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Notebook 2014 with notes, DW handwriting has declined, 2014 poem Ann Glovers Was Her Name, We Line the Wet As if The Debt of Dry, Clouding the Water, Here We Sit wet weather, A Merry-Go-Round of Anticipation, more poems Damp like a lamp or lump of wet clay, Olivier Rone?, Early Bright Light yellow hope, Raining Makes the World Go Round, The Full Moon, In the West Wing Library UNM green plant, Cool Air Stretched the Imagination, Quick Sounds quiet but soft, It's here as we wait the itch to exist, Kyle to work at Satellite Café, Crab Apples Fall, Something is draining us God, Main Stream, Cotton Clouds, It's All Fine When We Agree just us three. DW thoughts on Writing well use of words. Poem Days and Nights of Dreaming, Eerily Quiet, Flying Star blue on blue, Family Here from Long Ago Labor Day, House Martinez Play Swiftly they fly in twos, Colder than normal to find a mate, New Aberystwyth Wales Today Is a Refine Day of Your Life, Looking Across the Distance to Sandia Mountains, It's Humid Today Hollywood Rock and Roll, Water flows like the mail, Pit Ponies Wales. Then a series of poems related to weather, light, existence, rain, emotions, memories, balloons, death, reality, etc. Poems on Routine of school and work silence, along Central Camera Corral and Zacatecas, Autumn and splintered expectations, Etela? bites not only the whites no life is sacred, The Amazon in my Thoughts, He Strolls along with a cigarette dangling vice of living in Albuquerque hell on earth, To Live off the Fat of the Nuclear War government spending no guilt, The Leaves again sprawling carpets, The Rain Came Down the people slept parking lot romances, Lindsey George a railroad man John and I railing against the night, Seven snow topped figures Christmas, So Cold so fresh it burns the flesh getting old at Nob Hill Route 66 Albuquerque. Poems 2015 Sleep slip slyly between the pillow and head or brain, Gloomy Shadows mountain shapes, Misty Light to the east of Central Route 66 Nob Hill defiance of history. Poems about __? is the pool boy in his imagination Richard a working stiff, Blythe is so wise like a beehive, Walking to Work health and wealth, At CSWR Library Trying to Write with Marina in mind joy peace, Blue Cold Seeps Deep and Penetrating, With My Pen at the California School of Theology UNM Route 66, To The Beat of Santa Fe, Christmas eve 2015 Revealed the Snow Clouds Blanket Mountain view in the Southwest Rockies - Rocky Mountains. Note or poem 2016 by DW on being at the hospital, cardio unit, Jordan, he was the reborn hero next battle less stress more play healing. Poem 2016 Roberta goes to the Grand Canyon. Notes in back of notebook from 2004-2015, at Bunting Slide Library, on Alfred Charles Slawson, Hereford. Poems at the back of the notebook have mixed dates, At the ceremony blessing in church, 2014 In the West Wing Library CSWR poems spring forth writing, At the ANC, poems 2015 for Rebecca Rebeca goddess I love you, poem 2014 This Day reason to celebrate, Micro wave heat for New Mexico in June, Blue Skies eyes of blue, poem Boxing Day sitting in the coffee house. DW miscellaneous notes, 2014

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 4

Scope and Content

From the Collection: David Wilde started giving his papers to CSWR in 1994 and added material regularly through 2018. He donated his photographs in 2013, which are in the David Wilde Photograph Collection. A friend brought in the rest of his material after his death. His main collection contains personal papers, family documents, correspondence, school material and information on his musical career in England. It also has papers about his later life and writings in Albuquerque. There are articles about him and several recordings of him reading from his stories and poems, and talking about Alfred Charles Slawson.

Box 1 has resumes, biographical material and articles about Wilde. Also included are his family history and accounts of life in England during World War II. Other files cover his military service, education, music programs in which he played the French horn and his teaching career.

Box 2 contains background on his startup offshore entertainment company, his visit to England in 1995, and travel brochures gathered about England, Wales and Scotland. There are letters from his Mother and others written by Wilde to his family and friends. Other folders have articles he collected about Welsh history and music, writing and business in England. His immigration and passport papers, job searches in England and other countries and teaching work in the Czech Republic are included.

Box 3 starts with his writings from 1989 to 2004. Here are some handwritten manuscript pages, drafts, revisions and reissues for Wilde’s major works: The Sun Also Sets, Desert Meditations, Black Innocence, Pink, The North Sea Saga, Teabags from England, One Day in April, Snow on the Cactus for La Puerta Freshman Reader and his Collected Short Stories. Other folders included some of his poems and edited music pieces from that time.

Box 4 continues with his work from 2004 to 2017, including Rain Poems, Reprieved, Lilac Tree II, the Maltese Clock and his last 2018 presentation at Abril para La Palabra at the UNM Spanish Department. Also included are other pieces like his Manifesto on why he chose the covered he did for his books, books by others with his poems and his Café in Space poems. Also included are his research and drafts for the Zeke Cortez book, with material on the Cortez family and Cortez’ naval career.

Box 5 has his research on A. C. Slawson and drafts of Wilde’s essays. Following are folders arranged by date from 1984-2013 with his rough diaries, calendars, notebooks and loose pages that were scattered though his collection. These have information about his travels, thoughts and friends, and have some handwritten poems.

Box 6 continues with similar materials for 2013 to 2019, followed by folders with his undated handwritten poems. Then there is a section on the David Wilde Publishing company from 1989 forward with sales, promotion efforts and correspondence with book companies. There are lists of his books and the materials he edited and published for others. Midway there is a section of stories, poems and articles collected by or donated to Wilde by others, some correspondence to him from friends and death tributes for people he knew.

Box 7 has more collected and donated materials. Next is information from Wilde’s courses taken at UNM and several of his class papers.

Box 8 continues with his activities at UNM. Other folders cover his work with the UNM English, Spanish, Portuguese and German Departments and his recommendations for a UNM Honorary Degree. He attended many campus and Albuquerque area events and collected flyers and programs about them, which are included here. There are also folders about the Aquinas Newman Center activities and campus Christian groups.

Box 9 has his computer floppies and hard drive, and miscellaneous materials.

The Oversize Folder contains mainly posters saved by Wilde from his music career in England and book readings in Albuquerque, as well as a few other items he found of interest.

Collection was previously numbered MSS 918.

Dates

  • 2014

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 10 boxes (9.5 cu. ft., plus 1 oversize folder)

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