Finding aid for the Mary Caroline Richards papers, 1898-2007, bulk 1942-1999
Philip Curtis and Laura Schroffel
Descriptive Summary
Title: Mary Caroline Richards papers
Date (inclusive): 1898-2007, bulk
1942-1999
Number: 960036
Creator/Collector:
Richards, Mary
Caroline
Physical Description:
120 Linear Feet
(228 boxes, 2 flatfiles)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: Papers document Richards's work as a
scholar and teacher of English literature, her a poet, potter, and translator, and finally
her lectures, workshops, and writings in art education. The papers emphasize the 1940s and
1950s, the period during which Richards taught at Black Mountain College.
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Biographical/Historical Note
Mary Caroline ("M.C.") Richards, self-described "teacher, writer, lecturer, potter, poet,"
was born in 1916, and received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California at
Berkeley in 1942. She taught English both at Berkeley and at the University of Chicago
before joining the faculty of Black Mountain College in Asheville, North Carolina, a school
that had a formative role in postwar American art in 1945. She and her husband Bill Levi
became prominent members of the Black Mountain community; she in writing and literature, he
in philosophy and as rector from 1947 to 1948. In 1948 Richards and her students started the
Black Mountain Press which they used for literary publications and to print Richards's first
volume of poetry. That same year she met the composer John Cage, who had just joined the
summer faculty and who that summer produced Erik Satie's play
Le Piége
de Méduse
, performed by Buckminster Fuller and Merce Cunningham, directed by
Arthur Penn, and translated by M.C. Richards. Richards served as chair of the faculty from
1949 to 1951, participating actively in the many conflicts between various factions in
administration and faculty. She was instrumental in bringing the poet Charles Olson to the
faculty in 1951. He served as rector from 1953 until the college closed in 1956.
After the summer session of 1951, Richards resigned and left for New York City with pianist
and Cage associate David Tudor. She returned to Black Mountain the subsequent summer to
participate in an event that came to be known as the first "happening," organized by John
Cage and also involving Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Olson, David Tudor, and Merce
Cunningham. During her time in New York City she translated, at Tudor's suggestion, Antonin
Artaud's
Le Théatre et son double, which was published by Grove
Press in 1958 to wide acclaim. In 1954 Richards, Tudor, and Cage, among other former Black
Mountain faculty, became a part of the Stony Point community in Rockland County, New York,
founded by the architect Paul Williams. In 1964, the same year she left Stony Point, her
book
Centering: In Pottery, Poetry and the Person was published
by Wesleyan University Press, followed in 1973 by
The Crossing Point:
Nine Easter Letters on the Art of Education
and in 1980 by
Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America. These books reveal a very
personal view of the development of the individual through art and life and, combined with
her extensive teaching and lecturing throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, were widely
influential in the arts education and craft communities. Mary Caroline Richards died in 1999
in New York City.
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Preferred Citation
Mary Caroline Richards papers, 1898-2007, bulk 1942-1999, The Getty Research Institute, Los
Angeles, Accession no. 960036.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa960036
Acquisition Information
The collection was acquired in 1996. Additions to the archive were received in 2009 and
2015.
Processing History
Philip Curtis (with assistance from Kelly Nipper) arranged, processed and described the
collection from 1996 to June 1997. He completed the finding aid in June 1997. In 2012,
approximately 42 linear feet of additional materials were received from Richards's estate
and integrated into the archive by Laura Schroffel. These materials can be found in boxes
84-220. She also integrated oversize material that was formerly Series IX into the
appropriate topical series of the finding aid. In 2013, Natasha Hicks further processed
boxes 1-84. Two boxes of materials received from the estate in 2015 were incorporated into
the collection by Emmabeth Nanol in 2017.
Separated Material
Separated books were incorporated into the Getty Research Institute library general
collection, and may be found by searching for Mary Caroline Richards papers
Scope and Content of Collection
The papers of Mary Caroline Richards gather together a lifetime of work in several artistic
disciplines and touch upon many others. Richards's career saw a progression from scholarship
and teaching in English literature, to freelance work as a poet, potter, author, and
translator, to work in arts education through lectures and workshops. During this time she
established close relationships with a large number of people, as may be seen through her
correspondence, which is remarkable for its intimacy and warmth. Her correspondents include
representatives from virtually every artistic discipline and many of the major American art
movements of the 1950s through the 1980s.
The papers give special emphasis to the period during which Richards served on the faculty
of Black Mountain College in the 1940s and 1950s. Here began many of the associations which
connect her to the music and art worlds, through friendships with David Tudor, Lou Harrison
and John Cage in music, Merce Cunningham and Remy Charlip in dance, Charles Olson, Robert
Creeley, and Robert Duncan (loosely known as the "Black Mountain Poets") in literature, and
Lyle Bongé and Joe Fiore in the visual arts. Her involvement with theater began at Black
Mountain College with her translation of plays by Cocteau and Satie, and continued after her
departure when she became the first English translator of Artaud, acting on an interest
which began at Black Mountain.
Included in the collection are manuscripts, correspondence, diaries and notebooks, books,
photographs, slides, clippings, ephemera, posters, audio tapes, and artwork (including oil
paintings and drawings in pencil, ink, chalk and pastels).
Items counts are approximate.
Arrangement note
The collection is arranged in nine series:
.Series I: Black Mountain College and
its critical reception, 1945-1999;
Series II: Correspondence, 1904-2007;
Series III: Writings, 1905-1999;
Series IV: Workshops, lectures and
exhibitions, 1944-2005;
Series V: Clippings and Ephemera, 1951-2003;
Series VI:
Diaries and notes, 1948-1999;
Series VII: Artwork, 1955-1998, undated;
Series
VIII: Memorabilia, personal miscellany, 1898-2003
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Steiner, Rudolf, 1861-1925
Richards, Mary Caroline
Olson, Charles, 1910-1970
Subjects - Corporate Bodies
Black Mountain College (Black Mountain,
N.C.)
C.G. Jung Foundation for
Analytical Psychology
Haystack Mountain School of
Crafts
Subjects - Topics
Pottery -- Study and teaching
Self-realization
Philosophy
Poetry -- Study and teaching
Arts -- Study and teaching -- United States
Arts, American -- 20th century
Education -- Philosophy
Dance -- Study and teaching
Art -- Psychology
Anthroposophy
Subjects - Titles
Toward wholeness
Crossing point
Centering in poetry, pottery and the person
Genres and Forms of Material
Color slides
Color photographs
Gelatin silver prints
Ephemera
Diaries
Audiotapes
Paintings
Drawings (visual works)
Photographs, Original
Sketchbooks
Contributors
James, Charity
Kazanis, Barbara
Higgins, Dick,
1938-1998
Iozia, John
Olson, Charles,
1910-1970
Richards, Mary
Caroline
Lane,
Mervin
Supree,
Burton
Robertson, Seonaid
M. (Seonaid Mairi)
Tassencourt, Shirley
Tudor, David,
1926-1996
Barfield, Owen,
1898-1997
Berensohn, Paulus
Bilderback,
Carolyn
Mac Low, Jackson
Blum, Fred
H.
Bongé, Lyle
Boyd, John
M.
Cage, John
Cable, Herb
Conner, Julia
Charlip, Remy
Duncan, Robert,
1919-1988
Cunningham, Merce
Forczek, Leszek,
1946-
Fairbanks,
Jonathan L.
Geiger,
Nicola
Frances, Molly
Harrison, Lou,
1917-2003
Green,
Jesse
Herlihy, James Leo
Series I.
Black Mountain College and its critical reception,
1945-1999
Physical Description:
3.6 Linear
Feet
(4 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Series I contains papers from Richards's time at Black Mountain College as well as
papers by Richards and others about Black Mountain College.
Arrangement
The series is arranged in two subseries: I.A. Period of Black Mountain College,
1945-circa 1966; I.B. Critical reception of Black Mountain College, after its closing,
1961-1999.
Series I.A.
Period of Black Mountain College,
1945-circa
1966
Physical Description:
0.83 Linear
Feet
(2 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Subseries I.A. includes letters, speeches and poetry written by Richards at Black
Mountain College. Some poetry is critiqued in ink by Charles Olson. This series also
includes Black Mountain College promotional materials, Black Mountain College-era
photographs, and lecture notes, quizzes and student writing from Richards's
classes.
box 1, folder 1
Portraits of the Levi's and some of their neighbors,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Anonymous book of ink drawings, caricaturing various Black Mountain College
personalities.
box 1, folder 2-2a
Photographs and postcards,
1945-1948
Physical Description:
44
items
Correspondence and letters,
1946-1954
box 1, folder 4
Richards's letter to Ted and Bobbie Dreier,
1948,
1951
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Regarding Black Mountain College internal problems, and a draft of a letter to
the faculty circa 1951, recommending that Charles Olson be invited to join the
faculty.
box 1, folder 6
Letter from Charles Olson to Richards,
circa
1951
Physical Description:
20
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes poems by Richards annotated by Charles Olson.
box 1, folder 12
Assorted correspondence,
1946-1954
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
One letter, Two pieces of business correspondence.
For Black Mountain College class materials, see also Herb Cable material in
Series III, box 38. Mervin Lane's manuscript "Going To Town" in box 41, folder 6
contains many Black Mountain College anecdotes.
box 1, folder 3
Black Mountain College promotional materials,
1951
Physical Description:
6
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a promotional article by Richards, "Experimental College Combines
Practical Work with Arts and Academics."
box 84, 217*
Clipping and promotional materials,
1952-circa 1953,
undated
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes clipping from
The Christian Science Monitor; pamphlet for
Black Mountain College, Work Camp; promotional clipping from Package festival with
information on Richards, Cage, Cunningham and Tudor.
box 1, folder 7
Additional Black Mountain College-era Richards poetry,
1947-1951
Physical Description:
40
items
Scope and Content Note
Typed and handwritten.
box 1, folder 8
Black Mountain College-era creative prose writing by Richards,
undated
Physical Description:
2
items
box 84, folder 2
Poems,
1947
December
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Contains one book of poems by Richards made at Black Mountain College print
shop.
"The Ruse of Medusa,"
1948, circa
1966
Scope and Content Note
Original play, Le piège de Méduse, by Erik Satie, translation by Richards.
box 84, folder 3
1948
Physical Description:
1
item
box 1, folder 9
circa
1966
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Translated and performed during her time at Black Mountain College. This copy
dates from the mid-sixties, and is accompanied by a letter from Renée Levine from
SUNY Buffalo regarding a 1966 performance.
box 84, folder 4
Knights of the Round Table,
1949
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Original play by Jean Cocteau, translation by Richards.
box 84, folder 5
Marriage on the Eiffel Tower,
1949
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Original play by Jean Cocteau, translation by Richards. Contains three copies of
the play, including original typescript, and two copies of the preface.
box 1, folder 5
Richards's speech opening the summer session,
1951
Physical Description:
1
item
box 1, folder 10
Lecture notes and quizzes from Richards's classes,
undated
Physical Description:
3
items
box 1, folder 11
Student writing from Richards's classes,
1945-1951
Physical Description:
30
items
Scope and Content Note
With a program booklet from a 1946 regional arts forum, listing one of Richards's
student's composition. Also includes writing by Richards.
box 84, folder 6
Receipt,
1952
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Receipt is for Richards wages.
Series I.B.
Critical reception of Black Mountain College after its closing,
1961-1999
Physical Description:
2.7 Linear
Feet
(2 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Subseries I.B. features correspondence regarding projects by Richards and others to
write about Black Mountain College as well as writing about Black Mountain College by
Richards and others. This subseries includes ephemera, clippings and materials from
different Black Mountain retrospective exhibitions and reunions.
Correspondence and letters,
1961-1999
box 2, folder 1
Inquiries about Black Mountain College,
1962-1967
Physical Description:
16
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes one response from Richards.
box 2, folder 2
Richards's letter to the Ford Foundation,
1961
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Proposing a book about Black Mountain College. With a draft of the same
letter.
box 2, folder 3
Letters from Richards to John Rice, the Albers, and the
Dreiers,
1961
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Explaining her Black Mountain College book project. With replies from Ted Dreier
and Anni Albers.
box 2, folder 4
Letters from John Rice, Ted Dreier,
1963-1978
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Discussing Black Mountain College and Richards's book project, along with
personal news from Dreier.
box 2, folder 5
Correspondence with Richard Jackson,
1963-1966
Physical Description:
8
items
Scope and Content Note
Jackson was a potential collaborator on the proposed Black Mountain College
book.
box 2, folder 6
Correspondence with H.M. Jones,
1964
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Jones was a North Carolina state archivist; with printed matter from the NC
Department of Archives and History.
box 2, folder 7
Correspondence with W. Howard Adams,
1966
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Including a twelve-page letter from Richards and two drafts of the same, with
much discussion of Black Mountain College history.
box 2, folder 8
Correspondence with Michael Weaver,
1966-1968,
Physical Description:
10
items
Scope and Content Note
Letters regarding Black Mountain College.
box 2, folder 10
Richards's letters, notes and application to the Guggenheim
Foundation,
1963
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
For a 1963 project, "Prophetic impulses in education," which was to have included
a study of Black Mountain College.
box 2, folder 11
Letters, printed matter, and a transcription of a interview with
Richards,
1970-1972
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Interview for "Visual arts at Black Mountain College 1933-1956, a research
project."
box 2, folder 12
Correspondence regarding Black Mountain College,
1969-1987
Physical Description:
9
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a 1982 letter from Richards to Whitney Jones giving current addresses
for Black Mountain College colleagues. Also a proposal and script from Mary Foster
from the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television, for a program
about Black Mountain College.
box 2, folder 15
Correspondence regarding Black Mountain college exhibitions,
1966,
1978
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
1966 Black Mountain exhibition (Tennessee State University) and a 1978 Black
Mountain College retrospective (Warren Wilson College). One letter includes a 1978
clipping about the Gate Hill community (Stony Point, N.Y.), founded by several
former Black Mountain College faculty, including Richards.
box 84, folder 7
Various correspondence,
1995-1999
Physical Description:
5
items
Richards's writings on Black Mountain College,
1977-1992
box 2, folder 9
Richards's notes,
undated
Physical Description:
30
items
Scope and Content Note
Including a chapter outline for her Black Mountain College book and notes on
conversations with John Rice and Charles Olson.
box 84, folder 8
"Black Mountain College: A golden seed,"
1977
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Originally published in
Craft Horizons.
box 84, folder 9
"Black Mountain College: A personal view of creativity,"
1992
Physical Description:
9
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes several copies of the manuscript. Some manuscripts are titled "Black
Mountain College: A personal experience of creativity."
box 84, folder 10
Writings by others on Black Mountain College,
1992-1993
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
"MC Richards at Black Mountain College" excerpt from book,
Black Mountain
College Exploration in Community
by Martin Duberman. Paper by Eva
Schlein-Jungermann "Black Mountain College: A Remembrance."
box 2, folder 13
Lists of artists associated with Black Mountain College,
undated
Physical Description:
2
items
Black Mountain College Retrospective, Warren Wilson
College,
1978
Scope and Content Note
See also Box 2, Folder 16.
box 84, folder 11
Brochure
Physical Description:
1
item
box 216*, folder 1
Posters
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Contains exhibition posters and program calendar.
box 184, folder 1
Color slides
Physical Description:
28
items
Black Mountain College Retrospective, Asheville Art
Museum,
1978
Scope and Content Note
See also Box 2, Folder 16.
box 218*, 73*
Posters
Physical Description:
4
item
box 184, folder 2
Color slides
Physical Description:
8
items
box 84, folder 12
The Arts at Black Mountain College, Edith C. Blum
Institute, Bard College,
1987
Physical Description:
8
items
Scope and Content Note
Contains exhibition announcement; exhibition brochure; exhibition checklist;
invitation to opening; loan from agreement; letters to Richards from the director.
See also Box 2, Folder 16.
box 84, folder 13
The Arts at Black Mountain College, North Carolina Museum
of Art,
1987
Physical Description:
1
item
The Black Mountain Connection, Tampa Museum of
Art,
1992
box 84, folder 14
Papers
Physical Description:
16
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes press release; black-and-white photograph; correspondence; list of
Richards's works; Tampa Museum newsletter; opening invitations; loan agreement
forms.
box 184, folder 3
Color photographs
Physical Description:
19
items
box 2, folder 16
Printed matter from Black Mountain College retrospectives,
1978-1987
Physical Description:
10
items
box 84, folder 15
Gate Hill Cooperative papers,
1997
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Contains letter and draft copy of Declaration of Covenants & Restrictions.
Reunion papers,
1991-1995
box 84, folder 16
Papers and correspondence,
1991-1995
Physical Description:
42
items
box 2, folder 14
Address lists,
1973
Physical Description:
4
items
box 84, folder 17
Photographs,
1992
Physical Description:
9
items
box 84, folder 18
Ephemera,
1989-1998
Physical Description:
9
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes announcements; brochures; promotional materials; two copies of
Landkidzink!.
box 2, 84
Clippings,
1977-1992
Physical Description:
16
items
Scope and Content Note
Some items are related to Black Mountain College retrospectives, with two focusing
on Richards.
box 84, folder 20
Notes,
undated
Physical Description:
3
items
Series II.
Correspondence,
1904-2007
Physical Description:
29.8 Linear
Feet
(73 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
The largest part of the archive, this series comprises business and personal
correspondence, with roughly three quarters being personal. Arts education and artistic
exchange are frequent themes throughout the correspondence. In addition, there is a
large amount of "fan mail," especially from readers of her popular book,
Centering. Most letters are signed and enclosures are usually
kept with the correspondence.
Arrangement
The correspondence in Series II is arranged in two subseries: II.A. Letters from M.C.
Richards, 1947-1999; II.B. Letters to M.C. Richards, 1904-2007.
Series II.A.
Letters from M.C. Richards,
1947-1999
Physical Description:
1.25 Linear
Feet
(3 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
The letters from Richards are often duplicate copies kept by her and are very
detailed and often intimate.
Arrangement
Series II.A is arranged in chronological order. Letters to certain frequent
correspondents were culled out into individual files.
box 3, 85
1948-1952
Physical Description:
16
items
Scope and Content Note
Folder 7a from ADD3.
box 3, folder 2
1957
Physical Description:
30
items
Scope and Content Note
Including her trip to Mexico
box 3, folder 3
1958
Physical Description:
20
items
box 3, folder 4
1959
Physical Description:
20
items
box 3, 85
1960-1963
Physical Description:
31
items
box 3, folder 6
Correspondence regarding a family crisis involving Richie and Kurt
Schloth,
1966
Physical Description:
30
items
box 3, 85
1965-1969
Physical Description:
31
items
box 3, 85
1971-1975
Physical Description:
26
items
box 3, 85
1976-1978
Physical Description:
50
items
box 3, 85
1979-1982
Physical Description:
37
items
box 85, folder 7-7a
1983-1999
Physical Description:
circa 36
items
Scope and Content Note
Folder 7a is from ADD3.
box 3, 85
undated
Physical Description:
31
items
box 3, folder 12
Excerpts from Richards correspondence (retyped by Richards),
undated
Physical Description:
8
items
box 85, folder 8a
Letters to Bodine, Jamie,
1960-1981
Scope and Content Note
From ADD3.
box 85, folder 9
Letters to Buechner, Tom,
1988,
undated
Physical Description:
3
items
Letters to Connor, Julia,
1977-1994,
undated
box 85, folder 10-11a
Letters
Physical Description:
96
items
Scope and Content Note
Folder 11a is from ADD3.
box 184, folder 4
Color photograph and slides
Physical Description:
3
items
box 86, folder 1
Letters to Josephson, Arthur,
1964-1965,
undated
Physical Description:
31
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes various drafts. Some letters to Josephson are in note form.
box 88, folder 1a
Letters to Beck, Christopher,
1999
Scope and Content Note
From ADD3.
box 86, folder 2
Letters to Leydon, John,
1979-1998
Physical Description:
44
items
box 86, folder 3
Letters to Pietzner, Carlo,
1964-1980
Physical Description:
29
items
box 86, folder 4
Letters to Richards, Dave,
1947-1984
Physical Description:
11
items
box 3, 86
Letters of recommendation by Richards,
1969-1995,
undated
Physical Description:
18
items
Series II.B.
Letters to M.C. Richards,
1904-2007, bulk
1950-1999
1950-1999
Physical Description:
28.5 Linear
Feet
(70 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Series II.B holds letters from friends, family, writers, musicians, artists. Among
her correspondents are John Cage, David Tudor, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Lyle
Bongé, George Brecht, Sari Dienes, James Leo Herlihy, Arthur Penn, Merce Cunningham,
and Robert Creeley. Some of the largest files consist of letters from her closest
friends, among them Paulus Berensohn, Carolyn Bilderbeck, Remy Charlip, Molly Frances,
Charity James, and Barbara Kazanis.
Arrangement
Letters are arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent. Assorted files follow
alphabetically and unidentified items are filed at the end of the series.
box 4, 87
Aldan, Daisy,
1954-1992
Physical Description:
39
items
Scope and Content Note
Poet, publisher, anthroposophist.
box 87, folder 2
American Craft Council,
1989-1993
Physical Description:
4
items
Assorted correspondents: Aa-Anc,
1955-1998
box 4, 87
Letters
Physical Description:
61
items
box 184, folder 5
Color photographs
Physical Description:
16
items
box 4, folder 3
Assorted correspondents: And-Az,
1969-1999
Physical Description:
44
items
Bachrach, Betty,
1961-1991
box 4, 87
Letters
Physical Description:
24
items
box 184, folder 6
Color photographs
Physical Description:
1
item
Bankson, Marjory,
1977-1999
Scope and Content Note
Potter, retreat leader.
box 4, 87
Letters
Physical Description:
48
items
box 184, 221
Color photographs
Physical Description:
19
items
box 4, 87
Barfield, Owen,
1958-1976
Physical Description:
7
items
Scope and Content Note
Author.
box 4, folder 7
Barnes, Alfred, Anne, and Henry,
1967-1992
Physical Description:
13
items
box 4, folder 8
Bateson, Betty Lumnar,
1962-1979
Physical Description:
10
items
Assorted correspondents: Ba,
1955-1999
box 4, 87
Letters
Physical Description:
45
items
box 184, folder 8
Color photograph
Physical Description:
1
items
box 4, 88
Beck, Christopher,
1965-1999
Physical Description:
28
items
Scope and Content Note
Dancer, choreographer.
Beers, Thomas and Margot,
1971-1994
Scope and Content Note
Artist; wife.
box 4, 88
Letters
Physical Description:
13
items
box 221, folder 1
Color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
Beery, Mary and Larry,
1989-1998
box 88, folder 3
Letters
Physical Description:
14
items
box 184, folder 9
Color photographs
Physical Description:
17
items
box 88, folder 4
Letters
Physical Description:
28
items
box 184, folder 10
Color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
box 4, folder 12
Benson, Joyce,
1970
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Companion of Charles Olson.
Bentov, Marilyn,
1979-1989
Scope and Content Note
Writer, producer.
box 4, 88
Letters
Physical Description:
34
items
Scope and Content Note
No Subnote Content
box 184, folder 11
Color photographs
Physical Description:
6
items
Berensohn, Paulus,
1951-1999,
undated
box 5, 88-90
Letters
Physical Description:
296
items
box 184, folder 12
Color photographs
Physical Description:
8
items
box 5, folder 5
Berry, Alice,
1966-1967
Physical Description:
10
items
Scope and Content Note
See also Box 6, folder 1.
box 90, folder 3
Bertholf, Robert,
1987-1990
Physical Description:
10
items
Bilderback, Carolyn,
1964-1999,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Dancer, choreographer, teacher, filmmaker.
box 5, 90
Letters
Physical Description:
153
items
box 184, folder 13
Color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
box 91, folder 1
Letters
Physical Description:
22
items
box 184, folder 14
Color photographs
Physical Description:
2
items
Assorted correspondents: Be-Bi,
1954-1999
box 6, 91
Letters
Physical Description:
37
items
box 221, folder 1
Color photographs
Physical Description:
2
item
box 91, folder 3-3a
Letters
Physical Description:
circa 18
items
Scope and Content Note
Folder 3a is from ADD3.
box 184, folder 15
Color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
box 6, folder 2
Bolden, Jesse,
1965-1982
Physical Description:
20
items
Bongé, Lyle,
1951-1999
Scope and Content Note
Photographer, Black Mountain College alumnus.
box 6, 91
Letters
Physical Description:
16
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters from Dusti Bongé and a black-and-white photograph.
box 184, folder 16
Color photographs
Physical Description:
10
items
Booth, Barb and Gregory,
1990-1997
box 91, folder 5
Letters
Physical Description:
16
items
box 184, folder 17
Color photographs
Physical Description:
2
items
Assorted correspondents: Bj-Bo,
1955-1998
box 6, 91
Letters
Physical Description:
46
items
box 184, 221
Color photographs
Physical Description:
7
items
box 6, folder 5
Bramhall, David,
1975-1977
Physical Description:
4
items
box 6, folder 6
Brecht, George,
1962-1963
Physical Description:
6
items
Scope and Content Note
Fluxus artist.
box 6, folder 7
Brown, Margarita,
1960
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Mother of Norman O. Brown.
box 6, 92
Brown, Sister Miriam,
1980-1999
Physical Description:
77
items
box 6, folder 9
Brown, Norman O.,
1960-1962
Physical Description:
20
items
Scope and Content Note
Author.
Buechner, Thomas,
1985-1995
box 92, folder 2
Letters
Physical Description:
37
items
box 185, folder 1
Color photographs and slides
Physical Description:
9
items
Bunnell, Millie,
1960-1999
box 6, 92
Letters
Physical Description:
23
items
box 185, 221
Color photographs
Physical Description:
15
items
box 6, folder 11
Business correspondence,
1966-1978
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Management, other authors.
Assorted correspondents: Br-Bu,
1959-1999
box 7, 92
Letters
Physical Description:
57
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a black-and-white photograph.
box 185, 221
Color photographs
Physical Description:
14
items
box 7, folder 2
Cable, Herb,
undated
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Author, Black Mountain College student.
box 7, 92
Cage, John,
1948-1989
Physical Description:
11
items
Scope and Content Note
One early letter includes note from Merce Cunningham as well.
box 7, 92
Camphill Village,
1963-1992
Physical Description:
36
items
Scope and Content Note
Various correspondents.
box 92, folder 7
Cerveris, Michael,
1988-1994
Physical Description:
11
items
box 7, 92
Charlip, Remy,
1959-1997
Physical Description:
circa 53
items
Scope and Content Note
Box 92, folder 8a is from ADD3.
box 7, folder 7
Citrin, Judith,
1979-1983
Physical Description:
10
items
box 7, folder 8
Clark, James,
1963-1965
Physical Description:
15
items
Assorted correspondents: Ca-Cl,
1951-1997
box 7, 93
Letters
Physical Description:
69
items
box 185, folder 4
Color slides
Physical Description:
9
items
box 7, 93
Collins, Moira,
1969-1980
Physical Description:
9
items
Connor, Julia,
1974-2007,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Richards's secretary, poet, potter, teacher, California Arts Council.
box 8, 93-94
Letters
Physical Description:
circa 290
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a black-and-white photograph. Box 94, folder 3a is from materials
received from the estate in 2015.
box 185, folder 5
Color photographs
Physical Description:
39
items
box 95, folder 1-1a
Letters from other correspondents to Connor
Physical Description:
circa 23
items
Scope and Content Note
Folder 1a is from ADD3.
box 8, 95
Creeley, Robert,
1956-1987
Physical Description:
2
items
Cummings, Anne,
1972-1999
box 8, 95
Letters
Physical Description:
31
items
box 185, folder 6
Color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
box 8, 95
Cunningham, Merce,
1958-1996
Physical Description:
26
items
Scope and Content Note
Dancer, choreographer, Black Mountain College faculty. Box 95, folder 5a is from
materials received from the estate in 2015.
Assorted correspondents: Cm-Cz,
1968-1999
box 8, 95
Letters
Physical Description:
45
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographs.
box 185, 221
Color photographs
Physical Description:
11
items
Davis, Squidge,
1988-1998
box 95, folder 6
Letters
Physical Description:
17
items
box 185, folder 8
Color photographs
Physical Description:
2
items
Assorted correspondents: Da,
1958-1999
box 8, 95
Letters
Physical Description:
42
items
box 185, folder 9
Color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
box 8, folder 9
Deike, Merlyn,
1969-1973
Physical Description:
10
items
Scope and Content Note
Teacher.
box 95, folder 7a
Di Prima, Diane,
1998
Scope and Content Note
From ADD3.
box 8, 95
Dienes, Sari,
1960-1981
Physical Description:
12
items
Scope and Content Note
Artist, Stony Point. Includes some clippings and ephemera.
box 8, folder 11
Duncan, Robert,
1960-1964
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Poet, Black Mountain College alumnus.
Assorted correspondents: Db-Dz,
1951-1999
box 8, 96
Letters
Physical Description:
66
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a black-and-white photograph.
box 185, folder 10
Color photographs
Physical Description:
12
items
box 9, 96
Edmunds, Francis,
1960-1981
Physical Description:
14
items
Scope and Content Note
Educator.
Assorted correspondents: E,
1969-1997
box 9, 96
Letters
Physical Description:
60
items
box 185, folder 11
Color photographs
Physical Description:
3
items
Fairbanks, Jonathan and family,
1965-1998
box 9, 96
Letters
Physical Description:
50
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographs.
box 186, 221
Color photographs and slides
Physical Description:
8
items
box 9, 97
Letters
Physical Description:
133
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a black-and-white photograph.
box 186, folder 2
Color photographs
Physical Description:
2
items
box 10, folder 1
Fick, Cynthia,
1965-1976
Physical Description:
10
items
box 10, 97
Fiore, Mary,
1966-1998
Physical Description:
37
items
Scope and Content Note
Black Mountain College alumnus, wife of artist Joe Fiore.
Forczek, Les,
1970-1982,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Artist.
box 10, 97
Letters
Physical Description:
67
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a black-and-white photograph.
box 221, folder 1
Color photographs
Physical Description:
6
items
box 97, folder 4
Letters
Physical Description:
30
items
box 186, folder 3
Color photographs
Physical Description:
2
items
Francis, Molly,
1963-1986,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Actress, director, author.
box 11, 97
Letters
Physical Description:
142
items
box 221, folder 1
Color photographs
Physical Description:
2
items
box 11, 97
Frank, Fance,
1954-1992
Physical Description:
29
items
Scope and Content Note
Potter, translator. Includes black-and-white photographic postcards.
box 11, folder 6
Fritz, Kurt von,
1973-1979
Physical Description:
10
items
Scope and Content Note
Scholar, author.
Assorted correspondents: F,
1950-1999
box 11, 97-98
Letters
Physical Description:
120
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographs.
box 186, 221
Color photographs
Physical Description:
17
items
box 98, folder 2
Gablik, Suzi,
1995-1999
Physical Description:
11
items
Ganley, Sister Marita,
1974-1990,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Some letters are written on hand-painted cards.
box 12, 98
Letters
Physical Description:
101
items
box 186, 221
Color photographs
Physical Description:
2
item
Geiger, Andrea,
1958-1989
Scope and Content Note
Ma Yoga Astha.
box 12, 98
Letters
Physical Description:
12
items
Scope and Content Note
See Box 12, Folder 4. Inlcudes a black-and-white photograph.
box 186, folder 6
Color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
Geiger, Nicola,
1965-1984,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Political activist, Quaker educator, actress, translator.
box 12, 98
Letters
Physical Description:
110
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes letter from Gerow Reece regarding Geiger. Includes black-and-white
photographs.
box 186, 221
Color photographs
Physical Description:
7
items
Geiger, Vanessa,
1970-1985
box 12, 98
Letters
Physical Description:
11
items
box 221, folder 1
Color photographs
Physical Description:
9
items
Graham, Laurie,
1988-1999
Scope and Content Note
See also Assorted G, Box 13 folder 2.
box 99, folder 5
Letters
Physical Description:
19
items
box 186, folder 8
Color photographs
Physical Description:
3
items
Green, Jesse,
1950-1999,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Black Mountain College alumnus, author, professor of English.
box 12, 99
Letters
Physical Description:
circa 52
items
Scope and Content Note
Box 99, folder 6a is from ADD3.
box 186, 221
Color photographs
Physical Description:
15
items
Gruber, Carol,
1964-1991
Scope and Content Note
Richards's godchild, Camphill Village resident. Some letters are from Gary
Gruber.
box 13, 99
Letters
Physical Description:
60
items
box 186, 221
Color photographs
Physical Description:
21
items
Assorted correspondents: G,
1950-1999
box 13, 99-100
Letters
Physical Description:
95
items
box 221, folder 1
Color photograph and slides
Physical Description:
14
item
Scope and Content Note
Color slides possibly from Mary Green.
box 13, folder 3
Hamalian, Leo,
1966
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Black Mountain College, teacher, author.
box 13, folder 4
Hart, David L.,
1963-1978
Physical Description:
20
items
Scope and Content Note
Jungian scholar. Includes letters from Amy Hart. For Amy Hart see also box 101,
folder 3.
Haynes, Deborah,
1972-1999
Scope and Content Note
Artist, author, teacher.
box 13, 100
Letters
Physical Description:
79
items
box 186, folder 11
Color photographs and slides
Physical Description:
16
items
box 100, folder 3
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts,
1978-1990
Physical Description:
44
items
Scope and Content Note
M.C. Richards was a trustee. Contains business correspondence from Haystack and
letters from Howard Evans.
box 14, 100
Herlihy, James Leo,
1949-1996
Physical Description:
52
items
Scope and Content Note
Black Mountain College alumnus, author, including comments on Richards's book,
Centering. Also includes papers from the James Leo Herlihy
estate.
box 221, folder 1
Color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
box 14, 100
Hillman, James,
1966-1997
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Jungian author, lecturer.
Horie, Donna and family,
1963-1999
Scope and Content Note
Weaver, conservator, collector.
box 14, 100
Letters
Physical Description:
circa 52
items
Scope and Content Note
Box 100, folder 7a is from ADD3.
box 221, folder 1
Color photographs
Physical Description:
5
items
box 14, folder 5
Hough, Lindy,
1971,
undated
Physical Description:
6
items
Scope and Content Note
Poet.
Hoy, Andy,
1983-1995
Scope and Content Note
Camphill Village.
box 14, 100
Letters
Physical Description:
56
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographs.
box 70*, folder 1
Oversized item
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Art object.
box 221, folder 1
Color photographs
Physical Description:
6
items
box 14, 101
Hurley, Judy,
1974-1986
Physical Description:
63
items
Scope and Content Note
See Series III.C box 41, folder 4 for correspondence from Dick Higgins.
box 101, folder 2
Huss, Wes,
1951-1956
Physical Description:
10
items
Assorted correspondents: H,
1950-1999
box 15, 101-102
Letters
Physical Description:
273
items
box 186, 221
Color photographs and slides
Physical Description:
57
items
box 15-16, 102
Invitations
1943-1998
Physical Description:
105
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes invitations for article submissions; teaching appointments; lecture
offers.
box 16, folder 3
Iozia, Johnny,
1969-1972
Physical Description:
30
items
Scope and Content Note
Poet, performance artist.
Jacopino, Feliccia,
1976-1987
Scope and Content Note
Documentary filmmaker.
box 16, folder 4
Letters
Physical Description:
14
items
box 221, folder 1
Color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
James, Charity,
1968-1998
Scope and Content Note
Author, educator.
box 16, 102
Letters
Physical Description:
87
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a black-and-white photograph.
box 187, 221
Color photographs
Physical Description:
3
item
Jenkins, Louisa,
1969-1987
Scope and Content Note
Artist.
box 16, 102
Correspondence
Physical Description:
13
items
box 70*, folder 2
Oversize item
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes drawing.
Jennerjahn, Elizabeth,
1957-1999
Scope and Content Note
Black Mountain College faculty, artist.
box 16, 102
Letters
Physical Description:
27
items
box 187, folder 2
Color photographs
Physical Description:
17
items
box 16, folder 9
Jerome, Judson,
1970-1973
Physical Description:
7
items
Johansen, Feliccia,
1983-1997
box 102, folder 7
Letters
Physical Description:
11
items
box 187, folder 3
Color photographs
Physical Description:
8
items
box 17, 102
Johnson, Ray,
1956-1966
Physical Description:
6
items
Scope and Content Note
Artist.
box 17, 102
Josephson, Arthur,
1951-1979
Physical Description:
36
items
Scope and Content Note
Artist.
Assorted correspondents: I-J,
1958-1999
box 17, 102
Letters
Physical Description:
62
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a black-and-white photographic postcard.
box 221, folder 1
Color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
box 70*, folder 2
Allison Jackson, oversize letter
Physical Description:
1
items
Karnes, Karen,
1969-1999
Scope and Content Note
Black Mountain College faculty, potter.
box 17, 103
Letters
Physical Description:
44
items
box 187, folder 4
Color photographs
Physical Description:
6
items
Kazanis, Barbara,
1969-1996
Scope and Content Note
Artist, author.
box 17-18, 103
Letters
Physical Description:
167
items
box 187, 221
Color photographs and slides
Physical Description:
10
items
box 70*, folder 3
Oversized letter
Physical Description:
1
item
Kokis, George,
1974-1996
Scope and Content Note
Potter, educator.
box 18, 103
Letters
Physical Description:
20
items
box 187, 221
Color photographs
Physical Description:
21
items
Kremen, Barbara and Irwin,
1952-1999
Scope and Content Note
Black Mountain College alumni, artists.
box 18, 103
Letters
Physical Description:
51
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters from Claire Kremen and black-and-white photographs.
box 187, folder 7
Color photographs
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Photographs are adhered to pages of small handmade album by the Kremen
children.
Assorted correspondents: K,
1963-1999
box 18, 103
Letters
Physical Description:
103
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographs.
box 187, 221
Color photographs
Physical Description:
13
items
Lane, Mervin,
1950-1999
Scope and Content Note
Black Mountain College alumnus, literature professor, author.
box 19, 104
Letters
Physical Description:
circa 80
items
Scope and Content Note
Box 104, folder 1a is from ADD3.
box 187, 221
Color photographs
Physical Description:
4
items
box 19, 104
Leighton, David,
1976-1999
Physical Description:
20
items
Scope and Content Note
Camphill Village.
Levering, Virginia (Dede),
1980-1990
Scope and Content Note
See also Assorted L, Box 19-20.
box 104, folder 3
Letters
Physical Description:
14
items
box 187, folder 10
Color photographs
Physical Description:
5
items
box 19, 104
Levi, Estelle,
1951-1980
Physical Description:
6
items
Scope and Content Note
Daughter of William Levi.
box 19, 104
Levi, William,
1949-1978
Physical Description:
8
items
Scope and Content Note
Black Mountain College faculty/rector, Richards's second husband. Includes Levi's
passport.
box 104, folder 6
Leydon, John,
1995-1999
Physical Description:
18
items
box 19, folder 6
Ludwig, Jeff,
1971-1979
Physical Description:
40
items
Scope and Content Note
Poet, author.
Assorted correspondents: L,
1952-1999
box 19-20, 104
Letters
Physical Description:
137
items
box 187, 221
Color photographs
Physical Description:
10
items
McClure, Michael,
1961-1998
Scope and Content Note
Poet.
box 20, 105
Letters
Physical Description:
6
items
box 187, folder 12
Color photographs
Physical Description:
5
items
McKinnon, Frances,
1951-1999,
undated
Scope and Content Note
See also Assorted M Boxes 20-21.
box 105, folder 2-4
Letters
Physical Description:
80
items
box 187, folder 13
Color photographs
Physical Description:
15
items
Moss, Alwyn,
1985-1999
Scope and Content Note
See also Assorted M Boxes 20-21.
box 105, folder 5
Letters
Physical Description:
11
items
box 187, folder 14
Color photographs
Physical Description:
2
items
Murrow, Hank and Bev,
1989-1998
Scope and Content Note
See also Assorted M Boxes 20-21.
box 105, folder 6
Letters
Physical Description:
16
items
box 187, folder 15
Color photographs
Physical Description:
2
items
Assorted correspondents: M,
1950-1999
box 20-21, 106
Letters
Physical Description:
273
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographs.
box 187, folder 16
Color photographs
Physical Description:
12
items
Nordoff, Sabina,
1966-1997
Scope and Content Note
Dancer, eurythmist.
box 21, 107
Letters
Physical Description:
35
items
box 188, folder 1
Color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
Assorted correspondents: N,
1952-1999
box 21, 107
Letters
Physical Description:
69
items
box 188, folder 2
Color photographs and slides
Physical Description:
5
items
box 22, 107
Olson, Charles,
1951-1965
Physical Description:
22
items
Scope and Content Note
See also Series I, box 1, folder 6. Black Mountain College faculty/rector,
poet.
Assorted correspondents: O,
1951-1997
box 22, 107
Letters
Physical Description:
44
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographs.
box 188, 222
Color photographs
Physical Description:
11
items
box 107, folder 5
Palmer, Sally,
1991-1999
Physical Description:
14
items
Scope and Content Note
See also Assorted P box 22, folder 6.
box 22, folder 3
Penn, Arthur and Peggy,
1966-1972
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Black Mountain College alumnus, film director; wife.
box 108, folder 1
Peysson, Grace Ann,
1989-1999
Physical Description:
53
items
Phillips, Mary,
1992-1999
box 108, folder 2-3
Letters
Physical Description:
47
items
box 188, folder 4
Color photographs
Physical Description:
12
items
Pietzner, Carlo,
1963-1986
Scope and Content Note
Camphill Village.
box 22, 108
Letters
Physical Description:
69
items
box 188, folder 5
Color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
box 22, 109
Publishers, correspondence from,
1946-1999
Physical Description:
96
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes replies to submissions. Correspondents include: Barra Foundation; Bombay
Gin; Columbia University Press; Conari Press; Contact Quarterly; Eckerd College;
Grove Press; Harper Collins; Harper & Row; In Context; Ingersoll and Brennan;
Innisfree; Life Prayer; Lindisfarne Press; LuraMedia; New England University Press;
New Ventures; Oregon School of Crafts; Orion Magazine; Pilgrim Press; Reed College;
Schocken Books Inc.; Shambhala Publications, Inc.; Station Hill Press; Studio
Potter; The Theosophical Publishing House; Vernacular Editions; Washington State
University; Woman of Power; Yale University Press.
Assorted correspondents: P,
1952-1999
box 22, 109
Letters
Physical Description:
85
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a black-and-white photograph.
box 188, 222
Color photographs
Physical Description:
9
items
box 22, 109
Querido, Merlyn,
1967-1990
Physical Description:
13
items
Scope and Content Note
Black Mountain College alumnus.
box 110, folder 1
Assorted R,
1945
Scope and Content Note
From ADD3.
box 109, folder 5a
Rashani,
1998
Scope and Content Note
From ADD3.
box 22, folder 8
Reed College,
1935-1938
Physical Description:
30
items
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence to Richards from the 1930's while she was a student at Reed College.
Includes a black-and-white photographic postcard.
box 22, 110
Rhodes, Daniel,
1966-1988
Physical Description:
12
items
Scope and Content Note
Black Mountain College faculty, potter, author.
box 22, 110
Rhodes, Lillyan,
1965-1985
Physical Description:
16
items
Scope and Content Note
Potter, wife of Daniel Rhodes.
Rhodes, Michelle,
1974-1988
Scope and Content Note
Potter, wife of poet Charles Stein, founder of Open Studio.
box 22, 110
Letters
Physical Description:
11
items
box 188, folder 7
Color slides
Physical Description:
6
items
Richards, Dave,
1917-1985
Scope and Content Note
Richards's brother.
box 23, 110
Letters to M.C. Richards from Dave Richards
Physical Description:
circa 30
items
Scope and Content Note
Inlcudes a black-and-white photograph. Box 110, folder 5a is from materials
received from the estate in 2015.
box 110, folder 5
Letters from other correspondents to Dave Richards
Physical Description:
22
items
box 23, 110
Richards, Jesse L.,
1942-1951
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Richards's father.
box 23, 110
Richards, Lily,
1904-1951
Physical Description:
12
items
Scope and Content Note
Nee Lily Ulen. Includes some letters from Lily to other correspondents as well as
letters to Lily from other correspondents.
Rigg, Margaret,
1978-1999
Scope and Content Note
Teacher, calligrapher.
box 23, 110
Letters
Physical Description:
64
items
box 188, folder 8
Color photographs
Physical Description:
18
items
Robertson, Seonaid,
1968-1995
Scope and Content Note
Author, lecturer, potter.
box 23, 110
Letters
Physical Description:
41
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a black-and-white photographic postcard.
box 188, 222
Color photographs and slides
Physical Description:
5
items
Roffman, Rosaly,
1957-1999,
undated
box 23, 111
Letters
Physical Description:
119
items
box 188, folder 10
Color photographs
Physical Description:
47
items
box 23, 111
Rosenthal, Rachel,
1958,
1975
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Performance artist.
Assorted correspondents: R,
1960-1999
box 23, 111-112
Letters
Physical Description:
151
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a black-and-white photographic postcard.
box 188, 222
Color photographs and slide
Physical Description:
12
items
box 23, 112
Schloth, Dillaine,
1971-1990
Physical Description:
21
items
Scope and Content Note
Richards's brother-in-law. Also known as Del Schloth.
Schloth, Kevin,
1957-1999
Scope and Content Note
Richards's niece.
box 23, 112
Letters
Physical Description:
34
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters from Kevin's husband Richard Testut.
box 189, 222
Color photographs
Physical Description:
17
items
Schloth, Kurt,
1954-1999
Scope and Content Note
Richards's nephew.
box 24, 112
Letters
Physical Description:
42
items
box 189, folder 2
Color photographs
Physical Description:
3
items
box 24, 112
Schloth, Richie (Gertrude),
1947-1976
Physical Description:
23
items
Scope and Content Note
Richards's sister.
box 24, 112
Letters
Physical Description:
19
items
box 222, folder 1
Color photographs
Physical Description:
4
items
box 24, folder 3
Schwartz, David and Sherry,
1976-1983
Physical Description:
20
items
box 24, folder 4
Sollins, Susan,
undated
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Curator, wife of composer Earle Brown.
Stannard, Ann,
1968-1999
Scope and Content Note
Potter.
box 24, 113
Letters
Physical Description:
26
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographs.
box 189, folder 3
Color photographs
Physical Description:
3
items
box 24, folder 6
Stannard, David,
1978-1979
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Potter.
box 24, folder 7
Stafford, William,
1970
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Poet.
box 24, 113
Stern, Gerd,
1953-1964
Physical Description:
10
items
Scope and Content Note
Artist, poet.
box 24, 113
Supree, Burton,
1971-1993
Physical Description:
43
items
Scope and Content Note
Critic, dancer, choreographer, teacher. Includes letters from Supree to Julia
Connor and a black-and-white photographic postcard.
Assorted correspondents: S,
1950-1999
box 24-25, 113
Letters
Physical Description:
184
items
box 189, 222
Color slides and photographs
Physical Description:
32
items
Tassencourt, Shirley,
1967-1998
Scope and Content Note
Potter, teacher.
box 25, 114
Letters
Physical Description:
76
items
box 189, 222
Color photographs
Physical Description:
10
items
box 25, folder 5
Troy, Jack,
1974-1978
Physical Description:
10
items
Scope and Content Note
Potter, teacher, author.
box 26, 114
Tudor, David,
1951-1986
Physical Description:
101
items
Scope and Content Note
Pianist, composer, Black Mountain College faculty, Richards's companion. Includes
black-and-white photographs.
Turnell, Andrew,
1994-1999
box 114, folder 3
Letters
Physical Description:
13
items
box 189, folder 6
Color photographs
Physical Description:
5
items
Assorted correspondents: T,
1952-1999
box 26, 114
Letters
Physical Description:
109
items
box 189, 222
Color photographs
Physical Description:
6
items
box 26, 115
Assorted correspondents: U,
1951-1992,
undated
Physical Description:
9
items
box 26, 115
Veal, Ted,
1967-1974
Physical Description:
11
items
Scope and Content Note
Black activist.
Assorted correspondents: V,
1954-1999
box 26, 115
Letters
Physical Description:
42
items
box 189, folder 8
Color photographs
Physical Description:
11
items
Walters, Diane,
1991-1999
box 115, folder 4
Letters
Physical Description:
14
items
box 189, folder 9
Color photographs
Physical Description:
9
items
box 26, 115
Wesleyan University Press,
1965-1990
Physical Description:
68
items
Scope and Content Note
Richards's publisher.
box 26, 115
Williams, Jonathan,
1955-1974
Physical Description:
23
items
Scope and Content Note
Poet, publisher, Black Mountain College alumni.
box 115, folder 8
Wright, Mimi,
1987-1999
Physical Description:
14
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photograph.
Assorted correspondents: W,
1950-1999
box 26-27, 116
Letters
Physical Description:
206
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographs.
box 189, 222
Color photographs and slides
Physical Description:
34
items
box 27, 117
Assorted correspondents: X-Z,
1974-1998
Physical Description:
27
items
Unidentified correspondence,
1950-1999
Scope and Content Note
Filed by first name.
box 27, 117
A-B,
1952-1999
Physical Description:
84
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographic postcards.
box Box 27, 117-118
C-D,
1950-1995
Physical Description:
92
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographs. Box 118, folder 4a is from materials
received from the estate in 2015.
box 28, 117-118
E-F,
1962-1999
Physical Description:
circa 64
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographic postcards. Box 118, folder 4a is from
materials received from the estate in 2015.
box 28, 117
G-I,
1961-1997
Physical Description:
61
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographic postcards.
box 28, 117
J,
1951-1999
Physical Description:
87
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographic postcards.
box 28, 118
Letters
Physical Description:
109
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a black-and-white photographic postcard.
box 222, folder 1
Color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
box 29, 118
Letters
Physical Description:
circa
62 items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographic postcards. Box 118, folder 4a is from
materials received from the estate in 2015.
box 222, folder 1
Color photographs
Physical Description:
2
items
box 29, 118
Letters
Physical Description:
97
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a black-and-white photographic postcard.
box 222, folder 1
Color photographs
Physical Description:
2
items
box 29, 118
T-V,
1954-1998
Physical Description:
circa 60
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a black-and-white photographic postcard. Box 118, folder 4a is from
materials received from the estate in 2015.
box 118, folder 5
Group cards,
1974-1998
Physical Description:
24
items
Unsigned correspondence/illegible signatures,
1951-1997
box 29, 118, 216*, 217*
Letters
Physical Description:
106
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographic postcards.
box 222, folder 1
Color photographs
Physical Description:
3
items
box 29, 119, 216*
Empty envelopes,
1951-1999
Physical Description:
95
items
box 190
Color photographs
1984-1999,
undated
Physical Description:
57
items
Series III.
Writings,
1905-1999
Physical Description:
14.2 Linear
Feet
(35 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Series III. contains Richards's writing oeuvre. Richards's typescripts, lectures and
poems are found here. There are also manuscripts and notes for various writing projects,
often several draft versions will show the development of a particular piece of her
writing. Clippings of published versions of Richards's writing are filed with the
corresponding typescripts. Series III also contains writing by others submitted to
Richards by colleagues, friends or writers with an academic interest in Richards's
work.
Arrangement
Series is arranged in three subseries: III.A. Writings of M.C. Richards, 1942-1997;
III.B. Poetry of M.C. Richards, 1935-1999; III.C. Writing by Others, 1905-1999.
Series III.A.
Writings of M.C. Richards,
1942-1997,
undated
Physical Description:
5.4 Linear
Feet
(13 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Subseries III.A. comprises Richards's lifetime of writing including her doctoral
dissertation; lectures; articles; typescript drafts of her books:
The Crossing
point
;
Centering;
Toward Wholeness. Often
notes, typescripts and accompanying publication or clipping are included. Richards was
an active contributor to
Craft Horizons;
Studio Potter
and the
Journal of Anthroposophy. She also traveled frequently and
lectured nationally.
Arrangement
Papers are organized in chronological order.
box 30, 120
"Irony in Thomas Hardy,"
1942
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Dissertation typescript; programs for final examination of degree; possible early
draft of dissertation titled "Irony and Affirmation." Richards's dissertation for
doctorate in philosophy at University of California Berkeley.
box 30, 120
"Thomas Hardy's Ironic Vision,"
1947-1949
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Article; published copies.
box 120, folder 3
"To Have Done With The Judgment Of God,"
circa 1947,
1958
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Letter of inquiry; typescript. Original "Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu,"
by Antonin Artaud, translation by Richards.
box 41, 120
"Atlantic Crossing,"
circa
1948
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Letter from
The Paris Review; typescript; journal entries by
Richards. One copy of typescript is annotated by James Leo Herlihy.
box 120, folder 5
"Sari Dienes: Unconventional Use of Print Techniques,"
1956
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Published in
Craft Horizons.
box 120, folder 6
"Dan Rhodes,"
1958
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Published in
Craft Horizons.
box 30, 120
"Antonin Artaud: The Theater and Its Double,"
circa
1960
Physical Description:
circa 25
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts; includes black-and-white photographs of Artaud. Lecture at The Living
Theater. Box 120, folder 7a is from materials received from the estate in 2015.
box 120, folder 8
"Leach: East and West,"
1960
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Published in
Craft Horizons.
box 120, folder 9
"The Bottle Gardens of Sari Dienes,"
1962
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Clipping; publishing dummy. Published in
Craft Horizons.
box 30, 120
"Centering As Dialogue,"
1962,
1964
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Lecture typescripts; clipping. Published in
Craft Horizons.
box 30, 120
"Community Of Men,"
1963
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Magazines; typescript. Published in
Liberation magazine.
box 30, 120
"New Impulse In Education,"
1964
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Magazines; typescripts. Published in
Liberation magazine.
Chanticleer,
1964
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript, score by Seymour Barab, an opera in one act with libretto by M.C.
Richards.
box 120, folder 13-14
Papers
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Program from Sullivan Street Playhouse; typescripts; published copies.
box 70*, folder 4
Oversize
Physical Description:
1
item
box 30-31
Typescripts
Physical Description:
1250
page(s)
box 31, folder 4
Correspondence and contracts regarding
Centering
Physical Description:
35
items
box 31, 121
Centering promotional printed matter and
reviews
Physical Description:
33
items
box 31, folder 6
Centering book jacket
Physical Description:
1
item
box 31, folder 7
World Affairs Camp lecture,
1965
Physical Description:
40
page(s)
box 31, folder 8
"Occupational Therapy,"
1965
Physical Description:
20
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Lecture.
box 31, 121
"From The Inside (Or Fire In The Stone),"
1966
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Lecture at Emerson College.
box 121, folder 3-4
"The Theater Of Antonin Artaud,"
1966
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Published in
Ararat.
box 31,121
"Writing as a Handcraft,"
1966
Physical Description:
13
items
Scope and Content Note
Manuscripts; typescripts; clippings; notes. Published in
Craft
Horizons
as "Thoughts On Writing and Handcraft."
"Nine Easter Ltters On the Art Of Education,"
1967
box 31, folder 11
Lecture notes and drafts
Physical Description:
140
page(s)
box 32, 121
Text of lecture published by Penn State Papers
Physical Description:
2
items
box 121, folder 6
"New Resources,"
1968
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Published in
Ideas.
box 121, folder 7
Introduction to "Seventh Pilot Course Report: New Resources For
Learning,"
1968
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Published in
Report of Pilot Courses Six and Seven.
box 32, folder 2
"Insight 1969,"
1969
Physical Description:
8
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Lecture.
box 32, folder 3
"Some Thoughts About Art And Wholeness In Learning,"
1969
Physical Description:
20
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Lecture.
box 121, folder 8
Early childhood education conference lecture,
1970
Physical Description:
1
item
box 32, 121
"Offering,"
1970
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts; letter from Richards. Lecture.
box 32, folder 5
"Wholeness in Learning, or Non-Toxic Education,"
1970
Physical Description:
100
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Lecture.
box 121, folder 10
American Dance Guild newsletter,
1971
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Review of Carolyn Bilderback performance.
box 32, 121
"Connections,"
1971
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Lecture.
box 32, folder 7
"Community and Art,"
circa
1971
Physical Description:
20
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Lecture.
box 32, folder 8
"Work and Source,"
1971
Physical Description:
40
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Lecture.
box 32, 121
"Wrestling with the Daimonic,"
1971
Physical Description:
4
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Typescript; published copy. Possibly originally a lecture. Published in
Inward Light.
box 32, folder 10
Lectures at Wesleyan and Pendle Hill,
1972-1973
Physical Description:
30
page(s)
The Crossing Point,
circa
1973
box 32, folder 11
Book drafts and items for possible inclusion
Physical Description:
50
page(s)
box 32, folder 12
Articles and head notes
Physical Description:
50
page(s)
box 32, folder 13
Drafts and notes
Physical Description:
300
page(s)
box 32-33
Corrected typescripts
Physical Description:
900
page(s)
box 33, folder 2
Artwork and photos
Physical Description:
50
items
box 33, folder 3
Correspondence, contracts regarding
The Crossing
Point
Physical Description:
35
items
box 33, 122
Reviews of
The Crossing Point
Physical Description:
10
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes review by John Cage.
box 33, folder 5
The Crossing Point: printed
matter
Physical Description:
2
items
box 122, folder 1a
"Creativity and Nativity: The Birth of the Holy Child Clay and Poetry as
Expressions of Spirit the Courage to Create,"
1974
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Virginia Beach Youth Conference.
box 122, folder 2
"Solitude; In-One-Selfness; Transcendence,"
1974
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Published in
Inward Light.
box 122, folder 3
"A Teacher Talks,"
1974
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Published in
The Urban Review.
box 33, 122
"Vessel and the Fire,"
1974-1975
Physical Description:
10
items
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence; typescripts; notes; photocopies of published version. Published in
Evolution of Consciousness: Studies in Polarity and
The
Fabric of the Future
. Also titled as "Separating and Connecting: The
Vessel and The Fire."
box 33, folder 6
"Courage to Create,"
1975
Physical Description:
15
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Lecture.
box 122, folder 5
"Frans Wildenhain,"
1975
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Published in
Craft Horizons. Also includes writing published in
Frans Wildenhain exhibition catalog.
box 122, folder 5a
"Wholeness in Education,"
1975
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Lecture at Juniata College.
box 122, folder 6-7
"Clay and Creativity" or "Clay Journal,"
1976
Physical Description:
9
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts; clippings. "Clay and Creativity" was a lecture at NCECA and "Clay
Journal" is the same text published in
Craft Horizons.
box 122, folder 8
Brookfield lecture,
1976
Physical Description:
1
item
box 122, folder 9
"Clay and the Art of Transformation" or "Creativity, Art and
Transformation,"
1977,
1997
Physical Description:
6
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts; photocopy of published version.
box 122, folder 10
"Haystack,"
1978
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescript; published copy. Content for Haystack promotional catalog.
box 122, folder 11
"That Pure and Riddling Truth,"
1978
Physical Description:
1
item
Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America,
1978-1980,
1989
Scope and Content Note
Many typescripts are titled "Wholeness in Living and Learning."
box 33, folder 10
Notes on Steiner and religion
Physical Description:
40
page(s)
box 33, 123
Notes on Steiner and education
Physical Description:
17
items
box 33, 123
Drafts
Physical Description:
17
items
box 34, folder 1-3
Proofs
Physical Description:
410
page(s)
box 123, folder 7
Other copies
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Excerpt from
Toward Wholeness published in
Creation.
box 34, folder 4
Correspondence regarding
Toward Wholeness
Physical Description:
35
items
box 34, 123
Toward Wholeness reviews
Physical Description:
10
items
box 123, folder 9
Book contract
Physical Description:
1
item
box 33, 123
"Artistic Method in Education,"
1979
Physical Description:
6
items
Scope and Content Note
Lecture.
box 124, folder 1
Book reviews,
1979
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Richards reviews books for
Journal for Anthroposophy.
box 124, folder 2
Eckerd College lecture,
1979 March
7
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Untitled "Chapel talk."
box 33, 124
"Michaelmas: a Festival of the Creative Self,"
1979-1980
Physical Description:
10
items
Scope and Content Note
Manuscripts; typescripts, published versions; schedule from Michaelmas program.
box 124, folder 4
"Search for Spirit,"
1979 April
3
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Lecture given at Eckerd College.
box 124, folder 5
"Art and Religious Consciousness: A New Communion,"
1980
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Promotional information; typescript. Lecture given at Villanova University.
box 124, folder 6
"Public School and the Education of the Whole Person,"
1980
Physical Description:
3
items
box 34, 124
"Wholeness in Living and Learning,"
1980-1981
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Published in
Journal for Waldorf Education and
High
Mowing
.
box 124, folder 8
"Growing Creatively,"
1981
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescript; poems; notes. Lecture for conference at New School.
box 124, folder 8a
"...like Artists in Our Search,"
1981
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Lecture for Danforth Associates.
box 124, folder 9
"A Potter's Truth: Karen Karnes,"
1981
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Essay for exhibition pamphlet.
box 124, folder 10
"To Feel the Whole in Every Part,"
1981
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
For lecture at Danforth Associates.
box 124, folder 11
"Integrating the Realms of Consciousness,"
1982
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript; typed poem. For lecture at John F. Kennedy University.
box 124, folder 12
"John Cage and the Way of the Ear,"
1982
Physical Description:
1
item
box 124, folder 13
"Religious Dimensions In Education,"
1982
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript notes; poem.
box 124, folder 14
"I Was Born Near Hells Canyon,"
1984
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Clipping; letter. Published in
Cold Drill.
box 124, folder 15
"Happy Birthday, Beaver Run,"
1985
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts; letter.
box 125, folder 1-2
"Toward M.C.,"
1985
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescript; clippings; photocopy of published version; class reading compendium.
Published in
Studio Potter.
box 125, folder 3
Book review,
1986
Physical Description:
1
item
box 125, folder 4
Cross-Over: To a New View of Language Verbal and
Non-Verbal
,
1986
Physical Description:
9
items
Scope and Content Note
Catalogs; envelopes. Text for retrospective exhibition catalog from Crossing Point
Gallery.
box 125, folder 5
"A Sense of the Other One,"
1986
Physical Description:
6
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts; notes; letter.
box 125, folder 6
Foreword for
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ,
1988
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts; letters. Book is by Matthew Fox.
box 125, folder 7
"Doodle Dharma,"
1988
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescript; letters.
box 125, folder 7a
"Education As Initiation,"
1988
Physical Description:
1
item
box 125, folder 8
"Pentecost/Whitsun,"
1988
Physical Description:
2
items
box 125, folder 9
Introduction and foreword to the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of
Centering,
1988-1989
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts; letter.
box 125, folder 10
"No More Secondhand Art,"
1989
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescript; letter; fact sheet. Typescript is part of book proposal.
box 125, folder 11
"Clay and Deep Ecology,"
1990
Physical Description:
13
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts; notes. Possibly published in
Studio Potter.
box 125, folder 12
"Creation Spirituality,"
1991
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescript; notes; letter. Talk given at Stony Brook University.
box 125, folder 13
"Rediscovery of Art Through Agriculture,"
1991
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescript; notes.
box 125, folder 14
"After Wholeness What,"
1992
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescript; clippings.
box 125, folder 15
"Crossings Alignments Territories,"
1992
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts; note to Richards.
box 126, folder 1
Foreword to
Feeling the Creative Spirit,
1992
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescript; letter; book description. Book is by Adriana Diaz.
box 126, folder 2
"How Shall We Love,"
1992
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescript; letter. Possibly published in
Living Pulpit.
box 126, folder 3
"Imagination and Authenticity As Doorways To Creation,"
1992
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts. Talk given at Plymouth Church.
box 126, folder 4
"Renewal of Art Through Agriculture,"
1990,
1992
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts; clipping; photocopy of published version. Published in
Creation
Spirituality
and
The Studio Potter.
box 126, folder 5
Preface to
With My Heart in My Mouth,
1993
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts. Book is by Paul Matthews.
box 126, folder 6
Opening Our Moral Eye,
1995-1996
Physical Description:
9
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts; letters.
box 126, folder 7
"Form Out of Nothingness,"
1997
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Clipping. Published in
Studio Potter.
box 126, folder 8
Alias Doctor Snag,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Typescript libretto.
box 126, folder 9-10
André Breton and The Basic Concepts of
Surrealism
,
undated
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts; notes. Original by Michel Carrouges translation by Richards. Project
was never completed.
box 34, folder 8
"Art and Learning to Live,"
undated
Physical Description:
12
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Lecture.
box 34, folder 10
Introduction for Merce Cunningham before a performance,
undated
Physical Description:
2
page(s)
box 34, folder 9
Swarthmore student guild talk,
undated
Physical Description:
25
page(s)
box 126, folder 11
"Think Pilgrimage: Spiritual Voice of Haystack,"
undated
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of typescripts.
box 34, 126
"Thoughts on War and Peace and Violence,"
undated
Physical Description:
10
items
Scope and Content Note
Possibly a lecture.
box 126, folder 13
"Wholeness in Education,"
undated
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescripts. Lecture at unknown institution.
box 127, folder 1
Assorted correspondence,
1978-1981
Physical Description:
19
items
Scope and Content Note
Letters regarding Richards's books.
box 34, 127
Assorted and unidentified writings,
undated
Physical Description:
122
items
Series III.B.
Poetry of M.C. Richards,
1935-1999,
undated
Physical Description:
1.7 Linear
Feet
(5 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Series III.B. holds Richards's poetry manuscripts and poetry typescripts, published
and unpublished, often with annotations and corrections. Some titles of poems are
included but they are not comprehensively listed in the inventory. Richards often
assembled poems into deliberate collections which are represented when identified.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically. Some poems are represented in multiple places because of
differing collections.
box 35, 128
1935-1941
Physical Description:
circa 10
items
Scope and Content Note
Box 128, folder 1 is from ADD3.
box 35, 128
1944-1949
Physical Description:
84
items
Scope and Content Note
"Love Thine Enemy," 1944; "Blue Strikes Like the Head of a Match," 1948. Also
includes poems that comprise Richards's book, self-printed at Black Mountain College
in 1947, see Series I.A.
box 128, folder 2
1950-1954
Physical Description:
6
items
Scope and Content Note
"Sky-Writing," 1950; "Call Fire," 1951; "Journal April, 1951"; "Poem" (published in
Resistance), 1953.
box 128, folder 3
1955
Physical Description:
8
items
Scope and Content Note
"To My New Goat;" "Christmas Poems;" "Winter."
box 35, folder 7
before
1958
Physical Description:
270
page(s)
box 35, 128
1958-1960
Physical Description:
95
items
Scope and Content Note
"Bontonniere," 1958; "Poem," 1958; "April, 1959"; "Letter March 29, 1960;" "Dream
Pentecost," 1960; "Radio Tubes," 1960; "Bird Song," 1960.
box 35, folder 10
"Recovery of the Child in Manhood,"
1959
Physical Description:
30
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Poem, including notes and corrections.
box 35, folder 11-12
after 1960,
undated
Physical Description:
120
page(s)
box 128, folder 5-5a
1961-1965
Physical Description:
circa 6
items
Scope and Content Note
"November 6, 1961;" "Poem to the Lover Who Goes Away for Vacation," 1962; "Pieta,"
1964. Box 128, folder 5a is from materials received from the estate in 2015.
box 128, folder 6
1970-1973
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
"Chief Crazy Horse at Fountain Hall" published in
Cresset, 1971;
"Grandfather of the West," 1971; "Prayer," 1971; "Haiku for Ruth's Birthday,"
1973.
box 128, folder 7-7a
1974-1976
Physical Description:
10
items
Scope and Content Note
"For SM," 1974; "The Door," 1974; "Easter Wind," 1974; "Angels and So Forth," 1974;
"Against Spring," 1974; "The Stars Do Not Accuse," 1974; "Sea Angel," 1976; "Your
name, Florida," 1976.
Box 128, folder 7a is from materials received from the estate in 2015.
box 128, folder 8
1977-1979
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
"Christmas 1977;" "Christmas Poem," 1978; "New Year," 1978; "Seeds of Rubies,"
1978; "Ode to A Duck," 1979.
box 128, folder 9
1980-1981
Physical Description:
19
items
Scope and Content Note
"Walking For PB," 1980; "Poems from Rosaly's Workshop," 1980; "Frans," 1980;
"Christmas," 1980; "For Little Singing Bear," 1981; "For Ursula," 1981; "Dear
Andrew," 1981; "November 8, 1981;" "Behold Behold," 1981; "The Sound of Spring,"
1981.
box 128, folder 10
1983
Physical Description:
32
items
Scope and Content Note
"Potter;" "Poet;" "Apple;" "Homage;" "Autumn Grandeur."
box 128, folder 11-11a
"Flag of Leaves,"
1984
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Poem compilation. Folder 11a is from materials received from the estate in
2015.
box 128, folder 12
1984-1985
Physical Description:
22
items
Scope and Content Note
"Nirvana," 1984; "The Sea Has Wings," 1984; "How to Rake Water," 1984; "MidWinter
Festival," 1985.
box 128, folder 13
"Journal: Agriculture Poetry Recipes,"
1985
November
Physical Description:
1
item
box 128, folder 14
"Poems by Mary Caroline Richards for Paintings by Thomas S.
Buechner,"
1986-1988
Physical Description:
89
items
box 129, folder 1
1986-1987
Physical Description:
10
items
Scope and Content Note
"Chinese Landscape Drawing," 1986; "Summer," 1987; "To the Being of Love,"
1987.
box 129, folder 2
1988
Physical Description:
14
items
Scope and Content Note
"Easterside;" "Good Friday Athlete".
box 129, folder 3
Haystack class work,
1988
Physical Description:
17
items
Scope and Content Note
"Our First Day;" "Sunset;" "Colors".
box 129, folder 4
"Benediction,"
1989
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes copy published in
Creation.
box 129, folder 5-5a
1989
Physical Description:
circa 40
items
Scope and Content Note
"A Merry Marrying Song;" "January 20, 1989;" "February 19, 1989;" "Pelted By
Beauty;" "I Thirst;" "Potter;" "six Christmas Poems." Folder 5a is from materials
received from the estate in 2015.
box 129, folder 6
"Introit,"
1990
Physical Description:
5
item
Scope and Content Note
Includes copy published in
Angels & Mortals: Their Co-Creative
Power
.
box 129, folder 7
1990
Physical Description:
27
items
Scope and Content Note
"A Westerner Visits Australia;" "In Memoriam Sarah Jane Herman;" "Love Poems;" "The
Shaman Comes Home."
box 129, folder 8
Imagine Inventing Yellow, typescripts,
1991
Physical Description:
13
items
Scope and Content Note
Contains poems; drafts of preface; poem lists; letters from publisher; cover
maquette.
box 129, folder 9
1991
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
"They Are Sleeping;" "Dream for Michael Cerveris;" "After the Black Firing."
box 129, folder 10
"Dear John Cage,"
1992
Physical Description:
6
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters. One photocopy of letter to Cage with poem "For John."
box 129, folder 11-11a
1992
Physical Description:
circa 13
items
Scope and Content Note
"A Painting;" "For Burt the Temple Dancer;" "Morning Prayer;" "In the Garden;" "For
Burt The Temple Dancer." Folder 11a is from materials received from the estate in
2015.
box 129, folder 12
"Musical Etudes on the Theme of Hope,"
1993
Physical Description:
3
items
box 129, folder 13
1993
Physical Description:
6
items
Scope and Content Note
"December 20, 1993;" "A Love Poem for Dartmoor;" "Morning Notes;" untitled poem
published in
The Tule.
box 129A, folder 1
"Notes from an Aboriginal Walkabout,"
1994
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes published copies from
Creation Spirituality magazine and
Journal for Anthroposophy.
box 129A, folder 2
1994
Physical Description:
22
items
Scope and Content Note
"Studio Notes;" "Why Do We Think We Have Not Been Here All Along;" "Sweet Corn;"
"Promethea;" "Orientation;" "The Movies;" "Eco-lalia."
box 129A, folder 3
Before the Beginning, typescripts,
1995
Physical Description:
2
items
box 129A, folder 4
1995-1996
Physical Description:
12
items
Scope and Content Note
"For Carolyn Bilderback," 1995; "The Beginning of My 80th Calendar Year," 1996;
"From Note to Diane Di Prima," 1996; "A Painting to Music," 1996; "They Are
Sleeping," 1996.
box 129A, folder 5
Poems
Physical Description:
24
items
Scope and Content Note
"For David Tudor," 1997; "Four Summer Poems," 1997; "Evening Primrose,"
1997-1998; "Poems from Colored Books," 1997; "Family Day," 1997; "Amy's Chalices,"
1998; "Bouquet," 1999.
box 217*, folder 3
Oversize poem
Physical Description:
1
item
box 35, folder 9
Poetry, with analysis by the author,
1957-1960
Physical Description:
4
page(s)
box 130, folder 1
Poetry for unidentified compilation,
1950-1987
Physical Description:
45
items
box 130, folder 2
Christmas poems,
1966-1980,
undated
Physical Description:
31
items
box 130, folder 3
Holy poems,
undated
Physical Description:
3
items
box 35, folder 13
"Just as I suspected,"
undated
Physical Description:
16
page(s)
box 130, folder 4-7a
Poems
Physical Description:
circa 230
items
Scope and Content Note
Folder 7a is from ADD3.
box 217*, folder 4
Oversize poem
Physical Description:
1
item
box 35, folder 14
Assorted handwritten poems,
undated
Physical Description:
30
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Includes notes and sketches. For more Richards's poetry, see also Series I, box 1,
folders 6 and 7.
box 35, 130
Poetry notebooks,
undated
Physical Description:
2
items
box 35, 130
Lists of Richards's poems,
Physical Description:
17
items
Scope and Content Note
Sorted by date and including some publication information.
Series III.C.
Writing by others,
1905-1999,
undated
Physical Description:
7 Linear
Feet
(17 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Subseries III.C. includes manuscripts and typescripts sent to Richards by her
colleagues, friends and parties with an academic interest in her work. Authors include
Owen Barfield, John Cage, Lou Harrison, Dick Higgins, Jackson MacLow, and Charles
Olson. Cage's "Indeterminacy" stories are located in this subseries. Stories 90 to 130
are handwritten with corrections and dedicated to Richards. Occasionally these
manuscripts come with letters, which are filed with the manuscripts. This subseries
also contains research materials used by Richards including writing by Rudolf Steiner
and Karl Koenig.
Arrangement
Papers are organized alphabetically by author name. Assorted papers are filed at the
end of the subseries.
box 36, folder 1
Amelar, Richard,
1966
Physical Description:
15
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Black Mountain College alumnus. Poetry.
box 131, folder 1
Artaud, Antonin,
1923,
1938
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
French typescript for
Le Theatre et son double. Richards translated
into English, see series III.A. Also includes envelope and poems.
box 131, folder 2
Bankson, Marjory Zoet,
1993
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes advanced copy of
This Is My Body: Creativity, Clay, and
Change
; review by Richards.
box 36, folder 2
Barfield, Owen,
1968
Physical Description:
20
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Wesleyan Press author. Untitled lecture on the unconscious.
box 131, folder 3
Bender, Sue,
1998-1999
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters and typescripts for "Evening Primrose;" "How It Began;"
Stretching Lessons: A Journey of the Spirit.
box 36, 131
Berensohn, Paulus,
undated
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Author, potter, artist, weaver, teacher. Includes excerpt from the book
Finding One's Way With Clay; unknown photocopied manuscript;
poem.
box 131, folder 5
Bilderback, Carolyn,
circa
1992
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Bound typescript for
Gatherings From a Dancer's Journal; foreword;
introduction by Richards; press release.
box 36, folder 4-6
Blum, Fred:
End of Secular Man,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Jungian analyst, Quaker, founder of New Era Center. A book of lectures ( 1-10 and
footnotes).
box 131, folder 6
"Four Ways To Develop an Attitude of Love and Service for the Planet,"
typescript
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes letter from Booth to Richards.
box 191, folder 1
Color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
box 36, folder 7
Boyd, Frank: "A Thumbnail History of New York,"
undated
Physical Description:
43
page(s)
Boyd, John M.,
1963,
undated
box 36, folder 8
Notes and a letter of recommendation
Physical Description:
15
page(s)
box 36, folder 9
Carollin
Physical Description:
200
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Novel.
box 36, folder 10
Untitled story
Physical Description:
43
page(s)
box 36, folder 11
"Milling on theRace"
Physical Description:
62
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Play.
box 36, folder 12
"The Veiled Prophet"
Physical Description:
11
page(s)
box 36-37
Poetry
Physical Description:
450
page(s)
box 37, folder 3
A Mirror is Believed
Physical Description:
252
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Novel.
box 37, folder 4
White sheep, white sheep
Physical Description:
235
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Novel.
box 131, folder 7
Brown, Miriam,
1983-1985
Physical Description:
8
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes various newsletters; poetry; essays.
Cable, Herb,
1946-1951,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Black Mountain College alumnus and Richards's student.
box 38, folder 1-3
Notes
Physical Description:
85
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Possibly from Black Mountain College classes. Includes Notes and reports for the
class Psychology of Social Issues and notes and class materials for the class Soil
and Steel, taught by Ray Trayer.
box 38, folder 4
Papers written at Black Mountain College
Physical Description:
9
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Possibly written for Richards.
box 38, folder 5
Poetry
Physical Description:
14
page(s)
box 38, folder 6-7
Previously bound manuscript
Physical Description:
550
page(s)
box 38, folder 8
Bound writings
Physical Description:
100
page(s)
box 39, folder 1-2
Miscellaneous writing
Physical Description:
250
page(s)
box 39, folder 3-4
Notebooks
Physical Description:
130
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Some notebooks have enclosures.
box 39, folder 5
"Short, Short Stuff and Experiment"
Physical Description:
30
page(s)
box 39, folder 6
"Social Action"
Physical Description:
9
items
box 39, folder 7
"After We Stopped for the Wine"
Physical Description:
15
page(s)
box 39, folder 8
"How Is It That You Have To Learn To Write and No One Can Teach
It"
Physical Description:
20
page(s)
box 40, folder 1
"Short Stories"
Physical Description:
100
page(s)
box 40, folder 2
Untitled novel
Physical Description:
307
page(s)
box 40, folder 3
"Winter Surf"
Physical Description:
53
page(s)
box 40, folder 4
"One Way Of Looking at What Otto Rank Says..."
Physical Description:
10
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Essay.
box 40, folder 5
"Acting"
Physical Description:
50
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Essay.
box 40, folder 7
"Pasture In the Springtime Silage In the Fall"
Physical Description:
8
page(s)
box 40, folder 6
Untitled story
Physical Description:
8
page(s)
box 40, folder 8
Cable correspondence (not with Richards)
Physical Description:
40
items
box 40, folder 9
Cable, letters from publishers
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes replies to submissions addressed to various people.
box 40, 132
Cage, John,
circa
1959-1989
Physical Description:
7
items
Scope and Content Note
Composer. "Indeterminacy," stories 90-115, 116-130, in two notebooks, pencil with
corrections, with a signed note; "The Future of Music;" "Centering" a poem for
Richards; preface for
Lecture On The Weather.
box 132, folder 2
Camphill,
1964-1997
Physical Description:
14
items
Scope and Content Note
Various writing describing the Camphill movement or similar work theory as well as
writing and music from Camphill.
box 132, folder 3
Charlip, Remy,
1969-1996
Physical Description:
8
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes "Notes on Differences and Meditation" published in
Dance
Perspectives
;
Ideas For Teaching the Arts to Children;
several copies of "Harlequin and the Gift of Many Colors;" notes for "Harlequin and
the Gift of Many Colors."
box 132, folder 4-5
Connor, Julia,
1982-2005
Physical Description:
40
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes poems, some published; essays; introductions for panel discussions
regarding Richards. See also Assorted C-E, box 41 folder 1.
box 132, folder 6-7
Diamant, Hirsh,
1998
Physical Description:
2
item
Scope and Content Note
Diamant's dissertation "Burning in the Light: Art in Education and Human
Development." Includes evaluation by Richards.
box 40, folder 11
Edmunds, L. Francis: "1965: A Special Goethe Year,"
1965
Physical Description:
28
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Lecture.
box 41, 133
Forczek, Leszek,
1985,
undated
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Artist. Poems. Includes "The Mission of the Poem;" "Colour Comes of Age,"
box 133, folder 2
Green, Jesse,
undated
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
"Trichinae, Poems by Jesse Green" and "Diabolism, Pessimism, and Democracy: Notes
on Melville and Conrad."
box 70*, folder 5
Harrison, Lou,
1951
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Oversize poetry and a small composition dedicated to M.C. Richards, "A Happy
Birthday to M.C.R."
Haynes, Deborah,
1985-1990
box 133, folder 3
Typescripts
Physical Description:
7
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes class papers; typescripts; outline for book. See also Assorted F-H, box
41 folder 5.
box 191, folder 2
Color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
box 133, folder 4
Haystack, poems,
1987-1988
Physical Description:
86
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes originals and photocopies. Also includes some poems by Richards.
box 133, folder 5
Heck, Marsha,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
"Teacher as Artist: A Metaphor Drawn From the Paradigms of M.C. Richards, Maxine
Greene, and Eleanor Duckworth."
box 41, folder 3
Herlihy, James Leo
Physical Description:
19
items
box 41, folder 4
Higgins, Dick,
1959
Physical Description:
60
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Fluxus artist. Includes "Battalions;" "Comments;" "Thirty-Six Points." Many on
index cards ("Battalions"). Also a letter from December 1959.
box 133, folder 6
Hillman, James,
1975
Physical Description:
13
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes typescripts for lectures "Salt, Sulphur, Mercury and Lead;" photocopies of
clippings "Peaks and Vales," "An Inquiry Into Image," "Anima," "The Great Mother,
Her Son, Her Hero, and the Puer," "Fiction of Case History: A Round;" photocopy of
interview in
LA Weekly.
box 133, folder 7
Hoy, Andrew,
1983-1985
Physical Description:
46
items
Scope and Content Note
Contains poems.
Kazanis, Barbara,
1977-1990
box 133, folder 8-10
Typescripts
Physical Description:
37
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes presentation for conference, application for arts therapist; application
for Kellogg fellowship; "The Tree Leads to Roots and Source: Mothers and
Daughters;" "The Dance of Rage;" "The Gift;" "The Arts Are Basic;" "The Burning of
the Witch: From the Theatre of the Soul;" "Nature as Weaver;" "A Small Jurnal
About Part of a Long Journey;" "On Finding and Respecting Our Own Ways of
Grieving;" "Object Arrangement: A Moment of Integrating the Ordinary."
box 191, folder 3
Color slides
Physical Description:
66
items
Scope and Content Note
Slides possibly related to "The Dance of Rage".
box 134, folder 1
Kokis, George,
1983-1990
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes artist statement; "The First Principle of Art;" "Honors Presentation for
M.C. Richards."
box 41, 134
Lane, Mervin,
1959-1987
Physical Description:
12
items
Scope and Content Note
Black Mountain College alumnus. Includes "Going to Town;" "Clustering: A Synthetic
Approach to Learning;" "Smile;" "The Ancient Letters;" "The Pull-Over for a Pregnant
Man" published in
Connexions; poems; journal notes; letters.
box 134, folder 3
Levi, William,
1955
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
"On Being One's Self" published in
Ethics.
box 134, folder 4
Lydon, Susan Gordon,
1996-1997
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes letter from publisher; typescript for
The Knitting
Sutra
.
box 42, folder 2
MacLow, Jackson,
1955,
1959
Physical Description:
35
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Artist, poet. Poems and letters sent. "Biblical Poems," 1955; "Two Three Four,"
1959. Also four letters (two addressed to Richards, one to John Cage, one to David
Tudor.
box 42, folder 3
McConeghy, Howard,
1976
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Art Education Chairman, University of New Mexico. Articles and manuscript. "Art
Education, Art Therapy, Art," "Image and the Imaginal as a Basis for Education
Through Art," "Mythos, Memoria and Imagination" and manuscripts detailing tour of
schools throughout Asia and Europe.
box 134, folder 5
Meriwether, James Scaife,
1989
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Masters thesis "Structures of Infinite Referral: Contemporary Connections in Terms
of a Post-Cartesian Model of Presence."
box 42, folder 4
Mooney, Ross L.,
1955-1971
Physical Description:
25
items
Scope and Content Note
Professor, Ohio State University. Includes various articles and a book of poetry,
Seed for the Morrow.
box 134, folder 6
Moss, Alwyn,
1985-1986
Physical Description:
9
items
Scope and Content Note
Poems.
box 42, 134
Olson, Charles
1951,
undated
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Poet, Black Mountain College rector. "Ode to Nativity," paper was written at Black
Mountain College; "Stocking Cap."
box 134, folder 8
Powell, Mary Clare,
1992
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Dissertation "Creativity and Liberation: A Study of Women Writers and Artists."
box 135, folder 1-2
Roffman, Rosaly,
1981-1994
Physical Description:
48
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes essays; poems;
Going to Bed Whole.
box 135, folder 3
Smith, Page,
1987-1992
Physical Description:
15
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes clippings.
box 135-136
Steiner, Rudolf,
1905-1979
Physical Description:
38
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes photocopies of essays; lecture transcripts.
box 42, folder 7
Supree, Burton,
1970-1973
Physical Description:
100
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Dancer, choreographer. Poetry.
box 136, folder 3
Tassencourt, Shirley,
undated
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Poems; workshop description.
box 136, folder 4
Vermeersch, Brian Charles,
1979
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Dissertation "Tellurian Music: The Holistic Cultivation of Learning."
box 136, folder 5
Walters, Diane,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Essay "Creativity: A Pursuit of the Muse."
box 43, folder 2
Williams, Paul and Vera,
undated
Physical Description:
2
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Architect; wife. Poetry.
Assorted and unidentified papers,
1929-1999
box 37, 136
A-B,
1944-1999
Physical Description:
18
items
box 41, 136
C-E,
1958-1994
Physical Description:
27
items
box 41, 137
F-H,
1951-1998
Physical Description:
38
items
box 42, 137
J-L,
1946-1996
Physical Description:
29
items
box 42, 137-138
M-R,
1929-1997
Physical Description:
circa 57
items
Scope and Content Note
Box 138, folder 1a is from ADD3.
box 43, 138
Letters
Physical Description:
32
items
box 222, folder 2
Color photographs
Physical Description:
15
items
box 43, 138-139
Unidentified,
1960-1993
Physical Description:
85
items
Scope and Content Note
Prose and poetry. Includes items which have more than one contributor.
box 139, folder 1-6
Resource materials
1944-1984
Physical Description:
47
items
Scope and Content Note
Some items identified by Richards as resource materials. Includes annotated copy
of
A Middle English Reader.
Series IV.
Workshops, lectures and exhibitions,
1944-2005
Physical Description:
6.5 Linear
Feet
(17 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Most of the institutions represented in Series IV are schools where Richards was in
residency, where she exhibited, taught or where she lectured. Most lecture texts can be
found in Series III. The bulk of the materials in Series IV are other varied documents
including correspondence related to her work, notes for workshops, works or photos of
works produced by Richards or students during the workshops, and printed matter related
to the institution. In addition, there are papers presented by others at various
education conferences and symposia.
Arrangement
Series IV. is arranged alphabetically by institution.
box 44, folder 1
The Analytical Psychology Club of New York, Inc.,
1975
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Lecture.
Anderson Ranch Arts Center,
1986-1987
box 140, folder 1
Papers
Physical Description:
7
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes contract for instructional services; notes; clipping; postcard.
box 191, folder 4
Color photographs
Physical Description:
9
items
box 140, folder 2
Anthroposophical Society in America,
undated
Physical Description:
7
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes workshop announcement; notes; poems; class work.
box 44, folder 2
Antioch College,
1968
Physical Description:
30
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Danforth Conference. Includes Richards's paper "Current Trends in Education: A
Teacher's Values."
box 140, folder 3
Appalachian State University,
1987-1988
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Contains letters.
box 140, folder 4
Arizona State University,
1990-1991
Physical Description:
38
items
Scope and Content Note
Interdisciplinary Arts Conference.
box 140, folder 5
The Arts Center,
1983-1984
Physical Description:
7
items
Scope and Content Note
St. Petersburg, Florida. Exhibition of paintings and workshop. Includes exhibition
and programming announcements; proposal description; schedule of programming; clipping
from
St. Petersburg Times.
Australia Pottery Workshop,
1993
box 140, folder 6
Papers
Physical Description:
51
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence between Richards and Andrew Turnell; correspondence with
others; workshop promotional materials; poem; memory books; Australia ephemera;
possible workshop reference materials.
box 191, folder 5
Color photographs
Physical Description:
55
items
box 44, folder 3
The Barker School,
1964
Physical Description:
12
items
Scope and Content Note
Pottery classes, Stony Point school.
box 44, 140
Bennington College,
1969
Physical Description:
16
items
Scope and Content Note
Insight '69 conference.
box 44, folder 5
Brookfield Crafts Center,
1978
Physical Description:
30
items
Scope and Content Note
Workshops taught with Paulus Berensohn.
box 44, 140
Camphill Village,
1970-1995
Physical Description:
66
items
Scope and Content Note
Kimberton, PA and Copake, NY locations. Orion Guild Workshop and various talks and
conferences.
box 140, folder 9
Carnegie Institute,
1978-1979
Physical Description:
19
items
Scope and Content Note
The Arts and Education conference. Includes conference announcement; conference
agenda; typescripts for lecture "The Big Art" and published version in
Prism; correspondence; notes; resource articles.
box 140, folder 10
Chester Springs Studio,
1992-1993
Physical Description:
17
items
Scope and Content Note
Exhibition of paintings and workshop. Includes announcements; Chester Springs
newsletters; list of paintings; artist biography; typescript "Some Thoughts About My
Paintings."
box 44, folder 7
City College of New York,
1944-1960
Physical Description:
30
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Richards's English course materials.
box 140, folder 11
Cody's Books,
1997-1998
Physical Description:
15
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes promotional materials; clippings; poems.
box 140, folder 12
College of St. Benedictus,
1975
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes lecture announcement; typescript for "Wholeness in Education."
box 44, folder 8
Conference on the Role of the Arts in Education (Niagara Falls,
NY),
1966
Physical Description:
6
items
Crossing Point Gallery,
1986-1987
box 140, folder 1-4
Papers
Physical Description:
156
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes papers related to retrospective exhibition; black-and-white photographs of
work from exhibition; publication and sale of
Clay and Words,
1952-1986
, handmade edition/catalog by Vernacular Editions.
box 191, folder 6
Color photographs and black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
21
items
D.H. Lawrence Ranch,
1976
Scope and Content Note
Active Imagination workshop.
box 47, folder 5
Papers
Physical Description:
20
page(s)
box 191, folder 7
Color slides
Physical Description:
18
items
box 44, folder 9
Drew University/Columbia University Teacher's College,
1982
Physical Description:
10
items
Scope and Content Note
A conversation with David Bohm and Owen Barfield, sponsored by the Kettering
Foundation.
box 141, folder 5
Duke University,
1987-1988
Physical Description:
33
items
Scope and Content Note
Exhibition; poetry reading; workshop; book signing. Includes letters; announcements;
loan agreement; notes; clippings; black-and-white photographs.
box 44, folder 10-11
Eastern Washington State College,
1969-1970
Physical Description:
180
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
"Some Thoughts About Art and Wholeness in Learning," and cross-over workshop.
box 44, 141
Eckerd College,
1979
Physical Description:
8
items
Scope and Content Note
"Feminine Dimensions of Divinity." Includes typescript for chapel talk;
correspondence.
box 44, folder 13
Emerson College (Sussex, England),
1966
Physical Description:
50
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
"From the Inside, or Fire in the Stone" and other materials.
box 44, folder 14
Festival of Kiln Building and Pottery Making (Uniondale, PA),
1968
Physical Description:
15
page(s)
box 45, folder 1
Finegold Ranch School,
1969
Physical Description:
40
page(s)
box 45, folder 2
Fort Wright College,
1974
Physical Description:
40
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Holy Names Medal awarded to Richards.
box 141, folder 7-7a
Friends of Creation Spirituality,
1989
Physical Description:
circa 23
items
Scope and Content Note
Conference, "Freeing the Imagination." Includes promotional pamphlet; copies of
typescript introduction given by Merce Cunningham; copies of typescript talk given by
Matthew Fox. Folder 7a is from materials received from the estate in 2015.
box 45, folder 3
Goddard College,
1976
Physical Description:
8
items
Scope and Content Note
Clay workshop.
box 141, folder 8
Greenwich House Pottery,
1981
Physical Description:
3
items
box 45, 141
The Hambidge Center,
1978-1985
Physical Description:
26
items
box 45, folder 5
Haverford College,
1971, 1973
Physical Description:
60
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology, "Wrestling with the Daimonic."
box 45-46
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts,
1965
Physical Description:
375
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Richards on faculty, board of trustees. Includes "Writing as a Handcraft," some
black-and-white photographs, correspondence.
box 141, folder 10
Hui No'Eau,
1994
Physical Description:
14
items
Scope and Content Note
Creativity in clay, color and words workshop. Includes letters, notes, newsletter,
artwork.
Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality,
1986-1997
box 142, folder 1-4
Papers
Physical Description:
155
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes course schedules; course descriptions; faculty lists; announcements;
newsletters.
box 191, folder 8-9
Assorted color photographs
Physical Description:
47
items
box 142, folder 5
Ireland workshop papers
Physical Description:
25
items
box 191, folder 11
Ireland workshop color photographs
Physical Description:
12
items
box 142, folder 6
Kirkridge,
1990-1992
Physical Description:
32
items
box 142, folder 7
Montclair State College,
1986
Physical Description:
16
items
Scope and Content Note
Conference. "The Many Faces of Thought: Letters, Logic, Monitors, Muses."
box 142, folder 8
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
1984-1988
Physical Description:
16
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes papers related to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Naropa Institute,
1989-1990
Scope and Content Note
Keynote address for conference: "Nourishing the Teacher." "Creativity, Clay and
Words" workshop.
box 142, folder 9
Papers
Physical Description:
25
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters; employment agreements; announcements; newsletters; typescript;
possibly class work.
box 191, folder 11
Color photographs
Physical Description:
15
items
box 143, folder 1
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts,
1976-2005
Physical Description:
42
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes typescript for talk by Richards from 1976 conference; letters and papers for
1990 conference; papers for 2005 conference, Julia Connor participates on panel "M.C.
Richards's Influence on the Evolution of Ceramic Pedagogy."
box 46, folder 3-4
The New Era Centre,
1967
Physical Description:
90
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Various seminars, including "Centering" by Richards. Assorted, including
correspondence from Fred Blum.
Nonagon Gallery,
1958-1960
box 143, folder 2-2a
Papers
Physical Description:
circa 28
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographs; press release; exhibition announcements.
Folder 2a is from materials received from the estate in 2015.
box 192, folder 1
Color photographs
Physical Description:
2
items
Omega Institute,
1986-1998
box 143, folder 3
Papers
Physical Description:
23
items
box 192, folder 2-3
Color photographs and slides
Physical Description:
24
items
box 143, folder 4-5
Organization Development Network,
1985
Physical Description:
12
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes presentation proposals; presenter guidelines; conference program; conference
papers.
box 143, folder 6
Orion Guild,
1999
Physical Description:
2
items
Pendle Hill,
circa
1962-1996
Scope and Content Note
Various workshops and materials.
box 46, 143
Letters
Physical Description:
42
items
box 222, folder 3
Color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
box 46, 144
Penland School of Crafts,
1966-1987
Physical Description:
86
items
Scope and Content Note
"Cross-Over;" "Cross-Over" correspondence; miscellaneous. Includes copy of "Black
Mountain College, a Golden Seed," published in
Penland Journal.
box 46, 144
Perkins School,
1974-1976
Physical Description:
36
items
Scope and Content Note
"Seminar '76," including original artwork and black-and-white photographs.
box 144, folder 4
Philbrook Museum of Art,
1987
Physical Description:
8
items
Scope and Content Note
Lecture in conjunction with
Eloquent Object exhibition.
box 46, folder 10
Project Create,
1968
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Connecticut elementary arts program.
box 47, folder 1
Reed and Boone Colleges,
1969
Physical Description:
11
items
Scope and Content Note
Proposal for "Cross-Over" programs.
box 47, folder 2
Regina Laudis Monastery,
1969
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
"Seminar Pentecost 1969."
box 47, 144
Reynolda House,
1980
Physical Description:
51
items
Scope and Content Note
Symposium with Richards.
Rudolf Steiner Institute workshops,
1974-1995
box 47, 144
Papers
Physical Description:
64
items
Scope and Content Note
"Creativity in Clay and Words" and "Creative Writing and the Zodiac."
box 192, folder 4
Color slides
Physical Description:
25
items
box 144, folder 7
Schumacher College,
1992-1993
Physical Description:
40
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes a black-and-white photograph.
box 144, folder 8
Southern Methodist University,
1987
Physical Description:
13
items
Scope and Content Note
Merce Cunningham Symposium.
St. John the Divine,
1982-1994
box 144, folder 9
Papers
Physical Description:
20
items
box 192, folder 5
Color photographs and slides
Physical Description:
37
items
box 144, folder 10
Studio Potter Foundation,
1987-1988
Physical Description:
13
items
Scope and Content Note
Symposium at New York University, "The Case for Clay in Secondary Education."
box 47, folder 5
Taos University
1976
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes "Active imagination" notes.
box 144, folder 11
Tarrytown Group,
1985
Physical Description:
22
items
Scope and Content Note
Conference. "The Education Explosion: New Working mModels."
box 47, folder 6
Teachers's workshop,
1973
Physical Description:
25
page(s)
Scope and Content Note
Location unknown.
University of Creation Spirituality,
1997-1999
box 144, folder 12-12a
Papers
Physical Description:
circa 26
items
Scope and Content Note
Folder 12a is from materials received from the estate in 2015.
box 192, folder 6
Color photographs
Physical Description:
11
items
box 47, 144
University of Letheridge,
1969-1970
Physical Description:
18
items
Scope and Content Note
Artist-in-residence. Includes black-and-white photographs.
box 47, folder 8
University of London/Goldsmith's College Curriculum Laboratory,
1967
Physical Description:
2
items
box 47, 144
University of New Mexico,
1974-1983
Physical Description:
9
items
Scope and Content Note
"Workshop in Art, Therapy, Myth, Symbol," 1974; "Connecting With the Image: Image and
the Imaginal in Art Education," 1976.
box 144, folder 15
University of North Carolina, Greensboro,
1983-1986
Physical Description:
7
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes typescript of Richards's introduction; announcements; letters; possibly
lecture manuscript.
University of Oregon,
1972-1992
box 47, 144
Papers
Physical Description:
40
items
Scope and Content Note
Personality-in-residence; Artist in residence; lecturer. Includes black-and-white
photographs from clay workshop.
box 192, folder 7
Color slides
Physical Description:
41
items
box 145, folder 1
Virginia Tech,
1997
Scope and Content Note
Exhibition,
Creation and Cosmos and workshop. Includes letters; lists
of works; description of works; curriculum vitae.
box 145, folder 1a
Waldorf School,
1956, undated
Physical Description:
10
items
Scope and Content Note
From materials received from the estate in 2015.
Wayne Art Center,
1996
Scope and Content Note
Exhibition
M.C. Richards: Selected Paintings (acrylic on paper) and
Ceramics
.
box 145, folder 2
Papers
Physical Description:
8
items
box 192, folder 8
Color photographs
Physical Description:
141
items
box 145, folder 3
Women's Foundation, Herbst Theater,
1994
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Typescript for Richards's introduction to Brian Swimme and Matthew Fox
presentation.
Worcester Center for Crafts,
1999
box 145, folder 4
Papers
Physical Description:
21
items
box 193, folder 1
Color photographs
Physical Description:
111
items
box 47, folder 12
World Affairs Camp, American Friends Service Committee,
1965
Physical Description:
25
page(s)
box 47, folder 13
Writer's Committee meeting at Columbia University,
1966
Physical Description:
20
page(s)
Assorted items and class work,
1961-1999
Scope and Content Note
Some papers and photographs were only partially identified, others were too small to
be culled out and were filed here.
box 145, folder 5
A-C,
1970-1997
Physical Description:
42
items
Scope and Content Note
Abington Art Center; American Craft Council; Ball State University; Bethel College;
Bethlehem Center; California College of Arts and Crafts; California Institute of
Integral Studies; Cane Creek Studio; Cheney College; Common Boundary; The Cornell
Pot Shop; Creative Art Center for Older Adults.
box 145, folder 6
D-K,
1982-1999
Physical Description:
73
items
Scope and Content Note
Dia Art Foundation; Endicott College; Evergreen State College; Findhorn Foundation;
First Unitarian Church; Gaia Bookstore; Hollyhock; Holy Names College; Institute for
the Development of Intercultural Relations Through Art; Indiana University of
Pennsylvania; Interface; John F. Kennedy University.
box 145, folder 7
L-S,
1967-1998
Physical Description:
28
items
Scope and Content Note
Lenapehocking Bioregional Council; Life Enterprises; Marble Collegiate Church; New
Learning Institute; Princeton; Pyramid Atlantic; Quaker Center; Shropshire Adult
College; Syracuse Ceramic Guild; Swarthmore College.
box 145, folder 8
T-Z,
1976-1998
Physical Description:
29
items
Scope and Content Note
Temple University; Tredyffrin/Easttown School District; Triform; University of
Delaware; University of Maine at Machias; Ursuline College; Valencia Community
College; Vermont Clay Studio; Virginia Humanities Conference.
box 146, folder 1
Unidentified,
1979-1996
Physical Description:
24
items
Class work and creativity books,
1977-1998
box 146-148
Papers and books
Physical Description:
243
items
box 193, folder 2
Books with color photographs
Physical Description:
5
items
box 48, folder 1
Lecture notes for various lectures/workshops given by Richards,
1973-1981
Physical Description:
30
page(s)
box 48, folder 2
Materials for various classes/workshops,
1968-1986
Physical Description:
22
items
box 48, folder 3
Analysis of conference/workshop results, by Richards and
others,
1967-1982
Physical Description:
9
items
box 48, folder 4
Academic/conference papers and talks, not by Richards,
1964-1976
Physical Description:
13
items
box 48, folder 5
Materials from various educators and classes,
1965-1966
Physical Description:
7
items
box 193, folder 3
Assorted color photographs, slides and negatives,
1961-1994
Physical Description:
110
items
Series V.
Clippings and ephemera,
1951-2003
Physical Description:
13.17 Linear
Feet
(17 boxes and 1 flatfile
folder)
Scope and Content Note
Series V includes ephemera and clippings often comprised of promotional material for
schools or workshops, religious organizations, and other groups. There are printed art
exhibition and concert materials, clippings, and commercial catalogs as well.
Promotional materials regarding M.C. Richards, John Cage, Merce Cunningham and David
Tudor are found in this series.
Arrangement
Series is organized alphabetically by subjects, individuals or institutions.
box 149, folder 1-2
Agriculture and ecology,
1973-1997
Physical Description:
50
items
box 149, folder 3
American Craft Council,
1979-1993
Physical Description:
6
items
Scope and Content Note
Richards received award of distinction for her book.
box 52, 149
Anthroposophy and Rudolf Steiner,
1961-1997
Physical Description:
175
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes related adult education materials; Rudolf Steiner Farm School; Steiner
conferences, festivals, seminars; Anthroposophical newsletters; promotional material;
Anthroposophic press.
box 53, 150
Fairs,
1967-1991
Physical Description:
23
items
box 53, 150
Invitations and exhibition ephemera,
1955-2003
Scope and Content Note
See also Individual artists or Museums for additional invitations and exhibition
ephemera. Includes
Disciples of Reenchantment
exhibition catalog and CD-Rom (D1). 1 computer disc (CD-ROM) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Disc is unavailable for reformatting.
box 50, 150
Schools and workshops,
1967-1997
Physical Description:
65
items
box 53, folder 4
Newsletters,
1967-1982
Physical Description:
12
items
box 53, folder 9
Assorted ephemera,
1965-1986
Physical Description:
16
items
box 150, folder 4
Berensohn, Paulus,
1979-1981
Physical Description:
5
items
box 150, folder 5
Buechner, Thomas S.,
1988-1992
Physical Description:
9
items
box 150, folder 6-7
Cage, John,
1958-1995
Physical Description:
75
items
Scope and Content Note
Many items from
Rolywholyover A Circus, exhibition; Los Angeles
Festival, Cage Celebration.
box 150, folder 8
Cage, John and Merce Cunningham,
1953-1986
Physical Description:
11
items
Scope and Content Note
Cage and Cunningham were frequent collaborators.
box 51, 151
Camphill Special Schools,
1963-1999
Physical Description:
138
items
box 52, 151
C.G. Jung Foundation,
1966-1990
Physical Description:
28
items
box 55, 151
Charity solicitations,
1975-1998
Physical Description:
37
items
box 50, 151
Colleges, assorted,
1963-1997
Physical Description:
37
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes some items from Reed College, Richards's alma mater.
box 151, folder 7
Connor, Julia,
1986-1998
Physical Description:
19
items
Cunningham, Merce,
1955-1999
box 152, folder 1
Papers
Physical Description:
40
items
box 193, folder 4
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description:
3
items
box 51, 152
Education for handicapped, elderly,
1980-1997
Physical Description:
22
items
box 54, 152
Education ephemera,
1961-1994
Physical Description:
11
items
box 49, 152
Emerson College,
1964-1986
Physical Description:
10
items
box 50-51, 152
Experimental or non-mainstream schools and workshops,
1957-1996
Physical Description:
53
items
box 53, folder 8
Experiments in Arts and Technology (E.A.T.),
1967-1969
Physical Description:
2
items
box 54, 152
Feminism ephemera,
1969-1998
Physical Description:
11
items
box 152, folder 7
Foundation School,
1989-1990
Physical Description:
9
items
Scope and Content Note
School is associated with Ojai Foundation.
box 51, folder 3
Fountain Center psychiatric half-way houses,
1963-1973
Physical Description:
12
items
box 152, folder 8-8a
Fox, Matthew,
1988-1998
Physical Description:
circa 37
items
Scope and Content Note
Folder 8a is from ADD3.
box 50, 152
Grade schools,
1967-1990
Physical Description:
9
items
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts,
1960-1990
box 49, 152-153
Papers
Physical Description:
156
items
Scope and Content Note
Richards was a trustee on the board at Haystack. Papers include board meeting
documentation; promotional materials; newsletters; clippings.
box 73*, folder 3
Oversize clippings and promotional materials
Physical Description:
40
items
box 54, 153
Herlihy, James Leo,
1958-1971
Physical Description:
8
items
box 53, 153
Individual artists's promotional material,
1963-1998
Physical Description:
106
items
Scope and Content Note
For group shows or other exhibitions see Arts/crafts invitations and exhibition
ephemera; Museum ephemera.
box 154, folder 1
James, Charity,
1976
Physical Description:
2
items
box 154, folder 2
Kazanis, Barbara,
1983-1993
Physical Description:
19
items
box 154, folder 3
Kremen, Irwin,
1978-1996
Physical Description:
17
items
box 154, folder 4
Morton, James Parks,
1983-1997
Physical Description:
20
items
Scope and Content Note
Also includes ephemera related to Cathedral of St. John the Divine. See Religious
ephemera for more on Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
box 53, 154
Museum ephemera,
1965-1999
Physical Description:
17
items
box 154, folder 6
Papers
Physical Description:
21
items
box 193, folder 5
Color photographs
Physical Description:
15
items
box 49, 155
Pendle Hill,
1956-1988
Physical Description:
8
items
box 50, 155
Performing arts,
1973-1999
Physical Description:
9
items
box 54, 155
Political ephemera,
1965-1995
Physical Description:
11
items
box 54a, 155
Publishing companies,
1951-1999
Physical Description:
43
items
box 53, 155
Quaker ephemera,
1958-1988
Physical Description:
18
items
box 51, 52, 53, 155
Religious ephemera,
1963-1999
Physical Description:
63
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes newsletters and items regarding communes; experimental communities.
box 155, folder 7
Rhodes, Daniel,
1965-1989
Physical Description:
14
items
Richards, M.C.,
1955-2004
box 49, 155
Promotional material and announcements,
1960-1999
Physical Description:
109
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes reviews of talks given by Richards.
box 73*, folder 2
Promotional posters,
1975
Physical Description:
10
items
box 49, 155-156
Clippings,
1955-1997,
undated
Physical Description:
132
items
box 49, folder 4
Printed matter featuring writing by Richards,
1968-1975
Physical Description:
10
items
Scope and Content Note
See also series III.A writing by M.C. Richards.
box 156, folder 2
The Fire Within,
2003-2004
Physical Description:
44
items
Scope and Content Note
Film by Richard Kane. Includes correspondence; proposals; announcements; clippings;
scripts.
box 156, folder 3
Riddick, Tut Altman,
1977-1985
Physical Description:
6
items
box 156, folder 4
Rigg, Margaret,
1990
Physical Description:
3
items
box 156, folder 5
Roffman, Rosaly,
1986-1994
Physical Description:
4
items
box 156, folder 6
Rudolf Steiner College,
1981-1982
Physical Description:
8
items
box 156, folder 7
Rudolf Steiner Institute,
1962-1985
Physical Description:
33
items
Small Press poetry ephemera,
1961-1975
box 49, folder 5
Papers
Physical Description:
17
items
box 70*, folder 6
Ian Hamilton Finlay calendar
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Published by Jargon Press.
box 70*, folder 7
Oversize
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
"The Water Mirror XXII," a poem by Ron Bayes, signed, published by Curveship Press,
1975; "Fire," a journal printed by the Poet's and Painters Press.
box 156, folder 8
Smith, Page and Eloise,
1987-1995
Physical Description:
15
items
box 156, folder 9
Supree, Burton,
1992
Physical Description:
4
items
box 50, folder 4
Symposium or conference ephemera,
1967-1985
Physical Description:
10
items
box 53, 157
Theater ephemera,
1951-1972
Physical Description:
6
items
box 54-54a, 157
Tudor, David,
1952-1997
Physical Description:
88
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes items on modern music in general and programs for concerts unrelated to
David Tudor.
box 157, folder 3
Tudor, David and John Cage,
1955-1962
Physical Description:
7
items
box 49, folder 9-10
University of London, Goldsmith's College,
1965-1969
Physical Description:
26
items
box 157, folder 4
Voulkos, Peter,
1995-1996
Physical Description:
3
items
box 51, 157
Waldorf Schools,
1966-1997
Physical Description:
28
items
box 50, folder 1
Warren Wilson College,
1974-1978
Physical Description:
6
items
box 54, 157
Clippings,
1958-1997
Physical Description:
circa 115
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes ephemera to M. C. Richards' memorial celebration. Box 157, folder 9 is
from ADD3.
box 55, folder 1
Printed catalogs or advertisements,
1961-1981
Physical Description:
36
items
Scope and Content Note
Bulk of the items are pottery tools sales materials.
box 55, 157
Various printed matter,
1954-1998
Physical Description:
circa 100
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographic postcards. Box 157, folder 7a is from
materials received from the estate in 2015.
Series VI.
Diaries and notes,
1948-1999,
undated
Physical Description:
11.3 Linear
Feet
(23 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Series VI contains Richards's diaries and notebooks as well as loose notes.
Professional as well as personal notes are present. Various inserts often comprised of
correspondence, clippings or organic materials have been retained in this series and are
interleaved within note pages. Notepads, notebooks, and loose note pages should be
handled carefully so context of interleaving is not lost.
Arrangement
Series is arranged in chronological order.
box 56, folder 1
1948-1949
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Includes one diary "European trip," volume with inserts, circa 140 pages and a
black-and-white photograph.
box 158, folder 1
circa 1940s
Physical Description:
105
items
Scope and Content Note
Index note cards on Thomas Hardy probably related to Richards dissertation. Includes
original housing.
box 56, folder 2
1957
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes diaries "Mexican trip," one volume, one small notebook, and inserts, circa
180 pages.
box 61, folder 5
Dream notes
Physical Description:
300
items
box 61, folder 9
Class materials notes
Physical Description:
7
items
box 61, folder 4, 8
Assorted journal pages
Physical Description:
130
items
box 62, folder 2
Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner and related subjects
Physical Description:
150
items
box 56, folder 3-5
Assorted notebooks
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes notebook/diary, 1958, 1960, one volume and inserts, circa 250 pages;
notebook/diary, 1958-1959, one volume and inserts, circa 180 pages; notebook/diary,
1959, 1962 one volume and inserts, circa 150 pages.
box 158, folder 2-6
1964-1965
Physical Description:
156
items
Scope and Content Note
Journal pages; one notebook; one small notebook (Black Island). Includes notes
addressed to Arthur Josephson; dream notes; winter, New York City notes. Box 158,
folder 4a is from materials received from the estate in 2015.
box 62, folder 4
Notes relating to Marshall McLuhan
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes newspaper article.
box 56-57
Assorted notebooks
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes notebook/diary, summers of 1965, 1966, one volume and inserts, circa 100
pages; notebook/diaries, 1966, two volumes and inserts, circa 400 pages; notebooks,
1966 two small notebooks, circa 60 pages.
box 57, folder 2-5
1967
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes notebook/diary, January-February 1967, one volume and inserts, circa 200
pages; notebook/diary, February-June 1967, one volume and inserts, including two
black-and-white photographs, circa 130 pages; notebook/diary, June-October 1967, one
volume and inserts, circa 120 pages; notebook/diary, 1967, one volume and inserts,
circa 200 pages.
Goldsmiths notebook,
1967
box 158, folder 7
Papers
Physical Description:
1
item
box 169
Notebook cover and fabric artbook
Physical Description:
2
items
box 57, folder 6-7
1968
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes notebooks, January-May 1968, two volumes and inserts, circa 200 pages;
notebook and diary, March-July 1968, two volumes, circa 120 pages.
box 158, folder 8
1968-1969
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
One notebook.
box 58, 158
1969-1971
Physical Description:
6
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes notebook/diary, 1969, one volume, circa 200 pages; notebook/diary,
(University of Letheridge, Canada) Winter 1969-1970, one volume and inserts, circa 200
pages; notebook/diary, June 1970-April 1971, one volume and inserts, circa 350 pages;
notebook/diary, April-October 1971, one volume and inserts, circa 300 pages;
notebook/diary, October-December 1971, one volume and inserts, circa 120 pages; notes
possibly from Cheney 1970, Cross-Over workshop, Women's physical education.
box 62, folder 8
Notes on "Writing as a handcraft"
Physical Description:
7
items
box 59, 159
Assorted notebooks and notepads
Physical Description:
73
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes notebooks, circa 1971-1972, one volume, one notepad and insert, circa 100
pages; notebook/diary, January-April 1972, one volume and insert, circa 250 pages;
notebook/diary, April-October 1972, one volume and inserts, circa 250 pages;
notebook/diary, October 1972-January 1974, one volume and inserts, circa 300 pages;
diary, March-October 1974, one volume, circa 100 pages; one notebook, circa 1972;
note pages on Steiner seals; notebook on Charlip's
Harlequin and the gift of
many colors
; one notebook, circa 1973; one notebook, 1974; notes on Dr.
Soltanoff's dietary studies, 1974.
box 60, folder 1-3
1975-1976
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes notebook, 1975, one volume and insert, circa 40 pages; notebook/diary,
November 1974-April 1976, one volume and insert, circa 200 pages; notebook/diary,
summer 1976, one notepad and insert, circa 100 pages.
box 60, 159
Notebooks and notepad
Physical Description:
9
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes notepad; notebook, May-October 1977, one volume, circa 180 pages;
notebook/diary, June 1976-June 1977, one volume and inserts, circa 180 pages;
notebook, December 1977-March 1978, one notepad, circa 125 pages; notebook, October
1977, "The First Class of the Free High School of Spiritual Science;" one notebook,
January 1977.
box 194
Notebook with color photographs
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Contains one notebook, University of South Florida, 1978.
box 160, folder 1-4
1978-1980
Physical Description:
8
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes one journal notebook, 1978-1979, with inserts; one notebook, November 15,
1979, "Cultural Festival for Farmers and Gardeners;" one notebook; February-March,
1979, Eckerd College; one notebook, 1979, "Myth-Sarasota;" one notebook, August 12-21,
1979, Waldorf Teachers's Conference; one notebook, University of Oregon, 1979 and
Rudolf Steiner College, 1980.
box 60-61, 161
Assorted notebooks
Physical Description:
19
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes notebook, March-August 1980, one volume and inserts, circa 110 pages;
notebook, January-August 1980, one volume and inserts, circa 80 pages; notebook,
1981, one volume and inserts, circa 100 pages; notebook, 1983, one volume, circa 40
pages; one notebook December 25, 1980-1981; pages of notes from Rudolf Steiner
College; note pages, October 23, 1983, Kimberton Hills.
box 195, folder 1
Notebook with color photographs
Physical Description:
1
item
box 162, folder 1-3
1983-1984
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes one notebook, March 17, 1983; one notebook, November 29, 1984; one notebook,
1984, "Beginning with Palm Sunday;" one notebook, 1980-1984.
box 162, folder 4
1985
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
One notepad.
box 163, folder 1-4
Assorted notebooks
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes one notebook, 1987, "Poetry, Kimberton Hills;" one notebook, 1986,
Kimberton.
box 170
Large notebook
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Contains one notebook, June 1986-1988, Haystack.
box 163, folder 5-7
1989-1990
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes one notebook, December 19, 1989-January 26, 1990, Kimberton, Pa; one
notebook June-September 1990, Omega, Boulder, Albuquerque; one notebook, Camphill
Village.
box 164, folder 1-9
Assorted notebooks
Physical Description:
28
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes one notebook, Fall 1990-January 1991, Art-Agriculture; one notebook,
1991-1992; one notebook 1991-1993; one notebook, July 1992, Ireland; one notebook,
1993, ICCS; one notebook, 1993, Australia; loose note pages on agriculture; loose
note pages, 1992, "Matthew Fox at Kirkridge;" loose note pages July 1992,
Sussex.
box 195, folder 2
Notebook with color photographs
Physical Description:
1
item
box 165, folder 1-2
Assorted notebooks
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes notebooks and guest book.
box 196, folder 1
Notebook with color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
box 165, folder 3-7
1995-1997
Physical Description:
12
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes notepads; one notebook, 1995, Italy, one notebook, December 1996-February
1997, Florida, St. Petersburg.
box 166, folder 1-6
Assorted notebooks and notepads
Physical Description:
12
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes notepads; one notebook, 1997-1998; one notebook, 1998-1999; one notebook,
1999; one notebook, May 1999, Kimberton; one diary, 1999.
box 196, folder 2
Notebook with color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
box 62, folder 1
Anthroposophy notebooks,
undated
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Two notepads and inserts, circa 60 pages.
box 62, folder 3
Notes relating to Jung,
undated
Physical Description:
25
items
box 62, folder 6
Notes copied from reading,
undated
Physical Description:
120
items
box 62, folder 7
Notes on German language,
undated
Physical Description:
3
items
box 61, 62, 167-168
Assorted,
1959-1980,
undated
Physical Description:
486
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes four notebooks, small volumes, circa 120 pages; seven notepads and inserts,
circa 150 pages. Includes possibly Black Mountain College-era notes.
Series VII.
Artwork,
1955-1998,
undated
Physical Description:
23.42 Linear
Feet
(12 boxes and 1 flatfile
folder)
Scope and Content Note
Series VII contains artwork by established artists Lyle Bongé, Sari Dienes, Joe Fiore,
Les Forczek, and Louisa Jenkins, although the majority is by Richards. Richards's art
inventories and price lists are also filed here.
Arrangement
Series VII is organized alphabetically by artist.
Berensohn, Paulus,
1983-1995,
undated
box 171, folder 1-3
Artworks
Physical Description:
43
items
box 216*, 218*
Oversize artwork
Physical Description:
3
items
box 63, folder 5
Bongé, Lyle,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photograph.
box 171, folder 4
Connor, Julia,
1984
Physical Description:
2
items
box 63, 171
Dienes, Sari,
undated
Physical Description:
2
items
box 73*, folder 6
Fiore, Joe,
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Black Mountain College Alumnus.
box 63, folder 7
Forczek, Les,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Ink drawing.
box 216*, folder 5
Fox, Matthew,
undated
Physical Description:
3
items
box 171, folder 6
Haynes, Deborah,
1981-1988
Physical Description:
3
items
box 63, folder 8
Jenkins, Louisa,
1969-1973
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Contains artwork and exhibition catalog.
flatfile 1**
Johns, Jasper,
1960
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Print, signed and dated. A poster for an exhibition in Paris, sent by mail and
addressed to John Cage.
box 171, folder 7
Johnson, Ray,
1955-1956
Physical Description:
17
items
Josephson, Arthur,
1960-1963,
undated
box 171-172
Artworks
Physical Description:
48
items
Scope and Content Note
Box 172, folder 1 is from ADD3.
box 216*, folder 6
Oversize artworks
Physical Description:
1
item
box 217*, folder 5
Labes, Mimi,
undated
Physical Description:
10
items
box 217*, folder 6
Margolis, Andy,
undated
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Note enclosed indicates Margolis was Richards's student at Camphill.
Richards, M.C.,
1961-1997,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of Richards's artworks can be found in series VIII.
box 63, 172
Artworks,
1961-1980,
undated
Physical Description:
circa 48
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes rolled drawing, "Moving Poems," drawings in crayon with words on paper
circa 6 feet long and black-and-white photographs. Box 172, folder 6a is from
materials received from the estate in 2015.
box 63, 172
Sketchbooks,
1982,
undated
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Three books and inserts.
box 63, folder 4
Book mock-ups,
1980
Physical Description:
11
items
box 63, 173
Art inventories and price lists,
1981-1997,
undated
Physical Description:
28
items
box 222, folder 4
Color Photograph,
Physical Description:
1
item
box 71*, folder 1-2
Assorted
Physical Description:
45
items
box 71*, folder 3
Early watercolors
Physical Description:
20
items
box 71*, folder 4
Handmade paper and books, Haystack
Physical Description:
13
items
Scope and Content Note
Items are by Richards and possibly her students.
box 73*, 76*
Other artwork from Haystack
Physical Description:
5
items
box 72*, folder 9
Calligraphy examples from Reed College
Physical Description:
2
items
box 73*, folder 5
Other calligraphy and artwork
Physical Description:
9
items
box 172, folder 8
Rigg, Margaret,
1971,
undated
Physical Description:
4
items
box 172, folder 9
Treser, C.M.,
1998
Physical Description:
1
item
box 172, folder 9a
Williams, Jonathan,
1999
Scope and Content Note
From ADD3.
flatfile 1**
Wood, John,
1980
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Signed paintings by John Wood from Haystack.
box 63, folder 10
Children's artwork,
1968,
undated
Physical Description:
7
items
box 63, 172, 71*-72*
Various artists,
1952-1998
Physical Description:
50
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographs.
box 63, 173, 72*-75*
Unidentified artwork,
1963-1993,
undated
Physical Description:
107
items
Series VIII.
Memorabilia, personal miscellany,
1898-2003
Selected audio recordings (digital version available on-site only): 1898-2003
Physical Description:
17.73 Linear
Feet
(48 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Series VIII contains Richards's résumés, grant applications, awards, birth certificate,
passport, yearbooks, personal photos, negatives, audio tapes, addresses, financial
documents and other personal papers. Among the photographs are images of Stony Point and
of Richards's pottery.
Arrangement
Richards's personal papers are followed by photographs and then audio-visual
materials.
box 64, 174
Curricula vitae, résumés, biographies,
1955-1995
Physical Description:
41
items
box 174, folder 1a
Birth certificate correction,
1970
Scope and Content Note
From materials received from the estate in 2015.
box 174, folder 2-2a
Artist statements,
1977-1992
Physical Description:
circa 11
items
Scope and Content Note
Statements are typically biographies framed around a specific project. Box 174,
folder 2a is from materials received from the estate in 2015.
box 64, folder 2
Grant applications,
1955-1992
Physical Description:
9
items
Awards, commendations, honorary degrees, diplomas and related academic
materials,
1935-1998
box 64, 174
Papers
Physical Description:
20
items
box 174, folder 5
King's College
Physical Description:
22
items
box 216*, folder 7
Oversize diploma
Physical Description:
1
item
box 182
Academic hood
Physical Description:
1
item
box 64, 174
Passports and birth certificate,
1967-1996
Physical Description:
7
items
box 64, 174
Palm print analysis and solar chart,
1982-1996
Physical Description:
13
items
box 64, folder 6
High school and junior college yearbooks,
1932-1935
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Three books and inserts.
box 68, 174-175
Addresses, phone numbers, directions,
1975-1999
Physical Description:
98
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes address-phone books.
box 68, 175
Pottery notes,
1968-1971,
undated
Physical Description:
14
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes clay and glaze formulas, supply invoices, and assorted pottery papers.
box 68, folder 3
Calligraphy notes and exercises,
undated
Physical Description:
70
items
box 68, folder 4
Catalog of Richards's library,
undated
Physical Description:
100
items
Scope and Content Note
Begun by Carol Gruber. On index cards.
box 68, folder 5
Stony Point, Rockland County community papers,
1961-1962
Physical Description:
7
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes newsletters, spring picnic invitation, and assorted materials.
"The Chicken God News,"
1976
Scope and Content Note
Vero Beach, Florida hand-made newsletter.
box 68, folder 6
Papers
Physical Description:
6
items
box 226, folder 2
Color photographs
Physical Description:
3
items
box 68, folder 7
Thanksgiving skit written for the Kremens,
1975
Physical Description:
1
item
box 68, folder 8
Staff meeting notes,
1983
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Life Center, Arts in the Image of Man.
Medical documents, x-rays, prescriptions, notes,
1954-1999
box 68, 175
Papers
Physical Description:
17
items
box 77, 223
Radiographs
Physical Description:
9
items
box 175, folder 5
Insurance papers,
1994
Physical Description:
2
items
box 68, folder 10
Solicitations from
Who's Who, Encyclopedia of the
American Woman
,
Richards Heritage
Book
1973-1982
Physical Description:
4
page(s)
box 69, 175
Financial documents,
1954-1999
Physical Description:
447
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes stocks; securities; bank statements; check stubs; papers from Walston and
Company; royalty statements; ledgers; invoices; receipts; financial book. Box 175,
folder 9 is from materials received from the estate in 2015.
box 69, 175
Tax papers,
1951-2001
Physical Description:
22
items
box 176, folder 2
Divorce papers,
1954
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Richards's divorce from William Levi.
box 176, folder 3
Last will and testament,
1996-1999
Physical Description:
6
items
box 176, folder 4-5
Estate and property papers,
1955-2000
Physical Description:
17
items
Interviews,
1967-1998,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Filed by year and name of interviewer. Contains print versions of interviews only.
For sound or video recordings see items filed under those formats.
box 176, folder 6
Duberman, Martin,
1967-1990
Physical Description:
4
items
box 176, folder 7
Silvka, Rose,
1978-1979
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Published in
Craft Horizons.
box 176, folder 8
Miller, Jack,
1987
Physical Description:
2
items
box 176, folder 9
Kraus, Ted,
1989
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Published in
Creation.
box 176, folder 10
Safransky, Sy,
1988-1989
Physical Description:
5
items
Scope and Content Note
Published in
The Sun.
box 176, folder 11
Powell, Mary Clare,
1990
Physical Description:
2
items
box 176, folder 12
Frost, Heath,
1995-1998
Physical Description:
5
items
box 176, folder 13
Diamant, Hirsh,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Birthday materials,
1981-1996,
undated
box 176, folder 14-15
1981
Physical Description:
24
items
Scope and Content Note
Contains various cards and art book.
box 197, folder 1
1986
Physical Description:
20
items
Scope and Content Note
Contains color photographs.
box 197, folder 2
1991
Physical Description:
11
items
Scope and Content Note
Contains color slides.
box 177, folder 1-1a
Cards, book and black-and-white photographs
Physical Description:
23
items
box 217*, folder 7
Oversize card
Physical Description:
4
items
box 177, folder 2
Assorted,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Other birthday cards can be found in series II.B.
box 177, folder 3
Dave Richards estate and trust papers,
1988-1995
Physical Description:
35
items
box 177, folder 4
Assorted Dave Richards items,
1943-1983
Physical Description:
22
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes black-and-white photographs; clippings; Dave Richards's address book.
box 177, folder 5
Other family papers and clippings,
1943-1965
Physical Description:
7
items
box 177, folder 6-7
circa
1898-1920s
Physical Description:
26
items
box 177, folder 8-9
Black-and-white photographs
Physical Description:
81
items
box 64, folder 7
Black-and-white photographs of classmates
Physical Description:
10
items
box 198, folder 1
Color photographs
Physical Description:
7
items
box 72*, folder 6
Richards and Paulus Berensohn
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Richards's photo dates from Black Mountain College era.
box 178, folder 1-4
Black-and-white photographs
Physical Description:
61
items
box 198, folder 2-3
Color photographs and slides
Physical Description:
15
items
box 178, folder 5-7
Black-and-white photographs
Physical Description:
45
items
box 198, folder 4-5
Color photographs and slides
Physical Description:
43
items
box 178, folder 8-12a
Black-and-white photographs
Physical Description:
117
items
Scope and Content Note
Folder 12a is from materials received from the estate in 2015.
box 198-199
Color photographs, negatives and slides
Physical Description:
308
items
box 216*, folder 8
Oversize photograph
Physical Description:
1
item
box 72*, folder 7-8
Juniata College,
1975
Physical Description:
6
items
Scope and Content Note
Signed, A. McBride, photographer.
box 178, folder 13-16
Black-and-white photographs
Physical Description:
33
items
box 199-200
Color photographs and negatives
Physical Description:
165
items
box 178, folder 17
Black-and-white photographs
Physical Description:
8
items
box 201-202
Color photographs and slides
Physical Description:
316
items
Assorted unidentified,
undated
box 65-67, 179-180
Black-and-white photographs
Physical Description:
840
items
Scope and Content Note
Box 180, folder 9 is from materials received from the estate in 2015.
box 78, 202-210, 223-226
Color photographs, negatives and slides
Physical Description:
circa
2315 items
Scope and Content Note
Some slides dating from Black Mountain College era. Box 210, folder 3 is from
materials received from the estate in 2015.
box 181, 219-220
Black-and-white photographs
Physical Description:
2
items
box 210, folder 2
Color photographs
Physical Description:
1
item
box 64, 181
Photograph housing,
undated
Physical Description:
11
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes empty albums and processing envelopes.
Video and Audio tapes,
1960-2003
Scope and Content Note
Audio-visual materials are unavailable until reformatting is complete. Contact the
repository for information regarding access. Use copies are indicated in container
list below. Items were numbered by the repository. Items were organized
chronologically. Titles were taken from labels.
Reel-to-reel audio tapes,
1960-1970
box 79, item R8-R10
M. C. Richards reads her poetry,
1960 June
4
M. C. Richards reads her poetry (digital version available on-site only)
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Richards reads her own poetry, possibly recorded by the composer Earle Brown for
production on the Capitol Records label. Contents lists for the tapes are in box
69, folder 8.
3 sound tape reels of 3 (1 hr., 6 min., 20 sec.) : analog, 15 ips, mono; 10 in.,
1/4 in. tape.
box 211, item R11a-d
Richards lecture,
1963 September
1
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Lecture possibly given at Yale, includes Richards reading poetry. Unavailable
until reformatted.
4 sound tape reels; 3 1/4 in., 1/4 in. tape.
Poetry Readings at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts,
1963 September
8
Scope and Content Note
2 sound tape reels (1 hr., 52 min. 55 sec.): analog, 3 3/4 ips, 5 in. See
description sheets in box 69, f. 8.
box 78, item R1
Haystack tape #2
Haystack tape #2 (digital version available on-site only)
Physical Description:
1
item
box 78, item R2
Haystack tape #3
Haystack tape #3 (digital version available on-site only)
Physical Description:
1
item
box 211, item R12
Poetry Readings at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts,
1963 September
9
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted.
1 sound tape reel; 1/4 in. tape.
box 211, item R13
Craftsmanship talk at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts,
1963 September
13
Craftsmanship talk at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1963 September 13
(digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted.
1 sound tape reel; 1/4 in. tape.
box 78, item R6
Mary Caroline Richards, "Crossing Point: 9 Easter Letters,"
1967
Mary Caroline Richards, "Crossing Point: 9 Easter Letters" (digital version
available on-site only)
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Recording of a lecture, including a question and answer session, given by
Richards as part of a graduate seminar. This lecture is probably the basis for
Nine Easter letters on the art of education, published in Penn State papers in art
education, no. 3 (1967). Text for this publication is in box 32, f.1. Original box
labeled, "Dr. Mary Caroline Richards, Sp. 1967 Art Grad Seminar."
1 sound tape reel of 1 (1 hr., 45 min., 10 sec.) : analog, 1 7/8 ips, mono; 7
in.
box 78, item R5
Mary Caroline Richards, "Some Thoughts About Art and Wholeness in
Learning,"
1969
November
Mary Caroline Richards, "Some Thoughts About Art and Wholeness in Learning"
(digital version available on-site only)
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel of 1 (2 hrs., 41 min., 42 sec.) : analog, mono., 3 3/4 ips; 7
in.
Side 1: M.C. Richards's lecture entitled"Some Thoughts About Art and Wholeness in
Learning." See lecture text in box 32, folder 3. Side 2: Allan Kaprow lecture on
his teaching experience in Berkeley, especially related to Project otherways.
Label on original box: "Mary Caroline Richards. Allan Kaprow was put on side two
instead of side one [actual order is the reverse]. Howard McConeghey, Cheney
Washington, [tape no.] 1 at Showalter H., Oct. 17 69."
Interviews with John Iozia,
1970 August
26
Scope and Content Note
2 sound tape reels (16 min., 57 sec.) : analog, stereo; 3-5 in. Regarding the
production of Any Wednesday, a play by Muriel Resnik, produced in 1970 at the
Village Dinner Theater in Raleigh, North Carolina.
box 78, item R3
Any Wednesday Interview - John Iozia,
Any Wednesday Interview - John Iozia
Physical Description:
1
item
box 78, item R4
Raleigh radio interview
Raleigh radio interview (digital version available on-site only)
Physical Description:
1
item
box 78, item R7
Mary Caroline Richards, "Centering in Poetry, Pottery and the
Person,"
undated
Mary Caroline Richards, "Centering in Poetry, Pottery and the Person"
(digital version available on-site only)
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Side 1: lecture and poetry reading by M. C. Richards (undated, location unknown);
Side 2: lecture on "Centering in Pottery and Poetry" that she gave at the Haystack
Mountain School (undated) This lecture is related to Richards's book
Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person. A letter to
"Mike" originally with this tape is now in box 69, folder 8.
1 sound tape reel of 1 (3 hr., 14 min., 54 sec.) : analog; 7 in.
Items found with original reel-to-reel audio tapes,
1960-1963,
undated
box 69, folder 8
Technical and content notes from Nancy Romer on Haystack tape #2
(R1),
1963
Physical Description:
2
items
box 69, folder 8
Technical notes from Nancy Romer on Haystack tape #3 (R2),
1963
Physical Description:
1
item
box 69, folder 8
Letter to M.C. Richards from "Mike." (R7),
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
box 69, folder 8
Capitol Records master control files (R8-R10),
1960
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
With lists of contents and timings, 3 pp, 1 sheet per audio tape. Earle Brown's
name, not signature, appears on one sheet.
box 182, folder 1
Original housing for R11,
1963
Physical Description:
4
items
box 182, folder 2
Technical and content notes from Nancy Romer on Haystack tape
R12,
1963
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes original housing.
box 182, folder 3
Technical and content notes from Nancy Romer on Haystack tape
R13,
1963
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes original housing.
Audio cassettes,
1971-1999
box 213, item C15a-d
Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology,
1971 June
4-6
Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology (digital version available
on-site only)
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Includes "Wrestling with the Daimonic;" Dorothea Blom; Dorothea Blom and begin
panel (Sunday morning), panel and responses; panel and responses, meeting for
worship.
4 sound cassettes: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in. tape.
box 212, item C14
Choral reading: "The Rock" by T.S. Eliot and taped letter,
1973 March
29
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 213, item C16
M.C. Richards and Daisy Alden,
1974
July
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 213, item C26
Courage to Create Series #5, Pendle Hill Monday Lecture,
1974 December
9
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 213, item C27
M.C. Richards, Rudolf Steiner College, "An Art of Fire,"
1981 November
19
M.C. Richards, Rudolf Steiner College, "An Art of Fire," 1981 November 19
(digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 214, item C28
MC Richards: Integrating the spectrum of consciousness,
1982 January
30
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 213, item C17a-b
Poetry reading, Art Center, St. Petersburg, Florida,
1984 January
29
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 2 sound cassettes: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 213, item C7, C18
M.C. Richards, Naropa Institute: "Nourishing the Teacher,"
1989 June
26
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 2 sound cassettes: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 214, item C29a-d
Rosaly Roffman interview of MC Richards for article on
Centering at Clifford, PA and Kimberton, PA,
1989
November
Physical Description:
4
items
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 4 sound cassettes: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 213, item C19
MC Richards, Bethlehem Center,
1989
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 212, item C8
M.C. Richards, Naropa Institute,
1990 June
24
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 214, item C30
Omega Retreat, Tape #6 Meditations with Surya Das "Rest Your Weary Mind,"
Rhinebeck NJ,
1992
July
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 212, item C9
M.C. Richards: Creativity and the Practice of Awe,
1994 February
2
M.C. Richards: Creativity and the Practice of Awe, 1994 February 2 (digitzed
version available on-site only)
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 212, item C3
"Pots, Paintings, Poetry Slides and Conversation: Praise!"
1995 February
16
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 213, item C20
M.C. Richards: "Pelted by Beauty," Poetry reading,
1997 May
5
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Recorded live at Indre Studios, Philadelphia. Unavailable until reformatted. 1
sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in. tape.
box 213, item C21a-b
M.C. Richards, poetry reading, unedited,
1997
May
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 2 sound cassettes: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 213, item C10a-b
M.C. Richards,
1997
May
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 2 sound cassettes: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 212, item C13
MC Richards and Julia Connor at Cody's Books,
1998 March
11
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 214, item C31
M.C. Richards "Recovery of the Child in Adulthood," edited,
1999 February
9
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 212, item C11
"7 Etudes on Hope," "Recovery of M.C. Richards," Berkeley, CA,
1999
February
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 212, item C1a-b
M.C. Richards,
undated
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 2 sound cassettes: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 212, item C2
M.C. Richards: "Letter, March 29," by Jim and Julia,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 212, item C4
"Clay Journal,"
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 213, item C22
M.C. Richards, "Clay Journal,"
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 212, item C5
M.C. Richards at Red Raven,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 212, item C6
"Myth," Tampa Museum,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 sound cassette: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 212, item 12a-b
M.C. Richards at Bethlehem Center,
undated
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 2 sound cassettes: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
box 213, item C23-C25
Unidentified,
undated
Physical Description:
3
items
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 3 sound cassettes: analog, 1 7/8 ips; 1/8 in.
tape.
Items found with original audio cassettes,
1971,
undated
box 182, folder 4
Original housing for C15,
1971
Physical Description:
1
item
box 182, folder 5
Unidentified,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Paper describing contents of unknown tape.
Videos,
1982-2003,
undated
box 215, item V2
Symposium: Religious dimensions of ED "Wholeness in
Education,"
1982 April
18
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 videocassette (VHS); 1/2 in.
box 215, item V1a-b
M.C. Richards 1-2,
1989 July
18
Physical Description:
2
items
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 2 videocassettes (VHS); 1/2 in.
box 215, item V3
Crossing Point Gallery, archive of M.C. Richards's appearance,
1986 November
2
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 videocassette (U-matic) (59 min.): sd., col.;
3/4 in.
box 217, item V10
Tara and Morgan wedding,
1998 July
25
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 videocassette (VHS); 1/2 in.
box 215, item V4
"M.C. Richards: The Fire Within Us," rough cut,
2002 March
30
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 videocassette (VHS); 1/2 in.
box 215, item V5
"M.C. Richards: Living in the Crossing Point," rough cut 2.0,
2002 April
26
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 videocassette (VHS) (67 min.); 1/2 in.
box 215, item V6
"M.C. Richards: The Fire Within Us," final cut, low
resolution,
2003 September
18
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Unavailable until reformatted. 1 videocassette (VHS); 1/2 in.
box 215, item V7
"M.C. Richards: The Fire Within,"
circa
2003
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Color corrected check copy. By Kane Lewis Productions. Unavailable until
reformatted. 1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.); 1/2 in.
box 215, item V8
M.C. Richards, Pendle Hill,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Duplication. Unavailable until reformatted. 1 videocassette (VHS); 1/2 in.
box 215, item V9
Crossing Point,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
2 of 3. P20-706. Stamped with Julia Connor's contact information. Unavailable
until reformatted. 1 videocassette (U-Matic); 3/4 in.
box 215, item V11
M.C. Richards at Chester Springs,
undated
Physical Description:
1
item
Scope and Content Note
Raw footage. Unavailable until reformatted. 1 videocassette (VHS); 1/2 in.
box 68, folder 11-11a
Papers
Physical Description:
circa 155
items
Scope and Content Note
Folder 11a is from ADD3.
box 226, folder 3
Color photograph
Physical Description:
1
item