Guide to the William M. Roth Correspondence
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Guide to the William M. Roth Correspondence
Collection number: MS 170
The University Library
Special Collections and Archives
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
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- Special Collections and Archives
- University Library
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- Santa Cruz, California, 95064
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Descriptive Summary
Title: William M. Roth correspondence,
Date (inclusive): 1941-1965
Collection number: MS 170
Creator:
Roth, William M. (William Matson), 1916-
Extent:
0.2 linear ft.
Repository:
University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library.
Special Collections and Archives
Santa Cruz, California 95064
Abstract: This collection contains outgoing and incoming correspondence (letters from William Roth, Kenneth Patchen, Miriam Patchen,
Jonathan Williams, J. B. de C. H. Sanders and Josephine Miles) documenting professional and personal relationship between
William M. Roth and Kenneth Patchen.
Physical location: Stored in Special Collections and Archives: Advance notice is required for access to the papers.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Preferred Citation
William M. Roth correspondence. MS 170. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Acquisition Information
Gift of William M. Roth, August 1993, to The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley. Correspondence with reference to Kenneth Patchen
transferred to Special Collection and Archives, UC Santa Cruz, November 1994.
Biographical Note
William Matson Roth, along with Jane Grabhorn, was one of the acting managers of the Colt Press of San Francisco in the 1940's.
The Colt Press published writers such as Ann Stanford, Edmund Wilson, Henry Miller, J. V. Cunningham. Through the association
with the press William M. Roth, later to be U.S. Ambassador, businessman, and a negotiator, established a friendship with
novelist and poet Kenneth Patchen.
Scope and Contents Note
A set of correspondence by William Roth, Kenneth Patchen, Miriam Patchen, Jonathan Williams, J. B. de C. H. Sanders and Josephine
Miles documenting Kenneth Patchen's early publishing history (1941-1942),and his financial and medical plight in the 1960's.
Material is organized into three series; Outgoing, Incoming, and Other Related Letters.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Roth, William M.
Printers--California
Poets, American y 20th century x Correspondence
Other Index Terms Related to this Collection
Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972. Kenneth Patchen archive
Patchen, Miriam
Williams, Jonathan, d 1929
Sanders, J. B. de C. H
Miles, Josephine, d 1911-
Colt Press
Grabhorn Press
Related Material
Title: Colt Press Records,
Date (inclusive): 1938-1958
Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Colt Press Records,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1941-1942
Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Title: The Colt Press: Oral history transcript and related material,
Date (inclusive): 1965-1966
Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Outgoing correspondence,
1964-1965,
Physical Description:
8 letters
Scope and Content Note
Letters written to Kenneth Patchen, Jonathan Williams and Josephine Miles as a response to Kenneth Patchen's financial and
medical circumstance.
Box-folder 1:1
Kenneth Patchen, 6 carbon copies [7 pp],
Feb. 19, 1964-Mar. 24, 1965
Box-folder 1:2
Jonathan Williams, carbon [1 pg],
Mar. 30, 1964
Box-folder 1:3
Josephine Miles, carbon [2 pp],
Jul. 17,1964
Incoming correspondence,
1941-1942,
1963-1965
Physical Description:
20 folders
Scope and Content Note
Kenneth Patchen correspondence contains details about his writing and publishing activity in the 1940's, and later shifting
to intimate descriptions of financial and medical troubles both by him and his wife Miriam. Also included are two responses
from Jonathan Williams to William Roth about the Patchen situation, four letters from the Kenneth Patchen's physicians Saunders
and Lucas, and a letter from Josephine Miles in regards to Kenneth Patchen's employment at UCLA.
Key to acronyms: TLS= typed letter signed, ALS = autographed letter signed, APCS = autographed postcard signed.
Box-folder 1:4-14
Patchen, Kenneth,
1941-1942,
1964-1965
Box-folder 1:4
ALS, "The two enclosures - a sample exhibit of bills..." [2 pp],
Feb. 24, 1965
Box-folder 1:5
ALS, "I went into U.C. Medical Center in early July..." [2 pp],
Nov. 10, 1964
Box-folder 1:6
ALS, "Perhaps you can help me -..." [3 pp],
Feb. 4, 1964
Box-folder 1:7
APCS, " My new address: 'The Water Gypsy'...",
May 21, 1942
Box-folder 1:8
ALS, "Needless to say I am sorry that The Colt is..." [1 pg],
Apr. 20, 1942
Box-folder 1:9
ALS, "I have heard that The Colt is having rather..." [1 pg],
Apr. 3, [1942]
Box-folder 1:10
TLS, "Yes, that will be fine: drawing up the contract..." [1 pg],
Dec. 29, 1941
Box-folder 1:11
TLS, "I've finally settled a few things in connection.." [1 pg],
Nov. 3, 1941
Box-folder 1:12
ALS, "I am having steps taken to sever relations..." [1 pg],
Oct. 1, 1941
Box-folder 1:13
ALS, "How soon are you coming to New York..." [1 pg],
Jul. 13, 1941
Box-folder 1:14
Attached canceled checks (4), and pharmacy receipts (9),
1964-1965
Box-folder 1:15-17
Patchen, Miriam,
1964-1965
Box-folder 1:15
ALS, "Each day suspicions get strengthened..." [6 pp],
Oct. 21, 1965
Box-folder 1:16
ALS, "These just arrived late yesterday -..." [1 pg],
Dec. 1964
Box-folder 1:17
TLS, "Thousands of thanks for your wire..." [3 pp],
Feb. 25, 1964
Box-folder 1:18
TLS [5 pp],
Feb. 24, 1964
Box-folder 1:18
TLS [1 pg],
Apr. 28, 1964
Box-folder 1:19
Forwarded TLS from Miriam Patchen, [2 pp], (enclosed with Apr. 28, 1964 letter).
[1964]
Box-folder 1:20
TLS [1 pg],
Jun. 30, 1964
Box-folder 1:20
Forwarded TLS from Hugh G. Dirk [1 pg],
Jun. 18, 1964
Box-folder 1:21
Sanders, J. B. de C. H. (M.D.),
1963-1964
Box-folder 1:21
TLS [1 pg],
Mar. 10, 1964
Box-folder 1:21
Plus attached carbon [1 pg] from Dr. Lucas to Kenneth Patchen,
Mar. 10, 1964
Other Related Letters,
1965,
Physical Description:
1 letter
Scope and Content Note
An invitation from Donald Sutherland to Kenneth Patchen to lecture at University of Colorado, Jan. 27, 1965 [see Box/folder 1:22]
