Cuban revolutionary leader and poet (1853–1895) who was killed while fighting for Cuban independence from Spain. Unsigned manuscript in Marti’s hand, one page both sides, 8.5 x 12.25, no date. An unstranslated manuscript bearing the archival ink stamp of Gonzalo de Quesada, to whom Marti left his manuscripts when he returned to Cuba in 1895. Quesada (1868–1915), an intimate associate of Martí in the United States, later became Cuba’s first Minister to the United States. As Marti’s literary executor, Quesada classified and organized Marti’s writings and edited and published 35 volumes of papers beginning in 1900. After Quesada’s death, his son edited additional volumes. “Patria,” mentioned by Marti in the manuscript, was the name of the journal of his Cuban Revolutionary Party. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, light wrinkling, toning, and soiling, and some marginal staining (mainly from tape). RRAuction COA.
