Guide to the Richard Duerden papers M1317
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2023
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Richard Duerden papers
Creator:
Duerden, Richard
source:
Duerden, Suzanne
Identifier/Call Number: M1317
Identifier/Call Number: 7591
Physical Description:
7 Linear Feet
(12 manuscript boxes and 2 flat boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1950-1980
Scope and Contents
Literary manuscripts, working notebooks, manuscripts of other writers, early poetry ephemeral publications, correspondence,
artwork, and inscribed publications.
Biographical / Historical
American poet, and poetry editor of two important poetry magazines in the 1960s and 1970s. He was in close contact with a
number of major writers of the Beat movement.
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Preferred Citation
[identification of item], Richard Duerden papers (M1317). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
American literature -- 20th century.
Duerden, Suzanne
Box 1, folder 1
Letters to Richard Duerden (from Suzanne)
1 December -11 December, 1961
Scope and Contents
10 letters
Box 1, folder 2
Letters to Richard Duerden (from Suzanne)
1 Nov - 30 Nov, 1961
Scope and Contents
30 letters
Box 1, folder 3
Letters to Richard Duerden (from Suzanne)
27 Sep -30 Oct, 1961
Scope and Contents
20 letters
Box 1, folder 4
Letters from Richard Duerden to Suzanne Kerr
27 Sep -30 Oct, 1961
Scope and Contents
23 letters
Box 1, folder 5
Letters from Richard Duerden to Suzanne Kerr
1 Nov - 10 Dec, 1961
Scope and Contents
21 letters
Box 1, folder 6
Letters from Richard Duerden to Suzanne Kerr
8 Jan - 17 Feb, 1962
Scope and Contents
25 letters
Box 1, folder 7
Letters from Suzanne Kerr to Richard Duerden
9 Jan - 17 Feb, 1962
Scope and Contents
26 letters
Box 1, folder 8
Letter From the Editor of the SF Chronicle
Jan, 1962
Scope and Contents
1 letter
Box 1, folder 9
Personal Belongings
Scope and Contents
Wallet
Box 2, folder 1
Correspond. from Jerry Kearney (the poet)
Nov. 5, 1984
Box 2, folder 2
Leslie Scalapino Papers (1/3)
Scope and Contents
"If Anyone Had Died I'm Ambitious", "The Series…", "Flush", "Roll", "Busby Berkeley", "Leg"
Box 2, folder 3
Leslie Scalapino Papers (2/3)
Scope and Contents
"If I go out anywhere", "Considering How exaggerated music is", "A Novel", "Sweet", Poems
Box 2, folder 4
Leslie Scalapino Papers (3/3)
Scope and Contents
"Note on the Poem", "Bum Series", "Walking Poem", and others
Box 2, folder 5
Leslie Scalapino
Scope and Contents
Letters to R.D., and misc. papers
Box 2, folder 6
Notebook
Scope and Contents
"Studying Greek"
Box 2, folder 7
Poem Manucripts of Kearney
1965-8
Box 3, folder 1
Correspond. And Papers
1957-58
Scope and Contents
Incoming
Box 3, folder 2
Correspond.
1957-58
Scope and Contents
Outgoing
Box 3, folder 3
Correspond.
1959-62
Scope and Contents
Incoming
Box 3, folder 4
Correspond.
1962-4
Scope and Contents
Mostly Incoming
Box 3, folder 5
Correspond.
1965-8
Scope and Contents
Incoming/ Outgoing
Box 3, folder 6
Correspond.
1965-8
Scope and Contents
Incoming
Box 3, folder 7
Correspond. With The Poetry Center
Box 3, folder 8
Manuscripts Sent and Recived
1957-68
Box 3, folder 10
Address Books and Misc. Papers
1957-68
Box 3, folder 12
Cartoons on R.D.'s fridge at the time of his death
Box 4, folder 2
Poetry and Prose
late 1960s -1970s
Scope and Contents
papers
Box 4, folder 3
"Walking"
late 1970s
Scope and Contents
part of the manuscript
Box 4, folder 4
Poetry
1980s
Scope and Contents
incluing "The Riddle Fermenting" and "Reconciliation"
Box 4, folder 5
Poetry and Prose
1990s
Scope and Contents
papers
Box 4, folder 6
Poetry (papers and notebooks)
Later Poetry (1/2)
Box 4, folder 7
Poetry (papers and notebooks)
Later Poetry (2/2)
Box 4, folder 9
Correspond. With Robert Creeley
Box 4, folder 10
Letters from Deneen Peckinpah
Scope and Contents
To Both Suzanne and Richard Duerden
Box 4, folder 11
Bill Brown
Scope and Contents
Correspond. And Prose
Box 4, folder 12
Jack Spicer
Scope and Contents
Papers and Manuscripts (Third Language)
Box 4, folder 15
Letters and Papers from Marion Bertolette
Box 5, folder 1
Simone Weil
Scope and Contents
papers
Box 5, folder 2
UC Berkeley Summer Poetry Conference
1965
Box 5, folder 4
James Koller
Scope and Contents
Poems for Rivoli II
Box 5, folder 5
"Lines in Passing" (draft), "Within the Clouds"
1960s Poetry
Box 5, folder 6
Rivoli
Scope and Contents
Volume 0, Issue 1
Box 5, folder 7
Papers from Foot magazine (#2)
Box 5, folder 9
C. Olson Notes- "To Scratch a Place that Itches"
Box 5, folder 10
R. Duncan inc. -Original Christmas Poems
1965
Box 5, folder 11
Ezra Pound Notes and Correspond.
Box 5, folder 12
Whalen
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts
Box 5, folder 13
Fred Hill/ F. Augustus Hugel II
Scope and Contents
Letters and Prose
Box 5, folder 14
Muthos/Injuns
Scope and Contents
random papers
Box 5, folder 16
Notes on Ford M. Ford
Scope and Contents
Notes after Reading Ford's "Women and Men", Newspaper Articles
Box 5, folder 17
"Grease" Nilsson on Minoan Religion and Other Eastern Religions
Box 6, folder 1
Biographical Papers
Scope and Contents
Death and Adoption
Box 6, folder 2
Novel - Old Copy
Scope and Contents
manuscript
Box 6, folder 3
Cornsilk
Scope and Contents
manuscript
Box 6, folder 4
Novel
Scope and Contents
One of two
Box 6, folder 5
Novel
Scope and Contents
Two of two
Box 7, folder 3
Words addressed to Leslie
Box 7, folder 4
"The Last Straw" Incomplete Manuscript
Box 7, folder 5
RCD Novel (p.1-155)
1960s
Box 7, folder 6
40 pages from an unknown story
Box 7, folder 7
Part of a Novel
Scope and Contents
Main Character Called Henry
Box 7, folder 9
Misc. Prose and Poems
Scope and Contents
found among journal entries/ other prose
Box 7, folder 10
Misc. Prose and Poems found among journal entries/other prose
Scope and Contents
"Oregon"
Box 8, folder 3
Journal Entries
Oct. 1980
Box 8, folder 5
Notebook: prose and poems
1950s-1960s
Box 8, folder 6
5 pages of prose from a notebook
Box 8, folder 8
Notebook: prose and serial poems
Nov. 1964
Box 8, folder 9
Notebook: notes and prose
1966
Box 8, folder 10
Notebook: Hindu Polytheism, Alain Danielow
Box 8, folder 11
Notebook: Poem, Prose, and Notes
1970s
Box 9, folder 1
Prose
1950s-1960s
Scope and Contents
"The Tunnel", 2 plays, "The Beauty of the Day…", "Silence", "Dancing in the dark"
Box 9, folder 2
"Within the Clouds" manuscript
Box 9, folder 7
Notebook: sketches and poems
Box 9, folder 8
"Stinson Beach" Notebook: sketches and poems
Box 9, folder 9
Collection of Poetry Newsletters/Collection
Scope and Contents
"Oz and Damaged Architecture" by Larry Kearney, "Tish 23", "Transit Glory" and more
Box 10, folder 1
Damaged Poetry Newsletters
1950s
Box 10, folder 2
"The Worm in the Rain"-collection of poems
Box 10, folder 3
The Floating Bear Newsletter
1960-7
Box 10, folder 4
The Floating Bear Newsletter
1960-7
Box 10, folder 5
"Of, by and About" by Henry Miller
1977
Box 10, folder 6
Larry Eigner
Scope and Contents
From the Sustaining Air, "The Music, The Air", "Look at the Park"
Box 10, folder 7
"Gate" Magazine
1995
Scope and Contents
several copies
Box 10, folder 8
"Mountain and Air" -George Stanley
1978
Box 10, folder 10
"Out of Sight" #1 vol. 1 and 2
Box 10, folder 12
Memoirs of an Interglacial age
Box 10, folder 13
"666-The Hymm to Lucifer"
Box 11, folder 1
"The Kwan Yin Tango" by Bill Brown
Box 11, folder 2
Pictures of Ezra Pound and Papers Relating to R.D.'s copy of "The Cantos…"
Box 11, folder 3
"Cantos of Ezra Pound"
Scope and Contents
R.D.'s copy with notes
Box 12, folder 1
Jack Kerouac, "Old Angel Midnight"
Scope and Contents
photocopy
Box 12, folder 3
Two Chapbooks- "St. Lewis" and "Tin Poems"
Box 12, folder 4
"Detroit Family" - Poetry Collection
Box 12, folder 6
Phillip Whalen - "Highgrade", "Monday in the Evening"
Box 12, folder 8
Casette Tapes (4 total)
Scope and Contents
C.Olson (Poetry Center), Judy Beryl, Jack Spicer (Poetry and Politics), Robert Creeley (Poetry Center)
Box 12, folder 9
Audio Tapes (2 total)
Scope and Contents
Charles Olson Reading; David Bromige, Richard Deuerden, and Ron L.
Box 14
Stinson Beach Note & Sketchbook
