Finding Aid for the Brian Laird collection of readings by Lawrence Clark Powell, 1975-1998
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UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Brian Laird collection of readings by Lawrence Clark Powell
Date (inclusive): 1975-1998
Collection number: 1277
Creators:
Laird, Brian Andrew
Powell, Lawrence Clark
Extent:
1 document box (.5 linear ft.)
2 shoe boxes.
Abstract: Audio recordings and videotapes of Lawrence Clark Powell's readings of
Blue Train,
Glowing Heart of the World, and
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest, which were recorded from 1996 through 1998. Powell (1906-2001) was the UCLA Librarian from 1944-1961 and a prolific author
on a variety of topics, including California history, the Southwest, librarianship, and literature.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Brian Laird, September 10, 2005.
Processing Note
Processed by Amelia Acker and Kelley Bachli in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), 2009.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Brian Laird collection of readings by Lawrence Clark Powell (Collection 1277). Department of Special
Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Brian Laird is an author, attorney, and law professor who produced books on tape and videotaped recordings of readings by
Lawrence Clark Powell (1906-2001), a prominent author and university librarian at UCLA. In the late 1990s, Laird produced
audio collections of
Glowing Heart of the World and
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest which were published by Singing Wind Audio. Laird also recorded Powell reading his novel,
The Blue Train, but due to Powell's death, the readings were not edited or published.
Scope and Content
The collection is comprised of audio recordings and videotapes of Lawrence Clark Powell's readings of
Blue Train,
Glowing Heart of the World, and
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest, which were recorded from 1996 through 1998. The collection also contains production documents for the published audio books,
clippings about Lawrence Clark Powell and the books' publisher, Winifred "Winn" Bundy, owner of Singing Wind bookstore and
Singing Wind Audio, and additional recordings of readings by Powell.
Two of the audio books were published under the titles, the
Glowing Heart of the World (1998) and
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest (1997). The essays featured in
Glowing Heart of the World also appeared in Powell's book
Southwest Classics (1974). In
Glowing Heart of the World, Powell provides an afterword and reads 20 classic works of authors of the American Southwest, including Mary Austin, Willa
Cather, Zane Grey, Charles Lummis, Edward Santee, and Steward Edward White. Based on Powell's book
Southwest,
Three Definitions, the audio book
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest contains music by Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico. Also in the collection are unedited and unpublished recordings
of Powell reading his book The
Blue Train, which was written in 1941 and published in 1977.
The clippings in the collection primarily focus on Lawrence Clark Powell, his career in librarianship, and his published works.
They also include articles about Winifred "Winn" Bundy, owner of the Singing Wind bookstore in Benson, Arizona. Bundy is
the publisher of Powell's audio books and many of his later print books through her company Singing Wind Audio. The production
documents consist of copyright agreements for
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest and proofs for the packaging of
Glowing Heart of the World and
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest.
Organization and Arrangement
Materials in the collection did not have a discernible order. Therefore, the collection was organized into five series by
project:
- Clippings
-
The Blue Train
-
Glowing Heart of the World
-
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest
- Miscellaneous Recordings
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Laird, Brian Andrew--Archives.
Related Material
Box 1, Folder 1
Clippings about Singing Wind bookshop and Lawrence Clark Powell
1975-1992
2.
Blue Train
undated
Scope and Content Note
Contains CD-R and audio cassette recordings of Lawrence Clark Powell reading of
Blue Train. These readings
were intended to be published as a book on tape, but the project was never completed due to the death of LCP.
Box 1, Folder 7
Blue Train -- Chapter 1
undated
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 8
Blue Train -- Chapter 2
undated
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 9
Blue Train -- Chapter 3
undated
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 10
Blue Train -- Chapter 4
undated
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 11
Blue Train -- Chapter 5
undated
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 2, Folder 18
Blue Train -- Chapter 2 and 3
undated
Physical Description: digital audio tape
Box 2, Folder 19
Blue Train -- Marked "C"
undated
Physical Description: digital audio tape
3.
Glowing Heart of the World
1996-1998
Scope and Content Note
Contains compact disk and audio cassette recordings of
Glowing Heart of the World, as well as packaging proofs
and release announcements.
Glowing Heart of the World consists of stories from LCP's book Southwest Classics. Many of the
stories from Southwest Classics were recorded for
Glowing Heart of the World, but not all were included in the final edited version of the
book on tape.
Box 1, Folder 2
Glowing Heart of the World -- Packaging proofs
ca. 1996
Box 1, Folder 3
Glowing Heart of the World -- Release announcement
1998
Box 1, Folder 12
Glowing Heart of the World -- Powell, Lawrence, "Traveling reader," read by the author, 1996, CD-R.
1996 April 10
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 13
Glowing Heart of the World -- (1) Garrard, Lewis; "Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail;" (2) Magoffin, Susan, "Down the Santa Fe Trail;" "Grey, Zane, "Riders
of the Purple Sage"
1998 February 5
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 14
Glowing Heart of the World -- Southwest Classics, Ross Calvin "Sky Determines" and Mary Austin "The Land of Journies Ending"
1998 February 9
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 15
Glowing Heart of the World -- Southwest Classics, Martha Summerhayes "Vanished Arizona" and J. Frank Dobie "Coronado's Children"
1998 February 10
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 16
Glowing Heart of the World -- Southwest Classics, Erna Fergusson "Dancing Gods"
1998 February 11
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 17
Glowing Heart of the World -- Southwest Classics, works by George Agustus Frederick Raxton and Erna Fergusson
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 18
Glowing Heart of the World -- Southwest Classics, CD 5, Josiah Gregg "Commerce of the Praries" and Ross Santee "Lost Pony Tracks"
1998 March 2
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 19
Glowing Heart of the World -- Southwest Classics, CD 6, Eugene Manlove Rhodes "Paso Por Aqui" and Stewart Edward White "Arizona Nights"
undated
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 20
Glowing Heart of the World -- Southwest Classics, CD 7, Theodore Roosevelt "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail" and Oliver La Farge "Laughing Boy"
undated
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 21
Glowing Heart of the World -- Southwest Classics, CD 8, Haniel Long "Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca" and John Ross Browne "Adventures in the Apache Country"
undated
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 22
Glowing Heart of the World -- Southwest Classics, CD 9, John Westley Powell "Exploration of the Colorado River" and John C. Van Dyke "The Desert"
undated
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 23
Glowing Heart of the World -- Southwest Classics, CD 10, Willa Cather "Death Comes for the Archbishop" and Charles Lummis "The Land of Poco Tiempo"
undated
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 24
Glowing Heart of the World -- Southwest Classics, CD 11, Joseph Wood Krutch "The Desert Year" and Will Levington Comfort's "Apache"
undated
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 2, Folder 1
Glowing Heart of the World -- Arizona and the Deserts, volume 1
undated
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 2, Folder 2
Glowing Heart of the World -- Arizona and the Deserts, volume 1
undated
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 2, Folder 3
Glowing Heart of the World -- Arizona T-1
1998 June 2
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 2, Folder 4
Glowing Heart of the World -- Arizona T-1
1998 June 2
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 2, Folder 5
Glowing Heart of the World -- Arizona T-1
1998 June 2
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 2, Folder 6
Glowing Heart of the World -- Arizona T-2
1998 June 3
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 2, Folder 7
Glowing Heart of the World -- Arizona T-2
1998 June 3
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 2, Folder 8
Glowing Heart of the World -- Arizona T-2
1998 June 3
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 2, Folder 9
Glowing Heart of the World -- Santa Fe and New Mexico, volume 2
undated
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 2, Folder 10
Glowing Heart of the World -- Santa Fe and New Mexico, volume 2
undated
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 2, Folder 11
Glowing Heart of the World -- Santa Fe T-1
1998 June 3
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 2, Folder 12
Glowing Heart of the World -- Santa Fe T-1
1998 June 3
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 2, Folder 13
Glowing Heart of the World -- Santa Fe T-1
1998 June 3
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 2, Folder 14
Glowing Heart of the World -- Santa Fe T-2
1998 June 3
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 2, Folder 15
Glowing Heart of the World -- Santa Fe T-2
1998 June 3
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 2, Folder 16
Glowing Heart of the World -- Santa Fe T-2
1998 June 3
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 2, Folder 17
Glowing Heart of the World -- Indian Country and the Rockies, volume 3
undated
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 1
Glowing Heart of the World -- Indian Country and the Rockies, volume 3
undated
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 2
Glowing Heart of the World -- Indian T-1
1998 June 4
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 3
Glowing Heart of the World -- Indian T-1
1998 June 4
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 4
Glowing Heart of the World -- Indian T-1
1998 June 4
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 5
Glowing Heart of the World -- Indian T-2
1998 June 4
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 6
Glowing Heart of the World -- Indian T-2
1998 June 4
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 7
Glowing Heart of the World -- Indian T-2
1998 June 4
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 8
Glowing Heart of the World -- The Mythic West, volume 4
undated
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 9
Glowing Heart of the World -- The Mythic West, volume 4
undated
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 10
Glowing Heart of the World -- Mythic T-1
1998 June 3
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 11
Glowing Heart of the World -- Mythic T-1
1998 June 3
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 12
Glowing Heart of the World -- Mythic T-1
1998 June 3
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 13
Glowing Heart of the World -- Mythic T-2
1998 June 3
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 14
Glowing Heart of the World -- Mythic T-2
1998 June 3
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 15
Glowing Heart of the World -- Mythic T-2
1998 June 3
Physical Description: audio cassette
4.
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest
1191-1997
Scope and Content Note
Contains copyright designations and packaging proofs and photographs, plus one digital audio tape of chapter 3 of
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest.
Box 1, Folder 4
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Copyright designations
1997
Box 1, Folder 5
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Packaging photographs
1991, undated
Box 1, Folder 6
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Packaging proofs
1997
Box 1, Folder 25
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Revista Nueva Mexico -- unedited, plus university lecture
1997 March 31
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 26
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Revista Nueva Mexican Arizona Deserts -- test master
1997 July 9
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 27
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Where Watter Flows -- CD 1, test master
1997 July 14
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 28
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Where Watter Flows -- CD 2, test master
1997 July 14
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 35
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Music by Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico
undated
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 2, Folder 20
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Chapter 3, The Southwest: An Essay on the Land
1997 January 27
Physical Description: digital audio tape
Box 2, Folder 21
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Revista Nueva Mexicana
1997 June 16
Physical Description: digital audio tape
Box 2, Folder 22
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Revista Nueva Mexicana -- strictly local
1997 March 26
Physical Description: digital audio tape
Box 2, Folder 23
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Where Water Flows -- Prologue, Verde
1997 June 13
Physical Description: digital audio tape
Box 3, Folder 16
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Revista Nueva Mexicana -- vol 3-4
1997 July 29
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 17
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Revista Nueva Mexicana -- vol 3-4
1997 July 29
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 18
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Revista Nueva Mexicana -- vol 3-4
1997 July 29
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 19
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Where Water Flows -- volume 2, T 1-4
1997 July 29
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 20
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Where Water Flows, volume 2, T 1-4
1997 July 29
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 21
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Where Water Flows, volume 2, T 1-4
1997 July 29
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 22
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Where Water Flows, volume 2, T 2-4
1997 July 30
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 23
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Where Water Flows, volume 2, T 2-4
1997 July 30
Physical Description: audio cassette
Box 3, Folder 24
Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest -- Where Water Flows
1997 February 13
Physical Description: video Hi8 tape
5. Micellaneous Recordings
1997
Scope and Content Note
Contains various digital audio tape and video recordings.
Box 1, Folder 29
Prologue edit, Rio Verde edit, Rio Colorado edit
1997 April 4
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 30
Rio Gila edit, Rio de La Santa Cruz edit
1997 April 9
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 31
Rio Salado edit, Rio San Pedro edit
1997 April 11
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 32
New Revista --
1997 July 1
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 33
Arizona Deserts
1997 July 3
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 1, Folder 34
New Prologue edit, New Rio Verde edit
1997 July 10
Physical Description: CD-R
Box 2, Folder 24
Singing Wind -- Arizona Rivers, #1 prologue, #2 Rio Solado
1997 February 9
Physical Description: digital audio tape
Box 2, Folder 25
Singing Wind -- #1 Rio Solado (take 2), #2 Rio Verde, Rio Colorado
1997 February 9
Physical Description: digital audio tape
Box 2, Folder 26
At home in Tucson -- #2 Lawrence talks about Bob Bundy, #3 Gila River, #4, 5 Rio San Pedro, #6, 7 (post discussion), #8 Rio
de la Santa Cruz
1997 February 13
Physical Description: digital audio tape
Box 2, Folder 27
Rio Salado, Farewell to the Encinal, Land of Many Returns, Personal Landscape
1997 March 19
Physical Description: digital audio tape
Box 2, Folder 28
Arizona's Deserts,
Blue Train (chapter 1)
1997 June 20-24
Physical Description: digital audio tape
Box 3, Folder 25
LCP at Singing Wind
1997 February 9
Physical Description: video Hi8 tape
Box 3, Folder 26
Cross and Skull
undated
Physical Description: video Hi8 tape
