Box 196
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Contains 10 Results:
Corrections, Excerpts, Deleted Materials #27, February 2016
File — Box: 196, Folder: 1
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Jmonique.14t. Excerpts to try and shorten BOOK TWO, same ms. as #26 above. Done in February 2016. Mish-mash of pages and sections, additions, moving scenes around. Chaos. Many cuts, edits, much slash and burn. Hard to tell how many pages remain. 120 or 130? Wild guess.
Dates:
February 2016
Corrections, Excerpts, Deleted Materials #28, April 2016
File — Box: 196, Folder: 2
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Outtakes from GOODBYE, MONIQUE. Some dated December 27, 28, 2015. And January 1-27, January 2016. March 3, 2016. And on April 10, 2016. Some cuts are familiar from BOOK ONE and BOOK TWO. But many relate to Pop's notebooks about sexual attraction, his dependency on women and resentment of this, hatred of his childhood and family, his dependency on Grammie, many sections of journals in Russian, my own heart history and my fight with endocarditis, and Pop supressing emotion by being a naturalist...
Dates:
April 2016
Corrections, Excerpts, Deleted Materials #29, March-April 2016
File — Box: 196, Folder: 3
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These are clean, stapled printouts of chapters from BOOK TWO that I planned to use in the Epilogue to BOOK ONE. I used some of these sections in the Final Epilogue, but discarded all the chapters recounting Pop's death and memorial in Smithville and Mastic. I had a terrible time trying to figure out an Epilogue after Monique died in Miami Beach in August 1942. Includes 3 handwritten notes about chapters to use in the Epilogue. Which, over the years, essentially became long or short versions of...
Dates:
March-April 2016
Corrections, Excerpts, Deleted Materials #30, August 15, 2016
File — Box: 196, Folder: 4
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AFTERMATH (BOOK TWO) section, abridged. To be included in Jmonique.17i, which is dated August 15, 2016. Starts when Dad joins the Marines, marries Brownie, goes to war, comes home. Describes Brownie's abuse, Pop bans Mamita from seeing me, divorces Brownie, marries Kathy, my visit to Mamita summer of 1960, tough year with Mamita 1962-63, quick segue to Mamita death in 1977, trip x-country with Pop to Grammie's funeral, Pop's retirement to Smithville, me grilling Pop about Monique. Moves fast....
Dates:
August 15, 2016
Corrections, Excerpts, Deleted Materials #31, September 15, 2016
File — Box: 196, Folder: 5
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These are last pages of Jmonique.17r done on September 15, 2016. Pages 222-254. Printed pages from 1-221 were switched and used for Jmonique.17s. These pages describe Monique's death, Danny Davison sending me VHS of Goggie at Peacock Point reading Night Before Xmas to kids December 24, 1932, where I can see Monique, and Pop's breakdown in Berkeley in 1950 and wrote an article about Berkeley's Aquatic Park that used facts collected by him and Monique in 1940-1941. Then Frank Watson's note about...
Dates:
September 15, 2016
Corrections, Excerpts, Deleted Materials #32, September 20, 2016
File — Box: 196, Folder: 6
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Jmonique.17s. Final pages of short version Epilogue and Acknowledgements. Pages 250-270. Done on September 20, 2016. My comment? WAY TOO SHORT!!! 20 pages.
Dates:
September 20, 2016
Corrections, Excerpts, Deleted Materials #33, October 5, 2016
File — Box: 196, Folder: 7
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Passages that I added to BOOK TWO of Jmonique.17s to make Jmonique.17t and then Jmonique.17u. October 5, 2016. About 60 pages.
Dates:
October 5, 2016
Corrections, Excerpts, Deleted Materials #34, undated
File — Box: 196, Folder: 8
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Internet Research Printouts. 1.) Avenue de l"Observatoire. Auntie May's Paris apt. Also Monique and Robert family hangout. 2.) Leysin, Switzerland--TB sanatorium where Mamita was from 1927 to 1930. 3.) Menton, French Riviera. Bouchage family home that Monique visited often, and where Anatole Le Braz died. 4.) Vernet-les-Bains. Bouchage family had home here where Monique and Ninon often stayed.
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Corrections, Excerpts, Deleted Materials #35, undated
File — Box: 196, Folder: 9
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Internet Research Printouts. "Fais Dodo." "Les Filles de Saint-Malo." Ninon Robert (with Jorge Carreras). Dr. Ambrois Bouchage. Reine-Anne Bouchage. "J'ai ta main"--Charles Trenet (English translation also). Mayette Bouchage Meyneng Collos. Jean Meyneng. Maggie Robert Le Braz (Mamita). Monique Robert Nichols. 1942 movies: "My Gal Sal." Plays: "Porgy and Bess." Concerts: Koussavitsky. List of all 1942 movies for Monique and Froggie Cheney to see in New York. "Yankee Doodle Dandy," etc.
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Corrections, Excerpts, Deleted Materials #36, undated
File — Box: 196, Folder: 10
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Internet Research Printouts. Jim Bakker. Liceo Opera House in Barcelona. Argentine revolt. Reder-Mor boat in Brittany. History of Penicillen. Auld Lang Syne. Wile E. Coyote. "Chatanooga Choo Choo." La Fontaine: "The Fox and the Crow." Oliver Goldsmith Poem. Elsa Maxwell. Imperforate Hymen. Movie "The Moment of Truth" with Pedrucho and Linda Christian.
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