Manuel and Carmen Paredes letters and scrapbooks

Collection

Identifier: MS 0971

Staff Only

Finding aid note: Stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.

Content Description

This collection contains mainly letters written by Manuel Paredes to Carmen Amado, who became his wife. There are also photographs and scrapbooks of his oil exploration in Peruvian Amazonia.

Dates

Creation: 1947 - 1953
Creation: 1977 - 1979

Conditions Governing Access

Stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.

This material is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish material from the Manuel and Carmen Paredes letters and scrapbooks must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library.

The Woodson Research Center use policy is that researchers assume sole responsibility for any infringement of privacy, literary rights, copyrights, or other rights arising from their use of the archival materials. In addition to any restrictions placed by donors, certain kinds of archival materials are restricted for the life of the creator plus 50 years. These materials include, but are not limited to, student grades, transcripts, and any job applications or recommendations.

Biographical / Historical

Manuel Paredes was born in Arequipa, Peru on May 29, 1924. After college, he became a Petroleum Geologist, working in oil exploration in Peruvian Amazonia from the late 1940s to the early 1950s. During this time, he wrote letters to Carmen Amado Nuñez, his childhood friend in Lima. In 1952, they were married.

After doing graduate work at Stanford University, Manuel Paredes lived between Peru and the United States. The Paredes family moved to Houston in 1976. Manuel Paredes passed away on April 22, 2002. Carmen Paredes passed away on January 18, 2021.