To Alejandra Laera, who did the research for and writing of the historical notes for this edition of Pot Pourri.
To Susana Anaine (assistant director), Armando V. Minguzzi (researcher) and Santiago Kalinowski, Federico Plager, Mercedes Paz and Pedro Rodríguez Rodríguez, assistants in the Department of Philological Investigations at the Argentinian Academy of Letters. They kindly helped solve some of the text’s many tricky linguistic issues.