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ARC Mss 17
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Title: Bayard Stockton Collection
Dates: ca. 1977-1996
Collection number: ARC Mss 17
Creator:
Stockton, Bayard
Collection Size:
2.4 linear feet
(6 document boxes and 4 audio cassettes).
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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some files relating to Stockton's unpublished work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.
Physical location: Boxes 1-6 (SRLF); Audiotapes (Annex 2).
Languages:
English
Collection is stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval.
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.
Bayard Stockton Collection. ARC Mss 17. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Gift of Bayard Stockton, 1997.
Scope and Content of Collection
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some files relating to Stockton's unpublished work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.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Stockton, Bayard
Monroe, Robert A.
Monroe Institute
Consciousness.
Psychics -- United States -- Biography.
New Age movement.
Stockton is the donor of the George Bailey Papers (Bernath Mss 140), which includes an unpublished typescript of Bailey's
False Dawn: Liaison Officer to the Red Army.
Stockton and his daughter Tara, after his death in 2006, are donors of the Bayard Stockton Papers (Bernath Mss 174), mainly
on Stockton's biography of William K. Harvey of the CIA.
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.