Disbound column-ruled signatures 4 x 6 inches, 39 leaves, some with sequentially numbered pages, plus one blank leaf and a blank endsheet. Most pages written in pencil. The first recorded date is February 12. "1953-1954" in red ink probably added later. The short story “Dos cartas” has the pages numbered.

Index Card: 1953-1954. I think this is a more like summer (January, February, March) 1954: Because most of this things were written in Puerto Saavedra in the summer of that year. The year before I had started working (teaching at the Kent Scholl and the Kensington School) and there were the first holidays in my life I paid for. The year before (1953) I wrote China and read it in the ‘Jornadas del Cuento- [sic] later included in the first of Lafourcade’s anthologies. In this little notebook: Ideas for: Veraneo (El niño que cantaba) written in Pto. Saavedra. 2 Cartas (Pto. Saavedra). La animita (unpublished and lost).

Content: Ideas and comments for different short stories

Works in Progress: “Los últimos seis días de Francisco Elquea” (Characters: Francisco Elquea); “Brasas” (Characters: Carlos Ortega, Doña Fel, Helia); “Siete muertes en Puerto Saavedra” (Characters: Don Augusto Winter, Doña Felicita); “El niño que cantaba” (later “Veraneo”) (Characters: Raúl, Jorge, mamá de Jorge, mamá de Raúl, profesoras de Jorge y Raúl, empleada de la casa de Raúl, padre de Raúl); “Dos cartas”: 12 numbered pages (Characters: Chileno, Joe King, Jaime Martínez); " Por vez primera” (Characters: Juan Estrada, Tía Peta, mamá, papá, niño, Cecilia); “La muerte de un Dandy”; “La excursión por el Budi”; “La animita” (Characters: Capitán Kidd); “Té” (Characters: Tío Paco, niño, madre, abuelo); “El cura” (Characters: Hunt, dos hombres, mapuche); “El hombre de antes y después” (Characters: Manuel Pozo); “El muerto”.

Work Plans: “Siete muertes en Puerto Saavedra”: Unnumbered pages; “El niño que cantaba” (later “Veraneo”): Unnumbered pages.

Secondary Projects: Ideas for a character named Doña Felicita, empleada, sobrina de la empleada; Ideas for a short story based on a man that went crazy after reading the Bible; Ideas for a story where three characters hold a conversation; Ideas for a short story about a poor circus in Santiago de Chile; Ideas for a story about an ill child; Ideas for a short story about a post office; Ideas for a novel with love as its main topic.

References: Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961); Nemesio Antúnez (1918-1993).