101 numbered leaves plus 45 unnumbered pages towards the end of the notebook. June, 30 (Cuernavaca); January, 5 (Iowa). Pages numbered and written on both rectos and versos. Two blank pages between pages 9 and 11.

Index Card: (Cuernavaca) Junio 30 1965. (Iowa) Diciembre 5, 1966. Termino completamente el envío a Carl Brandt, mi ESTE DOMINGO.

Content: Notes, ideas, drafts for Este Domingo. Works In Progress: “Este Domingo”: 1-11; 14-21; 24-45; 47-53; 54-74; 78-86; 94 – unnumbered pages, dated “5 Enero” (Characters: Abuelo, Fernando, Maya, Violeta, Dora, Jacqueline, Álvaro, Misiá Sofía, Fanny, Fernando Sánchez, Mirella, Armando, Rosalía, Marujita); “Los juegos legítimos”: 45-47; 49; 53 (Characters: Abuela, primos, papá, mamá).

Work Plans: “Este Domingo”: Different parts in which the novel could be divided: 8; Different topics to develop in several chapters: 30-33; 37-38; 54-55; 58-63; 71-72; 88; Topics to develop in chapter 4: 40-43; Topics to develop in chapter 5: 50-53; Topics to develop in chapter 7: 66 -67; Topics to develop in chapter 8: 68 -71; Topics to develop in chapter 10: 72 –73; 87; Summary of topics, actions: 96-100

Secondary Projects: Comment on “El Lacayo”: 31; Comment on ideas he would like to use from “La animita”: 10

Comments on his present life: 11-14; Ideas for two short stories: 21; Ideas for an intermission entitled “Los juegos legítimos”: 38-39; Ideas for a text based on a Latin American student in the USA, based on R. V Cassil: 89-94.

Miscellaneous: Expenses estimations for different countries: 22; Desires and feelings: 23; Work schedule for the following day: 29; List of 22 writers and a work of each: 74-77; Idea for “el Pájaro” (later, El Obsceno Pájaro de la Noche): 102 (page unnumbered by JD).

References: James R. Agee (1909-1955) 10; A Death in the Family (novel by James R. Agee, 1957) 10; Carlos Fuentes (1928)13; Vicente Leñero (1933) 14; Lord Jim (novel by Joseph Conrad,1899) 30; Joaquín Mortiz 65; Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) 74, 76-77; Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) 74-75,77; Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) 74; Eça de Queirós (1845-1900) 74: Robert Musil (1880-1942) 74-75,77; Young Törless (novel by Robert Musil, 1906) 74-75; Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) 74-75, 77; Il Compagno (novel by Cesare Pavese,1947) 75; Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) 74-75, 77; Seven Gothic tales (by Isak Dinesen, 1934) 74; Alain-Fournier (1886-1914) 74-75, 77 ; Le Grand Meaulnes (novel by Alain-Fournier,1913) 74-75; Jacques de Lacretelle (1888-1985) 74-75; Silbermann (novel by Jacques de Lacretelle, 1922) 74-75; Fermina Márquez (novel by Valery Larbaud, 1911) 74, 76-77; Italo Calvino (1923-1985) 74-75; Il barone rampante (novel by Italo Calvino, 1957) 74-75; Ronald Firbank (1886-1926) 74, 76-77; Prancing Nigger (novel by Ronald Firbank, 1925) 74-75; Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) 74-75, 77; Baron Corvo (1860-1913) 74; The Quest for Corvo (by A. J. A. Symons, 1934) 74; The Tale of Genji (novel by Murasaki Shikibu) 74-75; Murasaki Shikibu (c.973-c.1014 or 1025) 74-75, 77; Camilo José Cela (1916-2002) 74, 77; La Familia de Pascual Duarte (novel by Camilo José Cela, 1942) The Hive (novel by Camilo José Cela, 1951) 74 ; Hermann Broch (1886 –1951) 74, 76-77; The Death of Virgil (novel by Hermann Broch, 1945) 74, 76; Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) 74-75, 77; Childhood (autobiography by Maxim Gorky, 1913-1914) 74-75; Dino Buzzati Traverso (1906-1972) 75, 77; André Gide (1869-1951) 75, 77; Marcel Proust (1871-1922) 76-77; Du côté de chez Swann (novel by Marcel Proust, 1913) 76; Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) 76-77; El juego de abalorios ( novel by Herman Hesse, 1943) 76; Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) 76-77; Juan Rulfo (1917/8-1986) 76-77; Pedro Páramo (novel by Juan Rulfo,1955) 76; Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957) 76-77; Il Gattopardo (novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 1958) 76; Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) 76-77; ,The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (novel by Yukio Mishima, 1956); Babel 77; Jacques de Lacretelle (1888-1985) 77; Johan August Strindberg (1849-1912) 77; André Malraux (1901-1976) 77; Miodrag Bulatović (1930-1991) 77; Ronald Vernil Cassil (1919-2002) 89; et al.