File consists of a proposal, dated May 3, 2001, for a collection of personal essays by Mootoo. The proposal contains a selection of proposed essays for the book, including Theroux/Naipaul Piece, Photo Parentheses, Not About Hiking and Housekeeping, and an untitled piece identified elsewhere as Emerging Irish. Included in this file is a photocopied essay by another author in which Cereus Blooms at Night is discussed.
File consists of a manuscript titled Theroux/Naipaul Piece and two partial drafts of the same essay. Included are several pages of photocopied correspondence from Mootoo
File consists of several drafts, some edited, of a short piece successively titled Heat/Desire, Photo Parentheses and Learning to Exhale. Included is one letter from an editor considering this piece for publication.
File consists of several pages of printed poems, signed by the author, as well as a spiral-bound partial manuscript for a work titled This Is Our Little Secret. This project is related to an exhibition by the same name held at the Surrey Art Gallery in 1989. Mootoo received a Canada Council for the Arts grant to pursue the project in April 1990. Included are several colour photocopies of Mootoo
File consists of typewritten and handwritten drafts of writing titled In Hiding in Trinidad. File also includes handwritten notes by Mootoo that appear to be later writing
File consists of drafts for the Munroe Beatty Distinguished Lecture at McGill University in Montreal and the WL Morton Distinguished Lecture at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario
