125 pages numbered by JD plus 24 unnumbered pages towards the end of the notebook. November 24, Santa Ana (year unspecified). Last date specified April 23 (year and location unspecified).

Index card: None.

Content: Notes, dafts, sketches, critical evaluation of “El ultimo Azcoitia” (later “El obsceno pajaro de la noche”). Ideas for a story titled “La carta de San Ignacio”.

Works in progress: “El ultimo Azcoitia”: 1-24, 26-125; Idea for a new story, “La carta de San Ignacio”: 25-26

Characters: 1.1 Ines, Peta, Violeta, Jeronimo, Boy, perra, tio Pedro, don Clemente, medico, Geisha, Manuela o La Japonesa; 1.2 Mr and Mrs Gomez.

Sketches: 1.1 2, 8-15, 17-23, 48-49, 57-58, 60, 91-96.

Thoughts and reflections: 3-8, 15-16, 23-33, 36-48, 50-57, 58-60, 61*-64, 65-66, 68-92, 96, 103-104, 106, 113,115-125.

References: Pablo Neruda, 36,38; Alberto Edwards, 70; “The tin drum”(Gunter Grass), 83; Jorge Luis Borges, 84, 125, unnumbered page; 61* (page unnumbered by JD) transcription of a piece of George Eliot’s.

Miscellaneous: Page unnumbered by JD: list of 23 names, most of them those of Chilean writers; Page unnumbered by JD: financial considerations; Page unnumbered by JD: notes about Borges taken in English; Page unnumbered by JD: linguistic note; Unnumbered last page of the notebook: Female face and addition of hours, last page