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BOX 1-50 Writings, 1926-2015
The Writings series documents many of Hijuelos’s published and unpublished books, articles, essays, short stories, musicals, speeches, interviews, and other works of fiction. The material pertains primarily to his novels and illuminates his creative writing process through copious hand-annotated typescript drafts and fragments. Drafts consist of complete or incomplete chapters as well as full manuscripts, while fragments refer to shorter sections reflecting earlier stages in the writing process that were either discarded or incorporated into the final manuscript. Files for individual titles also include dead matter, page proofs, research material, notes, and correspondence with editors and publishers. Bound notebooks contain additional notes, ideas, and outlines for his writings. The series reflects all Hijuelos’s published novels, but most heavily documents Twain and Stanley in Paradise, Beautiful Maria of My Soul, Dark Dude, and The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien. Material pertaining to his unpublished novel "So Imagined Mercado" is especially notable. A visual map of the novel includes diagrams and charts outlining characters, places, and events, while numerous manuscript iterations trace the work back to its earliest versions titled "Blue Antiquity." The novel served as the basis for a second unpublished work titled "Ojalá - Or the Archeological Adventures of Henry Solar (As God Willed Them)," also represented in this series. Multiple drafts of Hijuelos's memoir Thoughts Without Cigarettes, and his related article "Hotel Cook" published in the New Yorker, provide valuable context for memorabilia included in the personal file series. Scripts for the stage musical The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by the same title, and drafts for articles and short stories further exemplify his breadth as a writer. School assignments, including a fifth-grade essay, are also notable. A small number of writings by other authors are listed at the end of the series, including screenplay adaptations of Mr. Ives’s Christmas and The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.
Digital files include non-commercial audio recordings created during pre-production of the musical The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. These items capture the musical aspects of the completed work referenced in the scripts.
Material types include drafts, fragments, outlines, scripts, research notes, clippings, photographs, correspondence, notebooks, and digital audio files.
Arranged by material type and therein alphabetically by title.
Articles and essays
BOX 1 "Hotel Cook (Lunch at the Biltmore)," New Yorker See also Containers 28-30, Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir
BOX 1 Correspondence, 2003-2005
BOX 1 Drafts, 2004
(4 folders)
BOX 1 Notes and research, 1977-1979, circa 2004, undated
BOX 1 Page proofs, 2005
BOX 1 Introduction to Tallien: A Brief Romance by Frederic Tuten, Black Classic Press, 2005
BOX 1 "A Last Round with Robert Wilson," New York Times, 2005
BOX 1 "Memories of New York City Snow," New York is Book Country: 25th Anniversary Collection, circa 2003
BOX 1 "NY - Memoryville," Our Town: Images and Stories from The Museum of the City of New York, 1997
BOX 1 "Rauschenberg," Rauschenberg: Scenarios
BOX 1 Drafts, 2005
BOX 2 Photographs, 2002-2003
BOX 2 "Seis problemas," 2000
BOX 2 "A View from My Window," New York Times, 2011
Books
BOX 2 Another Spaniard in the Works
BOX 2 Draft, undated
BOX 2 Fragments, 2000-2001
BOX 2 Beautiful Maria of My Soul
BOX 2 Drafts, 2008-2009, undated
(5 folders)
BOX 3 Drafts, undated
(6 folders)
BOX 4 Drafts, undated
(8 folders)
BOX 5 Drafts, undated
(9 folders)
BOX 6 Drafts, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 6 Excerpts, undated
(3 folders)
BOX 6 Fragments, 2008
BOX 7 Fragments, 2008-2009, undated
(7 folders)
BOX 8 Fragments, undated
(7 folders)
BOX 9 Fragments, undated
(7 folders)
BOX 10 Fragments, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 10 Notes, 2002-2008, undated
(4 folders)
BOX 10 Page proofs, 2009
BOX 11 Page proofs, 2009-2010, undated
(5 folders)
BOX 11 Research, 1977, 2003-2009
BOX 11 Revisions, undated
BOX 11 Dark Dude
BOX 11 Cover pages, circa 2007
BOX 11 Drafts, 2006
BOX 12 Drafts, 2006-2007
(8 folders)
BOX 13 Drafts, 2007
(6 folders)
BOX 14 Drafts, 2007
(4 folders)
BOX 14 Fragments, 2006-2007
(4 folders)
BOX 15 Fragments, 2007
(7 folders)
BOX 16 Fragments, circa 2007
(4 folders)
BOX 16 Notes, 2006, undated
BOX 16 Revisions, 2007, Oct.
BOX 16 Empress of the Splendid Season
BOX 16 Fragments and notes, 1997, undated
BOX 16 The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
BOX 16 Dead matter, circa 1993
BOX 17 Dead matter, circa 1993
(5 folders)
BOX 17 Galleys, 1992
(2 folders)
BOX 18 Galleys, 1992
(5 folders)
BOX 18 Page proofs, circa 1993
BOX 19 Page proofs, circa 1993
(8 folders)
BOX 20 Page proofs, circa 1993, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 20 "The Life and Times of Carlito Russell Lopez, Cowboy of Upper Manhatten"
BOX 20 Proposal and fragments, 1999
BOX 20 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
BOX 20 Prologue to the twentieth anniversary edition, Persea Books, circa 2010
BOX 20 Mr. Ives's Christmas
BOX 20 Fragments, undated
BOX 20 "Ojalá - Or the Archeological Adventures of Henry Solar (As God Willed Them)" See also Containers 21-27, "So Imagined Mercado" ("Blue Antiquity")
BOX 20 Drafts, circa 2012-2013
(2 folders)
BOX 20 Fragments, 2012-2013, undated
(3 folders)
BOX 20 Notes, 2012
BOX 21 Our House in the Last World
BOX 21 Excerpts submitted with fellowship applications, 1983, undated
BOX 21 Fragments, 1983
BOX 21 Introduction to second edition, Persea Books, 2002
BOX 21 Press release and dust jacket, 1984
BOX 21 A Simple Habana Melody
BOX 21 Fragments, 2001-2003
BOX 21 "So Imagined Mercado" ("Blue Antiquity") See also Container 20, "Ojala - Or the Archeological Adventures of Henry Solar (As God Willed Them)"
BOX 21 Drafts, 2000
(6 folders)
BOX 22 Drafts, 2000-2001
(8 folders)
BOX 23 Drafts, 2001-2002, undated
(8 folders)
BOX 23 Fragments, 1999
BOX 24 Fragments, 1999-2000
(7 folders)
BOX 25 Fragments, 2000-2001
(7 folders)
BOX 26 Fragments, 2001-2002, 2011-2012, undated
(7 folders)
BOX 27 Fragments, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 27 Notes, 1998-2000
(2 folders)
BOX 27 Outtakes, undated
BOX 27 Proposal, undated
BOX 27 Research, 1997-1999, 2005, undated
BOX OV 1 Visual outline, undated See Container OV 1, same heading
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