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GREEN MEAD NOTEBOOK, 1998

 File — Box: 132, Folder: 14

Scope and Contents

Included here: 1.) 2 pages of phone messages, May 13-16, 1998. My father had recently died (on April 13, 1998). 2.) A 4-page WEDDING POEM for my daughter Tania and her hubby, Marco Harris, on their wedding day, July 4, 1998. 3.) 2 pages of questions on June 27, 1998 to John Randall about organizing archives, and how can they be protected from theft in a library? 4.) 6-page legal agreement written for a friend on how to rent her house to people who'll pay that rent with work-in-kind. 5.) Two more pages of phone calls August-November 1998. 6.) 19 pages of notes on the film MIDNIGHT RETURN taken during a story conference in Los Angeles with the producers, Bill Panzer and Peter Davis, on September 9, 1998. (See related material in BOXES 50-53 in my SCREENPLAY ARCHIVES.) 7.) 3 pages of my diary, October 24-26, 1998 when my brother Tim's 18-year-old daughter, Anna, was killed in a Detroit car accident. 8.) A 6-page eulogy I gave for Anna Nichols in Detroit, October 27, 1998. (See ANNA FERNANDEZ NICHOLS in my EULOGY FILES.) 9.) 6-page first draft of an article on the Taos hiking trail, Devisadero, eventually published in New Mexico Magazine, March 1999. 10.) 4 pages of notes on meeting producers Peter Davis and Bill Panzer about the Midnight Return script at Le Dome restaurant in L.A. on November 12, 1998. 11.) Final page of this notebook contains blabble on "sex with commitment."

Dates

  • 1998

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