United Artists (New York, N.Y.) Records

Mandeville Special Collections Library

The UCSD Libraries

9500 Gilman Drive

University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, California 92093-0175

Phone: (858) 534-2533

Fax: (858) 534-5950

URL: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/

Descriptive Summary

Creator: United Artists (New York, N.Y.)

Title: United Artists (New York, N.Y.) Records,

Date (inclusive): 1977-1983

Extent: 3.60 linear feet (9 archives boxes)

Abstract: Records of a publishing company established by poets Lewis Warsh and Bernadette Mayer in 1977. Successor to Angel Hair magazine and Angel Hair Books, United Artists published works of contemporary poets and writers, including Ted Berrigan, Clark Coolidge, Alan Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, and Bill Berkson. Correspondence with these and other United Artist contributors can be found in the collection. Also included are typescripts of works submitted and materials used for production of United Artists publications.

Repository: University of California, San Diego. Geisel Library. Mandeville Special Collections Library.

La Jolla, California 92093-0175

Collection number: MSS 0012

Language of Material: Collection materials in English

Access

Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Information

Not Available

Preferred Citation

United Artists (New York, N.Y.) Records, MSS 0012. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD.

Publication Rights

Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.

Historical Background

Established by Lewis Warsh and Bernadette Mayer in 1977, United Artists press was located in New York City until it went out of business in at the end of the 1980s. Typically, the press published four titles a year, generally with a run of 750 copies each. While they provided a venue for artists who could not publish with mainstream presses, Warsh and Mayer also published established writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gregory Corso, all of whom had secured contracts with trade publishers.

The forerunner of United Artists was Angel Artist (magazine) and Angel Hair Books, a press which Warsh co-founded and co-edited from 1966 to 1977. Many of the contributors to United Artists, such as Ted Berrigan and Clark Coolidge, had previously been associated with Angel Hair Books. Both presses were dependent on sales-generated income combined with the support offered by grants and awards. Warsh was a recipient of National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1966 and 1979, and he received a Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines award in 1981.

Scope and Content of Collection

Accession Processed in 1988

The papers relate to the professional and personal lives of persons associated with United Artists. Many of the artists that Warsh and Mayer dealt with were also friends, and, as a result, the correspondence is often a mix of both literary and private matters. Although a few items date from the middle 1970s, the bulk of the papers date from 1977 to 1983. The collection is organized into three series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE; 2) TYPESCRIPTS, GALLEYS, AND PAGE PROOFS OF UNITED ARTISTS BOOKS; and 3) TYPESCRIPTS SUBMITTED TO THE UNITED ARTISTS MAGAZINE.

The largest portion of the collection is comprised of CORRESPONDENCE from various writers to United Artists editors Mayer and Warsh. The series is arranged alphabetically by the correspondent's name, and the letters of each correspondent are in chronological order. Unless the correspondent addressed Mayer or Warsh individually, only the name of the writer is listed.

The successive stages of production for each book project can be surveyed in the TYPESCRIPTS, GALLEYS, AND PAGE PROOFS OF UNITED ARTISTS BOOKS series. They are arranged alphabetically by the author's last name.

The TYPESCRIPTS SUBMITTED TO THE UNITED ARTISTS MAGAZINE series contains original typescripts of published and unpublished work. This section includes the work of Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, and Allen Ginsberg. It is also arranged alphabetically by the name of the author.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects

United Artists (New York, N.Y.) -- Archives

Warsh, Lewis -- Archives

Mayer, Bernadette -- Archives

American poetry -- 20th century

Publishers and publishing -- New York (State) -- Manuscripts

Contributors

Berkson, Bill, -- correspondent

Bernstein, Charles, 1950- -- correspondent

Berrigan, Ted, -- correspondent

Brainard, Joe, 1942- -- correspondent

Callahan, Bob, -- correspondent

Coolidge, Clark, 1939- -- correspondent

Corbett, William, -- correspondent

Corso, Gregory, -- correspondent

Creeley, Robert, 1926- -- correspondent

Davies, Alan, -- correspondent

Elmslie, Kenward, -- correspondent

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926- -- correspondent

Howe, Fanny, -- correspondent

Howe, Susan, 1937- -- correspondent

Mac Low, Jackson, -- correspondent

Metcalf, Paul C., -- correspondent

Notley, Alice, 1945- -- correspondent

Palmer, Michael, 1943- -- correspondent

Raworth, Tom, -- correspondent

Waldman, Anne, 1945- -- correspondent

Watten, Barrett, -- correspondent

Warsh, Lewis

Mayer, Bernadette

CORRESPONDENCE

box 1, folder 1

Acker, Kathy

Note

4 APC, 2 APCs, 1 AL, 2 ALs, 3 TL, 3 TLs

box 1, folder 2

Ball, David

Note

2 ALs, 1 TLs

box 1, folder 3

Banks, Russell

Note

1 APCs, 1 TPCs, 5 TLs

box 1, folder 4

Benson, Steve

Note

1 ALs, 1 TLs

box 1, folder 5

Berge, Carol

Note

6 TLs; 1 prose TS

box 1, folder 6

Berkson, Bill to Bernadette Mayer 1971 - 1975

Note

13 APCs, 1 ALs, 2 TLs. n.d.

box 1, folder 7

Berkson, Bill to Bernadette Mayer 1976 - 1977

Note

4 APCs, 2 ALs, 7 TLs

box 1, folder 8

Berkson, Bill to Bernadette Mayer 1978 - 1978

Note

1 APCs, 8 TLs

box 1, folder 9

Berkson, Bill 1979 - 1979

Note

8 TLs

box 1, folder 10

Berkson, Bill to Bernadette Mayer 1980 - 1980

Note

1 APCs, 6 TLs; 1 poem TS

box 1, folder 11

Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh 1969 - 1969

Note

2 APCs, 1 AL. n.d.

box 1, folder 12

Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh 1973 - 1973

Note

6 APCs, 4 ALs, 10 TLs; 3 poems TS

box 1, folder 13

Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh 1974 - 1974

Note

8 APCs, 11 TLs, 3 poems TS

box 1, folder 14

Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh 1975 - 1975

Note

6 APCs, 3 ALs, 7 TLs, 1 poem TS

box 1, folder 15

Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh 1976 - 1976

Note

2 APCs, 8 TLs

box 1, folder 16

Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh 1977 - 1977

Note

1 ALs, 7 TLs

box 1, folder 17

Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh 1978 - 1978

Note

3 APCs, 14 TLs

box 1, folder 18

Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh 1979 - 1979

Note

5 APCs, 1 ALs, 8 TLs; 9 poems TS, 1 prose TS

box 1, folder 19

Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh 1980 - 1980

Note

2 APCs, 1 TPCs, 7 TLs; 3 poems TS, 1 prose TS

box 1, folder 20

Berkson, Bill to Lewis Warsh 1981 - 1983

Note

5 APCs, 5 ALs, 8 TLs

box 1, folder 21

Bernstein, Charles to Bernadette Mayer

Note

5 ALs, 1 TL, 4 TLs

box 1, folder 22

Bernstein, Charles to Lewis Warsh

Note

2 APCs, 1 TPCs, 4 TLs

box 1, folder 23

Berrigan, Ted to Bernadette Mayer

Note

1 APCs, 1 TLs

box 1, folder 24

Berrigan, Ted to Lewis Warsh

Note

11 APCs, 1 AL, 3 ALs, 2 TLs

box 1, folder 25

Brainard, Joe to Bernadette Mayer

Note

8 ALs

box 1, folder 26

Brainard, Joe to Lewis Warsh

Note

1 APC, 1 APCs, 3 ALs

box 1, folder 27

Brenner, Summer

Note

2 TPCs, 1 ALs; 1 prose TSs

box 1, folder 28

Brodey, Jim

Note

1 APCs, 5 ALs, 4 TLs; 1 poem MS

box 1, folder 29

Brownstein, Michael

Note

1 APCs, 1 ALs, 5 TLs

box 2, folder 1

Burckhardt, Rudy to Bernadette Mayer

Note

2 APCs, 2 ALs

box 2, folder 2

Burckhardt, Rudy to Lewis Warsh

Note

5 APCs, 5 ALs

box 2, folder 3

Bye, Reed

Note

1 APCs, 1 TLs

box 2, folder 4

Callahan, Robert to Bernadette Mayer 1977 - 1978

Note

2 ALs, 2 TL, 8 TLs; 1 poem TS

box 2, folder 5

Callahan, Robert to Bernadette Mayer 1979 - 1980

Note

1 APCs, 4 TL, 12 TLs

box 2, folder 6

Callahan, Robert to Lewis Warsh 1977 - 1977

Note

1 APCs, 3 TL, 7 TLs. n.d.

box 2, folder 7

Callahan, Robert to Lewis Warsh 1978 - 1978

Note

7 TL, 12 TLs

box 2, folder 8

Callahan, Robert to Lewis Warsh 1979 - 1979

Note

6 TL, 7 TLs; 1 poem TS

box 2, folder 9

Callahan, Robert to Lewis Warsh 1980 - 1980

Note

3 TL, 4 TLs

box 2, folder 10

Carey, Steve

Note

1 APCs, 4 ALs, 1 TLs; 1 poem TS

box 2, folder 11

Carter, Charlotte 1976 - 1976

Note

1 AL, 2 ALs, 2 TLs. n.d.

box 2, folder 12

Carter, Charlotte 1977 - 1977

Note

1 AL, 4 ALs, 1 TLs

box 2, folder 13

Carter, Charlotte 1978 - 1978

Note

1 ALs, 1 TL, 1 TLs; 2 poems TS, 1 prose TS

box 2, folder 14

Carter, Charlotte 1979 - 1980

Note

3 ALs, 1 TL, 2 TLs

box 2, folder 15

Codrescu, Andrei

Note

4 APCs, 6 ALs, 11 TLs

box 2, folder 16

Collom, Jack

Note

1 APCs, 1 AL, 5 ALs

box 2, folder 17

Coolidge, Clark to Bernadette Mayer

Note

13 TLs. n.d.

box 2, folder 18

Coolidge, Clark to Bernadette Mayer 1973 - 1980

Note

7 TLs; 1 poem TS

box 2, folder 19

Coolidge, Clark to Lewis Warsh

Note

9 TLs

box 2, folder 20

Cooper, Dennis

Note

1 APCs, 1 ALs, 2 TLs

box 2, folder 21

Corbett, William to Bernadette Mayer 1975 - 1978

Note

7 APCs, 3 TPCs, 3 ALs, 4 TLs. n.d.

box 2, folder 22

Corbett, William to Bernadette Mayer 1979 - 1983

Note

8 APCs, 1 ALs, 5 TLs; 3 poems TS

box 3, folder 1

Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh

Note

11 APCs, 2 TPCs, 8 ALs. n.d.

box 3, folder 2

Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh 1973 - 1973

Note

2 APCs, 1 TPC, 1 TPCs, 6 ALs, 4 TLs

box 3, folder 3

Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh 1974 - 1974

Note

2 TPCs, 3 ALs, 8 TLs

box 3, folder 4

Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh 1975 - 1975

Note

3 TPCs, 2 ALs, 11 TLs

box 3, folder 5

Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh 1976 - 1976

Note

7 APCs, 1 TPCs, 7 ALs, 5 TLs; 3 pages poems TS

box 3, folder 6

Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh 1977 - 1977

Note

7 APCs, 9 ALs, 2 TLs; 1 poem TS

box 3, folder 7

Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh 1978 - 1978

Note

7 APCs, 5 ALs, 5 TLs

box 3, folder 8

Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh 1979 - 1979

Note

8 APCs, 1 TPC, 2 ALs, 7 TLs

box 3, folder 9

Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh 1980 - 1980

Note

6 APCs, 1 ALs, 2 TLs

box 3, folder 10

Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh 1981 - 1981

Note

9 APCs, 9 ALs, 2 TLs; 1 poem TS

box 3, folder 11

Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh 1982 - 1982

Note

5 APCs, 1 TPCs, 1 ALs, 8 TLs

box 3, folder 12

Corbett, William to Lewis Warsh 1983 - 1983

Note

9 APCs, 1 ALs, 2 TLs

box 3, folder 13

Cott, Jonathan

Note

2 APCs, 2 TLs

box 3, folder 14

Creeley, Robert

Note

1 APCs, 1 TLs

box 3, folder 15

Davies, Alan to Bernadette Mayer

Note

2 TLs

box 3, folder 16

Davies, Alan to Lewis Warsh 1974 - 1974

Note

4 APCs, 14 TLs; 1 poem TSc, 1 prose TSc

box 3, folder 17

Davies, Alan to Lewis Warsh 1975 - 1979

Note

5 APCs, 1 ALs, 10 TLs; 8 poems TSc

box 3, folder 18

Einzig, Barbara

Note

2 TLs

box 3, folder 19

Elmslie, Kenward to Bernadette Mayer

Note

4 APCs, 1 TPCs, 1 AL, 1 ALs, 2 TLs

box 3, folder 20

Elmslie, Kenward to Lewis Warsh

Note

5 APCs, 6 TPCs, 4 TLs

box 3, folder 21

Fagin, Larry

Note

2 APCs, 1 TPCs, 1 ALs, 8 TLs

box 3, folder 22

Friedman, Ed

Note

1 APCs, 3 TLs

box 3, folder 23

Greene, Jonathan

Note

1 TL

box 3, folder 24

Greenwald, Ted

Note

2 ALs, 1 TLs

box 3, folder 25

Grossinger, Richard to Bernadette Mayer 1974 - 1977

Note

1 APCs, 1 ALs, 17 TLs. n.d.

box 3, folder 26

Grossinger, Richard to Bernadette Mayer 1978 - 1979

Note

1 TL, 11 TLs

box 3, folder 27

Grossinger, Richard to Lewis Warsh

Note

1 TPCs, 1 ALs, 8 TLs

box 3, folder 28

Harwood, Lee

Note

1 APCs, 1 ALs, 1 TLs; 5 pages poems TSc

box 3, folder 29

Holman, Bob

Note

1 APCs, 3 ALs

box 4, folder 1

Howe, Fanny to Bernadette Mayer

Note

4 TLs

box 4, folder 2

Howe, Fanny to Lewis Warsh

Note

4 ALs, 10 TLs

box 4, folder 3

Howe, Susan

Note

2 APCs, 15 TLs

box 4, folder 4

Kahn, Paul

Note

2 ALs, 2 TLs

box 4, folder 5

Kraut, Rochelle to Bernadette Mayer

Note

2 APCs, 1 AL, 5 ALs, 1 TL

box 4, folder 6

Kraut, Rochelle to Lewis Warsh

Note

4 APCs, 5 ALs, 12 TLs; 1 poem TS

box 4, folder 7

Lally, Michael to Bernadette Mayer

Note

1 APCs, 1 AL, 1 ALs

box 4, folder 8

Lally, Michael to Lewis Warsh

Note

1 APCs, 2 ALs, 3 TLs

box 4, folder 9

MacAdams, Lewis to Bernadette Mayer

Note

1 TLs

box 4, folder 10

MacAdams, Lewis to Lewis Warsh

Note

1 TLs

box 4, folder 11

McClure, Michael

Note

2 TLs

box 4, folder 12

MacLow, Jackson

Note

3 TLs

box 4, folder 13

Malanga, Gerard to Bernadette Mayer

Note

2 APCs, 2 ALs, 7 TLs; 1 poem TSc

box 4, folder 14

Malanga, Gerard to Lewis Warsh 1973 - 1976

Note

1 ALs, 9 TLs; 1 poem TS, 2 poems TSc

box 4, folder 15

Malanga, Gerard to Lewis Warsh 1978 - 1979

Note

5 TLs

box 4, folder 16

Masters, Greg

Note

1 APCs, 6 TLs; 1 poem TS

box 4, folder 17

Metcalf, Paul to Bernadette Mayer

Note

2 TLs

box 4, folder 18

Metcalf, Paul to Lewis Warsh

Note

5 TPCs, 7 TLs

box 4, folder 19

Nolan, Pat 1973 - 1974

Note

1 ALs, 1 TL, 8 TLs; 7 poems TS

box 4, folder 20

Nolan, Pat 1974 - 1982

Note

1 APCs, 1 TPCs, 2 ALs, 11 TLs; 1 poem TS

box 4, folder 21

North, Charles

Note

5 APCs, 2 ALs, 3 TLs

box 4, folder 22

Notley, Alice to Bernadette Mayer 1972 - 1977

Note

1 APCs, 1 AL, 8 ALs, 5 TLs. n.d.

box 4, folder 23

Notley, Alice to Bernadette Mayer 1978 - 1980

Note

1 APCs, 9 ALs, 2 TL, 2 TLs; 3 poems TSc

box 4, folder 24

Notley, Alice to Lewis Warsh

Note

8 APCs, 12 ALs, 6 TLs

box 4, folder 25

Owen, Maureen to Bernadette Mayer

Note

4 APCs, 2 ALs

box 4, folder 26

Owen, Maureen to Lewis Warsh

Note

5 APCs, 3 ALs, 5 TLs

box 4, folder 27

Padgett, Ron

Note

8 APCs, 1 TPCs, 5 ALs, 1 TL, 2 TLs

box 4, folder 28

Palmer, Michael to Bernadette Mayer

Note

2 APCs

box 4, folder 29

Palmer, Michael to Lewis Warsh

Note

8 APCs, 5 ALs

box 5, folder 1

Raworth, Tom to Bernadette Mayer

Note

1 TLs

box 5, folder 2

Raworth, Tom to Lewis Warsh

Note

3 ALs

box 5, folder 3

Rosenberg, David

Note

2 APCs, 2 ALs

box 5, folder 4

Rosenthal, Bob 1975 - 1977

Note

3 APCs, 1 AL, 5 ALs, 15 TLs. n.d.

box 5, folder 5

Rosenthal, Bob 1978 - 1982

Note

2 APCs, 3 ALs, 11 TLs

box 5, folder 6

Rothenberg, Jerome

Note

1 APCs, 2 ALs

box 5, folder 7

Scalapino, Leslie

Note

3 ALs, 4 TLs

box 5, folder 8

Schiff, Harris to Bernadette Mayer

Note

1 APCs, 1 TLs

box 5, folder 9

Schiff, Harris to Lewis Warsh 1973 - 1973

Note

1 APC, 1 APCs, 1 AL, 8 ALs, 1 TL, 1 TLs; 4 poems TS. n.d.

box 5, folder 10

Schiff, Harris to Lewis Warsh 1974 - 1976

Note

1 APCs, 1 AL, 8 ALs, 1 TLs; 1 poem MS

box 5, folder 11

Schiff, Harris to Lewis Warsh 1977 - 1982

Note

3 APCs, 2 ALs, 9 TLs

box 5, folder 12

Schuchat, Simon to Bernadette Mayer

Note

1 ALs, 1 TL, 8 TLs; 6 poems TS

box 5, folder 13

Schuchat, Simon to Lewis Warsh

Note

6 TLs; 3 poems TS

box 5, folder 14

Thomas, Lorenzo

Note

3 TLs

box 5, folder 15

Veitch, Tom

Note

14 APCs, 1 TPCs, 2 ALs, 4 TLs

box 5, folder 16

Vermont, Charlie to Bernadette Mayer

Note

1 APCs, 1 ALs, 3 TLs

box 5, folder 17

Vermont, Charlie to Lewis Warsh 1973 - 1973

Note

1 APCs, 2 ALs, 6 TLs; 1 prose TS. n.d.

box 5, folder 18

Vermont, Charlie to Lewis Warsh 1974 - 1976

Note

3 APCs, 2 ALs, 4 TLs; 1 poem TSc

box 5, folder 19

Waldman, Anne to Bernadette Mayer 1971 - 1973

Note

1 APC, 10 APCs, 1 TPCs, 3 TLs. n.d.

box 5, folder 20

Waldman, Anne to Bernadette Mayer 1974 - 1979

Note

5 APC, 5 APCs, 3 AL, 1 ALs, 1 TL, 5 TLs; 1 prose TSc

box 5, folder 21

Waldman, Anne to Lewis Warsh 1974 - 1977

Note

10 APCs, 3 ALs, 13 TLs. n.d.

box 5, folder 22

Waldman, Anne to Lewis Warsh 1978 - 1982

Note

7 APCs, 8 TLs

box 5, folder 23

Watten Barrett to Bernadette Mayer

Note

1 APCs, 3 TLs

box 5, folder 24

Watten, Barrett to Lewis Warsh 1972 - 1973

Note

2 APCs, 1 AL, 6 ALs, 7 TLs; 3 prose TSc. n.d.

box 5, folder 25

Watten, Barrett to Lewis Warsh 1975 - 1978

Note

3 APCs, 4 ALs, 4 TLs

box 5, folder 26

Weiner, Hannah

Note

1 APCs, 6 ALs; 6 pages prose TSc

box 5, folder 27

Miscellaneous

TYPESCRIPTS, GALLEY AND PAGE PROOFS OF U.A. BOOKS

box 6, folder 1

Banks, Russell. The Relation of My Imprisonment

Note

corrected TSc

box 6, folder 2

Berrigan, Ted. Nothing For You

Note

box 6, folder 3

Berrigan, Ted. Nothing For You

Note

corrected TSc

box 6, folder 4

Berrigan, Ted and Schiff, Harris. NY 2, Boston 0

Note

corrected TS

box 6, folder 5

Brodey, Jim. Judyism

Note

TSc

box 6, folder 6

Brodey, Jim. Judyism

Note

corrected TSc

box 6, folder 7

Brodey, Jim. Judyism

Note

corrected Gc

box 6, folder 8

Carey, Steve. The California Papers

Note

TSc

box 6, folder 9

Carey, Steve. The California Papers

Note

corrected Gc

box 6, folder 10

Corbett, William. Columbus Square Journal

Note

TSc

box 7, folder 1

Corbett, William. Columbus Square Journal

Note

corrected Gc

box 7, folder 2