BORGES, Jorge Luis. Evaristo Carriego.Buenos Aires: M. Gleizer, 1930. Original printed wrappers. 8vo. 118pp. . Condition: light foxing; spine worn to remmants, but bindind sound. Provenace: from Borges library (his notes and corrections throughout). BORGES OWN COPY, HEAVILY CORRECTED WITH NUMEROUS CHANGES IN HIS HAND, all of which were incorporated into later printings and range from single words to long sentences. Below the last index entry Borges has written over two pages of text related to Lugones. It is unfinished, but it appears to have been intended as an answer to some conflicts arising from the foundation of the "Sociedad Argentina de Escritores" by Leopoldo Lugones, who was also the president. In a brief introductory paragraph explains that Lugones conceded and interview in which he expounded the guiding principles of the Society, which was subsequently published in the Diario de la Tarde. This appears to have upset a group of young writers, two of whom directed letters to Lugones" Julio V. González and Félix E. Cisheros (?). Borges then transcribes one of the letters, written in a rather revolutionary tone, probably by González, a writer, historian, possibly a politician, and one of the most notable leftists of the Argentina of the time. It is not a secret that Lugones was a militarist who prefered dictatorships to democracy, but Borges was known for ignoring politics as much as possible. Despite the fact that he wrote a number of articles on Lugones later in life, it is also true that Borges himself participated in at least one parody against Lugones, published in Martin Fierro in 1926. Whether Borges ever finished this purported response, if it ever was intended as such, and whether this letter was ever made public or not, we have not been able to determine. But further study of the conflict could shed a very interesting light on Borges's biography of those years, as well as on that of Julio V. González, especially if the text of the letter transcribed here didn't survive. Borges has signed the present title twice (including an uncharacteristically larger, more bold signature to title). The present title, intended for locals of Buenos Aires, is the only prose work from this period that Borges allowed to remain in print throughout his life. A combination of the loose biography of family friend, poet and raconteur Evaristo Carriego, it also a memoir and essay on a vanished Palmero, a world that was already a memory when Borges was a young man, it nevertheless influence him for the rest of his life.