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Title: William M. Roth correspondence,
Date (inclusive): 1941-1965
Collection number: MS 170
Creator:
Roth, William M. (William Matson), 1916-
Extent:
0.2 linear ft.
Repository:
University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library.
Special Collections and Archives
Santa Cruz, California 95064
Abstract: This collection contains outgoing and incoming correspondence (letters from William Roth, Kenneth Patchen, Miriam Patchen,
Jonathan Williams, J. B. de C. H. Sanders and Josephine Miles) documenting professional and personal relationship between
William M. Roth and Kenneth Patchen.
Physical location: Stored in Special Collections and Archives: Advance notice is required for access to the papers.
Language:
English.
Collection open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
William M. Roth correspondence. MS 170. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Gift of William M. Roth, August 1993, to The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley. Correspondence with reference to Kenneth Patchen
transferred to Special Collection and Archives, UC Santa Cruz, November 1994.
William Matson Roth, along with Jane Grabhorn, was one of the acting managers of the Colt Press of San Francisco in the 1940's.
The Colt Press published writers such as Ann Stanford, Edmund Wilson, Henry Miller, J. V. Cunningham. Through the association
with the press William M. Roth, later to be U.S. Ambassador, businessman, and a negotiator, established a friendship with
novelist and poet Kenneth Patchen.
A set of correspondence by William Roth, Kenneth Patchen, Miriam Patchen, Jonathan Williams, J. B. de C. H. Sanders and Josephine
Miles documenting Kenneth Patchen's early publishing history (1941-1942),and his financial and medical plight in the 1960's.
Material is organized into three series; Outgoing, Incoming, and Other Related Letters.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Roth, William M.
Printers--California
Poets, American y 20th century x Correspondence
Other Index Terms Related to this Collection
Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972. Kenneth Patchen archive
Patchen, Miriam
Williams, Jonathan, d 1929
Sanders, J. B. de C. H
Miles, Josephine, d 1911-
Colt Press
Grabhorn Press
Title: Colt Press Records,
Date (inclusive): 1938-1958
Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Colt Press Records,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1941-1942
Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Title: The Colt Press: Oral history transcript and related material,
Date (inclusive): 1965-1966
Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley