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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-04-13. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries Carlos Bulosan papers Bulosan, Carlos 0581 4.99 cubic feet 7 boxes, 3 vertical files, 19 microfilm reels, 3 sound cassettes, 3 sound tape reels, 2 cd-rom discs 1914-1976 Papers of a Filipino-American author, poet, and migrant laborer Collection materials are in English.

Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (c. 1911- September 11, 1956) was a Filipino American author, poet, and activist. A chronicler of the Filipino American experience in during the 1930s-early 1950s on the West Coast, he is best remembered for his semi-fictionalized autobiographical novel America Is In the Heart (1946). Though Bulosan was only 42-45 years old when he died of tuberculosis-complicated pneumonia in Seattle in 1956, he left behind a large body of poems, novels, short stories, plays, and correspondence on a wide range of interrelated topics. Bulosan's work described the experience of growing up poor in a rural area of the Philippines, chronicling the conditions of neocolonialism after American occupation and centuries of Spanish colonialism. Bulosan's work captures the "push" factors that drove himself his generation to the United States. Like Bulosan, they hoped to find a better future and forged resilient and adaptive communities in the face of an often-hostile and exploitative European American culture in the United States. Bulosan is remembered as a progressive anti-colonial, pro-labor, humanitarian voice by an array of communities including Asian/Pacific Islanders, organized labor, academics and intellectuals, and a wide array of social justice; ethnic; and activist communities.

Arranged in 6 accessions:

Accession No. 0581-010, Carlos Bulosan poems and writing, 1914, undated Accession No. 0581-011, Carlos Bulosan writings, 1936, undated Accession No. 0581-012, Carlos Bulosan papers, 1936-1976 (bulk 1948-1956) Accession No. 0581-013, Sound cassettes about Carlos Bulosan, 1959-1960 Accession No. 0581-014, Carlos Bulosan papers, 1953 Accession No. 0581-015, Ralph Franklin postcard, 1963

Contains writings, annotated manuscripts, correspondence, taped recordings of reminscences and tributes by friends and associates, lists, publications, clippings, financial records, miscellany, ephemera, and scrapbook.

Open to all users.

Request at UW

Literary rights have been transferred to the University of Washington Libraries; however, some restrictions may exist on copying, quotation or publication.

Photographs related to Carlos Bulosan can be found in the Carlos Bulosan Photograph Collection, PH Collection 1156 ; it is likely that they were removed from the Carlos Bulosan Papers.

Records relating to Carlos Bulosan and the union of which he was a part, the Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union, Local 7.

Aurelio Bulosan papers Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union Local 7 records Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union, Local 7 photographs John Caughlan papers Cindy Domingo papers Jean Gundlach papers C. T. (Barry) Hatten papers Chris D. Mensalvas papers Chris D. Mensalvas photograph collection Trinidad Rojo papers Victorio A. Velasco papers

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Bulosan, Carlos--Archives Mensalvas, Chris D., -1977--Interviews Patrick, Josephine--Interviews Franklin, Ralph International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Local 37 (Seattle, Wash.) Labor Archives of Washington (University of Washington) Seattle (Wash.)-- Intellectual life--20th century Seattle (Wash.)--Social life and customs--20th century Filipino Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives American literature--Filipino American authors American poetry--Filipino American authors Dramatists, American--Washington (State)--Seattle--20th century Filipino American theater Filipino American authors--Washington(State)--Seattle Filipino Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle--20th century Filipino Americans in literature Political activists--Washington (State)--Seattle--20th century Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington) Labor History Literature Correspondence Ephemera Financial records reminiscences Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Scrapbooks Yearbooks Migrant agricultural laborers Accession No. 0581-010: Carlos Bulosan photocopies of poems and writing, 1914, undated 1 vertical file 11 pages

Scope and Content: Photocopied poems, 1914, undated; writing, undated.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Gift of Mary Gibson via Licerio C. Lagda, July 24, 1986.

Location of Originals: Originals donated to the University of the Philippines by L. Lagda.

Carlos Bulosan photocopies of poems and writing 0581-010 Vertical File Accession No. 0581-011: Carlos Bulosan writings, 1936, undated 0.21 cubic feet 1 box (139 pages)

Scope and Content: Photocopies of writings, 1936, undated. Also an unpublished novel, "All the Conspirators" (136 pages) believed by donor to be Bulosan's and given to him by J. Patrick of Seattle, Washington.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Gift of L.C. Lagda, November 12, 1986.

Carlos Bulosan writings 0581-011 Vertical File Accession No. 0581-012: Carlos Bulosan papers, 1936-1976 (bulk 1948-1956) 4.65 cubic feet 6 boxes, 10 microfilm reels (positive), 9 microfilm reels (negative), 3 sound reels

Scope and Content: Contains writings, annotated manuscripts, correspondence, taped recordings of reminscences and tributes by friends and associates, lists, publications, clippings, financial records, miscellany, ephemera, scrapbook.

Some of the writings and manuscripts are microfilm copies of originals either from this collection or owned by other individuals or repositories. The bulk of the collection is typed, annotated manuscripts, or correspondence.

Arrangement: Arranged by record type.

Digital Content/Other Formats: Some of the Bulosan papers are also available on microfilm.

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Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Listening equipment necessary for 7-inch reel-to-reel audio tapes and cassette audio tapes. Microfilm reader necessary to view microfilm. Contact Special Collections for details.

Physical/Technical Access: Listening equipment necessary for 7-inch reel-to-reel audio tapes and cassette audio tapes. Microfilm reader necessary to view microfilm. Contact Special Collections for details.

Restrictions on Use: Some restrictions exist on copying, quotation or publication. Microfilm reel #4 may not be copied without the permission of the University of Chicago.

Acquisition Info: The bulk of the papers in this accession was collected by the Bulosan Manuscript Committee in 1959.

Writings Prose Biographical sketch for 20th century authors undated 0581-012 Box 1 1 "The cry and the dedication" undated circa 250 pages 0581-012 Box 1 2 "The cry and the dedication" undated circa 250 pages 0581-012 Box 1 3 "A rich man in the family" 9 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 4 "The power of music" 11 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 5 "Wisdom of Uncle Sator" 19 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 6 "Betrayal of Uncle Soyoc" 8 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 7 "Homecoming of Uncle Manuel" 7 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 8 "A servant in the house" 10 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 9 "Dinner with a king" 9 pages, with two different copies of page 67 undated 0581-012 Box 1 10 "The story of creation" 100 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 11 "A trip to Baguio" 16 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 12 "Marriage of Cousin Pedro" 8 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 13 "Be American" 9 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 14 "Bandit and the tax collector" 8 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 15 "The betrayal of Uncle Roman" 11 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 16 "Son of Uncle Sator" 10 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 17 "I am not a laughing man" 7 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 18 "My first day in America" 3 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 19 "The summer of beautiful music" 7 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 20 "Return of the amorous ghost" 10 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 21 "Lonesome mermaid" 8 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 22 "The great lover" 10 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 23 "Springtime of my father" 7 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 24 "Now long shadows were falling" 61 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 25 "The big convention" 26 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 26 "The amorous ghost came to town" 9 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 27 "The beer drinkers" 9 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 28 "Heart of darkness" 4 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 29 "Tales from the old country" 8 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 30 "Really, a ghost?" 8 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 31 "The rooster's egg" 14 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 32 "Unfinished portrait" 9 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 33 "Cat in the rain" 12 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 34 "The younger sister" 18 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 35 "I don't know why" 7 pages undated 0581-012 Box 1 36 "My brother Joey" 17 pages undated 0581-012 Box 2 1 "The stolen violin" 11 pages undated 0581-012 Box 2 2 "The night reveals" 12 pages undated 0581-012 Box 2 3 "Death of an author" 8 pages undated 0581-012 Box 2 4 "I should have stood in bed" 13 pages undated 0581-012 Box 2 5 "Miracle by the sea" 4 pages undated 0581-012 Box 2 6 "The thief" 12 pages undated 0581-012 Box 2 7 "The glorious day" 9 pages undated 0581-012 Box 2 8 "Americano from Luzon" 8 pages undated 0581-012 Box 2 9 "Odyssey of Constantia Drake" 10 pages undated 0581-012 Box 2 10 "Romance of Magno Rubio" 20 pages undated 0581-012 Box 2 11 "We laugh a little" 17 pages undated 0581-012 Box 2 12 "The hairline of Pantaleon Cordalles Moradoro" 20 pages undated 0581-012 Box 2 13 "The worldbeaters" 22 pages undated 0581-012 Box 2 14 "The tall white horse" 19 pages undated 0581-012 Box 2 15 "The angel in Santo Domingo" 22 pages undated 0581-012 Box 2 16 "A city in the sky" 26 pages undated 0581-012 Box 2 17 "How my brother Leon brought home a wife and other Philippine stories," edited by Leopoldo Y. Yabes and Carlos Bulosan undated circa 600 pages 0581-012 Box 2 18 "Cry Away the Years" undated 0581-012 Box 3 1 "In Search of America" undated 0581-012 Box 3 2 "Sammy Cook's Shoeshine Box" undated 0581-012 Box 3 2 "A Story of Faith" undated 0581-012 Box 3 2 "A Virgin for Cousin Pedro and Other Tales of Luzon" 181 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 3-7

Scope and Content: For preservation, some pages have been photocopied and the originals are stored in Vertical File 2731.

"As Long as the Grass Shall Grow" undated 0581-012 Box 3 8 "The Betrayal of Uncle Roman" 11 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 9 "Death of a Rich Man" 10 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 10 "The Return of Uncle Sator" 9 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 11 "The Son of Uncle Sator" 10 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 12 "A Trip to Bagvio" 16 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 13 "The Ugly Hunter and the Beautiful Woman and Other Tales" 13 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 14 "The Filipino Houseboy" 12 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 15 "In Manila: A Fragment" 6 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 15 "Girl on the Beach" 12 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 15 "What Happened Before" 5 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 15 "One Winter Night" 7 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 15 "Even the Rain Remembers" 16 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 15 "My Brother's Marriage" 3 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 15 "The Genius" 14 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 15 "Cabin in the Orchard" 6 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 15 "My Filipino Houseboy" 12 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 15 "My Father Goes to Court" 6 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 15 "The Little Brown Mouse" 14 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 15 "Nightfall" 9 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 15 "Sammy Cooke's Shoeshine Box" 8 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 15 "How my stories were written" 1 item undated 0581-012 Box 3 16 Fragments 2 items undated 0581-012 Box 3 16 Poems "I Want the Wide American Earth" 25 autographed copies undated 0581-012 Box 3 17 "Adoration" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "Allan" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "Dark Moment" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "Desire" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "Elegy for Mary Ann" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "Epitaph" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "Exits and Entrances for Our Time" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "For Marjorie" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "Gift" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "I saw your face" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "In the moonlight" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "Interlude" (two versions) undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "A Little Poem" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "Marching" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "My new room" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "Okaboji Lake - Iowa" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "Our lives conflicted towards the end" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "Passage from life" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "A song of freedom" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "Testament" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "To Adam, with thanks" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "Who was it that loved a tree" undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 Fragment undated 0581-012 Box 3 18 "Exits and Entrances for Our Time" undated 0581-012 Box 3 19 "For Chris - on his birthday" 1954 0581-012 Box 3 19 "The Good Life: What Did I Know" undated 0581-012 Box 3 19 "I met her in the tall summertime" undated 0581-012 Box 3 19 "I write a poem about you pen" undated 0581-012 Box 3 19 "Into the world I walk free" undated 0581-012 Box 3 19 "A Midnight Song" undated 0581-012 Box 3 19 "My Country/My Street" undated 0581-012 Box 3 19 "The Oak Tree" undated 0581-012 Box 3 19 "The Surrounded" undated 0581-012 Box 3 19 "You shall know my sons" undated 0581-012 Box 3 19 Fragment undated 0581-012 Box 3 19 "Another Legend" undated 0581-012 Box 3 20 "A Darkness. A Snowfall. A Rain." undated 0581-012 Box 3 20 "Landscape With a Bottle" undated 0581-012 Box 3 20 "Last Poem" undated 0581-012 Box 3 20 "You will grow old together" undated 0581-012 Box 3 20 Drafts undated approximately 19 pages 0581-012 Box 3 21 "A Hill. A House. And Love." undated 1954 0581-012 Box 3 22 "All Summer" 1954 0581-012 Box 3 22 "Another April" 1954 0581-012 Box 3 22 "Another Letter to J. II" 2 pages 1954 0581-012 Box 3 22 "Aha! or The Face of Love" 2 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 22 "Conversation at Midnight" undated 0581-012 Box 3 23 "Discovery of a Memory" 1954 0581-012 Box 3 23 "Exits and Entrances for Our Time" 1954 0581-012 Box 3 23 "In Memory and the Flags Are There" undated 0581-012 Box 3 23 "In Remembrance" 1954 0581-012 Box 3 23 "I Want the Rich Philippine Earth" 3 pages 1953 0581-012 Box 3 24 "Lament For a Sleeping Child" undated 0581-012 Box 3 24 "Landscape" undated 0581-012 Box 3 24 "Letter to T." (unfinished) 2 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 25 "The Living Seed" undated 0581-012 Box 3 25 "Love Song (Recuerdo for Josephine)" 2 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 25 "My Country and My Street" 1955 0581-012 Box 3 26 "The Oak Leaf" undated 0581-012 Box 3 26 "On a Day in Seattle" undated 0581-012 Box 3 26 "Once Again I Will Tell You" 2 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 26 "On that Day" undated 0581-012 Box 3 26 "My New Room (For Chris and Irene)" 1955 0581-012 Box 3 27 "My Sister, My Bride" 2 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 27 "A New Year Letter" 1954 0581-012 Box 3 27 "II. October 31, 1954" 3 pages circa 1954 0581-012 Box 3 27 "Poem to Be Whispered" undated 0581-012 Box 3 28 "Prologue" undated 0581-012 Box 3 28 "Remembrance: I" undated 0581-012 Box 3 28 "Remembrance: II" undated 0581-012 Box 3 28 "Song for Chris Mensalves' Birthday" 1954 0581-012 Box 3 29 "The Song I Sing at Midnight" 2 pages each, 2 copies 1953 0581-012 Box 3 29 "The Vaulted Wall" undated 0581-012 Box 3 30 "A Walk Through the Woods" undated 0581-012 Box 3 30 "The Young Ones" undated 0581-012 Box 3 30 Untitled poems 2 pages undated 0581-012 Box 3 31 Poems "compiled for Chris and Irene" "When I was a Little Boy: A Dream" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "The Bee and the Rose" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "When the Knife Cut You" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "I Cannot Lose You" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "White Rose, Wild Rose, Lost Rose" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "When You Were a Little Girl" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Dark Moment" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "The Blue Sky" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Testament" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Little Elegy" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Fear" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Desire" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "My Country" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Growth" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Is It a Poem" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Silence" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "My Mother" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "But Eyes" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Cancione Maldita" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Land of the Morning" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Can I Love You" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Of Love and Hate" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Unfinished Letter" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Will You be Men When You Grow Up" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "There is only you in the poem" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "What Would You Do" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Adoration" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "My People" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "A Song of Freedom" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Gift" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Marching" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "In the Moonlight" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Forever" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Little Song" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "When I Was a Little Boy: A Reality" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Praise and Warning" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "A Little Poem" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Mother and Child" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Testament of Earth" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "A Bright Star" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Miracle of Spring" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Passage from Life" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Land of Beauty" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Beautiful Boy" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Two Eternities" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Now You are Still" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "Only a Bird" undated 0581-012 Box 4 1 "The Dream" undated 0581-012 Box 4 2 "Morning Song" undated 0581-012 Box 4 2 "The Morning is Still Dark" undated 0581-012 Box 4 2 "About Socrates" undated 0581-012 Box 4 2 "My Sisters in the Garden" undated 0581-012 Box 4 2 "Anticipation and Contemplation" undated 0581-012 Box 4 2 "Silence" undated 0581-012 Box 4 2 "Prayer for the Beloved Dead" undated 0581-012 Box 4 2 "Where My Love Lies" undated 0581-012 Box 4 2 "What Is a Poet?" undated 0581-012 Box 4 2 "The Consolation of Ambiguity" undated 0581-012 Box 4 2 "Dark Moment" undated 0581-012 Box 4 2 "The Map of Life" undated 0581-012 Box 4 2 "Needing No Time" undated 0581-012 Box 4 2 "Tale of the Sleeping Dog" (2 copies) undated 0581-012 Box 4 2 "Theseus" undated 0581-012 Box 4 2 "Letter to Fred, My Nephew" undated 0581-012 Box 4 2 "My Father Was a Working Man" undated 0581-012 Box 4 2 Plays The Masquerade Ball: A New Year's Eve Legend undated 0581-012 Box 4 3 The Wall undated 0581-012 Box 4 3 Jose Rizal - excerpt undated 0581-012 Box 4 4

Scope and Content: In verse.

Jose Rizal undated 0581-012 Box 4 5

Scope and Content: In verse.

Jose Rizal - fragments 10 pages undated 0581-012 Box 4 6

Scope and Content: In verse.

The Big Silver Dollar undated 0581-012 Box 4 7 The Worldbeaters undated 0581-012 Box 4 7 Correspondence General Correspondence Carlos Bulosan 6 items 1948, 1955, undated 0581-012 Box 4 8 Carlos Bulosan to Mary Gibson 5 items 1953 May 14 0581-012 Box 4 9

Scope and Content: Includes 4 pages of verses.

Bulosan Manuscript Committee 5 items 1959, 1960 0581-012 Box 4 10 Bauer, Harry C. 8 items 1956 0581-012 Box 4 11 Bulosan, Marjorie 4 items 1949, 1950-1953 0581-012 Box 4 12 Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, International, Local 7-C 2 items 1952 0581-012 Box 4 12 Josephine Patrick to Washington State Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born 1 item 1953 April 23 0581-012 Box 4 12 Incoming letters Bulosan, Aurelio 4 items 1948 0581-012 Box 4 13 Bulosan, Marjorie Patton 6 items 1953, undated 0581-012 Box 4 13 Committee to Sponsor (Luis) Taruc's Autobiography 1 item 1953 0581-012 Box 4 13 Harcourt, Brace and Company, Publishers, New York 1 item 1955 0581-012 Box 4 13 Kunkel, Donald R. 1 item 1953 0581-012 Box 4 13 Lieber, Maxin 1 item 1948 0581-012 Box 4 13 The Nation 1 item 1953 0581-012 Box 4 13 Saunders, Marion 1 item 1949 0581-012 Box 4 13 Wilson (H. W.) Company, publishers, New York 1 item 1953 0581-012 Box 4 13 Wolf, Harriet 5 items 1948-1949 0581-012 Box 4 13 1948-1956 8 items 1948-1956 0581-012 Box 4 14 Outgoing letters undated 1 item 0581-012 Box 4 15 1947-1955 5 items 0581-012 Box 4 16 Of Others Concerning the Bulosan Manuscripts Collection undated 0581-012 Box 4 17 Financial records 1954-1955 4 items 1954-1955 0581-012 Box 4 18 Harcourt, Brace and Company 1 item 1950 0581-012 Box 4 19 Lieber, Maxim 1 item 1949 0581-012 Box 4 19 Lists undated 3 items 0581-012 Box 4 20 The Carlos Bulosan Fund 1 item undated 0581-012 Box 4 21 Publications International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Cannery Workers, Local 37, Edited by Bulosan circa 1950 0581-012 Box 4 22 International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Cannery Workers, Local 37, Edited by Bulosan 1 item 1952 0581-012 Box 4 23 Common Ground 1 item 1949 0581-012 Box 4 24

Scope and Content: Includes prose, "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow."

Frontier and Midland 1 item 1936 0581-012 Box 4 24

Scope and Content: Includes poem "At Winter Evening."

Saturday Evening Post - "The Four Freedoms" 1 item 1943 0581-012 Box 6 Clippings undated 0581-012 Box 4 25-26 Sound recordings 3 reel-to-reel tapes undated

Digital Content/Other Formats: Cassette listening copies available in folder 5/3 of Accession No.0581-013.

Reminiscences - Bulosan's later years by Josephine Patrick, Berry Hatton, Red Gibbs 1 item 1966 0581-012 Box 4 27 Reminiscences -- by Chris Mensalvas 1 item 1959 0581-012 Box 5 1 Tribute to Carlos Bulosan by friends and associates 1 item 1974 0581-012 Box 5 2 Interviews 1959, 1960 Cassette tapes 0581-012 Box 5 3

Scope and Content: Duplicates of interviews of November 19, 1959 and June 19, 1960.

Miscellaneous 6 items undated 0581-012 Box 5 4 Notes 1 item undated 0581-012 Box 5 5 Ephemera 3 items 1976 0581-012 Box 5 6 Biographical and bibliographical information undated 0581-012 Box 5 7 Speeches and writings of others Poem - "Bulosan New" by Alvaro Cardona-Hine undated 0581-012 Box 5 8 Unpublished manuscript by Trinidad A. Rojo circa 1946 0581-012 Box 5 9 Photographs undated 0581-012 Box 5 10 Miscellany undated 0581-012 Box 5 11 Ethnic Cultural Center Production Items undated 0581-012 Box 5 12 Scrapbook undated 0581-012 Box 6 Microfilm collection

Processing Info: With the following exceptions, all the material on microfilm is copied from originals in the Bulosan Papers: Microfilm reel no. 3 was copied from a Manila Public Schools textbook, Philippine Prose and Poetry; reel no. 4 material was copied from original manuscripts held by the University of Chicago Library; reel no. 5 was copied from material originally owned by Josephine Patrick. Patrick had also loaned the originals contained on reel no. 6 in September 1977. She then donated the originals in November 1977. The letters addressed to Josephine Patrick (1953-1955, undated) on reel no. 8 were returned to Patrick after filming.

Writings of Bulosan Play in Verse - Jose Rizal 0581-012 Reel 1 Poems "July 5, 1953' undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "The Oak Tree" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Into the world I walk free" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "My Country" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "My Street" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "A Midnight Song" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "All Summer" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "A Hill. A House. and Love." undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Another April" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Discovery of a Minority" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Exits and Entrances for Our Time" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 ""I met her in the tall summertime"" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "The Good Life: What Did I Know" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 Note undated 0581-012 Reel 1 Poems "Now That You are Still" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "The Surrounded" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "October 31, 1954" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Legend for Our Time" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Now that I lost you" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "My New Room" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "The time is too late" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "The Song of Songs" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Peaceful You, Immortal You" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Our lives conflicted towards the end" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Lullabye and Goodnight" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Aha? on the Face of Love" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Song after Reading Harriet Tubman's Life" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "A New Year Letter" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Poem for a Moment" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Desolation" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "The Song of the Sun" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "The Vaulted Wall" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "A Nightfall Song" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Love Letter" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "When Night Falls" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Song for Chris Mensalvas' Birthday - June 24, 1954" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "The Masquerade Ball: A New Year's Eve Legend" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "In Search of America" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 Outgoing Letters Marjorie 1 item undated 0581-012 Reel 1 Chris 1 item undated 0581-012 Reel 1 Matt 1 item undated 0581-012 Reel 1 Mary Gibson 2 items undated 0581-012 Reel 1

Scope and Content: Includes poem for Maria.

Chris 1 item undated 0581-012 Reel 1 Mary Gibson 2 items undated 0581-012 Reel 1 Florentino B. Valeros 1953 February 8 0581-012 Reel 1

Scope and Content: Partial bibliography attached.

Prose: "A Virgin for Cousin Pedro and Other Tales of Luzon" 18 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 1 Poems "compiled for Chris and Irene" undated "When I was a Little Boy: A Dream" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "The Bee and the Rose" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "When the Knife Cut You" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "I Cannot Lose You" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "White Rose, Wild Rose, Lost Rose" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "When You Were a Little Girl" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Dark Moment" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "The Blue Sky" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Testament" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Little Elegy" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Fear" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Desire" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "My Country" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Growth" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Is It A Poem" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Silence" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "My Mother" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "But Eyes" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Cancione Maldeta" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Land of the Morning" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Can I Love You" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Of Love and Hate" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Unfinished Letter" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Will You be Men When You Grow Up" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "There is only You in the Poem" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "What Would You Do" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Adoration" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "My People" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "A Song of Freedom" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Gift" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Marching" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "In the Moonlight" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Forever" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Little Song" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "When I was a Little Boy: A Reality" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Praise and Warning" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "A Little Poem" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Mother and Children" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Testament of Earth" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "A Bright Star" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Miracle of Spring" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Passage from Life" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Land of Beauty" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Beautiful Boy" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Two Eternities" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "How You are Still" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 "Only a Bird" undated 0581-012 Reel 1 Scrapbook undated 0581-012 Reel 2 Textbook - Manila Bureau of Public Schools, Philippine Prose and Poetry(Volume 4, Manila. Bureau of Printing) 353 pages 1951 0581-012 Reel 3

Scope and Content: Includes two of Carlos Bulosan's works: "My Father's Tragedy" and "If You Want to Know Who You Are." Microfilm includes 5 pages of notes from Bulosan to Josephine concerning authors and/or works found in the text

Manuscripts of Carlos Bulosan in the University of Chicago Library undated 0581-012 Reel 4

Restrictions on Use: No reproduction without permission from University of Chicago.

Outgoing letters Harriet Monroe (editor of Poetry Magazine) 11 items undated 0581-012 Reel 4

Scope and Content: Includes brief biography, 1931-1936.

Poems "Without Ceremony" undated 0581-012 Reel 4 "Letter from America" undated 0581-012 Reel 4 "In time of drought" undated 0581-012 Reel 4 "Secret" undated 0581-012 Reel 4 "No Story" undated 0581-012 Reel 4 "Monuments" undated 0581-012 Reel 4 General correspondence Donald J. Paquette to Harriet undated 0581-012 Reel 4 Monroe concerning Carlos Bulosan 1 item 1936 0581-012 Reel 4 Outgoing letters Martin D. Zabell 1 item 1937 0581-012 Reel 4 Geraldine Volell 6 items undated 0581-012 Reel 4 George Dillon 5 items undated 0581-012 Reel 4 Poems "The Young Man" undated 0581-012 Reel 4 "Night Piece" undated 0581-012 Reel 4 "Needing No Time" undated 0581-012 Reel 4 "The Phoenix" undated 0581-012 Reel 4 Three Poems: "Letter in Exile" undated 0581-012 Reel 4 "American History" undated 0581-012 Reel 4 "Sunset and Evening Star" undated 0581-012 Reel 4 Play in verse - Jose Rizal 0581-012 Reel 5 Poems undated "All Summer" undated 0581-012 Reel 5 "A Hill. A House. And Love" undated 0581-012 Reel 5 "Always when I thought I found a sheltered sky" undated 0581-012 Reel 5 "Another April" undated 0581-012 Reel 5 "Another Letter to J." undated 0581-012 Reel 5 "Discovery of a Memory" undated 0581-012 Reel 5 "Exits and Entrances for our Time" undated 0581-012 Reel 5 "In Remembrance" undated 0581-012 Reel 5 "My Country/My Street" undated 0581-012 Reel 5 "My New Room" undated 0581-012 Reel 5 "My Sister, My Bride" undated 0581-012 Reel 5 "The Oak Leaf" undated 0581-012 Reel 5 "Once Again I will Tell You" undated 0581-012 Reel 5 "Song for Chris Mensalvas' Birthday" undated 0581-012 Reel 5 "The Vaulted Wall" undated 0581-012 Reel 5 "A Walk through the Woods" undated 0581-012 Reel 5 "The Young Ones" undated 0581-012 Reel 5 Incoming letters Valeros, Florentino E. 3 items 1955 0581-012 Reel 5 Yabes, Leopoldo Y. 1 item 1948 0581-012 Reel 5 Wally 1 item undated 0581-012 Reel 5 Outgoing Letters to Josephine Patrick 4 items 1954, undated 0581-012 Reel 5

Custodial History: Originals in possession of Josephine Patrick.

Writings of Bulosan Plays The Big Silver Dollar undated 0581-012 Reel 6 The Worldbeaters undated 0581-012 Reel 6 Prose "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow" undated 0581-012 Reel 6 Poetry "Another Legend" undated 0581-012 Reel 6 "A Darkness. A Snowfall. A Rain" undated 0581-012 Reel 6 "Landscape With a Bottle" undated 0581-012 Reel 6 "Last Poem" undated 0581-012 Reel 6 "You will grow old together" undated 0581-012 Reel 6 Incoming letters Bulosan, Aurelio 4 items 1948 0581-012 Reel 6 Bulosan, Marjorie Patton 6 items 1953, undated 0581-012 Reel 6 Committee to Sponsor (Luis) Taruc's Autobiography 1 item 1953 0581-012 Reel 6 Harcourt, Brace and Company, Publishers New York 1 item 1955 0581-012 Reel 6 Kunkel, Donald R. 1 item 1953 0581-012 Reel 6 Lieber, Maxim 1 item 1948 0581-012 Reel 6 The Nation 1 item 1958 0581-012 Reel 6 Gaunders, Marion 1 item 1949 0581-012 Reel 6 Wilson (H. W.) Company, publishers, New York 1 item 1953 0581-012 Reel 6 Wolf, Harriet 5 items 1948-1949 0581-012 Reel 6 Outgoing letters 1 item undated 0581-012 Reel 6 General correspondence - Miscellaneous Bulosan, Marjorie Patton 4 items 1949, 1950, 1952 0581-012 Reel 6 Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, International, Local 7-C 2 items 1952 0581-012 Reel 6 Josephine Patrick to Washington State Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born 1 item 1353 April 23 0581-012 Reel 6 Financial records Harcourt, Brace and Company 1 item 1950 0581-012 Reel 6 Lieber, Maxim 1 item 1949 0581-012 Reel 6 Lists The Carlos Bulosan Fund 1 item undated 0581-012 Reel 6 Notes 1 item undated 0581-012 Reel 6 Ephemera 3 items 1976 0581-012 Reel 6 Publication: Saturday Evening Post special edition 1 item 1943 0581-012 Reel 6

Scope and Content: Including "Freedom from Want" by Bulosan.

Selections from prose writings undated "A rich man in the family" 9 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "The power of music" 11 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Wisdom of Uncle Sator" 19 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Betrayal of Uncle Soyoc" 8 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Homecoming of Uncle Manuel" 7 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "A servant in the house" 10 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Dinner with a king" 9 pages, with two different copies of page 67 undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "The story of creation" 100 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "A trip to Baguio" 16 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Marriage of Cousin Pedro" 8 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Be American" 9 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Bandit and the tax collector" 8 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "The betrayal of Uncle Roman" 11 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Son of Uncle Sator" 10 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "I am not a laughing man" 7 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "My first day in America" 3 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "The summer of beautiful music" 7 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Return of the amorous ghost" 10 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Lonesome mermaid" 8 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "The great lover" 10 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Springtime of my father" 7 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Now long shadows were falling" 61 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "The big convention" 26 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "The amorous ghost came to town" 9 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "The beer drinkers" 9 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Heart of darkness" 4 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Tales from the old country" 8 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Really, a ghost?" 8 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "The rooster's egg" 14 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Unfinished portrait" 9 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Cat in the rain" 12 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "The younger sister" 18 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "I don't know why" 7 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "My brother Joey" 17 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "The stolen violin" 11 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "The night reveals" 12 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Death of an author" 8 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "I should have stood in bed" 13 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Miracle by the sea" 4 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "The thief" 12 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "The glorious day" 9 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Americano from Luzon" 8 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Odyssey of Constantia Drake" 10 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "Romance of Magno Rubio" 20 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "We laugh a little" 17 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "The hairline of Pantaleon Cordalles Moradoro" 20 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "The worldbeaters" 22 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "The tall white horse" 19 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "The angel in Santo Domingo" 22 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 "A city in the sky" 26 pages undated 0581-012 Reel 7 Outgoing letters to Josephine Patrick 1953-1955 0581-012 Reel 8

Custodial History: Originals in possession of Josephine Patrick.

"The Cry and the Dedication" undated 0581-012 Reel 9 Accession No. 0581-013: Sound recordings about Carlos Bulosan, 1959-1960 2 sound cassettes duration: 120 minutes 2 cd-rom discs

Scope and Content: Contains sound cassette and CD-ROM copies of recordings of individuals reminiscing about their friendship with Carlos Bulosan. The originals are reel-to-reel sound recordings (1959-1960) in Accession No. 0581-012.

In the Chris Mensalvas interview conducted by Joseph Butterworth on September 19, 1959, Mensalvas stated his belief that Bulosan came to the United States in 1931 and landed in Seattle. He may have stayed in Seattle for a time but then went to Yakima to pick fruit. He wound up in Lompoc, California, where Mensalvas thinks they first met. When Carlos was unemployed, he lived with Mensalvas, as did Aurelio, Carlos's brother. This housing consisted of a two bedroom apartment with a kitchen, shared by four men.

Jo Patrick, Barry Hatten and Red Gibb recall Carlos Bulosan's later years in an interview recorded at Mary Gibson's apartment on June 19, 1960.

Physical/Technical Access: Listening equipment necessary for cassette audio tapes or CD-ROM. Contact Special Collections for details.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Listening equipment necessary for cassette audio tapes or CD-ROM. Contact Special Collections for details.

Acquisition Info: Copied July 31, 1997, July 2007

Sound recordings about Carlos Bulosan Accession No. 0581-014: Carlos Bulosan poem and letter, 1953 1 vertical file

Scope and Content: Autographed manuscript poem "The language of flowers" (for Victor Cabebe), with letter to Josephine Patrick on verso (Seattle, 1953 April 14).

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Donor: Mary Gibson Hatten, April 27, 2007

Carlos Bulosan poem and letter 0581-014 Vertical File Accession No. 0581-015: Ralph Franklin postcard, 1963 1 vertical file

Scope and Content: Postcard from Ralph Franklin to Mary Gibson regarding his abandoning of Carlos Bulosan dissertation.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users

Acquisition Info: Donor: Mary Hatten, October 11, 2011

Ralph Franklin postcard 0581-015 Vertical File