United Artists (New York, N.Y.) Records
Mandeville Special Collections Library
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Descriptive Summary
Creator:
United Artists (New York, N.Y.)
Title: United Artists (New York, N.Y.) Records,
Date (inclusive): 1977-1983
Extent:
3.60 linear feet
(9 archives boxes)
Abstract: Records of a publishing company established by poets Lewis Warsh and Bernadette Mayer in 1977. Successor to Angel Hair magazine
and Angel Hair Books, United Artists published works of contemporary poets and writers, including Ted Berrigan, Clark Coolidge,
Alan Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, and Bill Berkson. Correspondence with these and other United Artist contributors
can be found in the collection. Also included are typescripts of works submitted and materials used for production of United
Artists publications.
Repository:
University of California, San Diego. Geisel Library. Mandeville Special Collections Library.
La Jolla, California 92093-0175
Collection number: MSS 0012
Language of Material:
Collection materials in English
Access
Collection is open for research.
Acquisition Information
Not Available
Preferred Citation
United Artists (New York, N.Y.) Records, MSS 0012. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Historical Background
Established by Lewis Warsh and Bernadette Mayer in 1977, United Artists press was located in New York City until it went out
of business in at the end of the 1980s. Typically, the press published four titles a year, generally with a run of 750 copies
each. While they provided a venue for artists who could not publish with mainstream presses, Warsh and Mayer also published
established writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gregory Corso, all of whom had secured contracts with trade
publishers.
The forerunner of United Artists was Angel Artist (magazine) and Angel Hair Books, a press which Warsh co-founded and co-edited
from 1966 to 1977. Many of the contributors to United Artists, such as Ted Berrigan and Clark Coolidge, had previously been
associated with Angel Hair Books. Both presses were dependent on sales-generated income combined with the support offered
by grants and awards. Warsh was a recipient of National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1966 and 1979, and he received a
Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines award in 1981.
Scope and Content of Collection
Accession Processed in 1988
The papers relate to the professional and personal lives of persons associated with United Artists. Many of the artists that
Warsh and Mayer dealt with were also friends, and, as a result, the correspondence is often a mix of both literary and private
matters. Although a few items date from the middle 1970s, the bulk of the papers date from 1977 to 1983. The collection
is organized into three series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE; 2) TYPESCRIPTS, GALLEYS, AND PAGE PROOFS OF UNITED ARTISTS BOOKS; and 3)
TYPESCRIPTS SUBMITTED TO THE UNITED ARTISTS MAGAZINE.
The largest portion of the collection is comprised of CORRESPONDENCE from various writers to United Artists editors Mayer
and Warsh. The series is arranged alphabetically by the correspondent's name, and the letters of each correspondent are in
chronological order. Unless the correspondent addressed Mayer or Warsh individually, only the name of the writer is listed.
The successive stages of production for each book project can be surveyed in the TYPESCRIPTS, GALLEYS, AND PAGE PROOFS OF
UNITED ARTISTS BOOKS series. They are arranged alphabetically by the author's last name.
The TYPESCRIPTS SUBMITTED TO THE UNITED ARTISTS MAGAZINE series contains original typescripts of published and unpublished
work. This section includes the work of Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, and Allen Ginsberg. It is also arranged alphabetically
by the name of the author.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
United Artists (New York, N.Y.) -- Archives
Warsh, Lewis -- Archives
Mayer, Bernadette -- Archives
American poetry -- 20th century
Publishers and publishing -- New York (State) -- Manuscripts
Contributors
Berkson, Bill, -- correspondent
Bernstein, Charles, 1950- -- correspondent
Berrigan, Ted, -- correspondent
Brainard, Joe, 1942- -- correspondent
Callahan, Bob, -- correspondent
Coolidge, Clark, 1939- -- correspondent
Corbett, William, -- correspondent
Corso, Gregory, -- correspondent
Creeley, Robert, 1926- -- correspondent
Davies, Alan, -- correspondent
Elmslie, Kenward, -- correspondent
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926- -- correspondent
Howe, Fanny, -- correspondent
Howe, Susan, 1937- -- correspondent
Mac Low, Jackson, -- correspondent
Metcalf, Paul C., -- correspondent
Notley, Alice, 1945- -- correspondent
Palmer, Michael, 1943- -- correspondent
Raworth, Tom, -- correspondent
Waldman, Anne, 1945- -- correspondent
Watten, Barrett, -- correspondent
Warsh, Lewis
Mayer, Bernadette
box 1, folder 1
Acker, Kathy
Note
4 APC, 2 APCs, 1 AL, 2 ALs, 3 TL, 3 TLs
box 1, folder 3
Banks, Russell
Note
1 APCs, 1 TPCs, 5 TLs
box 1, folder 6
Berkson, Bill to Bernadette Mayer
1971 - 1975
Note
13 APCs, 1 ALs, 2 TLs. n.d.
box 1, folder 7
Berkson, Bill to Bernadette Mayer
1976 - 1977
Note
4 APCs, 2 ALs, 7 TLs
box 1, folder 8
Berkson, Bill to Bernadette Mayer
1978 - 1978
box 1, folder 9
Berkson, Bill
1979 - 1979
box 1, folder 10
Berkson, Bill to Bernadette Mayer
1980 - 1980
Note
1 APCs, 6 TLs; 1 poem TS
box 1, folder 11
Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh
1969 - 1969
box 1, folder 12
Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh
1973 - 1973
Note
6 APCs, 4 ALs, 10 TLs; 3 poems TS
box 1, folder 13
Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh
1974 - 1974
Note
8 APCs, 11 TLs, 3 poems TS
box 1, folder 14
Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh
1975 - 1975
Note
6 APCs, 3 ALs, 7 TLs, 1 poem TS
box 1, folder 15
Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh
1976 - 1976
box 1, folder 16
Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh
1977 - 1977
box 1, folder 17
Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh
1978 - 1978
box 1, folder 18
Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh
1979 - 1979
Note
5 APCs, 1 ALs, 8 TLs; 9 poems TS, 1 prose TS
box 1, folder 19
Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh
1980 - 1980
Note
2 APCs, 1 TPCs, 7 TLs; 3 poems TS, 1 prose TS
box 1, folder 20
Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh
1981 - 1983
Note
5 APCs, 5 ALs, 8 TLs
box 1, folder 21
Bernstein, Charles to Bernadette Mayer
box 1, folder 22
Bernstein, Charles to Lewis Warsh
Note
2 APCs, 1 TPCs, 4 TLs
box 1, folder 23
Berrigan, Ted to Bernadette Mayer
box 1, folder 24
Berrigan, Ted to Lewis Warsh
Note
11 APCs, 1 AL, 3 ALs, 2 TLs
box 1, folder 25
Brainard, Joe to Bernadette Mayer
box 1, folder 26
Brainard, Joe to Lewis Warsh
Note
1 APC, 1 APCs, 3 ALs
box 1, folder 27
Brenner, Summer
Note
2 TPCs, 1 ALs; 1 prose TSs
box 1, folder 28
Brodey, Jim
Note
1 APCs, 5 ALs, 4 TLs; 1 poem MS
box 1, folder 29
Brownstein, Michael
Note
1 APCs, 1 ALs, 5 TLs
box 2, folder 1
Burckhardt, Rudy to Bernadette Mayer
box 2, folder 2
Burckhardt, Rudy to Lewis Warsh
box 2, folder 4
Callahan, Robert to Bernadette Mayer
1977 - 1978
Note
2 ALs, 2 TL, 8 TLs; 1 poem TS
box 2, folder 5
Callahan, Robert to Bernadette Mayer
1979 - 1980
Note
1 APCs, 4 TL, 12 TLs
box 2, folder 6
Callahan, Robert to Lewis Warsh
1977 - 1977
Note
1 APCs, 3 TL, 7 TLs. n.d.
box 2, folder 7
Callahan, Robert to Lewis Warsh
1978 - 1978
box 2, folder 8
Callahan, Robert to Lewis Warsh
1979 - 1979
Note
6 TL, 7 TLs; 1 poem TS
box 2, folder 9
Callahan, Robert to Lewis Warsh
1980 - 1980
box 2, folder 10
Carey, Steve
Note
1 APCs, 4 ALs, 1 TLs; 1 poem TS
box 2, folder 11
Carter, Charlotte
1976 - 1976
Note
1 AL, 2 ALs, 2 TLs. n.d.
box 2, folder 12
Carter, Charlotte
1977 - 1977
box 2, folder 13
Carter, Charlotte
1978 - 1978
Note
1 ALs, 1 TL, 1 TLs; 2 poems TS, 1 prose TS
box 2, folder 14
Carter, Charlotte
1979 - 1980
box 2, folder 15
Codrescu, Andrei
Note
4 APCs, 6 ALs, 11 TLs
box 2, folder 17
Coolidge, Clark to Bernadette Mayer
box 2, folder 18
Coolidge, Clark to Bernadette Mayer
1973 - 1980
box 2, folder 19
Coolidge, Clark to Lewis Warsh
box 2, folder 20
Cooper, Dennis
Note
1 APCs, 1 ALs, 2 TLs
box 2, folder 21
Corbett, William to Bernadette Mayer
1975 - 1978
Note
7 APCs, 3 TPCs, 3 ALs, 4 TLs. n.d.
box 2, folder 22
Corbett, William to Bernadette Mayer
1979 - 1983
Note
8 APCs, 1 ALs, 5 TLs; 3 poems TS
box 3, folder 1
Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh
Note
11 APCs, 2 TPCs, 8 ALs. n.d.
box 3, folder 2
Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh
1973 - 1973
Note
2 APCs, 1 TPC, 1 TPCs, 6 ALs, 4 TLs
box 3, folder 3
Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh
1974 - 1974
Note
2 TPCs, 3 ALs, 8 TLs
box 3, folder 4
Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh
1975 - 1975
Note
3 TPCs, 2 ALs, 11 TLs
box 3, folder 5
Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh
1976 - 1976
Note
7 APCs, 1 TPCs, 7 ALs, 5 TLs; 3 pages poems TS
box 3, folder 6
Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh
1977 - 1977
Note
7 APCs, 9 ALs, 2 TLs; 1 poem TS
box 3, folder 7
Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh
1978 - 1978
Note
7 APCs, 5 ALs, 5 TLs
box 3, folder 8
Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh
1979 - 1979
Note
8 APCs, 1 TPC, 2 ALs, 7 TLs
box 3, folder 9
Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh
1980 - 1980
Note
6 APCs, 1 ALs, 2 TLs
box 3, folder 10
Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh
1981 - 1981
Note
9 APCs, 9 ALs, 2 TLs; 1 poem TS
box 3, folder 11
Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh
1982 - 1982
Note
5 APCs, 1 TPCs, 1 ALs, 8 TLs
box 3, folder 12
Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh
1983 - 1983
Note
9 APCs, 1 ALs, 2 TLs
box 3, folder 15
Davies, Alan to Bernadette Mayer
box 3, folder 16
Davies, Alan to Lewis Warsh
1974 - 1974
Note
4 APCs, 14 TLs; 1 poem TSc, 1 prose TSc
box 3, folder 17
Davies, Alan to Lewis Warsh
1975 - 1979
Note
5 APCs, 1 ALs, 10 TLs; 8 poems TSc
box 3, folder 19
Elmslie, Kenward to Bernadette Mayer
Note
4 APCs, 1 TPCs, 1 AL, 1 ALs, 2 TLs
box 3, folder 20
Elmslie, Kenward to Lewis Warsh
Note
5 APCs, 6 TPCs, 4 TLs
box 3, folder 21
Fagin, Larry
Note
2 APCs, 1 TPCs, 1 ALs, 8 TLs
box 3, folder 25
Grossinger, Richard to Bernadette Mayer
1974 - 1977
Note
1 APCs, 1 ALs, 17 TLs. n.d.
box 3, folder 26
Grossinger, Richard to Bernadette Mayer
1978 - 1979
box 3, folder 27
Grossinger, Richard to Lewis Warsh
Note
1 TPCs, 1 ALs, 8 TLs
box 3, folder 28
Harwood, Lee
Note
1 APCs, 1 ALs, 1 TLs; 5 pages poems TSc
box 4, folder 1
Howe, Fanny to Bernadette Mayer
box 4, folder 2
Howe, Fanny to Lewis Warsh
box 4, folder 5
Kraut, Rochelle to Bernadette Mayer
Note
2 APCs, 1 AL, 5 ALs, 1 TL
box 4, folder 6
Kraut, Rochelle to Lewis Warsh
Note
4 APCs, 5 ALs, 12 TLs; 1 poem TS
box 4, folder 7
Lally, Michael to Bernadette Mayer
box 4, folder 8
Lally, Michael to Lewis Warsh
Note
1 APCs, 2 ALs, 3 TLs
box 4, folder 9
MacAdams, Lewis to Bernadette Mayer
box 4, folder 10
MacAdams, Lewis to Lewis Warsh
box 4, folder 13
Malanga, Gerard to Bernadette Mayer
Note
2 APCs, 2 ALs, 7 TLs; 1 poem TSc
box 4, folder 14
Malanga, Gerard to Lewis Warsh
1973 - 1976
Note
1 ALs, 9 TLs; 1 poem TS, 2 poems TSc
box 4, folder 15
Malanga, Gerard to Lewis Warsh
1978 - 1979
box 4, folder 16
Masters, Greg
Note
1 APCs, 6 TLs; 1 poem TS
box 4, folder 17
Metcalf, Paul to Bernadette Mayer
box 4, folder 18
Metcalf, Paul to Lewis Warsh
box 4, folder 19
Nolan, Pat
1973 - 1974
Note
1 ALs, 1 TL, 8 TLs; 7 poems TS
box 4, folder 20
Nolan, Pat
1974 - 1982
Note
1 APCs, 1 TPCs, 2 ALs, 11 TLs; 1 poem TS
box 4, folder 21
North, Charles
Note
5 APCs, 2 ALs, 3 TLs
box 4, folder 22
Notley, Alice to Bernadette Mayer
1972 - 1977
Note
1 APCs, 1 AL, 8 ALs, 5 TLs. n.d.
box 4, folder 23
Notley, Alice to Bernadette Mayer
1978 - 1980
Note
1 APCs, 9 ALs, 2 TL, 2 TLs; 3 poems TSc
box 4, folder 24
Notley, Alice to Lewis Warsh
Note
8 APCs, 12 ALs, 6 TLs
box 4, folder 25
Owen, Maureen to Bernadette Mayer
box 4, folder 26
Owen, Maureen to Lewis Warsh
Note
5 APCs, 3 ALs, 5 TLs
box 4, folder 27
Padgett, Ron
Note
8 APCs, 1 TPCs, 5 ALs, 1 TL, 2 TLs
box 4, folder 28
Palmer, Michael to Bernadette Mayer
box 4, folder 29
Palmer, Michael to Lewis Warsh
box 5, folder 1
Raworth, Tom to Bernadette Mayer
box 5, folder 2
Raworth, Tom to Lewis Warsh
box 5, folder 4
Rosenthal, Bob
1975 - 1977
Note
3 APCs, 1 AL, 5 ALs, 15 TLs. n.d.
box 5, folder 5
Rosenthal, Bob
1978 - 1982
Note
2 APCs, 3 ALs, 11 TLs
box 5, folder 8
Schiff, Harris to Bernadette Mayer
box 5, folder 9
Schiff, Harris to Lewis Warsh
1973 - 1973
Note
1 APC, 1 APCs, 1 AL, 8 ALs, 1 TL, 1 TLs; 4 poems TS. n.d.
box 5, folder 10
Schiff, Harris to Lewis Warsh
1974 - 1976
Note
1 APCs, 1 AL, 8 ALs, 1 TLs; 1 poem MS
box 5, folder 11
Schiff, Harris to Lewis Warsh
1977 - 1982
Note
3 APCs, 2 ALs, 9 TLs
box 5, folder 12
Schuchat, Simon to Bernadette Mayer
Note
1 ALs, 1 TL, 8 TLs; 6 poems TS
box 5, folder 13
Schuchat, Simon to Lewis Warsh
box 5, folder 15
Veitch, Tom
Note
14 APCs, 1 TPCs, 2 ALs, 4 TLs
box 5, folder 16
Vermont, Charlie to Bernadette Mayer
Note
1 APCs, 1 ALs, 3 TLs
box 5, folder 17
Vermont, Charlie to Lewis Warsh
1973 - 1973
Note
1 APCs, 2 ALs, 6 TLs; 1 prose TS. n.d.
box 5, folder 18
Vermont, Charlie to Lewis Warsh
1974 - 1976
Note
3 APCs, 2 ALs, 4 TLs; 1 poem TSc
box 5, folder 19
Waldman, Anne to Bernadette Mayer
1971 - 1973
Note
1 APC, 10 APCs, 1 TPCs, 3 TLs. n.d.
box 5, folder 20
Waldman, Anne to Bernadette Mayer
1974 - 1979
Note
5 APC, 5 APCs, 3 AL, 1 ALs, 1 TL, 5 TLs; 1 prose TSc
box 5, folder 21
Waldman, Anne to Lewis Warsh
1974 - 1977
Note
10 APCs, 3 ALs, 13 TLs. n.d.
box 5, folder 22
Waldman, Anne to Lewis Warsh
1978 - 1982
box 5, folder 23
Watten Barrett to Bernadette Mayer
box 5, folder 24
Watten, Barrett to Lewis Warsh
1972 - 1973
Note
2 APCs, 1 AL, 6 ALs, 7 TLs; 3 prose TSc. n.d.
box 5, folder 25
Watten, Barrett to Lewis Warsh
1975 - 1978
Note
3 APCs, 4 ALs, 4 TLs
box 5, folder 26
Weiner, Hannah
Note
1 APCs, 6 ALs; 6 pages prose TSc
TYPESCRIPTS, GALLEY AND PAGE PROOFS OF U.A. BOOKS
box 6, folder 1
Banks, Russell. The Relation of My Imprisonment
box 6, folder 2
Berrigan, Ted. Nothing For You
box 6, folder 3
Berrigan, Ted. Nothing For You
box 6, folder 4
Berrigan, Ted and Schiff, Harris. NY 2, Boston 0
box 6, folder 8
Carey, Steve. The California Papers
box 6, folder 9
Carey, Steve. The California Papers
box 6, folder 10
Corbett, William. Columbus Square Journal
box 7, folder 1
Corbett, William. Columbus Square Journal
box 7, folder 2
Lenhart, Gary. One At A Time
box 7, folder 3
Lenhart, Gary. One At A Time
box 7, folder 4
Lenhart, Gary. One At A Time
box 7, folder 5
Lenhart, Gary. One At A Time
box 7, folder 6
Lenhart, Gary. One At A Time
box 7, folder 7
Mayer, Bernadette and Waldman, Anne. The Basketball Article
box 7, folder 8
Notley, Alice. Songs For The Unborn Second Baby
box 7, folder 9
Rosenthal, Bob. Cleaning Up New York
box 7, folder 10
Rosenthal, Bob. Cleaning Up New York
Note
photo, cover, title pages
box 7, folder 11
Schiff, Harris. In The Heart Of The Empire
box 7, folder 12
Vermont, Charlie. Selected Poems
box 7, folder 13
Vermont, Charlie. Selected Poems
box 7, folder 14
Warsh, Lewis. The Maharaja's Son
TYPESCRIPTS SUBMITTED TO UNITED ARTISTS MAGAZINE