Bayard Stockton Collection, ca. 1977-1996

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Summary

Creators:
Stockton, Bayard
Abstract:
The bulk of the Bayard Stockton collection relates to Stockton's book Catapult: The Biography of Robert A. Monroe (1989) and contains drafts of the manuscript, correspondence, and material about Monroe and the Monroe Institute. There are some files relating to Stockton's unpublished work Lift Off! Robert Monroe's Gateway... and Beyond, as well as a few files on other aspects of the New Age movement. There also is a sizeable collection of audiotapes, many issued by the Monroe Institute, as well as some non-commercial tapes of interviews, conversations, and reflections by people associated with the Monroe Institute.
Extent:
2.4 linear feet (6 document boxes and 4 audio cassettes).
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Bayard Stockton Collection. ARC Mss 17. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

The bulk of the collection relates to Stockton's book Catapult: The Biography of Robert A. Monroe (1989) and contains drafts of the manuscript, correspondence, and material about Monroe and the Monroe Institute. There are some files relating to Stockton's unpublished work Lift Off! Robert Monroe's Gateway... and Beyond, as well as a few files on other aspects of the New Age movement. There also is a sizeable collection of audiotapes, many issued by the Monroe Institute, as well as some non-commercial tapes of interviews, conversations, and reflections by people associated with the Monroe Institute. The Monroe Institute tapes have been cataloged separately and can be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog.

A copy of Catapult has been cataloged separately and may be searched on Pegasus. Stockton also is author of Phoenix with a Bayonet: A Journalist's Interim Report on the Greek Revolution (1971). Copies of Catapult and Phoenix are housed in Special Collections.

Robert A. Monroe's publications include Journeys Out of the Body (1971), a copy of which is in Special Collections.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Bayard Stockton, 1997.
Physical location:
Boxes 1-6 (SRLF); Audiotapes (Annex 2).
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:

Bayard Stockton Collection. ARC Mss 17. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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