Finding aid to the Frank M. Robinson papers BANC MSS 2015/159
Lori Dedeyan
The Bancroft Library
May 2017
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
bancref@library.berkeley.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Frank M. Robinson papers
Creator:
Robinson, Frank M., 1926-2014
Source:
Andover Street Archives
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2015/159
Physical Description:
11 linear feet
8 cartons, 1 document box, 1 card file box, 1 oversize folder
Date (inclusive): 1939-2014
Abstract: This collection documents the life and career of science fiction writer Frank M. Robinson. It includes correspondence; manuscripts
for Robinson's short fiction, longer works, and screenplays; research material and reviews; conracts and royalty agreements;
and personal material. Included are the drafts of Robinson's memoir, Not So Good a Gay Man, and material documenting his involvement
in San Francisco counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s and his work as a speechwriter for San Francisco Supervisor Harvey
Milk.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English.
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Related Collections
Pictorial material from the Frank M. Robinson papers, BANC PIC 2016.004.
Separated Materials
Photographs have been transferred to teh Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 2016.004).
Digital materials have been transferred to the Digital Collections Unit of the Bancroft Library.
Acquisition Information
The Frank M. Robinson papers were purchased by The Bancroft Library from Andover Street Archives in May 2015.
Accruals
No additions are expected.
System of Arrangement
Arranged to the folder level.
Processing Information
Processed by Lori Dedeyan in 2017.
Biographical / Historical
Frank M. Robinson was born on August 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of three, his parents were divorced and his
father, a check forger, returned to Canada. His mother began working as a matron in the Lawrence Hall Home for Boys in Chicago,
on the condition that her three children were taken in. Robinson lived in Lawrence Hall until he was eight years old, when
his mother married and established a home with Robert Knox. Knox, a bank accountant with two children of his own, became
stepfather to Frank and his two brothers. During the first year of the remarriage, Robinson spent the summer with Dorothy
Hall, his mother’s closest friend, and her partner, Claudia Wanamaker, who had a cabin on the shores of Lake Michigan near
Macatawa.
At age 16, Robinson graduated high school. He was by this time a science fiction fan and had bought a run of early Weird
Tales, Wonders, and other magazines. As a teenager, he worked as a copyboy for International News Service and later became
an office boy for Ziff Davis, where he met authors Bob Bloch, Bill Hamling, Bill McGivern, and others. He also went to local
conventions, where he continued collecting.
Robinson was drafted into the Navy during World War II, in 1943. After his tour of duty, he attended Beloit College in Beloit,
Wisconsin, where he majored in physics. His first story was published in Astounding in 1950, the year of his graduation.
Because he could find no work as a writer, he ended up back in the Navy to serve in Korea and continued to write during his
tour—“Untitled Story” was written during this time and sold to Astounding magazine. Once out of the navy, he entered graduate
school for journalism at Northwestern University. After graduating, he worked for a Chicago- based Sunday supplement, and
then with Science Digest. His novel, The Power, was written during this time.
When Science Digest changed ownership and moved to New York, Robinson began working as an editor on Bill Hamling’s Rogue Magazine,
which published many science fiction stories. He worked there from 1959 to 1965, when it was also sold. He moved to Los
Angeles and began work as an editor for Gallery. When it, too, was sold, Robinson moved briefly to San Francisco (where he
“became an overage quasi-hippie”) and then back to Chicago in 1969 as the Playboy Advisor for Playboy magazine. After three
years, he returned to San Francisco and wrote The Glass Inferno with Thomas Scortia, which was adapted in 1974 into a film,
The Towering Inferno, starring Paul Newman and Steve McQueen.
Robinson continued to write full- time and produced several mysteries and thrillers before returning to science fiction with
The Dark Beyond the Stars (1991). Afterwards he produced two coffee table books with Collectors Press: Science Fiction of
the 20th Century (1991) and Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines (2001).
Robinson, who was gay, was a speechwriter for gay politician Harvey Milk. After Milk's assassination, Robinson was co-executor,
with Scott Smith, of Milk's last will and testament. Robinson had a small role in the film Milk, directed by Gus Van Sant
and written by Dustin Lance Black, and maintained a lasting friendship with Black.
In 2009 he was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame.
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the life and career of science fiction writer Frank M. Robinson. It includes correspondence; manuscripts
for Robinson's short fiction, longer works, and screenplays; research material and reviews; and conracts and royalty agreements.
Included are the drafts of Robinson's memoir, Not So Good a Gay Man, and material documenting his involvement in San Francisco
counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s and his work as a speechwriter for San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk.
The collection has been arranged into five series:
Series 1 (Correspondence) includes personal and professional correspondence.
Series 2 (Writing) includes typescripts and print copies of articles for various San Francisco papers, science fiction and
pulp stories, longer fiction and novels, and memoir. It also includes treatments and screenplays for film and television.
Series 3 (Professional career) includes notes and research, publicity and reviews, contracts and royalty statements, and screenplays
by others.
Series 4 (Personal material) includes secondary school, college, and military service material; address books; financial and
estate planning and Robinson's will; and other personal documents.
Series 5 (Audio material) includes broadcast recordings of Robinson's work and an oral history interview with Robinson.
Digital materials include drafts for stories, novels, and screenplays, such as Anna, The Dark Beyond the Stars, The Errand
Boy, Father's Day, Heaven, Inferno, The Rapture, The Terrorist, and other unfinished works. Also included are oral histories,
recordings of a Harvey Milk Memorial unveiling event, broadcast recordings of Robinson's works, and other material. This
material is unavailable until processed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Science fiction, American
Pulp literature, American
Gay authors--United States
Gays--California--San Francisco
Robinson, Frank M.
Andover Street Archives
Series 1.
Correspondence
1948-2014
Physical Description: Carton 1; Carton 2, folders 1-56; Oversize folder 1
Arrangement
Aranged alphabetically by correspondent or subject of correspondence. Robinson's original folder titles have been retained.
Incoming and outgoing letters have not been separated.
Scope and Contents
Personal and professional correspondence relating to Robinson's writing, career, personal life, and finances.
carton 1, folder 2
American Zoetrope- The Story Behind the Original All- Story
1995
carton 1, folder 5
Austin, Robert (Synetic Systems)
2000-2001, 2010
carton 1, folder 6
Bart- Palevsky Productions
1974
carton 1, folder 7
Berry, Rick
1973-1975, 2001
carton 1, folder 8
Black, Dustin Lance
2008-2010
carton 1, folder 11
Cartier, Dean and Ed
1991-2001
carton 1, folder 12
Clarke, Arthur C.
1984, 1990-1991, 2000
carton 1, folder 13
Collectors Press
2002-2004
carton 1, folder 15-22
Curtis Brown, Ltd.
1963-2013
carton 1, folder 23
The Dark Beyond the Stars
1990-2007
carton 1, folder 24
The Dark Beyond the Stars- Brian Lipson
2009
carton 1, folder 25
The Dark Beyond the Stars- film rights
2006
carton 1, folder 26
Datlow, Ellen (SCIFICTION editor)
2004
carton 1, folder 27
A Day in the Life Of...
1979
carton 1, folder 28-30
Death of a Marionette
1989-1996
carton 1, folder 32
Dunnett, Bays, O'Connell (lawyers)
1985-1986
carton 1, folder 33
Editors and publishers
1948-1949, 1970, 1978
carton 1, folder 37
Father's Day- responses
2003
carton 1, folder 39
Franco, James (outgoing only)
2008
carton 1, folder 40
From readers and fans
1990-1991, 1996
carton 1, folder 41
The Glass Inferno
1974-1975, 1990, 1999
carton 1, folder 42
Glassner, Bruce
2003, 2011
carton 1, folder 44
The Gold Crew- lawsuit
1985-1988
carton 1, folder 45
The Great Divide
1981-1988, 2004, 2011
carton 1, folder 47
Huskey, Kenneth R.
2009-2010
carton 1, folder 48
Inferno (screenplay)
2000
carton 1, folder 50
Knox, A. Robert (parents)
1966-1969
carton 2, folder 2
Leyland, Winston (Out in the Castro editor)
2001
carton 2, folder 4-5
Margolis, Harry (tax suits)
1975-1985
carton 2, folder 9
Personal letters
1970-2003
carton 2, folder 10
Playboy- correspondence and memos
1960-1972
carton 2, folder 13
The Prometheus Crisis
1979
carton 2, folder 14
Pulp book (Abbeville Press)
1989-1994
carton 2, folder 16-17
Pulp Culture
1993-1994, 1997-1999
carton 2, folder 18
Pulp Culture- permissions
1990-1991
carton 2, folder 19
Robinson, Chris and Jenny
circa 1977-2001
carton 2, folder 20
Screen Actors Guild
2008-2010
carton 2, folder 21-22
Science Fiction of the 20th Century
1998-1999
carton 2, folder 23-42
Science Fiction of the 20th Century, reproduction permissions
1998-1999
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with: Amazing Stories, Analog, Asimov, Dell, PennyPress, Argosy Communications, Author Services (L.
Ron Hubbard), Columbia Tristar, Corbis, Dreamworks, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Harlan Ellison, Kilimanjaro Corporation,
John Gunnison, Kris Etchison, Ron Borst, Richard Kendall, Paramount, Lucasfilm, Dick Lupoff, Time Warner, 20th Century Fox,
Universal, Viacom, and Wade Williams.
carton 2, folder 44
Synetic Systems
1989-2012
carton 2, folder 45
Tor Forge Books
1996, 2003-2004
carton 2, folder 47-48
Van Dyke, Michael
1989-2010
carton 2, folder 51
Waters, Mitchell (Prometheus Crisis)
2011-2014
oversize_folder 1
Giant get well card
undated
Series 2.
Writings
1949-2011
Physical Description: Carton 2, folders 57-61; Cartons 3-4; Carton 5, folders 1-24
Arrangement
Material has been separated into four categories: articles, short fiction and stories, novels and longer fiction, and screenplays.
Works are listed alphabetically within each category.
Scope and Contents
Includes typescripts and print copies for nonfiction articles and interviews (largely written for San Francisco magazines
and papers); forewords, prefaces, and postscripts for various books; pulp and science fiction stories from the 1950s and 1960s
for a variety of publications; and novels and a memoir. Also includes treatments, synopses, and screenplays for film and
television, and one radio play.
Articles and front matter
carton 2, folder 57
Bill Graham Interview (Paperbag)
1968
carton 2, folder 58
Castro article- notes
undated
carton 2, folder 59
The Death of the Haight (print only)
1968
carton 2, folder 60
Hail, Hail, Rock and Roll (print only)
1994
carton 2, folder 61
Foreword- An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches
2011
carton 3, folder 1
Foreword- Gentleman Junkie, by Harlan Ellison
1989
carton 3, folder 2
Introduction- 100 Best Horror Novels
2005
carton 3, folder 3
Introduction- Crucible of Power, by Jack Williamson
2006
carton 3, folder 4
Blurb- Trust, by Charles Epping
2003
carton 3, folder 5
Postscripts- Brian Kirby
undated
carton 3, folder 6
No Lights, No Camera-- But Plenty of Action (typescript)
circa 1966
carton 3, folder 7
On Collecting (typescripts)
2011
carton 3, folder 8
Review- The Doctor and The Detective, by Martin Booth
1997
carton 3, folder 9
Rob Alexander, Prince of Darkness (typescript)
undated
carton 3, folder 10
Unsold articles (most attributed to Robert Courtney)
undated
Short fiction
General
Robinson often records information about a story on the first page of its print copy, such as magazine, publication date,
price, length, and whether the piece was revised before publication.
carton 3, folder 11
All the Way Down (typescript)
undated
carton 3, folder 12
Beyond the Ultraviolet (typescript and print)
1951
carton 3, folder 14
Clarence (typescript and print)
1972
carton 3, folder 15
Cosmic Saboteur (print)
1955
carton 3, folder 16
A Day in the Life Of... and Other Short Stories, introduction (typescript)
circa 1981
carton 3, folder 17
The Day the World Ended (typescript and print)
1953
carton 3, folder 18
Dead End Kids of Space (print)
1954
carton 3, folder 19
Dealer's Choice (print)
1974
carton 3, folder 20
Decision (typescript and print)
1953
carton 3, folder 21
Dream Street (typescript and print)
1955
carton 3, folder 22
Tales of the Haight: Downhill All the Way (also titled "The Radio") (typescripts)
1974
carton 3, folder 23
East Wind, West Wind (typescript)
undated
carton 3, folder 24
The Fire and the Sword (print)
1951
carton 3, folder 25
The Girls from Earth (typescript and print)
1952
carton 3, folder 26
Good Luck, Columbus (typescript)
1969
carton 3, folder 27
The Greatest Dying (print)
1993
carton 3, folder 28
Guaranteed-- Forever! (typescript and reprint)
1953
carton 3, folder 29
King Kong (typescript)
undated
carton 3, folder 30
Heartstopper (typescript and print)
1999
carton 3, folder 31
The Hunting Season (typescripts and print)
1951
carton 3, folder 32
The Lonely Man (typescript)
undated
carton 3, folder 33
The Maze (typescript and print)
1949
carton 3, folder 34
Muscle Man (typescript and print)
1953
carton 3, folder 35
The Night Shift (typescript)
undated
carton 3, folder 36
The Oceans are Wide (typescript)
circa 1954
carton 3, folder 37
One Month in 1907 (print)
1994
carton 3, folder 38
One Thousand Miles Up (typescript and print)
1954
carton 3, folder 39
A One and a Two and a Three (typescript)
undated
carton 3, folder 40
Planted! (typescript)
undated
carton 3, folder 43
Quarter in the Slot (print)
1954
carton 3, folder 44
Merry Christmas, #30267 (print)
1993
carton 3, folder 45
The Reluctant Hero (typescript and print)
1956
carton 3, folder 46
A Rover I Will Be (typescript and print)
undated
carton 3, folder 47
The Santa Claus Planet (typescript and print)
1955
carton 3, folder 48
The Sire Sounds at Midnight (typescript and print)
1953
carton 3, folder 49
Situation Thirty (typescript and print)
1950-1951
carton 3, folder 50
Two Weeks in August (typescript)
1951
carton 3, folder 51
Untitled Story (typescript and print)
1951
carton 3, folder 52
Viewpoint (typescript and print)
1953
carton 3, folder 53
The Worlds of Joe Shannon (typescript and print)
1954
carton 3, folder 54
Wanted: One Sane Man (typescript and print)
1948
carton 3, folder 55
The Wreck of the Ship John B. (typescript and print)
1967
carton 3, folder 56
You Don't Walk Alone (typescript and print)
1955
carton 3, folder 57
You've Got to Believe (typescript)
1951
carton 3, folder 58
Unsold fiction: "Good Boy" (typescript)
1947
carton 3, folder 59
Unsold fiction: "Not of This World" (typescript)
1964
carton 3, folder 60
Unsold fiction: "Security" (typescript)
undated
carton 3, folder 61
Unsold fiction: "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (typescript fragment)
undated
carton 3, folder 62
Unsold fiction: "The Therapist" (typescript)
circa 2001
carton 3, folder 63
Unsold fiction: "Time Travel Novel" (typescript outline)
1964
carton 3, folder 64
Unsold fiction: "Dark" sequel (typescript outline)
undated
Novels and longer fiction
carton 3, folder 65-66
Castro Street, That Great Street (also titled "Requiem for Harvey") (typescript)
2001
carton 3, folder 67-68
The Donor (typescript)
2004-2005
carton 4, folder 1-2
The Donor (typescript)
2004-2005
carton 4, folder 3-7
The Errand Boy (typescript)
circa 2010
carton 4, folder 8
The Errand Boy, final draft (typescript)
2010
carton 4, folder 9
The Errand Boy, galley proof
2010
carton 4, folder 10-22
Not So Good a Gay Man (typescript drafts and fragments)
undated
carton 4, folder 23-25
Quarter Past Midnight (typescript)
undated
carton 4, folder 26-28
Quarter Past Midnight (typescript with revisions)
undated
carton 4, folder 29-31
Waiting (annotated typescript)
2000
carton 5, folder 1
Waiting (annootated typescript)
2000
carton 5, folder 2-5
Anna (film outlines, notes, and story development)
1976
carton 5, folder 6
The Beasties (film treatments)
1984
carton 5, folder 7-9
The Dark Beyond the Stars (screenplays)
circa 2001
carton 5, folder 10
The Dark Beyond the Stars (final screenplay)
2010
carton 5, folder 11-12
Inferno (film treatments)
1997-1998
carton 5, folder 13
Inferno (early draft script)
1997
carton 5, folder 14
Inferno (second draft script)
1998
carton 5, folder 15-16
Inferno (final scripts)
circa 1998
carton 5, folder 17
Rusty (film outline)
undated
carton 5, folder 18
The Terrorist (plot and character synopses)
circa 1975
carton 5, folder 19
The Girls From Earth (Tales of Tomorrow) (television)
1953
carton 5, folder 20
Let Us In (television treatment)
undated
carton 5, folder 21
Michael Stark (television treatment)
1998
carton 5, folder 22
Michael Stark (television presentation)
1998
carton 5, folder 23
The Shelter (television screenplay)
1962
carton 5, folder 24
The Girls from Earth (radio play for Pulpcon)
2001
Series 3.
Professional career
1951-2011
Physical Description: Carton 5, folders 25-27; Cartons 6-7; Carton 8, folders 1-30; Oversize folder 1
Arrangement
Material has been arranged into categories, such as notes and research, publicity, reviews, royalties, and contracts. Material
has been arranged alphabetically by work or subject title within each category.
Scope and Contents
Includes Robinson's notes, research, and subject files; publicity material and reviews of work; royalty statements and contracts;
and material documenting various professional activities. Also includes scripts given to Robinson by friends and colleagues,
some of which bear his annotations.
carton 5, folder 25
Blade Runner, draft screenplay by David Peoples. Inscribed to Robinson by Peoples
1980 December 15
carton 5, folder 26
Blade Runner, draft screenplay. Inscribed to Robinson by David Peoples
1980 December 22
carton 5, folder 27
Blade Runner, screenplay by Hampton Fancher
1980 July 24
carton 6, folder 1
Blade Runner, screenplay. Inscription to Robinson by David Peoples, dated 1994
1981 February 23
carton 6, folder 2
Blade Runner, screenplay
1981 May 15
carton 6, folder 3
Milk, screenplay by Dustin Lance Black. Annotations by Robinson
2008
carton 6, folder 4
S.O.B., screenplay by Dustin Lance Black. Annotations by Robinson
2010
carton 6, folder 5
Three Story screenplay, by Dustin Lance Black. Annotations by Robinson
2012
carton 6, folder 6
South of Market, screenplay by Jon Levin and Dan Cassidy. Inscribed to Robinson
1980
carton 6, folder 7
The Wreck of the Ship John B., screenplay by Francis Hamit. Inscribed to Robinson
1982
carton 6, folder 8
The Wreck of the Ship John B., screenplay by Francis Hamit
1984
carton 6, folder 9
Notes and story ideas
undated
carton 6, folder 10
Dark Beyond the Stars, screenstory meeting with Francis Ford Coppola
1997
carton 6, folder 11
The Donor, late notes
2002-2004
carton 6, folder 12-14
Haight-Ashbury, notes and research
1967-2002
carton 6, folder 16
Not So Good a Gay Man, notes
circa 2011-2012
carton 6, folder 17-18
Science Fiction of the 20th Century, notes
circa 1998
carton 6, folder 19
Subject files: A.I./ Computers/ "Dark"
circa 2001
carton 6, folder 21
Subject files: AIDS
circa 2011
carton 6, folder 22
Subject files: Cloning, etc.
2004
carton 6, folder 23
Subject files: Denali
2004
carton 6, folder 24
Subject files: Errand Boy
2005
carton 6, folder 25
Subject files: The Great Divide
2003
carton 6, folder 26
Subject files: Harvey Milk (memoir by Michael Wong)
circa 1979
carton 6, folder 27
Subject files: Heaven
2002-2003
carton 6, folder 28
Subject files: Kent State
2012
carton 6, folder 29
Subject files: Medical magazine quotes
1974
carton 6, folder 30
Subject files: Multiple species
1992-1996
carton 6, folder 31
Subject files: Munsey (Frank A.)
undated
carton 6, folder 32
Subject files: Paper restoration
undated
carton 6, folder 33
Subject files: Prometheus problems
undated
carton 6, folder 34
Subject files: Transplants
2000-2002
carton 6, folder 35
The Dark Beyond the Stars
1991
carton 6, folder 36
Death of a Marionette
1995
carton 6, folder 39
The Towering Inferno
1974
carton 6, folder 41
The Prometheus Crisis
1975
carton 6, folder 43
Robinson career
1982-1999
carton 6, folder 44
Robinson ephemera
1972-2012
carton 6, folder 45
Dark Beyond the Stars
1991, 2009
carton 6, folder 46
Death of a Marionette
1995-1996
carton 7, folder 1
The Glass Inferno
1973-1974
carton 7, folder 2
The Towering Inferno
1974-1975
carton 7, folder 3
The Great Divide
1981-1982, 2004
carton 7, folder 4
The Nightmare Factor
1977-1978
carton 7, folder 6
Prometheus Crisis
1975-1976
carton 7, folder 7
Science Fiction of the 20th Century
1999-2000
carton 7, folder 10
Death of a Marionette
1994
carton 7, folder 11
The Dark Beyond the Stars
1999-2008
carton 7, folder 13
The Glass Inferno
1972-1974, 1983, 1999, 2003
carton 7, folder 14
The Towering Inferno
1973, 1998-1999
carton 7, folder 16
The Gold Crew- lawsuit
circa 1986
carton 7, folder 17
The Great Divide
1980-1983, 2003, 2007
carton 7, folder 20
A Life in the Day Of...
2005
carton 7, folder 21
Locked Room Mysteries
2000
carton 7, folder 23
The Nightmare Factor
1978
carton 7, folder 25
The Power
1955-1977, 1997
carton 7, folder 26
The Power (screen)
1956-1964, 1986, 2003-2006
carton 7, folder 27
The Prometheus Crisis (screen option)
1973-1976
carton 7, folder 28
The Prometheus Crisis (book)
1973-1978, 1990, 2003
carton 7, folder 29
The Prometheus Crisis
1975, 1987
carton 7, folder 32
Science Fiction of the 20th Century
1998, 2002
carton 7, folder 33
Through My Glasses, Darkly
2002
carton 7, folder 35
Miscellaneous/ minor work
1951-2004
carton 7, folder 38
The Dark Beyond the Stars
1991-2008
carton 7, folder 39
Death of a Marionette
1996-2007
carton 7, folder 41
The Gold Crew
1981-1985, 2000-2002
carton 7, folder 42
The Glass Inferno
1973-1985, 2004-2006
carton 7, folder 43
The Great Divide
1983, 2003-2008
carton 7, folder 45
The Nightmare Factor
1979-1980, 2001
carton 7, folder 47
The Prometheus Crisis
1975-1980
carton 7, folder 50
Science Fiction of the 20th Century
2000-2006
carton 7, folder 51
The Towering Inferno
1975-2002
carton 8, folder 2
Miscellaneous works
1977-2004
carton 8, folder 3
Collectors Press brochures
circa 1998-2001
carton 8, folder 4
Writers Guild of America
2000
carton 8, folder 5
Love Coupons by Robinson (solicited for publication)
1986
carton 8, folder 7
Pulp Culture material index
1998
carton 8, folder 8
Checklist of Science Fiction Magazines, compiled by Hal W. Hall
1983
carton 8, folder 9
Pulp magazine inventories
circa 2002-2003
Scope and Contents
Includes: Science fiction digests, science fiction pulps, Sea Stories, Sports Story, westerns, and miscellaneous pulps.
carton 8, folder 10-21
Magazine collection inventories and purchase lists
1995, 200-2007
Scope and Contents
Includes lists for: Adventure, Argosy, Blue Book, Desmond's, Sea Stories, and other science fiction and fantasy digests and
pulps.
carton 8, folder 22
Bill Aldrich deal- collection purchases
2001
carton 8, folder 23
Magazine consignment
2007
carton 8, folder 24
Eulogies for Jack Williamson, Randy Shilts, Bob Tucker
2007
carton 8, folder 25
Copyright research
circa 1990-1993
carton 8, folder 27
Robinson bio-bibliographies
1953-2009
carton 8, folder 28
San Francisco papers and magazines, Zen Center literature
circa 1967-1972
oversize_folder 1
Newspapers and magazines, San Francisco and Chicago
1967-1972
Scope and Contents
The Haight Ashbury Tribune. Vol.2, Nos. 1 and 6; Vol. 3, No.1.
Open Process. Summer Love Edition. San Francisco State College, 1967.
The Paper. Chicago. July 1972.
Mediascene: America's New Magazine of Popular Entertainment. undated
carton 8, folder 29
Locus clippings
circa 1992-1994
carton 8, folder 30
Playboy International Writers' Convocation program; Chicon 2000 book award
1971, 2000
oversize_folder 1
Harvey Milk Supervisor campaign signs (Supervisor 5)
1977
Series 4.
Personal material
1939-2013
Physical Description: Carton 8, folder 31-48; Boxes 1-2; Oversize folder 1
Arrangement
Arranged in a roughly chronological order.
Scope and Contents
Includes material related to secondary school and univeristy, military service, financial planning and estate, and Robinson's
will. Also includes address books.
carton 8, folder 31
Birth certificates (copies)
1975, 1980
carton 8, folder 32
Lindblom High School yearbook
1943
carton 8, folder 33
Forest Park Middle School and Lindblom HS diplomas
1939, 1943
carton 8, folder 34
Naval service and veterans' affairs
1945-1955
carton 8, folder 35
Beloit College yearbook
1950
carton 8, folder 36
Beloit College material
1948-1950, 2000
carton 8, folder 37
Beloit College and Northwestern University diplomas
1950, 1955
carton 8, folder 38
Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame; San Francicso Pride Marshall
2009
carton 8, folder 39-43
Will and estate
1987-2012
carton 8, folder 45
Medical research
2003-2010
carton 8, folder 47
Property renovations and leases
1977-2010
carton 8, folder 48
Miscellaneous
circa 1970-2012
box 1, folder 1
Photocopied images
circa 1976-2013
box 1, folder 4-6
Address books
circa 1950-2000
box 1, folder 7
Address books and passports
circa 1950-2009
box 2
Address cards from Rolodexes
undated
oversize_folder 1
Kentucky Colonel commission certificate, signed by Gov. Wallace G. Wilkinson
1988
oversize_folder 1
In The Eye, broadside poem by Robin Wayne Bailey. Published by Midsummer Night's Press. Inscribed to Robinson
undated
Series 5.
Audio material
1982, undated
Physical Description: Box 2
Scope and Contents
Includes recorded broadcasts of Robinson's radio/screen plays and an oral history interview with Robinson.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Special equipment or further processing may be required to access this material. Please contact the reference desk in advance
of your visit.
box 2
Compact audio cassettes
1982, undated
Scope and Contents
7 compact cassettes:
X MINUS ONE: Hostess (Isaac Asimov, broadcast 12-12-56), The Reluctant Heroes (Frank M. Robinson, broadcast 12-19-56).
X MINUS ONE: The Reluctant Heroes (Frank M. Robinson, 12-19-56)/ DIMENSION X (4-29-50) "No Contact".
X MINUS ONE: Lulungamena (Gordon R. Dixon, broadcast 5-29-56), The Girls from Earth (Frank M. Robinson, broadcast 1-16-57).
X MINUS ONE: The Reluctant Heroes (12-19-56)/ The Girls From Earth (1-16-57).
"JJ's acceptance"
All Ears Theatre. Frank Robinson's The Maze
The Eleventh Hour- station WVOM- 2/5/82. 1st item- Frank Robinson, interviewed by EG Burrows/ Part 2. [On case: "For Frank
Robinson--compliments of the Science Fiction Oral History Association!"]
