Sam Hileman papers, 1959-1968

Summary

Creators:

Hileman, Sam.

Abstract:

This collection documents the collaboration of Sam Hileman, also known as Samuel Palmer Hileman, Jr., and Carlos Fuentes in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. The contents of this collection reflect Hileman’s working process while translating literary works. The collection also hints at Fuentes’ writing process, as there are some notes by Fuentes in the collection. Highlights of the collection include correspondence between Hileman and Fuentes, as well as various translation drafts generated between Hileman and Fuentes.

Extent:

5 document boxes (2 linear ft.)

Language:

Finding aid is written in English. and Materials are in English.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection documents Sam Hileman's and Carlos Fuentes's collaboration in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. It contains correspondence between Hileman and Fuentes, correspondence between Hileman and his publishers, and other business acquaintances. Newspaper clippings of book reviews of English translations and Spanish versions of Fuentes’s novels, translation notes, and translation manuscripts with commentaries by both Hileman and Fuentes are included. There are also two Spanish language novels by Fuentes. The works primarily addressed in this collection are: A Change of Skin, Where the Air is Clear, the Death of Artemio Cruz, Las Buenas Conciencias, and El Sueño.

Biographical / historical:

Samuel Palmer Hileman Jr. was born in 1926 to Samuel Palmer Hileman Sr. and Ruth M. Yerby in Bath County Virginia. In 1963 he married Bette Jo Burresh and in 1978 they divorced. Throughout his career Hileman worked as an artist, writer, editor, and translator. Hileman collaborated with Carlos Fuentes to produce five of Fuentes’s first English translation novels. Later in his career he won a Pulitzer Prize through collaboration with Herbert Bix, Hiro Hito, and the Making of Modern Japan. Hileman died in 2001 in Augusta County Virginia.

Source: The Roanoke Times (VA), July 8, 2001

Arrangement:

Arranged in the following series:

• Series 1: Translations, 1960-1968
  • Subseries 1.1: Translation Roughs, 1960-1967
  • Subseries 1.2: Translation Notes, 1960-1968
• Series 2: Correspondence, 1959-1967
• Series 3: Reviews of Fuentes’ Work, 1960-1968
• Series 4: Carlos Fuentes Books, 1959-1962

The materials are ordered alphabetically by project and within project they are ordered by date, where dates are available.

Physical location:

Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.

Rules or conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Related resources

Related material:

[Drawer 1, Carlos Fuentes] Pepperdine University Archives Individual Files, Collection no. 0025, Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries, Pepperdine University.

[Box 21, Folder 9-10], Donald Allen Collection, MSS 3. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD.

[Box 5, Folder 51] Juan Felipe Herrera. M1043. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

[Box 1:6] Robert R. Kirsch Collection. Mss 51. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

[Box 12, Folder 12] The Alurista Papers, CEMA 21, Department of Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

[Box 529, Folder 16] Commonwealth Club of California records, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.

[Box 39, Folder 4] University of California, Santa Barbara, Arts and Lectures Records. UArch 16. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

[Box 7, Folder 8] Irving Lerner papers, 1935-1978. (Collection 112). Performing Arts Special Collections, Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

[Box 86, Folder 6], [Box 285, Folder 8], Susan Sontag papers (Collection Number 612). Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

[Box 108, Folder 42], Norman Allderdice Collection, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Authors, Mexican --Correspondence.
Translators --United States --Archival resources.

Location of this collection:

UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library

Box 951575

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US

Contact:

(310) 825-4988

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