Boise State University Special Collections and Archives
Thomas L. De Freitas Papers
MSS 137
0.5 linear feet
1 box
circa 1902-1951
Autobiography and other writings of De Freitas' life experiences, primarily in Nevada and Idaho, and his political and economic views.
English
, Portuguese
.
Collection is available for research.
Photocopies provided by Professor Don Warrin, California State University, Hayward, in 1994. Warrin obtained the photocopies directly from relatives of de Freitas.
Thomas L De Freitas (also credited as Thome Luiz de Freitas) was a writer from the Azores, who moved to the United States as a teenager and lived in the American West. He published three of his plays through Gem State Rural (now known as Caxton Printers) in Caldwell, Idaho. Those plays were:
Plot Against Plot, Pictures from Life, and Results of a Jest. De Freitas died in 1951.
[item description], Thomas L. De Freitas Papers, Box [number] Folder [number], Boise State University Special Collections and Archives.
Autobiography (written in 1948) recording some of De Freitas' experiences as an immigrant sheepherder and buckaroo in Nevada and Idaho at the turn of the century, his early literary efforts, later life as a dairy farmer and millworker in Portland, Oregon, and his political and economic views; together with poems (mainly in Portuguese); an unpublished novel about German Americans set during World War I; stories set mainly on the Nevada frontier; and essays and letters to newspaper editors expressing his opinions on politics and economics. Collection consists entirely of photocopies.
Forms part of the Idaho Writers Archive.
Frontier and pioneer life
Poetry
Portuguese Americans
World War, 1914-1918
American poetry--20th century
Agriculture
Literature
Poets, American
Pioneers
German Americans
Agriculture
Idaho
Literature
Ranching
Ranching
Biographical notes
1
1
Published poems, 1986 anthology (in Portuguese)
1986
1
2
Autobiographical pages in Portuguese
1
3
Autobiography
1
4-8
Novel: Builders of the Earth
1
9-12
Poems: Typewritten compilation (Portuguese, 37 p)
1
13
Poems: Morte Tragica? (Portuguese)
1
14
Poems: To a Meadow Lark (missing p. 2)
1
15
Poems: Vago-Verdadeiro Sonho (Portuguese)
1
16
Poems: Various
1
17-18
Stories: Circumstantial Evidence
1
19
Stories: Let's Quit Killing
1
20
Stories: One Man's Woman
1
21
Stories: Toilers of the Earth
1
22
Stories: An Untold Story (Toilers of the Earth, revised)
1
23
Political letters
1
24
Essay: Labor
1
25
Miscellaneous item (Portuguese)
1
26
Incomplete items
1
27