Summary

This article seeks to publicize a series of sixteen letters written by the Chilean diplomat Máximo Lira to her friend Isabel Errázuriz. These were donated to the Academia Chilena de la Historia after being preserved by the Errázuriz family. These letters were written from the Chilean front during the War of the Pacific, specifically between 1879 and 1881. Through the contextualization of the recovered epistolary, the author sets forth the biographical perspective of Máximo Lira during the war. Accordingly, this military testimony allows access to the experiences of the conflict’s actors, along with a geographical description of the occupied area, in the Peruvian region of Moquegua.