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Cuba. COLLECTION OF EIGHTEEN AUTOGRAPH AND CONTEMPORARY SCRIBAL MANUSCRIPTS OF EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CUBAN POPULAR SONGS AND SALSA DANCES, SIGNED BY THE COMPOSERS, INCLUDING BOLEROS, SÓN-MONTUNOS, CANCIÓNS, GUENGUERES COLOMBIANOS, CONGAS, ETC. BY MANUEL CORONA, ÑICO SAQUITO (ANTONIO FERNÁNDEZ) AND OTHERS including by Manuel Corona ("Clement y Petrona", 3 pages, folio, with stamps and signatures, registered Havana, 17 October 1914"; "Angelina. Bolero for voice and piano" 3 pages, folio, registered Havana, 12 January 1915; "La Nota del Día", 3 pages, incomplete, 4 June 1918); Guillermo Castillo ("Caballeros, Silencio", "Tres Sindas Cubanas", and "Galán Galán", 9 pages, oblong 4to, 1925-1926); Felipe Neri Cabrera ("La homa de la Crúz", 3 pages, folio,. 1932); Pedro Junco ,("Nosotros"), Antonio Fernandez ("Cuidadito compay gallo", 5 pages, 1936; "Papita Salcochá (Guaracha)", 3 pages, 1919); Gilberto Valdes ("Drumeri Ogguere, canción de cuna negroide"; "Pregón"; "Marcha", (8 pages); "Romance del Palmar"; "Vamo a baila, Merce (Conga)"; "Sucedio en la Habana"; "Viejo, no me des consejos"; (1936-1939), and Luciano Pozo ("Amparame"), 1943), some manuscripts for the engravers with publisher's numbers added in crayon, many signed by the composer over the music, occasionally on every page, stamps of "Instituo de secunda enseñanza", "Ministero de educacion", some browning and occasional splitting along folds,