Produced between 1799 and 1830, Simón Bolívar's epistolary allows to tie the writing of letters, the memory and the historiography. This article intends to reach two objectives: 1) to display the narrative epistolar project, to considering the cited bonds; 2) to evaluate the social practices that make possible, simultaneously, the formation of an affective community between officers, the allotment of a elite code and the construction of a memory for the rising South American republics.
Simón Bolívar; epistolary; memory; elite code