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Box 16

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Contains 9 Results:

Baby journal used for writing exercises. Includes six entries, 1979

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series: Notebooks and Journals span 1979-2012 and often overlap with the items in series III: Diaries. They include notes, story ideas, lists, addresses, and a number of other jottings by Cisneros. Some notable entries include notes and quotes concerning what poetry is while she was working as a counselor at Loyola University in Chicago in 1981; drafts and notes for poems and for The House on Mango Street in 1982; a list of stories for Mango Street in 1983; and notes from 1987 which Cisneros titled”...
Dates: 1979

Chicago while counselor at Loyola University. Includes notes and quotes concerning what poetry is, and notes and drafts of poems. Approximately 15 pages. Black composition notebook, 1981

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series: Notebooks and Journals span 1979-2012 and often overlap with the items in series III: Diaries. They include notes, story ideas, lists, addresses, and a number of other jottings by Cisneros. Some notable entries include notes and quotes concerning what poetry is while she was working as a counselor at Loyola University in Chicago in 1981; drafts and notes for poems and for The House on Mango Street in 1982; a list of stories for Mango Street in 1983; and notes from 1987 which Cisneros titled”...
Dates: 1981

Chicago and Greece. Drafts and notes for poems and for The House on Mango Street. Includes drawings of animals. Approximately 40 pages. Black “University” composition book, 1982

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 3
Series Description From the Series: Notebooks and Journals span 1979-2012 and often overlap with the items in series III: Diaries. They include notes, story ideas, lists, addresses, and a number of other jottings by Cisneros. Some notable entries include notes and quotes concerning what poetry is while she was working as a counselor at Loyola University in Chicago in 1981; drafts and notes for poems and for The House on Mango Street in 1982; a list of stories for Mango Street in 1983; and notes from 1987 which Cisneros titled”...
Dates: 1982

France. Pocket notebook includes list of stories for The House on Mango Street, notes and drafts of Rodrigo poems. Approximately 67 pages. Purple cloth cover, 1983

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 4
Series Description From the Series: Notebooks and Journals span 1979-2012 and often overlap with the items in series III: Diaries. They include notes, story ideas, lists, addresses, and a number of other jottings by Cisneros. Some notable entries include notes and quotes concerning what poetry is while she was working as a counselor at Loyola University in Chicago in 1981; drafts and notes for poems and for The House on Mango Street in 1982; a list of stories for Mango Street in 1983; and notes from 1987 which Cisneros titled”...
Dates: 1983

Texas Includes a crayon drawing by Cesar Martínez and several sketches by Cisneros. Also includes drafts of stories such as “The girl who was not beautiful,” “The old woman who was afraid of clouds, and “The woman who broke his heart in pieces.” Approximately 23 pages. Paperback Sketchbook cover, circa 1984

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 5
Series Description From the Series: Notebooks and Journals span 1979-2012 and often overlap with the items in series III: Diaries. They include notes, story ideas, lists, addresses, and a number of other jottings by Cisneros. Some notable entries include notes and quotes concerning what poetry is while she was working as a counselor at Loyola University in Chicago in 1981; drafts and notes for poems and for The House on Mango Street in 1982; a list of stories for Mango Street in 1983; and notes from 1987 which Cisneros titled”...
Dates: circa 1984

San Antonio. Year Cisneros moved to San Antonio, Mission Street, working at Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. Includes poetry drafts, ruminations, and notes on teaching, notes for “Eyes of Zapata, “ draft of story “Washer Woman.” Approximately 120 pages. Blue cover, 1984, 1987

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 6
Series Description From the Series: Notebooks and Journals span 1979-2012 and often overlap with the items in series III: Diaries. They include notes, story ideas, lists, addresses, and a number of other jottings by Cisneros. Some notable entries include notes and quotes concerning what poetry is while she was working as a counselor at Loyola University in Chicago in 1981; drafts and notes for poems and for The House on Mango Street in 1982; a list of stories for Mango Street in 1983; and notes from 1987 which Cisneros titled”...
Dates: 1984, 1987

Mexico City, Chiapas, San Cristobal, including manuscript poems for the Rodrigo poems which became My Wicked Wicked Ways. Approximately 25 pages. Soft cover with “Grid”, 1985

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 7
Series Description From the Series: Notebooks and Journals span 1979-2012 and often overlap with the items in series III: Diaries. They include notes, story ideas, lists, addresses, and a number of other jottings by Cisneros. Some notable entries include notes and quotes concerning what poetry is while she was working as a counselor at Loyola University in Chicago in 1981; drafts and notes for poems and for The House on Mango Street in 1982; a list of stories for Mango Street in 1983; and notes from 1987 which Cisneros titled”...
Dates: 1985

“Year of my near death. Austin to Chico period.” Teaching at Women’s Peace Center with students including Laura Lippman and Liliana Valenzuela. Notes for commencement speech at Latino Youth where she began writing A House on Mango Street, poetry notes for Rodrigo poems. Approximately 37 pages. Spiral bound; hearts on cover, 1987

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 8
Series Description From the Series: Notebooks and Journals span 1979-2012 and often overlap with the items in series III: Diaries. They include notes, story ideas, lists, addresses, and a number of other jottings by Cisneros. Some notable entries include notes and quotes concerning what poetry is while she was working as a counselor at Loyola University in Chicago in 1981; drafts and notes for poems and for The House on Mango Street in 1982; a list of stories for Mango Street in 1983; and notes from 1987 which Cisneros titled”...
Dates: 1987

Chico, Berkeley, California. Notes for poems, stories and essays including first draft of “Never Marry a Mexican.” Susan Bergholz (agent), teaching, title for “Los Ojitos de Cielo.” Approximately 60 pages, Yellow paper cover, 1988

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 9
Series Description From the Series: Notebooks and Journals span 1979-2012 and often overlap with the items in series III: Diaries. They include notes, story ideas, lists, addresses, and a number of other jottings by Cisneros. Some notable entries include notes and quotes concerning what poetry is while she was working as a counselor at Loyola University in Chicago in 1981; drafts and notes for poems and for The House on Mango Street in 1982; a list of stories for Mango Street in 1983; and notes from 1987 which Cisneros titled”...
Dates: 1988