| Resumo: | Rafael Uribe Uribe, one of the most important liberal politicians in Colombia during the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, wrote around 250 letters to his sons Julián Uribe Gaviria and Carlos Eduardo Uribe Gaviria between March 1905 and November 1906. At the time, he was serving as the country’s ambassador to Brazil and his two sons were studying at the Military Academy in Santiago. Their frequent correspondence reveals the responsibility the father felt for his sons, as well as a certain feeling of guilt for their leaving home to live in a distant country at such a young age. These letters are rich in advice and recommendations, expressing paternal feelings and reflections. Together, these letters provide a glimpse of the tension between tradition and modernity in Rafael Uribe Uribe’s fatherhood.
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