Album amicorum de Teresa Puelma de Orrego, 1851-1893 : manuscript.

Date

[between 1851 and 1893?]

Creator

One album compiled and organized by the author, containing a rich assortment of materials including handwritten letters, notes, autographs, drawings, printed cards, dried flowers, sketches, poems, and personal reflections. Most items are dated 1884. Notable contents include a letter from Teresa's grandmother, Isidora Zegers Montenegro, to her mother, Elisa Tupper Zegers, dated 1851; a letter of condolence (detached) from President Jorge Montt of Chile upon the death, in 1893, of her father, the engineer and politician Francisco Puelma Castillo, though it was addressed to her husband, Juan Antonio Orrego González; a hand-drawn, hand-colored map signed by the Chilean military leader Jorge Boonen Rivera, depicting the battles of Chorrillos and Miraflores during the War of the Pacific (1881); and a pencil drawing by the French architect and artist Marcel Dourgnon.