Translation:Aurora de Chile/28/Back matter
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| CON SUPERIOR PERMISO, | WITH SUPERIOR PERMISSION,[1] |
| IMPRESO EN SANTIAGO DE CHILE, | PRINTED IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE, |
| EN LA IMPRENTA DE ESTE SUPERIOR GOBIERNO,[2] | ON THE PRINTING PRESS OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT,[2] |
| Por los Sres. Samuél Burr Johnston,[3] y Simón Garrison,[4] | By Mr. Samuel Burr Johnston,[3] and Mr. Simon Garrison,[4] |
| DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS.[5] | OF THE UNITED STATES.[5] |
Notes[edit]
- ↑ As in, permission from the superior gobierno, translated in the next line as "central government."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 At the time, Chile's only printing press.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Samuel Burr Johnston was a printer from Boston who operated Chile's only printing press. He would later become one of independent Chile's earliest recipients of an honorary citizenship in 1814. By this time, he had fought for Chile in its first naval engagement, as second-in-command of the Potrilla. His book about his experiences in Chile was the first book about Chile published in the United States. See William L. Neumann's "United States Aid to the Chilean Wars of Independence."
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Garrison came to Santiago as an assistant to the printer Johnston. Little has been written about him and the other assistant, William H. Burbidge.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Charles Lyon Chandler's 1917 Inter-American Acquaintances gives one of the best accounts of the early printing press in Chile (pp. 74-75). The Carrera junta, working with the American merchant Mateo Hoevel in Santiago to acquire a press, and soon the three American printers, Samuel Burr Johnston, Simon Garrison, and William H. Burbidge (who is credited in earlier issues, but according to W.W. Pasko's American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking, "Spanish America," pg. 516, he was killed at a riot caused by the 1812 Fourth of July ball hosted by the US consul more than a month prior to this issue's publication) left New York aboard the Galloway, bringing their expertise and a printing press to Chile. They arrived in Valparaiso in November, 1811, and the Aurora de Chile, the first newspaper, began publication in February 1812.