Toward the end of his long life (18331919) Ricardo Palma became so much of an "institution" that practically everybody who visited Lima, if they had any pretense to literary tastes at all, made a "pilgrimage" to his home in Miraflores, just outside of Lima, to pay their respects to the family and to convey greetings to the grand old man. The writer of this article was one of the last of these numerous pilgrims and, although many years have passed since then, the recollection of this visit is still fresh in his mind. It was late in July or early in August 1919 that William Belmont Parker (Peruvians of Today, Cubans of Today, etc.) and su seguro servidor called on the patriarch and had a long visit with him and his daughter, Angelica. Don Ricardo was quite feeble physically, but his mind was as alert as ever. He remembered the many North Americans who had visited him on previous occasions and particularly recalled Charles E. Chapman of the University of California and William R. Shepherd of Columbia. For these two scholars he seemed to have a special fondness. Don Ricardo liked cigarettes of the personallyrolled variety and he smoked a good many during the visit. His hands trembled too much for him to make the cigarettes himself, and so Ang6lica did the rolling for him, and very expertly, too. Incidentally, Ang6lica was an appropriate name for one of the most charming, talented, and spiritual persons the writer has ever known. Of her Palma wrote most appropriately, years before the interview to which reference is made: "Tengo una chica remate de lo bueno, flor de la gracia y espumita de la sal, con unos ojos mis picaros y trapisondistas que un par de escribanos: chica que se parece al lucero del alba