A. Family and Personal Correspondence, 1946-1999, undated

Includes correspondence with his wife and sons, mother, siblings and other relatives; friends and professional acquaintances; and collections of greeting and holiday cards. Some letters include ephemera and photographic material, and touch on professional as well as personal matters. Early correspondence with Amelia Paredes (1947-1948) and some family correspondence is in Spanish, but the bulk is in English.

Note that Paredes typically labeled files of correspondence with his wife “A-A” (for Amelia-Américo), and that he often addressed his wife by her nickname, "Nena." In correspondence between the two, they occasionally used the private names "Gusai" (Amelia) and "Dana" (Américo).

Family correspondents include Paredes's mother, Clotilde Manzano Paredes; his elder siblings Eliseo (1899-1988), who was the city historian of Matamoros, Mexico, Lorenzo (born 1904), and Clotilde Paredes Ceballos (1906-1991); and his younger siblings, the twins Amador (1920-1985) and Eleazar (1920-1975), both teachers. He corresponded with Clotilde Ceballos's daughter, Patti Padron, and with Odilia Galván Rodríguez, granddaughter of his sister Isaura (1902-1936). Paredes's other siblings were Blanca (1910-1930) and Justo, Junior (1912-1914).