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Box 17

 Container

Contains 8 Results:

Berkeley, California (Josephine Miles residency). Includes notes for poems. Approximately 50 pages. Yellow composition book, 1988

 File — Box: 17, 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: 1988

Berkeley, California. Draft of poem in Loose Woman, “Clouds; “ names to be used for stories; notes for “Pilon” (chapter in Caramelo), notes for “Eyes of Zapata.” Approximately 15 pages. Red composition book, 1988

 File — Box: 17, 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: 1988

Austin. Traveling in Mexico, notes and quotes to become Caramelo, stories and drafts for Loose Woman. Laid in items. Approximately 35 pages. Black composition book, 1988

 File — Box: 17, 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: 1988

San Antonio. Early draft of “Little Miracles;” 1990 notes conceptualizing Caramelo. Approximately 37 pages. Black composition book with blue, 1989 - 1991

 File — Box: 17, 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: 1989 - 1991

San Antonio. Includes draft of story for Woman Hollering Creek. Approximately 22 pages. Soft cover colorful pocket notebook, 1990

 File — Box: 17, 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: 1990

San Antonio. Includes notes and dialogue for Caramelo, drawings, notes for poems in Loose Women, contact information. Approximately 77 pages. Cover depicting African cloth, April 1991

 File — Box: 17, 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: April 1991

Notes for Caramelo, Riddle about an elephant, ideas for essays, quotes from other writers. Approximately 34 pages. Spiral pocket notebook with Redon’s Birth of Venus on the cover, 1991

 File — Box: 17, 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: 1991

Drafts of poems. 18 pages. Green “Woodnotes” cover, 1992

 File — Box: 17, 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: 1992