Collection Summary
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Papers
1901-1954
1901-1954
MSS92429
Jiménez, Juan Ramón,
1881-1958
125 items
1 container
0.2 linear feet
Spanish
Collection material in
Spanish
Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress
Washington, D.C.
Spanish poet. Letters,
postcards, and poems written to Jiménez or his wife, Zenobia Camprubí de
Jiménez, by such Spanish poets as Azorín, Rubén Darío, Antonio Machado,
Alfonso Reyes, and Miguel de Unamuno.
Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
People
Azorín, 1873-1967.
Camprubí, Zenobia, 1887-1956.
Darío, Rubén, 1867-1916.
Jiménez, Juan Ramón, 1881-1958.
Machado, Antonio, 1875-1939.
Reyes, Alfonso, 1889-1959.
Unamuno, Miguel de, 1864-1936.
Subjects
Poets, Spanish.
Spanish poetry.
Occupations
Poets.
Provenance
The papers of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet, were given to the
Library of Congress by Jiménez in 1949-1954. An addition was given by José
María Longo in 1982.
Processing History
The papers of Juan Ramón Jiménez were arranged and described in
1984. The finding aid was revised in 2010.
Copyright Status
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Juan Ramón
Jiménez is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17,
U.S.C.).
Access and Restrictions
The papers of Juan Ramón Jiménez are open to research. Researchers
are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many
collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these
items for research use.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the
following information: Container number, Juan Ramón Jiménez Papers,
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Biographical Note
Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez was born in 1881 in Moguer, Spain. He
published his first book of poetry in 1900 with the help of Rubén Darío, the
leader of the modernista poetry movement in Spain
and influential mentor of Jiménez. During the Spanish Civil War, Jiménez
moved first to Cuba and then to Puerto Rico where he spent most of the rest of
his life. He was the recipient of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature. Jiménez
died in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1958.
Scope and Content Note
The papers of Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958) span the years
1901-1954. The papers are in Spanish and consist of letters, postcards, and
poems written to Jiménez or his wife, Zenobia Camprubí de Jiménez, by such
Spanish poets as Azorín, Rubén Darío, Antonio Machado, Alfonso Reyes, and
Miguel de Unamuno. The largest number of poems and letters are by Rubén
Darío.
Arrangement of the Papers
This collection is arranged alphabetically by type of material and
then by name of poet.
Catalog Record: [https://lccn.loc.gov/mm81092429]
Container List
Container
Contents
1
Content lists
1
Correspondence and
poems
1
Azaña, Manuel,
1919
1919
1
Azorín (pseud.) [José Martínes
Ruiz],
1910-1921
1910-1921
1
Benavente y Martínez, Jacinto,
undated
undated
1
Cossío, José María de,
1919-1923
1919-1923
1
Darío, Rubén (pseud.) [Félix
Rubén García-Sarmiento]
1
Correspondence,
1901-1911
1901-1911
1
Poems,
undated
undated
1
Falla, Manuel de,
1935
1935
1
Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James [Jaime],
1912
1912
1
Gómez de la Serna, Ramón,
undated
undated
1
Guerrero Ruiz, Juan,
1949
1949
1
Guillén, Jorge,
1923, 1933
1923, 1933
1
López-Picó, José María,
1915, undated
1915, undated
1
Machado y Ruiz, Antonio,
circa 1903-1924, undated
circa 1903-1924, undated
1
Machado y Ruiz, Manuel,
1918
1918
1
Mallea, Eduardo,
1950-1951
1950-1951
1
Menéndez Pidal, Ramón,
1919, 1937
1919, 1937
1
Miró Ferrer, Gabriel,
1919-1920
1919-1920
1
Mistral, Gabriela (pseud.)
[Lucila Godoy de Alcayaga],
undated
undated
1
Onís y Sánchez, Federico de,
1917
1917
1
Ors, Eugenio d’ [Xenius
(pseud.)],
1915
1915
1
Ortega y Gasset, José,
undated
undated
1
Reyes, Alfonso,
1920, 1951-1952
1920, 1951-1952
1
Rueda y Santos, Salvador,
undated
undated
1
Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquín,
1909
1909
1
Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de,
1915-1919
1915-1919
1
Valle-Inclán, Ramón del,
1919
1919
1
Villaespesa, Francisco,
undated
undated
1
Miscellany,
1949-1954
1949-1954