Obituaries and memorial writings; 19 clippings, Jan-Aug, 1972

Memorial readings at City Lights Poet's Theater; corrected & uncorrected flyers, and article

Chronology (4 pp copy)

The Martha Kinney Cooper, Ohioan Library Award, given for work of Cloth of the Tempest(5" x 5 1/2"), 1943

Legal Papers, 1934-1972

Documents relating to Patchen's Death, Jan 8, 1972

Medical Malpractice Lawsuit; Court memoranda of Kenneth Patchen vs. Victor Richards M.D. (No. 501440), and correspondence from Patchen's attorney William Berkman from the Law Office of Morrison, Foerster, Holloway, Clinton & Clark (7 TLS, Jul 19, 1963 - Jul 9, 1964), 1963-1964

Music Contracts, 1949-1966

David Bedford, Universal Edition (London) Ltd.; 2 TLS, unsigned and signed contract to compositions Music for Albion Moonlight containing "The Great Birds", "O Now The Drenches Land Wakes", and "In Memory Of Kathleen" + annotated envelope, Feb-Aug 1966

Richard Hundley & General Music Publishing Company Inc.; signed contract to "The Maiden Snow" and In "This My Green World" (5 pp), 1963-1965

William O. Smith & MJQ Music Inc.; signed contract to composition "Five Song" (3 pp), 1963

Allyn Ferguson and Chamber Jazz Sextet & Cadence Records; unsigned recording contract (6 pp), Sep 15, 1957

Marion Bauer & Associated Music Publishers Inc.; signed contract to choral composition "At The New Year", Mar 3, 1949

Marriage License application; photocopy Jun 28, 1934

Education: Warren G. Harding Senior High School Yearbook The Echoes , 1929

Activity:

Juror at Bay Printmakers Society 3rd National Exhibition of Prints; exhibit catalog, Oct 1957

Exhibits; catalogs, brochures, posters, clippings, 1965-1972

Poetry-Jazz, 1957-1959

Brochures, flyers, 1959

Posters (9) [1957-1959]

Clippings (10), 1957-1959

Poetry Readings; programs, brochures, posters, 1958-1954

Fund Raisers; "San Francisco Tribute to Kenneth Patchen" program, benefit reading announcement, a leaflet informing the founding of "The Kenneth Patchen Fund", and clippings, 1951-1971

Other appearances; miscellany printed material, 1961-1964

Financial Papers; New Directions royalty statements, receipts and 4 cancelled checks, 1949-1965

Printed Material About Patchen, 1946-1989

Bibliographies 1948-1980

Block, Jane. The Bed Took Up Most of the Room , from The Ends of Performance. Ed. Phelan & Lane: Routledge; typescript printout and paste-ups (28 pp), 1996

DeFrance, Francine L. Kenneth Patchen: An Authorized Annotated Bibliography ; typescript copy (126 pp), 1975

Eaton, Gail. First bibliography, leaflet [1948]

Lipsker, Francine L. Kenneth Patchen from 1934-1971: A Briefly Annotated Bibliography ; typescript copy p. 1-28, and signed copy of Kenneth Patchen: An Annotated Bibliography.

Morgan, Richard G. Kenneth Patchen: An Annotated Descriptive Bibliography 1977; signed typescript (p. ii-viii, 1-236)

Signed typescript (p. ii-viii, 1-236)

Bound volume; New York: P. P. Appel, 1978

Shimizu, Kiyomi. Catalog of Patchen Poems in Anthologies; typescript (29 pp) and bound copy, 1980

Booklets:

Kenneth Patchen Literary Festival, April 27-30, 1989, Trumbull Art Gallery, Pig Iron Press, 1989

Morgan, Richard, G. Kenneth Patchen's 'The Journal of Albion Moonlight': Its form and meaning . Black Cat Books, New Mexico; 2 signed copies, 1976.

Dissertations, 1975-1976

Student Papers, 1969, 1972

Articles, 1946, 1977-1978

Clippings, 1942-1979

Other; curriculum catalog, brochure

Oversized; serials and broadsides, 1967

Kenneth Patchen to:

Notebook of drafts (8 pp); addressed to James LAUGHLIN in regards to production of a painted books editions of Hallelujah Anyway, and to Stephen BERG describing the disappointing outcome of a Patchen manuscript sale to a library, and miscellany notes, 1966

UNKNOWN, about Goya Exhibit; TLS, "Just a note to enclose with this little booklet from the Goya exhibit...", and an exhibit catalog Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts , vol. 53: 293, Autumn 1955. ca. 1955

ABRAMSON, Ben; TLS, "Your letter citing the findings of the young man who went through the manuscript of Albion Moonlight has gone unanswered until now because I've been ill...", Nov 18, 1948

CARSON, Robin:

ALS, "Why tell you how good that golden juice is? We're hoarding it: remaining are 73,001 drops...", Apr 19, 1950

ALS, "Bottled wonder arrived on day as color above. in perfect condition...", Apr 14, 1950

ALS, "Sorry but I don't feel up to much letter-writing at this moment...", Feb 7, 1950

ALS, "Thanks for your splendid letter...Been quite ill with colitis. Re Greco's show: be fine it you let friends in New York know of it...", Jan [1950]

Greeting card, "...for Robin who, finding inspiration in his friends and in his father", Dec 31, 1945

APCS, "Mt. Pleasant... It's beautiful here. No dirt, no ugly noise, etc...", Jun 24, 1943

CHESTER, Arthur; TLS, "Thank you very much for the card and for your luncheon invitation..." [declines], Apr 26, 1948

CIARDI, John:

ALS, "More than usual difficulty at present..." (2 pp), Aug 19, 1960

ALS, "Jonathan Williams has sent me the 50 dollars..." (3 pp), Aug 1, 1960

COMBS, Tram [bookseller and a poet]:

APCS, "For goodness sake, etc. You cannot pay us for this...", Jun 12, 1964

ALS, "Your 25th July letter caught me in the midst of trouble, hospital for surgery, and since a hellish time with back..., Sep 4, 1959

ALS, "I've put off answering your letter until some concise answers could be given to the things you ask;..." (2 pp), Apr 15, 1950

CROWELL, Julien:

ALS, "Thank you for your letter of the 30th with its check...", Feb 3, 1951

ALS, "Yes, a once-a-week mailing of check to me...", Jan 15, 1951

ALS "As you can see from the enclosed, I had little luck with the petition..." (2 pp), Mar 28, 1947

Signed petition "Statement in Regard to Louis Ferdinand Celine" by Miriam and Kenneth Patchen, Henry Miller, Walker Winslow, etc. 1947

ALS, "I've sent the Celine petitions around for signatures...", Feb 15, 1947

ALS, "The enclosed letter to Eliot covers pretty accurately...", undated

DAGENHARDT, Helen [editor of The Ark]; ALS, "I would have answered your letter sooner, but I've been ill...", Feb 12, [1940s]

DALRYMPLE, Jean [US Commissioner General, Brussels Universal & International Exhibition]; Carbon, "I was delighted to receive your June 17th letter with its request...." (2 pp), 1958

EMERSON, Richard Wirtz:

ALS, "Thanks for your letter. Mine must be brief...", Feb 8, [1951]

ALS, "Enclosed book presents the type size...", Dec 12, 1950

ALS, "Delay getting ms off to you caused by flare-up of illness...", Nov 24, 1950

EMERSON, Richard Wirtz; ALS, "Enclosed is my contribution to your symposium...", [contribution meaning his interview in "The Golden Goose"] Jun 1, 1950

ALS, "I am sending Morning Clouds to you...", May 31, 1950

ALS, "I've been having a bad session with arthritis...", Apr 19, 1950

ALS, "My warm thanks for the check of advance...", Feb 12, 1950

ALS, "You must have thought me rude for failing to acknowledge...", Jun 17, 1949

TPCS, "This may be too late for inclusion in your contributors column...", Oct 2, 1948

APCS, "In that new paragraph, it should read Dowson not Dawson...", Sep 27, 1948

TLS, "If there is time, will you please insert the paragraph...", Sep 21, 1948

TLS, "Thanks very much for going into detail...", Sep 17, 1948

TLS, "I am just getting over a bad bout of illness...", Sep 10, 1948

TLS, "Okay, I'll give you a word on the Barker business...", Jul 19, 1948

TLS, "Fine, I'll be pleased to see my poem in the September issues of the Golden Goose...", Jul 10, 1948

TLS, "Enclosed is a poem for considered use in your magazine...", Jun 24, 1948

FIRMAGE, George; ALS, "Thank you for your letter. At the moment I must limit...", Nov 17, 1956

FERLINGHETTI, Laurence:

TLS, "I held off acknowledging Saturday-arrival of book thinking...", May 17, 1956

ALS, "Glad to hear that the book is on its way...", Apr 27, 1957

FORD FOUNDATION, (W. McNeil Lowry); Draft "I was very pleased to receive your letter informing me that I have been nominated..."(6 pp) ca. 1959

GELLER, Harry:

ALS, "My strength doesn't allow me to ever try to go into feelings...", Jan 6, 1961

Telegram, "Must call off your visit...", Dec 26, 1960

ALS, "I just received most pleasant letter from Henry Geiger...", Nov 13, 1960

ALS, "Sounscriber has not been delivered...", Nov 9, 1960

ALS, "Couple details too long to relate on phone..." (2 pp), Nov 3, 1960

ALS, "Quick note to tell you that I've hit on idea I like for the HG-KP jazz opera... ", Oct 15, 1960

ALS, "Well- What can I say? Sort of took our breath away...", May 21, 1959

TLS, "Only wish the magic carpet you've provided to...", Jan 29, 1950

ALS, "Just now preparing copy for the new "Painted Books"...", Apr 24, 1958

Empty envelopes, 1962-1963

HARPER & ROW (Mr. Pace); Carbon, "In 1943 Harper & Brothers published my book...", Nov 14, 1967

LAUGHLIN, James (New Directions):

Telegram draft, "New firm here offers exceptional terms for putting But Even So into immediate production stop...", Sep 2

Draft, "Confidential..." (2 pp), Nov 27, 1965

Draft, "Perhaps the best way to do things would be for me to take up in order the various questions you raise in your letter:..." (5 pp), Aug 9, 1940

LEITE, George [editor of Circle magazine, Berkeley]:

ALS, "Laughlin had sublet our place while we were...", Sep 21, 1946

ALS, "Your letter of April 22nd arrived yesterday...", May 12, 1946

ALS, "As you may have heard, I've been quite ill -", Apr 3, [1946]

ALS, "Came across a postcard (which somehow didn't get posted -", Jan 26, [1946]

ALS, "Your welcome letter came this morning...", + enclosed a signed statement by Patchen "Ezra Pound chose one authority..." (3 pp), Dec 1, 1945

ALS "I've been too ill to do much of anything...", Sep 8 [1945]

TLS "I hope everything went well with the birth...", Aug 14, 1945

TLS, "United Book Guild man dropped by...", Jul [3], 1945

TLS, "You know, I sent you a signed copy of the JOURNAL...", Jun 19, 1945

TLS, "Thanks for your always-interesting letters...", Jun 12, 1945

Empty envelope, Mar 30, 1945

TLS, "Thanks for your card. I sent off one copy of MOONLIGHT...", Mar 25, 1945

TLS, "I was very pleased to get your letter. Illness prevented me...", Oct 24, 1944

ALS, "You will forgive me for this long delay...", Apr 6, 1944

ALS, "Thank you for your card. I'd like to appear in 'Circle'...", Feb 29, 1944

MUMFORD, Lewis [author and editor]:

ALS, "Almost folded up in Boston...", Apr 29, [19--]

ALS, "I can't tell you how pleased I am...", Feb 18, 1939

ALS, "There is to be a new scholarship at Harvard...", Feb 3, 1939

TLS, "Good news! (Just as you indicated.)...", Jan 27, 1939

TLS, "Thank you for your fine letter. It was Irish whiskey...", Jan 16, 1939

ALS, "I am reaping a bitter harvest of nerves...", Jan 5, 1939

ALS, "The 'trial' is the Soviet Union have taken many poems from me...", Oct 13, 1937

TLS, "I was hopeful of getting through the summer...", Jul 30, 1935

ALS, "We are very happy here. Our cottage is delightful...", Jun 22, 1935

ALS, "You cannot understand what a hope's send..." (2 pp), Aug 4,1934

ALS, "Armed with your letter I sought out Mr. MacLeish...", 1933

ALS, "At last, after weeks of search, I have a job...", [1933]

Photocopy, "I am leaving for New York today..." (2 pp), [mid-1930's]

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS & THE HUMANITIES; Draft, "During the first six month period...", [1967]

NEW DIRECTIONS

AL, "Have your two letters now. I'll answer in job terms...' (2 pp), May 23, 1970

Draft, "Kenneth Patchen was one of five poets...', [+ attached with Incoming New Directions letter sent Oct 15, 1967], Oct 15, 1967

Carbon, "Thank you for your letter of September 16th...' (2 pp), Sep 20, 1957

Telegram draft, "Straight wire - Necessary you keep your word...", undated

Misc attached notes (2 items); "Copy changes back cover, 2nd paragraph - Kenneth Patchen assembled this...", "Hospital 9 days, total amount as of July 6, 1969..."

PACKARD, William; ALS, "You have a place in our hearts all to yourself...", undated

PATCHEN, Miriam:

1959, letters from a poetry-jazz tour in New York:

ALS, "I put it plain and clear to Mingus that unless he got down to what we are supposed to be doing...", Mar 10, 1959

ALS, "Plane trip easy: Jonathan and couple fellows were waiting with...", Mar 10, 1959

1959, letters from a poetry-jazz tour in Canada:

ALS, "I take the 12:50 train to Settle, arriving at 4:30 pm...", Feb 24, 1959

ALS, "Just finished recording session for CBC radio...", Feb 21, 1959

ALS, "Just finished concert at Univ British Col - tremendous success...", Feb 19 [1959]

APCS, "Vancouver changes radically as one goes from section...", Feb 18, [1959]

ALS, "Here are copies of these clippings..." (no clippings present), Feb 17, 1959

ALS, "Got your wire, card and letters...", Feb 16, 1959

PC, unsigned card, enclosed with a note "and a hell of one being away from my honey - K", Feb 5, 1959

1958, letters from a poetry-jazz tour in LA:

ALS, "You remember I told you that Stars of Jazz...", "Miriam sweetheart your two letters just came..." (2 pp), Jul 19, 1958

ALS, "The newspaper headlines are getting bigger..." (2 pp), Jul 17, 1958

ALS, "Humphry, the syndicated TV columnist vastly impressed..." + TV guide clipping "the on and off Beat Generation" by Hank Weaver, Jul 15, 1958

ALS, "Definite now that I got up with Dent, Marlin...", Mar 23, 1958

ALS, "Friday pm...Here's the imprinted Cab Thea...", Friday afternoon...Here's the corrected version..." & "Friday afternoon...Your two reassuring letters came..." (3 pp), Mar 22, 1958

ALS, "Ah, that was a real battery - recharging..." (2 pp), Mar 19, 1958

ALS, "Stretched out for a 'little' nap - wake to find...", Mar 15, 1958

ALS, "Almost didn't get through performance last night...", Mar 12, 1958

ALS, "The LOOK man wasn't in his office today...", Mar 10, 1958

ALS, "Turned down invitations to dinner tonight", Mar 10, 1958

ALS, "D. Duke is supposed to come to CC-T tonight...", Mar 8, 1958

ALS, "A gray, dreamy day, weather-wise...", Mar 7, 1958

ALS, "The CC-T people said last night that...", Mar 7, 1958

ALS, "Too early to say how I like CC-T crowd..." (2 pp), Mar 5, 1958

ALS, "It's now five o'clock, time band is due back ...", Mar 4, 1958

ALS, "The UCLA concert was very warmly received..." (2 pp), Feb 26, 1958

ALS, "At 4 we're to try out the acoustics of the UCLA...", Feb 25, 1958

ALS, "As I figured, the acoustics testing...", Feb 25, 1958

ALS, "I went down to the printer about getting m. pieces...", Feb 24, 1958

ALS, "Happy that you liked your flowers...", Feb 24, 1958

ALS, "I could find nothing in any of the papers on the trial decision...", Feb 21, 1958

ALS, "Solved the mystery of why some pieces of mail sent..." + enclosed letter from "Calypso Joe", Bill [Matons] with notations by Patchen "Remember him? Modern dancer, who in 1938 danced out poems of mine in New York" (2 pp), Feb 18, 1958

ALS, "Last night was a smog - unbelievable!...", Feb 18, 1958

ALS, "Just back from various rounds...", Feb 14, 1958

ALS, "Well, that's quite a picture of level headed thoughtfulness...", Feb 13, 1958

ALS, "Forgot to enclose this. I'm writing him thanks...", Feb 13, 1958

ALS, "Hah! pretty shirt. Nice and comfortable too...", Feb 12, 1958

ALS, "Boyer May dropped in with Village Voice...", + enclosed telegram from Andrea Smargon with KP notation "permission given" to WQXR to play 'Lonely Boy Blues' Feb 7, 1958; Feb 11, 1958

ALS, "Get this off to you while I have it in front of me...", Feb 11, 1958

ALS, "Turned down invitation to May's for a day of napping...", Feb 10, 1958

ALS, "Plan now is to turn down Macumba in S.F....", Feb 10, 1958

ALS, "Your letter, the other medicine, enclosed...", Jan 31, 1958

ALS, "What a sad thing, watching that plane take off...", Jan 28, 1958 + enclosed, carbon copy of KP's letter to Mr. Henry Allen Moe " I wish to apply for a renewal of the Guggenheim Fellowship..." Jan 27, 1958

ALS, "The love poems book and your letter came...", Jan 11, 1958

Clipping about Pasadena Cat Show with a notation "They're pretty, too" by Patchen, Jan 9, 1958

ALS, "A note before I run off to see printer...", Jan 9, 1958

ALS, "Allyn back with stuff, and reports that you are fine...", Jan 8, 1958

ALS, "Couple well-placed men - among them Walker Winslow...", Jan 7, 1958

ALS, "Your letter with Moore card..." (2 pp), Jan 6, 1958

ALS, "Only airmail envelopes in room...", Jan 5, 1958

ALS, "Arrived at 5. Everything shipshape here...", [1958]

1957, letters from a jazz-poetry tour in LA:

ALS, "Waiting until now...", Dec 31, 1957

ALS, "After show Sunday night-...", Dec 30, 1957

ALS, "My time gets eaten up by these crazy distances...", Dec 28, 1957

ALS, "Very nice theater, good sized crowd...", Dec 27, 1957

ALS, "Trip smooth and easy; time now for a bath and a nap...", Dec 27, 1957

APCS, "Everything convenient and productive...", Dec 17, 1957

A note: "Send a couple ND list-catalogs"

PFEFFER, Max [literary agent]:

Carbon signed, "In return for a grant of a commission...", Jan 26, 1949

Carbon signed, "My contract with you, dated 25, 1946...", Dec 3, 1948

Carbon signed, "In accordance with the stipulations...", + signed contract between Pfeffer and Patchen, attached with 2 registered mail receipts, Mar 15, 1948

POSINSKY, Henry:

APCS, "Thanks for your good letter. I'll send you a copy of Before The Brave with my compliments as soon as I can get hold of one...", May 5, 1942

ALS, "Thank you for your fine note...I am thinking now of offering for sale certain of my manuscripts...", Apr 1, 1942

REESE, Thurman; ALS, "Before The Brave (Random House)....", Jan 28, 1956

RICE, Alfred; TLS, " In this mail I am sending you a Limited Edition copy of...", Jan 6, 1949

RIDGLEY, Miss; ALS, "Your letter made me think about friendship in a way I perhaps never thought of..." (2 pp), ca. 1929-1930

ROBERST, Warren Roberts [Director of Humanities Research Center, U of Texas]:

Draft, "The doctors state that my wife's condition following surgery is very satisfactory.." (2 pp) + drafts: "But that confidence was shattered...", "This morning opened your letter..." (2 pp; Fragile, use photocopies 4 pp) , Dec 10, 1965

Draft, "Several weeks ago, realizing that the task was beyond...", Sep 26, 1965

RUSSELL, Sanders [editor of The Ark]

ALS,"A few weeks a go I sent you a copy of my limited Panels for the Walls of Heaven...", Jul 14, 1948

APCS, "Thank you very much for the Chemical Image: beautiful little book...", Dec 31, 1947

APCS, "How are things with you?...", Dec 8, 1947

APCS, "The magazines arrived yesterday...", Jun 1947

APCS, "Certainly hope the Phelan pans out...", Apr 19, 1947

ALS, "Just a note now. We got moved...", Dec 29, 1946

ALS, We'll send you a mailing list tomorrow...", Jun 30, 1946

ALS, "Note to tell you that I'm sorry about delay on getting mailing list to you...", May 30, [1946]

APCS, "We're using our list just now to make a mailing for the limited edition of Sleepers Awake...", Apr 25, 1946

ALS, "We were very happy to hear from you. I suffered some sort of attack a few weeks ago...", Apr 3, 1946

TLS, "I planned to answer your letter soon after...", May 15, 1945

ALS, "We've just moved into a fine little house - ", Apr 6, 1944

APCS, "Holley Cantine ins anxious that you review...", Sep 1, 1943

ALS, "Your letter gave us much pleasure...", Aug 29, 1943

ALS, "Just a note to tell you that Laughlin informs me...", Jul 13, 1943

APCS, "Sorry, Sunday doesn't work out...", Jan 15, 1943

ALS, "I am sorry that we missed you - left after six..." (2 pp), Aug 18, 1942

APCS, "I think that it will be best for...", Aug 5, 1941

ALS, "Finally, in desperation, I send you an excerpt...", Jul 13, 1941

ALS, "At the end of the trial getting my book out...", Jun 29, 1941

ALS, "Thanks! A great help...", Jun 23, 1941

ALS, "Thanks for the two little rays of light...", Mar 12, 1941

Signed Card, "...all good wishes, Sanders.", undated

SACHS, Barbara Turner; TPCS, "Know all me these presents that I...", Jun 10, 1961

SAROYAN, William; ALS, "Stay in there swinging - and keep your guard up. All good fortune to The Trouble with Tiger...", Aug 8, 1938

TURNER, Price; TLS, "Thank you very much for you letter with its kind offer of British publications. I would enjoy receiving little magazines...", Mar 19, 1953

WEINSTEIN, Norman:

TLS, "Poem here for you. Letter--with bibliographical note etc---" [+ enclosed with corrected manuscript "What Are You Longing For, Shorty?"], Dec 31, 1964

APCS, 'Yes, I'll send you a poem for your magazine...", Dec 3, 1964

WELCH, Mrs Marie de L; Draft, "Overjoyed to accept grant-award...", undated

Miriam Patchen to:

BELLI, Merlvin [lawyer]; ALS, "Have you lost your mind?..." [in response to Belli's Nov 18, 1960 letter about Patchen's lawsuit], Nov 27, 1960

BURGAN, Joanne [assoc. with Harry Geller']; ALS, "How very good to hear from you...", Mar 27, 1961

CIARDI, John:

PCS, Chistmas card "Peace and Good Will", Dec 1962

ALS, "Thank you for your long letter. As I probably said before..." (2 pp), Jun 24, 1961

[G]AWER, Mr.; ALS, "Because of your interest in work by Kenneth Patchen...", Nov 18, 1942

GELLER, Harry:

ALS, "It's supposed to be pretty hard to vanish..." (3 pp), Oct, [1969]

APC, "The gan aglay plan of mice etc. Kenneth is in the hospital...", Apr, 1965

Invitation to Patchen exhibit at City Lights Gallery, Mar 22, 1965

"A Parable at the Year's End" Patchen Christmas card, + note "Dear ones - received these Thursday...", Jan 1, 1965

APCS, "Nothing could sound more beautiful..." [Hand painted card], Jan 30, 1964

"Peace on Earth", Patchen Christmas card [unsigned] + a note " Greetings and Best Wishes Kenneth & Miriam as always affectionately. KP is going into hospital again...", Dec 1963

ALS, "So good to hear your voice!...", Mar 28, 1963; + Enclosed with TLS to David Dressler "This is a stupid way to repay you for..." (3 pp), Mar 28, 1963

TLS, "Where are you two? We'd expected to see you before this...", Jun 4, 1962

APCS, "Forgive my hysterical note, but I was pretty disturbed...", Oct , 1961

ALS, "There's no point in kidding ourselves...", Sep 25, 1961

ALS, "Kenneth has been home from the hospital...", Mar 13, 1961

Patchen Christmas card "To Give Us Each A Love" [unsigned], + a noted, [Dec 1960]

Christmas card " A painter friend disappointed us - ", undated

HODES, Ida; APCS, "Thank you so much for your trouble...", Jun 10, 1963

KIRGO'S [bookstore in NY run by George Kirgo]:

APCS, "The Mallarme (paid for) "to be sent later"...", Oct 1951

TLS, "Please send me 1 copy A Treasury of British Humor...", Apr 7, 1950

LEITE, George:

ALS " A note in haste: Kenneth is just out of the hospital...", ca. 1945

Christmas card, [signed], undated

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES; Draft, "Has Bell system fouled us up again...", ca. 1967

NEW DIRECTIONS:

Draft, "Thank you for your good letter of 11th - with the note of Mr. Pollinger's secretary...", Jan 14, 1971

Draft, "What's the matter is there no continuity there...", Apr 24, 1968

OIKEMUS, Mr. & Mrs.; PCS, "Kenneth's book is almost sold out..." [First Will and Testament promo card], Jan 16, 1940

PACKARD, William:

ALS, "Your continued loyalty...things here are as sticky as before with no reasonable basis for expecting any change...the medical mafia continues to be beyond understanding...", Oct 19, 1971

ALS, "Nothing I can say is enough... It's hard to say what will happen to the Collected...", Nov 12, 1968

TLS, "It's not that you're not in our minds...The dull sordid reason for my reluctance in being in touch with you is that our life has been an unrelieved hell since the ruin of Kenneth in San Francisco in 1959....", Sep 24, 1966

POSINSKY, Henry:

APCS, "Cloth of The Tempest by Kenneth Patchen will be ready in about a mouth. You shall get one of the first copies...", Aug 2, 1943

ALS, "Illness of Kenneth's editor at Harpers and 'war conditions' have delayed The Cloth of The Tempest...", Mar 22, 1943

ALS, "Because of your interest in works by Kenneth Patchen this letter is being sent to you in advance of general advertisement on his new book...The Cloth of The Tempest...", Nov 11, 1942

RANDOM HOUSE Inc. (Mr. Cerf); Draft, "Perhaps you have some reason for evading...", Jul 7, 1938

RICHARDS, Victor M.D., Presbyterian Medical Center; Draft, "Helplessly watching Kenneth in his agony as he stuffs towels into his mouth to gag his cries...", Sep 2, 1966

ROOSEVELT, Eleanor:

Miriam to Mrs. Roosevelt: Carbon, 'Because you are in a position which entails many responsibilities;..." (2 pp), Feb 5, 1947

Patchen to multiple recipients: Carbon signed, "Shortly after my wife and I moved to this town..." + mailing list [account of the censorship] (2 pp), Feb 28, 1947

Third Party: Eleanor Hazard to Dixon Hoag [Secretary of the Committee of Selection, Old Lyme Library]: Carbon, "It behooves me to write to you at some length..." (2 pp), ca. 1947

STELOFF, Francis; ALS, "Kenneth made this for the Gotham... the only one (collage) he's made.." + attached statement by Kenneth Patchen, Oct 26, 1957 (2 pp), 1957

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, Humanities Research Center (F.W. Roberts); Draft, "Thank you very much for your kind and gratifying response. My husband...", ca. Sep 1965

UNKNOWN:

Draft, "Will you kindly see to it...", undated

Telegram draft, "Accidentally discovering telephone co. unaccountably reporting our number out of circulation in event you attempted to call. stop...." (2 pp), undated

A:

ACKLING, Roger; ALS (2 pp), Nov 24, 1965

ADRIAN, Marc; ALS, Aug 31, 1971

ARTS CLUB of CHICAGO (Mrs. Alfred P. Shaw); 4 TLS, invitation and Miriam's reply draft, Jan 1971-Oct 1971

B:

BANTAMBOOK; TLS, May 25, 1970

BARLOW SCHOOL (Juliet Reardon); ALS [+ enclosed with a yearbook, and a receipt from a fundraiser held in behalf of Patchen by the faculty and students.], Nov 8, 1971

BARROW POETS; TLS, Mar 27, 1969

BASTICK, Peter; ALS, (3 pp), undated

BEDFORD, David [composer]; 5 ALS, Nov 1964-Dec 1965

BELLI, ASHE AND GERRY, Law Offices; TLS, Nov 18, 1960

BERG, Stephen; APCS and TPCS, Oct 1966, undated

[BIRGE], Vincent [written in behalf of Henry Miller]; ALS (2 pp), Mar 14, 1961

BISHOP, Elisabeth; TLS, Aug 13, 1956

THE BOBBS MERRILL COMPANY Inc, Publishers (Maria H. Scott); TLS, Jun 13, 1966

BOSQUET, Alain (Paris, France); 3 TLS and ALS, Oct 1955-Jul 1958

BROOKS, D. K. (M.D.); TLS, Nov 17, 1965

BROWN UNIVERSITY, Dept. of English (Alvin Rosenfeld); 2 TLS, Jan 1966

[BRUMAN], Richard; ALS (2 pp), Jul 21, 1959

BRUSSELS UNIVERSAL & INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION (Jean Dalrymple); 2 TLS, Jul-Sep 1958

BUFANO, Beniamino [sculptor, Oakland]; 2 ALS, Jul-Aug, 1961

BUNTING, Basil; TLS, Apr 17, 1951

BURNSHAW, Stanley; 3 TLS, Feb-Jul 1962

C:

CAEDMON PUBLISHERS, New York. (Barbara A. Cohen); 8 TLS, Oct 1952-Dec 1953

CANADIAN BROADCASTING Corp, (Robert Patchell) ; 4 TLS, Jul 1956-Mar 1959

CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, Santa Barbara; TLS, Feb 17, 1960

CHARLES SCHRIBNER'S SONS, Publishers (Greta Selkowe); TLS, Oct 21, 1964

CIARDI, John [editor of poetry for Saturday Review]; 3 TLS and 3 ALS, Aug 1960-Jun 1961

CLARK, Thomas; ALS (2 pp), Oct 4, 1966

CODY'S BOOKS (Steve Van Strum); TLS, Apr 19, 1964

COMBS, Tram [poet and a bookseller]; Carbon, Jul 25, 1959

COMFORT, Alex (Essex); TLS, 3 ALS and 2 APCS, Jul 1944-Dec 1958

CONFERENCE ON THE STATUS OF SOVIET JEWS; TLS + flyer, Mar 31, 1970

CONTEMPORARY NOVELISTS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE; TL + questionnaire, Dec 17, 1970

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, New York (Walter Hopps, dir, Renato Danese, curator & Martha Morris):

15 TLS, 4 Telegrams, APCS, and loan lists and receipt, Jun 1968-Jul 1970

Other correspondence in regards to Exhibit at Corcoran Gallery of Art (from Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, Jewish Museum, National Council on the Arts, Roman Books, San Francisco Museum of Art); 5 TLS, ALS, TPCS and Telegram, 1970

COWLEY, Malcolm; TLS, May 14, 1956

cummings, e.e (Edward Estlin); 13 TLS, 3 TPCS, 3 APCS and Telegram, Sep 1943-Apr 1962

CUMMINGS, Marion M.; 8 ALS, 2 APCS, Mar 1954-Aug 1958

CURTIS, W. Douglas; ALS, undated

D:

DAMON, S. Foster [William Blake scholar]; 11 TLS, Nov 1955-Jun 1967

DONER, Ephraim [Jewish painter, settled in Big Sur]; ALS (2 pp), Apr 5, 1960

DOUBLEDAY & Co. (Luther Nichols, Ken McCormick editors); 3 TLS, Sep 1961

DRAPER, Hal; TLS, Sep 24, 1966

DRESSLER, David; 1 TLS, Draft informing of a copyright violation for using Journal of Albion Moonlight in a film, 2 clippings Mar 1958

E:

ELLIOT, George P. [novelist and academic]; ALS (2pp), Aug 24, 1963

EMERSON, Richard Wirtz; 5 Carbons and copy, May 1950-Jun 1951

F:

FABER & FABER Ltd.; 2 TLS, Jan 1942, May 1944

FENWICK, Sarah (London); TLS, Oct 22, 1968

FERGUSON, Allyn [musician, leader of Jazz Chamber Sextet]; 2 TLS and unsigned agreements, May 1958, Sep 1959

FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence (City Lights Pocket Bookshop); TLS, ALS, TPCS and note, Aug [1956]-Mar 1970

THE FORD FOUNDATION, (W. McNeil Lowry, Dir.); TLS, Feb 11, 1960

G:

GALLE, Michael; TLS, Dec 29, 1969

GASCOYNE, David [British poet]; ALS (4 pp), Jul 9, 1942

GELLER, Harry [musician]; ALS (2 pp), Nov 15, 1960

GERHARDT, Renata (Gerhardt Verlag, Berlin); TLS and TL, 1962

GINN AND COMPANY [Xerox company]; 2 TLS, Mar 1970, Feb 1971

GOTHAM BOOK MART (Frances Steloff, Andreas Brown); 6 TLS, 2 TPCS and mailer, Jan 1954-Apr 1971

THE GREY WALLS PRESS Ltd. (Charles Wrey Gardiner, London); 2 TLS and ALS, Nov 1948-Feb 1950

[GRINBERG, Miguel] (Eco Contemporaneo, Argentina); ALS, Aug 25, 1965

H:

HARPER & ROW, Publishers; TLS, Dec 6, 1967

HARRINGTON, Donald S.; TLS, Dec 20, 1961

HARRIS, Patricia; ALS + clipping, Dec 25, 1971

HAUGER, Bill; TLS (3 pp), Aug 6, 1967

HELLSTRD6;M, L.G. ; TLS, Jul 28, 1951

HENSEL, H. Richard [composer]; TLS, Feb 16, 1966

HOLMES, John [judge of Shelley Memorial Award]; TLS, Dec 5, 1953

HOLMES BOOK Co. (Robert L. Hawley); 2 TLS, ALS and forwarded carbon, May 1964-Nov 1965

HOLT, RINEHARDT and WINSTON, Inc. Publishers; TLS, Oct 16, 1964

HUNDLEY, Richard [composer], 6 TLS + annotated programs and clippings, Mar 1961-Nov 1965

I:

INDIANA UNIVERSITY, The Lilly Library (David Randall); TLS, Aug 20, 1965

INTERCULTURAL PUBLICATIONS Inc.; TL, Apr 18, 1955

IVANOV, Zora (Countess); Invitation, Sep 12, 1967

J:

JOHN HOWELL BOOKS; TLS, Oct 26, 1955

JOHNSON, J. Chester; TLS, [+ promotional packet], Jan 6, 1974

JOHNSON, Pete; 2 ALS and APCS, Apr 1961, Dec 1963

JONATHAN CAPE Ltd. (Ed Victor, Tom Maschler); 4 TLS, May 1967-Apr 1968

K:

KATUE, Kitasono (VUO magazine, Japan); 2 TLS and ALS, Jan 1949-Nov 1956

KIRSTEIN, Lincoln; Transcript copies to Kirsteins and Patchen's correspondence (2 pp), ca.1934

KIMIZU, Ikuo; TLS, Dec 5, 1956

KUOW, radio station (Stan Burnett); TLS, Mar 9, 1959

KÖRTE, Sister Mary Norbert; ALS, 16 pp manuscript for "Beginning of Lines: response to Albion Moonlight" by Sister Körte and Pamphlet of poems Way Poems, Sep 14, 1967

L:

LAKE, Larry; TPCS, Jan 20, 1971

LANE, Bruce [film maker]; 13 ALS, 2 APCS, film script (9 pp) and singed contract for filming of The Journal of Albion Moonlight , Apr 24, 1967-Oct 1970

LARSEN, Paul; ALS and enclosed material, Feb 12, 1967

LEHMAN, Brad; TL, TLS and 26 pp manuscript carbon of "A Sketch of Kenneth Patchen", Jun 1968, undated

LESDAIN, Pierre [Belgian critic & translator]; ALS, May 27, 1948

LOWELL, Jim (The Asphodel Book Shop, Ohio); 3 TLS and 3 ALS, Aug 1954-Nov 1965

M:

MacLEISH, Archibald; 6 TLS and TL, Nov 1954-Apr 1960

MANABE, Hiroaki [translator, Japan]; 4 ALS, Apr 1959-Jan 1962

MANNING, Hugo; 2 TLS and ALS, Jan 1965-Jan 1967

MARGADANT, Guillermo F.; TLS, Apr 1, 1969

MAY, James Boyer; TPCS, Nov 16, 1955

McCARTHY, Albert (Delphic Press, Jazz Monthly magazine); 3 TLS, Sep 1946-Oct 1957

MEIKLEJOHN, Alexander; ALS, Nov 21, 1964

MILES [Apple Corps Ltd.]; 4 TLS, Nov 1968-Mar 1969

MILLER, Dorothy [fan], from Department of mental hygiene, San Francisco; TLS + 25 pp research paper "County Lunacy Commission Hearings: some observations of commitments to a state mental hospital" by Miller, Sep 1, 1965

MILLER, Henry; 14 TLS, 29 ALS, 8 APCS, Telegram, Forwarded draft to Dorothy Norman about Patchen, and Forwarded ALS from John Gold to Henry Miller in praise of Patchen's work, Mar 1940-Feb 1962

MILLS, Charles [composer]; 3 ALS and Brochure about Charles Mills, Mar 1958-Mar 1959

MILNE, Gretchen [fan]; ALS, Jul 30, 1956

MITSUI, Mrs. F. ; ALS, Jul 7, 1954

[MONTRORE], Jack; ALS, undated

MOORE, Marianne; 2 APCS and ALS, Mar 1951-Dec 1958

N:

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES (Carolyn Kizer, Roger L. Stevens); 3 TLS and ALS, Feb 1967-Jan 1968

THE NATIONAL INSTITUTION OF ARTS & LETTERS (N.Y.); TLS, Oct 28, 1966

NELSON, Raymond; TLS [+ 4 pp dissertation proposal], Oct 27, 1967

NEW DEPARTURES, London (Michael Horovitz); Autographed card and 2 booklets, Jun 3, 1964

NEW DIRECTIONS, 1949-1984

1983-1984; 8 TLS and 2 ALS

1976-1979; 7 TLS and enclosed material

1977-1976, Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; 6 carbons

1975:

General; 7 TLS, ALS and enclosed material

Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; 5 carbons

1974:

General; 15 TLS

Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; 7 Carbons and TLS

1973:

General; 10 TLS and enclosed material

Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; 7 Carbons, ALS and receipts

1972:

General; 7 TLS and 2 ALS

Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; 9 Carbons

1971:

General; 31 TLS and TPCS

Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; 3 Carbons and 2 ALS

1970-1971; ALS, 5 TLS, 10 Carbons and 47 pp script of "The Reluctant Pornographer"

1970:

General; 59 TLS, ALS and enclosed material

Letters in regards to pirated poem "Do Me That Love"; 2 TLS, ALS, 8 Carbons, APCS and enclosed material

Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; 2 TLS and 12 Carbons

1969:

General; 35 TLS, 3 ALS and enclosed material

1969, Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; 11 Carbons and ALS

1968:

General; 40 TLS, 5 ALS, APCS and enclosed material

Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; 5 TLS and 10 Carbons

1967:

General; 44 TLS, 10 ALS, APCS and enclosed material

Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; 18 Carbons and 2 ALS

1966:

General; 30 TLS, 10 ALS and enclosed material

Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; 2 TLS, 2 ALS, 12 Carbons and enclosed material

1965:

General; 9 TLS, 2 ALS, APCS and enclosed material

Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; 2 TLS and 2 Carbons

1964:

General; 7 TLS

Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; TLS

>1963:

General; 6 TLS

Forwarded/Third Party Correspondence; 2 Carbons

1962:

General; 16 TLS, ALS and APCS

Forwarded/Third Party Correspondence; 6 Carbons and a memo

1961:

General; 19 TLS, 4 ALS, 2 APCS

Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; 2 Carbons

1960:

General; 28 TLS, 2 ALS, TPCS, APCS and enclosed material

Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; 7 Carbons

1959:

General; 25 TLS, ALS, TPCS, 3 APCS and enclosed material

Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; 2 Copies

1958:

General; 11 TLS, APCS, TPCS and enclosed material

Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; 4 Carbons

1957:

General; 27 TLS, 2 TPCS and APCS

Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; 3 Carbons and TSL

1956:

General; 11 TLS and note

Forwarded Correspondence; Carbon

1955:

General; 4 TLS, TL and enclosed material

Forwarded Corresondence; Carbon

1954; 12 TLS and enclosed material

1953:

General; 17 TLS, ALS and enclosed material

1953, Forwarded Third Party Correspondence; 2 TLS

1949-1952; 11 TLS and enclosed material

Undated; TLS, TL, 2 ALS, TPCS and APCS

A notebook of excerpts from James Laughlin's correspondence quoting Patchen (8 pp), 1940-1951

Annotated envelopes by Patchen (65)

NEW YORK MIRROR (Walter Winchell); TLS, Nov 4, 1957

O:

O'HARA, Keith R.; 2 ALS [+ slide of a O'Hara's painting], Dec 1967, Dec 1968

OSADA, Tsuneo (Tokyo, Japan); TLS, May 7, 1949

P:

PACIFICA, (WBAI-fm 99.5); Carbon (2 pp), Jan 27, 1969

PADELL BOOK COMPANY (Max Padell); 5 TLS and account statements, Jan 1949-Dec 1969

PAPER EDITIONS Corp.; ALS, undated

PARKEY, Jones; Signed flyer, Apr 1, 1966

THE PASADENA ART MUSEUM (Barbara Stewart); TLS, Mar 13, 1961

PAT, Mary; ALS, Oct 1971

PAULIG, Ava H.; ALS (2 pp), Apr 12, 1962

PEARN, POLLINGER & HIGHAM Ltd. (David Higham); 3 TLS and enclosed royalty statements, Nov 1948-Oct 1957

P.E.N., American Center (Henry Robbins); TLS (2 pp), Jan 14, 1970

PFEFFER, Max [literary agent]; 5 TLS and enclosed royalty statements, Mar 22, 1948-Jun 1960

PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF ART (Claudia Kuehl); TLS (+ 3 pp attachment), Mar 31, 1970

PLANZ, Allen; TLS, Jan 21, 1965

THE POET, Glasgow, Scotland (William Turner, editor); 3 TLS and ALS, Jan 1950-May 1953

THE POETRY CENTER, New York (Elizabeth Kray); TLS, Dec 3, 1957

POETRY LONDON (Tambimutto, editor); ALS, Sep 28, 1943

THE POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA (Gustav Davidson, secretary); TLS, Dec 2, 1953

PORTER, Bern; ALS, Jul 4, 1965

POUND, Ezra; TLS and ALS, Dec 10 [19--], Oct 1946

R:

RANDOM HOUSE Inc. (Bennett A Cerf, Emanuel Harper etc.); 7 TLS, Aug 1937-Nov 1971

REDL, Harry; ALS, Apr 9, 1956

REESE, Thurman; Carbon, Jan 11, 1956

RICHARDS, Victor M.D.; TLS, Sep 14, 1966

ROMAN BOOKS (Jim Roman); 4 TLS, 3 ALS and enclosed material, Oct 1962-Sep 1965

ROOSEVELT, Eleanor; 2 TLS, Feb 1958, Sep 1962

ROTH, William M.; 2 TLS and ALS, May 1962-Mar 1964

RUSSELL, Bertrand [philosopher]; 3 TLS,signed copy of Intro the 10th Decade: Tribute to Bertrand Russell , unsigned booklet of History of the World: in epitome (1962), and a clipping, Oct 1962-Dec 1962

S:

SAN FRANCISO CHRONICLE (Herb Caen, columnist); 2 TLS and Telegram, Dec 1955-Oct 1957

SAN FRANCISCO STATE COLLEGE (Art Gallery & Poetry Center); TLS and ALS, Nov 1964, Dec 9 [19--]

SCHENKEN, Don; TLS (2 pp), Feb 5, 1966

SCHLAMILCH, Jan [Dutch translator]; 13 ALS and APCS, Aug 1948-May 1954

SCOTT, FORESMAN & Comp.; TLS, Jan 23, 1968

SCREECHES PUBLICATIONS, England; TLS [+ attachment], Jun 16, 1966

SHAW, Robert; TLS, Nov 1, 1970

THE SHIGAKU, Poetry Magazine (Isaku Hirai); TLS, Apr 29, 1950

[SIGNORE], Don; ALS (2 pp), Aug 20, 1967

SILVER, Dorothy; TLS, Apr 6, 1970

SITWELL, Edith; 4 ALS and Telegram, Feb 1951-Mar 1951

SOCIALIST AMERICA (Ralph Schoenman, Editor); TLS (4 pp), Jul 21, 1969

SPOKEN ARTS Inc. (Arthur Luce Klein); TLS, TL and Mailer, Dec 1964-Nov 1969

STEPPENWORF POETRY OPINION, (Philip Boatright); ALS, Feb 11, 1965

SURRATT, Jerl; ALS, Mar 30, 1975

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, Manuscript Collections (Martin H. Bush); TLS and Forwarded copy of Rico Lebrun's letter, Sep 7, 1965

T:

TAKANO, Kikuo (Kolben Zoku mag.); ALS, Dec 10, 1950

TAM, Nathaniel; ALS, Sep 1, 1967

TEREK, George; ALS (2 pp), May 18, 1970

THOMAS, Dylan; ALS (7 pp + a clipping), Nov 7, 1939

THOMAS, Norman; ALS and TLS, Aug 1965, Oct 1967

TULANE UNIVERSITY CENTER (Susan C. Triche); TLS, Jan 2, 1970

U:

UNICORN PRESS; TLS, May 31, 1967

UNIVERSAL EDITION Ltd., London (Mia Herrmann); 2 TLS and promotional, Apr-May 1965

UNIVERSITY MICROFILMS LIBRARY SERVICE; TLS [+ unsigned contract and a brochure], Jun 30, 1967

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (UC), BERKELEY (Dept. Of French); TLS [+ enclosed material], Mar 24, 1953

UC, SAN FRANCISCO MEDICAL CENTER, (Donald Bjornson M.D.); TLS (2 pp), Jun 7, 1965

UC, SANTA CRUZ (David H. Heron); TLS, Aug 9, 1974

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA; TLS (2 pp), Feb 2, 1967

UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA, (Dept of English, Jerre Mangione); TLS [+ clipping], Aug 3, 1969

UNIVERSITY of TEXAS, HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER, (F.W. Roberts, Dir. etc.); 10 TLS, 2 Telegram and Carbon, Aug 1965-Aug 1966

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, (Brewster Ghiselin); TLS, May 24, 1957

V:

VANDERBERGH, John [Dutch translator]; 3 ALS, Feb 1965-Jun 1971

VILLAGE VOICE (John Wilcock); 2 TLS, Sep-Nov 1957

W:

WAGNER, Dr.; TLS, [+ serial The Eight Pager], Mar 29, 1966

WESLEY FOUNDATION OF MILWAUKEE, (Gerald Cross); TLS (2 pp), Nov 9, 1965

WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA; TLS [+ annotated env, & a tear sheet], Mar 7, 1967

WILCOCK, John; APCS and Telegram, Nov 1957, Dec 1964

WILDER, Amos [scholar in New Testament Interpretation]; APCS and TLS, Jul 1954, Feb 1959

WILDER, Thornton & Isabel; 2 ALS, TLS and APCS, Sep 1953-Oct 1956

WILLIAMS, Jonathan; 16 TLS, 4 TPCS, 2 APCS and enclosed material, Jan 1952-Sep 1969

WILLIS, Richard; TLS, Jun 17, 1956

WILSON, Edmund; ALS (3 pp) Jan 22, 1941

WOESSNER, Warren; ALS [+ flyer], Jan 14, 1970

Y:

YALE UNIVERSITY, (Norman H. Pearson, American Studies); 2 TLS and ALS, Oct 1959-Oct 1962

YOSHIDA, Tsutomu; TL, 2 ALS and APCS, Jun 1964-Dec 1968

Unidentified; 8 items, Feb 1947-Dec 1969

Third Party Correspondence:

CLAYCOMBE, Gordon (Palo Alto Clinic); TLS, and signed carbon, Mar 10, 1955

DUNKIN, Robert to Kenneth Rexroth; ALS, Aug 7, 1958

CIARDI, John to Harrison Smith, Saturday Review, carbon (2pp), Jun 10, 1961

DuPOND, Michael H. to The Ford Foundation, carbon (2 pp), Sep 25, 1959

FERGUSON, Allen to Cliff Aronson, Milton Deutsch Agency, carbon (3 pp), Oct 29, 1957

JEFFERY, C.M. to Ruth Witt-Diamant, Poetry Center (SF), copy (2 pp), Dec 10, 1958

ROMAN BOOKS to H. Saunderson, copy, Aug 10, 1965

SAMUELSON, Ralph to Mr. Jeffery, TLS, Feb 11, 1959

Condolences from A-Z & Unidentified, 1972

Journal of Albion Moonlight, 1941

Holograph pages, (134 pp)

3 Bound manuscript books,

Manuscript Box; Black cloth cover, holograph label, (10 1/2" x 15 1/2")

Manuscript fragments, holograph (5 pp)

"The Plan", carbon copy (3 pp); Patchen's description of his approach to writing the novel, the ideas, plot, and meaning

Galleys proofs, annotated by Patchen; 89 leaves (8 1/2" x 22"), 7 additional holograph inserts by Patchen, and a prospectus

Prospectus draft by Patchen (holograph)

Ephemera: Inviation and mailing order cards (6 items)

They Keep Riding Down All the Time; Cover drawings in ink and gouache, 2 versions (6 1/2" x 10") and a note, 1946

Sleepers Awake, 1946

Corrected holograph and typed pages (p. 1-245; p. 245 consists additional 36 leaves)

Corrected holograph and typed pages (p. 246-400; + notebook cover)

Holograph pages in pencil, annotations in red (p. 2-74; + notebook cover)

Manuscript box; Black cloth cover, holograph label (9 1/2" x 12 1/2")

"Sleepers Awake On The Precipice", holograph, (p 1-66)

Manuscript fragments, holograph (3 pp)

Typescripts excerpts (12 pp)

Tear sheets, annotated (8 pp)

Tear sheets, corrected, (p 1-360)

Proof sheet, book cover, (New Direction edition)

Proof sheets (6 1/4" x 9 1/2"), corrected, (p 1-391)

Galley proofs; corrected and uncorrected sheets

Published chapter, Chicago Review, Vol. 1:2, (p. 73-85) copy, Spring 1946

Ephemera: mailing order card (2) and Prospectus (5)

Fables and other little tales, 1953

Bound typescript, annotated; written in Germany 1950-1951, with painted title page and fly leaves, red cover (8 1/2" x 11")

Typescript, "How Fables Tapped Along the Sunken Corridors..." by Jonathan Williams (3 pp)

Corrected bound copy, Jonathan Williams, Karlsruhe, Baden, 1953

Prospectus (2)

Aflame and Afun of Walking Faces, 1970

31 illustrations in black & white ink and acrylic, with printer's instruction and reduction notes

46 layout sheets, annotated, (14" x 10")

Printing and layout notes, front matter & corrected prospectus text; (7 sheets and a 4 page notebook)

First Will and Testament, 1939

Manuscript fragments (2 pp)

Tear sheet to "Can the Harp Shoot Through Its Propellers?"

Proof sheets for "Poems Written after Reading Certain Poets..." , (3 pp)

Reprint of poem "Before the Bells of this New Year Ring", 1967

The Dark Kingdom, 1942

Tear sheets, correct and uncorrected, (20 pp)

Proof sheets, 7 sections

Photostat of the cover

The Teeth of the Lion; Tear sheets, uncorrected (2 pp), 1942

Cloth of the Tempest, 1943

Typescript, uncorrected (1 pg)

First proofs of printing-poems, used (19 pp) and unused sheets (6 pp)

Portfolio for printing-poems

Tear sheets, uncorrected (9 pp)

Proof sheets (font samples), "The Tribes of Rakala" (4 pp)

Galley Proofs, (9 pp)

An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air, 1946

A preface to the Waldport Pamphlet; photocopy, "A Word: These poems cover the ten years of my writing life...", (1 pg), Jul 1945

Title page

Panels for the Walls of Heaven, 1946

Holograph of "A Man Lives Here" (2 pp)

22 illustrations in black and white ink and gouache

Pictures of Life and Death, 1946

Holographs (12 pp) + 7 notes

Uncorrected tear sheets (2 pp)

Selected Poems, 1946

Typescript, corrected (p 1-10, 12-29, 31-41)

Proof sheets with instructions to printer (p. i-iv, 1-27)

Proof sheets with instructions to printer (p. 28-60)

Red Wine and Yellow Hair, 1949

Bound manuscript book, holograph (8 1/2" x 11"); Handmade red cover, no spine, accordion style folded pages, pages colored yellow and written in various ink colors

Manuscript fragments, holograph (11 pp)

Miscellany pages (3 pp)

In Peaceable Caves; Galley proofs, uncorrected, (19 pp), 1950

Orchards, Thrones & Caravans , 1952

Annotated and un-annotated typescripts and carbon copies, (48 pp)

Proofs (p. 47-52)

Prospectus, printed on various types of paper (5)

The Famous Boating Party, and other poems in prose, 1954

Typescripts and carbon copies (61 pp)

Bound dummy copy by Patchen; gray cloth cover (4 1/4" x 7 3/4")

Manuscript box, constructed by Patchen (12 1/4" x 10")

Manuscript book, holograph (6 1/4" x 9")

Manuscript fragments (2 pp)

Prospectus (Painted Edition)

Hurrah for Anything, 1957

Manuscript box set; holograph manuscript (18 pp), 50 drawings in black ink with layout sheets (ca. 9" x 10"), and manuscript box constructed by Patchen.

Cut out typescript pages with paper backing (100 sheets)

Ephemera; mailing order card (2) and prospectus (Painted Edition)

When We Were Here Together, 1957

Bound manuscript book, holograph (9" x 12 1/2"); colored paper pasted onto a scrapbook with pictures and poems in various color inks. Cover with green label "When We Were Here Together"

Additional loose manuscript book pages (36 pp)

Manuscript fragments (6 pp)

Typescripts with instructions to printer; corrected (45 pp), uncorrected (22 pp), and title/table of content (12 pp)

Proofs; corrected (7 pp), uncorrected (4 pp)

Title page proof, layout sample, type sample and a note from Robert M MacGregor

Prospectus, (Painted Edition)

Poemscapes, 1958

Manuscript book, holograph, labeled "19 of 59 Poem-Scapes" (5 1/4" x 7 1/4")

Holograph pages to Poemscape no. 1, 34-36 (11 pp)

Corrected carbon copies (title page and p. 1-42)

Proof sheets to Poemscapes 1-2 (9 folios)

Handmade black and red manuscript envelope

The Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen, 1960

Corrected typescripts and carbon copies (i-v, 1-39, 14a, 23a, 35a-b, unused pages)

Envelope in which the manuscript was send to City Lights Books

Because It Is: poems and drawings, 1960

Manuscript book, holograph, (8" x 10")

Uncorrected typescripts (32 pp)

Ink drawings (41 sheets)

Illustrated folder for unused drawing no. 5 (2 versions)

A silver foil envelope used to store the material in.

Doubleheader, 1966

Hallelujah Anyway; picture poems (89), 1966

Collected Poems, 1969

Selection from Panels for the Walls of Heaven, corrected book pages (17 pp + 8 notes)

Holograph title page & cloth samples (2 pp)

Cover design, mock-up

But Even So; picture poems (45), 1968

Manuscript and unsorted notes (46 pp, including a folder)

Word list & photo layout of book cover, annotated (10" x 13")

Prospectus with insert (2) and envelope, and mock-up

Wonderings, 1971

Still another Pelican in the Breadbox; cover proof sheet 1980

Don't Look Now, ca. 1959

Manuscript notebook, holograph (63 pp)

Carbon copy (62 pp), 1966

Annotated director's copy with backstage instructions and stage position notes (title page , i. 1-61 pp, 28 a-f, 56a-b)

Annotated photocopy (65 pp)

Annotated print-out of the play from "Patchen's Lost Plays", (30 pp)

Program, "The Troupe Theater Present...World Premier, Oct 30, 1959" (2)

Now You See It, ca. 1967

Photocopy of an un-revised and original typescript typed by Murray Hargrove (31 sheets + annotated envelope cover Patchen)

Program, performed by Reader's Theater of Chico State College, May 17, 1967

The Important Thing; Manuscript draft (6 pp)

The Playing of Jacob Curja

Manuscript, holograph in pencil (42 pp), Jun 1957

Incomplete typescript (10 pp), carbon copy (p. 1-6, 8-10), photocopies (5 pp), and homemade folder labeled "Plays"

The President Of The World; Manuscript draft, photocopies (12 pp)

Miscellany, Untitled plays

Manuscript draft, holograph (29 pp)

Manuscript; 1st draft (p. 1-4), 2nd draft (p 5-10)

Outlines and sketches, photocopies (11 pp)

Behind the Curtain: and other tales of fable & romance, ca. 1953

Corrected carbon (109 pp + story list)

Proofs with printer instructions (6 pp)

Fragment from Diary of a Monster, holograph (9 pp), hand bound

Glory Glory Hallelujah, holograph (6 pp)

The Holy Story, photocopy (10 pp)

The Human Winter, Empty manuscript book, annotated title page by Miriam Patchen (9 1/4" x 12 1/2" x 2", hard bound with black cover)

The Messenger, outline of a jazz-opera (5 pp + folder)

The Rising of the Moon:

Corrected typescript with holograph title page, incomplete (35 pp + title and back page)

Corrected carbon, incomplete (35 pp)

The Story of Jeremiah Dork and the Kiladian Forest; holograph notebook (32 pp with 16 written pp.) incomplete

Interview; holograph with 5 questions and answers (3 pp)

Statement by Kenneth Patchen, typescript and 2 printed versions, Oct 26, 1957

Untitled

Holograph to "Our chief pleasure was to lie naked together in a little clearing deep within the forest..." (5 pp)

Miscellany typescripts (5 pp), and proofs (6 pp)

Printed versions

Contribution to Not Many Kingdoms Left, 2 printed sets (20 pp)

"Dear Harvey Breit, I haven't read all your book because I had to walk into town and buy a pound of butter and some eggs...", proof (2 folios), December 1940

Clippings

"Ezra Pound's Guilt", The Conscientious Objector

"Ezra Bound's Guilt", Manas, Mar 19, 1958 (p. 7-8), [including Alex Wayman's reply to Kenneth Patchen, Manos Apr 23, 1958 by Alex Wayman (p. 6)

"The Role of Ideas in Fiction", Occident(p. 9-10), Spring 1950

"See You In the Morning?", Women's Home Companion, Vol 75:3 (p. 14, 18-19, 106), Mar 1948

"A First Book", , Voices, no. 97, Spring 1939 (p. 44-46)

Book review by Patchen on Robert Faherty's 'Better Than Dying', The New Republic (p.314-315), Oct 23, 1935

Poems:

Holograph text & printed version of "And The Little Field Mouse Said" from Hallelujah Anyway

Holograph (5 pp);

Holograph, legal size (15 pp);

Holograph, oversized (4 pp);

Typescripts, uncorrected (9 pp)

Loose typescript and corrected carbon copies (11 pp)

Miscellany drafts:

Book set "Out of The World"; 2 drafts of the cover (past-ups) & a mock-up slipcase (5 1/2" x 8 1/4")

Photostat with text "Kenneth Patchen"

Print of "Bearded Photo" of Patchen, with annotated folio

Sketch of a mailing piece

Proofs

Corrected (6 pp);

Uncorrected (7 pp)

Printed versions:

"Wedding in the Forest"; prospectus for illuminated print engraved on copper & printed on Dutch rag paper by David Ruff, limited to 50 copies (3), and exhibit invitation

"At the New Year" (reprint 1973), and "How Silent Are The Things Of Heaven, Christmas 1944"

"What Is The Beautiful?" in booklet The Poets Speak: Twelve Poems from a series of readings at the New York Public Library October and November 1943 , The New York Public Library, 1943

"Two Poems about Heaven and Earth: Whence the Gate and That Throne & I Suppose You Wonder What Death is and What Life Is", and "The Way Men Live Is Lie, 1944"

Clippings, 1938-1974

"The origin of baseball", Scholastic Voice, Vol. 56:10, (p. 5) Apr 18, 1974

"Rest, heart on the tired World...", Liturgy, Vol. 17:2, (cover) Mar 1972

"What I'd Like to Know Is", Liturgy, Vol. 15:7, Sep 1970

"To Be Holy, Be Wholly Your Own", University of Massachusetts, (p. 6) May 6, 1970

"Before The Bells Of This New Year Ring", Newsday/Viewpoints, (p. 1 B) Dec 31, 1969

Set of poems in Poesie Vivante, No. 25/26, (p. 103-105) ca. 1967

"A Mercy-Filled & Defiant Xmas", Motive, Vol. 25:3, (p. 43) Dec 1964

"Flowering Riding", "When We Were Here Together', Liberation, Vo. 6:8, (p. 13) Jul 1956

"Some Little Sayings and Observations", Liberation, Vol 1:1, (p.10) Mar 1956

"How Silent Are The Things of Heaven", New York Times Book Review , (p. 2) Mar 19, 1944

"This Summer Earth", New York Herald Tribune , Oct 3, 1948

"Fog Over the Sea and the sun Going Down", Western Review , Vol. 13:1, Autumn 1948

"I have Lighted the Candles, Mary", Community News, Vol. 1:13, Dec 22, 1946

"Jungle Flowers", The Saturday Review, (p. 24) Mar 24, 1945

"Be Music, Night", New York Times Book Review, (p. 2) Feb 20, 1944

"I have lighted the candles, Mary", New York Herald Tribune , Dec. 20, 1942

"The Unfulfilled Brightnesses", The Saturday Review, (p. 10) Nov 7, 1942

"Le Roi Des Tenebres", "Qui Possede Un Royal Domaine", La Voix De France , (p. 9) Aug 1-15, 1942

"Crossing On States Island Ferry", Voices, no. 97, (p. 27) Spring 1939

"Lights Are Going Out In the Castles", "Hymn to a Trench Gun", "Boxers Hit Harder When Women Are Around", "In As Much As War Is Not For Women", Voices, no. 94, (p. 20-21) Summer 1938

Three poems; "The Dazzling Burden", "Joined Together By The Rule Of Peaceful Love", "I Feel Drunk All The Time", unknown source

"Permanence", New York Times

Oversized clippings; "I have lighted the candles, Mary", "Instructions for angels", "Wide, wide in the rose's side", "No one ever works alone", Liturgy,Vol. 14:10, Dec 1969

Lists:

Poems by publication, holograph (59 pp)

Word indices; note cards A-Z (78 cards), and holograph pages of A-C & Y-O (18 pp)

Name list (22 pp)

Calculations (7 pp)

Grouped Notes:

Collection of quotations (15 pp)

Material in regards to Corcoran Gallery of Art Exhibit; a note book, holograph letter drats (8 pp) and miscellany notes 1969-1970

"Writing etc" (5 pp) and "Notes etc" (2 pp)

Cue cards (14" x 16"; 11 pp in various colors)

By Size:

(5" x 7 3/4"); (6 pp)

(5" x 8"); (6 pp)

(5 1/4" x 9"); photocopies (4 pp)

(5 1/2" x 8 1/2"); photocopies (18 pp)

(6" x 8 3/4"); (24 pp)

(6" x 9"); (40 pp)

(7 1/2" x 9 3/4"); (4 pp)

Letter (8 1/2" x 11"); (12 pp)

Various size, (37 pp)

Legal size, (15 pp)

By Title:

"Collection of poems"; annotated typescripts, carbon copies, cut-out and paste-up pages (102 pp + decorated binder)

"HU.E.F.ST."

"Misc." (6 written pp)

"O", drafts & notes (10 written pp; decorated abstract cover), 1963

"Proverbs", (23 written pp; Decorated cover)

"6.5.51-8.2.52", quotations (10 written pp, handcolored green cloth cover with abstract designs), Jun 1951-Aug 1952

Untitled:

Legal size; list of recorded titles (7 pp), and holograph copies of reviews (8 pp)

(8" x 10"):

Hand copied collection of poems by Hoelderlin and Machado (18 written pp, multi-color abstract label)

2 notebooks,(3 written pp. and 2 loose pp) and (5 pp)

(7 1/2" x 10"); manuscript book of poems (49 written pp, handcolored cover)

(6 1/4" x 10"); (1 written pg. with a single word "an experience"; decorated cover)

(6"x 9"); 5 notebooks with (15 pp), (4 pp), (12 pp; decorated cover), Word flip-chart, and Word lists

(5 1/2" x 9"); Word index (p. 1-12), drafts (p.13-18)

(5" x 8"); 2 notebooks with (12 pp; no cover) and 18 writing principles (green cloth cover painted black)

(5" x 7 3/4"); collection of poems by various authors (31 pp; missing front cover, green cloth back cover)

(3 1/2" x 6"); (7 pp; brown cover)

(3" x 5"); 2 notebooks with (14 pp; brown cover with abstract red and yellow pasted-on paper) and UBC Noon Concert poem list (5 pp; yellow cover)

Comfort, Alex; Introduction to English Edition of Patchen's poems, proof sheet, 1946

Miller, Henry

Introduction to Cloth of the Tempest, typescript (5 pp)

Introduction to The Selected Poems of Kenneth Patchen, carbon copy (19 pp),

Handmade folder and a loose note "Miller Introductions"

Kessler, Chester; "The Plague Summer", incomplete animation script, carbon copy (10 pp)

Unidentified; "On the Censorship of Allen Ginsberg's Howl", incomplete carbon copy (1 pg)

Resource Material; scrapbook of rearranged fairy tales, and cut out pages from "Andersen's Fairy Tale" & "Fairy Tales from the Isle of Man"

Fables and Other Little Tales. Jonathan Williams, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany, (Jargon 6) 1953

The Famous Boating Party: and other poems in prose. New Directions, NY. (printed by Blue Ridge Mountain Press, Parsippany, NJ), 1954

Hurrah for Anything. Jonathan Williams, Highlands, NC ,1957. (Series: Jargon 21)

In Peaceable Caves . The Gray Walls Press, London. 1950

Poemscapes. Jonathan Williams, Highlands, NC, (Series: Jargon 11) 1958

Panels for the Walls of Heaven. Bern Porter, Berkeley, CA, 1946

Red Wine & Yellow Hair. New Directions, NY, 1949.

When We Where Here Together. New Directions, NY, 1957

Sleepers Awake. Padell Book Com., NY, 1946

The Dark Kingdom. Harriss & Givens, NY, 1942

Altered Books (4); Hallelujah Anyway. New Directions, NY, 1966

Prospectus (2) and flyer to painted editions of When We Were Here Together , Hurrah For Anything, Poemscapes

Glory Never Guesses, 1955

Layout draft (11 1/4" x 14 1/2") and 2 small proofs to "If You Can Loose Your Head

Prospectus:

Holograph draft (2 pp), corrected proofs (2 pp)

Prospectus (2)

A Surprise For A Bagpipe Player, 1956

Layout draft to "A Surprise for a Bagpipe Player" (11 1/4" x 14 1/2")

Prospectus (2)

The Moment, 1955

Corrected manuscript pages, holographs in black ink (34 pages + label note)

Drafts on wax paper; separate background and text sheets (39 pp)

Bound book; binding in vellum, straw cloth cover (12 3/4" x 15")

Single sheets:"O listen is a purple elephant", "An old lady name Amber Sam", and "This is the animal that walks sitting down" (12" x 14 1/4"), undated

Framed print, "To whomever these village fires still have meaning", 1955

A Mercy-Filled & Defiant Xmas

Silkscreen print (17 1/2" x 24") no. 94/150, also signed by Miriam, Dec 1970

Printed paper version, (4 pp, 2 mounted on cardboard)

Hallelujah Anyway; (82 sheets), 1965

A dream of Goethe dancing with a friendly ostrich (pg. 76; PPS75)

A feeling of passionate mercy (pg. 89; PPS88)

A something-like-that look after the last of the 5,000 singing leopards has safely gone by (pg. 79; PPS78)

Ah! here comes the 9th one now! (pg. 20; PP20)

All at once is what eternity is (pg. 6; PP6)

All is as it is not (pg. 83; PPS82)

An interview with the floating man (pg. 61; PP61)

And then some fellows disguised as shelves (pg. 34; PPS34)

And to think...it all started out like any other world (pg. 49; PP049)

Ask the grass why it grows (pg. 8; PPS8)

Been driven from our radioactive temples (pg. 31; PP31)

Billy Besto & Mr Bug were over there easy (pg. 56; PP56)

Check! questions are the best things I answer, bub (pg. 65; PP65)

Come!. Say yes (pg. 5; PP5)

ead, pow! tears of G k to just lay there a bi der tawny sounds that (pg. 43; PPS43)

Had General Grant been a xmas tree (pg. 64; PP64)

Hallelujah is my name (pg. 62; PP062)

He's either going away or coming back (pg. 88; PPS87)

I am the ghost of Chief Mountain-Lyin (pg. 60; PP60)

I got me the blue dawg blues (pg. 36; PP36)

I have a funny feeling that some very peculiar-looking creatures out there are watching us (pg. 28; PP28)

I proclaim this international shut your big fat flapping mouth week (pg. 44; PP44)

Imagine seeing you here: after all it's not every day that the two nicest people in this big old lousy world get together like this (pg. 22; PP22)

In Perkko's grotto everybody gets along just fine (pg. 50; PP50)

In the hippodrome they are always hoping that the next act will do it. (pg. 53; PP52)

In the long run (pg. 42; PPS42)

Inside the flower there is room for every sower pg. 16; PP016)

Is that all that's wrong! (pg. 75; PPS74)

It wasn't so bad really (pg. 33; PP33)

Little chief son-of-a-gun-don't-give-a-shoot (pg. 25; PP025)

Love (which includes poetry) is to science as the free & beautiful catchings of a child are to the vile & unreturning throes of the hangman (pg. 18; PPS18)

Man would you just look at your leaders! (pg. 82; PPS81)

My program?: let us all weep together (pg. 15; PP14)

No denial of rumor that Aristotle and Hannibal Lena have been seeing a lot of each other these last few centuries (particularly the former)(pg. 71; PP70)

Now, when I get back here (pg. 38; PP38)

O take heart, my brothers (pg. 45; PP45)

Of course they will win: that's the only victory we've got left (pg. 23; PP23)

Only a bit longer now and they'll have your life in stock (pg. 77; PPS76)

Peace or perish (pg. 48; PP48)

Pleasantly we shall remain at least while we're here (pg. 7; PPS7)

Rode him out of a dream maybe ten-twelve year ago (pg. 85; PPS84)

Shaggy balls of fur, Enos! (pg. 32; PP32)

Snow is the only one of us that leaves no tracks (pg. 78; PPS77)

& so the little field mouse said (pg. 15; PP15)

So when that nosey conductor comes round with that "Tickets please" dodge of his (pg. 9; PPS9)

Sure is one peculiar way to run a ballgame (pg. 46; PP46)

That Petey D Croos is a sly one! (pg. 35; PPS35)

That's nice (pg. 37; PP37)

That's what we're all in, the soup (pg. 84; PPS83)

The birds are very careful of this world (pg. 29; PP29)

The burso "dockle" (pg. 30; PP30)

The concerns of the heart: feeling, I must remind you, is the poet's sign (pg. 3; PP3)

The continuous Christ (pg. 53; PP53)

The day has followed me about like some dog-like thing (pg. 13; PPS13)

The daydreams of a king (pg. 41; PP41)

The easy hat-eye went to sheperds krim (pg. 81; PPS80)

The ground keeper's dog and the castle master's cat (pg. 17; PP17)(large)

The lion part. & that which is water lily (pg. 54; PP54)

The one who comes to question himself has cared for mankind (pg. 39; PP39)

The red flesh of the rose and the blood of the sea (pg. 55; PP55)

The scene of the crime which is also know as "civilized living" (pg. 68; PPS67)

The tree-sleeping-behind-lecturer (pg. 40; PP40)

The walker standing: if you return before you go most fast- shuffles will seem pretty slow (pg. 51; PP51)

The walking-away world (pg. 59; PP59)

The world is nothing that can be known (pg. 4; PP4)

The world's not enough really for the kind of rent we have to pay to live in us (pg. 12; PPS12)

There isn't much more to tell (pg. 70; PP69)

They are so happy that you could make it (pg. 2; PP2)

Tribute to a grandfadder foof (pg. 21; PP21)

Unless you clock in at three 5 o'clock (pg. 74; PP73)

Upon the book of the waters (pg. 73; PP72)

Well, if you don't want me to buy Philly for you (pg. 87; PPS86)

Whaleagle rider and there shall be strange & terrible encounters on the way to our first meeting (pg. 80; PPS79)

What can you do up here that you can't go on doing just as vilely on earth? (pg. 47; PP47)

What the story tells itself when there's nobody around to hear it (pg. 19; PPS19)

When this is it, eh! (pg. 1; PP1)

Whever you're ready (pg. 86; PPS85)

Who've you been today (pg. 63; PP63)

You can't leave the doughnut whole (pg. 24; PP24)

You know, somehow I think, old pal (pg. 57; PP57)

You're faced wrong, that's what's the matter (pg. 72; PPS71)

But Even So; (45 sheets) 1968

A crown of clouds (pg. 14; PP103)

A mountain's knees seldom sneeze (pg 33; PP122)

Ah, come this time next never things'll be fine (pg 8; PP97)

All that leaves is here always (pg 44: PP133)

And Mr Eggleg said you wait there until I get back (pg. 22; PP111)

And Pocahontas she done cry (pg. 39: PP128)

As bitter & far as a tiger's frown o "Rulers" of the world (pg 31; PP147)

At one time the grass was thought to be (pg 21; PP110)

Can't recall me one reason (pg 10; PP n/a)

Caring is the only daring (pg. 16; PP105)

Come now, my child (pg 4; PP93)

Go loving & them -- with all they are or ever were you'll overthrow (pg. 2; PP91)

Gredgys gookin (pg. 28; PP117)

His suchamuch? (pg. 32; PP121)

How do you mourn the dead? Who are still alive (pg 41; PP146)

It is outside us as we are within it (pg. 18; PP107)

It's outside the thing that dances not in "our minds" (pg. 37; PP126)

King Jiz wonders which of him isn't his (pg. 11; PP100)

Mr. Plickpoon of Darby (pg. 27; PP116)

My god the sorrow of it (pg. 38; PP127)

My name is Dobble and I live in a used milk bottle (pg 23; PP112)

O fountain me a burning bell (pg. 34; PP123)

O tonight the stars is acryin' like mebby they just had a raise in the rent (pg. 13; PP102)

Oh, oh ..."Bullet Eye" Brexton, the tree-looker has been by again (pg. 36; PP125)

Peace now for all men (pg. 26; PP115)

Quiet we must not disturb the evening-being device (pg. 9; PP98)

Sure, Leroy, there is a kindness of willing (pg. 24; PP113)

The argument of innocence can only be lost if it is won (pg 5; PP94)

The crimson leopard walks (pg. 40; PP129)

The daydream of a caterpillar (pg. 17; PP106)

The hands of the air applaud the wonders (pg. 7; PP96)

The horse smile-seller (pg. 29; PP118)

The little night-eater knows (pg. 35; PP124)

The rain never gets wet (pg. 30; PP119)

Then shall the roads arise (pg. 12; PP101)

They don't seem to understand that unless someone does nothing soon (pg. 1; PP90)

This room, this battlefield (pg. 3; PP92)

Tigly Kottaew world champ ticket seller (pg. 20; PP109)

We deserve us (pg. 42; PP131)

What is not, then, is in every case the world (pg. 19; PP108)

What shall we do without us? (pg. 43; PP132)

What walking looks like when it's not (pg. 6; PP95)

Yeah, Jack, it's a dark deck & a liar's deal (pg.15; PP104)

Wonderings; (26 sheets), 1971

A floating (pg. 76)

All things are all things true? (pg 56)

Alllight saving time (pg 10)

And it is true, it is true I saw the ships (pg 3)

Any who live stand alone (pg. 2)

Are you There? Yes, but not here! (pg 34)

Arrival of the mailorder dog (pg 79)

Believe that apples could talk if they had a mind too (pg 16)

Berfu's ox stands there so the sky won't fall (pg 28)

But if your precious illusion should turn out (pg. 1)

Do you think that somebody will find us in time? (pg 75)

Everyman is me, I am his brother (pg 88)

It's always too soon or too late (pg 55)

It's really lousy taste to live in a world like this (pg 71)

Keep it, keep it in the hither (pg 24)

Let us rejoice (pg 38)

May all that have life be delivered from evil willed suffering (pg 87)

None can leave where he's going (pg 85)

O there's no point saying (pg 81)

Sems different now the've taken the rose-colored penguins off this page (pg 78)

The words that speak up from the mangled bodies of human beings (pg 47)

Wait up here at the end of the world (pg 72)

Waiting at the bathhouse (pg 77)

What a lovely morning! (pg 32)

Which of us is not flesh? (pg 64)

Why are you running, pal? (pg 74)

Unpublished;

Declaration of Peace, my country the world

Just where "time" & "space (or so we're told) begin to pretend to be two there lives the king of toys

The Parachute Jumper fancies himself..."(10 1/2 x 17)

"Goldilocks, Hell!" cried the bears (10 1/2 x 17)

But what can be do? Get ready to die (12 x 16 1/2)

The hanging king, (10 3/4 x 17)

Inside the air (13 1/2 x 19)

Sky eye the sun and Mr Fubbenakroplis bird, (12 x 16 3/4)

Proof sheets:

"The Man Is Not A Town", no. 10

"Elephants and Eskimos", no. 11

"All Right, You May Alight", no.66

"Faces have no edges", printing sequence sheets (p. 2-8)

Clippings featuring Painted Poems, 1961-1973

Serial Issues featuring Painted Poems, oversized; Joyful Noise , Vol 13: 1 and 3, Jan,1968 and May 1968

Drawings:

Medium, ink (79 sheets)

Medium, ink and gouache (20 sheets)

Mono-prints (22 sheets)

Paintings:

Medium, gouache, untitled

(7" x 10"), 4 sheets

(8 1/2" x 10 1/2"), 1 sheet; birdlike figure next to a face

(10" x 13"), 1 sheet; two smiling figures in a dark with red 'hearts'

(7" x 9"), 1 sheet

(Approx. 10" x 17"), 41 sheets

(Over 10" x 17"), 18 sheets + 2 handmade folder covers; with mono print design (14 1/2" x 22 1/2"), and oversized portfolio with yellow background, painted geometric shapes, and red tie strings (17" x 23")

Collage:

(7" x 10"), 3 sheets

(5 3/4" x 5 3/4"), 1 sheet; abstract design

(11" x 16"), and (9 1/2" x 13 1/2"), 2 sheets

(10" x 17"), 18 sheets

(Over 10" x 17"), 8 sheets

Collage material; torn and cut pieces (66), and Japanese Cedar Box (10 " x 13")

Color chart

Framed paintings:

Untitled, "Yellow Speckled Bill", 1963

"Birds"; 6 free-floating figures in red and brown tones

"Totem"; a large figure, brown and pink dominating tones

Sculptures, Papier-mâché figures: [FRAGILE]

Yellow animal (6" x 10" x 5")

Silver animal (3" x 4" x 3")

Dog like animal (4" x 6 1/2" x 3")

Blue animal with blue glass eyes (4" x 4" x 3")

Bird with blue chest, black cropt and red head (3" x 2" x 2")

Gray bird, (2 1/2" x 4" x 2 1/2")

Furniture

Folding screen; black wood frame with pasted on silkscreen prints

Writing table; 2 crates stacked together with black base and red table top with painted white figures and creatures (2' x 17" x 20").

Picture Poems, printed by Leslie Tobin Imports, Inc.,Philadelphia (7 blank cards; 5 1/4" x 8"), 1968

Untitled Drawings, complete set of 4 blanck cards + envelopes.

Season's Greeting Cards, 1958-1964

"A Parable at the Year's End", blank card, 1964

"A Poem for Christmas "; blank card and annotated typescript to poem "Peace on Earth", 1963

"I have lighted the Candles, Mary", blank card, [1958]

"Two Poems for Christmas" (2), [1958]

Small Postcards; Painting Poem in Mixed Medium, complete set of 4, printed by Museum Reproductions, Alhambra, CA, 1958

"The Crowded Net", handmade card

1935-1946; book reviews, articles, correspondence (8" x 10")

1939-1942; "Kenneth Patchen, First Will & Testament" book reviews and ads (36 pp; green cover; 11" x 15")[FRAGILE - see note regarding use]

1942-1947; "Kenneth Patchen Press clippings 1942-1947" (36 pp; blue cover; 11" x 15") [FRAGILE - see note regarding use]

1946-1965; book reviews, articles, publicity (Brown cover, 9" x 12")

1957-1959; Kenneth Patchen & The Chamber Jazz Sextet (18 pp, 4 loose articles, 6 loose clippings + binder covers)

1957-1960; "Kenneth Patchen Reads with Jazz" (28 pp; 11" x 15") [FRAGILE - see note regarding use]

1960-1961; Patchen Benefits and Tributes (Green cover, 7 1/2" x 12")

Publishers, 1939-1974

City Lights Publications catalogs and book lists (8), 1964-1971, 1974

Gotham Book Mart catalogs (6), 1940-1969

Grey Walls Press catalogs (2), 1947-1949

Jargon; newsletter no. 3, Jun 23, 1960, and a booklist, Mar 1959

New Directions Books catalogs (25), mailers and pamphlets (23), a broadside, and misc. advertisements, 1939-1974

Padell Book Co., Patchen book catalogs (4) ca. 1946-1947, and a brochure "Kenneth Patchen, Books from Padell", [1946]

Brochure of Patchen's published works (3), ca. 1947

Posters

"Collage" (11 1/2" x 14"); hand made poster black background with yellow and red squares, labeled "Patchen Books" and photograph of Patchen looking through a magnifying glass (2 versions)

Posters of a theater production Don't Look Now (11" x 17"; 2 copies)"The Troupe Theater presents the first play by Kenneth Patchen, World Premiere, "Don't Look Now", opening Friday, Oct. 30."

Clippings; book review (27) and misc. advertisements (17) 1942-1972

Play, "Don't Look Now" press release sheets and clippings (16 pp)

Portrait:

Kenneth Patchen, black & white snapshot (4" x 5")

Patchen promo photos shot by Harry Hazzard for a release of his work See You In The Morning, Old Lyme, Conn. (2 copies; 5"x7" and 5"x8"), 1948

Family/Friends:

Miriam's mother, stepfather and Kenneth sitting in the backyard (4"x5"), and a shot of Patchens' black cat (4"x5")

Jonathan Williams, (4"x5", color) Oct 1967

Documentary:

Patchen house, Old Lyme, Conn., 1947 (5 photos, 4"x5", winter and summer shots)

San Francisco apartment at 377 Green St., top floor. (4"x5", Miriam waving out of the window)

Palo Alto house, Sierra Court, Feb 1957 (2 photos, 4"x5")

Poster displayed on a window "Kenneth Patchen with the Chamber Jazz Sextet", Nov 16th Oakland", (4"x5") Dec 1957

Patchen Exhibit at Modern Poets Society, Japan; 2 installation views of Silkscreen reproductions of Glory Never Guesses

Patchen Exhibit at Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, NY; 9 installation views by Bill Yoscary (5"x7"), Apr 1970

Patchen Exhibit "Kenneth Patchen: Painter of Poems" at Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C. ; 7 installation views, (8"x10") 1970

Painted Poems:

Two (5"x7") black & white photos; "My Name is Dobble" & "Little Chief Son-of-a-Gun"

Three (8"x10") black & white photos; "Now, when I get back here", "Peace now for all men or amen to all tings", "The one who comes to question himself"

Art Work:

Untitled Patchen paintings, photographed by E. Donnell Pope; (4 photos, 8"x10")

Untitled painting of a figure wearing a cloak and a crown (8" x 13", sepia tone image)

Arrangement of Patchen work, photographed by Ronald Dunkin, Palo Alto (2 photos, 8"x10")

Painted book cover, "But Even So" (8"x10")

Two photos of annotated page proofs; "Taking Hot Coals to Missouri...", p. 104-105, and "...the wrong way. But here I am...", p.38-39

Harry Redl contact prints and photographs:

Twenty contact prints of Kenneth Patchen, 1956-1959

Six contact prints of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1956-1958

Two (5"x 7") photos; Patchen performing at Black Hawk

Nine (8"x10") portraits:

Reproduction photo prints of Painted Poems published in But Even So , Hallelujah Anyway and Wonderings, images of Manuscript Sets, and Painted Books (4"x5") contained in the archive.

Harry Redl, color transparencies (2 1/2"x 2 1/2"), 1955

Patchen with his works, (4, unframed)

Silkscreen pages from Glory Never Guesses(20, unframed)

Silkscreen pages from A Surprise For The Bagpipe Player (18, unframed)

Painted Books; featuring Fables & Famous Boating Party (21, unframed)

Two framed transparencies; Patchen holding Glory Never Guesses on the roof, and Patchen painting a sikscreen for A Surprise for A Bagpipe Player

Reproduction transparencies of Painted Poems published in But Even So , Hallelujah Anyway and Wonderings, Manuscript Sets, and Painted Books (4"x5")

Color Slides:

Ten slides of Patchen surrounded by, displaying and creating Painted Books and Silkscreen prints; photographed by Harry Redl, 1955

Patchen Exhibit at Glade Gallery; 13 installation views, Jul 1965

Painted Books:

144 cover shots by [Holland], Feb 1970

Fables and The Famous Boating Party (10)

Patchen Paintings (10)

Display of Patchens's works on a fireplace mantle, Aug 1976

Albion Moonlight film set shots

Unidentified room

Reproduction Slides of Painted Poems published in But Even So, Hallelujah Anyway and Wonderings, Manuscript Sets, and Painted Books (221 slides)

Kenneth Patchen - 2 views by Harry Redl ms0160.01-02 1948-1960

Bedford, David

A Dream of the Seven Lost Stars. Universal Edition no. 14169, 1971

Music for Albion Moonlight, Universal Edition no. 14162

Bogdanovic, Dusan; Do the Dead Know What Time It Is?: for Voice and Piano. ; 2 manuscript photocopies (8 pp), 1996

Du Bois, Rob; Because Going Nowhere Takes A Long Time: Medium voice, Flute and Piano . Donemus Amsterdam, 1967, and unpublished copy.

Childs, Barney; "The Home of my Spirit", manuscript [signed]

Clark, Keith; In the Moonlight: Two songs for S.A.T.B with Soprano and Tenor Soli , unaccompanied, Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp. Melville, N.Y. , and photocopy 1977

Diamond, David; Be Music Night for voice and piano, Carl Fisher Inc., New York. [signed by composer] 1948

Eisma, Will; Pages from Albion Moonlight: for orchestra, bound facsimile, (12" x 17 1/2"), 1968

Hensel, Richard; The Kingdom Between: a song cycle for women's voices and piano , bound facsimile, (11" x 14 1/2")