]> ms.28 Wright (Irene Aloha) 1879-1972 Collection 1906 Ms. 28 Michael Warner and Ben Primer Special Collections, The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University
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Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Diwakar Bhandari Finding aid written in English Wright (Irene Aloha) 1879-1972 Collection 1906 Ms. 28 Special CollectionsThe Milton S. Eisenhower Library The Johns Hopkins University Contact Information Special Collections The Milton S. Eisenhower Library The Johns Hopkins University 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 (410) 516-8323 Michael Warner and Ben Primer July 1982 Diwakar Bhandari

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 Descriptive Summary Ms. 28 Wright (Irene Aloha) 1879-1972 Collection 1906 Wright, Irene Aloha, 1879-1972 Johns Hopkins University. Special Collections 15 items Spanish and English The Wright Collection consists of correspondence (primarily in Spanish and addressed to the Havana Daily Telegraph where wright served as city editor) written during the August (1906) Revolution. The rebellion against the government of President Thomas Estrada Palma resulted from the fraudulent election in the fall of 1905 and the denial of political sinecures to the so-called liberals led by Jose Miguel Gomez. The collection includes correspondence from rebel leaders Gen. Faustino "Pino" Guerra of Pinar Province and Gen. Ernesto Asbert of Havana Province. The letters of N.E. Allen provide information on rebel leader Eduardo Guzman of Santa Clara Province, and reports by W.R. Roberts and Arturo Sainz de la Pena cover Asbert and Guerra respectively. The Gen. Mario Menocal document relates to his failure to reconcile differences between Estrada Palma and the rebels. Eventually the government appealed to Theodore roosevelt for intervention under the Platt Amendment, leading to the investigation by Secretary of War William Howard Taft and Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon in September - October 1906. Wright has annotated some of the documents.In 1910, Wright published Cuba (New York: Macmillan, 1910), in which can be found a description of the events surrounding the documents in the collection (pp. 172 - 181). See also Charles E. Chapman, A History of the Cuban Republic (New York: Macmillan, 1927) for more detail. Administrative Information Provenance

The Irene Aloha Wright Collection consists of documents collected by Miss Wright during the Revolution of August (1906) in Cuba. Miss Wright sent the collection to the University shortly after the rebellion,and forwarded an additional document in 1908. The collection was found among the papers of Herbert Baxter Adams in 1982. The collection was then arranged by Michael Warner and Ben Primer in July 1982.

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Permission to publish material from this collection must be requested in writing from the Manuscripts Librarian, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Md. 21218.

 Preferred Citation

Irene Aloha Wright Collection Ms. 28 Special Collections Milton S. Eisenhower Library The Johns Hopkins University

Biographical Note

Irene Aloha Wright, American writer and journalist, was born in 1879. She became a special writer for the Havana Post (1904 - 1905) and city editor of the Havana Daily Telegraph (1905 - 1907). She was owner and editor of Cuba Magazine (1908 - 1914). In 1910, Wright published Cuba which described the revolution of 1906 in Cuba. Wright also published several histories of Spanish Exploration in the New World. Later in her career, Wright worked as an archivist(1936 - 1938) with the National Archives and was a foreign affairs specialist with the State Department in the 1940's. Irene Aloha Wright died in 1972.

Description of Series/Container List Correspondence Series Correspondence Series 7 folders Folder Contents 1 Allen, N.E., 23 August, 25 August 2 Asbert, Ernesto, 26 August [2], 10 September 3 Betancourt, R., 25 August 4 Guerra, Gen. Faustino "Pino", 1 September 5 Menocal, Gen. Mario, 12 September 6 Roberts, W.R., 26 August, 27 August 7 Sainz de la Pena, Arturo, 25 August, 1 September