Emmanuel Carballo Papers

The Emmanuel Carballo Papers are made up of correspondence, written works, collected manuscripts and publications, and photographs, documenting the career of Emmanuel Carballo, Mexican writer, literary critic, editor, journalist, and professor. This collection contains four series: correspondence, written works by Emmanuel Carballo, professional life, and collected materials.

Correspondence is the largest series and contains letters, notes, telegrams, postcards, emails, and manuscript drafts between Carballo and primarily Mexican and Latin American authors, poets, politicians, literary critics, and academics, as well as some correspondence between family and friends. Carballo mainly organized his correspondence according to whether letters were sent from or to him, and the current arrangement reflects that. The subseries cartas a Emmanuel Carballo contains letters sent to him from 1949 to 2011, conversely the subseries cartas de Emmanuel Carballo contains letters written by him from 1949 to 2004. Two additional subseries contain correspondence not originally organized in the aforementioned arrangements: cartas a y de Emmanuel Carballo contains mixed correspondence from 1999 to 2014 and correspondencia entre Carballo y escritores contains correspondence between Carballo and Latin American poets and writers such as Reinaldo Arenas, Alfonso Reyes, Laura Villaseñor, and Carballo’s wife, Beatriz Espejo.

Written works by Emmanuel Carballo contains drafts, notes, research, and books of Carballo’s writings, encompassing his work as a poet, essayist, historian, literary critic, interviewer, and journalist. The first subseries, prosa: ensayos, articulos, extractos de libros contains essays, some being draft versions of those later used for published books such as Ya Nada es Igual and Diario Público. The subseries trabajos, organizados cronológicamente, contains writings organized by Carballo according to decades from the 1950s to the 1990s, some used as reference materials for other writings. The next subseries poesía documents Carballo’s poetry from 1946 to 1999 and contains excerpts of his book Eso es Todo. Libros con correcciones y notas contains full books written by Carballo, or books for which Carballo wrote the prologue. The books contain handwritten notes or edits by or likely by Carballo. Crítica contains some book reviews by Carballo from 1958 to 1987. The final subseries, periodismo, contains materials from Carballo’s capacity as a journalist from 1981 to 1982.

Professional life contains administrative documents, newspapers, correspondence, interviews, and event programs, documenting Carballo’s professional capacity as a publisher and editor. The Editorial Diógenes subseries contains administrative documents, catalogs, author contracts, and news clippings from Editorial Diógenes, Carballo’s publication house from 1966 to 1986. The viajes y recuerdos subseries contains materials from Carballo’s international visits and work as well as miscellaneous keepsakes and notes. Notable are materials from Carballo’s work with Casa de las Americas in Cuba. The publicación y editorialismo subseries contains issues of Ariel and Odiseo, periodicals that Carballo founded and directed at the beginning of his career in Guadalajara. The entrevistas con Emmanuel Carballo subseries contains interviews with Carballo from 1974 to 2007 that provide additional insights into his lengthy career. Finally, the homenajes y premios subseries contains materials from awards ceremonies both for Carballo and others. Examples are Carballo receiving the Premio Jalisco in 1990, the Premio Nacional de Lingüística y Literatura in 2006 and the Medalla Alfonso Reyes in 2008, in addition to materials from Carballo’s time as a judge for the Premio de Literatura Latinoamericano y del Caribe Juan Rulfo in 2003.

Collected materials, contains works by other authors and publishers, as well as photographs, most taken by other photographers, some of unknown origin. Archivos y homenajes de otros autores contains files on other authors, a news article on writer Carlos Fuentes and sketch of Carballo by Fuentes, photocopies of writer Ruben Romero’s archives, made by Carballo, and letters written to poet José Gorostiza. This subseries also contains homages and writings for the Mexican writers Alfonso Reyes and Guillermo Tovar de Teresa. Notable within the writings on Alfonso Reyes is a hand drawn sketch of Reyes by Carlos Fuentes. Periódicos y revistas contains newspapers and periodicals created between the years of 1930 and 1979. Included are the periodicals Monterrey and Fuensanta created by Alfonso Reyes. Manuscritos contains drafts of publications by Mexican authors. Some are original drafts such as the original draft of De Perfil by José Agustín or Pasión de Antonio Urbino by Lisandro Otero. Some are drafts of materials published by Editorial Diógenes such as a draft of Avándaro by Luis Carrión and contain edits likely made by Carballo. Other materials were likely gifted to Carballo such as the original of Esta Señal Oculta by Guillermo Samperio. The final subseries materiales visuales contains a map of Mexico City and photographs collected by Carballo of Mexican writers, Cuba, an unidentified boxer, and other subjects.