Allen, Donald

Baker, Richard

Brautigan, Richard

Brownfield, Dorothy [Welch's mother]

1943 - 1950

1950. Includes handwritten sections from poems "In my middle youth..." and "I David, arm in the sling" in letter dated 1 Feb. 1950. TS of poems "Monologue of one whom the spring found unaccompanied...," "Fragments," "Corinna's Gone A-Praying" in letter dated 21 March 1950

1951

1952 - 1955. Includes paraphrase from Paulinus of Nola letter dated 17 Feb. 1952 and TS of "Breakfast, One Easter," in letter dated 17 April 1952

1957 - 1959. Includes TS of "Note from Pioneer on a Speck in Space" in letter dated 21 July 1957

1960 - 1961. Includes outline of autobiographical novel (3 pps) dated April 1960; 1 TLs (1 p.) from Ms. Brownfield to Emil Garber (Mary's father)

1962 - 1964. Includes TS of "Birthday Poem, with Instructions to his Mother," dated 8 May 1963

1971

Miscellaneous. 1 TLs to LW from Robert Jones, clerk of Cal. Poetry Reading Circuit, dated 12 June 1969, 1 TLs (3 leaves) to Dorothy B. from Mary Welch dated 15 December 1957

Cuddy, Terry (Prisoner at San Quentin)

Doss, John

Doyle, Kirby [all are letters from Welch to Doyle]

Durand, Robert

Hausman, Gerald

Hawley, Robert (editor of Oyez Press)

KitKitDizze - Miscellaneous letters and notes concerning Welch's projected home in the Sierras

Korte, Sister Mary

Koller, James

McClure, Michael

Martin, John

Moore, Marianne

Murphy, Pat

Olsen, Charles

Ring of Bone - Miscellaneous correspondence and Grove Press Contract for Welch's proposed publication

Rago, Henry (editor of Poetry Magazine)

Saijo, Albert

Saleh, Dennis

Schevill, James (San Francisco Poetry Center)

Shoemaker, Jack (editor of Maya Press)

Simon, John Oliver

Snyder, Gary

Thompson, Marilyn and Bari

University of California at Davis - Letters concerning readings at UC Davis

University of California at Santa Barbara - Letter concerning readings at UCSB, from Ruth Cole

University of Utah/John Vernon - Letter concerning reading

Upton, Charles

Welch, Lew - 1 ALs draft to Philip Whalen; 1 TLs to Will Peterson; 1 TLs carbon to Welch's mother; 1 MS -- thought by Don Allen to be part of an enclosure to a letter to James Wilson which is perhaps related to Welch's poem "Invention Against Invention"

Whalen, Philip

Titled poetry

"Brandy's Wedding" (crossed out) or "Poem MSS" - Miscellaneous drafts of poems from various periods with some carbons

"Fishing" folder - "Section for Fish Poem" typescript; prose account of salmon fishing, typescript with holograph revisions

"For Consideration (For Sure)" - Poems in TS, some carbons. Includes TS of The Mountain Poems and Leather Prunes

"Fragments" - Folder of 14 fragments, TS (with carbons) from scrolls, notebooks, loose leaf folders, etc. Includes two maps in holograph

"Invention Against Invention" - Typescript with holograph dedication to Charles Olsen and revisions

"Late Poems from Ring of Bone" - TS drafts and holograph drafts, various stages

Leather Prunes - Poem drafts, some on napkins, some carbons

"1963" - TS and MS, includes versions of "A Letter for Robert Duncan," and "Invention Against Invention"

The Mountain Poems and Spring Rain Revolution at the Forks - Early versions of Hermit Poems and The Way Back. TS, signed

On Out: Selected Poems 1950 - 1960 - TS, clean carbon, inscription to LW's wife and signature on title leaf

"Our Lady of Defeated Love" - Drafts of poem. Holograph draft of preface to "Cement" and one MS poem

Ring of Bone - Some carbons, slight holograph, TS

"Small Book to Break the Rain" - TS with holograph revisions from 1967

Spring Rain Revolution at the Forks and Hermit Poems - TS, some carbons, with corrections, signed

Trip Trap - Single typed sheet formed by joining several sheets together. TS of book prepared by Welch, Albert Saijo, and Jack Kerouac. Believed typed by Kerouac

"The Wanderer" - Poem with the I-Ching throw upon which the poem is based, holograph

The Way Back - TS including carbon; holograph poem by Gary Snyder, "The Four Vows," annotated by Welch

"To Write..." etc. - List of poems written and "to write." Holograph on paper napkin, from 1970. Two Poems: "Dear Joanne"; and "A Poem for Gerard Malanga" in holograph. Poem: "Words to that Effect," TS with holograph addition. Poem: "The Epiphany of Toffy Belski," TS

Miscellaneous and untitled poetry

Miscellaneous papers - "A Farewell Note to God, Should He Exist." Preface, 1 page fragment from larger preface to Ring of Bone. Proposed table of contents for Ring of Bone. Miscellaneous cards including short prose notes. Leaves from small notebook containing maps and drawings. Assorted notebook fragments and leaves, addresses, and lists. "Across Space and Time" by Charles Olsen, 1 page TS of Olsen piece from Set no. 1

Miscellaneous poems - MSS ("Poetry Workshop Joyce Brians" crossed out). Miscellaneous poems and TS with various dates. Some holograph revisions and one poem in holograph. Includes draft of "Words to That Effect" and proposed table of contents for On Out

Drafts of "Final City - Tap City" - Includes carbon of printed version

Early Poems and Long Thing for William Carlos Williams - Long essay about Welch's own poetry, dedicated to WCW (1950)

Expose the Bones of Rhetoric - TS draft in scroll format

Greed - San Francisco Oracle essay, xerox and photocopy of various versions with published version and photocopy of letter to editor

How to Survive in The United States - TS

Language is Speech - TS of essay

Uses of Poetry - TS draft

Writings of Gertrude Stein: Its Nature and Principles - Reed College BA thesis, May 1950, carbon TS; inscribed by LW to his mother

Fiction - Miscellaneous TS prose. 8 sections with carbons, mostly from scrolls which have been broken down and pasted together

I, Leo

First draft, long scroll format

Second and third drafts. TS, corrected

Twins - TS of play (incomplete)

Din Poem

Very long early version and holograph poem on scroll. Heavily taped from pieces 1961

Scroll poem with carbon 1966

Hard Start - Typed scroll, fiction fragments

Endless Autobiography of the Whole United States - Typed scroll, fiction fragments

Late Urban Love of Peter Held - Typed scroll, draft of prose with carbon

Photocopies of high-acid and taped scrolls

Graffitti and Supermarket - Words and music, on stencil with original

Songs - TS and MS, including holograph version of "Supermarket" music; some carbons

Pages from black looseleaf notebook - Early poems, rough drafts of long poems, prose drafts, letters with poems from other poets, including three from Philip Whalen and one from Gary Snyder

Brown silk-covered notebook - Hermit Songs in holograph, calligraphed by Welch including design, dedication and two holograph poems by Philip Whalen 1964

Ledger, "The Fisherman's Notebook," signed - Various notes on three pages with five pages of notes for projected book of poems

Looseleaf notebook from early San Francisco period

Spiral-bound notebooks

7 X 8 1/2, 3 pps., with entries of notes for poems

4 X 6, 18 pps., notes for teaching

4 X 6, 35 pps., notes, including journal kept in Big Sur 1962

3 X 5, looseleaf, 8 pps., Forks of Salmon period

List of supplies on rear page for construction of house. Single entry dated 14 May 1971 (in front), believed to be the last note made by Welch before his disappearance 1971

8 1/2 X 11, 9 pps., "tentative structure for I, Leo and other works"

Miscellaneous documents, announcements, sections from magazines, broadsides, gathered by Welch, announcing readings. Includes review of Welch's plays from San Francisco Magazine

Press release and program note written by Welch for San Francisco State College poetry reading in 1966. Carbon with holograph revisions. "A Short Love Story of a Man and a Planet," printed in Omen I, 1 (1970), later titled "He Begins to Recount His Adventures." Gavin Arthur's hand-drawn horoscope for Welch, signed; crayon of printed horoscope 1966 - 1966

Publicity - Clippings of Ralph Gleason's San Francisco Chronicle column, 26 October 1966. Original clippings and negative of Grover Sales' review of Welch's "One Man Plays" reading, from San Francisco Magazine. Xerox of "Final City" from Oracle, no. 34, 1968. Xeroxes of San Quentin News item on Welch and Brautigan reading at prison. College of Marin reprint of article on Welch from Independent Journal (1968). Program notes for San Francisco State College Poetry Center reading, 1959

Reviews Writ by Me - Drafts of reviews of Philip Whalen's On Bear's Head and Richard Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar, including final published version from San Francisco Chronicle

Reviews, ephemera, and broadsides

Contract for Pacific Coast Clerks, subsidiary of International Long Shoreman's and Warehouseman's Union

Funeral record of LW's father

Greeley, Colorado - Folder containing information, correspondence, and documents pertaining to Welch's residency at Colorado State College at Greeley, Colorado

Grove Press letters and contracts

List of equipment purchased & page of doodles and drawings 1962 - 1963

Permission correspondence and forms

UC Extension - Miscellaneous papers relating to Welch's teaching at UC Berkeley Extension. Contains poems written by students, contracts, and a letter drafted by Welch to Elspeth Smith (Director of UC Extension program) concerning his classes. Also, a letter of complaint about Welch from student and E. Smith's response

Statement of opposition to Vietnam War - Welch's name appears on statement (typed), but is not signed 1965

Sturm, Rogers and Co. Guns catalog