Finding Aid to the Thom Gunn Papers, 1930-2004, bulk 1950-2004
Finding Aid written by Dean Smith, March 2008
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Finding Aid to the Thom Gunn Papers, 1930-2004, bulk 1950-2004
Collection Number: BANC MSS 2006/235
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
- Finding Aid Written By:
- Dean Smith, March 2008
- Date Completed:
-
May 2012
© 2012 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Collection Summary
Collection Title: Thom Gunn papers
Date (inclusive): 1930-2004,
Date (bulk): bulk 1950-2004
Collection Number: BANC MSS 2006/235
Creators :
Gunn, Thom
Extent:
Number of containers: 11 cartons, 1 box, 2 oversize boxes, 22 oversize folders, and 6 volumes
Linear feet: 19.15
Repository: The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: The Thom Gunn Papers consist of correspondence, personal papers (diaries and scrapbooks detailing his life and career), notebooks
of poetry and prose, writings (both poetry and prose), professional papers, teaching materials, writings by other poets and
authors, and a small collection of alternative (mostly gay) newspapers.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head
of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720-6000. Consent is given on behalf of The
Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright
owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html .
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Thom Gunn Papers, BANC MSS 2006/235, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Alternate Forms Available
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Additional Notes on Collection:
BANC MSS 87/1 c, Thom Gunn poetry notebooks, 1968-1973 [Notebook numbers: I - XIV] were incorporated into this collection.
Related Collections
Thom Gunn manuscripts of poems, 1952-1984, BANC MSS C-H 138
Thom Gunn letters, 1968-1969, BANC MSS 71/81 c
Thom Gunn letters : San Francisco, Calif., to John Haffenden, 1979-1980, BANC MSS 2007/24
Belle Randall Collection of Thom Gunn Letters, BANC MSS 2008/252
Photographs from the Thom Gunn papers [graphic]. ca. 1950-ca. 2000, BANC PIC 2008.063-PIC
Edward DeCelle papers, 1969-2001, BANC MSS 2005/185 c
Jess papers, 1941-2004 (bulk 1962-1997), BANC MSS 2006/203
Josephine Miles papers, 1911-1986, BANC MSS 86/107 c
Collage from the office walls of poet Thom Gunn, BANC PIC 2012.056
Separated Material
Printed materials have been transferred to the book collection of The Bancroft Library.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Gunn, Thom--Archives
Faculty papers.
Manuscripts for publication.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Poems.
University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of English
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The Thom Gunn papers were purchased by The Bancroft Library on December 2, 2006.
Accruals
No additions are expected.
System of Arrangement
Arranged to the folder level.
Processing Information
Processed by Dean Smith in 2007-2008.
Biographical Information
Thom Gunn [Thomas William Gunn] was born in Gravesend, England in 1929. His father, Herbert Smith, and his mother, Ann Charlotte
Thompson Gunn, were both journalists. His parents divorced when he was nine. At the age of 15, Gunn and his younger brother
Ander found their mother dead from suicide. Gunn served in the British Army for two years, from 1948 to 1950. After serving
in the army, Gunn lived in Paris for a year and began to write seriously. He then attended Trinity College at Cambridge, where
he focused on writing poetry.
Gunn's first collection of poems,
Fighting Terms, was published in 1954. It was this same year he met his lover and life-partner of 40 years, Mike Kitay, who followed him
to the States; the two settled in San Francisco. His adopted home in America soon became an essential part of his work. In
a
San Francisco Chronicle interview, Gunn said coming to America "changed everything for me."
Gunn pursued graduate studies at Stanford University with poet Yvor Winters from 1954 to 1958. Winters was to become a second
father figure to Gunn, though it was a difficult relationship as Winters rejected all that Gunn wrote after 1958, calling
his poetry "journalism." Gunn published his second collection of poems,
The Sense of Movement, in 1957.
Gunn was offered a teaching job at the University of California, Berkeley in 1958 and left his graduate studies at Stanford,
never to finish his doctorate. Aside from occasional trips to England and a year teaching in San Antonio, Texas, Gunn taught
at Berkeley and lived in San Francisco until his death in 2004. What is frequently regarded as his best-known early collection
of poems,
My Sad Captains, was published in 1961. The ensuing 1960s and '70s were to see Gunn partaking in the counter-cultures of the hippie movement
and gay liberation.
Gunn's poetry is recognized as defying any kind of easy categorization, and it was his use of LSD during the '60s that opened
vistas to new possibilities in form and subject matter in his work. This newfound freedom of expression was explored in books
of poems such as,
Moly (1971) and
Jack Straw's Castle (1976). Despite a lack of signature style, Gunn received numerous awards and prizes throughout his career, including: a Guggenheim
Fellowship in 1971, a coveted MacArthur Fellowship Prize in 1993, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit
in 1998.
Often being described as a gay poet, Gunn was to write honestly and unsentimentally about all aspects of gay life; but his
themes were of wide enough interest to appeal to a broad readership beyond the gay community. As Gunn himself described in
a
San Francisco Examiner interview in 1998, "Obviously, I am a gay writer because I write about gay themes, but I also write about other things and
I don't want to be restricted in the way that somebody would be called a landscape painter or a writer of boys stories. I
don't think I write just one kind of poem."
Gunn was to lose many friends during the onset of AIDS in the 1980s. This loss was voiced movingly, though in his characteristically
unsentimental manner, in the collection of poems,
The Man with Night Sweats (1992). Almost a decade later, with AIDS having shifted in the States from frightening epidemic to managed disease, Gunn
explored the theme of Eros in all its sexual guises in
Boss Cupid (2000).
Throughout his long career Gunn's work made little of the distinctions between high and low art, finding no subject taboo;
as a result, his poetry has been praised for its contemporary and immediate qualities. Although embracing popular culture,
Gunn delved deeper, with great subtlety and wit, than the surface qualities of Pop. As Gunn explained, "People tend to think
poetry as existing on a different plane than the novel or nonfiction, that it is necessarily mystical or spiritual in some
undefined way. But of course it's everything."
Scope and Content of Collection
The Thom Gunn Papers consist of correspondence, personal papers (diaries and scrapbooks detailing his life and career), notebooks
of poetry and prose, writings (both poetry and prose), professional papers, teaching materials, writings by other poets and
authors, and a small collection of alternative (mostly gay) newspapers.
The correspondence is divided into three sub-series: Letters from Thom Gunn, General Correspondence, and Wall Collage Correspondence.
Letters from Thom Gunn is primarily his correspondence to John Holmstrom with a small amount of miscellany. The General Correspondence
is fairly substantive and includes letters to Gunn from many notable literary figures. Wall Collage Correspondence consists
of photocopies of correspondence and notes found on postcards, greeting cards, etc. found in Thom Gunn's wall collage in his
home study.
Gunn's personal papers are divided into three sub-series: Diaries, Scrapbooks, and Personal Miscellany. There are small clutch
of diaries written in Gunn's small, tight handwriting in a brief notational manner. But it is the six volumes of scrapbooks
that capture visually, and with judicious use of letters, photographs and ephemera, the arc of his life both personally and
professionally, and the evolution of gay culture from the 1950s through the mid-70s. The series concludes with a small amount
a personal miscellany that includes address books, a few artworks and portraits of Gunn, and gay ephemera mostly from the
1980s and 90s.
The notebooks are divided into three sub-series: Poetry Notebooks, Prose Notebooks, and Other Notebooks. The Poetry Notebooks
are an incredible view into the working mind of a poet and detail the many revisions Gunn exacted upon his poems. A previous
collection of Gunn's early Poetry Notebooks (BANC MSS 87/1 c, Thom Gunn poetry notebooks, 1968-1973 [Notebook numbers: I -
XIV]) were incorporated into this collection, thus reuniting and making a complete run from 1967-1997. The Prose Notebooks
are few and many undated. Both the Poetry and Prose Notebooks contained many loose pages slipped in throughout; these pages
were removed and foldered separately in order found and follow each respective notebook so as to minimize wear and tear. The
series concludes with Other Notebooks which fall outside the scope of the previous two sub-series.
The writings of Gunn are divided into nine sub-series: Poetry, Broadsides; Poetry, Collected Poems; Poetry, Other Poems; Prose,
Anthology; Prose, Criticism; Prose, Essays; Prose, Fiction; Prose, Lectures; and Prose, Other. All writings are organized
first hierarchically, then by title, and then chronologically. Most of the writings, both poetry and prose, represent finished/published
works or works that are being prepared for publication (printing galleys, proofs, etc.). The few drafts of works are mainly
to be found in the Prose sub-series.
Gunn's professional papers are divided into four sub-series: Awards, Publicity, Poetry Readings Materials, and Professional
Miscellany. The series is arranged first hierarchically, then alphabetically, and then chronologically. The sub-series Awards
represents his achievements from the mid-80s to the year before his death in 2003. Publicity covers a variety of subjects
that illustrate Gunn's influence in both popular and academic media, i.e. publication announcements, reviews, articles, critical
studies (of Gunn's work) among other items. Poetry Reading Materials includes flyers and programs of readings Gunn gave as
well as several programs of other poets, and the copious, if not exhaustive, list of poems that Gunn had read at various readings
and copies of his poems that he annotated for the same. Professional Miscellany includes such items as Gunn's chronology and
curriculum vitae, as well as an issue of
Bulletin of Bibliography devoted to Gunn and various symposia and exhibition materials that featured Gunn's poetry.
Gunn's papers regarding teaching are divided into two sub-series: Course Materials and Teaching Miscellany which are arranged
numerically, then hierarchically, and then chronologically. Course Materials are syllabi, exam guides, lecture notes, and
course readers for the various courses Gunn taught from the 1980s through 90s. Teaching Miscellany represents papers devoted
to Gunn's academic appointment at the University of California at Berkeley, i.e. his curriculum vitae, biography for academic
personnel, annual supplement to his bio-bibliography, promotion and merit increase materials. This series is rounded out with
miscellaneous papers that fall outside his teaching appointment at U.C. Berkeley.
The series Writings by Others is arranged alphabetically and then chronologically, and contains the numerous writings by various
authors and poets, both friends and colleagues, sent to Gunn either for review or as a gift.
The Newspaper Collection, arranged alphabetically and then chronologically, represents various alternative papers, mostly
published for the gay community, that Gunn had collected for various personal and professional reasons.
Series 1
Correspondence 1952
2004; undated
Physical Description:
Cartons 1-2
Arrangement
Divided into three subseries.
Subseries 1.1
Letters from Thom Gunn
1952-2001; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 1
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically and then chronologically.
Carton 1, Folder 1
To: John Holmstrom
1952; 1974-2001
Carton 1, Folder 2
To: C-T Miscellaneous
1990-1996; undated
Subseries 1.2
General Correspondence
1954-2004; undated
Physical Description:
Cartons 1-2
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically and then chronologically.
Carton 1, Folder 5
[Bronskill], David
1989-2003
Carton 1, Folder 6
Burgess, Chris
2000-2003; undated
Carton 1, Folder 7
Carpenter, Rick
1996; undated
Carton 1, Folder 8
[Collins], Jess
1969-2004; undated
Carton 1, Folder 9
Conquest, Robert [Bob]
1955-1974
Carton 1, Folder 11
Davie, Donald and Doreen
1958-1997; undated
Carton 1, Folder 13
Day, Allen
1976-1977; undated
Carton 1, Folder 14
Dowell, Coleman
1981-1983
Carton 1, Folder 16
Gunn, Ander and Margaret
1955-2004; undated
Carton 1, Folder 17
Hall, Donald [Don]
1955-1994; undated
Carton 1, Folder 18
Hinkle, Charlie
1986-1987; undated
Carton 1, Folder 21
Isherwood, Christopher
1955-1974; undated
Carton 1, Folder 23
Joshua Odell Editions
2003-2004
Carton 1, Folder 25-26
Kitay, Melvin [Mike]
1956-1995; undated
Carton 1, Folder 27
Kleinzhaler, August
1983-2002; undated
Carton 1, Folder 29
Lasdun, James
1992; undated
Carton 1, Folder 30
Laughlin, James [New Directions Publishing Corp.]
1965; 1992
Carton 1, Folder 32
Lessor, Wendy
1979; 2003; undated
Carton 1, Folder 33
Levine, Philip
1988-1994; undated
Carton 1, Folder 34
Lewis [Winters], Janet
1966-1994; undated
Carton 1, Folder 35-38
Lux, William [Billy]
1994-2003; undated
Carton 1, Folder 39
McClatchy, J.D. [Sandy]
1994; 2000
Carton 1, Folder 40
McPherson, William [Bill]
1987-1992
Carton 1, Folder 41
Megaw, Therese
1994-2003; undated
Carton 1, Folder 42
Miles, Josephine
1957; undated
Carton 1, Folder 45
Moorsom, Sasha
1956; undated
Carton 1, Folder 46
Noseworthy III, Allan
1975-1984; undated
Carton 1, Folder 47
Pinsky, Robert
1989-1996; undated
Carton 1, Folder 51
Randall, Belle
1976-2004; undated
Carton 2, Folder 2
Scheussler, Bill
1970-1988; undated
Carton 2, Folder 3
Spagnuolo, Peter
1992-2001; undated
Carton 2, Folder 4
Stephens, Alan
1958-1963; undated
Carton 2, Folder 5
Tanner, Tony
1960-1979; undated
Carton 2, Folder 6
Tayler, E.W. [Ted]
1955; 1984-1986
Carton 2, Folder 7
Townsend, Ruth
1996-2003; undated
Carton 2, Folder 9
White, Tony
1955-1998; undated
Carton 2, Folder 10
Wilmer, Clive
1968-2003; undated
Carton 2, Folder 11
Winters, Yvor [Arthur]
1954-1966; 1999
Carton 2, Folder 12
Miscellaneous A-D
1955-2004; undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes:
- Adams, John
- Beaton, Cecil
- Bishop, Elizabeth
- Bly, Robert
- Clarke, Kenneth
- Cox, Kenneth
- Dorn, Ed
Carton 2, Folder 13
Miscellaneous E-H
1954-2004; undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes:
- Gascoyne, David
- Ginsburg, Allen
- Glück, Robert [Bob]
- Heath, Catherine
Carton 2, Folder 14
Miscellaneous J-0
1956-2002; undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes:
- Larkin, Philip
- Levertov, Denise
- Malanga, Gerard
- Mapplethorpe, Robert
- Maugham, Somerset
- Merrill, James
- McDonald, Boyd
Carton 2, Folder 15
Miscellaneous P-T
[1954]-2004; undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes:
- Pack, Robert
- Raworth, Tom
- Simpson, Louis
- Spender, Stephen
- Stow, Randolph
- Sweeney, Jack
- Tress, Arthur
Carton 2, Folder 16
Miscellaneous U-Y
1967-2003; undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes:
- Weiner, Joshua
- Wells, Robert
- Wilson, Angus
Carton 2, Folder 17
No Surname - Bob
1993-1994; undated
Carton 2, Folder 18
No Surname - Charlotte
1985; undated
Carton 2, Folder 19
No Surname - David
1999; undated
Carton 2, Folder 20
No Surname - Douglas [C.?]
1977-1999; undated
Carton 2, Folder 21
No Surname - Simone
2000; undated
Carton 2, Folder 22
No Surname - Tony
1991-1998
Carton 2, Folder 23
No Surname - Miscellaneous A-J
1979-2004; undated
Carton 2, Folder 24
No Surname - Miscellaneous L-W
[1970]-2004; undated
Carton 2, Folder 25
No Surname - Found in alphabetical file under "B"
undated
Carton 2, Folder 26
No Surname - Found in alphabetical file under "C"
1956
Carton 2, Folder 27
No Surname - Found in alphabetical file under "E, F, G"
1977
Carton 2, Folder 28
No Surname - Found in alphabetical file under "K, L"
1957; undated
Carton 2, Folder 29
No Surname - Found in alphabetical file under "M, N"
1979; undated
Carton 2, Folder 30
No Surname - Found in alphabetical file under "R"
1958
Carton 2, Folder 31
No Surname - Found in alphabetical file under "W"
1957-1976
Carton 2, Folder 32
Unidentified [D. R. D.]
1969-1979; undated
Carton 2, Folder 33
Unidentified
1976-1997; undated
Carton 2, Folder 34
Fan Mail
1986-2004; undated
Subseries 1.3
Wall Collage Correspondence
1965-1992
Physical Description:
Box 1
Arrangement
Arranged by original location.
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of correspondence and notes written on postcards, greeting cards, etc. found in Thom Gunn's wall collage in his
home study. Originals in BANC PIC 2012.056
Box 1, Folder 1
Notes on contents and arrangement
Box 1, Folder 2
Wall Section A2: Orlan J. Fox, Ander Gunn, unidentified
1982-1992
Box 1, Folder 3
Wall Section A3: Clive, unidentified
1979-1992
Box 1, Folder 4
Wall Section A4: unidentified
undated
Box 1, Folder 5
Wall Section B2: Big Al, Josephine Bradley, George Evans, Belle Randall, Sandy, unidentified
1979-1985
Box 1, Folder 6
Wall Section B3: Ben, Billy, Orlan Fox, Lollie Groth, Ray, Sandy McC, Timothy Steele, PFC Zahler, unidentified
1984-1992
Box 1, Folder 7
Wall Section B4: Lollie Groth, Mark, Ric, Therese
1982-1987
Box 1, Folder 8
Wall Section C2: Boots, Carol Porch[?], Timothy Steele
1982-1984
Box 1, Folder 9
Wall Section C3: Bob Bair, Billy, Edgar, Ander Gunn, unidentified
1981-1988
Box 1, Folder 10
Wall Section C4: Bob, Peter, Rick, unidentified
1981-1987
Box 1, Folder 11
Wall Section D1: C.H.T.
1990
Box 1, Folder 12
Wall Section D2: Douglas Chambers, Ander Gunn, Grover Lewis, Jerry R., [Herbert Smith?], Therese
1972-1981
Box 1, Folder 13
Wall Section D3: Allen, Paul Bowles, F.L., unidentified
1965-1986
Box 1, Folder 14
Wall Section D4: Big Bert, Douglas Chambers, Therica Elliott, John Kelly, unidentified
1980-1983
Box 1, Folder 15
Wall Section E1: Tony
undated
Box 1, Folder 16
Wall Section E2: Bob, Ander Gunn, Therese
1978-1981
Box 1, Folder 17
Wall Section E3: August, Douglas Chambers, Ander Gunn, Peter Jay, Robert Mapplethorpe, Allan Noseworthy, Ken Singleton
1975-1981
Box 1, Folder 18
Wall Section E4: Bob, Rick, Ron
1975,
undated
Series 2
Personal Papers
circa 1930-2001; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 2-3, Volumes 1-6
Arrangement
Arranged hierarchically and then chronologically.
Subseries 2.1
Diaries
1944-2001
Physical Description:
Carton 2
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Subseries 2.2
Scrapbooks
circa 1930 - 1977
Physical Description:
Volumes 1-6
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Oversize Volume 2
Scrapbook
circa 1930-1952
Subseries 2.3
Personal Miscellany
1958-2001; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 3, Oversize Box 1, Folders 1-3
Arrangement
Arranged hierarchically and then chronologically.
Carton 3, Folder 2
Master of Arts Degree - University of Cambridge
1958
Oversize Box 1, Folder 1
Pen and Ink Portraits of Thom Gunn
undated
Oversize Box 1, Folder 2
Engraving Portrait of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
1830
Carton 3, Folder 3
Ephemera - Gay Culture
1966-1998; undated
Oversize Box 1, Folder 3
Ephemera - Gay Culture
1996; undated
Carton 3, Folder 4
Ephemera - Various
1999-2001; undated
Series 3
Notebooks
1950-1997; undated
Physical Description:
Cartons 3-5
Arrangement
Arranged hierarchically and then chronologically.
Subseries 3.1
Poetry Notebooks
1967-1997; undated
Physical Description:
Cartons 3-5
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Carton 3, Folder 7
Loose Pages from Notebook I
1968
Carton 3, Folder 9
Loose Pages from Notebook II
1968-1969
Carton 3, Folder 11
Loose Pages from Notebook III
1969
Carton 3, Folder 13
Loose Pages from Notebook IV
1969
Carton 3, Folder 15
Loose Pages from Notebook V
1969-1970
Carton 3, Folder 17
Loose Pages from Notebook VI
1970
Carton 3, Folder 19
Loose Pages from Notebook VII
1970
Carton 3, Folder 21
Loose Pages from Notebook VIII
1970-1971
Carton 3, Folder 23
Loose Pages from Notebook IX
1971
Carton 3, Folder 25
Loose Pages from Notebook X
1971
Carton 3, Folder 27
Loose Pages from Notebook XI
1972
Carton 3, Folder 29
Loose Pages from Notebook XII
1972
Carton 3, Folder 31
Loose Pages from Notebook XIII
1973
Carton 3, Folder 33
Loose Pages from Notebook XIV
1973
Carton 3, Folder 37
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 1
1978
Carton 3, Folder 39
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 2
1979-1980
Carton 4, Folder 2
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 3
1980
Carton 4, Folder 4
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 4
1981-1983
Carton 4, Folder 6
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 5
1983-1984
Carton 4, Folder 8
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 6
1984-1985
Carton 4, Folder 10
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 7
1985-1986
Carton 4, Folder 12
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 8
1986-1987
Carton 4, Folder 14
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 9
1987-1988
Carton 4, Folder 16
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 10
1988-1989
Carton 4, Folder 18
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 11
1990-1991
Carton 4, Folder 20
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 12
1991-1992
Carton 4, Folder 22
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 13
1992-1994
Carton 5, Folder 2
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 14
1994-1997
Carton 5, Folder 4
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 15
1997
Subseries 3.2
Prose Notebooks
1950-[1993?]; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 5
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Carton 5, Folder 11
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 2
undated
Carton 5, Folder 13
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 3
undated
Carton 5, Folder 15
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 4
[1987]
Carton 5, Folder 17
Loose Pages from Notebook No. 5
undated
Subseries 3.3
Other Notebooks
[1968]; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 5
Arrangement
Arranged hierarchically and then chronologically.
Carton 5, Folder 22
French/English Word Translations
undated
Series 4
Writings
1941-2003; undated
Physical Description:
Cartons 6-7
Arrangement
Arranged hierarchically and then alphabetically and then chronologically.
Subseries 4.1
Poetry, Broadsides
1967-1998; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 6
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically and then chronologically.
Carton 6, Folder 1
Broadsides - "Aqueduct"
1967
Carton 6, Folder 2
Broadsides - "As Expected"
1986
Carton 6, Folder 3
Broadsides - "June"
1994,
1998
Carton 6, Folder 4
Broadsides - "This Morning Light"
undated
Subseries 4.2
Poetry, Collected Poems
1976-2000; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 6, Oversize Box 1, Folder 4
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically and then chronologically.
Carton 6, Folder 5
"The Acid Garden"
undated
Carton 6, Folder 6
"Boss Cupid" - Typescript
undated
Carton 6, Folder 7
"Boss Cupid" - Galley Proof
2000
Oversize Box 1, Folder 4
"Boss Cupid" - Galley Proof With Corrections
[2000]
Carton 6, Folder 8
"Boss Cupid" - Galley, First Pass Pages Master
2000
Carton 6, Folder 9
"Boss Cupid" - Galley, Final Pass
2000
Carton 6, Folder 10
"Boss Cupid" - Dust Jacket Art
[2000]
Carton 6, Folder 11
"Boss Cupid" - Annotated Copy for Readings
2000
Carton 6, Folder 12
"Collected Poems" - Galley Proof
[1993]
Carton 6, Folder 13
"Jack Straw's Castle" - Typescript of Title Poem
undated
Carton 6, Folder 14
"Jack Straw's Castle" - Galley Proof of Reset Edition (Faber Library Edition)
[1997]
Carton 6, Folder 15
"Jack Straw's Castle" - Galley with Corrections (Faber Library Edition)
[1997]
Carton 6, Folder 16
"Jack Straw's Castle" - Annotated Copy for Readings (Faber Library Edition)
1976
Carton 6, Folder 17
"Jack Straw's Castle" - Inscribed Copy (First American Edition, Paperback)
1976
Carton 6, Folder 18
"The Man with Night Sweats" - Typescript, Final Arrangement
1989
Carton 6, Folder 19
"The Man with Night Sweats" - Annotated Copy for Readings (First American Edition, Hardcover)
1992
Carton 6, Folder 20
"The Man with Night Sweats" - Dust Jacket
1992
Carton 6, Folder 21
"Molly" - Robert Duncan's "Translation," (Annotated Copy of First Edition, Hardcover)
1971; 1984
Carton 6, Folder 22-23
"New Poems and Uncollected Poems"
1997
Carton 6, Folder 24
"The Passages of Joy" - Annotated Copy for Readings (Paperback Edition)
1982
Carton 6, Folder 25
"Selected Poems, 1950 - 1975" - Annotated Copy for Readings (First American Printing, Paperback)
1979
Carton 6, Folder 26
Untitled Manuscript of Collected Poems, 1975 - 1980
[1980]
Carton 6, Folder 27
Untitled Manuscript of Poems - Rejected from "The Man With Night Sweats"
undated
Subseries 4.3
Poetry, Other Poems
1977-2001; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 6-7, Oversize Box 1, Folders 5-6
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically and then chronologically.
Carton 6, Folder 28
Poems Given to Mike Kitay
undated
Carton 6, Folder 29
Miscellaneous Poems
1997-2001; undated
Carton 6, Folder 30
Poems by Thom Gunn?
1977-1982; undated
Carton 6, Folder 31-32
Poems in Publications
1953-1962
Carton 7, Folder 1-4
Poems in Publications
1963-1999; undated
Oversize Box 1, Folder 5
Poems in Publications
1979; 1988
Oversize Box 1, Folder 6
Poems Set to Music
1978
Scope and Content Note
"Nightpiece" by David Duke.
Subseries 4.4
Prose
1941-2003,
undated
Physical Description:
Carton 7
4.4.1
Prose, Anthology
1968
Physical Description:
Carton 7
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically and then chronologically.
4.4.2
Prose, Criticism
1956-1996; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 7, Oversize Box 1, Folder 7
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Carton 7, Folder 6-8
Various Publications
1956-1987; undated
Oversize Box 1, Folder 7
Various Publications
1968-1996
4.4.3
Prose, Essays
1974-2003; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 7
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically and then chronologically.
Carton 7, Folder 9
"Ezra Pound - Poems Selected by Thom Gunn"
1999
Note
Correspondence and Introduction
Carton 7, Folder 10
"Ezra Pound - Poems Selected by Thom Gunn"
[2000]
Carton 7, Folder 11
"Choice of Dunne"
1974-1979
Carton 7, Folder 12
"An Introduction to Basil Bunting"
1990-1998
Carton 7, Folder 13
"The Occasions of Poetry"
1985
Note
Verso Cover of Paperback Edition
Carton 7, Folder 14
"On a Drying Hill"
1981
Note
Published in
The Southern Review
Carton 7, Folder 15
"Pushy Jews and Aging Queens..."
undated
Carton 7, Folder 16
"Saint John The Rake: Rochester's Poetry"
1998
Carton 7, Folder 17
"Small Persistent Difficulties"
undated
Carton 7, Folder 18
Fragment of Draft Essay on Yvor Winters
undated
Carton 7, Folder 19
Untitled Draft Essay on Yvor Winters
1981
Carton 7, Folder 21
Essays Given to Mike Kitay
undated
Note
"A Record: Allen Ginsburg's Poetry" and "Christopher Isherwood: Getting Things Right"
4.4.4
Prose, Fiction
1941-1969
Physical Description:
Carton 7
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically and then chronologically.
Note
"A Record: Allen Ginsburg's Poetry" and "Christopher Isherwood: Getting Things Right"
Carton 7, Folder 24
"San Francisco Romance"
1969
4.4.5
Prose, Lectures
[1971?]-1977
Physical Description:
Carton 7
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Carton 7, Folder 25
"Interviewing Myself"
[1971?]
4.4.6
Prose, Other
1982-2000; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 7
Arrangement
Arranged hierarchically and then chronologically.
Carton 7, Folder 27
Introductions for Readings/Awards
1992; undated
Carton 7, Folder 28
Letters to Editors
1982; 2000
Carton 7, Folder 30
"Uncollected Prose I"
1987; undated
Carton 7, Folder 31
"Uncollected Prose II"
1989-1991; undated
Carton 7, Folder 32-33
"Uncollected Prose III"
1991-1999; undated
Carton 7, Folder 34
Miscellaneous Notes
undated
Series 5
Professional Papers
1961-2004; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 8
Arrangement
Arranged hierarchically, then alphabetically, and then chronologically.
Subseries 5.1
Awards
1985-2003; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 8
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically and then chronologically.
Carton 8, Folder 1
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit
1998
Carton 8, Folder 2
The James Laughlin Award
2003
Carton 8, Folder 3
The Lenore Marshall/Nation Poetry Prize
1993
Carton 8, Folder 4-5
Lila Wallace - Reader's Digest Fund
1991-1993; undated
Carton 8, Folder 6-8
MacArthur Fellowship Prize
1993
Carton 8, Folder 10
The National Poetry Award: Robert Duncan
1985
Subseries 5.2
Publicity
1973-2003; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 8, Oversize Box 1, Folders 8-15
Arrangement
Arranged hierarchically and then chronologically.
Carton 8, Folder 11
Publication Announcements
1981-1995; undated
Carton 8, Folder 12
Reviews - "Boss Cupid"
2000; undated
Oversize Box 1, Folder 8
Reviews - "Boss Cupid"
2000
Carton 8, Folder 13
Reviews - "Collected Poems"
1993-1994
Oversize Box 1, Folder 9
Reviews - "Collected Poems"
1993-1995
Carton 8, Folder 14
Reviews - "The Man With Night Sweats"
1992-1993; undated
Oversize Box 1, Folder 10
Reviews - "The Man With Night Sweats"
1992
Carton 8, Folder 15
Reviews - Miscellaneous
1978-1979; undated
Oversize Box 1, Folder 11
Reviews - Miscellaneous
1968-1988; undated
Carton 8, Folder 16
Literary Tribute - Poetry Nation Review
1989
Oversize Box 1, Folder 12
Literary Tributes - San Francisco Review of Books; The Threepenny Review
1983; 2005
Oversize Box 1, Folder 13
Carton 8, Folder 18
Articles - Profiles
1992-2000; undated
Oversize Box 1, Folder 14
Articles - Profiles
1977-2003
Carton 8, Folder 19
Articles - Miscellaneous
1991-2000; undated
Oversize Box 1, Folder 15
Articles - Miscellaneous
1980-2004
Carton 8, Folder 20
Criticism - "The Stipulative Imagination of Thom Gunn" by John Miller
1973
Carton 8, Folder 21
Criticism - "Thom Gunn" by Lyle Galzier
1985
Carton 8, Folder 22
Criticism - "Thom Gunn's Transformations" by William Kerrigan
1998
Carton 8, Folder 23
Brochure - "Writers on Writing"
2001
Carton 8, Folder 24
Author Trading Cards and Postcard
undated
Carton 8, Folder 25
Television Poetry Series - "Arrows of Desire"
2001
Carton 8, Folder 26
Auction Notice for Thom Gunn Notebook
1982
Carton 8, Folder 27
Articles / Flyers / Clippings About Other Poets/Authors
1980-2001; undated
Subseries 5.3
Poetry Reading Material
1961-2004; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 8
Arrangement
Arranged hierarchically and then chronologically.
Carton 8, Folder 29
Programs
1990-1998; undated
Carton 8, Folder 31-33
Lists of Poems Read
1968-2004
Carton 8, Folder 34-36
Poems - Annotated for Readings
1961-1999; undated
Carton 8, Folder 37
Thom Gunn, Reading Poetry That Makes Him Laugh; Various Poems of Others
undated
Subseries 5.4
Professional Miscellany
[1978]-1999; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 8
Arrangement
Arranged hierarchically and then chronologically.
Carton 8, Folder 39
Curriculum Vitae - Major Publications (1954-1999)
[1999]
Carton 8, Folder 40
Bulletin of Bibliography, v.49, no.3, Sep. 1992
1992
Carton 8, Folder 41
Symposia - Programs (in Honor of T. Gunn)
1999
Carton 8, Folder 42
Exhibition - "A Medium for Modernism: British Poetry and American Audiences"
1997
Carton 8, Folder 43
Program - San Francisco Queer Arts Festival
1998
Series 6
Teaching
1956-2003; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 9
Arrangement
Arranged numerically, then hierarchically, and then chronologically.
Subseries 6.1
Course Materials
1982-2003; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 9
Arrangement
Arranged numerically and then chronologically.
Carton 9, Folder 1
English 24 - Shakespeare's Sonnets. Syllabi, Exam Guides, Lecture Notes
1993-1994
Carton 9, Folder 2-5
English 26. Syllabi, Exam Guides, Lecture Notes
1989-1998
Carton 9, Folder 6
English 28B - Basil Bunting. Course Reader
2003
Carton 9, Folder 7-8
English 124 - The English Lyric. Syllabi, Exam Guides, Lecture Notes, and Course Reader
1986-1993
Carton 9, Folder 9-10
English 127. Syllabi, Exam Guides, Lecture Notes
1984-1999
Carton 9, Folder 11
English 127. Black Lightening Lecture Notes
1997
Carton 9, Folder 12
English 127. Robert Duncan Notes
undated
Carton 9, Folder 13
English 127. T.S. Eliot Notes
undated
Carton 9, Folder 14
English 127. D.H. Lawrence Notes
undated
Carton 9, Folder 15
English 127. Mina Loy Notes
undated
Carton 9, Folder 16
English 127. Marianne Moore Notes
undated
Carton 9, Folder 17
English 127. Ezra Pound Notes
undated
Carton 9, Folder 18
English 127. Wallace Stevens Notes
undated
Carton 9, Folder 19
English 127. William Carlos Williams Notes
1997
Carton 9, Folder 20
English 127. W.B. Yeats Notes
undated
Carton 9, Folder 21
English 141 - Modes of Writing. Syllabi, Exam Guides, Lecture Notes
1982
Carton 9, Folder 22-24
English 143 B - Modernism. Syllabi, Exam Guides, Lecture Notes, and Printed Poems with Annotations
1990-1999
Carton 9, Folder 25-26
English 180L - Lyric Verse. Syllabi, Exam Guides, Lecture Notes
1995
Carton 9, Folder 27
English 266 - Chief American Poets. Syllabus
undated
Carton 9, Folder 28-29
Index of Articles
undated
Carton 9, Folder 30
Miscellaneous Notes
1980-1996
Subseries 6.2
Teaching Miscellany
1956-1995; undated
Physical Description:
Carton 9
Arrangement
Arranged hierarchically and then chronologically.
Carton 9, Folder 32
Biography for Academic Personnel
1982-1985
Carton 9, Folder 33
Annual Supplement to Bio- Bibliography
1991-1995
Carton 9, Folder 34
Promotion Materials
1988-1989
Carton 9, Folder 35
Merit Increase Materials
1991-1992
Carton 9, Folder 36
Open University Arts Faculty, Level III Course, 20th Century Poetry - Broadcast Programme Transcript
1974
Carton 9, Folder 37
French Vocabularies
undated
Carton 10, Folder 1
"All My Pretty Ones" by Anne Sexton, with Annotations by Thom Gunn
1962
Carton 10, Folder 2
"La Chute" by Albert Camus, with Annotations by Thom Gunn
1956
Carton 10, Folder 3
"Selected Poems by Ezra Pound," with Annotations by Thom Gunn
1957
Carton 10, Folder 4
"The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse," with Annotations by Thom Gunn
1991
Series 7
Writings by Others
1959-2004; undated
Physical Description:
Cartons 10-11, Oversize Box 1, Folder 16
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically and then chronologically.
Carton 10, Folder 6
Bernstein, Michael André
1985
Carton 10, Folder 7
Bronson, Bertrand
undated
Carton 10, Folder 18
Hinkle, Charles
1988; undated
Carton 10, Folder 21
Kleinzahler, August
1980-2003; undated
Carton 10, Folder 25
McClure, Michael
1961; undated
Carton 10, Folder 28
Niles, John [Jack] D.
1977
Carton 11, Folder 4
Randall, Belle
1996-2004; undated
Carton 11, Folder 5
Sacks, Oliver
1972-1983; undated
Carton 11, Folder 24
Miscellaneous
1985-1999; undated
Carton 11, Folder 25
Broadsides / Printed Works
1959-2000; undated
Oversize Box 1, Folder 16
Broadsides / Printed Works
1985; 2000
Oversize Box 1, Folder 17
Articles About Other Poets / Authors
1971-2003
Carton 11, Folder 26
Unidentified
1960; undated
Series 8
Newspaper Collection
1940-1999
Physical Description:
Oversize Box 2, Folders 1-5
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically and then chronologically.
Oversize Box 2, Folder 1
Bay Area Reporter
1982-1999
Oversize Box 2, Folder 2
Folsom, Nos. 2 and 3
1981
Oversize Box 2, Folder 3
Haight Ashbury Newspaper
1983-1985
