Brotherson (Robert D.) collection of the Activist group of poets and other materials

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Brotherson (Robert D.) collection of the Activist group of poets and other materials

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Carton 1, Folder 1-7

"A-B" approximately 1959-1986

Scope and Contents

Jose Luis Aguerrebere letters; Art and Artists Magazine; Artaud's Elbow publications and correspondence, assorted and miscellaneous letters; and botanical sketchs

Carton 5, Folder 1-5

"A-B" 1940-1978

Scope and Content Note

Assorted materials include various poem, letters, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings; poems from The Alternative Press; and a complimentary issue of The Black Scholar

Box 1, Folder 1-8

Brotherson, Robert D. "Bob" 1912-1971

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence and personalia (amateur theater programs, baby books, and life memories). Correspondents includes Nellie Keas (mother), Frank Mayes, Frank Uhl

Carton 5, Folder 6-8

Brotherson, Robert D. "Bob"

Scope and Content Note

Journal (1961) and works

Box 2, Folder 1-11

Brotherson, Robert D. 1944-2003

Scope and Content Note

Consists of personalia and manuscripts. Includes scrapbooks of junior college, early poems, miscellany, The Beaudelaire and Duval Poems, Dan, Goldfish, How It Began, The Second Bed, and Sometime Never

Carton 1, Folder 8

Brotherson, Robert D. - Manuscript Drafts

Carton 1, Folder 9-22

"C-G" approximately 1960-1984

Scope and Content Note

Includes Committee of Small Magazine Editors & Publishers (COSMEP) letters; Raymond Di Palma letters, Doons, and Macaroons; ephemera ("hand-set on our Gorden Platen press - Woolmer/Brotherson, Ltd.); Lawrence Fixel letters; flyers and paste-ups [for] Trivelpiece, Moore, and Ostrander; the Folger Library and Poetry Series; Stuart Friebert - correspondence, permission to reprint, and Uncertain Health (manuscript and recycled poems); John Gill - New American & Canadian letters and announcements; and David Glotzer poems.

Carton 5, Folder 9-12

"C-G" approximately 1972-1978

Scope and Content Note

Includes Barbara Clark - poems; Andre Codrescu - Why I Can't Talk on the Telephone, photo; Stuart Friebert - uncorrected proofs; and Marie Graybeal - poems in manuscript

Carton 1, Folder 23-26

Hart, Jeanne McGahey and Lawrence - Correspondence 1960-1980

Carton 2, Folder 1

Hart, Jeanne McGahey - Oregon Winter - Notes, Lectures, Drafts 1971-1972

Carton 5, Folder 13-17

Hart, Jeanne McGahey and Lawrence approximately 1967-1972

Scope and Content Note

Includes Oregon Winter - paste-up, working manuscript, final manuscript, corrected proofs, Blues; and manuscripts on teaching poetry to children/expermimental teaching at the College of Marin by Lawrence Hart

Carton 2, Folder 2-6

"H-M" 1960-1976

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters from John Hart (Jeanne McGahey Hart and Lawrence Hart's son); Roger Howard letters and announcements; Greg Kuzman letters; and Anne Middleton letters, cards, etc.

Carton 5, Folder 18-20

"H-J" approximately 1955-1976

Scope and Content Note

Includes John Hart - poem and letter; Jack Hopper - poems; and The Journals of Pierre Menard (with correspondence)

Carton 2, Folder 7-22

Moore, Rosalie - Letters 1965-1988

Carton 3, Folder 1-4

Moore, Rosalie - Letters 1982-1988

Box 3, Folder 1-7

Moore, Rosalie - Correspondence, Year of the Children (Copy & Review), Poems approximately 1977-1984

Carton 5, Folder 21-25

Moore, Rosalie approximately 1975-1977

Scope and Content Note

Includes Year of the Children - unused and first draft material, original copy and corrected proofs, and paste-up; and Einstein and the Rest of Us - manuscript - poems by Moore, billie hobart, David Newby, and Kay Ryan

Carton 6, Folder 1-3

Moore, Rosalie approximately 1978-1984

Scope and Content Note

Newspapers, the New Renaissance, and poems

Carton 3, Folder 5-17

Moyles, Lois 1958-2004

Carton 6, Folder 4-11

Moyles, Lois approximately 1969-2003

Scope and Content Note

Includes I Prophecy Survivors - original manuscript, revisions, and James Nichols drawings and correspondence; Beware of Jockies typescript; poems; and Alleluia Chorus - original copy, working papers, and photo

Carton 4, Folder 1-3

Ostrander, Fred - Letters, Photo, The Hunchback and the Swan, Mechanical, and Set of Signatures approximately 1977-1978

Carton 6, Folder 12-13

Ostrander, Fred - The Hunchback and the Swan approximately 1977-1979

Carton 6, Folder 14-15

Pound, Omar S. - Pissle and the Holy Grail

Carton 4, Folder 4-9

"P-S" 1959-1977

Scope and Content Note

Includes Terry Patter - Je Suis Rimbaud; Philip Schultz letters; Roberta Shearer letters; Sierra Club trail calendar; Marie Grey Beal Sparks letters; student letters

Carton 4, Folder 10-16

Trivelpiece, Laurel - Letters, Legless in Flight (Originals or Revised Poems/Poems Rejected from Manuscript), Photo approximately 1979-1997

Scope and Content Note

Letters from Laurel Trivelpiece Shapiro date from 1993-1997

Carton 6, Folder 16-17

Trivelpiece, Laurel - Legless in Flight (Reprint Permissions, Original Copy, Corrected Proofs) approximately 1977-1978

Carton 6, Folder 18

Woman Poet - Volume 1 - the West 1980

Carton 4, Folder 17-25

Woolmer/Brotherson Ltd. - Correspondence, Contracts and Copyright Releases 1970s-1980s

Box 4, Folder 1-2

Woolmer/Brotherson Ltd. - Contracts and Copyright Releases 1979

Box 4, Folder 3-7

Works: A Quarterly of Writing - Correspondence 1960s-1974

Scope and Content Note

Brotherson edited the magazine. Some of the correspondence was related to the small press issue (American)

Carton 6, Folder 19

Works: A Quarterly of Writing - Various

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