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Lewis Ellingham's Poet be Like God Research Materials
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INTERVIEWS

Scope and Content of Series

1) INTERVIEWS. Arranged in two subseries: A) Transcripts and Related Materials, and B) Audiocassettes.
A) Transcripts and Related Materials: Alphabetically arranged (by interviewee) typescript transcripts of the interviews related to the Spicer Circle scene, as well as related correspondence (mostly between Ellingham and the interviewees). The written transcriptions were created by Ellingham and are unedited, so some discrepancies between the sound recordings and the written versions exist. Transcripts of Ellingham's interviews with Harry Z. Coren and Nemi Frost (both of which took place in 1987) are missing; however, the recordings of those interviews are filed in the second subseries, "Cassette Recordings."
B) Audiocassettes: Original cassette recordings of the interviews, also arranged alphabetically by interviewee. The subseries also includes two recordings of lectures made by Jack Spicer.
 

Transcripts and Related Materials

 

Blaser, Robin

Box 1, Folder 1

Telephone interview from San Francisco to Vancouver 1983

Box 1, Folder 2

"Opposition in the Life and Work of Jack Spicer"; fragments of a telephone interview with Blaser; galley proof for New Apologies, issue #1 1983

Box 1, Folder 3

Notes and partial transcript of conversation between Blaser and Ellingham in San Francisco 1983

Box 1, Folder 4

Bernstein, Charles. Letter to Ellingham about interview of Robin Blaser

Box 1, Folder 5

Watson, Scott. Letter to Ellingham about interview of Robin Blaser

Box 1, Folder 6

Borregaard, Ebbe and Joanne Kyger 1982

Box 1, Folder 7

Brodecky, Bill 1982

 

Chugg, Gail

Box 1, Folder 8

Also includes pre-recorded stories and incidents from Chugg's "The Company of Men" 1982

Box 1, Folder 9

"The Company of Men: A Recital for Six Actors and an Audience" -- written by Chugg

Box 1, Folder 10

Letter from Chugg to Ellingham 1984

Box 1, Folder 11

Connor, Bob 1982

Box 1, Folder 12

Duerden, Richard 1982

Box 1, Folder 13

Dull, Harold 1982

 

Duncan, Robert

Box 1, Folder 14

Includes typescript letter to Duncan from Ellingham 1983

Box 2, Folder 1-2

Includes typescript letters to Duncan from Ellingham 1983

Box 2, Folder 3

Copyright waiver and registration forms for the Duncan interviews 1983 - 1985

Box 2, Folder 4

Correspondence between Duncan and Ellingham about the interviews 1982 - 1985

Box 2, Folder 5

Dunn, Joe 1986

Box 2, Folder 6

Everson, Landis 1983

Box 2, Folder 7

Fabian, Gerald 1982

Box 2, Folder 8

Fagin, Larry 1983

Box 2, Folder 9

Field, Thomas 1982

Box 2, Folder 10

Alexander, Paul 1982

Box 2, Folder 11

Herndon, Fran 1982

Box 2, Folder 12-13

Herndon, Jim 1982 - 1983

Box 2, Folder 14

Kearney, Larry 1982

Box 3, Folder 1

Loewinsohn, Ronald 1982

Box 3, Folder 2

Mackintosh, Graham 1983

Box 3, Folder 3

McNeill, Bill 1982

Box 3, Folder 4

Meltzer, David. Includes letters and a portion of the transcript edited by Meltzer 1983

Box 3, Folder 5

Miles, Josephine 1982

Box 3, Folder 6

Mulholland, Catherine. Includes manuscript and typescript letters from Mulholland to Ellingham 1984

Box 3, Folder 7

Navarro, Armando 1983

Box 3, Folder 8

Parkinson, Thomas 1982

Box 3, Folder 9

Persky, Stan. Includes typescript letters and waiver sent to Persky by Ellingham 1983

Box 3, Folder 10

Primack, Ron. By telephone from San Francisco to New Orleans; includes typescript and manuscript letters between Ellingham and Primack 1982

Box 4, Folder 1

Ryan, John Allen 1982

Box 4, Folder 2

Sawyer, Jess. Recorded remarks sent to Ellingham by Sawyer 1983

Box 4, Folder 3

Spicer, Holt. Recorded remarks sent to Ellingham by Spicer; also includes correspondence between Ellingham and Spicer 1983

Box 4, Folder 4-6

Stanley, George 1982 - 1984

Box 4, Folder 7

Stiles, Knute 1982

Box 4, Folder 8-9

Wixman, Myrsam 1982

 

Audiocassettes

Box 5, Folder 1-3

Blaser, Robin 1983

Box 5, Folder 4-5

Borregaard, Ebbe and Joanne Kyger. Recto of second cassette contains part two of Harold Dull interview 1982

Box 5, Folder 6-7

Brodecky, A. W. 1982

Box 5, Folder 8-9

Chugg, Gail 1982

Box 5, Folder 10

Chugg, Gail. Includes monologue by Chugg on Jack Spicer 1982

Box 5, Folder 11

Connor, Bob 1982

Box 5, Folder 12-13

Coren, Harry Z., M.D. 1987

Box 5, Folder 14

Duerden, Richard 1982

Box 5, Folder 15

Dull, Harold. Sides 3 and 4 only; side 2 is on recto of Borregaard-Kyger cassette; side 1 is on recto of Myrsam Wixman cassette 1982

Box 5, Folder 16-17

Duncan, Robert 1983

Box 6, Folder 1

Duncan, Robert 1983

Box 6, Folder 2

Dunn, Joe 1986

Box 6, Folder 3

Everson, Landis 1983

Box 6, Folder 4

Fabian, Gerald 1982

Box 6, Folder 5-6

Fagin, Larry 1983

Box 6, Folder 7-8

Field, Thomas. Part 1 of the interview with Parkinson is on the recto side of the second tape 1982

Box 6, Folder 9-10

Frost, Nemi 1987

Box 6, Folder 11

Herndon, Fran 1982

Box 6, Folder 12-13

Herndon, James 1982

Box 6, Folder 14-16

Kearney, Larry 1982

Box 6, Folder 17

Loewinsohn, Ronald 1982

Box 7, Folder 1-2

Mackintosh, Graham 1983

Box 7, Folder 3

McNeill, Bill 1982

Box 7, Folder 4

Meltzer, David 1983

Box 7, Folder 5

Miles, Josephine. Recto side contains part two of Parkinson interview 1982

Box 7, Folder 6

Mulholland, Catherine 1984

Box 7, Folder 7

Navarro, Armando. This tape was hand-edited by Ellingham while making it, and consequently it contains several discontinuities; the Englishman speaking on side 3 is Peter Wigham 1983

Box 7, Folder 8

Navarro, Armando 1983

Box 7, Folder 9-10

Persky, Stan 1983

Box 7, Folder 11

Primack, Ron 1982

General note

Done on the telephone
Box 7, Folder 12-13

Ryan, John Allen. A portion of part two was inadvertently recorded over with part six by Ellingham 1982

Box 7, Folder 14

Sawyer, Jess. Recorded by Sawyer 1983

Box 7, Folder 15

Spicer, Holt 1983

Box 7, Folder 16-17

Stanley, George 1982

Box 8, Folder 1-2

Stanley, George 1982

Box 8, Folder 3-4

Stiles, Knute 1982

Box 8, Folder 5-6

Wixman, Myrsam. Part one of Harold Dull interview on recto of second tape 1982

Box 8, Folder 7-8

Spicer, Jack. "Poetry and Politics" 1965

Box 8, Folder 9-13

Spicer, Jack. Vancouver lecture

 

OTHER WRITERS' FILES

Scope and Content of Series

2) OTHER WRITERS' FILES: Materials relating to Spicer (journal entries, notes, essays, articles and ephemera) collected and created by Russell FitzGerald and Robert Duncan and given to Ellingham to assist him in his research.
Box 9, Folder 1

FitzGerald, Russell. An excerpt from his diary, given to Ellingham by Dora FitzGerald 1957 - 1960

 

Duncan, Robert

Box 9, Folder 2

Spicer's writings: Poems of Jack Spicer, collected and copied by Duncan

Box 9, Folder 3

Spicer's writings: Miscellaneous writings by Spicer, collected and copied by Duncan

Box 9, Folder 4

Spicer's writings: Miscellaneous materials and correspondence

Box 9, Folder 5

Duncan's writings on Spicer: Manuscript notes on Spicer's poetry given to Ellingham 1983

Box 9, Folder 6

Duncan's writing on Spicer: Essay fragments on Jack Spicer -- includes two pages from the Preface to Don Allen's One Night Stand, Preface to a Spicer bibliography and an explanatory note on the material by Ellingham

Box 9, Folder 7

"Robert Duncan on Spicer" essay by Duncan; includes Duncan's annotations

Box 9, Folder 8

From Spicer to Duncan (manuscript and typescript letters) 1947 - 1965

Box 9, Folder 9

Correspondence from Spicer to others, collected by Duncan

Box 9, Folder 10

Duncan's manuscript notes on Spicer's letters

Box 9, Folder 11

To Duncan about Spicer's death 1965

Box 9, Folder 12

Article and obituary about Spicer's death 1965

Box 9, Folder 13

Advertisement for Spicer's book, The Heads of the Town Up to the Aethor 1962

Box 9, Folder 14

List of unidentified photographic prints and postcards

 

SPICER CIRCLE PAPERS

Scope and Content of Series

3) SPICER CIRCLE PAPERS: Primarily comprised of correspondence written by and to Ellingham about the writing, revising, editing and publishing of his book. Included in this series are copies of some of the last letters sent to Spicer before his death in 1965. Also included are letters from Denise Levertov to Ellingham, in which she accuses Spicer of sexism and explicates the reasons behind her accusation. Another interesting aspect of the correspondence is that Ellingham regularly sent interviewees transcripts of the interviews of other witnesses, and often they wrote Ellingham back to comment on or to refute the other person's account.
A large portion of the letters deal with Ellingham's concern over securing the publication of his book. Many of the letters are devoted to Ellingham's concern over Clayton Eshleman's (editor of Sulfur) rejection of the book and his comment that Ellingham should hire an editor to revise and condense the work so that it would have a broader, more academic appeal. Also found in this series is a variety of miscellaneous materials relating to the Spicer circle and the White Rabbit Press.
 

Correspondence to Ellingham About his Book

Box 9, Folder 15

Alexander, James 1982 - 1983

Box 9, Folder 16

Alexander, Paul 1982 - 1985

Box 9, Folder 17

Allen, Don M. 1983

Box 9, Folder 18

Berkson, Bill 1983

Box 9, Folder 19

Black Sparrow Press, (John Martin, editor) 1986

Box 9, Folder 20

Blaser, Robin 1983 - 1984

Box 9, Folder 21

Boone, Bruce 1983

Box 9, Folder 22

Borregaard, Ebbe 1983

Box 9, Folder 23

Bottone, Gary 1984

Box 9, Folder 24

Bowering, George 1983 - 1984

Box 9, Folder 25

Butterick, George 1984

Box 9, Folder 26

Capilano Review 1985

Box 9, Folder 27

Chamberlain, Lori 1983

Box 9, Folder 28

Conjunctions, (Bradford Morrow, editor) 1984 - 1985

Box 9, Folder 29

Credences, (Robert Bertholf, editor) 1983 - 1985

Box 9, Folder 30

Creeley, Robert 1983 - 1984

Box 9, Folder 31

Davidson, Michael 1983 - 1984

Box 9, Folder 32

Diaman, Nikkos A. 1982 - 1984

Box 9, Folder 33

FitzGerald, Dora 1982 - 1984

Box 9, Folder 34

Foye, Raymond 1985

Box 10, Folder 1

Goodwin, Jack F. 1981 - 1985

Box 10, Folder 2

Granger, John 1984 - 1985

Box 10, Folder 3

Green, Mark 1983

Box 10, Folder 4

Haimsohn, George

Box 10, Folder 5

Haselwood, Dave 1984

Box 10, Folder 6

Ironwood, (Michael Cuddihy, editor) 1985

Box 10, Folder 7

Johnston, Alistair 1984

Box 10, Folder 8

Lansing, Gerrit

Box 10, Folder 9

Levertov, Denise 1984

Box 10, Folder 10

Mulholland, Catherine (Kate) 1983

Box 10, Folder 11

O'Hara, Frank. Letter sent by O'Hara to Jasper Johns; given to Ellingham by Don Allen 1959

Box 10, Folder 12

Parkinson, Thomas 1984

Box 10, Folder 13

Persky, Stan. Includes copy of "Moss" 1961

Box 10, Folder 14

Rumaker, Michael 1983

Box 10, Folder 15

Ryan, John Allen 1982

Box 10, Folder 16

Sagetrieb / Paideuma 1985

Box 10, Folder 17

Schelling, Andrew 1984

Box 10, Folder 18

Spicer, Holt V. 1983 - 1986

Box 10, Folder 19

Spicer, Jack. Final letters sent to him before his death 1965

Box 10, Folder 20

Sulfur, (Clayton Eshleman, editor) 1985

Box 10, Folder 21

Wah, Fred 1983

Box 10, Folder 22

Wolfe, Michael 1983

Box 10, Folder 23

ZZYZZYVA, (Howard Junker, editor) 1985

Box 10, Folder 24

Miscellaneous correspondence, A-Z

 

Miscellaneous

Box 10, Folder 25

White Rabbit Press, Bibliographic History of. Compiled by Alistair Johnston 1957 - 1965

Box 10, Folder 26

Legal release forms (tape waivers) 1983 - 1985

Box 10, Folder 27

List of paintings related to the Spicer scene. Compiled by Ellingham 1956 - 1965

Box 10, Folder 28

Miscellaneous ephemera

Box 10, Folder 29

White Rabbit Symposium and Jack Spicer Conference, Schedule of events 1986 - 1986

 

POET BE LIKE GOD (Typescript)

Scope and Content of Series

4) POET BE LIKE GOD TYPESCRIPT: An early version of the first six chapters of Ellingham's book, as well as the complete 1984 version (thirty-six chapters).
Box 10, Folder 30

Chapters 1-6. Early copy of the text

Box 11, Folder 1-6

Chapters 1-23. Final version

Box 12, Folder 1-2

Chapters 24-36. Final version

Collection Contents
INTERVIEWS
Transcripts and Related Materials
Audiocassettes
OTHER WRITERS' FILES
SPICER CIRCLE PAPERS
Correspondence to Ellingham About his Book
Miscellaneous
POET BE LIKE GOD (Typescript)
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