Craton on Hudson, N.Y., 25 de enero de 1930
Queridísimo hermano:
Los libros llegaron ayer. Gracias! Pero imáginese mi desilusión en ver que el libro de Jorge Basadre falta. Si ha desaparecido, quiere Ud. decirle que lo necesito —que me envíe un otro ejemplar.
Ya estoy entrando hondamente en mi libro. El plan de la obra está de pie. Estoy leyendo, meditando. Es una tarea enorme. Ojalá que tenga la fuerza, la energía para acabarla. Es una conquista de América: pienso a la obra militar de Bolívar y San Martín. Tan ardúa me parece.
Querido —en mi optimismo para América hispana, entran de primer lugar dos elementos: la pura energía de la Argentina y Ud. Si lograra yo a juntar estos dos elementos, hubiera hecho un bien a la época... Veremos.
En febrero, mis amigos me darán un banquete público, en honor de mi obra hispanoamericana. Hablaré otra vez del Problema de nuestras relaciones. Ud. verá que mi mensaje ha desarrollado después de Buenos Aires. Tiene Ud. razón: este verdadero mensaje no lo he dado, todavía. Cómo podríalo, antes de conocer? Es lástima cómo el autor moderno es siempre forzado á hablar, ante de saber! Otro motivo económico. Sin embargo, no es lástima en todo. Porque —á fuerza de hablar, muchas veces, se logra el entender.
Le ruego envíe Ud. mis saludos á mis amigos y á mis amigas —no olvidando á su señora.
Querido hermano, le abraza su
Waldo Frank

Croton on Hudson, N.Y., 27 de febrero de 1929

Dear Brother Mariátegui,

I have just received your letter of Dec. 10, although illness has so far prevented me from seeing Malanca —whom, however, I hope to have lunch with in New York, next Friday. Doubtless, in the meantime, you have received a letter from me, about your Siete Ensayos, your generous note on Virgin Spain, and the possibility of my being in Lima, next year. I hope I shall have word from you soon, about all these matters.
Meantime, there is a specific question I wish to ask your help in. I am from now on, going to do what I can to introduce American literature and art into North America. I am, for instance, going to edit an anthology of Argentinian Tales. I want, as well, to edit a volume of Inca Tales, or of Tales from Peru. This book will be published by Doubleday Doran one of our best houses —with an introduction by me (unless you would care to write it), and with reproductions of a few of those magnificent works of Peruvian Art, which I have been admiring all long in Amauta. Do you think you could help me in this task—the making of a beautiful Peruvian book, as a means of introducing the real Peru to the north American public?
If so, may I ask you to send me whatever stories or collections of stories by various authors (dead or alive) deal with Peruvian or Inca life? Whatever expense there is attached to this, I shall of course gladly pay. I do hope you will cooperate with me in this project.
I have just been reading (following your book) Haya Delatorre’s Emancipación de América Latina. If you write to him, please convey to him my deepest admiration and respect: tell him that I am with him, heart and soul, in his great movement.
I don’t have to tell you, brother, that I am, heart and soul, with you.
yours, ever
Waldo Frank

PERMANENT ADDRESS: 173 Riverside Drive, New York
Cable Address: KNARF NEWYORK

P. S. If there are enough good stories of Inca life —ancient + modern, I would call the book Inca Tales. If not, we could include others -preferably tales of the people. One or two stories about the town life —Lima, Callao, Cuzco— might also be added. I will pay for all books sent me - + also for the use of stories by living authors.

New York, 2 de julio [de 1928]
Sr. Don José Carlos Mariátegui
Lima, Perú.
Dear friend,
I wrote you some time ago, telling you with what delight I have been reading Amauta. It is a remarkable magazine; and I have a very real sense of the importance of the work you are doing. It means a good deal to me, to be able to count you among my friends.
I noticed with pleasure that you have been publishing certain chapters of my Re-Discovery of America. I am glad that you considered it worth publishing. I shall have to ask you, however, to cease these publications. I am trying to sell the Spanish rights of this book to a newspape— and I cannot afford to lose the possibility of earning this money, through the appearance in Amauta in which I receive no pay. Will you kindly tell Sr. Garro (whose address I do not have) that I thank him for his interest; that I am delighted to know that he is translating Our America for Glusberg of Buenos Aires but that I hope he is not translating any more parts of the new book?
Do let me hear from you. It is a long long time since I have had a letter from you, personally. I wonder indeed if you received my last one. And I shall be wondering if this word reaches you, until you assure me.
cordially yours
Waldo Frank

Yorktown Heights, New York, 30 de enero de 1928
Señor Don José Carlos Mariátegui,
Lima, Perú.
My dear Brother,
I learn vía Buenos Aires of your illness, of your political difficulties and of those of Amauta: and I hasten, at this late date, to send you my profound good wishes. There is a vast silence between New York and Lima, and yet at times I seem to see you and to hear you across that abyss, crearly and warmly. I wish that you could know what help in my own struggles your own career has given me: I want you to realize that in a very true sense we are close despite the silence between us.
Glusberg writes me that he is cooperating through you and Señor Garro for the translation of Our América & Holiday: I am eager to hear details about this work. If it is being carried on under your personal supervision I have confidence in the result; and although I can realize that you have little time I hope that you are managing to keep an eye on the progress of the undertaking. As you may have read, there seems to be a strong desire in Buenos Aires to have me come down there to deliver some lectures— : and since this will be a means of representing to South America the North America which has no voice in Pan-American conference and the like, I am strongly tempted to go despite the sacrifice of time which such a journey would entail. It is possible that I may decide to make the trip, this coming Autumn. In that case, I should like to know if I might not cross over to Peru. I should hate to be so near (comparatively) to your America, without getting to know it, and getting to know you, also. If I do go to B.A. in the autumn, will you let me know (as soon as you possibly can) how much of a journey in days and in expense it would mean to cross the Andes, and if there would be some means, in Peru, of earning enough money at least to defray the cost of such a voyage? If you can possibly let me have word, before the end of March I shall be grateful.
I have recently received books of poetry from fellow Peruvians of yours: I have had no time yet to read them, and hence have not written to the poets. Will you tell them (if they are your friends) that my silence means merely that I am frightfully rushed, and that I shall get to them, before very long?
I am sending you the New Republic, in which my new book (the continuation of Our America) called The Rediscovery of America is appearing. Do you receive it?
I am eager to hear from you, my friend: to hear above all that you are again in good health, and working; and, if possible, to learn what the exact difficulties are under which Amauta and you have been laboring. I suspect that these difficulties are political, and you must know from my own work that I am close to you —in your Camp, in that matter (although I have no exact political affiliations).
I send you my brotherly greetings. The thought that there is even a bare chance of seeing you in Peru excites me.
Waldo Frank

9 de febrero de 1929
Sr. D. Carlos Mariátegui
Director de Labor.
Casilla de Correos 2107
Lima.
Admirado compañero:
Me entero por el Repertorio Americano de que continúa Ud. su admirable labor de Amauta en el nuevo quincenario que responde al título de Labor.
No sé si alguna vez habrá Ud. leído algo mío. Es posible que no, aunque llevo más de diez años en la brecha. ¡Hay tanto que leer y es tan poco el tiempo de que se dispone!
Como quiera que sea, aquí le remito una croniquita para su Labor. Publíquela y envíeme un ejemplar de la revista, si a Ud. le parece bien. Si no le parece bien, a fin de enterrarla con honores, dígame por qué desea Ud. sumirla en el cesto de los papeles, que viene a ser la respetada tumba de la “crónica desconocida” de la cual me ocuparé algún día para que le hagamos el homenaje que se merece.
Sirva esta breve carta de saludo cordial. Ahí le va mi mano y con ella mi amistad.
[Firma de Aurelio Pego]

California, 14 de noviembre de 1930
Al Sr . Adm de la Revista Amauta
Muy señor mío:
Sírvase indicarme la fecha en que vencerá mi suscripción a la revista.
Saludo a Ud. atentamente
Alfred Coester