Letter from Pablo Neruda addressed to Luis Zara, a New York editor of Mineral Digest. Isla Negra, October 26th ...

Letter from Pablo Neruda addressed to Luis Zara, a New York editor of Mineral Digest. Isla Negra, October 26th, 1970, and Envelope postmarked in Chile on the 12th November 1970, addressed to Mr. Louis Zara.

Neruda’s letterhead. 1 sheet of paper, written on only one side. The letter comes with the original envelope which was sent from Chile to New York. Important letter, as Neruda accepts Luis Zara’s proposal, to do the first English translation of Las Piedras del cielo (Heaven Stones), for a bilingual, illustrated edition for bibliophiles. The poet apologises for not having answered sooner, rejects the offer of a new edition in Spanish of the same book, due to commitments to Losada, and mentions a photograph of him, which is not included. Neruda suggests his translator, Donald D. Walsh, (editor and translator, there are no known official tranlations of Neruda’s work by him, although he did translate poetry by Ernesto Cardenal.
He was probably the son of the writer Donald J. Walsh, Jr.) who he says has translated his poetry well although there is no known Neruda translations of his.
- Envelope postmarked in Chile on the 12th November 1970, addressed to Mr. Louis Zara, of the magazine “Mineral Digest” in New York. The sender is “Neruda, Isla Negra, Chile”, whichsuggests that this could be the envelope which accompanies the letter described above, in spite of the dates differing by a month.