38 leaves, spiral-bound, with leaves, then pages, numbered [1-2], 3-17, 20-71. Not dated (but JD added "1950" later in red ink). Though only one side of the sheet has a number until page 16, both sides of the sheet are generally written. In those pages that are numbered only in one side, the page number stands for the front and back. This notebook is mainly written in English.

Index Card: 1950 [i.e.,1951?]. PRINCETON. Ideas for: The Poisoned Pastries (MSS, 1951). Ideas for: The Blue Woman (MSS, 1951). Preoccupations with Pandamus of “Trailus and Cressida”. My brother Pablo, my cousins and grandfather’s house: first [???di?g] of a theme realized in This Sunday.

Content: Several ideas for stories.

Work in Progress: “The Poisoned Pastries”: p68-71 (Characters: sister, father, mother).

Work Planss: 23

Secondary Projects: Transcription of two different texts dated February 1950 and January 1950. They are probably ideas rescued from previous notebooks: 2; Ideas for a short story centered on a platonic love: 3; Ideas for a short story of a man who goes back home: 4; Different ideas for future texts: 4; 7-10; 12 - 23, 25-44; 46-7; Ideas for a novel: 5-6; Ideas for changing a text titled “La rosa blanca o crema”: 6-7; Ideas for improving a text titled “The Theft”: 8; Ideas for improving the text “Borracho”:10-11; Ideas for a story titled “The young cousin”: 12; Ideas for a story: 31-34; Ideas for a story about an American Minister: 44-46; Ideas for a story or play: 48-60; Ideas for a story about Mr. Kalajian: 61-64; Ideas for a story about a 48 year-old man: 64-67.

Miscellaneous: Quotes (source not specified): verso of page 3; 4; Notes on a musical concept and the term “Bondieuserie”: 2; Ideas on Maine de Biran: 5

References: Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) 2; Rene Jules Lalique (1860-1945) 2; Victor Massé (1822-1884) 2; Julien Green (1900-1998) 3; Norman Douglas (1868-1952) 3; Stella Bowen (1893-1947) 3; Roger Fry (1866-1934) 3; Francis Carco (1886-1958) 3; Jesus-la-Caille (novel by Francis Carco, 1914) 3; Marcel Proust (1871-1922) 3- 4; George Melies (1861-1938) 3; Fernande Olivier (1881-1966) 3; Picasso et ses amis ( Fernande Olivier, 1930) 3; Clive Bell (1881-1964) 4; Maine de Biran (1766-1824) 4; Joris Karl Huysmans (1848 -1907) 9; Delphine Couturier Dellamare, (1822-1848) 9; Madame Bovary, (Gustav Flaubert, 1856) 9; Pere Tanguy (?-? ) 9; Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) 9; Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) 9; Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927) 9; Monet (1840-1926) 9; Renoir (1841-1919) 9; Camille Pisarro (1830-1903) 9; The Nightingale and the Rose (Oscar Wilde, 1888) 10; Nemesio Antúnez (1918-1993) 11; Archaeopteryx Lythographica, 12; Lions and Shadows (novel by Christopher Isherwood, 1938) 12; Christopher Isherwood (1904 -1986) 12; D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) 12; Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 13; Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) 14; Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) 24; Jaime Huguet (1415-1492) 28; Carmen Laforet, 28 (1921-2004); Nada (novel by Carmen Laforet, 1944) 28; Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) 33; John Elliot (?-?) 39; Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) 41; Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) 41; et al.