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This collection, created by the Ransom Center, consists of Gabriel García Márquez-related
acquisitions that illuminate both personal and professional activities of the author
and
journalist. These accessions are relatively small in volume and have been gathered
together
for ease of description and access. The collection is arranged in alphabetical order. |
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Included in the collection are: |
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A carbon typescript of Gabriel García Márquez’s El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (No One Writes to the Colonel) (1957), as well as correspondence,
including handwritten notes on personalized notecards, typed letters, a telegram from
García
Márquez dated 1972, and a typed carbon letter to President François Mitterand (accession
15-09-013-P); |
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A copy of Gabriel García Márquez’s El general en su laberinto
(The General in His Labyrinth) (1989) with over one dozen emendations
in the author’s hand, possibly in anticipation for Diego García Elío’s Equilibrista
edition
in 1991 (accession 15-06-001-P); |
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A color photograph of Gabriel García Márquez in Mexico City, 2013, inscribed to Glenn
Horowitz by the photographer Guillermo Angulo (accession 15-10-018-G); |
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Remarks by the President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos delivered at the Gabriel García
Márquez Symposium at The University of Texas at Austin, October 28, 2015 (accession
15-11-005-G); |
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The original nine-page prologue of Gabriel García Márquez’s Doce Cuentos Peregrinos (Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories), with a
photocopy of the text of the rest of the book (accession 15-11-008-P); |
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Contact prints and negatives of photographs taken by Caleb Bach Ives of Gabriel García
Márquez in 2003 (accession 16-01-008-G); |
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A photograph of Colonel Nicolas Rodrigo Márquez Mejia, Gabriel García Márquez’s maternal
grandfather, (accession 18-06-006-G); |
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Page proofs for Gabriel Garcia Márquez's El rastro de tu sangre en la nieve, annotated
by Garcia Márquez (2018-07-016-P); |
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Script for "Fur Elise," an unproduced film by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Tomas Gutierrez
Alea, and Eliseo Alberto, (2019-11-002-P); |
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Four original letters and one original letter fragment from Gabriel García Márquez
to Álvaro Cepeda and Tita Cepeda, along with copies of other letters to the Cepedas
(2020-09-009-P); |
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Copies and faxes of a file of correspondence relating to an unrealized film adaptation
of The Autumn of the Patriarch (2021-10-012-G); |
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One piece of Colombian currency featuring Gabriel Garcia Márquez on the front (2021-10-014-G). |
