Barth (R. L.) papers

Bibliographies

Box 1

A Bibliography of the Published Works of Charles Gullans 1946-1986 by R. L. Barth and Susan Barth 1986

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A Bibliography of the Published Works of Turner Cassity 1952-1987 by R. L. Barth, Susan Barth and Charles Gullans 1988

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A Bibliography of the Published Works of Edgar Bowers 1948-1988 by Jeffrey Akard and Joshua Odell 1988

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A Bibliography of J. V. Cunningham 1931-1988 (Revised and Enlarged) by Charles Gullans 1988

Box 1, Folder 1

T. Sturge Moore - paste-ups, correspondence, and other material

Scope and Contents

Includes paste-ups for T. Sturge Moore: Twenty-three Poems (edited by David Middleton, published by Barth), correspondence concerning the publicaiton, receipts, photogrpaphic negatives and a photograph of Moore. (Materials relating to T. Sturge Moore: Twenty-three Poems, including a previously unpublished photograph of Moore (used in one of the press' editions).

Box 1, Folder 2

Turner Cassity - paste-ups

Scope and Contents

Includes paste-ups for Keys to Mayerling and The Book of Alna: A Narrative of the Mormon Wars, both published by Barth.

Box 1, Folder 3

X. J. (Joe) Kennedy - paste-ups, correspondence, and other material 1982-1995

Scope and Contents

Includes paste-ups and manuscript for French Leave, correspondence, receipts. (Approximately 65 letters and cards, 23 March 1982-present. Turner suggested some idea should be given of costs &c. Hence, also included herein are: 1. Original typescript for French Leave. 2. Invoices for French Leave. 3. Master of flyer for French Leave. 4. Unbound file copy of French Leave, o.p.)

Box 1, Folder 4

Timothy Steele - paste-ups, correspondence, and other material 1981-1995

Scope and Contents

Includes paste-ups for Nine Poems, correspondence, receipts and copyright application. (approximately 62 letters from Timothy Steele, 26 May 1981- present. May missing items presented to Jack Hagstrom. Additional materials: 1. Some proofs. 2. Invoices for Nine Poems and Short Subjects. 3.Paste-ups for both books).

Box 1, Folder 5

Charles Gullans - paste-ups, correspondence, and other material 1981-1995

Scope and Contents

Includes paste-ups for Local Winds, correspondence and receipts. (Approx. 30 letters from Charles Gullans, 9 May 1981- present. Note: many of the letters are concerned with bibliography. 1. Some of the letters concern dates of composition of pomes. 2. Invoices of CG books. 3. Paste-up for Local Winds. 4. Unbound file copy of Local Winds. Most of the letters in holograph.)

Box 1, Folder 6

Correspondence with various authors

Scope and Contents

From Humphrey Clucas, Raymond Oliver, Donald Stanford, Michael Vince, John Seller Anson, John Daniel, John Mole, John Stevens Berry, G. E. Powell, Bradin Cormack, Jack Hagstrom, Francis Fike, Clive Wilmer, Peter Scupham, John Ridland, John Wilson, Mary Hyde Eccles. Two pen and ink drawings. (The inevitable miscellaneous letters (from authors and others), probably an inscribed poem or two, an original pen and ink drawing of John Anson by his wife (a San Francisco artist).

Box 1, Folder 7

Warren Hope poems in original typescript and photocopy

Box 2, Folder 2-3

R. L. Barth correspondence to Timothy Steele 1981-2000 2022-02-22

Individual paste-ups filed by author

Box 2

Anson, John S. Sessions and Surroundings: A Century of Roundels 1883-1983 Part 1

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Anson, John S. Sessions and Surroundings: A Century of Roundels 1883-1983 Part 2

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Beresford, Thomas Patrick. Front Range

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Bronson, Catharine Savage. Abiding Winter

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Campbell, Kathleen. Then and Now

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Dekin, Timothy. Carnival

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Doyle, Suzanne J. Domestic Passions

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Finlay, John. The Wide Porch and Other Poems

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Ribovich, John. The Rake to his Daughter

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Stanford, Don. The Cartesian Lawnmower and Other Poems

Individual typescripts

Box 2

Anson, John S. Sessions and Surroundings: A Century of Roundels 1883-1983 Part 1

Box 2

Finlay, John. The Wide Porch and Other Poems

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Oliver, Raymond. Other Times

Box 3, Folder 1

John Finlay typescripts

Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of an essay The Killing of the Father, The Wide Porch and Other Poems, Between the Gulfs, Individual Poems.

Box 3, Folder 2

John Finlay paste-ups and correspondence

Scope and Contents

Includes paste-ups for Between the Gulfs, correspondence, The Slaughter of the Innocents: An Essay on Gerald Manley Hopkins. (Herein a number of letters from John Finlay, as well as manuscripts. John is dying, and I'm particularly anxious that this material find a permanent home).

Box 3, Folder 3

Clive Wilmer correspondence

Box 3, Folder 4

Helen Trimpi / Pinkerton and Wesley Trimpi

Scope and Contents

Correspondence and typescript of Helen Pinkerton's "The Harvesters" and Other Poems on Works of Art. (Typescript for "The Harvesters" and Other Works of Art-prefaced by a letter explicating the work and the arrangement of the poems)

Box 3, Folder 5

Janet Lewis Winters correspondence

Scope and Contents

Approximately 46 letters and cards from Janet Lewis, 3 Nov. 1981- present. Proof for "The Locket" included in The Music of His History.

Box 3, Folder 6

Publications sent to Jeff Akard, Santa Barbara

Scope and Contents

Includes: In the Same Rivers by Francis Fike (2 copies); To the Lost City, or, The Sins of Nineveh by Turner Cassity; Corrected Proofs of Walking the Line by Edgar Bowers; Uncorrected Proofs of Epigrams: or, Court Characters by Sir Charles Sedley; Mainstreaming: Poems of Military Life

Robert L. Barth Press publications

Box 6

[Robert L. Barth Press publications added to the collection in 2022] 1985-2001

Box 4

Abbott, Porter: Cold Certitudes and Changes Beyond Measure. (signed, numbered, inscribed)

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Akard, Jeffrey. Local Facts. (signed, numbered)

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Anson, John S. A Family Album. (inscribed, o. p. )

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Anson, John S. Sessions and Surroundings: A Century of Roundels 1883-1983 Part 1 (inscribed, o. p. )

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Anson, John S. Sessions and Surroundings: A Century of Roundels 1883-1983 Part 2 (inscribed, o. p.)

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Barth, R. L. December Comes: Some Versions of Martial. (signed, numbered)

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Barth, R. L. Earthenware: XLVI epigrams from Martial. (2 editions: 1. signed, numbered/ 2. signed, not for sale, 2 copies)

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Barth, R. L. Just Rewards. (signed , not for sale, 2 copies)

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Barth, R. L. Looking for Peace. (1. Signed, first book published by press o.p. 2. Most of the 250 copies destroyed by dampness) n.b. only one copy contained in package

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Barth, R. L. To Be Brief X Poems From The Latin. (1. Signed and numbered "#1 of 50"; o. p. ; given away as gifts 2. Signed, "trade" copy of which 150-200 sold. The third stanza of the Vaughan trans. differs in the two copies)

Box 4

Barth, R. L. (ed.) Celebrations at Sixty for Turner Cassity.

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Barth, R. L. (ed. ) Celebrations at Sixty for Turner Cassity. (one of not many copies in self-wrappers, signed by ed. )

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Barth, R. L. and Turner Cassity. Lessons. (signed, lettered)

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Beresford, Thomas Patrick. A Father's Handbook. (o. p. )

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Beresford, Thomas Patrick. Front Range. (inscribed)

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Bowers, Edgar. Walking the Line. (3 states: 1. Unsigned, with error, no errata slip 2. Signed, numbered, with errata slip 3. Signed, numbered, with error corrected- see biblio. Bollingen winner, as T. C. says mention)

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Brosman, Catharine Savage. Abiding Winter. (inscribed, o.p)

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Bryant, Maijorie. Recall the Poppies. With drawings by Della Taylor Hoss.

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Cameron, Norman. Complete Poems. Hard and soft cover. N.B. catalogued in Special Collections.

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Campbell, Kathleen. Then and Now. (inscribed)

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Cassity, Turner. The Book of Alna, A Narrative of the Mormon Wars. (signed, numbered).

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Cassity, Turner. Keys to Mayerling. (signed, numbered, o.p.)

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Cassity, Turner, R. L. Barth, Warren Hope. Mainstreaming: Poenis of Military Life. (regular issue, special issue coming)

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Clucas, Humphrey. Against the Cold. (signed, numbered, inscribed)

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Connelly, William. Foothills. (2 copies: 1. Signed, lettered 2. Unsigned, numbered)

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Davis, Dick. Let them be Changed: Poems from the Persian. (signed, numbered)

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Davis, Dick. What the Mind Wants. (o.p.)

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Dekin, Timothy. Carnival. (signed, numbered, o.p. )

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Doyle, Suzanne J. Domestic Passions. (signed, numbered, o.p. )

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Doyle, Suzanne J. Sweeter for the Dark. (1. Hardbound- 50 copies published, insribed, o. p. 2. Paperbound, inscribed, o.p) N.B. Hardbound copy catalogued in Special Collections

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Fike, Francis. In the Same Rivers. (signed, numbered)

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Fike, Francis. Underbrush. (2 copies: 1. Signed, lettered- W2, anomaly 2. Review copy)

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Finlay, John. Between the Gulfs. (signed, numbered)

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Finlay, John. The Wide Porch and Other Poems. (signed, o.p. )

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Gullans, Charles. Local Winds. (signed, numbered)

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Gullans, Charles. Under Red Skies. (signed, numbered, o. p. )

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Gullans, Charles. The Wrong Side of the Rug: Cross-Settings. (signed, numbered)

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Gunn, Thom. Night Sweats. (3 copies: 1. Signed, numbered 2. Signed, h/s 3. Unsigned, second printing (no colophon, the most often used format to denote second printing.

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Hayes, Ann. Progress, Dancing. (numbered, inscribed)

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Hope, Warren. An Unsuccessful Mission. (very few copies in miniature form)

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Hope, Warren. An Unsuccessful Mission. (signed, numbered)

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Hope, Warren. Of Me a Grain. (first state- slightly smaller, containing one less poem than the second state; fewer copies in this form)

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Hope, Warren. Of Me a Grain. (second state; adds "A Mystery")

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Hope, Warren. Recordings. (signed, numbered)

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Johnson, Samuel. Sixteen Latin Poems. (ed. Barth)

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Kennedy, X. J. French Leave: Translations. (signed, numbered, o.p.)

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Lake, Paul. Catches. (2 copies: 1. Signed, numbered, inscribed 2. Signed, hie)

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Lewis, Janet. Late Offerings. (2 copies: 1. Signed, numbered 2. Signed, hie)

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Middleton, David. Reliquiae. (signed, numbered, inscribed (with holograph poem), o.p.

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Middleton, David. Under the Linden Tree. (signed, numbered, inscribed)

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Moore, T. Sturge. Medea, The Serpent, A Torrent. Edited by David Middleton.

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Moore, T. Sturge. Twenty-three Poems. Edited by David Middleton. (o.p.)

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Myers, D. G. A Patch of Weeds. (inscribed)

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Oliver, Raymond. Other Times. (signed, numbered)

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Oliver, Raymond. Private Stock. (signed, numbered)

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Oliver, Raymond. To Be Plain: Translations from Greek, Latin, French and Gennan. (paperback- hardbound o.p., separate) N.B. Hardbound edition catalogued in Special Collections.

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Pinkerton, Helen, "The Harvesters" and Other Poem,s on Works of Art. (signed numbered, o.p., also a copy of 2d print)

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Ribovich, John. The Rake to his Daughter. (signed, numbered, inscribed, o.p.)

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Ridland, John. Another Easter. (signed, numbered, inscribed)

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Ridland, John. Elegy for my Aunt. (signed, numbered, o. p.)

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Schreiber, J an. (translator) Sketch of a Serpent and Other Poems by Paul Valery. (signed, numbered, inscribed).

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Smith, Maurine. The Keen Edge.

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Stall, Lindon. Responsoria. (signed, numbered, inscribed, o.p .)

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Stanford, Don. The Cartesian Lawnmower and Other Poems. (signed, numbered)

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Steele, Timothy. Nine Poems. (signed, numbered, o.p .)

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Steele, Timothy. Short Subjects.

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Steele, Timothy. The Music of His History: Poems for Charles Gullans on his Sixtieth Birthday.

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Stephens , Alan. Stubble Burning. (2 copies: 1 . Lone copy with errors in contents, less dedicatory poem- pulled an unpublished in this form 2. Signed, numbered)

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Trimpi, Wesley. The Desert House. (signed, numbered, o. p. - plus a xerox, of which about 10 sent around)

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Vince, Michael. Gaining Definition. (signed, numbered, inscribed)

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Wilborn, William. Briefs. (inscribed)

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Wilmer, Clive. A Catalogue of Flowers. (signed, numbered, inscribed- my only copy; the book is rare)

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Wilson, John. Sloan. (signed, numbered, inscribed)

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Winters, Nancy. A Sad and Solemn Ground. (signed, numbered and inscribed)

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Young, James M. Measures. (signed, numbered, o. p.)

Box 5, Folder 1

Dick Davis correspondence 1981-1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 40 letters from Dick Davis, 6. Nov 1981 - present. Some typescript poems: 1. A number of Persian translations (some published in Celebrations at Sixty and Let Them, Be Changed) 2 Poem for Turner Cassity 3. Dedicatory poem to Johnson translations.

Box 5, Folder 2

Dick Davis proofs and paste-ups

Scope and Contents

Unbound file copy of What the Mind Wants, no proofs but a typed sheet of corrects and further comments on the edition, o.p. pasteup for same. Corrected proofs for Let Them Be Changed

Box 5, Folder 3-4

Turner Cassity correspondence and receipts 1982-1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 100 letters from Turner Cassity, 1 August 1982- present

Box 5, Folder 5

Thom Gunn correspondence 1983-1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 11 letters and cards from Thom Gunn, 18 August 1983 - present. Note: much T. G. material given to Joshua Odell

Box 5, Folder 6

Edgar Bowers correspondence 1985-1995

Scope and Contents

Approx. 9 letters from Edgar Bowers, 8 October 1985 - present. Note: some materials given away. Xeroxes of some poems, including the text of Walking the Line

Box 5, Folder 7

Alan Stephens correspondence

Scope and Contents

Approx. 15 letters and cards from A lan Stephens. Corrected and uncorrected proofs of Stubble Burning

Box 5, Folder 8

Book Reviews

Box 5, Folder 9

Michael Vince manuscript for Gaining Definition

Box 5, Folder 10

Miscellaneous. Includes: Poems of Yvor Winters from an anthology of Stanford Poets and copyright agreements.

Box 2, Folder 1

Outdated collection inventory from circa 1995 / Description of 2022 accrual to the collection by Timothy Steele and Victoria Lee Steele 1995 2022