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         Teruel, José, and sanTiago


         lópez-ríos, ediTores.



         El valor de las cartas en el tiempo.


         La Casa de la Riqueza. Estudios de la



         Cultura de España.



         Madrid, Spain: Iberoamericana/Vervuert. 2023. 388 páginas.











                     he release of unpublished letters is always a welcome

             Taddition to the corpus of scholarship devoted to the


         authors/history/period/discipline in question, and this edi-

         tion by Teruel and López-Ríos not only aims to highlight

         select “epistolarios inéditos” since 1936 in Spain, but also


         to examine such correspondence through the critical lens

         of relevant expert philologists and historians. At the same
 TRO     time, however, in their “Introducción,” the editors are quick



         to underline the challenges with reconstructing biograph-





         inevitably incomplete collections from destruction by their
 S       ical and historical details through correspondence due to
         own authors to conserve privacy, disappearance due to the
 DEL MA  war, loss/discarding because of lack of interest or perceived



         value, etc. Yet, despite these gaps, accessible correspondence


         still provides philologists and historians with critical arti-

         facts of insight into the time, life, and work of the writer

         and recipient. In the editors’ words: “Aceptamos que la es-







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