TRE L L E S 



CARLOS M. TRELLES 



Scholar; bibliographer; 

 patriot; man of letters. 



Carlos M. Trelles was born on the fif- 

 teenth of February, 1866, in the city of 

 Matanzas, "the Athens of Cuba," where 

 he received his early education in Los 

 Normales and La Union schools in which 

 he came under the influence of the dis- 

 tinguished scholar Dr. Carlos de la Torre. 

 For his degree of Bachelor it was necessary 

 for him to attend the Institute of Havana 

 because the Spanish authorities had closed 

 the doors of the Institute at Matanzas. 



In the same year in which he graduated 

 (1880) he began the study of Medicine but 

 four years later gave it up to enter a com- 

 mercial career, which did not prevent him, 

 however, from continuing in his devotion 

 to Letters. By the year 1887 he began to 



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