ALS OF SIMON BOLIVAR'S AIDE-DE-CAMP AND BIOGRAPHER. Autograph Letter Signed ("D.F. O'Leary"), 4 pp recto and verso, 4to (conjoining leaves), Kingston, Jamaica, July 14, 1832, to General Urdaneta, commenting on current conditions in Columbia, very light creasing and toning. Daniel Florence O'Leary was born in County Cork, Ireland, and at the age of 16, sailed to South America to join Bolivar's revolutionary forces as a mercenary. The next year he joined the army as an officer, and rose quickly through the ranks, becoming a General and Bolivar's aide-de-camp by age 28. After the death of Bolivar, O'Leary took great pains to collect the Liberator's letters and writings. O'Leary spent his remaining years in diplomatic service and working on his 32 volume memoirs which were published posthumously by his son. In this letter to another Bolivar confidante, General Rafael Urdaneta, O'Leary thanks his correspondent for sending him Bolivar material and comments on the current political situation in Columbia, particularly the return of Francisco Paula Santander [1792-1840], Columbian revolutionary and lieutenant of Bolivar who was banished for many years, but returned in 1832 to assume the country's presidency. In part, translated: "I received your latter of that date, and the letters of the Liberator for which I am infinitely thankful, and I will keep them safely until I can return them to you ... The Great Santander receives [incentives?] from the United States, as they prepare themselves for his Presidency of Columbia. Apparently he takes an Emperor with him as an aide-de-camp, that is to say, a nephew of Napoleon [Jose Bonaparte]. What peculiarities we are seeing!!"
ALS OF SIMON BOLIVAR'S AIDE-DE-CAMP AND BIOGRAPHER. Autograph Letter Signed ("D.F. O'Leary"), 4 pp recto and verso, 4to (conjoining leaves), Kingston, Jamaica, July 14, 1832, to General Urdaneta, commenting on current conditions in Columbia, very light creasing and toning. Daniel Florence O'Leary was born in County Cork, Ireland, and at the age of 16, sailed to South America to join Bolivar's revolutionary forces as a mercenary. The next year he joined the army as an officer, and rose quickly through the ranks, becoming a General and Bolivar's aide-de-camp by age 28. After the death of Bolivar, O'Leary took great pains to collect the Liberator's letters and writings. O'Leary spent his remaining years in diplomatic service and working on his 32 volume memoirs which were published posthumously by his son. In this letter to another Bolivar confidante, General Rafael Urdaneta, O'Leary thanks his correspondent for sending him Bolivar material and comments on the current political situation in Columbia, particularly the return of Francisco Paula Santander [1792-1840], Columbian revolutionary and lieutenant of Bolivar who was banished for many years, but returned in 1832 to assume the country's presidency. In part, translated: "I received your latter of that date, and the letters of the Liberator for which I am infinitely thankful, and I will keep them safely until I can return them to you ... The Great Santander receives [incentives?] from the United States, as they prepare themselves for his Presidency of Columbia. Apparently he takes an Emperor with him as an aide-de-camp, that is to say, a nephew of Napoleon [Jose Bonaparte]. What peculiarities we are seeing!!"
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