Finding Aid for the Aram Saroyan papers, 1965-1989
LSC.0991
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Title: Aram Saroyan papers
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0991
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
27.5 linear feet
(55 boxes)
Date: 1965-1989
Abstract: Aram Saroyan (1943- ) was a author, publisher, and editor of
Lines poetry magazine (1964-65). He also contributed poetry and prose to the
New York Times Book Review,
Nation, and
Poetry. The collection consists of correspondence and manuscripts sent to Aram Saroyan while he was the editor of
Lines as well as books written or published by Saroyan, periodicals and anthologies containing his work, and presentation copies
of books given him.
Language of Materials: Materials are in English.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button
located on this page.
Creator:
Saroyan, Aram
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Conditions on Access
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Aram Saroyan Papers (Collection 991). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
- Gift of Aram Saroyan, 1971-72.
- Aram Saroyan, purchase.
General note
Biography
Aram Saroyan was born on September 25, 1943; he attended the University of Chicago, New York University, and Columbia University;
became a writer, publisher, and editor of
Lines poetry magazine, 1964-65; contributed poetry and prose to the
New York Times Book Review,
Nation, and
Poetry; published works include
Genesis Angels: The Saga of Lew Welch and The Beat Generation (1979),
Last Rites: The Death of William Saroyan (1982),
Trio: Oona Chaplin, Carol Matthau, Gloria Vanderbilt: Portrait of an Intimate Friendship (1985), and
The Romantic (1988).
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence and manuscripts sent to Aram Saroyan during the time he was editor of the poetry magazine,
Lines. Also contains books written or published by Saroyan, periodicals and anthologies containing his work, and presentation copies
of books given him. Also includes other correspondence, a television script for the program
St. Elsewhere, and manuscripts for his
The Romantic,
Trio, poems, and book reviews for the
Los Angeles Times.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Series 1. Correspondence
- Series 2. Manuscripts
- Series 3. Aram Saroyan Literary Archives for 1988
- Series 4. Additions. July 1986
- Series 5. Additions. September 1986
- Series 6. Aram Saroyan Literary Archives for 1989
Items Removed from Collection
-
The little magazine and contemporary literature. A symposium held at the Library of Congress 2 and 3 April 1965. Published for the Reference Department, Library of Congress,
by the Modern Language Association of America, 1966. This contains some of the remarks of Aram Saroyan. Moved to the Collection
of Miscellaneous Records, ca.1940-1971 (Collection 249, Box 11). Available at UCLA Library Special Collections.
-
The dial-a-poem poets. New York: Giorno Poetry Systems Records.
Date: [c. 1972].
2 albums (4s.) 12 in. 33 1/3 rpm. Aram Saroyan reading Not a cricket, (recorded GPS, New York.
Date: February 1969).
Moved to the Collection of Miscellaneous Records, ca.1940-1971 (Collection 249, Box 11). Available at UCLA Library Special
Collections.
-
The Street: an Autobiographical Novel / by Aram Saroyan. Lenox, Massachusetts: The Bookstore Press, 1974. Available at UCLA Library Special Collections.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Saroyan, Aram -- Archives.
Authors, American--20th century--Archives.
Manuscripts for publication.
Periodical editors--United States--Archives.
Poets, American--20th century--Archives.
Box 12
Acconci - Clark.
General Physical Description note: 77 letters.
Manuscripts By the Following Authors
Box 4
Acconci, Vito Hannibal.
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Box 4
Anderson, Jack.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Bayes, Ron.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Berrigan, Ted.
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Box 4
Brainard, Joe.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Box 4
Brodey, Jim.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Box 4
Brovar, Bob.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Burroughs, William.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Caldwell, Jenni.
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
Box 4
Ceravolo, Joseph.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Box 4
Clark, Tom.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Box 4
Coolidge, Clark.
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Box 4
Creeley, Robert.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Box 4
Dawson, Fielding.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Fowler, Al.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Gallup, Dick.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Greene, Jonathan.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Box 4
Greenwald, Ted.
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Box 4
Grenier, Robert.
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Box 4
Houédard, Dom Sylvester.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Kolmar, Richard.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Lax, Robert.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Levy, D.A.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Mayer, Bernadette.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Morgan, Edwin.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Box 4
Nasper, Louie.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Nichol, bp.
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
Box 4
Niedecker, Lorine.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Olson, Charles.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Perreault, John.
General Physical Description note: 18 items.
Box 4
Pinelli, Joseph.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Box 4
Pollet, Sylvester.
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Box 4
Raworth, Tom.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
San Juan, E.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Sandberg, David.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Saroyan, Aram.
General Physical Description note: 20 items.
Box 4
Saxon, Dan.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Silverton, Mike.
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Box 4
Stein, Charles.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Box 4
Veitch, Tom.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Box 4
Viscusi, Robert.
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Box 4
Unidentified.
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Manuscripts and Other Material Used in the Publication of
Lines 1-4
Box 5
Lines 1.
Scope and Contents note
Original manuscript, spare covers.
Box 5
Lines 2.
Scope and Contents note
Manuscripts, and original ink and wash drawing for cover.
Box 5
Lines 3.
Scope and Contents note
Manuscripts excluding Veitch's Naked Express.
Box 5
Lines 4.
Scope and Contents note
Manuscripts and original cover and back cover.
Box 4
Ephemera.
Winter 1965.
General Physical Description note: 23 items.
Scope and Contents note
re Lines House.
Box 4
Slides of art work, presumably exhibitions at Lines House.
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
Box 5
Saroyan, Aram, 1943- .
Top. n.p.
1965.
General Physical Description note: 5 leaves.
Scope and Contents note
Original stencils.
Box 5
--- Diary.
June 1961.
General Physical Description note: 5 leaves. Typescript copy.
Scope and Contents note
With this is the original manuscript.
Box 5
Art Directors Club Certificate of Merit to Aram Saroyan. Presented
April 1, 1958.
General Physical Description note: 1 leaf.
Scope and Contents note
Also program for You can't take it with you. Trinity School.
April, 1960. Aram Saroyan acted the role of Donald.
Box 5
Saroyan, Aram, 1943- . Book reports. n.p.
1954-1955.
General Physical Description note: 9 leaves. Holograph and typescript.
Scope and Contents note
These were assignments for school.
Box 5
Lines 3.5 Newspaper Issue.
General Physical Description note: 1 leaf.
Scope and Contents note
A limited edition of 100 numbered copies. This is no.45. 50¢
Part of a page of the
New York Post, Wednesday.
January 27, 1965.
Box 5
Saroyan, Aram, 1943- . Bibliography. n.p.
1969.
General Physical Description note: 7 leaves. Holograph.
Scope and Contents note
This is a listing of Saroyan's appearances in print.
Box 5
--- Songs & buttons. Stockholm.
September 6, 1966.
General Physical Description note: 45 leaves. Holograph. Written in a spiral-bound notebook.
Box 5
--- My trip abroad. v.p.
May 23-July 6, 1957.
General Physical Description note: Holograph. Written in a leather-bound notebook designed to be a travel journal.
Box 5
--- Aram Saroyan. [New York?]
Lines.
1967.
General Physical Description note: 26 leaves.
Scope and Contents note
illustrated edition for Aram. Tom Clark.
June 3, '67. Cambridge.
This copy has original ink drawings by Tom Clark on all leaves.
Box 5
Extra covers for
Lapstrake, by Ted Greenwald.
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Box 5
Saroyan, Aram, 1943- . Collected readable works to date: miscellaneous, Sled Hill Voices, Third Floor Voices, Works, Aram
Saroyan, Pages, Excerpts from Gertrude Stein. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
April 29, 1967.
General Physical Description note: 1 reel (5 in.) Tape recording.
[Articles About Aram Saroyan]
Box 48
The California Courier. , vol.31 no.26, 27.
January 12, 1989
General Physical Description note: p.1.
Scope and Contents note
Writer Aram Saroyan to Discuss his Armenian American Identity.
Box 48
News-Chronicle. Lifestyle Section. Author Finds Conejo to be the Write Place.
March 6, 1989.
Scope and Contents note
Article about Aram Saroyan and his novel
The Romantic.
Books By or Published By Aram Saroyan
Box 6
Saroyan, Aram.
Coffee coffee. New York: 0 to 9 Books.
c. 1967.
Box 6
Saroyan, Aram.
Aram Saroyan. New York: Random House,
[1968].
Box 6
Coolidge, Clark. Flag flutter & U.S. electric. [New York?]
Lines.
1966.
Box 6
Perreault, John. Camouflage. [New York?]
Lines.
1966.
Box 7
General Stamp Album. Venice, California, Dansco.
c. 1956.
Scope and Contents note
This contains Aram Saroyan's stamp collection, made when he was a boy.
Box 7
29 empty match folders and 3 buttons, all printed with poems by Saroyan.
General Physical Description note: 32 items.
Periodicals Containing Works By Aram Saroyan
Box 6
Analysis, vol.3 no.3: Franz Kline.
General Physical Description note: p.18.
Box 6
Analysis, vol.4 no.1: Venice.
August 1, 1957.
General Physical Description note: p.5.
Box 6
Analysis, vol.5 no.1.
General Physical Description note: p.11.
Scope and Contents note
Small poem.
Cover by Saroyan and David Porter.
Box 6
Analysis, vol.5 no.2: A visit with Oscar Williams, by Saroyan and F.D. Hill, and This morning.
General Physical Description note: pp.5-6.
Box 6
Artesian, vol.4 no.2 (): Sketches.
Spring 1959
General Physical Description note: p.17.
General note
(Saroyan's photograph with his father and sister is on the front cover)
Box 6
Before your very eyes! an occasional magazine. (): [Poem].
c. 1967
General Physical Description note: 2nd leaf.
Box 6
Drainage no.1 (): [4 poems].
c1967
General Physical Description note: 7th, 8th, 9th, & 10th leaves.
Box 6
Drainage no.2 (): Third floor voices.
May 1967
General Physical Description note: 4th-7th leaves.
Box 6
Granta, vol.71 no.12456 (): The sentence.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: p.20.
Box 6
Joglars no.1 (): Tired poem, 4th leaf; 4 poems from
Sled Hill Voices, 4th leaf (verso) - 5th leaf; Poem recognizing someone in the street, 22nd leaf; [3 more poems on following pages].
1966
Box 6
Nation, vol.198 no.13 (): Poem.
March 30, 1963
General Physical Description note: p.275.
Box 6
Nation, vol.202 no.9 (): The sentence.
February 28, 1966
General Physical Description note: p.250.
Box 6
Patterns, vol.1 no.1 (): Poems.
Winter 1967
General Physical Description note: p.18.
Box 6
Quest (): In Klee.
Spring 1961
General Physical Description note: p.13.
Box 6
0 to 9 no.2 (): Poems.
August 1967
General Physical Description note: pp.58-61.
Box 6
0 to 9 no.3 (): Poems.
January 1968
General Physical Description note: pp.12, 22, 25, 32, 46, 54, 64, 67.
Box 6
Lines, no.1-6 ().
September 1964-November 1965
General Physical Description note: Also a copy of no.1-5 bound in blue cloth.
Scope and Contents note
Edited by Saroyan; the six issues contain poems by him.
Box 6
Poetry, vol.104 no.1 (): [Book review of Robert Creeley's
The Island].
April 1964
General Physical Description note: pp.45-47.
Box 6
Poetry, vol.108 no.6 (): From
Sled Hill Voices.
September 1966
General Physical Description note: pp.380-381.
Box 6
Poetry, vol.110 no.6 (): Nine poems.
September 1967
General Physical Description note: pp.374-378.
Box 6
Poetry, vol.112 no.3 (): Poem.
June 1968
General Physical Description note: pp.162-163.
Box 14
Rolling Stone. San Francisco, California. no.159 () [poem].
1974
General Physical Description note: [p.59].
Box 16
Ararat no.52 (vol.13 no.4 - ): For Tom Clark [poem].
Autumn 1972
General Physical Description note: p.10.
Box 16
Ararat no.54 (vol.14 no.3 - ). Homage to Archie Minasian [review].
Summer 1973
General Physical Description note: pp.2-3.
Box 16
Beaulines no.2 (): My friends [poem].
February 1973
General Physical Description note: [p.7].
Box 16
Beaulines no.5 (): [story].
July/August 1973
General Physical Description note: p.9.
Box 16
Beaulines no.6 (): Quotations from Dr. Oyle [article].
September/October 1973
General Physical Description note: pp.4-5.
Box 17
Big Sky, no.5 (): 3 poems.
c. 1973
General Physical Description note: [pp.35-37].
Box 17
Big Sky, no.6 (): Marilyn Monroe [poem].
c. 1973
General Physical Description note: [p.80]
Box 17
The Bolinas magazine, no.1 (): Madness [poem].
March 1973
Box 17
The Bolinas magazine, no.2 ]: poem and fiction.
[1973
Box 17
Buffalo Stamps, no.6 (): poems.
c. 1973
General Physical Description note: pp.8-13.
Box 17
Contact no.7 ]: poems.
[ca. 1973
General Physical Description note: pp.43-44.
Box 17
Lip no.1 / Telegraph books special issue, edited by Victor Bockris (): poems.
c. 1972
General Physical Description note: pp.42-51.
Box 17
The Milk Quarterly no.4 (): This is a little story (with Lewis Warsh).
March 1973
General Physical Description note: p.42.
Box 17
The Milk Quarterly, no.6 (): One Night [poem].
December 1973
General Physical Description note: p.28.
Box 17
The Nation, vol.217 no.19 (): Quick poem.
December 3, 1973
General Physical Description note: p.606.
Box 17
Poetry review, vol.64, no.3 (): My grandmother, [poem], and Full moon ode [poem].
Autumn 1973
General Physical Description note: pp.254-256
Box 17
Strange Faeces 10 ]: various articles.
[
Box 17
The 10]: poems.
[1972
General Physical Description note: [p.15].
Box 17
The World no.26 (): 5 poems with Bill Berkson.
Winter 1973
Box 17
The World no.28 (): poems from The Bolinas Book.
May 1973
General Physical Description note: pp.33-38.
Box 23
Ararat. New York. vol.15 no.2 (): Thirteen [Poem].
Spring 1974
Box 23
The Bolinas hearsay news. Bolinas. Poem.
ca. July 26, 1974
Box 23
The Bolinas hearsay news. Bolinas. ) Poem.
ca. (August 12, 1974
Box 23
The Bolinas hearsay news. Bolinas. ) Poem: Friendship.
ca. (September 6, 1974
Box 23
The Bolinas hearsay news. Bolinas. ) News item.
ca. (October 15, 1974
Box 23
Chicago. Essex, England. no.2 () Poem: Cream's story.
February 1974
Box 23
The ear in a wheatfield. Victoria, Australia. () Poem.
May 1974
Box 23
The east-west journal. vol.4 no.8 () Letter.
September 1974
Box 23
The end over end. Monte Rio, California. no.8 () Poems.
Spring/Summer 1974
Box 23
L magazine. Berkeley, California. vol.2 no.1/2. Poem: Mr. Stumola.
Box 23
Nation. New York. vol.219 no.2 () Poem: The night.
July 20, 1974
Box 23
New Journal. Cambridge, Massachusetts. () Poem: Lines from my autobiography.
November 1974
Box 23
New York Times. New York. () Article: Unhorsed as a space cowboy. Clipped.
November 23, 1974
Box 23
Occident. Berkeley, California. vol.8 () Poem: Timing.
Spring 1974
Box 23
Out there. Chicago. no.6. Poems: Erasers: Sawing the wood; Poem.
Box 23
Paris review. New York. no.59 () Poems: Madness: I'm the Mississippi.
Fall 1974
Box 23
Poetry. Chicago. vol.124 no.6 () Poems: Life is no arrival: Life is a dream.
September 1974
Box 23
The poetry project newsletter. New York. no.15 () Open letter.
May 1974
Box 23
Rolling stone. San Francisco. no.159 () Poem: Lines for my autobiography.
April 25, 1974
Box 23
Sotto voice. Beeston, Nottingham. no.1 ] Excerpts from
The Street.
[1974
Box 23
Sotto voice. Beeston, Nottingham. no.3 ] Poem: Sawing the wood.
[1974
Box 32
1.
Archive Newsletter.
General Physical Description note: pp.35-39.
Scope and Contents note
Published by the Special Collections Library of the University of California at San Diego.
A review of
Talking Poetry: Conversations in the Workshop with Contemporary Poets, edited by Lee Bartlett.
General note
Missing.
Box 32
Ararat. vol.29 no.3. The Driver: Reflections on Jack Kerouac.
Summer 1988.
General Physical Description note: pp.26-27.
Box 7
Angel Hair no.3 (): [Poems].
Summer 1967
General Physical Description note: 10th leaf and verso of 10th leaf.
Box 7
Art and Literature no.12 (): 4 Poems from
Works.
Spring 1967
General Physical Description note: pp.155-157.
Box 7
Kulchur, vol.5 no.19 (): [Book review of
Telegrams from my Windmill, by Ian Hamilton Finlay].
Autumn 1965
General Physical Description note: p.101.
Box 7
Seventeen (): Lens on Europe.
January 1958
General Physical Description note: pp.70-71.
Box 8
Artes Hispanicas, vol.1 no.3 & 4 (): [Poems].
Winter / Spring 1968
General Physical Description note: pp.236-238.
Box 8
Chicago Review, vol.19 no.4 (): [Poems].
September 1967
General Physical Description note: pp.22-27.
Box 8
Elephant no.1 (): [Poems].
Summer 1965
General Physical Description note: 27th-29th leaves.
Box 8
ICA Bulletin no.161 (, Four poems.
August & September 1966)
General Physical Description note: p.31.
Box 8
Paris Review, vol.9 no.35 (): Poem.
Fall 1965
General Physical Description note: p.126.
Box 8
Paris Review, vol.10 no.40 (): from
Works.
Winter-Spring 1967
General Physical Description note: p.165.
Box 8
Paris Review, vol.11 no.43 (: French poets.
Summer 1968)
General Physical Description note: p.56; Introduction, and p.57.
Box 8
Wivenhoe Park Review no.1 (): Prose.
Winter 1965
General Physical Description note: pp.80-83.
Box 10
Clothesline no.2. Poem.
1970.
General Physical Description note: 3rd-6th leaf.
Box 10
Adventures in poetry no.7 (): Poem.
February 1971
General Physical Description note: 3rd-18th leaf.
Box 10
Search for tomorrow. Iowa City. no.3 (). [Poems].
1971
Box 10
This. Iowa City. no.2. [Poems].
c. 1971.
Box 10
Gum. Iowa City. no.6. [Poems].
September 1971.
Box 10
Hellcoal annual one. Providence, Rhode Island. no.1. [Poem].
c. 1971.
General Physical Description note: [p.79].
Box 13
Beaulines. Bolinas, California. no.1 (). [poem].
1972
General Physical Description note: [p.7.].
Box 13
Big Sky. Bolinas, California. no.4 (). [poems].
1972
General Physical Description note: 2 leaves.
Box 13
Contact, The San Francisco Journal of New Writing, Arts, and Ideas. San Francisco. ().
1958
General note
[Photograph by Aram Saroyan of William Saroyan]
Box 13
ERA. Philadelphia. vol.8 no.1 (). [extracts].
Spring 1972
General Physical Description note: [pp.39-48].
Box 13
Expose: Concrete Poetry. Indiana University. ().
February 1970
Scope and Contents note
[Cover poem by Aram Saroyan]
Box 13
Marijuana Review. vol.1 no.6 (). [poem].
January - June 1971
General Physical Description note: [p.15].
Box 13
The 9. Boulder, Colorado. [poem].
General Physical Description note: 1 leaf.
Box 13
The Paper. Bolinas, California. no.16 (). [poem].
August 1972
General Physical Description note: [p.45].
Box 13
The Paris Review. London. no.53. [poems].
General Physical Description note: [pp.28-31].
Box 13
Poetry Review. London. vol.63 no.3 (). [poems].
Autumn 1972
General Physical Description note: [pp.262-264].
Box 13
San Francisco. San Francisco. (). [poems].
1972
Box 55
Ararat. , no.117. Excerpt from
The Romantic.
Winter 1989
General Physical Description note: pp.28-31.
Box 48
The California Courier. , vol.31 no.31.
February 9, 1989
General Physical Description note: pp.7 and 15.
Scope and Contents note
Writer Aram Saroyan Discusses his Armenian Roots and Identity. Article includes half of Aram Saroyan's talk at the Pasadena
Library auditorium on January 22, 1989 sponsered by the Armenian Allied Arts Association.
Box 55
The California Courier, vol.31 no.32.
General Physical Description note: p.10.
Scope and Contents note
Writer Aram Saroyan Discusses his Armenian Roots and Identity. Comprised of the second half of Aram Saroyan's talk.
Box 55
Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Sunday, February 26, 1989.
General Physical Description note: p.2.
Scope and Contents note
A Life After Death. A review of
Five Seasons by A.B. Yehoshua.
Box 55
Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Sunday, July 9, 1989.
General Physical Description note: p.3.
Scope and Contents note
Michener Tries Parable. A review of
Journey by James Michener.
Box 55
Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Sunday, August 13, 1989.
General Physical Description note: pp.3 and 5.
Scope and Contents note
Ready to Dare the Undaring. A review of
Cartographies by Maya Sonenberg.
Box 55
Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Sunday, September 24, 1989.
General Physical Description note: p.2.
Scope and Contents note
How to Doff a Suit of Armor. A review of
Physical Culture by Hillary Johnson.
Box 55
Los Angeles Times.
Thursday, December 7, 1989.
General Physical Description note: A photocopy copy of this review as it appeared in the newspaper (pp.17-18).
Scope and Contents note
Suppose We Invaded Nicaragua? A review of
The Circus Master's Mission by Joel Brinkley. [In] E section.
Box 55
Los Angeles Times.
Monday, December 25, 1989.
General Physical Description note: A photocopy copy of the review as it appears in the newspaper (p.15).
Scope and Contents note
Portrait of One Legacy of Vietnam. A review of
The Deuce by Robert Olen Butler. [In] E section.
Books By or Published By Aram Saroyan
Box 8
Saroyan, Aram.
Aram Saroyan. [New York?]
Lines.
1967.
Box 8
Saroyan, Aram.
Works. [New York?] Lines.
1966.
Box 8
Coolidge, Clark.
Clark Coolidge. [New York?]
Lines.
1967.
Box 8
Kolmar, Richard.
Games. [New York?]
Lines.
1966.
Box 10
Grace, Carol.
The secret in the daisy. New York: Random House ]
[c. 1955
General note
The author is Mrs. Walter Matthau, the former Mrs. William Saroyan, Aram's mother.
Books - Presentation Copies to Aram Saroyan
Box 10
Clark, Tom.
Green. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press.
1971.
Box 10
Grenier, Robert.
Dusk road games: poems, 1960-66. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Pym-Randall Press.
c. 1967.
Box 10
Hausman, Gerald.
New Marlboro Stage. Lenox, Massachusetts: Bookstore Press.
1971.
Box 10
Kherdian, David.
Homage to Adana. Fresno: Giligia Press.
1971.
Box 10
Minasian, Khatchik.
Five Poems. Mount Horeb: Perishable Press.
1971.
Box 10
Raworth, Tom.
Lion Lion. London: Trigram Press Limited.
c. 1970.
Box 10
Kherdian, David. An evening with Saroyan, the ghost of Shah-Mouradian, a review of
Short Drive, Sweet Chariot. Fresno: Giligia Press.
Monday, May 9, 1966. 1970.
Box 13
MacAdams, Lewis.
City Money. Oxford, England: Burning Waters,
[1972].
Box 13
Veitch, Tom.
My Father's Golden Eye. [New York]: Adventures in Poetry,
[1970].
Box 13
Bockris, Victor.
In America. Pennsylvania: Telegraph Books
[1972].
General note
[Cover photo by Aram Saroyam]
Box 13
Buxton, John.
Byron and Shelley. London: Macmillan.
1968.
Box 13
Cornish, Sam.
Generations. [United States]: Beacon Press
[1971].
Box 13
Kyger, Joanne.
Desecheo Notebook. Berkeley, California: Arif Press.
1971.
Box 13
MacAdams, Lewis Jr.
Dance - As Individual Body-Power. [New York: The Institute of Further Studies.
1972].
Box 13
Warsh, Lewis,
Long Distance. London: Ferry Press.
1971.
Scope and Contents note
Collages by George Schneeman.
Box 13
Wylie, Andrew.
Yellow Flowers. [United States of America]: Dot Books, ]
[1972
Box 13
ATOZ - '71-'72. Dedicated to Aram Saroyan. n.p.
n.d.
Box 18
Berkson, Bill.
Recent visitors. n.p., Angel Hair Books,
[c. 1973].
Box 18
Brodey, Jim.
Breathlahem. New York: Sun Spot,
[
Box 18
Creeley, Robert.
Contexts of poetry: interviews 1961-1971. Bolinas, California: Four Seasons Foundation.
1973.
Box 18
Creeley, Robert.
The Creative. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press.
March 1973.
Scope and Contents note
[Reprint from Sparrow 6]
Box 18
Creeley, Robert.
His idea. n.p.: The Coach House Press,
[c. 1973].
Box 18
DeVore, Darrell.
Pigmy Unit. n.p.: Books Too.
n.d.
Box 18
Loonin, Allen.
Extension of crevice. Bolinas, California.
1971.
Box 18
Meltzer, David.
French broom. Bolinas, California.
1973.
Box 18
Padgett, Ron and Tom Veitch.
Antlers in the treetops. Toronto: The Coach House Press,
[1973].
Box 18
Sander, Ellen.
Trips. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
[c. 1973].
Box 18
Waldman, Anne.
Light and shadow. n.p.
[c. 1972].
Box 18
Berkson, Bill.
Ants. Berkeley: Arif Press.
1974.
Box 18
Berkson, Bill.
100 women. Chicago: Simon and Schuster.
1974.
Box 18
Bockris-Wylie.
Ali. New York: Freeway Press.
1974.
Box 18
Hawkins, Bobbie.
Fifteen poems. Berkeley: Arif Press.
1974.
Box 18
Knott, Bill.
Love poems to myself. Boston: Barn Dream Press.
1974.
Box 18
Kyger, Joanne.
Trucks:tracks. Bolinas: Mesa Press.
1974.
Box 18
MacClain, Martin.
The Bearing. San Francisco: Cranium Press.
1967.
Box 18
MacClain, Martin.
The dwelling poem. n.p.: no publisher.
n.d.
Box 18
Malanga, Gerard.
Light/Licht. Göttingen, Germany: Expanded media editions.
1973.
Box 18
Malanga, Gerard.
22 by Gerard Malanga. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press.
1974.
Box 18
Malanga, Gerard.
Wheels of light. Dharmsala, India: White Light Foundation.
1972.
Box 18
Palmer, Michael.
The Circular Gates. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press.
1974.
Box 18
Pearlstein, Darlene.
Rabbits, frogs and other mischief. Chicago: Yellow Press.
1973.
Box 18
Waldman, Anne.
Life notes. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company.
1973.
Box 18
Wolfe, Michael.
How love gets around. Victoria, British Columbia: Soft Press.
1974.
Box 32
About Time. Poems by Diana Der Hovanessian.
Box 32
The Wounded Alphabet: Poems Collected & New 1953-1983, by George Hitchcock.
Box 32
Love-Songs & Graffiti. Verse by Jack Little.
Box 32
Sometime the Cow Kick Your Head: Light Verse 1988.
Scope and Contents note
An anthology edited by Robert Wallace including a poem by Jack Little, who has inscribed the book.
Box 32
Forbidden Days of Ramazan. A novel by Lucik Melikian.
Box 32
From Hunger to Caviar. A novel by Lucik Melikian.
Box 52-53
Ladies Above Suspicion. Poems by Michael C. Ford. Illuminati.
General Physical Description note: Inscribed.
Box 52-53
Turtle Dream by Gerald Hausman. A Mariposa Book.
Box 52-53
Stargazer by Gerald Hausman. Lotus Press.
Box 52-53
The Feminization of America by Elinor Lenz and Barbara Myerhoff. Jeremy P. Tarcher. Inscribed by Elinor Lenz.
Box 52-53
The State of California by Ted Pejovich. Knopf. Signed.
Box 52-53
In the Name of Love by Jessica Lansing (David Ritz). A Jove Book.
Box 52-53
Dreams by David Ritz. Berkeley.
Box 52-53
Blue Notes Under a Green Felt Hat by David Ritz. Donald I. Fine.
Box 52-53
Raising the Dead by Roger L. Simon. Villard Books.
General Physical Description note: Inscribed.
Box 52-53
Spring Thaw by S.L. Stebel. Walker and Company.
Box 52-53
Pangolin Magazine. Blue Shadow Press. Ventura, California.
Box 52-53
The Best of the Arcade Poetry Project. Ventura, California.
Box 10
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Adam-12. Hudson, Massachusetts.
October 12, 1971.
General Physical Description note: 22 leaves. Mimeograph.
Scope and Contents note
A collection of writing from the Poetry Workshop conducted by Aram Saroyan with Mrs. Welch's 3rd Grade Class at the Linden
Street School.
Box 13
Miscellaneous ephemera sent to Aram Saroyan.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
Box 14
Animal Crackers. Aram Saroyan and Tom Veitch.
1972.
General Physical Description note: 18 leaves. Typescript.
Box 14
Bolinas. Aram Saroyan and Gerard Malanga.
General Physical Description note: 86pp. Typescript.
Box 14
The Bolinas Book.
1972.
General Physical Description note: 20 leaves. Typescript.
Box 14
The Children. Photographs by Aram Saroyan, Words by Philip Whalen. Taken between
1957-58.
General Physical Description note: 85 leaves. Holograph.
Box 14
Evening in Bolinas.
1972.
General Physical Description note: 23 leaves. Typescript.
Box 14
Friends: an epistolary novel. Aram Saroyan and Tom Clark.
General Physical Description note: 29pp. Photocopy of typescript.
Box 14
Lines for My Autobiography and Other Poems.
General Physical Description note: 51pp. Typescript.
Box 14
Miscellaneous.
General Physical Description note: 12pp. Typescript and articles pasted onto paper.
Box 14
Rocky 9 Ace. Gerard Malanga's manuscript.
General Physical Description note: 18pp. Carbon of typescript.
Box 14
Friendly Persuasion.
1973.
General Physical Description note: 64 leaves. Holograph.
Box 14
Poetry in Motion.
1973.
General Physical Description note: 86 leaves. Holograph.
Box 14
The Street.
1973.
General Physical Description note: 120 leaves. Holograph.
Box 14
The library at night. A short story. Bolinas, California.
February 20, 1974.
General Physical Description note: 4 leaves. Holograph (photocopy).
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Gailyn Saroyan.
Box 14
The journey: a diary. Begun in Bolinas, California.
March 1974.
General Physical Description note: 21 leaf. Holograph (photocopy).
Box 14
Timetables. Begun in Bolinas, California.
March 1974.
General Physical Description note: Holograph (photocopies).
Scope and Contents note
Contributions towards a new novel. Includes: The library at night, Dear Walter, Suspended animation, and Meeting Bob Dylan,
American Blues, and Monday.
Box 15
Manuscripts and other materials used in the publication of
Bolinas magazine, no.1 and 2, edited by Aram Saroyan and Russ Riviere.
1973.
General Physical Description note: Holograph and typescript.
Box 15
Day by day; poems by Aram Saroyan.
1973.
General Physical Description note: 56 leaves. Holograph.
Box 15
Heart; poems by Aram Saroyan.
1954-1972.
General Physical Description note: 71 leaves. Holograph.
Box 15
Hello, America; a novel by Aram Saroyan.
1974.
General Physical Description note: 60 leaves. Holograph.
Box 15
High on the mesa; a modern western. Aram Saroyan.
1974.
General Physical Description note: 48 leaves. Holograph.
Box 15
Lines for my autobiography and other poems.
General Physical Description note: 40 leaves.
Box 15
Poetry in motion, and Friendly Persuasion and Other Poems.
General Physical Description note: 55 leaves and 50 leaves. Holograph, typescript and photocopy of both typescript and holograph materials.
Scope and Contents note
(Partial manuscript)
[Revised manuscripts in notebook form]
Box 15
Timetables, a novel.
1974.
General Physical Description note: 123 leaves. Holograph.
Anthologies Containing Works By Aram Saroyan
Box 7
The American Literary Anthology / 1. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
[c. 1968].
Box 7
An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, edited by Emmett Williams. New York: Something Else Press, Incorporated,
[c. 1967].
Box 7
The Young American Poets: a Big Table Book, edited by Paul Carroll. Chicago: Follett Publishing Company
[c. 1968].
Scope and Contents note
Introduction by James Dickey.
Box 7
Once Again, [edited with an introduction by] Jean-François Bory. [New York]: New Directions
[c. 1968].
Scope and Contents note
Translated by Lee Hildreth.
Box 16
Allstars, edited by Tom Clark. New York: Grossman Publishers,
[c. 1972].
Box 16
How porcupines make love, edited by Alan C. Purves. Lexington, Massachusetts: photocopy College Publishing,
[c. 1972].
Box 16
Probes; an introduction to poetry, William K. Harlan. New York: The Macmillan Company,
[c. 1973].
Box 16
Shake the kaleidoscope; a new anthology of modern poetry, edited by Milton Klonsky. New York: Pocket Books,
[c. 1973].
Box 16
Konglomerati. Gulfport, Florida: Konglomerati Press,
[
General note
Published and printed in three parts.
Box 24
Fathar 66. Bolinas: Duncan McNaughton.
1974.
Box 24
Fillmer, H. Thompson, et al.
Patterns of language. New York: American Book Company.
1974.
Box 24
National Poetry Anthology. Clarkston, Georgia.
De Kalb Literary Arts Journal, vol.7 no.2/4.
n.d.
Box 24
Swanger, David.
The poem as process. New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich.
1974.
Box 24
Laughlin, James, et al.
New Directions 33: An international anthology of prose and poetry. [New York]: [New Directions Publishing Corporation]
[c. 1976].
Box 10
--- Goodbye cards from Mrs. Welch's third grade class. Hudson, Massachusetts: Linden Elementary School.
December 13, 1971.
General Physical Description note: 32 items.
Box 10
--- Christmas card Little is what she is. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1971.
Box 10
--- Media. Clippings from various periodicals, all by Aram Saroyan. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1971.
General Physical Description note: Mounted on paper. 10 leaves.
Box 10
--- Writing. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1972.
General Physical Description note: 60pp. Photocopy.
Box 10
--- Postcards. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1971.
General Physical Description note: 5 pieces.
Box 10
--- Highschool writing. v.p.
1957.
General Physical Description note: 6 leaves. Typescript.
Box 10
--- Writing. n.p.
1964-1970.
General Physical Description note: 36 leaves. Typescript.
Box 18
Announcement of
Expose: concrete poetry, a symposium held at Indiana University, February , and related material.
1970
Scope and Contents note
Utilized Aram Saroyan's work in this genre. Cover poem by Aram Saroyan.
Box 18
Hand made poster announcing Aram Saroyan reading in Bolinas, California.
Box 18
Material on proposed anthology: Semiotic Trends in Contemporary Poetry, under the direction of Mary Ellen Solt.
General note
To be published by Mouton Publishers, the Hague, the Netherlands.
Box 18
Beyond poetry. New York.
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Two issues of periodical.
Box 18
Posters for Saroyan poetry readings.
1974.
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Box 18
Saroyan, William.
Peace, it's wonderful. New York: Modern Age Books.
1939.
Box 33
Vanity Fair. Article How Wily is Andrew Wylie? by Michael Shnayerson.
January 1988.
General Physical Description note: pp.24-29.
Scope and Contents note
Aram Saroyan is quoted in the piece.
Box 33
Ronnie Finklehof, Superstar! by Alan W. Livingston.
Scope and Contents note
A copy of the Fawcett Juniper paperback with a note signed by the author on the occasion of the Los Angeles book party for
the book.
Box 33
Buck James: Lives in the Balance, a teleplay by Garner Simmons.
Dated February 5, 1988.
Scope and Contents note
Final draft and two revisions of parts of the final draft.
This is a shooting script for the short-lived television series, Buck James, starring Dennis Weaver.
Box 33
A Letter from Germany, a proposal for a television mini-series, by Jeff Pollack and Hubert de la Bouillerie.
General note
NOTE: de la Bouillerie is Aram Saroyan's first cousin.
Box 33
Catalogues etc. from the American Booksellers' Convention (ABA)/Encino, California. , which Aram Saroyan attended to promote
The Romantic.
1988
General Physical Description note: In a large manila envelope labeled same.
Box 33
The California Courier.
December 8, 1988.
Scope and Contents note
On the front page is a photograph taken at the book signing for
The Romantic at Dutton's Brentwood Bookstore in Los Angeles.
(Pictured: Carol Matthau, Strawberry, Aram, and Gailyn Saroyan, Walter Matthau, and Jack Lemmon).
Box 33
Los Angeles Times Book Review.
December 18, 1988.
Scope and Contents note
Stuart Schoffman's Critic's Choice review of
The Romantic appears on p.10.
Box 33
8 envelopes of unsorted material & 1 poster.
Box ?
Program for Senior Graduation Ceremonies at the Viewpoint School in Calabassas, California on
June 9, 1989.
Scope and Contents note
Aram Saroyan gave the commencement address.
Box ?
Video tape of the graduation ceremony at Viewpoint School including Aram Saroyan's commencement address.
Box 55
Kahlil Gibran: Paintings & Drawings 1905-1930. Vrej Baghoomian.
1989.
Scope and Contents note
A hardcover copy of the catalogue for the retrospective exhibit. Aram Saroyan's essay appears on pp.4-11.
Box ?
lighght---
The Paris Review poster.
Scope and Contents note
A silkscreen poster, signed and numbered by Aram Saroyan, one of an edition of 150 executed by Ron McPherson of La Poloma
editions for
The Paris Review during the summer of 1989.
Correspondence, Individual
Box 19
Correspondence, Individual: Coolidge - Malanga.
Manuscript Material By Aram Saroyan
Box 24
Confessions of a poet - singer - songwriter. n.p.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 19 leaves. Holograph.
Box 24
Confessions of a poet - singer - songwriter. n.p.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 19 leaves. Typescript (carbon).
Box 24
Heart. n.p.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 4 p.l., 36 leaves. Holograph.
Box 24
The street: an autobiographical novel. v.p., v.d. 3 p.l., 60 leaves.
General Physical Description note: Holograph.
Scope and Contents note
Original manuscript of the published work.
Box 24
The street: an autobiographical novel. v.p., v.d.
General Physical Description note: 3 p.l., 127 leaves. Typescript.
Box 24
Timetables. n.p.
n.d. [
General Physical Description note: 66 leaves. Typescript (carbon).
Published Material By Aram Saroyan
Box 24
The Bolinas book. South Lancaster, Massachusetts, Other Publications.
1974.
Series 3: Aram Saroyan Literary Archives for 1988
1988
Correspondence
General note
(The numbers in parenthesis refers to the no. of items from correspondent. No no. signifies a single item).
Box 25-27
1. Abintra, the Bookseller.
Box 25-27
2. Acacia Elementary School.
Box 25-27
4. Amnesty International.
Box 25-27
6. Armenian Assembly of America.
Box 25-27
9. Aversano, Frank & Sally.
Box 25-27
10. The Authors Guild, Incorporated.
General Physical Description note: (7 items).
Box 25-27
11. The Authors League Fund.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
12. Bagatourian, Biana (student).
Box 25-27
14. Bailey, Rosemary and Miles, Barry.
Box 25-27
16. Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center.
General Physical Description note: (6 items).
Box 25-27
18. Bonanno, David (
American Poetry Review).
Box 25-27
19. Bond, Harold.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
20. The Bread and Roses Award.
Box 25-27
21. Calder, Professor Daniel G. (UCLA).
Box 25-27
22. Calder, Daniel G. and Carothers, Caryl (Friends of English, UCLA).
Box 25-27
23. California Democratic State Party.
Box 25-27
24. Carothers, Caryl (Friends of English, UCLA).
Box 25-27
26. Christian Appalachian Project.
Box 25-27
30. Coffee House Press.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
31. Cohen, Ronny (The Art Letter).
Box 25-27
34. Crosscurrents (Short Fiction Symposium).
Box 25-27
37. de la Bouillerie, Hilary (cousin's wife).
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 25-27
39. Der Yeghiayan, Garbis (American-Armenian International College).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
40. Diehl, Digby (PEN American Center West).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
42. Disabled American Veterans.
Box 25-27
43. Dittrick, Lynn (MTM).
Box 25-27
46. Dutton's Brentwood Bookstore.
Box 25-27
48. Dworkoski, Robert J. (Viewpoint School).
Box 25-27
50. Findon, Kathy (McGraw-Hill).
Box 25-27
52. Fishman, Dr. Charles (SUNY Farmingdale).
Box 25-27
53. Fishman, Charles & Ellen.
Box 25-27
54. Fontana, Tom.
General Physical Description note: (10 items).
Box 25-27
55. Fuentes, Manuel.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
57. Gaines, Rosslyn (UCLA).
General Physical Description note: (4 items).
Box 25-27
58. Galbraith, John Kenneth.
Box 25-27
59. Gay Mens Health Crisis.
General Physical Description note: (4 items).
Box 25-27
60. Gere, Richard (Tibet House).
Box 25-27
61. Ginsberg, Meryl (UCLA--The Writers' Program).
Box 25-27
62. Glazer, Lori (McGraw-Hill).
Box 25-27
63. Goffin, Ellen.
General Physical Description note: (6 items).
Box 25-27
65. Goldberg, Barry.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
66. Gotlieb, Dr. Howard B. (Boston University Library).
General Physical Description note: (5 items).
Box 25-27
67. Granger, John (University of California, San Diego).
Box 25-27
70. Half Hollow Hills School District.
Box 25-27
71. Hamalian, Leo.
General Physical Description note: (8 items).
Box 25-27
72. Hamilton, Edward R. (Bookseller).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
73. Healey, John G. (Amnesty International).
Box 25-27
74. Heiney, Donald (University of California, Irvine).
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 25-27
75. Hovnanian Armenian School.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
76. Hudgins, Chris (2--University of Nevada, Las Vegas).
Box 25-27
77. Huerta, Dolores (United Farm Workers).
Box 25-27
79. Huth, Geof.
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 25-27
80. The Hydens (cousin & husband).
Box 25-27
84. Johnson, Janet (student).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
85. Sam: Johnson's Bookshop.
Box 25-27
86. Junker, Howard (Zyzzyva).
Box 25-27
88. Kallenberg, John K. (Fresno County Librarian).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
89. Kalinian, Paul (William Saroyan Film Project).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
93. Kornblum, Allan (Coffee House Press).
Box 25-27
95. Laven, Connie Jo (Robert Kennedy Medical Center).
Box 25-27
98. Leedom-Ackerman, Joanne (PEN American Center West).
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 25-27
100. Little, Jack W. (August -Armenian Heritage Project).
Box 25-27
101. Long, Carole (Armenian Assembly of America).
Box 25-27
102. Kerdian, David.
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 25-27
103. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Box 25-27
104. Loy, Lerenzy (Mickey) (The Writers' Program, UCLA).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
105. Lucas, Noirin (The Wendy Weil Agency).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
106. MacAdams, Phoebe.
General Physical Description note: (4 items).
Box 25-27
107. Malanga, Gerard.
General Physical Description note: (6 items).
Box 25-27
108. Mallon, Thomas.
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 25-27
109. Manson, Joyce (UCLA Extension).
Box 25-27
110. Marcus, Rosheen (Maternal Grandmother).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
111. Matthau, Carol (Mother).
General Physical Description note: (5 items).
Box 25-27
112. Matthau, Charles (Half-brother).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
113. Matthau, Walter (step-father).
Box 25-27
114. McCarthy, Mignon (student).
Box 25-27
115. McClanahan, Pauli (Mother-in-law).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
120. Minasian, Vahan (cousin).
Box 25-27
121. New Directions.
General Physical Description note: (4 items).
Box 25-27
122. Nicaragua Medical Aid.
Box 25-27
123. Niles, Charles (Boston University Library).
Box 25-27
124. Ohannessian, Griselda (
New Directions).
Box 25-27
125. Parisi, Joseph (
Poetry Magazine).
Box 25-27
126. Parker, Janet (Thousand Oaks High School Librarian).
Box 25-27
128. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 25-27
129. Petrie, Bernard (lawyer).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
130. Pollinger, Gerald (Laurence Pollinger Literary Agency).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
131. Plowshares Defense Fund.
Box 25-27
132. Price-Williams, Douglas (UCLA).
Box 25-27
133. Pruder, Elgin & Elinor (Aunt & husband).
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 25-27
135. Rayfiel, David.
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 25-27
137. Ritchie, Michael & Jimmie.
Box 25-27
138. Robarts, Richard C. (Near East Foundation).
Box 25-27
139. Rooks, Lois (At Home In New York).
Box 25-27
140. Roosevelt, James (Social Security and Medicare).
Box 25-27
141. Saroyan, Aram.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
142. Saroyan, Lucy (sister).
Box 25-27
143. Screen Actors Guild.
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 25-27
144. See, Carolyn.
General Physical Description note: (4 items).
Box 25-27
145. Segal, Susan (student).
Box 25-27
147. Smith, Steve (Insurance Agent).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
148. Somerville Sutton, Ginger (Sidwell Friends School).
Box 25-27
149. Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Box 25-27
150. Sonnenberg, Ben (Grand Street).
Box 25-27
151. Sparks, Joan (Thousand Oaks Highschool).
Box 25-27
152. Spellman, Erica (International Creative Management).
Box 25-27
153. Stevens, Byam (The Writers Theater).
Box 25-27
155. Storace, Patricia (
The Paris Review).
Box 25-27
157. Sykes, Michael (Floating Island Publications).
Box 25-27
158. Tatum, Leigh & Frances (cousin & husband).
Box 25-27
160. Tolhurst, Susan Mahoney.
Box 25-27
161. Trinity Alumni Directory.
Box 25-27
162. Truher, Sarah (Boston University Library).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
163. Tuttle-Mori Agency (A.S.'s agents in Japan).
Box 25-27
164. Vagabond Books.
General Physical Description note: (6 items).
Box 25-27
165. van der Leeden, Ingrid (Delacourte Press).
Box 25-27
167. Vonnegut, Kurt (
The Washington Spectator).
Box 25-27
169. Venis, Linda (The Writers' Program, UCLA).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
170. UCLA Cultural and Recreational Affairs.
General Physical Description note: (5 items).
Box 25-27
171. UCLA Department of English.
Box 25-27
173. UCLA Friends of English.
Box 25-27
174. UCSD Archive Newsletter.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
175. Wanger, Shelley (Interview).
Box 25-27
176. War Resisters League.
Box 25-27
177. Watson, Clarissa.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
178. Watson, Jill (sister-in-law).
Box 25-27
179. Weaver, Dan (editor at McGraw-Hill).
General Physical Description note: (4 items).
Box 25-27
180. The Wendy Weil Agency (A.S.'s agent).
General Physical Description note: (4 items).
Box 25-27
181. Whalen, Kathy Smart.
Box 25-27
182. Widdifield, Helen E.
Box 25-27
183. Woloch, Cecelia (Poet-in-the-Schools).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 25-27
184. Writers Guild of America West.
Box 25-27
185. The Writers Theater.
General Physical Description note: (6 items).
Box 25-27
186. Yaker, Diana (student).
The Romantic
General note
(The novel was published by McGraw-Hill on November 1, 1988)
Box 28
1.
The Romantic, Revisions (Ending).
General Physical Description note: 5pp. In a legal-size manila folder marked same. Holograph in black ink on yellow, lined, legal-size sheets.
Box 28
2.
The Romantic: Revisions.
General Physical Description note: 57 original typed manuscript pages with holograph corrections. 30 photocopied pages with holograph corrections. One yellow,
lined, legal size sheet in black ink holograph. In a labeled manila folder.
Scope and Contents note
Typed revisions and additions.
Box 28
3.
Success (an early version of
The Romantic with its original title.)
General Physical Description note: Photocopied. 201pp. In a labeled manila envelope.
Box 28
4. Early Version of
The Romantic. Unrevised manuscript.
Fall 1987.
General Physical Description note: Photocopied. 213pp. In labeled manila envelope.
Box 28
5. Final Copy-Edited Manuscript of
The Romantic
5/3/88.
General Physical Description note: Photocopy. 213pp. In a labeled manila envelope.
Scope and Contents note
With copy editor's, editor's, and author's corrections.
Box 28
6. Binder copy of
The Romantic.
General Physical Description note: Mostly photocopy of typescript with some original typed pages interspersed. 213pp. In a gray oversize McGraw-Hill envelope
labeled.
Scope and Contents note
With holograph corrections by author.
Box 29
7.
The Romantic--Corrected Proofs.
General Physical Description note: In an oversize manila envelope labeled same. 210pp.
Scope and Contents note
Proof sheets corrected by author.
8.
The Romantic: Dead Matter
General Physical Description note: (In a Box With a McGraw-Hill Mailing Label Addressed to Aram Saroyan).
Box 29
A. The Master Manuscript.
General Physical Description note: Typescript with holograph. 213pp.
Scope and Contents note
Corrections in pencil by editor, in green pencil by copy editor, and in black pen by Aram Saroyan.
Box 29
B. Master.
General Physical Description note: 210pp.
Scope and Contents note
Printed proof of manuscript with holograph corrections in purple pencil and blue ink by copy editor.
Box 29
9.
The Romantic.
General Physical Description note: Bound in blue covers. 210pp.
Scope and Contents note
Uncorrected page proofs.
Box 29
10. Jacket copy for The Romantic.
General Physical Description note: Holograph in black ink on yellow, lined, legal size sheet (with more on the back) and 2 typed pages. In a labeled legal-size
manila folder.
Scope and Contents note
With holograph corrections.
Box 29
11. McGraw-Hill Book Company Catalogue for --Fall/Winter.
1988/1989
Scope and Contents note
p.30 is devoted to
The Romantic.
Box 30
12. Sneak Preview.
Scope and Contents note
A trade paperback with excerpts from McGraw-Hill's fiction list for Fall 1988/Winter 1989. Chapters 4 or 5 of
The Romantic, pp.141-163.
Box 30
13. Media & Reviews.
General Physical Description note: In a folder marked same.
Scope and Contents note
The Press Release from McGraw-Hill for
The Romantic.
Copies of ads for the book in
Publishers Weekly, the
New York Times Book Review, and the
Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Copies of reviews of the book in
Publishers Weekly,
Kirkus,
Library Journal,
The San Francisco Chronicle,
Playboy,
The Boston Globe,
The New York Times Book Review, and the
Los Angeles Times Book Review (where it was selected as Critics' Choice).
St. Elsewhere
General note
(Aram Saroyan was hired to write the teleplay for the prepenultimate episode of St. Elsewhere. The show was broadcast on the
night of May 11, 1988 on NBC.)
Box 30
1. Episode 20.
General Physical Description note: In a manila envelope with an MTM letterhead addressed to Aram Saroyan. 5pp. Mimeographed.
Scope and Contents note
A outline of the 5 narrative lines to be incorporated into the teleplay. With holograph additions and notes by Aram Saroyan.
(Also included in the envelope is an autographed picture of the entire cast of St. Elsewhere).
Box 30
2. Mead Composition Book labeled St. Elsewhere.
General Physical Description note: Approximately 30pp.
Scope and Contents note
Aram Saroyan's notes taken during two story meetings at MTM Productions--the first with John Tinker, and the second, after
the first draft of the teleplay had been written, with John Tinker and Channing Gibson, the producers of St. Elsewhere.
Box 30
3. Copies of the Final Drafts--the shooting scripts--of the season's episodes 3-5, 8, 11-15 of St. Elsewhere.
General Physical Description note: In different colored covers mostly stamped St. Elsewhere.
Box 31
4. A copy of the Second Draft labeled 5 Way Split #1 and Frieda #1 of a storyline to be featured in Episode 20.
General Physical Description note: Mimeographed & stapled.
General note
Note: The producers had rejected this draft by another writer but gave Aram Saroyan a copy to refer to in his own work on
the central story line of the donor transplants.
Missing.
Box 31
5. Loose sheets clipped together, including a copy of a news-clipping with the headline 5 Get Organs of One Slain Man; 7pp.
from an Episcopal Church manual on the marriage ceremony; and 6pp. relating to speech impediments.
General note
All of this material was used as a resource by Aram Saroyan in writing the teleplay for Episode 20.
General note
Missing.
Box 31
6. First Draft.
General Physical Description note: 67pp. in black ink holograph on yellow, lined, legal size sheets. In a legal size manila folder labeled St. Elsewhere.
Box 31
7. First draft. Typed.
Dated January 11, 1988.
General Physical Description note: 54pp. with holograph corrections. In a manila folder labeled St. Elsewhere.
Box 31
8. Second Draft.
General Physical Description note: 35pp.: 31 in holograph on yellow, lined, legal size sheets; 34 typed with holograph corrections. In a legal-size manila folder
labeled St. Elsewhere--Second Draft.
Box 31
9. St. Elsewhere/Rewrite.
General Physical Description note: Two labeled manila folders, each containing 52 typed pages with holograph corrections.
Scope and Contents note
All were worksheets in Aram Saroyan's transition of the first draft into the second draft.
Box 31
10. Second Draft, typed.
Dated February 1, 1988.
General Physical Description note: 52pp. typed with holograph corrections. In a manila folder labeled St. Elsewhere--Second Draft.
Box 31
11. Two scripts (marked in holograph): St. Elsewhere/First Draft, and St. Elsewhere/Second Draft.
General Physical Description note: In yellow covers.
Box 31
12. Shooting Script.
General Physical Description note: In light yellow covers stamped St. Elsewhere with an MTM Enterprises logo in the lower right corner.
Scope and Contents note
Episode 20 is entitled Split Decision, Teleplay by Aram Saroyan, Story by John Tinker and Channing Gibson.
Box 31
13. A video casette labeled St. Elsewhere/Episode 20, Teleplay by Aram Saroyan.
Scope and Contents note
This is a video tape of the show broadcast on May 11, 1988 on NBC.
Friends in the World
Scope and Contents note
(A 12,000 word memoir by Aram Saroyan, incorporated into the manuscript of
The Light in New York.)
Box 31
1. Goodbye to New York (the piece's first title).
General Physical Description note: 36pp. in holograph black ink on yellow, lined, legal size sheets. In a legal size manila folder.
Box 31
2. Typed draft.
General Physical Description note: 29pp.: 16 typed with holograph corrections, 13 photocopies of typescript with holograph corrections. In a manila folder labeled
Goodbye to New York/Friends in the World.
Box 31
3. Final draft.
General Physical Description note: 50pp. of photocopied typescript with holograph corrections by Aram Saroyan. In a manila folder labeled Friends in the World.
Armenia
Scope and Contents note
(During the summer of 1988 Aram Saroyan was hired by the Armenian Heritage Project, Incorporated to write a proposal for a
television documentary on Armenia, its history and people.)
Box 31
1. Notes on Armenian history by Aram Saroyan.
General Physical Description note: A blue Mead Notebook. 70 sheets, approximately half used. Black ink holograph. In a large manila envelope labeled Research
for a documentary on Armenia.
Scope and Contents note
(Much of these notes taken during a long conversation with Harut Sassounian, the editor of the
California Courier, a weekly Armenian American newspaper)
The notebook also contains a sequence entitled Great Moments in the Life of William Saroyan (3pp. Black ink holograph), which
was written for Tom Fontana.
General note
Tom Fontana is a television writer-producer (St. Elsewhere, Tattingers) who is interested in adapting Aram Saroyan's
Last Rites: The Death of William Saroyan for a feature movie.
Box 31
2. Copies of
The Christian Science Monitor and
The California Courier and clippings from the
New York Times relating to Armenia.
General Physical Description note: In the same large manila envelope labeled Research for a documentary on Armenia.
Box 31
3. First draft.
General Physical Description note: Black ink holograph on 15 yellow, lined, legal size sheets and 6 typed pages with holograph corrections. In a legal-size manila
folder labeled Armenia.
Scope and Contents note
On a small sheet of paper in ballpoint blue holograph a quotation from William Saroyan about Armenia and the Armenians.
Box 31
4. Typed drafts.
General Physical Description note: 20pp., 20 photocopied pages, and 23pp. All in a manila folder labeled Armenia.
Scope and Contents note
Original typed first draft, Corrected typed first draft (with holograph corrections by Aram Saroyan), and Final, uncorrected
typed draft.
Box 32
The Light in New York.
General Physical Description note: Approximately 150pp. in large white envelope labeled The Light in New York/original typed ms.
Scope and Contents note
This is the original typed manuscript with holograph corrections of
The Light in New York, a memoir comprised of the following pieces: The Upper East Side State of Mind, My Sixties, Sixties into Seventies, Friends
in the World, and The Light in New York.
Box 32
The Moment: New and Selected Poems 1972-1988.
General Physical Description note: Approximately 75pp., both photocopied and original typed, and another photocopied, typed version.
Scope and Contents note
(Including My Teachers, the final poem in the manuscript, written by Aram Saroyan in 1988).
Box 32
1. Preface for
The Light in New York.
General Physical Description note: Original typed manuscript with holograph corrections, 2pp. Photocopy of corrected final draft, 2pp. In a manila folder labeled
Preface for
The Light in New York.
General note
NOTE: This preface was omitted from the final manuscript.
Box 32
2. Last section of
My Sixties.
General Physical Description note: 3 yellow lined legal size sheets in black ink holograph. 10 typed pages with holograph corrections. In a legal size manila
folder labeled
My Sixties(Ending).
Box 32
3. Last section of
My Sixties.
General Physical Description note: Original typed manuscript with holograph corrections in black ink, 4pp. Photocopy of final manuscript, 2pp. In a manila folder
labeled End of My Sixties.
Box 32
4. Last Rites.
General Physical Description note: 10 legal size yellow lined sheets in black ink holograph. 21 white sheets of typing paper in black ink holograph. In a legal
size manila folder labeled Last Rites.
General note
NOTE: These pages comprise an outline for a screenplay of
Last Rites and were done for the writer-producer Tom Fontana.
Box 32
5. Death on the Upper East Side.
General Physical Description note: Black ink holograph on 6 yellow, lined, legal size sheets. 6 typed pages with corrections in black ink holograph.
General note
NOTE: This piece describes the wake at Frank E. Campbell's in Manhattan for Carter Cooper, the 23 year old son of the late
Wyatt Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt, who comitted suicide in July 1988. This piece was never submitted to any publication.
Box 32
6. A letter to
The Nation.
General Physical Description note: 1p. typed with holograph corrections.
Scope and Contents note
(Regarding an article by Seymour Krim about the
New York Times).
A photocopy of the final draft, signed James Redding, the protagonist of Aram Saroyan's novel
The Romantic.
The letter was mailed but never printed.
UCLA Extension Class
Scope and Contents note
In a white oversize envelope with the UCLA Extension return address insignia, a copy of the UCLA Extension Summer Quarter
Catalogue for 1988. On p.95 is an ad for Diary Writing: A Workshop with Aram Saroyan, a course he gave over the summer quarter.
Appearances
Scope and Contents note
(In a manila folder labeled Appearances, announcements, flyers, etc. for the following appearances by Aram Saroyan)
Box 32
* A reading with Carolyn See at Beyond Baroque in Venice (California) on
April 22, 1988.
Box 32
* A reading/talk with Carolyn See for the UCLA Friends of English on
April 27, 1988.
Box 32
* Book Affaire. Luncheon and Autograph Party. A Benefit for the Robert F. Kennedy Medical Center at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel
on (re
The Romantic).
November 6, 1988.
Box 32
* A reading with Eloise Klein Healy at Gasoline Alley in Hollywood on
November 13, 1988.
Box 32
* A Book Signing for
The Romantic at Dutton's Brentwood Bookstore in Los Angeles on
December 1, 1988.
Box 32
* A Book Signing for
The Romantic at Hudson Book and News in Manhattan on
December 9, 1988.
Series 4: Additions.
July 1986
Box 34, Folder 1-10
Trio (New York: Simon and Schuster. ).
1985
Scope and Contents note
Manuscripts and galleys.
Box 35, Folder 2
Trio: reviews, letters to the editor, etc.
Box 35, Folder 3
Miscellaneous/Inserts and Notes.
Box 35, Folder 6
Springtime in the Rockies.
Box 35, Folder 7
Suburban Square and O'Sullivan in Spain.
Box 35, Folder 17
Today: Interview notes, publicity for
Trio.
Box 35, Folder 21
Pasternak and Mandelstam, Act 2.
Box 35, Folder 22
Pasternak and Mandelstam.
Box 35, Folder 27
Revised A Merry Xmas to You, G.V.!
Box 35, Folder 28
Ted Berrigan: A Personal Memoir.
Box 36
Books and magazines - includes advance uncorrected copy of
Trio.
Box 37
Books and magazines - includes videotape of an interview with A.S. re
Trio.
July 17, 1985.
Box 38, Folder 1-4
Original typed manuscript of
Trio.
Box 35, Folder 5-8
Copy of
Trio with revision notes by Joni Evans and Marjorie Williams (including first person material not in the manuscript).
Box 35, Folder 9-11
Copy of
Trio with revision notes by A.S.
Box 39, Folder 1-2
Final master of manuscript before typed by the Linden Press typist (
January 1985).
Box 35, Folder 3-6
Typed copy of
Trio with corrections by Linden typist.
General note
(Box 39 also contains three handwritten diaries)
Box 40
Two books; correspondence of A.S.
Series 5: Additions.
September 1986
Box 41-43
Correspondence between A.S. and various persons.
ca. 1985.
Box 44, Folder 1
Chapters from
Trio: Almost Christmas, etc.
Box 44, Folder 2
Chapters from
Trio: The Sound of Love, etc.
Box 44, Folder 3
Chapters from
Trio: The Last Fairy Tale, etc.
Box 44, Folder 4
A Merry Christmas to You, Gloria Vanderbilt! (from
Trio).
Box 44, Folder 6
Corrected typed (by Linda Gaede) of Brown Weekend and Springtime (from
Trio).
Box 44, Folder 7
O'Sullivan in Spain (from
Trio) original typed draft.
Box 45, Folder 1
Springtime in the Rockies: original typed draft.
Box 45, Folder 2
The Brown Weekend: first two typed drafts.
Box 45, Folder 3
Correspondence with various publishers.
Box 45, Folder 4
University of La Verne - yearbook, etc. Announcement of Aram Saroyan's talk at the campus (
November 9, 1984).
Box 45, Folder 5
Trio (Springtime, O'Sullivan, Brown Weekend).
General Physical Description note: Photocopy.
Posters With Short Poems By Aram Saroyan
Box 47
guarantee.
General Physical Description note: (5 items)
Series 6: Aram Saroyan Literary Archives for 1989
1989
Box 49-52
Correspondence.
General note
(The numbers in parenthesis refers to the no.of items from correspondent. No no. signifies a single item)
Box 49-52
1. Abd al-Hayy Moore (formerly Daniel Moore).
Box 49-52
3. Alfs, Kate (Los Angeles Theater Works).
Box 49-52
4. American Armenian International College.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
5. Armenian Assembly of America.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
6. American Friends of Armenia.
General Physical Description note: (8).
Box 49-52
7. Amirkhanian, Ben (3--William Saroyan Festival).
Box 49-52
8. Ararat Home of Los Angeles.
Box 49-52
9. Archive Newsletter (3--Univeristy of California at San Diego).
Box 49-52
10. Baghoomian (Gallery), Vrej.
General Physical Description note: (7).
Box 49-52
12. Berman, Alice Haigazian.
Box 49-52
13. Bernstein, Pam (William Morris Agency).
Box 49-52
15. Bolinas Festival of the Arts.
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 49-52
16. Bonanno, David (4--The American Poetry Review).
Box 49-52
17. Bookslinger, Incorporated.
General Physical Description note: (5 items).
Box 49-52
18. Bowman, Valerie (student).
Box 49-52
19. Brown, Jerry (California Democratic Victory Fund).
Box 49-52
21. California Arts Council.
Box 49-52
22.
The California Courier.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
23. California Poets in the Schools.
Box 49-52
24. The Center for Victims of Torture.
Box 49-52
25. Chambers, Constance (The Ford Foundation).
Box 49-52
27. Charing Cross Books.
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 49-52
28. Chavez, Cesar (United Farm Workers).
Box 49-52
29. Chavez, Rudy (student).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
30. Cleary, Kristen.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
31. Coffee House Press.
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 49-52
32. Coker, Katherine (student).
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 49-52
33. Cooper, Gail (Prudential Real Estate agent).
Box 49-52
34. Copage, Eric (
The New York Times Magazine).
Box 49-52
37. Day, Doris (Animal League).
Box 49-52
38. de la Bouillerie, Hubert and Hilary (cousin and wife).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
40. Dillingham, Leslie (Michael Chekhov Studio).
Box 49-52
42. Dutton's Brentwood Bookstore.
Box 49-52
43. Dworkoski, Robert J. (Viewpoint School).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
44. Farrell, John (PEN Center U.S.A. West).
Box 49-52
45. Fishman, Charles.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
46. Fontana, Tom.
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 49-52
49. Fuchs, Daniel.
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 49-52
51. Gallegly, Elton (Congressman).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
53. Gerber, Merrill Joan.
Box 49-52
54. Glassgold, Peter (New Directions).
Box 49-52
55. Glazer, Lori (McGraw Hill).
Box 49-52
56. Goeke, John and Annie (cousin and husband).
Box 49-52
57. Goffin, Ellen (cousin).
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 49-52
58. Goldberg, Mr. & Mrs. Barry.
Box 49-52
60. Gotlieb, Dr. Howard B. (Boston University Libraries).
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 49-52
62. Grumman, Bob.
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 49-52
63. Hamalian, Leo (Ararat).
General Physical Description note: (7 items).
Box 49-52
66. K. Reed Harrison (City Council).
Box 49-52
68. Hausman, Gerald.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
70. Heiney, Donald (University of California at Irvine).
General Physical Description note: (4 items).
Box 49-52
72. Higashi, Kiyo (Gallery).
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 49-52
74. Humanitarian Law Project (Romero).
Box 49-52
75. Hyden, Charles (cousin and husband).
Box 49-52
76. International Biographical Centre.
Box 49-52
78. Jacoby, Herbert P. (attorney).
Box 49-52
79. Jay, Barbara and Steve.
Box 49-52
81. JAVA (Coffee House).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
82. Johnson, Janet (student).
Box 49-52
83. Kennedy Library, John F.
Box 49-52
84. Kherdian, David.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
86. Kranz, Paul (Medical Aid to Nicaragua).
Box 49-52
88. Kristofferson, Kris and Lisa.
Box 49-52
89. Kurefeld, Michael (
L.A. Weekly).
Box 49-52
90. Lambert, Nancy (student).
Box 49-52
91. Lewis and Clark College.
General Physical Description note: (4 items).
Box 49-52
92. Little, Jack (The Armenian Heritage Project).
General Physical Description note: (4 items).
Box 49-52
93.
Los Angeles Times.
General Physical Description note: (4 items).
Box 49-52
94. MacAdams, Phoebe.
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 49-52
95. Macklin, Elizabeth (Wigwag).
Box 49-52
96. Malanga, Gerard.
General Physical Description note: (6 items).
Box 49-52
97. Mallon, Thomas.
General Physical Description note: (4 items).
Box 49-52
98. Marcus, Rosheen (grandmother).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
101. Matthau, Charles (half-brother).
Box 49-52
102. Barbara Mathes Gallery.
Box 49-52
105. McGrath (Gallery), Earl.
Box 49-52
106. McGivern, Maureen (Friends of the Library, Palm Desert).
General Physical Description note: (5 items).
Box 49-52
108. Mehagian, Nancy (student).
Box 49-52
110. Miles, Jack (
Los Angeles Times Book Review).
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 49-52
111. Mitchell, John (
News-Chronicle).
Box 49-52
112. Modern Language Association of America.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
113. Moradian, Roxie.
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 49-52
114. Moore, Helen (formerly Mrs. Archie Minasian).
Box 49-52
115. Mowry, Don and Judy.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
116. Nagy, Joan B. (McGraw-Hill).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
117. Nardin Fine Arts Limited.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
118. The National Humane Education Society.
Box 49-52
119. Natwick, Myron (student).
Box 49-52
120. NEST (New El Salvador Today).
Box 49-52
121. Nigro, Terri (Paragon Word Processing).
General Physical Description note: (5 items).
Box 49-52
122. Niles, Charles (Boston University Special Collections).
Box 49-52
123. New Directions.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
125. Ohanesian, Frank D.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
128. Padgett, Ron.
General Physical Description note: (5 items).
Box 49-52
130. Parisi, Joseph (
Poetry Magazine).
Box 49-52
131. Partners of Conscience (Amnesty International).
Box 49-52
132. Peabody, Judith (Gay Men's Health Crisis).
Box 49-52
134. PEN Center U.S.A. West.
General Physical Description note: (20).
Box 49-52
135. Petrie, Bernard (attorney).
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 49-52
136. Poetry on the Buses II.
Box 49-52
137. Poets' Audio Center.
Box 49-52
140. Pollack Media Group.
Box 49-52
142. Priestley, Dr. Joan.
Box 49-52
143. Pruder, Elgin (maternal aunt's husband).
Box 49-52
144. Raksin, Alex (
Los Angeles Times Book Review).
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 49-52
145. Rayfiel, David.
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
Box 49-52
147. Ritz, David and Roberta.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
148. Samuels, Linda.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
149. Saroyan, Armenak (son).
Box 49-52
150. Saroyan, Cream (daughter).
Box 49-52
151. Saroyan, Lucy (sister).
Box 49-52
152. Saroyan, Strawberry (daughter).
General Physical Description note: (7 items).
Box 49-52
153. William Saroyan Festival Committee.
Box 49-52
154. Schimmelpfeng, Richard H. (University of Connecticut/Storrs Library).
Box 49-52
155. Schallert, Edwin G. (Debevoise & Plimpton).
Box 49-52
156. See, Carolyn.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
158. Sender-Barayon, Ramon.
Box 49-52
159. Simmons, David (student).
Box 49-52
161. Small Press Distribution.
Box 49-52
162. Smart-Whalen, Kathy.
Box 49-52
163. Smith, Jennifer C. (assistant to Wendy Weil, former agent of Aram Saroyan).
Box 49-52
164. South Huntington Schools.
Box 49-52
165. Southern Illinois University Press.
Box 49-52
167. Stevens, Byam (The Writers Theater).
Box 49-52
168. Stoltzfus, Ben (University of California/Riverside).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
169.
Story Magazine/Richard Rosenthal.
Box 49-52
170. Stuart, Ken (Paragon House).
Box 49-52
171. Sutton, Pamela (
The American Poetry Review).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
172. Tatum, Leigh and Frances (cousin and husband).
Box 49-52
174. Tolegian, Araks V. (August - widow of Manuel Tolegian).
Box 49-52
175.
The Trinity Alumni Review.
Box 49-52
177. UCLA.
General Physical Description note: (25 items).
Box 49-52
178. UCSB. (Santa Barbara).
Box 49-52
179. University of Chicago Press.
Box 49-52
181. Virginia Center for the Arts.
Box 49-52
182. Voter Revolt (Proposition 103).
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
183. Wanger, Shelley (Interview).
Box 49-52
185. Watson, Richard and Jill (sister-in-law and husband).
Box 49-52
186.
The Washington Spectator.
Box 49-52
187. Weaver, Dan (editor at McGraw-Hill).
Box 49-52
188. Weil, Wendy (former agent).
Box 49-52
189. Weiss, Eric (Westwood One).
Box 49-52
190. Wigwag.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
192. Words Project for Aids.
Box 49-52
193. Writers Guild of America.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
194. The Writers Theater.
General Physical Description note: (2 items).
Box 49-52
196. Zipper, Andi (McGraw Hill).
Box 48 & 55
Love Scenes.
Scope and Contents note
This short novel about an actor was first called The Star, then The Actor, and finally
Love Scenes.
Box 48 & 55
1. Notes on the novel.
General Physical Description note: 4pp. Holograph black ink on yellow lined legal sized sheets. In a manila legal-sized folder labeled The Star (Synopsis & Character
Capsules)
Box 48 & 55
2.
Love Scenes.
General Physical Description note: Approximately 160pp. holograph black ink on yellow lined legal sized sheets in six legal size manila folders.
Scope and Contents note
Original manuscript.
Box 48 & 55
3. The original typed manuscript of the novel with holograph corrections.
General Physical Description note: Approximately 450pp. including some photocopied pages with holograph corrections. In seven manila folders.
General note
NOTE: The folders noted in # 2 and 3 are variously labeled The Star, The Actor and
Love Scenes as the title of the novel changed.
Box 48 & 55
4.Typed manuscript.
General Physical Description note: Approximately 150pp. (photocopy) In a white enveloped labeled The Actor/Love Scenes.
Scope and Contents note
With holograph corrections by the author and attached queries by the typist.
Box 48 & 55
5. Typed manuscript.
General Physical Description note: Approximately 300pp. (photocopy). In a manila envelope labeled Love Scenes: Edited Copy.
Scope and Contents note
With author's holograph corrections and a typed copy with holograph corrections.
Box 48 & 55
6. Typed manuscript.
General Physical Description note: 108pp. In a manila envelope labeled Love Scenes: Last Draft.
Scope and Contents note
With holograph corrections.
Box 49
Foreword to 3 Books By Jack Kerouac (Reissued ).
1990
General note
NOTE: Aram Saroyan was asked by McGraw Hill to write a generic Foreword to appear in each of the three novels by Jack Kerouac
to be reissued in trade paperback editions in January 1990:
Visions of Cody, Tristessa, and
Big Sur.
Box 49
1. Jack Kerouac.
General Physical Description note: 2 yellow lined legal-size sheets in the author's holograph. In a manila legal-size folder.
Box 49
2. Jack Kerouac.
General Physical Description note: 8 typed pages with holograph corrections. In a manila folder.
Scope and Contents note
4 drafts of the Foreword.
Box 49
Kahlil Gibran.
Scope and Contents note
The catalogue essay for the exhibition Kahlil Gibran: Paintings and Drawings 1905-1930 at the Vrej Baghoomian Gallery (Soho,
Manhattan), May 25-June 24, 1989.
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1. Kahlil Gibran.
General Physical Description note: 8 yellow lined legal-size pages in holograph. In a legal size manila folder
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2. Kahlil Gibran.
General Physical Description note: 18 typed pages with holograph corrections. In a manila folder
Scope and Contents note
(2 copies of the essay). Also in the folder, two copies of the press-release for the exhibit and two copies of the invitation
to the exhibit.
An Armenian Heritage
Scope and Contents note
An Armenian Heritage was a talk given by Aram Saroyan at the Pasadena Library on January 22, 1989, sponsered by the Armenian
Allied Arts Association.
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1. Talk at Armenian Arts Asso.
General Physical Description note: Legal-size manila folder.
Scope and Contents note
6 yellow lined sheets in author's holograph and 1 typed page with holograph corrections.
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2. Talk at Armenian Arts Asso.
Scope and Contents note
23 typed pages with holograph corrections; 13 photocopied pages with holograph corrections; and 15 typed pages (finished draft).
Original Manuscripts of Poems
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1. Film Noir.
General Physical Description note: 14pp. In a manila folder.
Scope and Contents note
Five drafts, typed with holograph corrections (2pp. in author's holograph).
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2. Eleven Poems.
General Physical Description note: 20pp. In a manila folder labeled Poems.
Scope and Contents note
In Southampton, July (in holograph)
For Carter Cooper (4 drafts, one in holograph, 3 typed with holograph corrections)
Sonnet (in holograph)
My Teachers (4 drafts, typed with holograph corrections)
Untitled
A Room
Poem
Gangster of Love
Sonnet
Untitled
For Gailyn
Original Manuscripts of Book Reviews for the
Los Angeles Times
General note
NOTE: During 1989 Aram Saroyan was asked to become a regular reviewer for the
Los Angeles Times Book Review. Over the course of the year he reviewed the following books:
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1.
Five Seasons, a novel by A.B. Yehoshua.
General Physical Description note: 3 yellow lined legal size sheets in holograph; 4 typed pages with the author's holograph corrections. In a legal size manila
folder labeled Five Seasons.
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2.
Journey, a novel by James Michener.
General Physical Description note: 4 yellow lined legal-size sheets in holograph, 5 typed pages with author's corrections. In a legal-size manila folder labeled
Journey.
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3.
Cartographies, stories by Maya Sonenberg.
General Physical Description note: 4 yellow lined legal-size sheets, 4 typed pages with the author's holograph corrections. In a legal-size manila folder labeled
Review of
Cartographiesand
Physical Culture.
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4.
Physical Culture, a novel by Hillary Johnson.
General Physical Description note: 3 yellow lined legal-size sheets in author's holograph. In a legal-size manila folder labeled Review(s) of
Cartographiesand
Physical Culture.
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5.
The Circus Master's Mission, a novel by Joel Brinkley.
General Physical Description note: 3 legal-size yellow lined sheets in holograph, 6 typed pages with holograph corrections. In a legal-size manila folder labeled
Review of
The Circus Master's Mission.
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6.
The Deuce, a novel by Robert Olen Butler.
General Physical Description note: 3 yellow lined legal-size sheets in holograph, 1 typed page with author's corrections. In a legal-size manila folder labeled
The Deuce.
Original Typed
Scope and Contents note
In a manila folder labeled Original Typed, typed copies of four essays by Aram Saroyan:
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1. The autobiographical essay for the Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series vol.5 (Gale) with holograph corrections.
General Physical Description note: 27pp.
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2. Soundings and Hearings, a review of
Talking Poetry: Conversations in the Workshop with Contemporary Poets, with holograph corrections.
General Physical Description note: 6pp.
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3. The Most Expensive Word in History.
General Physical Description note: 7pp. with holograph corrections.
Scope and Contents note
A typed revision of this essay which originally appeared in
Mother Jones in 1981 for the manuscript
The Light in New York.
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4. Rites of Passage.
General Physical Description note: 10pp.
Scope and Contents note
A typed copy of this much printed essay by Aram Saroyan with holograph corrections.
This piece is included in
The Light in New York.
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The Light in New York.
General Physical Description note: Approximately 190pp. Photocopies with holograph corrections in a manila envelope labeled
The Light in New York.
Scope and Contents note
A copy of the final manuscript of this memoir of the Sixties and after written by Aram Saroyan over the past fifteen years.
The final contents:
- Author's Note
- 1/
The Sixties: The Light in New York, The Upper East Side State of Mind, Remembering Ted Berrigan, My Sixties, Sixties into Seventies
- 2/
After the Sixties: The Town That Fought to Save Itself, Cosette, Tap Shoes, Cicero on Main Street, Marijuana and Me, A Death in the Family,
The Most Expensive Word in History, Rites of Passage
- 3/
Friends in the World (long memoir).
Bound Galleys and Review Copy
Scope and Contents note
Bound galley copies of
The Circus Master's Mission by Joel Brinkley,
Physical Culture by Hillary Johnson,
Journey by James Michener, and
Cartographies by Maya Sonenberg.
A review copy of
The Deuce by Robert Olen Butler.
General note
Note: These copies have notations by Aram Saroyan with reference to his reviews.
