Zone d'identification
Nom et localisation du dépôt
Niveau de description
Collection
Titre
Carlos Márquez-Sterling Papers
Date(s)
- 1960-1989 (Production)
- 1960s (Production)
Importance matérielle
17 Boxes
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Carlos Márquez-Sterling (1898-1991) was a Cuban lawyer, professor, writer and statesman active in island politics from the 1930s to the 1950s, and whose stature and political clout made him a leader of the exile patriotic movement from the 1960s to the 1980s. Márquez-Sterling was a congressman in Cuba’s House of Representatives from 1936 to 1946, acting as president of that body in 1936 and 1941. In 1940, he presided over the constitutional convention that created a more progressive constitution for the country; the document was in effect until Fulgencio Batista’s 1952 coup d’état. Márquez-Sterling also worked as a professor of political economy at the University of Havana. Expanding on his political calling, he was appointed Minister of Labor and Minister of Education from 1941 to 1942, and would eventually become a presidential candidate in 1958 before the rise of Fidel Castro.
Early on Márquez-Sterling had qualms about Castro’s revolutionary movement, predicting it would lead to totalitarian rule: “Una revolución sólo podrá traer la anarquía y desembocar en una dictadura de tipo totalitario que Cuba nunca ha experimentado.”
Márquez-Sterling was an exile leader, founding the Movimiento Patriótico Cuba Libre in New York in the early 1960s, lobbying the United States for the establishment of a Cuban government in exile and organizing exile groups across the country. He moved to Miami in 1979, teaching and writing in his retirement.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
The collection consists largely of handwritten and typed correspondence dating from the 1960s to the 1980s between Carlos Márquez-Sterling and family, friends, and exiled Cuban political figures. The collection also contains postcards; unedited book manuscripts; event invitations, announcements and programs; audiovisual materials; photographs and clippings.
Notable correspondents include past Latin American presidents José López Portillo (Mexico), Joaquín Balaguer (Dominican Republic) and Otilio Ulate (Costa Rica), as well as Cuban political personalities like Carlos Prío Socarrás, Fulgencio Batista Zaldívar, Rafael Guas Inclán and José Miró Cardona. Márquez-Sterling also corresponded with such distinguished journalists and literary figures as José Ignacio Rivero, Arturo Alfonso Roselló, Horacio Aguirre, Gastón Baquero and Octavio R. Costa.
The collection also highlights important correspondence and documents from Márquez-Sterling’s involvement in Cuban exile organizations such as the Movimiento Patriótico Cuba Libre, of which he was delegate general, and these groups’ interaction with international and American political figures, to wit, Ronald Reagan, former US ambassadors to Cuba Spruille Braden and Earl E.T. Smith, and Nicaraguan ambassador to the United States Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa.
Mode de classement
The collection is organized in two series, Correspondence and Personal Papers. Márquez-Sterling's original order was maintained when appropriate.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
This collection is open for research.
Accès physique
Accès technique
Conditions de reproduction
Requests to publish or display materials from this collection require written permission from the rights owner. Please contact chc@miami.edu for more information.
Preferred citation: Carlos Márquez-Sterling Papers, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.
Langue des documents
- anglais
- espagnol
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Instruments de recherche
Générer l'instrument de recherche
Éléments d'acquisition et d'évaluation
Historique de la conservation
Source immédiate d'acquisition
Gift of Manuel Márquez-Sterling, 2004 and 2011.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Sources complémentaires
Sombra y luz (ensayo de novela) – Alicia Peón y Varona, 1919
Correspondencia diplomática cruzada entre la Cancillería de la República de Cuba y la Comisión Permanente de Washington, D.C., (Estados Unidos de América) en relación con la reclamación interpuesta al Gobierno de la República Peruana por Denegación de Justicia, en perjuicio de ciudadanos cubanos – República de Cuba, Secretaría de Estado, 1940
The Cuban Heritage Collection contains the papers of several correspondents from the Carlos Márquez-Sterling Papers, listed below:
Agustín Acosta Papers
Gastón Baquero Papers
Fulgencio Batista Zaldívar Collection
Bernardo Benes Papers
Eugenio Castillo Papers
Octavio R. Costa Papers
Salvador Díaz-Versón Collection
Wilfredo Fernández Papers
Fernando Fernández-Cavada Collection
Leonardo Fernández Marcané Collection
Orestes Ferrara Papers
Eugenio Florit Papers
Gustavo Godoy y Agostini Collection
Luis V. Manrara Papers
Humberto Medrano Collection
José Miró Cardona Papers
Carlos Alberto Montaner Collection
Miguel Olba Benito Papers
Gonzalo de Palacio Collection
Humberto Piñera Llera Papers
Carlos M. Raggi Collection
Manuel Antonio (Tony) Varona
Descriptions associées
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Zone du contrôle de la description
Règles ou conventions
Sources utilisées
Note de l'archiviste
Collection level record added by Amanda Moreno, December 2012. Updated by Rebeca Gonzalez, May 2021.
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
Mots-clés - Lieux
Mots-clés - Noms
- Batista y Zaldivar, Fulgencio, 1901-1973 (Sujet)
- Benes, Bernardo (Sujet)
- Castillo, Eugenio (Sujet)
- Manrara, Luis V. (Sujet)
- Miró Cardona, José, 1902-1974 (Sujet)
- Márquez Sterling, Carlos, 1898-1991 (Sujet)
- Márquez Sterling, Carlos, 1898-1991 -- Correspondence (Sujet)