Box 131
Container
Contains 60 Results:
CHILD OF A STAR, 1961
File — Box: 131, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents
This folder contains 24 5 x 7 index cards (total of 36 "pages") with handwritten notes in very light pencil done during the summer of 1961 when I lived in New York working on a novel that I think was titled "Child of a Star." I typed these almost illegible cards out in 14 clean pages also included in this folder. (More material related to CHILD OF A STAR can be found in BOX 1, FOLDER 9, and in BOX 2, FOLDER 1, and also in BOX 2, FOLDERS 10-13.)
Dates:
1961
COLLEGE SLANG, 1962
File — Box: 131, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents
3 typed pages of slang expressions used at Hamilton College that I gathered in 1962.
Dates:
1962
HAMILTON BLOODMOBILE, 1961 or 1962
File — Box: 131, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
This is a 2-page handwritten comical rap on giving blood on March 9th in a bloodmobile parked outside the Alpha Delt House at Hamilton College.
Dates:
1961 or 1962
STERILE CUCKOO PUBLICITY BIO, 1964
File — Box: 131, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents
A 2-page typed riff I gave to someone in publishing or the media as background for my author profile for The Sterile Cuckoo.
Dates:
1964
NOVEL NOTES, 1964-1966
File — Box: 131, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents
28 pages of random observations for pieces of fiction, some typed, some handwritten.
Dates:
1964-1966
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...
Dates:
1968
NOVEL NOTES, 1968 - PART II, 1968
File — Box: 131, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents
This folder holds a continuation of typed notes from PART I above, pages 80-168. Very turgid.
Dates:
1968
GREEN SPIRAL NOTEBOOK, 1971-1972
File — Box: 131, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents
In this notebook, in order, are: 1.) 12 pages of notes on the June 25, 1971 Taos Rodeo. 2.) 3 pages of notes on heated Tres Rios Association meeting, August 21, 1972. (People were pissed that their hands would be tied by legalities in upcoming public hearing over Indian Camp Dam and the conservancy district.) 3.) 4 pages of "The Milagro Beanfield War" where police agent Kyril Montana digs up background info on lawyer Charley Bloom and on a writer, somebody Burgess (whom I later dropped from the...
Dates:
1971-1972
NOVEL NOTES, 1970s - PART ONE, 1970s
File — Box: 131, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents
This folder and the next four folders derive from thousands of notes scribbled on envelopes then typed up clean. Mostly undated, and not in chronological order. The first 27 pages in this folder are numbered at bottom of the page. Afterwards (and throughout the next 4 folders) pages are numbered on the top right side of page. (In this folder it's pages 1-40.) These typed notes are about 1970s Taos events and personalities. Material in this folder appears written between 1977-1980 and is mostly...
Dates:
1970s
NOVEL NOTES, 1970s - PART TWO, 1970s
File — Box: 131, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents
These pages (numbered 41-85) continue my typed envelope notes begun in the folder above. Mostly still intended as background for The Nirvana Blues. Probably written between 1976-1980.
Dates:
1970s
NOVEL NOTES, 1970s - PART THREE, 1970s
File — Box: 131, Folder: 36
Scope and Contents
These typed notes (pages 86-149), continued from the notes above, are more difficult to pinpoint chronologically than the notes above but they are a continuation of them. They jump around. When they talk about Harry and Lorraine they're referring to a novel I worked on (and never published) between 1974-1976 called Down in Guatemala. Other notes seem related to The Magic Journey (published in 1978). Some material is related to A Ghost in the Music (published in 1979). So apparently a portion of...
Dates:
1970s
NOVEL NOTES, 1970s - PART FOUR, 1970s
File — Box: 131, Folder: 37
Scope and Contents
This folder begins with 2 typed pages (150, 151) of my dad and I taping bird calls in Mastic, Long Island in 1966! Then the typed notes (pages 152-203) return to Taos, early 1970s. Some appear to be for The Milagro Beanfield War, others The Magic Journey. A few for Number 25.
Dates:
1970s
NOVEL NOTES, 1970s - PART FIVE, 1970s
File — Box: 131, Folder: 38
Scope and Contents
I'm guessing many of these typed notes (pages 204-273) were written between 1972 and 1973. In places I mention a few more dates. Notes appear geared toward Milagro and Magic Journey. Folder includes pages 204-273.
Dates:
1970s
THREE-RING NOVEL NOTES, 1974
File — Box: 131, Folder: 39
Scope and Contents
These hand-written notes (pages 1-50) are from a 9 x 6 Three-Ring notebook I kept in 1974. The first 29 pages are historical doings from 1935, 1945, and 1953 (execution of the Rosenbergs) intended as background to the life of Morrie Gluckman, my chief protagonist in the never-published novel, Number 25 (See BOXES 18 AND 19 IN MANUSCRIPT FILES). Pages 30-37 include gangster and Yiddish slang words for Number 25. Pages 38-45 could be notes for The Nirvana Blues. Pages 46-49 are from a Tres Rios...
Dates:
1974
TREATMENT FOR START OF MOVIE, 1974-1976(?)
File — Box: 131, Folder: 40
Scope and Contents
Folder includes 4 pages (typed) in the life of a single mother with 2 kids, driving from Albuquerque to Santa Fe to negotiate her divorce. Folder also includes 3 pages of notes for possible scenes in the movie. Total of 7 pages.
Dates:
1974-1976(?)
"GUATEMALA" AND JOB NOTES, 1974-1975
File — Box: 131, Folder: 41
Scope and Contents
Milagro was published in September 1974. Yet I was broke and trying to figure out how to make money. These 2 typed pages are my frantic notes on how to survive, what to write in order to do so ("Down in Guatemala"), how to pay my debts, what payments will come in from speeches, etc.
Dates:
1974-1975
NOTES ON "AUTUMN", 1979-1981
File — Box: 131, Folder: 42
Scope and Contents
Folder contains 30 pages, all typed except page 26. Most of these typed notes (off envelopes) are related to The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn (published in 1982). Fairly short riffs, often 15 observations to a page. Last 4 pages are quotations from writers to use as Part headings in the book. (NOTE: MUCH MATERIAL USED FOR THE LAST BEAUTIFUL DAYS OF AUTUMN CAN BE FOUND IN MY JOURNAL/DIARY FILES FOR 1979-1981.)
Dates:
1979-1981
JUSTIFY DOLLARS, 1982
File — Box: 131, Folder: 43
Scope and Contents
This is a 3-page handwritten riff about the contradiction of earning big bucks (for me!) while writing political films like "Missing," "Milagro," "The Magic City," etc.
Dates:
1982
HOW TO BUY A RENTAL PROPERTY IN TAOS, 1982
File — Box: 131, Folder: 44
Scope and Contents
45 handwritten pages. In 1981, suddenly flush from screenwriting, I decided to buy a Taos "rental" house as a tax shelter. Idiot. I bought a lemon, the plumbing stunk, the roof leaked, the well dried up. Had to drill a new well. The driller hit artesian water he couldn't staunch, almost dropping the house into a sink hole. Halliburton came from Farmington to seal it (for a fortune!) with pressurized concrete. I bailed 6 months later, selling the house, totally broke. And never tried a tax...
Dates:
1982
AMERICAN BLOOD, LONG VERSION, 1980s
File — Box: 131, Folder: 45
Scope and Contents
25 typed pages (and 1 handwritten page of "Books to read for capitalism novel"). For years I planned to write a large novel about the rise of industrial capitalism in the U. S. from around 1870 to 1970. It would highlight the violence underlying our culture. Beginning with a Native American massacre and the killing of the buffalo, and ending with My Lai and Vietnam. I never wrote the book, too daunting. This folder contains 25 typed pages of notes about the history I wished to cover, and ideas...
Dates:
1980s
RED ALADDIN NOTE BOOK, CABO RIO NOTES, 1983
File — Box: 131, Folder: 46
Scope and Contents
115 handwritten pages. This Red Aladdin Note Book contains my handwritten notes made during a July 9-20, 1983 fact-finding trip to Miami and Key West with the English/Czech director, Karel Reisz, while working on his film, Cabo Rio, which dealt with Haitian boat people shipwrecked on a Bahamian key. In Miami we spoke to Haitian boat people, Haitian refugees in Krome concentration camp, and Coast Guardsmen who drove us in boats around Miami and Key Biscayne. In Key West we helicoptered out to...
Dates:
1983
GREEN MEAD NOTEBOOK, 1984-1986
File — Box: 131, Folder: 47
Scope and Contents
This notebook includes: 1.) My 20 pages of handwritten notes from the August 25, 1984 fifteenth anniversary celebration of the Tierra Amarilla Clinica when Craig Vincent, of Taos, was honored for his work for the Clinica with the Craig Vincent Community Hall. These notes include interviews with Carol Horowitz, Clinica director; Moises Morales; María Varela; Beroniz Archuleta (Sp?); Nancy Kleinbord; Ed Bernstein; Valentina Valdez. 2.) 2 pages of notes from talks with James Thomas, editor of my...
Dates:
1984-1986
RED MEAD NOTEBOOK, 1984-1985
File — Box: 131, Folder: 48
Scope and Contents
Contents include: 1.) 64 pages of my notes on WARDAY script during my meetings with Costa-Gavras in Paris, September 6-14, 1984. (See WARDAY SCRIPTS in BOX 45, FOLDERS 1-11, and related WARDAY CORRESPONDENCE in BOX 107.) 2.) 15 pages of notes to Colorado Springs School arguing against the suspension of my son Luke for hijinks during a class trip to Mexico. 3.) 5 pages of notes for my novel American Blood (the short version published in 1987). 4.) 6 pages of notes for my book, On The Mesa...
Dates:
1984-1985
NOVEL NOTES, AMERICAN BLOOD, 1983-1986
File — Box: 131, Folder: 49
Scope and Contents
This folder contains 6 prelude pages (A-F) and 104 typed pages of notes (plus 4 scribbled envelopes) primarily relating to my novel, American Blood (the short version, not to be confused with the historical epic I mentioned earlier, above), published in 1987 (See ARCHIVAL BOXES 31-33).
Dates:
1983-1986
BLUE MEAD NOTEBOOK, 1985-1986
File — Box: 131, Folder: 50
Scope and Contents
There are only 11 pages of notes in this notebook. 1985 and 1986 notes on my dealing with asthma and joking with second wife, Juanita.
Dates:
1985-1986