Pearce (Roy Harvey) Papers, 1945-1995

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Summary

Title:
Roy Harvey Pearce Papers
Dates:
1945-1995
Creators:
Pearce, Roy Harvey
Abstract:
Papers of Roy Harvey Pearce (1919-2012), scholar, critic, and founder of the UCSD literature department and the Archive for New Poetry. Included is correspondence regarding a wide variety of topics, for example, Jack Spicer research and the creation of the poetry archive. Correspondents include Robert Bly, David Ignatow, and Marshall McLuhan. Also included are a number of Pearce's scholarly projects (including the "Transcendental Workbook") and notes for several lectures.
Extent:
12.6 Linear feet (33 archives boxes, 2 oversize folders)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Roy Harvey Pearce Papers, MSS 143. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Background

Scope and content:

Papers of Roy Harvey Pearce (1919-2012), scholar, critic, and founder of the UCSD literature department and the Archive for New Poetry. Included is correspondence regarding a wide variety of topics, for example, Jack Spicer research and the creation of the poetry archive. Correspondents include Robert Bly, David Ignatow, and Marshall McLuhan. Also included are a number of Pearce's scholarly projects (including the "Transcendental Workbook") and notes for several lectures.

Accession Processed in 1995

The Roy Harvey Pearce correspondence and subject files contain abundant correspondence with writers and scholars, typescripts, holograph notes, and manuscripts related to scholarly projects and lectures. Included are correspondence with notable figures such as Robert Bly, Clayton Eshleman, and the Canadian communications theorist, Marshall McLuhan. Subject files contain a wide variety of material: notes on the opening of Mandeville Center, correspondence and research regarding Jack Spicer, and a meticulously compiled "Transcendental Workbook."

Arranged in four series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) SCHOLARLY PROJECTS, 3) ARCHIVE FOR NEW POETRY, and 4) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS.

Accession Processed in 2003

The accession processed in 2003 contains correspondence with scholars, colleagues, writers, and students; lecture notes and teaching materials for literature courses taught at UCSD; administrative memoranda; and subject files.

Arranged in five series: 5) CORRESPONDENCE, 6) WRITINGS, 7) TEACHING MATERIALS, 8) SUBJECT FILES, and 9) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS.

Accession Processed in 2007

The accession processed in 2007 contains correspondence with scholars, colleagues, writers, and students; published books, articles and reviews; editorial projects; manuscript reading reports for different presses; talks and conferences; writings of others; and miscellaneous materials.

Arranged in eleven series: 10) CORRESPONDENCE, 11) BOOKS, 12) ARTICLES AND ESSAYS, 13) REVIEWS, 14) EDITORIAL PROJECTS, 15) PUBLISHING AGREEMENTS, 16) TALKS AND READINGS, 17) TEACHING MATERIALS, 18) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS, 19) MANUSCRIPT READING REPORTS, and 20) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES.

Biographical / historical:

Roy Harvey Pearce (1919-2012) has had a long and distinguished career in the field of literature. The founding father of both the UCSD literature department and the UCSD Archive for New Poetry, Pearce has also taught at the Ohio State University, UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, and the Claremont Graduate School. He is the author of The Savages of America/Savagism in Civilization (1953/1983), The Continuity of American Poetry (1961), Hawthorne Centenary Essays (1964), Historicism Once More (1969), and Gesta Humanorum: Studies in the Historicist Mode, as well as being the editor of Colonial American Writing (1950) and a general editor of The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1962).

Acquisition information:
Acquired 1986, 1998, 1999 and 2007.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Special Collections Archives, UC San Diego
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-12-12 13:16:27 -0800 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

In accordance with federal and state laws, confidential correspondence in boxes 3 & 7, as well as the Manuscript Reading Reports in box 32, are restricted until the year 2070.

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW TWO TO THREE (2-3) WEEKS FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.

Terms of access:

Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.

Preferred citation:

Roy Harvey Pearce Papers, MSS 143. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Location of this collection:
9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0175
La Jolla, CA 92093-0175, US
Contact:
(858) 534-2533
spcoll@ucsd.edu
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