NOVEL NOTES, 1968 PART I, 1968
File — Box: 131, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents
This folder includes 6 prefatory pages (A-F), and 79 typed pages with handwritten corrections related to versions of my New York novel, An American Child Supreme (never published), that I worked on from around 1965 to 1971. (MANY DRAFTS OF THIS NOVEL ARE IN BOXES 9-14 OF THESE ARCHIVES.) Notes in this folder are so extensive they are almost a novel. It's a version of the book where Sammy Hauck is a Native American baseball pitcher, wounded in Vietnam, who tries to make a comeback in Florida spring training, fails, then travels out west with the narrator to his home reservation where his tribe's sheep have been decimated by nerve gas testing. 1968 is the year MLK and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, the Tet Offensive occurred in Vietnam, there was violence at Chicago's Democratic convention. In April, 1968, I took a bus from New York to Colorado Springs and rented a car, intending to travel the SW gathering facts for my novel. But my trip coincided with the King assassination, and I just drove around furiously, unable to calm down or concentrate. I never had a completed draft of this version of the novel. This folder includes: 1.) Prelude pages A-F. 2.) Pages 1-79 of notes and passages for the book.
Dates
- 1968
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
English
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research, however, researchers must sign consent form prior to gaining access to materials. Calavera drawings, proofs, and etchings as well as "little diaries" (Boxes 14, 125, 126, 129, 142) are housed in high security and may require up to 24 hours for retrieval. Enlarged photocopies and typed transcriptions of "little diaries" in Box 142 are located in Box 184.
Extent
From the Collection: 184 boxes (172 cu. ft.)
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451