Bayard Stockton Collection
Preliminary arrangement and description by David C. Tambo
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone: (805) 893-3062
Fax: (805) 893-5749
Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
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© 2009-2012
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Preliminary Guide to the Bayard Stockton Collection, 1972-2001
Collection number: ARC Mss 17
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- Preliminary arrangement and description by David C. Tambo.
- Date Completed:
- Jan. 4, 2010
- Latest revision:
- Nov. 16, 2012
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
© 2009-2012 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
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
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some files relating to Stockton's unpublished work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
Access Restrictions
Collection is stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval.
Publication Rights
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.
Acquisition Information
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.
Indexing Terms
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.
Related Material
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.
Separated Material
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.
Box 1: 1
"A Path Seldom Trod" (typescript draft of 1987 concept)
Box 1: 2
"Ain't We Got Fun!" (partial typescript draft of Jan. 1988 version)
Box 1: 3-5
Typescript, Oct. 1988, with handwritten changes by Monroe
Box 2: 2
Photos - photocopies of those sent to publisher for the book
Box 2: 3-4
Publisher Files (includes contract, correspondence, and publicity)
Research Files (includes correspondence, some printed material, drafts of related sections of
Catapult)
Box 2: 14
Miscellany (mainly correspondence to 1989)
Lift Off! Robert Monroe's Gateway... and Beyond
Box 3: 1
Foreword - Whitley Strieber (typescript draft, 1989)
Box 3: 2
Introduction - Stuart W. Twemlow (typescript draft, n.d.)
Box 3: 3
Typescript pages (incomplete)
Box 3: 4-6
Alphabetical, by surname (mainly correspondence)
Box 3: 7-8
Miscellany (correspondence, requests for releases, lists, slides)
Box 4: 1-2
Articles (mainly about Monroe)
Box 4: 4
Biography Project (by Stockton)
Monroe Institute / Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences
Box 5: 4
Hemi-Sync (Hemispheric Synchronization)
Monroe Institute Publications
Box 6: 1
Breakthrough,
ca. 1983-1989
Box 6: 4
M.I.A.S. Bulletin - A Communication from the Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences,
ca. 1976-1985
Box 6: 5
Monroe Institute Bulletin,
1986-1989
Box 6: 8
Lewis, James R. -
New Age Vision (page proofs)
Box 6: 13
Unsorted/Unidentified Materials
Box 6: 14
Photographs (color prints and negatives)
A10298/CS
Hepburn, Elizabeth – Monroe Experience,
Apr. 30, 1988
A10299/CS
Schul, Bill – on Bob Monroe,
Apr. 1988
A10300/CS
Stone, Lee – Gateway Experience, for 'Catapult' Project,
Sept. 1987
A10301/CS
Strieber, W. – Monroe Institute Visit,
n.d.