Box 141

Scope and Content From the Collection: John Nichols' papers document a wide range of history and culture and personal connections in New Mexico (and elsewhere) over the last 55 years. This all-inclusive collection contains almost every draft of every manuscript Nichols has written, and every piece of correspondence that he has sent and received since the late 1950s. The collection not only documents the creation and evolution of his literary works, but precisely documents the literary process. His correspondence, speeches, and...

Scope and Contents 6-RING NOTEBOOK.  5 and 1/2 x 3 and 3/4 INCHES.  Amazing document.  A daily budget of what I earned and spent from June 9 to October 22, 1958 when I washed dishes at the Maple Hill Restaurant in West Hartford, CT, and lived in the downtown YMCA, and spent my spare time with girlfriend Linda Boyes before heading to college, and also caddied weekends at the Avon Country Club.  Notebook records my first couple of months at college when I received money from Pop and Mamita.  Notebook also has every...

Scope and Contents These copies are dated June 9, 16, 23, 30; July 7, 14, 21; August 4, 18. They have descriptions of the corridas we saw, which would also be mentioned in my Summer of 1960 diary. Manila Davis-Panzer envelope.

Scope and Contents San Fermín fiestas. Contains: 1.) El Encierro, official program of San Fermín. 2.) Other Fiesta programs. 3.) Schedules of fights and prices. 4.) 5 copies of El Encierro, the daily paper with photos of that day's running of the bulls. 5.) 1 copy of Iruna Deportiva, July 11. 6.) Cover of Blanco y Negro with a becerista foto (a fighting calf in the ring after the morning encierro.

Scope and Contents San Fermín. 1.) Copies of Diario de Navarra, July 7-13, 1960. 2.) Copies of Pamplona en Fiestas, July 10, July 12. Big manila padded mailer.

Scope and Contents First Leatherette Album: It contains scenes of Barcelona. Me on my Bultaco motorcycle. Gaudi Cathedral. Attending a bullfight. Bill Willis and I in bullfighting school. Parties with Barcelona friends on the Costa Brava. Girls dancing Sevillanas. Fun on the beach. Drunk in Pamplona. Bulls running in Pamplona on Estafeta Street. 9 pictures I took of the becerista with fighting cows in the bullring after the main running of the bulls. And many photographs of corridas we saw in Pamplona. 178...

Scope and Contents Second Leatherette Album: It contains Barcelona fotos. Ticket stubs from bullfights. Bullfight fotos with explanations on the back. Pictures from a Barcelona sorteo, where managers choose the bulls. Corridas are mostly in Barcelona, but include the incredible Mano a Mano between Antonio Ordoñez and Paco Camino we saw in Valencia, July 28, 1960. Also ticket stub and a few pictures from a Córdoba corrida where we saw El Cordobés in I think only his second novillada. He was a nobody but would...

Scope and Contents 6 RINGS.  Only 13 pages of journaling.  Starts March 14, 1964 on a bus leaving N.Y. for Guatamala City.  First 6 pages get to Springfield, Missouri.  Pages 7-8 describe market day in Chichicastenango, Guatemala.  Pages 9-10 are notes for American Child Supreme novel.  Pages 11-13 are more about Chichicastenango, preparing for Easter.  Rest of notebook lists daily chores I must do back in New York.  Not much information.

Scope and Contents Not much here, though each entry tells me a lot.  Some lists of things to do.  Pages of budgeting August-October 1965.  "Lunch with Peter Mayer," the head of Avon Books, Nov. 15.  A very minimal amount of information.