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Eve Drewelowe autobiographical writing, 1980s
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[butter/grease stains have erased some letters] [left column of page:] [top left corner handwriting omitted from digital scan or cut from page:] [red ink: asterisk] [blue ink:] [pencil crossout below here:] [what finally proceeding this?] [planned? pleased?] exp. promised exciting poss. & [illegible?] [in? im?] proper setting I was motivated to [illegible?] him not only in his habitat functioning in pursuit of prey but also the [backgr? background?] [pencil crossout above here] function respects the pursued and the [purs?] I was bent on obtaining [illegible?] and study of materiel was imperative however as I [suppose?] closer, (as testified by my field studies in [illegible?]) I had to turn to more itemized information which finally focused on [Vac?] -- a [w? a?] -- had -- to -- be -- subject ! who was I to bypass a velvety blue-jeaned [trapped? tripped? tapped?] down hipboots of a [Vac?] in fear of next best [crossed out: ?] Wow -- This was [illegible?] -- I settled for Vow -- And this was long before the '80 jean craze of splitfitting garments status hit the campus and settled down to [rem? illegible?] At last it became possible to begin the [painting? posterity? illegible?] move along rapidly on the painting. The Dean became more [unpelling? illegible?] in his blue velvety jeans and wow. [middle column added note, red ink:] [discussion?] [illegible?] and chosen of the [illegible? selt?] tipped the scale was the availability of this [uproarious?] little [illegible] to [illegible?]. [left column, blue ink:] The [final?] version that now exists is a composite [As? illegible?]-[illegible? playide?] against the fabric of the U. [Com?] -- played out in the [face?] [L. R. fensplace?] of the elegant home of 1930, or constructed upon or reborn from the world-[trap?]. [red marker: "Portrait Van"] [blue ink continues:] It would have been unseemingly to have the Dean cool his heels in icy [mt?] stream so I rested his foot on a log in front of the fireplace to try to deal with the tedious pose. The velvety blue jeans so early immortalized in [times?] not so new [thick? illegible?] rush to fame, in the 1980 -- except for their tight bursting seams -- their highfitting bursting seams -- [black ink:] being [greedees?] trail [operdes?] [pencil: asterisk "over"] [blue ink underline:] ---------------------------------------------------- [bottom right corner handwriting omitted from digital scan or cut from page:] [library mark added: "University of Iowa | digital.lib.uiowa.edu/drewelowe"]
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[butter/grease stains have erased some letters] [left column of page:] [top left corner handwriting omitted from digital scan or cut from page:] [red ink: asterisk] [blue ink:] [pencil crossout below here:] [what finally proceeding this?] [planned? pleased?] exp. promised exciting poss. & [illegible?] [in? im?] proper setting I was motivated to [illegible?] him not only in his habitat functioning in pursuit of prey but also the [backgr? background?] [pencil crossout above here] function respects the pursued and the [purs?] I was bent on obtaining [illegible?] and study of materiel was imperative however as I [suppose?] closer, (as testified by my field studies in [illegible?]) I had to turn to more itemized information which finally focused on [Vac?] -- a [w? a?] -- had -- to -- be -- subject ! who was I to bypass a velvety blue-jeaned [trapped? tripped? tapped?] down hipboots of a [Vac?] in fear of next best [crossed out: ?] Wow -- This was [illegible?] -- I settled for Vow -- And this was long before the '80 jean craze of splitfitting garments status hit the campus and settled down to [rem? illegible?] At last it became possible to begin the [painting? posterity? illegible?] move along rapidly on the painting. The Dean became more [unpelling? illegible?] in his blue velvety jeans and wow. [middle column added note, red ink:] [discussion?] [illegible?] and chosen of the [illegible? selt?] tipped the scale was the availability of this [uproarious?] little [illegible] to [illegible?]. [left column, blue ink:] The [final?] version that now exists is a composite [As? illegible?]-[illegible? playide?] against the fabric of the U. [Com?] -- played out in the [face?] [L. R. fensplace?] of the elegant home of 1930, or constructed upon or reborn from the world-[trap?]. [red marker: "Portrait Van"] [blue ink continues:] It would have been unseemingly to have the Dean cool his heels in icy [mt?] stream so I rested his foot on a log in front of the fireplace to try to deal with the tedious pose. The velvety blue jeans so early immortalized in [times?] not so new [thick? illegible?] rush to fame, in the 1980 -- except for their tight bursting seams -- their highfitting bursting seams -- [black ink:] being [greedees?] trail [operdes?] [pencil: asterisk "over"] [blue ink underline:] ---------------------------------------------------- [bottom right corner handwriting omitted from digital scan or cut from page:] [library mark added: "University of Iowa | digital.lib.uiowa.edu/drewelowe"]
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