Donoso's publishing history is well documented and thoroughly discussed in many venues. This collection provides notebooks, correspondence and typescripts that detail the development of some of Donoso's most significant works. Among the titles for which there are related materials are Coronacion, El Obsceno Pajaro de la Noche, Este Domingo, Paula Mancheno, El Lugar sin Limites, and several short stories. This material is organized in Series I and II.

The materials relating to El Obsceno Pajaro de la Noche have been given particular attention. Those associated with manuscript drafts (Box 3 folders 1-6) were closely inventoried by Gonzalo Campos-Dintrans in July 2007. Notebooks 15-32 are key documentation for Donoso's development of this novel; they were examined carefully by Maria Laura Bocaz in 2007-2008 and she used the results in her doctoral dissertation (2010). Her detailed notes, lightly edited, appear on the Notebooks inventory while a brief summary appears below. Bocaz also compiled the notes on the other notebooks recorded here.

The collection also includes significant correspondence from numerous writers to Donoso. The correspondence is primarily arranged alphabetically. Box 16 contains letters from Donoso to Maria Pilar written during their courtship, 1958-1961.

Literary rights are held by: Servicio de derechos de autor Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells, Diagonal 580, E-08021 Barcelona, Spain

Phone: 34 - 93 - 200 8933 [Office] Phone: 34 - 93 - 200 7041 [Fax]

There are two separate indexes available to this collection: a classified index by genre and an index of Donoso's correspondents.