Writings Series 1.
1927-2006
bulk
Physical Description: 2 Linear Feet
Series Scope and Contents
This series contains Bartron's writings, both published and unpublished. The bulk of the series consists of poems, including
published volumes, manuscript compilations, and a small number of individual poems found loose. The majority of poems explore
Bartron's Roman Catholic faith and his homosexuality (Bartron published his erotic poetry using the pseudonym "Henri de Boise").
The religious writings consist primarily of liturgical materials composed by Bartron for the Los Angeles chapter of Dignity/USA.
The autobiographical materials include email reminiscences-the originals titled Toilet Book, the transcript titled Personal
Memoir-addressed to Bartron's youngest child, Carol; transcripts of interviews Bartron gave as part of the LA Gay & Lesbian
Center's Oral History Project; and (nominally fictional) short stories. Bartron attempted in the mid-1980s to sell his American
Civil War novel, Drummer Boy (not published until 2004), as a film script, and the file contains an extensive synopsis used
to "shop" the story to Hollywood studios. The other writings consist largely of poems sent to Bartron by other people.
Autobiographical
1981-2004
Box 1, Folder 2
Toilet Book or Oral History: An Autobiography
2000
Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center. Oral History Project
2003-2004
Box 1, Folder 3
Coming of Age, Chapter 1
2003
Box 1, Folder 9
Administrative records
1985-1993
Box 11, Folder 11
Administrative records and publicity material
1996-2001
Box 11, Folder 31
Annotated photocopies
circa 2004
Box 11, Folder 12
Book sales and book donations
circa 2005
Box 11, Folder 13
Condensation and plot summary
circa 2004-2006
Box 11, Folder 14-18
Correspondence, royalties, and other financial records
1996-2006
Box 11, Folder 19
Library donations
2006-2007
Box 11, Folder 2-10
Screenplay
1983, 1987
Scope and Contents
3 manuscript copies.
Box 11, Folder 20
Vantage Press, Inc. correspondence and administrative records
2003-2006
Published Collections
1969-1997
Box 2, Folder 2
Contemporary Words in Sound
1969
Box 6
Poems of Protest
1970
Physical Description: 2 copies.
Box 11, Folder 22
Poems of Protest notes
circa 1970
Box 2, Folder 3
Three Narrative Poems
1996
Box 2, Folder 4
Dame Nature; The Four Seasons
1997
Box 2, Folder 5-8 ; 7, Folder 1-7 (Oversize) ; 8 :
1-4 (Oversize)
Manuscript Collections
1927, 1968-2006
Box 7, Folder 1-5 (Oversize)
Poems
1927, 1968-2003
Physical Description: 5 folders.
Box 7, Folder 6-7 (Oversize) ; 8, Folder 1-2
(Oversize)
Sacred and Devotional Poetry
1989-2004
Physical Description: 4 folders.
Box 8, Folder 3 (Oversize)
Box 8, Folder 4 (Oversize)
Box 2, Folder 5
Collected Poems. Retrospective of Poems Published in Various Anthologies by the National Library of Poetry
1995-2005
Box 2, Folder 6
Poems on Sexuality
1998-2003
Box 2, Folder 7
Poems Published in the
Beachwood Voice
2002-2006
Box 2, Folder 9-15
Individual Poems
1992-2005
Box 2, Folder 10
My Middle Years
2000-2002
Box 2, Folder 11
Objectively Disordered
1998-2003
Box 2, Folder 13
Reconstruction Suite
1992
Box 2, Folder 14
Seven Last Words of Jesus
2002
Box 2, Folder 16-17 ; 3, Folder 1
Box 2, Folder 16
Octette; Eight Sexually Oriented Poems
1988
Box 11, Folder 21
Octette, poetry book originals
2005
Box 2, Folder 17 ; 3, Folder 1
Quite Another Place; Erotic Homosexual Fantasies in Verse
1996
Physical Description: 4th edition.
Box 3, Folder 1
Manuscript facsimile
May 1996
Religious Writings
1988-2003
Box 3, Folder 2
Being Gay in My Day. Dignity Angelus
1998
Box 3, Folder 5
Evening Prayer & Patristic Readings for the Five Wednesdays of Lent. Dignity/Los Angeles
1992
Box 3, Folder 7
Gift of the Magi--Revisited
1995
Box 3, Folder 8
Litany of Our Lady of Dignity. Dignity/Los Angeles
2002
Box 3, Folder 9
Marian Devotion for La Familia Guadalupena
no date
Box 3, Folder 10
Meditations for the Traditional Hours of Prayer, Used for Centuries by Members of the Secular Franciscan Order
no date
Box 3, Folder 12
Noonday Prayer. Adopted for Optional use by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles' Ministry with lesbian & Gay Catholics (MLGC)
no date
Box 11, Folder 25
St. Solicita brochure
circa 1988
Box 3, Folder 14
St. Solicita. Brochure, Dignity Hymn, Litany, Novena
1988-1989
Box 3, Folder 15
Sonnet for the Feast of St. Joseph, March 19th
2003
Box 3, Folder 16
Way of the Cross; Tradition, Catholic Devotion for Lent. Dignity/Los Angeles
1994
Other Writings
circa 1990-2005
Box 3, Folder 18
Frog & the Scorpion (fable)
no date
Box 3, Folder 19
Ingenious Proposal (speech)
no date
Writings by Others
1968-2005
Box 3, Folder 24
Writings by Others
1968-2004
Box 4, Folder 1
Hurd, Derrick Harrison
2002-2003
Box 4, Folder 2
Vos, Wesley & Tom
2004-2005
Personal Series 2.
1946-2005
Physical Description: 0.75 Linear Feet
Series Scope and Contents
This series contains materials relating to Bartron's life outside his writings. The calendars, day minders and pocket planners
document his daily activities. The files contain information on his career as a pantomimist (as well as information on other
mimes); his acting roles in film and television; his involvement with the Roman Catholic Church of the Blessed Sacrament,
in Hollywood, Dignity/USA, and the Knights of Columbus; his activities as an advocate for housing for GLBT seniors; and his
various social activities. The series also includes a small file of correspondence; diplomas, certificates and awards; several
photocopies of articles on family and friends; and a folder of drawings, possibly for a children's book, by Bartron's daughter,
Liz Pittenger.
Box 4, Folder 3
Acting (Film & Television)
1980-1988
Calendars, Day Minders & Pocket Planners
1978-2005
Box 6
Day Minders
2001-2005
Physical Description: 6 items.
Box 6
Pocket Planners
1978-1989, 1997
Physical Description: 12 items.
Box 4, Folder 5
Diplomas, Certificates, Awards
1967-2006
Box 4, Folder 6
Family & Friends
2000-2004
Box 11, Folder 30
Gay and Lesbian Elder Housing postcard
undated
Box 4, Folder 7
Knights of Columbus
2001-2004
Box 6
Prophecies of the Passion [video recording]
2005
Physical Description: 1 DVD.
Roman Catholic Materials
1997-2005
Box 4, Folder 11
Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Hollywood (Calif.)
1998-2004
Box 4, Folder 15
Social Activities
1992-2004
Photographs Series 3.
1946-2005
Physical Description: 0.25 Linear Feet
Series Scope and Contents
This series contains photographs of Bartron, his family, and friends. The personal photographs consist primarily of 8 x 10-inch
formal photographs of Bartron, and photographs of him dressed and performing as a mime. The photographs of family and friends
include Bartron's son, Stephen, Vladimyr Golovin, and actors Sidney Feldman, Hal Holbrook and Alan Koss. Box 10 contains snapshops
of Bartron, his family and friends; to help identify members of Bartron's family, a list of his descendants, prepared by ONE
Archives staff, is included.
Box 9, Folder 2
Family & Friends
circa 1950-1990
Box 9, Folder 3
Photographic negative
no date
Box 10
Photographs of Harry Bartron, family & friends
circa 1975-2005
Graphics Series 4.
circa 1988
Physical Description: 1 print.
Series Scope and Contents
This series consists of a single item, a framed color print of an icon, by Robert Lentz, of "St. Solicita", the name given
by the Los Angeles chapter of Dignity/USA to the Canaanite woman referred to in Matthew 15:21-28, and "adopted" by the chapter
as its patron saint.
Item 12
Icon of St. Solicita, by Robert Lentz
circa 1988
Physical Description: 1 print ; 17 x 14 inches (framed) ; color.
Box 3, Folder 17
You Can Be A Bird, But You Can't Fly. Dignity/USA Convention
1997
