'Letter to Victoria Ocampo, in Argentina' by Gabriela Mistral

Abstract

"Letter to Victoria Ocampo, in Argentina" is a poetic letter, a mixed epistle. A letter written by a personal guest to her wellcoming hostess praising the natural place as well as her house, made at the image of the hostess. She thanks for the opportunity to enjoy the house, the food, the garden, the singing birds, the green, the air, and her generous wellcome of writers coming from all places of the world. She praises the moral and physical greatness of her friend and hostess resembling the natural landscape of the nation. In a final farewell, she says goodbye and asks her hostess to look out for America, and the freedom, the education, the natural, the historical and the cultural patrimony of Argentina, in the name of Martín Fierro, San Martín and Jesus Christ.