Documentary background for the playwright and journalist   Conrad Roure Bofill, basically related to his journalistic, literary, political and social activity. We have documentary evidence of two acquisitions and one donation of documents from this fund. The collection was kept in the Frederic Marès Studio-library until 1996, when this space was opened to the public and the documentation was moved to the Museum's internal services space, located on the basement floor where the Documentation and Research Center is currently located.

Conrad Roure and Bofill (Barcelona, ​​1841-1928). Playwright and journalist. Graduated in law, he participated in the bohemian and iconoclastic atmosphere of the Barcelona of his youth. He was a friend and colleague of Frederic Soler (Pitarra) and Eduard Vidal i Valenciano, with whom he collaborated in several plays. Fond of the ideology of Valentí Almirall, he was an assiduous collaborator of the  Catalan newspaper , where he published a translation of  The Iliad (from a French version). He popularized the pseudonym of  Pau Bunyegas  to numerous periodicals such as  Lo Noy de la Mother , of which he was director and sole editor,  A Piece of Paper ,  Lo Gay Saber ,  The Renaissance ,  The Catalan Enlightenment ,  The Bell of Grace ,  The Advance ,  The Esquella de la Torratxa , etc. He gave the theater some costumed and naive pieces, like  A girl is for a king (1865),  Falset's comedy (1869),  A bunch of violas (1870), etc., and some dramas, where he cultivated a past Romanticism, like  Clear (1879) i  Fatal passions (1898), in collaboration with Modest Urgell, among others. His memoir articles published in  The Deluge  were collected in three volumes  Memories of my long life (1925), and constitute a curious chronicle of Barcelona in the middle of the century. XIX