Box 5

Scope and Contents

Notes, correspondence, manuscripts, works of art on paper, newspaper clippings and other printed material, financial records, ephemera, photographs, and artifacts. Three sub-subseries: A. Miscellany, B. "Memorias Materials," C. "Notes in Lieu of Journal."

Scope and Contents Primarily older material that Paredes had filed with his folders of personal and family correspondence. Other personal files were added from elsewhere in the papers, including a small number of financial records and some folders of University of Texas paperwork labeled “personal.” Includes Paredes's correspondence with other young Mexican-American poets and collected poetry (1935-1945); souvenirs and notebooks from his Army service in Asia (1945-1950); diplomas, transcripts, correspondence,...