Box 189
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GOODBYE, MONIQUE (34), June-July 2014
File — Box: 189, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
This is PART TWO of manuscript immediately above. Pages 205-488. Jmonique.14a on my computer. But with more serious hand corrections, edits, inserts. Covers from December 1939 when Dad and Monique went east for Xmas to find a gynecologist that could diagnose her imperforate hyman that was crippling their sex life, to the death of Monique in 1942, and Pop's departure from Miami. Plus ça change, plus c'est la mème chose! Eventually retyped into Jmonique.14d. 283 pages.
Dates:
June-July 2014
GOODBYE, MONIQUE (35), July 15, 2014
File — Box: 189, Folder: 2-3
Scope and Contents
This is a complete CLEAN DRAFT of Jmonique.14d on my computer. Chapters 1-191. Includes my August 12, 2014 letter to Morris Witten, who will read and critique the book. First 131 pages cover Monique and Dad's childhoods and teens, first Monique's, then Dad's. Then book is their 1937-38 courtship; 1939-42 marriage in Berkeley; and ends with Monique's death in Miami Beach, 1942. Monique and Dad's courtship-marriage-and her death will later become BOOK ONE. 481 pages.
Dates:
July 15, 2014
GOODBYE, MONIQUE (36), July-September 2014
File — Box: 189, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Still dated July 25, 2014, (and is Jmonique.14d) but contains many September 2014 edits, corrections, and Post-It suggestions after a critique by Morris Witten. Labelled PART 1. *Includes 14 pages of August 27 comments by Morris, and my September 5, 2014 thank-you letter to her. Covers Dad and Monique's courtship and marriage in 103 chapters up to my July 23, 1940 birth. 249 pages.
Dates:
July-September 2014
GOODBYE, MONIQUE (37), July-September 2014
File — Box: 189, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
PART 2 continuation of manuscript 36 listed just above (Jmonique.14d). Still dated July 15, 2014, but contains September corrections, edits, and Post-It suggestions after a critique by Morris Witten. Covers from my July 23, 1940 birth until Monique's death in 1942 and Pop's departure from Miami. Later manuscripts numbered 36 and 37, would be known as BOOK ONE. Pages 250-475. Total of 225 pages.
Dates:
July-September 2014
GOODBYE, MONIQUE (38), March 31, 2015
File — Box: 189, Folder: 6-7
Scope and Contents
Listed as Jmonique.14f on my computer. CLEAN DRAFT. Listed as Jmonique.14f on my computer. CLEAN DRAFT. No chapter headings after chapters 192-196. It's about life after Monique's 1942 death. Dad joins Marines, goes to war on Bougainville,, occupies China, marries Brownie, my difficult childhood with her and later with Mamita, our life in Berkeley 1950-51, trip cross country with Dad in 1951, move to Virginia, his divorce from Brownie 1956-57, my first visits to Mamita in Barcelona 1960,...
Dates:
March 31, 2015
GOODBYE, MONIQUE (39), April 2015
File — Box: 189, Folder: 8-9
Scope and Contents
No chapter headings after chapters 192-196. It's about life after Monique's 1942 death. Dad joins Marines, goes to war on Bougainville,, occupies China, marries Brownie, my difficult childhood with her and later with Mamita, our life in Berkeley 1950-51, trip cross country with Dad in 1951, move to Virginia, his divorce from Brownie 1956-57, my first visits to Mamita in Barcelona 1960, 1962-63, Dad's life 1951-1959 in CIA, his 1958 marriage to Kathy, Dad's journals and women, our long letters...
Dates:
April 2015
GOODBYE, MONIQUE (40), April 2015
File — Box: 189, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
This is PART TWO of #39 just above. It's called Jmonique.14f, but has many edits and lots of Post-It suggestions for rewrites. It's pages 276-513 of manuscript #38 above. Many pages of edits, and Post-Its with rewrite suggestions. It covers my and Dad's life from 1970 until his death in Smithville, TX in 1998. Then an epilogue. Crammed with our letters, information in his journals, my visit to Europe in 1987 with 2nd wife Juanita, Dad's retirement in Smithville, etc. 237 pages.
Dates:
April 2015
GOODBYE, MONIQUE (41), May 10, 2015
File — Box: 189, Folder: 11-12
Scope and Contents
This is VOLUME I of BOOK TWO, chapters 1-99. It's labelled Jmonique.14k. It's pretty clean, with a few corrections and inserts. I've moved some chapters around in different order. Includes many extra inserts, like 74a, 74b, etc. A really thorough study of my dad after Monique died, his philosphy, women relationships, frustrations, concepts of language, also lots more about my relations with Mamita, my French family. Covers the years 1942 to about 1976-77, when Dad divorces Kathy and marries...
Dates:
May 10, 2015
GOODBYE, MONIQUE (42), May 10, 2015
File — Box: 189, Folder: 13-14
Scope and Contents
Here is VOLUME II of BOOK TWO, chapters 100-206. Labelled Jmonique.14k. Pretty clean with some inserts and extra 74d, 74e, etc. chapters. Covers pages 325-722 continued from #41 just above. Relates the 1970s and 80s until Pop dies in 1998. My many letters to Mamita before she died in 1977, Dad's teaching at UCCS, his 11 year retirement in Smithville, TX. My life and loves, marriage/divorce, visits to family in Europe, grilling Dad about Monique, his dying in 1997-98. 397 pages.
Dates:
May 10, 2015