Pereda pintado por sí mismo. Un epistolario. Volumen IV

In the spring of 2023, while my edition of the Pereda Epistolary painted by himself was in press, a descendant of the author of Sotileza, Don Fernando Garrigues Sainz de Tejada, donated to the Provincial Historical Archive of Cantabria1 230 autograph letters from various authors, addressed to Pereda and hitherto unknown. It is a very significant legacy because it is made up of 108 by Narcís Oller, 32 by Gumersindo Laverde, 13 by José Yxart and others by Antonio Maura, Salva-dor Rueda, the novelist Muñoz y Pabón, Cardinal José María de Cos and Aureliano Fernández Guerra, among others. Taking into account the lost letters, on many occasions we knew those written by Pereda but not those of his correspondents, which when intertwined with his give us an epistolary image of them and their affinities and contrasts with the author of Sotileza. In addition to revealing his opinions, these letters uncover and confirm not a few facts, and contribute to our knowledge of the social and literary panorama of the Spain of his time.