Orozco y Etienne, Anastasio

Apologia de la Caridad personificada en Jesuchristo. Invitacion al verdadero Cristiano. Dedicada a Mrs. J. K. Barney [wrapper title]

Guanabacoa [i.e. Havana]: n.d., [1901]. 16mo, pp. 4 (approx. 6" x 4½"), original drab printed wrappers (toned); dedication slip tipped in prior to the first leaf and stating "edicion II." Accompanied by a printed bifolium containing the poem "Otro Lamento" by Orozco y Etienne, dated 1903, and with 2 (likely authorial) corrections in ink to the text, the bifolium stitched together with 4 small broadside slip poems by the same poet, the first a tribute to the late President McKinley ("A MacKinley" [sic]); the second "El 10 de Octubre", imp. El Progresso; "En memoria del pundonoroso Capitan Don Federico Capdevila," imp. El Progresso; and, "Al Rev. H. B. Someillan," the first dated 1901, the second undated, and the last two dated 1903. Susan Hammond Barney (a.k.a. Mrs. Joseph K. Barney, 1834-1922) of Providence, R.I. is the noted prison reformer, Christian writer, evangelist, and world traveler. She is one of the founders of the Prisoners' Aid Society of Rhode Island, and for many years was the President of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Rhode Island. She is perhaps best known as the National Superintendent of Prison, Jail, Police, and Almshouse Visitation. Only one entry in OCLC for Anastasio Orozco y Etienne: Emblema de las flores y de los colores en prosa y verso, Havana, 1882, held only at the University of Florida. Item #52687

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