«Poet in New York: Twenty-Five Years After», Poet in New York, trans. Ben Belitt (New York: Grove, 1955), pp. ix-xxxix; this was reprinted in Spanish translation, first by Editorial Taurus (Madrid, 1958), and later as part of his book Estudios sobre literatura contemporánea española (Madrid: Gredos, 1966), pp. 251-93.

Los Angeles, 1945. This book was published by the author and not by the University of California Press, as is found in many bibliographies.

This can be seen at a glance in the study of Marie Laffranque, «Pour l'etude de Federico García Lorca. Bases chronologiques», BHi, 65 (1963), 333-77.

See the confusion about lectures in Laffranque, p. 348.

I refer to Marie Laffranque's study not because it is especially full of inaccuracies -quite the contrary- but because it brings together all the previously published information. Lorca did not room with Francis Hayes, but instead had a single room (p. 348); he lived in Furnald Hall, not John Jay Hall, during the summer (p. 348); the speech in praise of La Argentina was not read on December 16, 1929 (p. 349), but on February 5, 1930; he did not return to Spain on the Alfonso XIII or the Marqués de Comillas (p. 349-50), but on the Manuel Arnús; Ángel del Río did not see him when the ship stopped at New York (p. 350). If El público bears the date of August 22, 1930, it could not have been completed in Havana, since at that date he was back in Spain (Obras completas, 18th ed. [Madrid: Aguilar, 1973], II, 1320).

One curious scrap of information, which could not be fitted into the chronology as such, is that the Chrysler Building, under construction in 1929-1930, was not completed until Lorca left New York, and admitted its first visitors on April 15 (New York Times, 16 April 1930, p. 53); therefore the poem «Grito hacia Roma», whose subtitle says it was «desde la torre del Crysler [sic] Building», could not reflect any actual visit to the top of this new skyscraper.