Box 135
Container
Contains 74 Results:
BILL HIGGS, 1963
File — Box: 135, Folder: 51
Scope and Contents
23 total handwritten pages on mostly yellow paper with 5 pages of white paper. Also a 3-page Xerox of news article. Bill Higgs was a southern Civil Rights lawyer kicked out of Mississippi. I met him at the World Cafe (cf. above). Bill asked me to write his story. We met at my apartment a few times, I took notes, but something was wrong. I quit. Years later, Bill Higgs was one of Reies Tijerina's legal advisors in New Mexico. Bill is mentioned in Tijerina's autobiography, English translation....
Dates:
1963
"THE SOPHISTS", 1963
File — Box: 135, Folder: 52
Scope and Contents
Folder includes document written in 1963. The document describes in detail members of a group, of which Nichols was a part, from Hamilton College called "The Sophists."
Dates:
1963
ALICANTE, 1964
File — Box: 135, Folder: 53
Scope and Contents
2-page handwritten description of my 1964 summer vacation life in Alicante and a girl from Brussels who was my friend. Folder includes my typed version of this journal entry (typed in 2011!), plus a Xerox of the actual handwritten letter I received from the Brussels girl, and a typed copy of the letter in French and also in my English translation. The original letter is in my 1950s-1960s CORRESPONDENCE FILES under “Inés Thibault, April 24, 1965."
Dates:
1964
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 1964-JANUARY 1965
File — Box: 135, Folder: 54
Scope and Contents
This folder contains: 1.) 1 typed page of me translating in hospital for my Argentine friend, Aureo Roldán, who ran the empanada stand on MacDougal Street immortalized 42 years later in The Empanada Brotherhood. 2.) Two journals, one of 12 handwritten pages and one of 18 handwritten pages, mostly about early meetings with my future wife, Ruth "Ruby" Harding, over December 1964 and January 1965. 3.) One index card with a drawing by Ruby.
Dates:
DECEMBER 1964-JANUARY 1965
BUS TRIP TO CALIFORNIA, 1965
File — Box: 135, Folder: 55
Scope and Contents
Ruby Harding and I traveled by bus to Berkeley, CA, to visit my dad before we got married. Traveling March 19-27, 1965. Folder contains 1 handwritten page describing scenes on bus, and some other stuff. (See our CITY-BY-CITY BUS SCHEDULE in LITTLE GRAY PLANNER, 1965, ABOVE.)
Dates:
1965
NOVA SCOTIA, Sept. 1965
File — Box: 135, Folder: 56
Scope and Contents
Ruby Nichols and I and our cat, Swoboda, took a driving vacation to Nova Scotia from September 10-25, 1965. This folder has my 24-page handwritten journal of our trip, and also a 2-page handwritten poem to Ruby labeled p.77 and 78.
Dates:
Sept. 1965
DAVID LANGE WEDDING, Jan. 1966
File — Box: 135, Folder: 57
Scope and Contents
David was actress Hope Lange's little brother, he worked for Alan Pakula on The Sterile Cuckoo. David and I scouted locations together. We had a blast. I didn't attend this wedding.
Dates:
Jan. 1966
IMPORTANT ADDRESSES, 1965-1966
File — Box: 135, Folder: 58
Scope and Contents
3-page typed list of addresses of family, friends, and agent, editors. (Scribbled notations of who people were was added by me later.)
Dates:
1965-1966
EUROPE (ONE), 1966
File — Box: 135, Folder: 59
Scope and Contents
16 handwritten pages. Paginated on bottom of page. In June 1966, my wife Ruby and I went by boat, the Bremen, to France, took a train to Paris, rented a car, drove to Brittany to St. Brieuc and St. Malo and to see the Le Braz family home in Port-Blanc, then down through France to Spain and over to see my grandmother, Mamita, in Barcelona. Some of the journal changes our names, but it's not fiction, it's all pretty much as it happened.
Dates:
1966
EUROPE (TWO), 1966
File — Box: 135, Folder: 60
Scope and Contents
14 handwritten pages. Numbered at top of page. This is another of my journals of Ruby's and my trip to Europe. Starts June 8 with ship, the Bremen, docking at Cherbourg. Covers our trip to Paris, then in rented car out to St. Malo and then to St. Brieuc (saw Anatole Le Braz statue) and Port-Blanc in Brittany (June 13). Then down to Andorra, and the journal ends just over the border in Spain on June 16.
Dates:
1966
LUKE'S BIRTH, September 22, 1976
File — Box: 135, Folder: 61
Scope and Contents
This is a Xerox of my 5-page typed journal of the birth of our son, Luke, on Sept. 22, 1966 in New York Hospital. I was present. Minutely detailed blow-by-blow. Very moving to me.
Dates:
September 22, 1976
POLL WATCHER, February 20, 1968
File — Box: 135, Folder: 62
Scope and Contents
This folder contains only my certificate to watch polls in Coney Island during special election that involved a peace candidate, Mel Dubin. I observed rampant cheating and electioneering by other side, and, when I complained to a cop, he told me to shuttup or he'd arrest me. My first really up-close view of American electoral politics.
Dates:
February 20, 1968
CROSS-COUNTRY TRIP TO COLORADO SPRINGS, May 1969
File — Box: 135, Folder: 63
Scope and Contents
This folder has 5-page typed letter I wrote to my first wife, Ruby, on or about May 10, 1969, from my dad's house in Colorado Springs. Describing my epic drive across country from New York to Colorado in our VW Bus. And long discussions with my dad about his breakup with his third wife. And a tour I took of Cheyenne Mountain NORAD underground defense complex headquarters in Colorado Springs. I was headed for Taos on a scouting trip to see if I wanted to live there.
Dates:
May 1969
TAOS, MAY 14-15, 1969
File — Box: 135, Folder: 64
Scope and Contents
6 typed pages. My amazing couple of days in Taos looking for a place to live during a Hippie-Chicano war. Contains many descriptions of the chaos in Taos. I wound up at the Llano Quemado hot springs swimming nude with 30 freaks who were into free sex, lots of drugs, and organic gardening. A great introduction to Taos.
Dates:
MAY 14-15, 1969
TAOS, AUGUST-DECEMBER 1969
File — Box: 135, Folder: 65
Scope and Contents
This is the first extended journal I felt could be unrestricted in these archives. Folder consists of 73 typed pages (1-73, numbered in pencil on top right of page) of our family's life adapting to Taos immediately after we (Ruby, Luke, and I) moved to Taos from New York in 1969 (we arrived in Taos at the end of July). (There are actually 76 pages in this folder because between pages 34 and 35 I inserted 3 typed pages of a poem about what happened in bucolic Taos on the day Ho Chi Minh died in...
Dates:
AUGUST-DECEMBER 1969
TAOS, FEBRUARY-APRIL 1970
File — Box: 135, Folder: 66
Scope and Contents
This is a continuation of my Taos journal above, a total of 48 typed pages, numbered 74-121 in pencil at top right of page. More family life on Upper Ranchitos Road, with check marks on passages deemed appropriate for If Mountains Die. Highlights include me and our son Luke alone in March 1970 building sheds while Ruby was cutting sugar cane on a Venceremos Brigade in Cuba.
Dates:
FEBRUARY-APRIL 1970
FELILPE MARES, MAY 21-JUNE 5, 1971
File — Box: 135, Folder: 67
Scope and Contents
This folder has 38 typed pages (numbered on top right of page) of my notes about: 1.) The killing of Felipe Mares after he escaped from the Taos Jail. I wrote about him in the August/September 1871 New Mexico Review (See #32 "A Purely Accidental Death" in ARTICLES, 1970-1972 in BOX 14, FOLDER 8-9). (See also "ACCIDENTAL DEATH, FELIPE MARES, MAY 21, 1971 in BOX 88, FOLDER 15, which has 6 B&W photos of the spot where Felipe Mares was killed.) 2.) Riding La Gente police patrols in Santa Fe...
Dates:
MAY 21-JUNE 5, 1971
RACISM, 1971-1972
File — Box: 135, Folder: 68
Scope and Contents
In this folder are: 1.) 2 typed pages about my experience in Taos of racism against some of my Native American friends. 2.) A terrible 2-page letter written to me in 1972 by a Taos Gallery Owner, reacting to a NM Review article of mine about my sculptor friend, Ralph Suazo. 3.) Xerox of that February 1972 New Mexico Review article about Ralph Suazo, "A Man Who Used to Race Horses." (SEE MY RELATED ARTICLE ON "MARIA'S ENCOUNTER WITH THE POLICE" IN NOV. 1970 NM REVIEW.)
Dates:
1971-1972
BUS TRIP ACROSS COUNTRY, August 1971
File — Box: 135, Folder: 69
Scope and Contents
Amazing trip from Taos to NY with son Luke and friend Mike Kimmel starting August 19, 1971. 3 typed pages. Shoot-out in St. Louis bus station. Riots in Camden, N.J. Page and a half of bus driver's hilarious repartee to us on intercom. Folder also includes aN.Y. Daily News article about death of George Jackson at San Quentin, August 21, 1971.
Dates:
August 1971
BAD ATMOSPHERE IN TAOS, 1970-1972
File — Box: 135, Folder: 70
Scope and Contents
6 total pages, including 4 typed pages about political tensions in Taos, autumn 1970, plus a handwritten 2-page paranoid letter I wrote on March 7, 1972 to my wife and friends Em Hall and Jim Rowen who were involved with the New Mexico Review. Material involves Chicano-Hippy war in Taos, the Pueblo's Blue Lake struggle, attacks against the Forest Service, Dennis Hopper's dysfunction, attacks on Taos radicals, and activities of undercover agent Ted Drennan in Taos. Drennan was later involved in...
Dates:
1970-1972
ALBUQUERQUE HOCKEY, 1971-1972
File — Box: 135, Folder: 71
Scope and Contents
Folder includes newspaper articles and statistics covering the Lobos hockey team and the Albuquerque Hockey League of 1971-1972.
Dates:
1971-1972
FISHING JOURNAL, FEB-NOV. 1974
File — Box: 135, Folder: 72
Scope and Contents
This folder contains a 38-page typed journal I kept of my fishing adventures in 1974. On 3-ring binder paper. Material was useful in my book If Mountains Die. Also in folder are 3 of Bob Lake's Albuquerque Journal fishing columns which were called "Lake's Lunker Line." One is dated May 20, 1974.
Dates:
FEB-NOV. 1974
ASTHMA REACTION, June 16, 1974
File — Box: 135, Folder: 73
Scope and Contents
One-page typed description of my horrible reaction to a week of treatment in July 1974 for onset of asthma. I had been taking ephedrine or epinephrine. Speed. I couldn't sleep and wrote a draft of a novel in one week! I stopped ephedrine immediately.
Dates:
June 16, 1974
March 1976
File — Box: 135, Folder: 74
Scope and Contents
40 typed pages. True pagination is top center of page. (I removed 8 pages from this journal.) This is my journal of being with Stephanie Sonora at her parent's house in Denver while she underwent cancer surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy at a Denver hospital. She had lympho-sarcoma. We had been together less than a year. Much trauma and new love in these pages. Stephanie fought cancer the rest of her remarkable life and died in December 1990, age 58 (See my EULOGY FILES for STEPHANIE SONORA)....
Dates:
1956-2007