Guide to the Brigitte Hoy Carnochan Papers relating to research on Janet Lewis, 1930-1994

Processed by Special Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Steven Mandeville-Gamble

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Guide to the Brigitte Hoy Carnochan Papers relating to research on Janet Lewis, 1930-1994

Collection number: M0866

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Stanford University Libraries

Stanford, California

Contact Information

Department of Special Collections
Green Library
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
Phone: (650) 725-1022
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Processed by:: Special Collections staff
Date Completed:: 1997
Encoded by:: Steven Mandeville-Gamble

Descriptive Summary

Title: Brigitte Hoy Carnochan Papers relating to research on Janet Lewis,

Date (inclusive): 1930-1994

Collection number: Special Collections M0866

Creator: Carnochan, Brigitte Hoy.

Extent: 4.25 linear ft.

Repository: Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.

Language: English.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

None.

Publication Rights

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.

Provenance

Gift of Brigitte Hoy Carnochan, 1996 and 1997.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] Brigitte Hoy Carnochan Papers relating to research on Janet Lewis, M0866, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Scope and Content

Correspondence, original works by Lewis, original works about Lewis, publications, newsclippings, photographs, audio cassettes, one 8 mm film, and 3 videos.

Box 1, Folder 1

Incoming correspondence to Brigitte Carnochan, 1982-1994, including a poem by Janet Lewis, "Lenore's Bear," corrected typescript, 1982

Box 1, Folder 2

"Valentine Burnet," typescript by Janet Lewis, nd

Box 1, Folder 3

"Valentine Burnet," typescript by Janet Lewis, nd

Box 1, Folder 4

"Valentine Burnet," typescript by Janet Lewis, nd

Box 1, Folder 5

"The Legend of Neengay," opera-oratorio : typescript by Janet Lewis, 1983

Box 1, Folder 6

Commonwealth Club medal, 1982

Box 1, Folder 7

Henry Ramsey typescript, "Yvor Winters and Janet Lewis in their late 20s and early 30s," 1984

Box 1, Folder 8

William H. Slavick. "Introduction" to Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The tTme of Man : a Novel, 1982

Box 1, Folder 9

"Le Retour de Martin Guerre," subject file

Box 1, Folder 10

Photocopies of poems read by J. Lewis at Santa Fe, 1984

Box 1, Folder 11

Reviews of Lewis's work, including Dana Gioia's "Poetry Chronicle," inThe Hudson Review, 1981, and Michael T. Ryan's "Introduction," in Janet and DeLoss : Poems and Pictures, 1990

Box 1, Folder 12

Announcements

Box 1, Folder 13

Programs

Box 1, Folder 14

Illustration artwork

Box 1, Folder 15

Dinner invitations, 1984

Box 1, Folder 16

William Slavick's copy of "The Poetry Club of the University of Chicago: Bibliography (Early, Major, Collected)" 4-page typescript, nd

Box 1, Folder 17

Clippings

Box 1, Folder 18

Clippings

Box 1, Folder 19

7 photographs by Margo Davis, 1981

Box 1, Folder 20

Negatives [by Brigitte Carnochan?], 1983 and nd

Box 1, Folder 21

2 cassette tapes of "The Wife of Martin Guerre," libretto by Janet Lewis, music by William Bergsma, nd

Box 1, Folder 22

2 cassette tapes: interview of Lewis by Catherine Parke, 1989, and "Selected Poems, 1930-1982" by Peggy Pond Church, 1982

Box 2, Folder 1

B. Carnochan, "An interview with Janet Lewis," in Canto, Review of the Arts, 1980.

Physical Description: (several copies)

Box 2, Folder 2

Diana Hendry, "Before unjust Tribunals; the use of Circumstantial Evidence in the Work of Janet Lewis." English literature disseration, 1983

Box 2, Folder 3

Thomas Simmons, "Erotic Reckonings; Mastery and Apprenticeship in the Work of Poets and Lovers," dissertation, 1988

Box 2, Folder 4

J. Lewis letters to Elizabeth Madox Roberts, 1922-1932.

Physical Description: Photocopies

Box 2, Folder 5

Letters to Maurice Leseman from Yvor Winters and Elizabeth Madox Roberts, 1920-1930

Box 2, Folder 6

The Last of the Mohicans ; an American Opera. Libretto by Janet Lewis, 1976

Box 2, Folder 7

Brigitte Hoy Carnochan, The Strength of Art; Poets and Poetry in the lives of Yvor Winters and Janet Lewis : an exhibition of books and manuscripts..., Stanford Univ. Libraries, 1984

Box 2, Folder 8

Hisaye Yamamoto. Inscription to Lewis in Ayumi; a Japanese American Anthology, 1980, with broadside, "Exile 1942-45" in The rafu shimpo supplement, 1981

Box 3, Folder 1

Janet Lewis reading at Stanford - Lane Lecture, 5 Nov. 1990.

Physical Description: 55 minute video