozco, Octavio Paz and many others who Usigli associated with throughout his long literary and diplomatic career.

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