Guide to the Walter Truett Anderson Collection, 1976-1986
Project archivist: David C. Gartrell;
processed by Staff of Department of Special Collections; student assistants: Roxanne Carter and James Bramlett;
machine-readable finding aid created by David C. Gartrell
Department of Special Collections
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Guide to the Walter Truett Anderson Collection, 1976-1986
Collection number: HPA Mss 2
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Contact Information:
- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
- Fax: (805) 893-5749
- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
- Project Archivist:
- David C. Gartrell
- Processors:
- Staff of Department of Special Collections
- Student Assistants:
- Roxanne Carter and James Bramlett
- Date Completed:
- 8 July 1999
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
© 1999 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Anderson, Walter Truett,
Date (inclusive): 1976-1986
Collection number: HPA Mss 2
Creator:
Anderson, Walt, 1933-
Physical Description:
5.5 linear feet;
2 manuscript boxes, 3 boxes cassettes, 6 boxes compact discs
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Shelf location: The Anderson materials are located in the Department of Special Collections at UCSB.
Abstract: Audio interviews for a book on the Esalen Institute and typescripts of this book and three others by author/journalist/political
scientist Walter Truett Anderson.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Provenance
The materials that comprise the Walter Truett Anderson Collection were given to the Humanistic Psychology Archive by Anderson
in 1988 and 1990.
Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Anderson, Walter Truett, HPA Mss 2, Department of Special Collections, University Libraries, University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Access Points
Anderson, Walt, 1933-
Esalen Institute.
Group relations training
Humanistic psychology
Biography
Walter Truett Anderson (b. 1933) is an author, political scientist, and environmentalist who writes on technology, psychology,
ecology and global government. He recieved a BA in political science in 1955 from the University of California, Berkeley,
and a PhD in political science and social psychology from the University of Southern Califronia in 1972.
Anderson is a longtime resident of San Francisco, a consulting faculty member at the Saybrook Institute, a regular contributor
to the Pacific News Service, and a fellow of the Meridian Institute, an international political think-tank he co-founded.
Related Collections
Researchers may also be interested in the
Title: Esalen Collection
(HPA MSS 8), the Humanistic Psychology Archives' collection of printed materials from the Esalen Institute.
Writings
Physical Location: Located in Del Norte stacks.
Physical Description:
2 boxes
Scope and Content Note
This series includes typescripts of four of Anderson's books:
Open Secrets: A Western Guide to Tibetan Buddhism (includes proofs as well),
Rethinking Liberalism (political science essays; edited by Anderson),
The Upstart Spring: Esalen and the American Awakening, and the biopolitical
To Govern Evolution: Further Adventures of the Political Animal.
Interviews
Physical Location: Masters in vault; cassette originals and use copies in Performing Arts stacks.
Physical Description:
48 cassette originals; 75 master copies; 75 service copies
Scope and Content Note
This series includes audio cassette interviews of Esalen Institute associates done by Anderson while researching his book
The Upstart Spring. Some cassettes are unplayable due to either oxidation or "sticky shed syndrome." All playable cassettes have been reformatted
onto compact disc master copies and use copies.
Box 1, Folder 1
Edited typescript of
Open Secrets, pp. 2-150, January 1979.
Box 1, Folder 2
Edited typescript of
Open Secrets, pp. 151-251, January 1979.
Box 1, Folder 3
Revised proof of
Open Secrets, pp. i-100, 1980.
Box 1, Folder 4
Revised proof of
Open Secrets, pp. 101-224, 1980.
Box 1, Folder 5
Typescript of
Rethinking Liberalism, pp. 1-100, 1983.
Box 1, Folder 6
Typescript of
Rethinking Liberalism, pp. 101-243, 1983.
Box 1, Folder 7
Typescript of
Rethinking Liberalism, pp. 244-253, 1983.
Box 2, Folder 1
Typescript of
The Upstart Spring, pp. i-155, c. 1983.
Box 2, Folder 2
Typescript of
The Upstart Spring, pp. 156-295, c. 1983.
Box 2, Folder 3
Typescript of
The Upstart Spring, pp. 296-507, c. 1983.
Box 2, Folder 4
Typescript of
To Govern Evolution, pp. i-79, August 1986.
Box 2, Folder 5
Typescript of
To Govern Evolution, pp. 80-140, August 1986.
Box 2, Folder 6
Typescript of
To Govern Evolution, pp. 141-210, August 1986.
Box 2, Folder 7
Typescript of
To Govern Evolution, pp. 211-291, August 1986.
Box 2, Folder 8
Typescript of
To Govern Evolution, pp. 292-336, August 1986.
Interviews
Note
Cassette originals have been reformatted onto CD listening copies unless noted.
A1795/CS
Bateson, Gregory and Paul Herbert
April 3, 1979
A1796/CS
Bugental, James and Don Michael
A1798/CS
Cobbs, Price and Ron Brown
A1799/CS
Doyle, Jackie
March 19, 1981
A1804/CS
Heider, John and Ed Maupin [currently unlistenable]
A1805/CS
Herbert, Paul [side 2 is Anderson's "random thoughts"]
September 6, 1979
A1806/CS
Huxley [interview and lecture; no Bateson as originally labeled-- side 2 is telephone interviews re: California water]
June 2, 1979
A1808/CS
Lederman, Janet [currently unlistenable]
A1809/CS
Leonard, George
November 14, 1980
A1810/CS
Leonard, George
December 9, 1980
A1811/CS
Leonard, Needleman, Krassner, and Marin
A1812/CS
Levy, John
February (December?) 19, 1980
A1813/CS
May, Rollo
November 18, 1980
A1815/CS
Murphy, Michael and George Leonard [Leonard (side 2) identity questionable]
December 5 and 9, 1980
A1816/CS
Murphy, Michael
March 26, 1981
A1817/CS
Murphy, Michael
October 12, 1982
A1818/CS
Murphy, Michael
December 8, 1982
A1819/CS
Murphy, Michael
September 24, 1981
A1820/CS
Murphy, Michael
May 21, 1981
A1821/CS
Murphy, Michael
May 21, 1981
A1822/CS
Murphy, Michael
October 4, 1977
A1823/CS
Murphy, Michael
March 9, 1979
A1824/CS
Murphy, Michael
September 12, 1977
A1825/CS
Murphy, Michael
September 20, 1979
A1826/CS
Murphy, Michael
April 5, 1977
A1827/CS
Murphy, Michael
March 9, 1979
A1828/CS
Narejano, Claudio
March 20, 1981
A1829/CS
Narejano, Claudio
March 20, 1981
A1830/CS
Price, Dick - Belvedere
[1982?]
A1831/CS
Price, Dick and Emil White
December 19, 1976
A1832/CS
Price, Dick [currently unlistenable]
April 20, 1981
A1833/CS
Price, Dick
June 14, 1981
A1834/CS
Druckner, Al and Dick Price [currently unlistenable]
April 20, 1981
A1835/CS
Price, Dick
December 21, 1982
A1836/CS
Schultz, Will
August 24, 1981
A1837/CS
Schultz, Will
August 24, 1981
A1838/CS
Schultz, Will
December 4, 1980
A1839/CS
Schultz, Will
December 4, 1980
A1840/CS
Schultz, Will [currently unlistenable]
April 20-21, 1981
A1841/CS
Price, Dick and Julian Silverman [currently unlistenable]
April 21, 1981
A1842/CS
Silverman, Julian
