Box 1

Scope and Contents

Letters and cards with enclosures including clippings and other printed material, manuscripts and notes, and photographs. Paredes did not file this correspondence with, or removed it from, his General Correspondence files (Series IV). Two sub-subseries, A. Family and Personal Correspondence, 1946-1999, undated; B. Correspondence Separated by Américo Paredes, 1946-1996.

Scope and Contents 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...