Preliminary Guide to the John Perry Barlow Papers M2531
Franz Kunst
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2022
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: John Perry Barlow papers
Identifier/Call Number: M2531
Physical Description:
60 Linear Feet
(119 boxes)
Physical Description:
14 hard drive(s) (external)
Physical Description:
68 floppy disk(s) (3.5 inch)
Physical Description:
27 floppy disk(s) (5.25 inch)
Physical Description:
57 optical disc(s)
Physical Description:
30 item(s)
magneto-optical disk(s) and optical disk cartridge(s)
Physical Description:
21 item(s)
Jaz disk(s)
Physical Description:
6 item(s)
SD card(s)
Physical Description:
3 computer, portable
Physical Description:
1 computer, desktop
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1 zip disk(s)
Physical Description:
14 flash drive(s)
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1 item(s)
sim card
Date (inclusive): 1940-2018
Abstract: John Perry Barlow (1947–2018) was an American writer, technologist, and cattle rancher.
Material Specific Details: The John Perry Barlow email archive contains racial language, images, or content that may be offensive or harmful. Stanford
Libraries collects and makes these materials available to facilitate scholarly research and education, and does not endorse
the viewpoints within. Our collections may contain language, images, or content that are offensive or harmful.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research, with the exception of Series 15 and large portions of 16. Note that material must be requested at least
36 hours in advance of intended use.
Digital materials stored on 5.25" floppy disks have been processed and are open for research. The materials are available
through SearchWorks at the collection record: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13312451. Materials containing financial
information, contact information of third parties, or copyright held by other parties have been restricted, and only thumnail
previews are available online; these materials can be accessed at full resolution by visiting the Field Reading Room. The
email contained in the collection is available in the Field Reading Room; correspondents and extracted entities (personal
and corporate names and locations) from Barlow's email have been published in Stanford's online discovery module: http://epadd.stanford.edu/epadd/collections.
The remaining digital portion of the collection is closed until processing is complete.
Audiovisual and born-digital materials in Series 15 & 16 are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to
a digital use copy. Further restrictions may apply.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift; 2019. Accession 2019-371.
Arrangement
The collection was received with a minimum of original order, and files have subsequently been arranged in to approximate
categories, including series for Barlow's writing, correspondence, and activities surrounding technology and the Internet,
as well as several series devoted to his personal life, family, ranching, and education. Please note that these are necessarily
imprecise divisions, and similar material may be found in various places across the collection.
The following series have been employed in organizing the collection:
Series 1. Writing
Series 2. Technology & Computers
Series 3. Electronic Frontier Foundation
Series 4. Articles about Barlow
Series 5. Wyoming, Bar Cross Ranch, Parents
Series 5. John Perry Barlow Personal & Family
Series 6. Personal Correspondence
Series 7. Barlow Education
Series 8. Wyoming Outdoor Council (WOC) & related
Series 8. The Grateful Dead
Series 9. Music and Movie-related
Series 10. People, Groups, Events, Art
Series 11. Politics
Series 12. Memorabilia, awards, artifacts, etc.
Series 13. Miscellaneous publications & clippings
Series 14. Photographs
Series 15. Audiovisual Media (CLOSED until processed)
Series 16. Born Digital & Hardware (PARTIALLY CLOSED until fully processed)
Series 17. Personal/Restricted (CLOSED until 2033)
Biographical / Historical
John Perry Barlow (1947 – 2018) was an American writer, technologist, and cattle rancher. Often called "the father of cyberlibertarianism,"
Barlow was a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a lyricist for the Grateful Dead.
Born near Cora, Wyoming, Barlow was the only child of Norman Walker Barlow (1905–1972), a Republican state legislator, and
his wife, Miriam "Mim" Adeline Barlow Bailey (née Jenkins; 1905–1999). Barlow's paternal ancestors were Mormon pioneers.
He grew up on Bar Cross Ranch, a 22,000-acre property his great-uncle founded in 1907.
At age 15, Barlow became a student at the Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He later attended Wesleyan
University where he was active in creative writing, journalism, theatre, and campus politics and was a member of Alpha Delta
Phi. He graduated in 1969 and spent time traveling and living in Connecticut and New York before returning to take over operations
at Bar Cross after his father's illness and later death. Barlow subsequently operated the ranch until its sale in 1988.
After discovering word processing in the early 1980s, Barlow began using the Internet and was an early user on the online
community The WELL. An interest in hacking and law enforcement response led to Barlow working with Mitch Kapor and John Gilmore
to found the Electronic Frontier Foundation to defend specific hacking cases which later expanded to involvement and advocacy
in issues such as music copyright, intellectual property, the open web, and surveillance and privacy rights.
In addition to policy papers for the EFF (such as the 1996 manifesto "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace"), Barlow
was a frequent speaker and panelist at technology conferences and symposia. He wrote extensively for Wired magazine, as well
as The New York Times, Mondo 2000, Microtimes, and Communications of the ACM.
Barlow was president of the Wyoming Outdoor Council from 1978 to 1984, and was active in environmental policy work involving
logging and mining interests, acid rain, fracking, and missile testing on public land. In keeping with his father's career,
Barlow was also active in Wyoming politics, including stints as chairman of the Sublette County Republican Party and the Sublette
County Master Plan Design Commission as well as serving on the Sublette County Planning and Zoning Commission.
After several years of declining health, Barlow died at the age of 70 on February 7, 2018 in San Francisco, California.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item], John Perry Barlow papers (M2531). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
Libraries, Stanford, California.
Scope and Contents
John Perry Barlow's papers cover the entirety of his life, although there is far more physical material about his earlier
years, and his later years are probably better represented in digital files (which are partially closed until they are fully
processed). Correspondence has been separated into personal and professional categories and then sorted chronologically, with
selected letters refiled in other more relevant series (such as all music publishing correspondence placed in the Grateful
Dead series.) The collection also contains Barlow's email account dating from 1996-2009. The email contains correspondence
related to Barlow's life, work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and personal and family relationships. The email also
documents Barlow's speaking engagements for various academic institutions and his prolific world travels. There are also series
for Barlow's writing, as well as writing about him. Most technology/cyberspace files can be found under Electronic Frontier
Foundation and the more generic Technology & Computers series. Some categories such as the Photographs and Media series include
material from a variety of sources and subjects.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ranches -- Wyoming
Computers -- Law and legislation.
internet -- Government policy -- United States
internet -- Law and legislation
Computer networks -- Law and legislation
Computer networks -- social aspects.
Libertarians
Technology -- social aspects.
Barlow, Leah Justine
Barlow, Anna Winter
Barlow, Amelia Rose
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Grateful Dead (Musical group)
Wyoming Outdoor Council
Lanier, Jaron
Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996
Kennedy, John F., Jr., 1960-1999
Weir, Bob, 1947-
Gilmore, John
Steele, Shari
McCandlish, Stanton
Templeton, Brad
Tyre, James S.
Markoff, John
Doherty, Will
Doctorow, Cory
Mui, Chunka, 1962-
Levin, Hal
Series 1. Writing
Scope and Contents
Contains published and unpublished writing by Barlow, including outgoing letter drafts, poetry and prose, and material related
to publishing. Lyrics are filed under Grateful Dead series. Some writing filed in Technology series.
Box 66, folder 7
Publishing & writing correspondence, etc.
1987-1997
Box 66, folder 8
Publishing & writing correspondence - Farrar, Straus & Giroux etc.
1969-1972
Box 68, folder 1
Book contract and correspondence
1989-1990
Scope and Contents
Viking Penguin contracts for
Everything We Know is Wrong and
Wheel To the Storm(provisional title for book of Grateful Dead lyrics which was never published).
Box 93, folder 4
Poetry and editing - school literary journals
Related Materials
See also Education series.
Box 94, folder 1
JPB writing - family/personal
Box 94, folder 2
JPB writing - Anthology for Mim
Box 94, folder 6
JPB writing
1961, 1977, 1979
Box 95
The Departures [bound copy]
1969
Box 95
Binder with various edited typescripts, commentary, and letters of interest re: Departures
Box 115, folder 3
Northern Lights March/April 1987 with Barlow article & typescript draft
Series 2. Technology & Computers
Scope and Contents
Includes material related to computers, technology, Silicon Valley, cyberspace, virtual reality, and the Internet. See also
Electronic Frontier Foundation and Writing series.
Professional correspondence by year
Box 64, folder 7
"JPB Letters - Out" - tech-related
Box 65, folder 1
Incoming correspondence
1982, 1988, 1989
Box 65, folder 2
Incoming correspondence
1990
Box 65, folder 3
Incoming correspondence
1991
Box 65, folder 4
Incoming correspondence
1992
Box 65, folder 5
Incoming correspondence
1993
Box 65, folder 6
Incoming correspondence
1994
Box 66, folder 1
Incoming correspondence
1995
Box 66, folder 2
Incoming correspondence
1996
Box 66, folder 3
Incoming correspondence
1997-2000, 2001, 2005, 2014
Box 66, folder 4
Incoming correspondence
undated circa 1990s-2000s
Box 117, folder 2
Various facsimiles (many faded)
Subject Files
Scope and Contents
Most files titled as originally labeled by JPB.
Box 68, folder 2
Computers, Art, Fractals, Etc.
Box 68, folder 5
Cyberspace - 1st & 2nd International Conferences
1990-1991
Box 69, folder 4
Whole Earth Institute Cyberthon
Box 69, folder 5
Human Interface Technology Laboratory
Box 69, folder 7
Cyberspace - Timothy Leary
Box 70, folder 1
sci.virtual-worlds ; cyberspace III TELECOM messages
Box 72, folder 3
Hacker Conferences
1988, 1990
Box 72, folder 4
2600 - The Hacker Quarterly
1989-1992
Box 72, folder 6
Intellectual Property - Richard Lanham papers
Box 72, folder 7
Intellectual Property - Pamela Samuelson papers
Box 72, folder 8
Intellectual Property
Scope and Contents
Includes lengthy response to JPB Wired article by Donald Allen Kaul
Box 75, folder 5
Microtimes style sheets & JPB business card
1990
Box 74, folder 3
Mondo 2000 correspondence etc.
Scope and Contents
Also includes issues of related magazines
Reality Hackers and
High Frontiers.
Box 75, folder 1
soc.culture.china messages
1989
Box 74, folder 2
Testimony & Speeches [JPB writing - WOC etc.]
Box 74, folder 6-7
The WELL
Scope and Contents
Includes user manuals, printed out messages, some articles.
Box 74, folder 4-5
Wired correspondence, ephemera, press kit
Box 66, folder 6
Wyoming Telecommunications Council
1993-1995
Box 70, folder 5
Conferences
undated, 1979, 1988-1990
Box 71, folder 4
Digital World conferences
1991, 1995
Box 71, folder 5
Ars Electronica conferences
1990, 1993, 1995
Box 64, folder 8
"JPB Letters - Out" - Apple/NeXT
Scope and Contents
Includes letters to Betsy Cohen, Scott Knaster, Tom Rielly/SuperMAC Technology, and Steve Jobs.
Box 77
NeXTWorld magazine
1991-1994
Scope and Contents
Barlow was a managing editor and writer.
Box 77
MacWEEK (two issues)
1992
Box 78
Byte (NeXT cover story)
November 1988
Box 78
Fortune (Steve Jobs cover story)
October 1989
Box 85
Government and legal documents, other papers
Box 30
Bay Area Computer Currents vol.6 no.13, vol.7 no.2 1989
1988-1989
Box 85
Communications Daily
July 1990
Box 82, folder 3
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility reports
Box 85
Connecticut Law Review - Dan L. Burk paper
Summer 1996
Box 85
Dimension (L.A. SIGGRAPH)
April 1991
Box 85
EPIC 1994 Cryptography & Privacy Sourcebook
Box 85
ENSPTT Hayashi paper
1992
Box 85
Free Expression Policy Project report
2003
Box 82, folder 1-2
Global Business Network reports
Box 85
The Green Sheet
1989, 1991
Box 85
Human Web Business Concept Outline
2003
Box 85
Institute for Research on Learning/Xerox paper
1990
Box 30
MicroTimes
1989, 1990, 1993
Box 82, folder 4
National Center for Computer Crime Data/BloomBecker
Box 85
Release (Esther Dyson)
June 1991
Box 85
Technostress International Information Network
1991
Box 85
University Computing (IU)
1991
Box 85
University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy
2002
Manuals, promotional material, etc.
Box 78
Netscape, Radius, Floppy Works, Extend manuals
Box 79, folder 1-3
Fliers, handbills, brochures, mailers, etc.
Box 79, folder 4
Computer pamphlets, reply cards, etc,
Series 3. Electronic Frontier Foundation
Scope and Contents
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (https://www.eff.org/) was founded in July of 1990 by Mitch Kapor, former president of
Lotus Development Corporation, John Perry Barlow, and John Gilmore, an early employee of Sun Microsystems, with financial
assistance from Steve Wozniak. The EFF's stated mission is to defend civil liberties, particularly speech and privacy, in
technologies such as the Internet.
Much of Barlow's writing for the Foundation is preserved at https://www.eff.org/john-perry-barlow.
Box 81, folder 4
Chronological files
1994, 1995, 2003
Box 81, folder 7
Steve Jackson Games - Gurps Cyberpunk
Box 83, folder 1
EFF press releases, reports, etc.
Box 83, folder 2
Human Interface Technology Labs proposal
Box 83
Legal documents (Neidorf/Phrack, Ripco, etc.)
Box 84, folder 4
Hacker! The United States v. Craig Neidorf binder
Scope and Contents
Binder of articles created by Neidorf for JPB.
Box 86
Mainstream media coverage of EFF and related topics
Series 4. Articles about Barlow
Box 22, folder 2
Clippings
undated, 1952, 1953, 1960, 1968
Box 22, folder 3
Clippings
1978, 1980-1987
Box 23, folder 4
Clippings - Wyoming politics
1989
Box 115, folder 2
Articles mentioning Barlow (oversize)
Magazines, alphabetical by title
Box 29
Advertising Age vol.66 no.47
1995
Box 25
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science vol.20 no.5
1994
Box 29
Business & Technology
1995
Box 25
[Computerworld] Campus vol.7 no.1
1994
Box 25
Communication World vol.12 no.10
1995
Box 25
Communications of the ACM v.35 n2,7,10
1992
Box 25
Denver Post Magazine
1994
Box 29
Denver Post Magazine
April 3, 1994
Box 29
Empire (Denver Post) vol.36 no.47
1985
Box 25
Digital Boy vol.9 no.2
1995
Box 25
Dupree's Diamond no.20, 34, 35
1991, 1996
Box 25
Educom Review vol.32 no.5
1997
Box 25
Extra Extra Daily (Promax and Broadcast Design Association)
1994
Box 25
Fountain Valley School Alumni Bulletin
1970, 1972, 1976, 1982
Existence and Location of Copies
More complete set in Fountain Valley School series.
Box 25
The Dane (Fountain Valley School)
1965
Existence and Location of Copies
More issues in Fountain Valley School series.
Box 26
Free Software Report vol.2 no.1
1992
Box 26
Future Banker vol.3 no.5
1999
Box 26
The Golden Road no.14
1987
Box 26
Index on Censorship
July 1991
Box 26
Industry Week vol.244 no.22
1995
Box 26
Information Week
September 1990
Box 26
InSight Kommunikation no.1
1995
Box 26
Internazionale no.358
2000
Box 26
Intertek no.3.1, 3.2, 3.3
1991-1992
Box 29
Lettre International
1994
Box 26
Microbanker's Remote Banking Strategies vol.2 no.3
1996
Box 26
Mid-Day vol.22 no.98
2000
Box 26
MiL International Newsletter no.3
1996
Box 28
Mondo 2000 no.2-8, 10-13
1990-1994
Box 28
Mondo User's Guide to the New Edge
1992
Box 26
Newview (Global Business Network) vol.6 no.2
1995
Box 26
New Republic vol.208, no.21
1993
Box 29
New York Time Magazine
April 21, 1991
Box 26
Off The Wall vol.2 no.7
1994
Box 26
On The Internet vol.6 no.1
2000
Box 26
Ora Dot Com (O'Reilly & Associates)
1994
Box 26
Profiles (Continental Airlines) vol.8 no.8
1995
Box 26
Progress (Freedom Foundation) prospectus
1995-1996
Box 29
San Francisco Chronicle
February 8, 2018
Box 26
Shambhala Sun vol.4 no.1
1995
Box 27
Sky (Delta Air Lines)
1996
Box 27
Spiegel Special no.3
1997
Box 27
Tid Bits vol.5 no.12
1990
Box 27
Training vol.35 no.1
1998
Box 27
Unbroken Chain no.62
1995
Box 27
Utne Reader no.67, 68
1995
Box 27
Village Voice vol.36 no.11
1991
Box 27
Washington Monthly vol.18 no.9
1986
Box 29
Washington Technology vol.10 no.11
1995
Box 28
Wired 5.05, 8.04
1997, 2000
Box 28
Xploration vol.7 no.1
1996
Series 5. Wyoming, Bar Cross Ranch, Parents
Scope and Contents
Contains material about John Perry's parents Miriam "Mim" Barlow and Norman Barlow, as well as material about his childhood
and later years at Bar Cross Ranch. Series also contains Wyoming history and ranching ephemera. See also John Perry Barlow
Personal & Family, Wyoming Outdoor Council, and Politics series.
Box 15, folder 1
Clippings - Barlows, ranch
Box 115, folder 1
Newspaper articles - Barlows, ranch (oversize)
Box 15, folder 2
Miriam "Mim" Jenkins Barlow Bailey
Box 48, folder 3
Mim cards & correspondence
1970s-1990s
Box 48, folder 5
Letters to Norman Barlow (one from JPB)
1949, 1966-1967
Box 16, folder 2
Perry Jenkins correspondence
Box 16, folder 2
A.W. Smith letter and clipping photocopies
Box 16, folder 3
Green River Rendezvous, Cowbelles, Sublette County Historical Society, etc.
Box 48, folder 4
Bar Cross Ranch correspondence, etc.
1970s-80s
Box 17, folder 1
Bar Cross haying logs 1973-1985, 1942 log
Box 17, folder 2
Bar Cross By Laws, Corporation Minutes & Legal Correspondence
Box 17, folder 3, Box 18
Miscellaneous ranching & agricultural catalogs, other publications
Box 17, folder 4
JPB 4H workbooks
1958-1960
Box 19, folder 1-2
Wyoming & mountain western ephemera
Box 19, folder 3
JPB Wyoming civic activities
Scope and Contents
Wyoming Council for the Humanities, school board, Sublette County planning committee/commissioners, Peacekeeper/anti-MX Missile,
Pinedale Fine Arts Council, etc. Many clippings duplicating other JPB article and editorial clipping series.
Box 15, folder 3
Mim Barlow legal/estate/memorial
Box 15
Miriam Barlow estate planning notebook, memorial guestbook
Series 5. John Perry Barlow Personal & Family
Scope and Contents
Contains material related to Barlow's personal life and his family: wife Elaine Barlow and three daughters Amelia Rose, Anna
Winter, and Leah Justine. See also Personal Correspondence, Wyoming Family, Education & Photographs series.
Box 13, folder 1
JPB birth - cards, notes, etc,
1947
Box 13, folder 2
JPB birth - clippings, baby journal notes
Box 13, folder 3
JPB birth - letters of congratulation
1947
Box 13, folder 4
JPB birth & infancy - cards & letters
Box 31, folder 1
JPB personal ephemera
Scope and Contents
Includes bios, elementary school grades/tests, psychological profiles, horoscopes, copy of birth certificate, family tree,
etc.
Box 31, folder 2
JPB personal ephemera
Scope and Contents
Notes, business cards, etc.
Box 31, folder 4
Barlowgrams and other family letters
1980s-1990s
Scope and Contents
Also includes news about Bar Cross Ranch, the Greatful Dead, EFF, other activities.
Box 31, folder 5
Elaine Parker Barlow
Scope and Contents
Includes letter from JPB 9/30/1986, custody documents, etc.
Box 31, folder 7
JPB daughters Amelia Rose, Anna Winter, and Leah Justine
Box 32, folder 1
JPB daughters Amelia Rose, Anna Winter, and Leah Justine
Box 11, folder 4
JPB daughters cards, artwork, photos, etc.
Series 6. Personal Correspondence
Scope and Contents
Contains four sub-series. The first is letters deemed more of a personal nature sorted chronologically - these are almost
entirely incoming. The second and third sub-series are folders found within Barlow's high school & college files, and their
titles have been transcribed. Note that Bob Weir letters now filed with Grateful Dead material were originally in "Males -
Colorado" folder. The fourth sub-series contains letters JPB sent to his parents from India & Europe and related material.
See also Wyoming Family, Personal & Family, Education, and other series.
Personal correspondence by year
Box 44, folder 3
Incoming correspondence
1963-1965
Box 44, folder 4
Incoming correspondence
1966
Box 44, folder 5
Incoming correspondence
1967
Box 44, folder 2
Incoming correspondence
undated 1960s
Box 44, folder 6
Incoming correspondence
1968
Box 44, folder 7
Incoming correspondence
1969
Box 44, folder 8
Incoming correspondence
1970
Box 44, folder 9
Wesleyan correspondence
1971-1973
Box 44, folder 10
Incoming correspondence
1971
Box 45, folder 1-2
Incoming correspondence
1972
Box 45, folder 4
JPB letters/unsent drafts
circa early 1970s
Box 46, folder 1-3
Incoming correspondence
1973
Box 46, folder 4-5
Incoming correspondence
1974
Box 47, folder 1
Incoming correspondence
1974
Box 47, folder 2-3
Incoming correspondence
1975
Box 47, folder 4-5
Incoming correspondence
1976
Box 48, folder 1
Incoming correspondence
undated, circa 1970s-80s
Box 49, folder 9
Incoming correspondence
1977
Box 50, folder 1
Incoming correspondence
1977
Box 50, folder 2
Incoming correspondence
1978
Box 50, folder 3
Incoming correspondence
1979
Box 51, folder 1-2
Incoming correspondence
1979
Box 51, folder 3-4
Incoming correspondence
1980
Box 51, folder 5
Incoming correspondence
1981
Box 52, folder 1-2
Incoming correspondence
1981
Box 52, folder 3
Incoming correspondence
1982
Box 53, folder 1
Incoming correspondence
1982
Box 53, folder 2-3
Incoming correspondence
1983
Box 54, folder 1
Incoming correspondence
1983
Box 54, folder 2
Incoming correspondence
1984
Box 54, folder 3
Incoming correspondence
1985
Box 54, folder 4
Incoming correspondence
1986
Box 55, folder 1
Incoming correspondence
1987
Box 55, folder 2-4
Incoming correspondence
1988
Box 56, folder 1-3
Incoming correspondence
1989
Box 57, folder 1
Incoming correspondence
undated circa 1989-1990
Box 57, folder 2-3
Incoming correspondence
1990
Box 57, folder 1-3
Incoming correspondence
1991
Box 60, folder 1-2
Incoming correspondence
1992
Box 60, folder 3-4
Incoming correspondence
1993
Box 59, folder 5
Incoming correspondence
undated, circa 1990s
Box 61, folder 1-2
Incoming correspondence
1994
Box 61, folder 3
Incoming correspondence
1995
Box 62, folder 1
Incoming correspondence
1995
Box 62, folder 2-3
Incoming correspondence
1996
Box 63, folder 1-2
Incoming correspondence
1997
Box 63, folder 3
Incoming correspondence
1998
Box 63, folder 4
Incoming correspondence
1999
Box 64, folder 1
Incoming correspondence
1999
Box 64, folder 2
Incoming correspondence
2000
Box 64, folder 3
Incoming correspondence
2001-2017
Box 64, folder 6
"JPB Letters - Out" - personal
Box 59, folder 6
Cynthia Horner correspondence, undated
Related Materials
Dated correspondence has been interfiled.
Box 66, folder 4
Correspondence from people in prison
Related Materials
Selected letters; others have been interfiled chronologically.
"Girlfriends" / female friends
1960s-1970s
Scope and Contents
Folders created and labeled by JPB. Later letters from some people can be found in other correspondence series.
Box 42, folder 3
"Gretch" (Gretchen Liddle)
Box 42, folder 5
"Striplings" (Juni & Prudence?)
Box 45, folder 3
"Other females 1963-1968" etc.
Box 43, folder 3
"Males - Wesleyan"
Scope and Contents
Includes "Sims" (Andrew) ; "Goodman" (Jon) ; "Chris" (Becker?)
Travel correspondence & ephemera
late 1960s
Box 43, folder 6
India trip correspondence & ephemera
Box 43, folder 7
JPB letters home from India & Europe
Box 37
Changes, Explorations and Discoveries (typescript copy of European travel journal)
June 13, 1968 - July 10, 1968
Series 7. Barlow Education
Box 14
JPB elementary school workbooks
Box 24
Pinedale High School Buckaroo yearbooks
1961, 1962
Fountain Valley School (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Box 32, folder 4
Publications
1993, 1995, 2017
Box 32
Fountain Valley School Alumni Bulletin
1963-1988
Box 32
Fountain Valley Literary Review
1962-1965
Box 33
The Owl yearbooks
1963-1965
Box 33
Lavender, David G. They Wrote Their Own Histories: Fountain Valley School's First 70 Years. Fountain Vallley School
2000
Box 39, folder 2
Fountain Valley School ("Honorable"/"Dishonorable")
Scope and Contents
Original folders were divided into "Honorable" and "Dishonorable."
Box 39, folder 3
Fountain Valley School alumni activity
1960s
Box 48, folder 2
Fountain Valley School correspondence
1970s-1990s
Box 115, folder 3
The Dane (Fountain Valley School) vol.XII no. 4 maquette of front page
Box 33
The Wesleyan Argus
1965-1969
Scope and Contents
Barlow worked for the newspaper and was also mentioned or featured in several articles. Issues more complete 1965-1966 with
one 1968 and one 1969 issue.
Box 34
Center for Advanced Studies pamphlets
Box 34
Honors College poetry booklets
1965, 1968, 1969
Scope and Contents
Includes JPB poetry.
Box 34
Adlit (literary magazine of Middletown chapter of Alpha Delta Phi)
1965, 1966, 1968, 1969
Scope and Contents
Includes JPB poetry.
Box 34
Alkahest - American College Poetry (Wesleyan University Press)
1968, 1969
Scope and Contents
Includes JPB poetry. Chairman of student editorial board.
Box 34
Cardinal (literary magazine of Wesleyan University)
1966, 1967, 1968, 1970
Scope and Contents
Includes JPB poetry. On editorial board, designed.
Box 34
Reflection - The Wesleyan Quarterly
1967, 1969
Box 35
Olla Podrida yearbook
1965, 1967
Box 35
Campus Directory
1968-1969
Box 35
The Body, Poems by Michael Benedikt (Wesleyan University Press)
1968
Box 35
Keynote (Wellesley College)
1968
Box 35
Wesleyan Alumni Magazine
1996
Scope and Contents
JPB mentioned p.46
Box 115, folder 3
The Tin Drum vol.2 (Wesleyan)
Box 35
John P. Barlow - The Departures, A Novel - Thesis presented ... for the Degree of Bachelaor of Arts with Honors in the College
of Letters (red binding)
1969
Box 36
John P. Barlow - The Departures, A Novel - Thesis presented ... for the Degree of Bachelaor of Arts with Honors in the College
of Letters (black binding)
1969
Box 36
The Third Departure - Beantown typescript & copy
Box 37
The Third Departure - Beantown (annotated typescript)
Box 39, folder 5
Wesleyan correspondence, memos, etc. ("Honorable" etc.)
Box 39, folder 6
College Body Committee (includes speech transcript probably by JPB)
Box 39, folder 7
Poetry, literary magazine, theater correspondence, etc.
Box 39, folder 8
"Dishonorable"
Scope and Contents
Original folders were divided into "Honorable" and "Dishonorable."
Box 40, folder 1
Misc. JPB notes, letters, poetry
Box 40, folder 2
"Business/Apartment" etc.
Box 40, folder 4
Distinguished Alumnus award
1994
Box 41, folder 1
Faculty Student Affairs Committee
Box 41, folder 2
Class syllabi, tests, other handouts
Box 41, folder 3
Wesleyan printed ephemera
Box 59, folder 4
Wesleyan alumnus correspondence (incoming)
1980s-1990s
Box 114, folder 1
Alpha Delta Phi member portraits
1966-1969
Box 39, folder 1
General ("Honorable"/"Dishonorable")
Box 39, folder 4
College Board, Selective Service, admission letters
Series 8. Wyoming Outdoor Council (WOC) & related
Scope and Contents
The Wyoming Outdoor Council is a the oldest non-profit environmental advocacy organization in the state. Barlow was president
of the Council from 1978 to 1984 and was generally active in local environmental politics and policy during the same period.
Box 19, folder 4
JPB environmental work - Wyoming Outdoor Council etc.
Scope and Contents
Notes, memoranda, publications
Box 20, folder 1
Wyoming environmental conservation clippings etc.
Box 20
Wyoming Outdoor Council files
Processing Information
Not refoldered.
Box 23, folder 6
Clippings - Wyoming Outdoor Council
Box 23, folder 7
Clippings - JPB/WOC editorials
Box 24, folder 1
Clippings - WOC - Union Pass
Box 24, folder 2
Miscellaneous environmental publications & clippings
Box 59, folder 1-2
W.O.C. etc. correspondence (incoming)
1980s-1990s
Box 59, folder 3
Peter Coyote correspondence (mostly ecological issues)
Box 64, folder 5
"JPB Letters - Out" - W.O.C. etc.
Scope and Contents
Also Nature Conservancy and Trust for Public Lands correspondence. Includes letters to Wendell Berry (with two in return),
Gary Snyder (with brief reply), Governor Mike Sullivan, and the Rex Foundation.
Series 8. The Grateful Dead
Scope and Contents
Barlow's association with the rock band Grateful Dead dates to the early 1960s, when he attended Fountain Valley School with
Bob Weir. He caught the band's early East Coast shows and introduced some members to Timothy Leary's scene at Millbrook. It
was only later that he began writing lyrics for the band, and he was also to collaborate with Weir and latter-day keyboardist
Brent Mydland on other projects in the 1970s and 80s.
JPB writing, lyrics and other business
Box 89, folder 5
JPB open letters, other correspondence
Scope and Contents
Includes Barlow's Memo to the Californians 2/18/80 ; "Dear Dead" 7/21/80 ; facsimile message about "The Dwarf" with lyrics
1983 ; letters to Nancy Mallonnee 1987 and Eileen [Law] 1988 (quoting a critical WELL comment) ; copies of Barlow-Grams with
remarks on GD activity.
Box 89, folder 7
Ice-9 royalty statements and related
Box 89, folder 8
ASCAP royalty statements and related
Correspondence & people
Scope and Contents
Many items in the general correspondence folders are fan mail and requests for autographs as well as letters from merchandisers,
friends thanking JPB for tickets, and interview arrangements.
Notable letters and notes include undated Mickey [Hart?] note to JPB ; Bernie Bildman cards, Rob Eaton / Dark Star Orchestra
; Andy Leonard 1971 ; "Dale" / New Riders of the Purple Sage 1975 ; Carole Rankin (most in personal correspondence file)
; Danny Rifkin 1973 ; Hunter [Robert Hunter?] 1982 ; Nicki Scully ; Henry Kaiser 1989 [about possible Dead tribute album]
; Deborah Koons & Jerome Garcia wedding invitation 1994.
Box 88, folder 1
Dead-related correspondence
undated, 1971-1983
Box 88, folder 2
Dead-related correspondence
1986-1990
Box 88, folder 3
Dead-related correspondence
1991-2015
Box 89, folder 6
Jerilyn Brandelius (re:)
Scope and Contents
1988 letter from David Stanford while at Henry Holt mentioning Brandelius' book (he would later work with JPB at Viking Press)
; "Ring Around the Dead - A Circle of Support" memo outlining possible chapters of book copyrighted 1993 Jerilyn Lee Brandelius.
Box 88, folder 4
Betsy Cohen
1984, 1987
Scope and Contents
Elizabeth "Betsy" Cohen is a physicist who specializes in acoustics. At the time of these letters she was a consultant/assistant
professor at Stanford's CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics). She worked with Bob Weir and Mickey Hart
on a number of projects.
File contains two letters to JPB from January 1984, an exchange concerning a bill charged to Weir April 1987, and a message
to JPB enclosing a "letter to Bob" June 1987.
UC Santa Cruz holds a small collection from her: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c86d5w4z/
Box 88, folder 5
Phil DeGuere / GD movie
Scope and Contents
DeGuere was a television and movie producer; other correspondence is filed in Personal and Movie-Related Correspondence. JPB
rented his house in San Francisco (coincidentally near an early GD practice space), and probably got him the Twilight Zone
acting gig (DeGuere produced the revived series, which featured GD playing the theme).
File contains a lengthy undated letter to JPB, a letter to DeGuere from Mike Barclay exploring the possibility of a Russian
tour, and a file of various material related to the production of a Grateful Dead movie, then called "The Music Never Stops."
This file includes a June 1987 letter to JPB, treatment, script, Harold Kant memo, and messages from the WELL with posts from
JPB, Howard Rheingold, David Gans, Bernie Bildman, Mary Eisenhart, John Coate, and others.
Box 90, folder 2
Carolyn Garcia
Scope and Contents
A few articles about her, as well as some artwork annotated by JPB - two watercolors "By Mountain Girl July 80" and one sketch
of a dragon "Annabelle Garcia July 1980."
Box 88, folder 7
Paddy Lad
circa 1990-1993
Scope and Contents
British deaf-rights advocate who was working to incorporate live signing into Dead performances.
Box 88, folder 13
Mary Ann [Mayer]
Scope and Contents
Mayer was (is?) a photographer and light show artist who took many iconic photos of the band. Contains 1973 postcard with
Europe '72 cover mentioning Heavy Water and longer 1973 letter.
Box 89, folder 1
Jon McIntire
1971-1982
Scope and Contents
And business card. Some letters by others too.
Box 89, folder 2
JPB to Jon McIntire
1978-1987
Box 88, folder 8
Thad Reynolds
1987, 1995
Scope and Contents
In 1987 Thad Reynolds was a 17-year old Grateful Dead fan who was also distantly related to Barlow (his grandmother was Peggy
Kvenild - see Personal Correspondence). Thad's mother wrote to JPB after Thad told her "acid is the safest drug you can take."
JPB wrote to Thad the following month, and Thad wrote back. Eight years later, Thad contacted JPB again, thanking him for
the advice.
Box 88, folder 9
Goldie [Rush]
Scope and Contents
Carolyn "Goldie" Rush was a personal manager for several members of the Grateful Dead. File includes Organizational Common
Sense Christmas party invite 1981, note to JPB with Bobby & Midnites stamp, postcard suggesting Egypt trip (dated April 1978?),
other undated notes, postcard from Nepal 1987, letter 1989.
Box 88, folder 11
Owsley Stanley (re:)
Scope and Contents
Includes Sheilah Manning & Owsley Stanley wedding invite 1995, brief note from Sheilah who had sent JPB a "Bear's Sonic Journal"
CD, and brief mention in postscript from mutual friend.
Box 88, folder 10
Swing 51/Ken Hunt
1983-1986
Scope and Contents
Hunt was an editor for the British folk magazine Swing 51, which interviewed Barlow (see JPB in Publications series for issues).
Box 88, folder 12
Alan Trist
1971-1994
Scope and Contents
Mostly personal notes from Trist and family; see also Ice-9 Royalty statements and GD Memos & Ephemera files.
Box 43, folder 1
Bob Weir letters
1963-1964
Box 90, folder 4
Correspondence mentioning Weir
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Ellen Weir 1986-1990 ; Annette forwarding Bobby & Frankie itinerary 1972 ; postcard from Frankie 1973
; Mark [Kelly] / Kingfish [undated] ; Barbara/Organizational Common Sense re: songwriting session 1983 ; Ruth Allison (choreographer)
1984, 1986 ; JPB letter to Weir 1990 ; chain letter from Weir to JPB 1991.
Box 90, folder 6
Other material
Scope and Contents
Pacific High School Reunion Newsletter 1997 ; Happy New Year card from Weirs with images of wedding (JPB was best man) 1999
; undated Weir bio ; , "BZ Introduction - History of relationship at Apple - history of Computer music - Bob" [printout from
JPB computer - possibly Weir?] ; Bombs Away sheet music ; handwritten lyrics or song titles on Bar Cross stationery/
Box 89, folder 3
Memorial program with JPB notes
Box 89, folder 3
rec.music.gdead USENET Community messages [2 bound copies]
Box 89, folder 3
Brent Songs: The Collected Songs of Brent Mydland 1951-1990 [JPB binder]
Box 89, folder 3
Correspondence from family etc.
Box 89, folder 4
Electronic Messages In Memory of Brent Mydland (WELL/USENET binder assembled by JPB)
Memoranda and other internal business
Box 92, folder 3
Correspondence, memoranda, etc.
Scope and Contents
JPB copy of phone list ; Sam Cutler business card ; Manny's Music Store receipt for bass drum head [for Cafe Au Go Go gig
6/1/1967, was filed with Barbara Perr letters] ; Myra Zeller letter to JPB 11/1971 on back of Felt Forum press release ; "Ganeda
Nageda" 1973 ; Alan Trist - Independent Record Distribution 1973 [with note to JPB] ; Grateful Dead Records announcement 1973
["Fellow Dead Head,"] ; Alan Trist - A Balanced Objective 1981 ; Naropa Institute (and Peter Orlovsky) to GD 1981 re: Kerouac
Conference [photocopy to JPB with note from Trist 1982] ; Record Production Budget 1982 ; Band Meeting Agenda October 1982
[with note from Trist "Heavy Meeting!"] ; LAPIS Technologies re: Special Effects for Summer Tour 1990 ; Press release re:
bootleg merchandise 1993.
Box 92, folder 5
Tour itineraries
1970, 1971, 1973, 1982, 1990, 1993
Box 92, folder 7
Song listing (by Willy Legate?)
Box 92, folder 8
Partial draft of GD book (annotated photocopies)
Box 92, folder 9
Chapter 7 - Let It Grow (photocopy of typescript)
Box 92, folder 10
GD movie - "Uncle John's Band" binder
Box 92, folder 11
Messages re: "My Brother Esau" (WELL?)
1987
Box 92, folder 1
Stickers (GD & NRPS), promotional postcards, Built To Last playing card, Wake of the Flood matchbook
Box 92, folder 2
JPB tickets, backstage passes and badges
Box 92, folder 4
Fliers
Scope and Contents
"A message for all Dead Heads from Mickey Hart" flier ; BGP flier re: involuntary dosing ; BGP/Warfield handbill with house
rules ; Minglewood Town Council flier/poster.
Box 92, folder 6
"Dead Heads" newsletters mailed to JPB
Scope and Contents
"Good Old Grateful Dead" Christmas card ; three newsletters 1972 ; three newsletters 1973 [two with notes from Mary Ann Mayer]
; Production Plan For GD-103, 1974.
Box 10, folder 9
JPB at Grateful Dead concerts
1990s
Box 90, folder 1
Photos of JPB at concerts
Published material & sound recordings
Box 87
Article clippings and photocopies
circa 1978-1997
Box 89, folder 9
Dead-related magazines
Scope and Contents
Most are filed with Publications with JPB series. Includes
Golden Road with Blair Jackson correspondence,
Spiral Light No.28, and issue of
Dupree's Diamond with some holiday cards.
Box 89, folder 9
How To "Truck" The Brand (Strategy & Business reprint 1997)
Box 91, folder 1
Books and songbooks
Scope and Contents
The Dead Book ;
Garcia by the Editors of Rolling Stone [JPB quote p.19,26] ;
Garcia: A Grateful Celebration [JPB "Losing Jerry" p.8] ;
Playing in the Band ;
Grateful Dead Anthology ;
Grateful Dead: In The Dark ; E
verything I Know About Business I Learned From the Grateful Dead [working title "Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead"].
Box 91, folder 2
"Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead" agreement [JPB wrote introduction]
2010
Box 91, folder 3
45s - Round Records promo sampler in mailer
Box 91, folder 3
45 - Bobby & The Midnights Columbia 38-04587
Box 91, folder 3
45 - Grateful Dead Arista AS1-9643
Box 91, folder 4
CD - Grateful Dead - Infrared Roses (GDCD4014)
Box 91, folder 5
Grateful Dead "The Music Never Stopped" sheet music
Series 9. Music and Movie-related
Scope and Contents
Contains music and movie-related correspondence, ephemera, and screenplays. Barlow acted in several productions in college
and later was in a few movies and television programs. See also Education, Grateful Dead, and People, Groups, Events, Art
series.
Box 10, folder 9
Phtotographs - Ramblin' Jack Elliot, other music-related
Box 97, folder 1
Music-related correspondence
Scope and Contents
Includes note from Charlotte & Sean [Lennon], Bill Graham Presents re: Cambodia benefit concert proceeds 1980, Alphonso Johnson
re: "Me Without You" 1983, NARAS SF re: Fighting Music Censorship Forum 1990, Greg Anton "Greg's Eggs" 1991, Gibson USA undated,
Quincy Jones holiday cards, Banning Eyre 1999, Gerrit Graham letters and postcards (more in Personal Correspondence). Also
fan mail, various demo & lyric submissions.
Box 97, folder 3
Hootenanny: A Songbook of Radical Campfire Songs
Box 97, folder 5
Ramblin' Jack Elliot
Scope and Contents
Includes CD, promotional photograph, sketch, clippings. Some letters by Elliot's partner in Personal Correspondence.
Box 117, folder 3
RIAA Proposed Guidelines (faded facsimile document)
1993
Movies, acting, other activities
Box 73, folder 2
Movie / Show Biz
Scope and Contents
Includes Screen Actors' Guild documents and contract for film Endangered Species
Box 73, folder 3
Other film/video/acting correspondence, etc.
Box 99, Box 100
Screenplays
Scope and Contents
Chinatown by Robert Towne, Third Draft 1973
Birdy by Sandy Kroopf & Jack Behr, A.P.'s Final Draft 1984
Crazy Horse by Otis Carney 1976 & 1977
The Edge treatment
Endangered Species Final Draft, Revised 1981 [JPB in movie]
Grown Ups by Eugenia Zukerman, Third Draft
The Informer by David Marconi 2003
Jack Rehabilitation
Moby Dick in Space treatment by Gerrit Graham, Samuel Graham, Chris L. Hubbell 1984
The National Game by Chris Hubbell & Gerrit Graham, First Draft 1979
Out of Africa by Kurt Luedtke 1984
Pleasure Island by Mark David Baer
Real Cowboy by Brewster Macwilliams, Third Draft 1985
Rugrats treatment by Robert Ryder
Twilight Zone - various episodes 1984-1986 [JPB in at least 1 episode]
Western Trinity by George Savage & George Savage, Jr. 1962 [sent to Norman Barlow]
Series 10. People, Groups, Events, Art
Scope and Contents
This series includes material on two well-known associates of Barlow's; Timothy Leary, whom Barlow met at Millbrook while
was in college, and John F. Kennedy, Jr., who worked at Barlow's ranch and later became a close friend. Various other files
involving art, event publicity, and other people and organizations have also been filed here. See also Leary file in Computers/Technology
series.
Box 98, folder 2
Cacophony Society "Rough Draft" newsletters
Box 97, folder 6-7
Handbills, postcards, invitations
Scope and Contents
Printed ephemera for art exhibitions, performances, readings, politics, other events, etc.
Box 114, folder 6
Artwork (including sketches of JPB), stickers, handmade poetry book, etc.
Box 115, folder 4
Artwork, posters and printed items
Box 49, folder 1
Alan K. Simpson correspondence, etc.
Box 49, folder 2
Wyoming politicans - Malcolm Wallop, Cliff Hansen, Todd Sermon, etc.
Box 49, folder 4
U.S. Congress - Dick Cheney, Teno Roncalio
Box 49, folder 8
Wyoming politicians - Mike Simpson, Jack Pugh, etc.
Series 12. Memorabilia, awards, artifacts, etc.
Box 98, folder 6
Address books, itineraries, etc.
Box 102, folder 1
Cards, stickers, souvenirs, etc.
Box 111
Two boxes of business cards & notes
Box 111
Box of trinkets & souvenirs
Box 111
Envelope labeled "old notes"
Box 112
Ephemera
Scope and Contents
Includes commemorative coins, monogrammed handkerchief, "Barlows" matchbook, JPB wallets, costume mustaches, JPB baby teeth,
printing block, playing cards with handwritten instructions for fortunetelling game, box of buttons (mostly political).
Box 115, folder 2
Bumper stickers (EFF, WOC, political)
Box 117, folder 1
Conference & concert passes, FVS & Desert Storm badges
Series 13. Miscellaneous publications & clippings
Box 101, folder 1
Chain letters, religious ephemera
Box 101, folder 3
Clippings and other printed material
Box 102
Miscellaneous small books and pamphlets
Box 102
Boing Boing no.2, 6, 7, 13 and correspondence
Box 102
City Lights poetry books - Ferlinghetti, Kaufman
Box 103
Encyclopedia Psychedelica Vol.9
Box 103
Fly comics and correspondence
Box 103
Families Against Mandatory Minimums No.8
Box 103
Future: 01 Electronic Music Magazine
Box 103
Iron Feather Journal no.13
Box 103
Journal of Cognitive Liberties vol.4 no.2 [JPB on Board of Directors]
Box 103
Poems While You Wait - Street Poetry of Bill Keys
Box 103
Let Freedom Ring vol.5 no.1
Box 103
San Francisco Chronicle TV Week - Ken Kesey cover story
Box 103
SubGenius book, press kit, etc.
Box 103
Uncle Bob's Tao of Madness Cosmic Quiz
Box 1, folder 1
Andy Leonard prints & contacts - JPB, Wyoming ranch, friends, etc.
1971
Scope and Contents
Includes Bob Weir and Frankie Hart among others. Some may not be taken by Leonard.
Box 1, folder 2
Color prints & negatives - JPB friends/family Wyoming
circa 1974
Box 1, folder 3
Mounted portraits, including P.W. Jenkins, Miriam Jenkins, Norman Barlow, and other relations
Box 1, folder 4
"Snapshots" photo album (with enlcosed set of ranch photos)
circa 1950s
Box 1, folder 5
Photo album - camping trip
circa 1960s
Box 2, folder 1
Ranch house, other buildings & interiors
Box 2, folder 2
Pioneer Days, other historical re-enactments
Box 2, folder 3-5
Prints, slides & negatives - ranching, Wyoming
Box 2, folder 6
Ranching & family portraits (from Flavia Fabric box)
circa 1910-1925
Box 2, folder 7
Photo album - rural life, Wyoming?
circa 1908
Box 3, folder 4-5
Negatives & contact sheets - photos by JPB?
circa 1960s
Scope and Contents
Includes portraits and snapshots, nature scenes, Grateful Dead, John Cage, Moondog, Sausalito houseboats, girlfriends, etc.
Box 3, folder 6
Miscellaneous photos
Scope and Contents
Albert Gore with JPB (signed); John Cage & Moondog mounted prints (by JPB); Albert Hofmann portrait (signed)
Box 4, folder 2-3
Mounted prints - portraits by JPB
Box 5, folder 1-2
Mounted prints - abstract/nature/still life by JPB
Box 5, folder 4
Envelopes & other photo ephemera
Box 7, folder 3
Barlow family & friends (from Miriam files)
Box 7, folder 4-5
Christmas trees & decorations
Box 8, folder 1
Miscellaneous (larger)
Scope and Contents
Includes Leah Barlow photo for Pinedale Roundup 1983; mounted color photo of woman golfer; mounted Lars Speyer photo of Ron
Boise erotic sculpture
Box 8, folder 2-3
Mounted prints - portraits by JPB
Box 8, folder 4
UCLA Roundtable in Multimedia group photo
1991
Box 9
Photo album with enclosed packet of snapshots
circa 1940s-50s
Box 10, folder 1
Mounted prints - portraits by JPB
Box 10, folder 3
Friends, trips, family
1950s-1960s
Box 10, folder 4
JPB with friends & family
1980s-1990s
Box 10, folder 7
JPB in theatrical performances
Box 10, folder 8
JPB-officiated wedding ceremonies
Box 10, folder 8
JPB at party (color photocopies)
1990s
Box 11, folder 1-2
JPB travel & event photos
Box 11
JPB family vacations [unfoldered]
1990s
Box 12
JPB family vacations [unfoldered]
1990s
Box 64, folder 9
Photographs of JPB etc. in letters
Scope and Contents
Includes photograph of Barlow with Spalding Gray.
Box 114, folder 2
Portrait of JPB with 3840 Winchester and Apple computer (photo by Ted Wood for New York Sunday Times article on EFF)
Series 16. Born Digital & Hardware (partially open)
Conditions Governing Access
Digital materials stored on 5.25" floppy disks have been processed and are open for research. The materials are available
through SearchWorks at the collection record: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13312451. Materials containing financial
information, contact information of third parties, or copyright held by other parties have been restricted; these materials
can be accessed at full resolution by visiting the Field Reading Room.
The full text version of the email contained in this collection is available in the Field Reading Room; a redacted version,
displaying correspondents and extracted entities (personal and corporate names and locations) from Barlow's email have been
published in Stanford's online discovery module: http://epadd.stanford.edu/epadd/collections. 452 messages have been entirely
restricted from both the discovery module and the full text version available in the reading room according to federal and
state guidelines, and Stanford Libraries policy, for up to 80 years. These messages may contain financial, medical, legal,
and other sensitive information. They will be made available in 2089. Additionally, due to the potentially sensitive nature
of their content, 217 messages are available only in the full-text version of the collection that is accessible in the Field
Reading Room at Green Library and have been restricted from the redacted version that is available on in the discovery module.
The remaining digital portion of the collection is closed until processing is complete. Born-digital material is not available
in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
Scope and Contents
Computer media includes 14 external hard drives, 60 3.5 inch floppy disks, 25 5.25 inch floppy disks, 55 optical media (CDs/DVDs),
30 magneto-optical disks and optical disk cartridges, 21 Jaz Disks, 14 flash/thumb drives, 6 SD cards, 3 laptops, 1 desktop,
1 Zip disk, 1 sim card, and assorted hardware holding no data.
Content on the 5.25" floppy disks have been processed and are open for research. The content in the files, dating from 1979-1991,
spans several of Barlow's interests, including ranch operations, Wyoming Outdoor Council operations, song lyric drafts and
transcripts, scripts and treatments, and personal correspondence and memos.
The email archive spans the years of 1996-2009. The archive contains correspondence related to Barlow's life, work with the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, and personal and family relationships. The archive also documents Barlow's speaking engagements
for various academic institutions and his prolific world travels.