Brewster Ghiselin papers

Brewster Ghiselin papers, 1928-1996

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Ghiselin, Brewster, 1903-2002
Title: Brewster Ghiselin papers
Dates: 1928-1996 (inclusive)
19281996
Quantity: 44 linear feet, (61 boxes)
Collection Number: MS 0528
Summary: The Brewster Ghiselin papers (1928-1996) consist of materials related to Ghiselin's career as an author, poet, and professor at the University of Utah. The collection contains materials related to the University of Utah Writer's Conference, primarily from 1944 to 1966, materials from the Poetry Society of America, a large number of books of poetry by various authors, and manuscripts of much of Ghiselin's own work, both poetry and essays. The materials consist of manuscripts, notes, letters, brochures, news clippings, correspondence, reader evaluation forms, bulletins, posters, preparatory materials, and other items. Ghiselin joined the University of Utah faculty in 1929, and served as director of the University of Utah Writer's Conference for nineteen years.
Repository: University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions: Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Languages: English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Brewster Ghiselin was born in Webster Groves, Missouri, in 1903, but once said that he felt more at home in California near Mt. Tamalpais, where he moved at age 18. Ghiselin is specifically well-known for his poem "The Rattlesnake," but has many finely developed and diversified abilities. In addition to publishing numerous collections of poetry, Ghiselin was responsible for creating and teaching a course on the creative process, which in turn birthed his over 500,000-copy bestseller, The Creative Process. Not being limited merely to the exposition and sublimation of the written word, Ghiselin held a showing of watercolors and drawings at the Salt Lake Art Council's Art Barn in 1937. The result of Ghiselin's achievements: a garner of awards and immense recognition of achievement in the arts. In 1970, Ghiselin received an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and had his "Country of the Minotaur" selected by Masterplots as one of the oustanding books printed in 1970. To further the list, in 1981 and 1982 respectively, Ghiselin received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Governor's Award for the Arts.

The University of Utah Writer's Conference was established, conducted, and supplied with well-known and gifted teachers and writers through the efforts of Ghiselin, who served as conference director for nineteen years. Ghiselin joined the University of Utah faculty in 1929 after receiving his A.B. degree from UCLA in 1927, his M.A. from UC Berkeley in 1928 and after completing a year of study at Oxford, where he had gone in pursuit of "finding a large-minded faculty and a liberal view" and D. H. Lawrence. A strong vein of naturalism runs through Ghiselin's work, and Wallace Stegner, in Ghiselin's The Water of Light, seems to sum Ghiselin's ability and his interpretation of the natural world the best: "That has been his double mark--the capacity to take in through the senses the whole range of the natural world, and the curiosity and patience and passion to know it in its quintessence, its ultimate quiddity, its absolute right image or word" (pg. 214).

As for Ghiselin's personal excellence in poetry, he has been called "one of the brightest of the young poets;" as for the University of Utah Writer's Conference, the Ghiselin excellence is apparent. "On the whole, though, I am very well satisfied with what seems to me the essential success of the conference in serving the needs of the writers in the community who matter most. It is a comfort, too, to find that the smart and talented young people all feel I have been doing the best thing possible for them in handling the conference as I have" (excerpt from a letter to Caroline Gordon, dated July 3, 1952).

(Sources for the biography include newspaper articles and shorts from his published works.)

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Brewster Ghiselin papers (1928-1996) consist of materials related to Ghiselin's career as an author, poet, and professor at the University of Utah. The collection contains materials related to the University of Utah Writer's Conference, primarily from 1944 to 1966, materials from the Poetry Society of America, a large number of books of poetry by various authors, and manuscripts of much of Ghiselin's own work, both poetry and essays. The materials consist of manuscripts, notes, letters, brochures, news clippings, correspondence, reader evaluation forms, bulletins, posters, preparatory materials, and other items.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

Boxes 1-25 were donated in the 1980s.

Boxes 26-31 were donated in 1990.

Box 32 was donated in 1993.

Boxes 33-40 were donated in 1995.

Boxes 41-51 were donated in 1996.

Boxes 52-61 were donated in 1997.

Box 61, folder 15 was donated in 2001.

Processing Note

Processed by Julie Reiser and other Manuscripts staff from 1989-2003.

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Separated Materials

See also the Brewster Ghiselin photograph collection (P0296) and audio-visual materials (A0302) in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

I: University of Utah Writers' ConferenceReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box
1		Brochures A compilation of the brochures of the University of Utah Writers' Conference, under the direction of Brewster Ghiselin. The bulletins contain brief biographical sketches of writers leading the workshops as well as schedules, registration blanks, and other miscellaneous information.	1947-1966
2		Clipping Files A compilation of clippings announcing the conference, delineating brief synopses of workshops and meetings, and giving biographical summaries of leaders.
3		Complimentary Tickets A chronological compilation of correspondence and lists of people--in and out of the English department--given complimentary tickets to attend some or all of the workshops.	1950-1964
		Finances, A-Z Miscellaneous financial material strictly related to the costs of running, maintaining, advertising, and funding the conference. Most categories are incomplete chronologically. Also included are budget materials, advertising expenses, university receipts, income and expense statements, and other miscellaneous financial records in moderately complete sections.
Box	Folder
4	1	Advertising Expenses
4	2	Budget Material This includes a limited account of the budget for the non-inclusive years of 1951-1966. Included are a few separate budget ledger entries and brief budget summaries.	1951-1966
4	3	Correspondence	1949-1964
4	4	Income and Expenses Summary sheets of total income and expenses of the conference.	1949-1953
4	5	Income and Expenses	1954-1966
4	6	Miscellaneous
4	7	Miscellaneous Handwritten Notes
4	8	Payroll
4	9	Purchase Orders	1949-1964
4	10	Receipts--Cash Receipts	1960-1964
4	11	Receipts--Stenographic Bureau
4	12	Receipts--Union Building Food Service
4	13	Receipts--University Book Store	1947-1964
5	1	Receipts--University Miscellaneous
5	2	Receipts--University Press
5	3	Reimbursements
5	4	Requisitions
5	5	Requisitions and Miscellanea
5	6	Salaries
5	7	Scholarship Fund Contributions Included are receipts and summaries of actual contributions. For more detailed information please see Scholarship Fund Correspondence, box 15; or, for other types of financial support, such as corporate sponsorship, see Conference Files, box 22, folder 27.
5	8	Telephone Charges
5	9	Ticket Sales	1949-1950
5	10	Time Cards	1947-1964
5	11	Tuition and Manuscript Fees
5	12	University Services
Box
6		Mailing List Index A compilation of three-by-five index cards listing members of the conference, participants, writers, leaders, and other interested persons. Address, correspondence record, contribution record, and conference attendance is noted on each card. The upper right corner of each card is color-coded to indicate the individual's attendance. A explanation card is located immediately behind the introductory card.
		Miscellaneous Conference Brochures An alphabetical file of brochures and announcements from other conferences. Each brochure is listed according to conference title, with the university or location listed in parentheses.
Box	Folder
7	1	American Baptist Assembly (Green Lake, Wisconsin)
7	2	Annual Writers' Round-Up
7	3	Antioch Writing and Publishing Seminar (Antioch College)
7	4	Banff School of Fine Arts (University of Alberta)
7	5	Bard College
7	6	Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (Middlebury College)
7	7	Conference on New Criticism (Georgetown University)
7	8	A Conference on Writing (Pomona College)
7	9	Connecticut Writer's Conference (University of Connecticut)
7	10	Contemporary Literature Workshop (State Teacher's College, Millersville, Pennsylvania)
7	11	Creative Writing (University of British Columbia)
7	12	Creative Writing (University of Oregon)
7	13	Famous Writers School (Westport, Connecticut)
7	14	Fundamentals of Book Editing (Hunter College of The City of New York)
7	15	Huckleberry Workshop (Hendersonville, North Carolina)
7	16	Indiana University Writers' Conference
7	17	Instituto Mende (University of Guanajuato)
7	17A	Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival
7	18	Kansas Writer's Conference (University of Kansas)
7	19	The Kenyon School of English (Kenyon College)
7	20	Live Oak Writers Conference (University of Mississippi)
7	21	Mexico City Writing Center (Mexico City College)
7	22	Missouri Writers Workshop (University of Missouri)
7	23	Ohio Valley Writers' Conference (Marietta College)
7	24	Pacific Coast Writers Conference (Los Angeles State College)
7	24A	Poetry Workshop for Teachers (San Francisco State College)
7	25	The Program in Creative Writing (University of Iowa)
7	26	Riviera Writers' Workshop (San Remo, Italy)
7	27	Santa Clara Writers Institute
7	28	The School of Letters (Indiana University)
7	29	Short Course on Professional Writing (University of Oklahoma)
7	30	Sinclair Lewis Writers' Workshop (University of Minnesota--Sauke Center)
7	31	Summer Program in the Creative Arts (University of Wyoming)
7	32	Summer Writing Conference (New York University)
7	33	University of Colorado
7	34	Utah Writer's Conference (Utah State Agricultural College)
7	35	Utah Writer's Conference (Correspondence) (Utah State Agricultural College)
7	36	Workshop for Writers (University of Denver)
7	37	Writer's Colony (Tecolutla, Veracruz, Mexico)
7	38	Writers Conference (Columbia University)
7	39	Writers' Conference (Portland Summer Session)
7	40	Writer's Conference (University of New Hampshire)
7	41	Writers Conference (Wagner College)
7	42	The Writers' Institute (University of Wisconsin)
7	43	Writing at Washington Square (New York University)
7	44	The Writing Center (New York University)
7	45	The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins
Box
8		Participants A chronological compilation of lists of participants and some participant correspondence concerning registration and fees.	1947-1966
		Publications and Periodicals A collection of printed brochures, magazines, and periodicals in which the University of Utah Writers' Conference and other conferences are mentioned. Some miscellaneous printed material does not specifically relate to the University of Utah Writers' Conference, but to the craft of writing and publishing. In some cases, the articles concern the director of the conference, Brewster Ghiselin, the conference itself, or a conference advertisement.
Box	Folder
9	1	American Poetry Magazine	1954
9	2	American Poetry Magazine	1955
9	3	Author & Journalist	April 1957
9	4	Author & Journalist	April 1961
9	5	Author & Journalist (reprint)
9	6	Creator and Critic: A Controversy between Jack London and Philo M. Buck. Jr., by King Hendricks
9	7	Exposition Press General Catalogue	1954-1955
9	8	The Literature of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, by Howard Mumford Jones
9	8A	Modern Verse in English, by Lord David Cecil and Allen Tate	1900-1950
9	9	A Moth's Wing, by Flora J. Arnstein
9	10	On Reading Fiction, by Shirley Watkins (Steinman)	1956
9	11	Saturday Review	April 30, 1960
9	12	A Study in Defoe: Moral Vision and Structural Form, by Mark Shorer
9	13	"Their Blood is Strong," by John Steinbeck
9	13A	Thomas Y. Crowell Company Catalog	Spring 1960
9	14	'Twas Ever So and Events of Years (poetry), by Floyd Weston Stafford
9	15	Two Tributes	1970
9	16	The Utah Alumnus	July 1963
9	17	Utah Wilderness Photography
9	18	Variegation: A Free Verse Quarterly
9	19	The Writer	April 1955
9	20	The Writer	April 1956
9	21	The Writer	April 1958
9	22	The Writer	April 1959
9	23	The Writer	April 1960
9	24	The Writer	April 1963
9	25	The Writer	April 1966
9	26	Writer's Digest	May 1963
9	27	Writer's Digest	January 1966
9	28	Writer's Digest	May 1966
Box
10		Publicity Publicity materials arranged chronologically. Each year, or chronological division, is divided in three parts: announcements, clippings and related correspondence. In most cases, the correspondence is of an introductory or business nature, and not directed personally to Brewster Ghiselin, but rather to him as the conference director.	1947-1966
11		Publicity Broadsides	1949-1973
12		Questionnaires Questionnaires soliciting responses to the conference. Included are original questionnaire responses and original tabulation sheets for statistical purposes.	1947-1950
		Scholarship Application/Award Correspondence Correspondence with and applications from students and writers seeking scholarship to the conferences. Also included are scholarship letters of recommendation and award announcement letters.
Box	Folder
13	1	Correspondence	1953
13	2	Correspondence	1954
13	3	Correspondence	1955
13	4	Correspondence	1956
13	5	Correspondence	1957
13	6	Correspondence	1958
13	7	Correspondence	1959 January-May
13	8	Correspondence	1959 June-December
14	1	Correspondence	1960
14	2	Correspondence	1961
14	3	Correspondence	1962
14	4	Correspondence	1963
14	5	Correspondence	1964
14	6	Correspondence, miscellaneous
		Scholarship Fund Scholarship fund materials including correspondence with sponsors of scholarships, and correspondence regarding the financial aspect of securing scholarship monies and of awarding scholarships.
Box	Folder
15	1	Correspondence	1950
15	2	Correspondence	1951
15	3	Correspondence	1952
15	4	Correspondence	1953
15	5	Correspondence	1954
15	6	Correspondence	1955
15	7	Correspondence	1956
15	8	Correspondence	1957
15	9	Correspondence	1958
15	10	Correspondence	1959
15	11	Correspondence	1960
15	12	Correspondence	1961
15	13	Correspondence	1962
15	14	Correspondence	1963
15	15	Correspondence	1964
15	16	Correspondence	1966
15	17	Correspondence--Charles R. Mabey Scholarship
15	18	Correspondence--Grey Memorial Fund
15	19	Financial Material--Cash Receipts
15	20	Financial Material--Contribution Check Records
15	21	Financial Material--Contribution Receipts
15	22	Financial Material--Miscellaneous Handwritten Notes
15	23	Financial Material--Restricted Funds
15	24	Financial Material--Schedule of Accounts
15	25	Financial Material--Scholarship Awards
15	26	Financial Material--Scholarship Contributions
15	27	Financial Material--Statement of Account
		Student Writing Files A collection of fiction, poetry, and other writings by students within the conference. Student work is arranged alphabetically and is not inclusive of all students attending the conference; in fact only a small percentage of students are represented in this file. For other writings not necessarily generated by the writers conference, see individual student applications listed chronologically within Student Application/Award Correspondence, boxes 13-14. Also included is correspondence concerning the work of past and prospective conference students and group writing projects. This box may be perused, but no photocopying may be made.
Box	Folder
16	1	Ackerlind, Betty
16	2	Allred, Gordon
16	3	Browning, Robert Pack
16	4	Champlin, Ardath
16	5	Davis, Kay
16	6	Dozzi, Denise Danielle
16	7	Foster, Robert
16	8	Goff, Margaret Tuttle
16	9	Hill, Lael W.
16	10	Hunter, Rodelle Hicks
16	11	Hurst, Jean
16	12	Jeppsen, Allan
16	13	Jessop, Bernice
16	14	Marcus, Adrianne
16	15	Martin, Kathryn
16	16	Olsen, Betty
16	17	Robinson, Helen James
16	18	Correspondence Correspondence regarding the work of past and prospective students.	1953-1955
16	19	Correspondence Correspondence regarding the work of past and prospective students.	1956-1960
16	20	Correspondence Correspondence regarding the work of conference participants.	1952-1962
16	21	Comments on Conference Participants
16	22	Letters of Recommendation	1952-1964
16	23	PEN Magazine A student-leader collaboration of published material produced, in part, by the writers conference.	1956
16	24	Poetry by Participants Additional poetry produced by writer conference participants.	1966
		Writer Files, A-Z An alphabetical file of individual writers who were asked to be conference leaders. Included in the folders is biographical information printed in the conference syllabus, correspondence with Brewster Ghiselin, and other information pertaining the specific writer. In some cases, the correspondence does not contain the autograph of the writer, as the correspondence was relayed to the writer through the writer's secretary.
Box	Folder
17	1	Aiken, Conrad	1950-1951
17	2	Basso, Hamilton	1955-1956
17	3	Bates, Ralph	1955
17	4	Bechtel, Louise Seaman	1949
17	5	Bellow, Saul	1959-1961; 1965
17	6	Bemelmens, Ludwig	1949-1950
17	7	Benet, Marjorie Flack	1950
17	8	Bentley, Eric	1947
17	9	Berryman, John	1959
17	10	Bessie, Alvah	1947
17	11	Birney, Earle	1952
17	12	Blackmur, R. P.	1961
17	13	Bogan, Louise	1949-1950
17	14	Boyle, Kay	1947; 1964
17	15	Brand, Millen	1947
17	16	Brickell, Herschel	1948-1950
17	17	Brooks, Cleanth	1949
17	18	Buck, Pearl S.	1949
17	19	Burnett, Whit	1947-1966
17	20	Caldwell, Erskine	1947
17	21	Cannon, Josephine Johnson	1952
17	22	Cary, Joyce	1951
17	23	Cheever, John	1958-1959
17	24	Ciardi, John	1952-1955
17	25	Clark, Walter van Tilberg	1947-1964
17	26	Corle, Edwin	1953
17	27	Cowley, Malcolm	1951-1953
17	28	Cozzens, James G.	1954
17	29	Davis, George	1949
17	30	Davis, H. L.	1954-1956
17	31	DeVoto, Bernard	1947
17	32	Dickey, James	1965-1966; 1981
17	33	Dillon, George	1947
17	34	Dos Passos, John	1947; 1949-1951
17	35	Eberhart, Richard	1954; 1960
17	36	Eliot, T. S.	1948; 1949
17	37	Elliott, George P.	1962-1963
17	38	Engle, Paul	1947; 1951-1957; 1961; 1964
17	39	Enright, Elizabeth	1952; 1955
18	1	Farrell, James T.	1955
18	2	Fergusson, Francis	1952
18	3	Fiedler, Leslie A.	1951, 1956
18	4	Fisher, M. F. K.	1952, 1953
18	5	Fisher, Vardis	1947, 1953
18	6	Foley, Martha	1949
18	7	Frost, Robert	1947
18	8	Geisel, Theodor Seuss	1949-1953
18	9	Gold, Herbert	1958-1959
18	10	Gordon, Caroline	1947-1958
18	11	Gorman, Herbert	1950
18	12	Green, Paul	1947, 1950
18	13	Guerard, Albert S.	1955-1961
18	14	Guthrie, A. B., Jr.	1954-1956
18	15	Hall, Donald	1958
18	16	Hawkes, John	1961-1962
18	17	Hersey, John	1949
18	18	Hillyer, Robert S.	1948
18	19	Horgan, Paul	1947
18	20	Humphries, Rolfe	1956-1957
18	21	Huxley, Aldous	1947
18	22	Jackson, Shirley	1955, 1956
18	23	Jarrell, Randall	1954, 1956
18	24	Jeffers, Robinson	1947
18	25	Johnson, Josephine	1952
18	26	Josephsen, Marba	1953
18	27	Krutch, Joseph Wood	1955
18	28	Kunitz, Stanley	1960-1962
18	29	LaFarge, Oliver	1950-1952
18	30	Laughlin, James	1947-1950
18	31	Leaf, Munro	1950
18	32	Lewis, C. Day	1956
18	33	Lowell, Robert	1952-1957, 1960
18	34	Lytle, Andrew	1954, 1957, 1961-1964
19	1	McCleary, Dorothy	1956, 1960
19	2	McElderry, Margaret	1957
19	3	McGinley (Hayden), Phyllis	1949-1950
19	4	McWilliams, Carey	1952
19	5	Macauley, Robert	1960-1963
19	6	Macliesh, Archibald	1947, 1950
19	7	Maisel, Albert Q.	1958
19	8	Malamud, Bernard	1961
19	9	Maltz, Albert	1947
19	10	Merwin, W. S.	1956-1957, 1960-1961
19	11	Michener, James A.	1950, 1953
19	12	Mizener, Arthur	1951
19	13	Moore, Marianne	1954, 1957
19	14	Morris, Wright	1955
19	15	Nabakov, Vladimir	1948, 1949
19	16	Nemerov, Howard	1959, 1964
19	17	O'Connor, Frank	1957, 1961
19	18	Patchen, Kenneth	1957
19	19	Porter, Katherine Anne	1953
19	20	Powers, J. F.	1957
19	21	Ransom, John C.	1948-1949, 1954
19	22	Richards, I. A.	1947, 1949
19	23	Richter, Conrad	1947, 1954
19	24	Roethke, Theodore	1961
19	25	Roth, Philip	1961
19	26	Sandburg, Carl	1949
19	27	Schorer, Mark	1947-1962, 1965
19	28	Schramm, Wilbur	1949, 1952-1953
19	29	Schwartz, Delmore	1949-1951
19	30	Scowcraft, Dick C	1947
19	31	Shapiro, Karl	1949-1956
19	32	Shaw, Harry	1950-1957
19	33	Shaw, Irwin	1947-1950
19	34	Smith, William Jay	1960
19	35	Sorenson, Virginia Biographical and miscellaneous material.
19	36	Sorenson, Virginia Correspondence.	1953-1966
19	37	Spencer, Theodore	1947
19	38	Spender, Stephen	1951-1959
19	39	Squires, Radcliffe	1962-1963
19	40	Stafford, Jean
19	41	Stafford, William	1965-1966
19	42	Stanford, Ann	1956-1957
19	43	Stegner, Wallace Biographical and miscellaneous material.
19	44	Stegner, Wallace Correspondence.	1949-1971
19	45	Stewart, George R.	1947-1951
19	46	Suckow, Ruth	1947
19	47	Swados, Harvey	1960
20	1	Tate, Allen Biographical and miscellaneous material.
20	2	Tate, Allen Correspondence.	1947-1961
20	3	Taylor, Peter	1951-1952; 1957-1963
20	4	Thomas, Dylan	1950-1952
20	5	Towne, Charles Harrison	1939
20	6	Trilling, Lionel	1949
20	7	Van Doren, Mark	1947
20	8	Wain, John	1958
20	9	Warren, Robert Penn	1947-1951; 1955
20	10	Waugh, Alec Biographical and miscellaneous material.
20	11	Waugh, Alec Correspondence.	1966
20	12	Wecter, Dixon	1948
20	13	Weeks, Edward	1949
20	14	Welty, Eudora	1949
20	15	Wescott, Glenway Biographical and miscellaneous material.
20	16	Wescott, Glenway Correspondence.	1956-1963
20	17	West, Jessamyn Biographical and miscellaneous material.
20	18	West, Jessamyn Correspondence.	1951-1962
20	19	West, Ray B. Biographical and miscellaneous material.
20	20	West, Ray B. Correspondence	1947; 1950-1952
20	21	West, Rebecca	1948
20	22	White, E. B.	1949; 1950
20	23	Whittemore, Reed Biographical and miscellaneous material
20	24	Whittemore, Reed Correspondence.	1961
20	25	Wilbur, Richard	1956; 1958
20	26	Wilder, Isabel	1947; 1948
20	27	Williams, Oscar Biographical and miscellaneous material
20	28	Williams, Oscar Correspondence.	1949; 1950-1956
20	29	Williams, William Carlos	1947-1956
20	30	Williams, William Carlos Speech
20	31	Wilson, Edmund	1947
20	32	Wouk, Herman	1954
20	33	Miscellaneous Writer Correspondence
		Writer Files (Readers' Evaluation Forms) University Credit Awarded Reader evaluations of conference participant manuscripts, listed alphabetically by evaluator. Also included are several folders of correspondence awarding grades and university credit to student conference participants, This box is restricted.
Box	Folder
21	1	Benet, Marjorie Flack
21	2	Berryman, John
21	3	Birney, Earle
21	4	Burnett, Whit
21	5	Ciardi, John
21	6	Clark, Walter V. T.
21	7	Cowley, Malcolm
21	8	Dickey, James
21	9	Eberhart, Richard
21	10	Elliott, George P.
21	11	Enright, Elizabeth
21	12	Fiedler, Leslie A.
21	13	Fisher, M. F. K.
21	14	Ghiselin, Brewster
21	15	Gold, Herbert
21	16	Gordon, Caroline
21	17	Guerard, Albert J.
21	18	Hawkes, John
21	19	Humphries, Rolfe
21	20	Kunitz, Stanley
21	21	LaFarge, Oliver
21	22	Lytle, Andrew
21	23	McCleary, Dorothy
21	24	Macauley, Robert
21	25	Nemerov, Howard
21	26	Schwartz, Delmore
21	27	Shapiro, Karl
21	28	Shaw, Harry
21	29	Shaw, Irwin
21	30	Sorenson, Virginia
21	31	Spender, Stephen
21	32	Squires, Radcliffe
21	33	Stewart, George R.
21	34	Stafford, William
21	35	Swados, Harvey
21	36	Tate, Allen
21	37	Taylor, Peter
21	38	Unidentified
21	39	Waugh, Alec
21	40	Wescott, Glenway
21	41	West, Jessamyn
21	42	West, Ray
21	43	Whittemore, Reed
21	44	Williams, Oscar
21	45	University Credit	1947-1964
21	46	University Credit Comments, grades
		Conference Files, A-Z Conference subject files listed alphabetically. Included are organizational materials, comments on conferences, admission cards, conference correspondence, and other pertinent material. Also included is workshop information, pertaining to publishing, children's literature, and copyright laws, This information is a good indication of the writing and publishing market during the 1950s and 1960s, but it does not specifically pertain to the conference. A section of correspondence in 1962 came from Italy where the Ghiselins were vacationing. It is directed to the conference secretary and also contains many descriptions of the countryside as well as the plans of the trip.
Box	Folder
22	1	Admission Cards
22	2	Approval and Early Organization	1946-1948
22	3	Articles Articles written about other writers conferences.
22	3A	Articles Articles and clippings from magazines, brochures, and unidentified booklets giving brief biographical notes about the writers at the conference and other writers in general.
22	4	Bibliographies Suggested reading lists for conference participants,
22	4A	Book Announcements Announcements and lists for newly published books.
22	5	Children's Literature Information
22	6	Comments on Conference	1946-1949
22	7	Comments on Conference	1950
22	8	Comments on Conference	1951-1952
22	9	Comments on Conference	1953-1955
22	10	Comments on Conference	1956-1957
22	11	Comments on Conference	1958-1960
22	12	Comments on Conference	1961-1964
22	13	Comments on Conference	1965-1966
22	14	Conference Committee	1955-1964
22	15	Conference Dinner--Correspondence
22	16	Conference Dinner--Food Service Facilities
22	17	Conference Dinner--Lists
22	18	Conference Dinner--Notes
22	19	Conference Dinner--Speeches
22	20	Conference Inquiries	1961-1962, 1964
22	21	Conference Newsletter	1959
22	22	Conference Tea	1949; 1951; 1957
22	23	Copyright Information
22	24	Correspondence--Bentley, Harold W.
22	25	Correspondence--Colorado State University
22	26	Correspondence--Conference Secretaries
22	27	Correspondence--Financial Support
22	28	Correspondence--Italy Trip
22	29	Correspondence--Jarvis, Boyer
23	1	Correspondence--Miscellaneous
23	2	Correspondence--Publishing Companies
23	3	Equipment
23	4	Facility Arrangements
23	5	File Headings	1961
23	6	Final Examinations Lists of the questions offered as a final examination for credit on the university level for the conference.	1947; 1950
23	7	Group Leader Consideration Notes and lists of possible and actual leaders.
23	7A	Leader Suggestions Correspondence from writers suggesting other writers for the conference.
23	8	Literary Agent Information--Addresses
23	9	Literary Contests--Announcements
23	10	Literary Contests--Correspondence
23	11	Literary Contests--Personal Notes
23	12	Literary Contests--Wilson Thornley Students
23	13	Literary Fellowships
23	14	Literary Organizations
23	15	Manuscript Assignments	1947; 1949; 1950; 1964
23	16	Miscellaneous Handwritten Notes
23	17	Miscellaneous Staff Articles
23	18	Miscellaneous Staff Correspondence
23	19	Miscellaneous Staff Notes
23	20	Miscellaneous Staff Posters and Notices
23	21	Picnic	1952-1960
23	22	Poetry Readings--Brewster Ghiselin
24	1	Publishing Information
24	2	Publishing Information--Brochures, Offers, Addresses
24	3	Publishing Information--Correspondence
24	4	Purpose, Scope, Policy and Procedure A file of correspondence and articles regarding the general aims and goals of the conference.
24	5	Recreational Information
24	6	References on Style Suggested style guides for the conference
24	7	Registration Correspondence from prospective conference participants asking for brochures and further registration information.	1963
24	8	Registration--Forms Completed registration forms,	1963
24	9	Registration Correspondence from prospective conference participants asking for brochures and further registration information. Also included is a list of conference participants who attended the 1964 conference.	1964
24	10	Report for Writers' Conference Report written by Brewster Ghiselin delineating the functions, aims, interests, and statistics of the conference.
24	11	Room/Board Accommodations
24	12	Room/Board Accommodations--Correspondence
24	13	Round Table--Correspondence	1956
24	14	Round Table--Notes
24	15	Round Table--Schedules	1947-1966
24	16	Schedules Rough drafts, preliminaries, and final forms of schedules for the conference. The arrangement of workshops and conference leader lectures are included.	1947-1950
24	17	Speeches--Ghiselin Transcripts and notes from speeches delivered by Brewster Ghiselin during the conferences
24	18	Staff Instruction Guides	1957-1964
24	19	Staff Position Applications Correspondence with Brewster Ghiselin from writers interested in becoming conference leaders	1949-1953
24	20	Staff Position Applications	1954-1964
24	21	Summer School
24	22	Tape Recordings Correspondence and notes concerning the acquisition, payment, and logistics of recording lectures at the conference.
24	23	University Bookstore Correspondence
24	24	University Credit Guidelines on university credit for participants in the conference.
24	25	University Credit--Correspondence
24	26	Workshop Reports A brief summary and commentary on the Short Story Workshop, June 10-21, 1963, delivered by Peter Taylor. The report was written by Elaine S. McKay and contains many of her personal observations and feelings toward the workshop and the conference.	1963-1964
24	27	Writers' Banquet Correspondence regarding the arrangement of and preparation for the Writers' Banquet.	1966

II: Book Listing and AddendaReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box
25		Books Books and publications with written notes by Brewster Ghiselin. Also included are some publications by conference leaders: Abercrombie. Lascelles, Interludes and Poems, New York: John Lane Company, 1908. (174 pp.) Abercrombie, Lascelles. Emblems of Love. New York: John Lane Company, 1912. (213 pp.) Brinnin, John Malcolm. The Selected Poems of John Malcolm Brinnin. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. (182 pp.) Coulette, Henri. The War of the Secret Agents and Other Poems, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966. (111 pp.) Dobell, Bertram. A Century of Sonnets. London: published by the author, 1910. (102 pp.) Kooser. Ted. Hatcher. Lincoln. NE: Wildflower Press, 1978. (105 pp.) Wangsgaard. Eva Willes, Within the Root. Mill Valley, California: Wings Press, 1949. (80 pp.) Waugh, Alec. Island in the Sun. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1955. (538 pp.) Zilles, Luke. Conch of Bees, New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1956.
		Biographical Information and Poetry Society of America Award
Box	Folder
26	1	Biographical Article, Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, volume 10	1989
26	2	Poetry Society of America: William Carlos Williams Award	1981
26	3	Poetry Society of America: Folger Awards Program, Women in Translation	1981
26	4	Poetry Society of America: Judge Committee for the William Carlos Williams Award	1982-83
26	5	Poetry Society of America: Correspondence from Committee Judge Brewster Ghiselin and his selection	1982-1983
26	6	Poetry Society of America: Correspondence from Committee Judge Alan Dugan and his selection	1982-1983
26	7	Poetry Society of America: Correspondence from Committee Judge Josephine Jacobsen and her selection	1982-1983
26	8	The Poetry Society of America Bulletin
26	9	"The House That Octopus," by Mary Swope
Box
27		Poetry Books, A-J UHFO, by Harrison Fisher Beat Me. Whip Me. Make Me Write Bad Checks, by Marvin Gerstein Fathering, by Frederick Feirstein Somebody Talks a Lot, by Paul Hoover Yellow Light, by Garrett Kaoru Hongo Heart of the Garfish, by Kathy Callaway The Business of Being Alive, by Mary Belle Campbell Under Scorpio, by Thomas G. Bergin Scurrying in Rhythm, by Suzie Blues Stripping, by Laura Boss To Remember What is Lost, by Kenneth Brewer What's Happening, by Jimmy Santiago Baca Blue Mountain, by John Balaban Formal Application, by Donald W. Baker Something More Than Force, by Zoe Anglesey Captive of the Vision of Paradise, by Ivan Arguelles Signal Noise, by Miriam Goodman The Queen of Wands, by Judy Grahn Stem, by David Giannini Amphibian Dreams, by A.M. Caratheodory Unfree Associations, by Michael Covino Orders of the Retina, by Thomas M. Disch Hard Country, by Sharon Doubiago Memory, by Laura Jensen The Record of a Green Planet, by Hans Juergensen The Broken Face of Summer, by Michael Hogan The Gymnast of Inertia, by William Hathaway Pressure Under Grace, by William Greenway Magpie on the Gallows, by Madeline DeFrees The Train in the Rain, by Rochelle Dubois Home Style Cooking on Third Avenue, by John Elsberg The Seasons in Vermont, by John Engels
28		Poetry Books, K-R No Goodbye, by Stephen Philbrick The Feel of the Sun, by Mark Perlberg The Music of What Happens, by Ghita Orth The Book of Mouming, by Margaret Newlin Tongue and Groove, by Joe Napora Never Said I was a Lady, by O. Rosenthal Wind Over Ashes, by Leonard Randolph The Arts of Fire, by Frances Mayes The Plain of Smokes, by Harvey Mudd The Times Between, by Wyatt Prunty We Have Lost Our Fathers, by Nicholas Rinaldi Memling's Veil, by Mary Ruefle In the Neighboring Cell, by Mark Rudman Northbook, by Frederick Morgan The Calculation of Two, by Jim Mele On the Inside, by Clive Matson The Handyman Poems, by Leo Mailman Chosen Poems--Old and New. by Audre Lorde The Warrior in the Forest, by David M. Katz The Threshold of the Year, by Mary Kinzie Keeper of Accounts, by Irena Klepfisz Life on the Edge of the Continent, by Ronald Koertge That Nakedness, by Phyllis Koestenbaum Satan Sleeps With the Holy, by Carolyn Kleefeld Attitude, by Michael Lally
29		Poetry Books, S-Z The Station Plays a Lusty Song, Good Morning, by Gay Whitesides The Skate and Other Poems, by Gerry Williams The Snow Prince, by Harold Witt Icehouse Lights, by David Wojahn Translations of the Gospel Back Into Tongues, by C.D.Wright Certain Patterns, by Hastings Wyman Jr. Talking Cure, by Lisa Zeidner Beginnings, by Jack Zucker Interfacings, by Sandra Yeo Smith Razor Candy, by Scott Sonders Hannah's Travel, by Richard Speakes The Bethesda Preludes, by Walt-Christopher Stickney Swiftly Now, by Carolyn Stoloff Mr. Lampedusa Has Vanished, by Atanas Slavov An Apology for Loving the Old Hymns, by Jordan Smith The Magellan Heart, by Donald A. Sears Jack Tales, by Vivian Shipley Translucent Gears, by Richard Silberg The Science of Goodbyes, by Myra Sklarew Ninth Life, by Deborah Tall Signatures, by Joseph Stroud Homes of Locks and Mysteries, by Martin Tucker Meltwater, by Etta Ruth Weigl Nigredo, by Norman Weinstein
30		Finger Food by Jack De Witt (Oversize Item)
		Correspondence and Notes
Box	Folder
31	1	File Cards About Writers
31	2	Letters to Abby	1965-1966
31	3	Correspondence with Ruth Witt-Diamant	1956-1960
31	4	Correspondence with Leah Foerster	1974
31	5	Writer's Conference Notes
31	6	Writer's Conference Notes
31	7	Correspondence with Michael Ghiselin	1988
31	8	Correspondence with Bill Butts, Coralie Beyers, Donald Hainey
31	9	Writers Conference Correspondence	1960s
31	10	Correspondence with Ralph Ellison, and Jascha Kessler	1960-1961
31	11	Correspondence with College of Saint Mary of the Wasatch	1958-1959
31	12	Ben and Abby Grey Foundation
31	13	Correspondence with Malcolm Cowley and others
31	14	Comments and Evaluations of Student Writing
31	15	Orientation Meeting: "The Writer as a Writer," Writer's Conference	1960
		Writer's Conference Materials and the Poems of Ellis Foote
Box	Folder
32	1	Remarks of Allen Tate on the Poet's Art	1958
32	2	Orientation Meeting--Talk by Ghiselin	1960
32	3	"Reading for Writing," Talk by Ghiselin	1961
32	4	"Open Meeting--Problems and Perspectives," by Ghiselin	1960
32	5	"Open Meeting--The Writer's Development," by Ghiselin	1960
32	6	"The Writer's Creative Process," by Ghiselin	1960
32	7	"The Collected Short Poems of Ellis Foote"	1938-1985
32	8	"A Sampler of the Poems of Ellis Foote"	1940-1984
32	9	"The World's Edge," Ellis Foote	1984
32	10	"Moses," Ellis Foote	1985
		Radcliffe Squires Contained here are three folders of correspondence, 1946-1985; reviews of Squires' work; and comments and annotations by Ghiselin which he used in course work and for publication. Also included are nine books, written by Squires, personalized to Olive and Brewster Ghiselin.
Box	Folder
33	1-3	Correspondence	1946-1985
33	4	Notes, Comments
33	5	Early Worksheets
33	6	"Stephen Spender," by Radcliffe Squires
33	7	Comments on Poems
33	8	Manuscript for Review of Squires in Western Humanities and Related Correspondence
33	9	Review of Squires' "Waiting in the Bone"
33	10	Garden Poems
33	11	Ghiselin on Squires
33	12	"The Gateless Garden" by Ghiselin
33	13	"In the Garden of Tales," Review Copy
33	14	"In the Garden of Tales"
33	15	"In the Garden of Tales: The Poetry of Radcliffe Squires"	1984
33	16	Gardens Photocopies with annotations by Ghiselin.
33	17	Reviews by Radcliffe Squires
33	18	"Tilbury Town Today," by Radcliffe Squires; and New Year's Day Card
33	19	"Myth, Poetry, and Critical Theory," by Lillian Feder	1980
	Volume
33	1	Where the Compass Spins	1951
33	2	Major Themes of Robert Frost	1963
33	3	Fingers of Hermes	1965
33	4	Light Under Islands	1967
33	5	Daedalus	1968
33	6	Waiting in the Bone and Other Poems	1973
33	7	The First Day Out From Troy	1974
33	8	Gardens of the World	1981
33	9	Journeys	1983
		*Flame*
Box	Folder
34	1	Oilspill/Tribunal I
34	2	Mayday/Tribunal II
34	3	Offering/Tribunal III
34	4	"Tribunal" Notes
34	5	Flame	1991
34	6-13	"Tide"
34	14-21	Laguna Beach: A Celebration
34	22-24	"Green Wave of Cuyuttan"
34	25	5 PE "Communion of Light"
34	26	Ansel Adams
34	27-29	Photography Data, Notes, and Other Information
		Flame, and the Creative Process This subseries holds additional notes and comments regarding Flame (box 35, folders 1-8) and material for an article published in Daedalus (box 35, folders 9-13). Box 35, folders 14-29 hold documents concerned with Ghiselin's teaching of the creative process, particularly early comments and teaching materials for English 144.
Box	Folder
35	1	Work Sheets, Notes
35	2-5	Manuscripts
35	6-8	Notes
35	9-13	Daedalus Article
35	14	Creative Process, Early Comments
35	15	Music
35	16	Creativity in the Arts and Sciences
35	17	Automatic Invention
35	18	The Imaginative Person
35	19	Introduction
35	20	Bronowski, Barron, and Other Individuals
35	21-24	English 144
35	25-26	Response to Drawings
35	27	Quoted, Annotated Pages
35	28-29	English 144 Bibliography
		The Creative Process
Box	Folder
36	1	Statements by Writers
36	2	Handouts
36	3	Talks for Hercules Powder Company
36	4	Criticism
36	5-6	Check List
36	7	Annotation of Class Cards
36	8-9	Research Conference	1955
36	10	Creativity and Problem Solving	1956
36	11	Identification of Creative Talent	1955
36	12	Criteria
36	13	Definition
36	14	Drugs
36	15-16	Research Conference	1957
36	17	"Creative Scientific Talent," Research Conference	1957
36	18	Early Notes
36	19	Composition
36	20	Accounts of Creative Production
36	21	Science and the Arts
36	22	Class Exercise
36	23	Lecture Outlines
36	24	Tests
36	25	Presentation Notes
37	1	Term Papers
37	2-3	Tests, Records, English 514 and 144
37	4	"Creativity and the Cultural Order"	1978
37	5	Notes for Talk	1979
37	6-8	"The Creative Process in the Integration of the Individual Life"
37	9	"The Voice of Conscience: A Fable"	1969
37	10	Configurate
37	11	Questionnaire
37	12	Miscellaneous
37	13	Psycho Dynamics: Wholeness and Transcendence
37	14-22	Configuration and Configurative Action
37	23-24	Creativity Conference	1962-1963
37	25	Creativity and the Cultural Order
37	26	Creativity and Its Cultivation
37	27	"Creativity in the Arts and Sciences"
37	28	Creative Process Research Conference	1962
37	29	Creativity Conference	1963
37	30	Creativity, Conference and Talk	1964
37	31	Creativity Conference	1967
		Correspondence, Teaching, and Authors
Box	Folder
38	1	Correspondence	1949 and 1958
38	2-11	Teaching Materials
38	12	English Conference
38	13-15	Weldon Kees
38	16	Jorge Luis Borges
		Poetry and Anthologies This subseries holds drafts for a variety of Ghiselin's poetry and documents regarding Ghiselin's participation in anthologies and other works.
Box	Folder
39	1	"The Dreamer"
39	2-4	"Ashfall"	1983-1989
39	3	"Alexandrian"	1983-1985
39	4	"Fragment of a Dialogue"
39	5	"Elegy for Jon"
39	6	"Llewelyn Powys"
39	7	"Idle Poet to the Busy Evangelist"
39	8	"Haven"
39	9	"Granite"
39	10	"Pelagic"
39	11	"Here"
39	12	"Prisons"
39	13	"Vigil"
39	14	"Of Wings"
39	15	"Petrel"
39	16	"The Well-Beloved"
39	17	"Rain In Autumn"
39	18	"Ciao"
39	19	"Honor and Honors"
39	20	"Osprey"
39	21	Poetry from Against the Circle
39	22	Modern Poetry of Western America
39	23	"The Photographer as Artist"
39	24	Photographers on Photography
		Poetry and Essay Manuscripts
Box
40		Windrose This box holds drafts and page proofs for Windrose.
	Folder
41	1	"Anadyomene"
41	2	"And There Was Light"
41	3	"Annunziazione"
41	4	"Aphrodite of the Return"
41	5	"Apocalypse"
41	6	"I Saw in a Glass"	April-June, 1970
41	7	"The Architecture of Vision"
41	8	"Ark"
41	9	"Ascent"
41	10	"Atlantic Crossing"
41	11	"Augury"
41	12	"The Birth of a Poem"
41	13	"A Calm"
41	14	"Caracara"
41	15	"The Catch"
41	16	"Ciao"
41	17	"Corte Madera Hill"
41	18	"The Country of the Minotaur"
41	19	"The Country of the Minotaur," Carbon Copies and Letters
41	20	"The Country of the Minotaur," Old Manuscript and Letters
42	1	"Credo" ("Hermit")
42	2	"Crotalus Rex"
42	3	"The Dalian Plain"
42	4	"Dana Point"
42	5	"Bath of Aphrodite"
42	6	"Logos: Poem, Bittern"
42	7	"Black Vulture Over Guaymas"
42	8	"Blue Ocean"
42	9	"Day in the Fields"
42	10	"Death in Love"
42	11	"The Death of Hart Crane"
42	12	"Death of Hart Crane," Composition of
42	13	"Death of the Past"
42	14	"Death of the Past" Correspondence
42	15	"Denouement"
42	16	"D. H. Lawrence and the Peacocks of Atrani"
42	17	"D. H. Lawrence and the Peacocks of Atrani," Final Typescript
42	18	"D. H. Lawrence and the Peacocks of Atrani," Original Typescript and Corrected Proof
42	19	"Desolate Afternoon"
42	20	"Dolphins/Phosphoros"
42	21	"Dolphins"
43	1	"Emblem"
43	2	"End of Childhood"
43	3	"Equinox"
43	4	"Escape"
43	5	"Explication of Evening"
43	6	"Faceplate at Crescent Bay"
43	7	"Far Off, Alone"
43	8	"Father of Daughters"
43	9	"The Field"
43	10	"Flower Mailed from a Forgotten Post Office"	1951-1975
43	11	"The Food of Birds"
43	12	"For Love: A Shift"
43	13	"For My Children and Their Children"
43	14	"For the Bestiary"
43	15	"For the Eighth Decade"
43	16	"Formula for Revenge"
43	17	"Formation of the Soul"
43	18	"Goobah Dance"
43	19	"Gull in the Great Basin Desert"
43	20	"Headland"
43	21	"Her Mood Around Me"
43	22	"His Babylonian Heart"
43	23	"A House"
44	1	"In the Giant's House"
44	2	"The Indifferent Mountains"
44	3	"Instance: Other Waters"
44	4	"Killer Whale Inshore," and Notes on Composition
44	5	"The Known World"
44	6	"Land Birds By the Sea"
44	7	"Learning the Language"
44	8	"Let There Be Light"
44	9	"Let Us Now Praise the Artificers"
44	10	"Light" and Comments
44	11	"Limbo House"
44	12	"Lost Life"
44	13	"Love Letter"
44	14	"The Maimed"
44	15	"Marlin"
44	16	"Men Together"
44	17	"Meridian"
44	18	"The Mind Remains"
44	19	"Monster"
44	20	"Moment by Moment"
44	21	"Nayarit"
44	22	"Needle To Be Threaded"
44	23	"The Net Breaker"
44	24	"The Nets"
44	25	"New World"
44	26	"Nocturne: Laguna Beach"
45	1	"Of Freedom"
45	2	"Of Love and Thirst"
45	3	"Of Shapes and Shadows"
45	4	"Of the New Prosody"
45	5	"On a Monument: Orange Empire Trolley Museum"
45	6	"On the Cutting Block"
45	7	"On the Disappearance..."
45	8	"On the Loom of Light"
45	9	"On the Playas of Mazatlan: Vipers out of the Sea"
45	10	"On the Road to Durango"
45	11	"On Teaching My Sons to Be Divers in the Undersea"
45	12	"Orca" and Comments on Composition
45	13	"Palimpsest of Air, Earth, Fire, Water"
45	14	"Palomino for an Adolescent Boy"
45	15	"Pasiphae"
45	16	"Pax Vobiscum"
45	17	"Pelicans"
45	18	"Phosphorus"
45	19	"Poem for Men at Home"
45	20	"Poetry"
45	21	"Poets Learning"
45	22	"Poiema"
45	23	"Pomp of Insects"
45	24	"Presentazione" and Pamphlet Includes a typescript and a pamphlet for a showing of the art work of Ausonio Colorni. The pamphlet is comprised of commentary by the critic and translator Alfredo Rizzardi (in Italian), a descriptive and critical commentary (in English) by Brewster Ghiselin, a friend of Colorni's, and a reproduction, in color, of one of Colorni's pieces.
45	25	"Progress Report"
45	26	"Pursuits of a Chimera"
46	1	"Rattler Alert"
46	2	"Reading the Rose"
46	3	"Red"
46	4	"Rattlesnake"
46	5	"Red Racer"
46	6	"Return to Cactus Point"
46	8	"Return to the North" and Current Work
46	9	"Return to the Shore"
46	10	"Rite de Passage"
46	11	"Rose of the Winds: A Wreath for Allen"
46	12	"The Statesmen/Roulette"
46	13	"Sea Lion"
46	14	"Lament for an Emperor"
46	15	"Rock"
46	16	"Merwin" Worksheets of Letter Poems, III This poem has various titles within the collection, including "Third Letter to Merwin" and "W. S. Merwin: Third Letter-Poem."
46	17	Lytle, Andrew "Selva Oscura" and Typescripts
46	18	"Semblance on Semblance"
46	19	"Shadow"
46	20	"Shore Bird"
46	21	"Shore of Refuge"
46	22	"The Silence of the Mind" and Correspondence
47	1	"Song at San Carlos Bay"
47	2	"Song at San Carlos Bay," Revisions and Extensions	1973
47	3	"The Standing Shore, The Scampering Seas"
47	4	"Suburban"
47	5	"Sum of Summer"
47	6	"Summer Noon"
47	7	"Sun"
47	8	"Surfbirds"
47	9	"Swimmer"
47	10	"Temenos"
47	11	"Theatre and Sideshows"
47	12	"Theft"
47	13	"This Is Vietnam"
47	14	"To A Lover of Perfection"
47	15	"To the South"
47	16	"Tract"
47	17	"Tuscan Noonday"
47	18	"Twentieth Century"
47	19	"Undersway"
47	20	"Upland"
47	21	"Vantage" and Comments
47	22	"Venice at Noonday"
47	23	"A View of Little Scope"
47	24	"Beyond Vision" ("Vision of Adam") and Comments
47	25	"Visions of Adam"
47	26	"Waking"
47	27	"Watercolor by Paul Nash"
47	28	"We Are Not Idle"
47	29	"What Other Man"
47	30	"Wheel"
47	31	"Winter World"
47	32	"The Young Dancer"
47	33	Notes on Poetry Includes three worksheets of explicative comments on some of Ghiselin's work.
		Essays, Lectures, Book Manuscripts, and Notes
Box	Folder
48	1	"D. H. Lawrence in Bandol" Manuscript
48	2	D. H. Lawrence, Critical Opinion
48	3	D. H. Lawrence, Bibliography
48	4	D. H. Lawrence, Form, Landscape, and Psychic Structure
48	5	Atrani Peacocks Photograph, Extra Copy
48	6	D. H. Lawrence Lecture
48	7	Manuscript of Early Book on D. H. Lawrence
48	8	William Faulkner Bibliography
48	9	Barbara McClintock, Research
48	10	"A Higher Fidelity" Manuscript, Revision	1980
48	11	"Act of Imagination" Manuscript
48	12	"Forward" and Worksheets
48	13	Hart Crane "Bridge Into the Sea"
48	14	Hart Crane, Notes on "The Bridge"
48	15	"The Light and the Crystal" Worksheets
48	16	"Ultimate Criteria for Two Levels of Creativity" Manuscript
48	17	"Our Cretan Dilemma" Worksheets
48	18	"The Photographer as Artist"	1974
48	19	"Literary and Psychological Insight" Manuscript
48	20	"Symbolism, Religions" Original Manuscript with Revisions of 1975
		Manuscripts and Correspondence This subseries contain typescripts for a book by Ghiselin, originally titled The Light of Imagination, but subsequently changed to Creativity and the Cultural Order. The manuscript is not dated, but most of the material appears to have been revised around 1978. Dates given here are dates of revision. Earlier versions of the majority of these essays, along with some worksheets, can be found in other sections of the collection. This subseries contains correspondence with the person named in the folder title, as well as research or notes in many cases.
Box	Folder
49	1	Forematter for the book "The Light of Imagination"
49	2	Forward for "The Light of Imagination"
49	3	"The Young, the Establishment, and the Problem of Order"	1977
49	4	"The Shaping of Cultural Order"	1978
49	5	"Our Cretan Dilemma"
49	6	"The Nature of Imaginative Action"	1978
49	7	"Ultimate Criteria for Two Levels of Creativity"	1978
49	8	"The Creative Process: An Overview"	1955
49	9	"Creativity in the Arts and Sciences"
49	10	"Cultivating Imagination"	1978
49	11	"Imagination, Communication, and the Cultural Order"	1975
49	12	"The Photographer as Artist"
49	13	"Automatism, Intention, and Autonomy in the Novelist's Production"	1978
49	14	"The Light and the Crystal"
49	15	"Literary and Psychological Insight"
49	16	"Art and Psychiatry: Characterization as Therapy, Therapy as Characterization"
49	17	"The Moment of Illumination"	1978
49	18	"Insight Symbol and Religious Insight"	1975
49	19	"The Voice of Conscience: A Fable"
49	20	Footnotes	1978
49	21	"Bridge Into the Sea" An essay by Ghiselin on Hart Crane's The Bridge
49	22	"Richard Eberhart's The Groundhog"
49	23	"The Unity of Joyce's Dubliners"
49	24	"D. H. Lawrence in Bandol: A Memoir"
49	25	"D. H. Lawrence and the Peacocks of Atrani"	1983
49	26	"Andrew Lytle's Selva Oscura"	1983
49	27	Andrew Lytle's Early Fiction
49	28	Andrew Lytle's Nonfiction, Criticism, and Theory
49	29	Correspondence and Bibliographies Concerning Andrew Lytle
49	30	Denise Leverton
49	31	Whit Burnett
49	32	John Ciardi
49	33	Caroline Gordon
49	34	Mark Schorer
49	35	James P. Cooney
49	36	Harry T. Moore
49	37	Paul Engle
49	38	Alan Swallow
49	39	Rolfe Humphries
49	40	John Gould Fletcher
49	41	Stephen Spender
49	42	Donald (Jon) Heiney
49	43	Richard Hugo
50	1	Manuscript of "The Creative Process" with Comments
50	2	Manuscript of "The Creative Process"
50	3	Discards from "The Creative Process"
50	4	Contents and Bibliographies for "The Creative Process"
50	5	Correspondence With Editors Concerning "The Creative Process"
50	6	Permissions, Fees, Reviews, and Copies to Editors
50	7	Correspondence Concerning "The Creative Process"
50	8	E. P. Dutton and Company, Publishers Includes correspondence and documents relating to Against the Circle and The Nets, both published by E. P. Dutton and Co.
50	9	Printer's Proofs of Windrose Manuscript
50	10	The Nets, Printer's Copy
50	11	Windrose Manuscripts Includes typescripts of all poems included in Windrose
50	12	Elemental Includes poetry, worksheets, and some research for a progression of poetry entitled Elemental, and is pertinent to comprehending Ghiselin's way of seeing and understanding.
51	1	Light, by Brewster Ghiselin, Abattoir Editions Includes two different copies of the book, imprinted on different types of paper.	1978
51	2	Correspondence Concerning Light
51	3	Correspondence Concerning Writing for the American Association of University Women (AAUW) This folder, and the four following it, include materials concerning the solicitation of Brewster by the AAUW to write a guide to creative writing.
51	4	Writing, First Edition and Revised Edition	1959, 1968
51	5	Supplementary Examples for Use in Preparing Writing Includes four booklets similar to Writing, provided by the AAUW, concerning painting, dance, acting, and music.
51	6	Correspondence with Mary-Averett Seelye and Others in AAUW
51	7	Writing Worksheets
51	8	Letters of Recommendation and Correspondence With Students
51	9	Unsorted Manuscripts and Correspondence
		Authors, Essays and Poems
Box	Folder
52	1	"Abalone"
52	2	Abstractions and Notes
52	3	Academic: Learned Societies and Journals
52	4	Academic: Policies and Standards
52	5	Adamson, Jack H.
52	6	"Ambiguity-Plurisignation,My Mode and Intent in Poetry"
52	7	Index of American Design
52	8	American Institute of American Engineers
52	9	"American Prefices"
52	10	Analogy and Logic in Poetry
52	11	Anthologies and Contributions
52	12	Anthologies, Ghiselin's Students
52	13	Apothegms
52	14	Arrowsmith, William
52	15	"Art of the Printed Book"
52	16-17	"Art for Life's Sake"
52	18	"Art as a Vision," Symposium at Brigham Young University	1979
52	19-21	"The Artistic Impulse: Humanistic Perspectives"	1979
52	22	"The Arts and Human Potential"
52	23	"The Arts as Civilizing Forces and the Responsibilities of Government"
52	24	Ashbery, John
52	25	Attention (Analysis)
52	26	"Automatism, Intention, and Autonomy in the Novelist's Production"
		Authors, Essays, and Symposiums
Box	Folder
53	1	Barron, Frank
53	2	"Beha u' llah"
53	3	Bell, Ronald
53	4	Bellow, Saul, "The Noble Lecture"
53	5	Berryman, John
53	6	Beyond Baroque Foundation
53	7	Biological Notes: Birds
53	8	Birds: Skimmers
53	9-10	"Blue Hotel"
53	11	Bodkin, Maud
53	12	Borges
53	13	"Bridge Into the Sea"
53	14	Broughton, Irving
53	15	Broughton: Introduction and Interview
53	16	Broughton: "Waters"
53	17	Browning, Robert
53	18	Bruner, Jerome
53	19	Bufano, Benjamin
53	20	Burns, Adam
53	21	Burrow, Trigant: "The Neurosis of Man in Science and Man's Behavior"
53	22	Byrne, Janet
53	23	BYU Symposium	1979
54	1	Campbell, Joseph
54	2	Camus, Albert
54	3	Cash, W.J., "The Mind of the South"
54	4	Cassirer, Ernst
54	5	Castiglione, Courtier
54	6	Children, Feral
54	7-10	Gifted Children
54	11	"Wolf Children"
54	12-14	Children's Literature: Symposium at University of Washington	1977
54	15	Children's Literature
54	16	Civilization and Community
54	17	Colleagues
54	18	College English
54	19	Communication
54	20	Communication Abilities
54	21-22	Compounding Words
54	23	Conrad, Joseph
54	24	Conservation
54	25	Contemporary Literature Criticism
55	1	Configuration Action
55	2	Dr. R. A. Crabtree and Wife, Norma Crabtree
55	3-4	Crane, Hart
55	5	Crane, Stephen
55	6	"A Creative Process Check List"
55	7	"The Creative Process"	1951
55	8-9	Creative Process	1968
55	10	Creativeness and Creativity	1991
55	11	Creativity, Bibliography
55	12	Critical Characterizations
55	13	Criticism
55	14	Criticism and Structuralism
55	15-17	Cultivating Imagination
56	1	Dance: Isadora Duncan
56	2	Dance: Talk at V. Tanner Program
56	3	Dante
56	4-6	"Darkness in Light" and " The Death of Hart Crane"
56	7	"Death of the Past"
56	8	Decker, Elwood
56	9	"De La Tour Du Pin"
56	10	"Denouement"
56	11	"Description" Exposition in the Short Essay
56	12	Deserts and Other Wild Places
56	13	"Dictionary of Birds"
56	14	Doggerel	1997
56	15	Duncan, Robert
56	16	Eble, Kenneth
56	17	Eberhart, Richard
56	18	"Educating for Creativity in Communications"
56	19	Education: Graduate Study
56	20	Education: Various Contexts
56	21	Educational Psychology
56	22	Einstein
56	23	"Elemental"
56	24	Ellison, Ralph
56	25-28	Eliot, T. S., Plays
57	1	Richard Eberhart's, "The Groundhog"
57	2	Education: Liberal
57	3	Educational Theory
57	4	Emotion
57	5	"Emotion: A Method of Creative Production"
57	6	Enclosures
57	7	England, Eugene
57	8	English, Class and Lecture Notes
57	9	Epistemology
57	10-13	Faulkner, William
57	14	Fisher, Vardis
57	15	Flygore, William, Correspondence
57	16	Foley, Martha
57	17	Former Students, Appeals and Greetings
57	18-19	"Forms and Forces"
57	20	Foster, E. M.
57	21	Ghiselin: Eberhart's, "The Groundhog"
57	22	Ghiselin: Assistance and Advice
57	23	Ghiselin: Awards and Letters of Appreciation Upon Resignation
57	24	Ghiselin: Autobiographical Sketch for "World Authors"	1980-1985
57	25	Ghiselin: "G" Programs
57	26	Ghiselin: Letters from Former Professors
57	27	Ghiselin: Letters on Poetry and Prose
57	28	Ghiselin: Letters of Recommendation
		Notes and Essays
Box	Folder
58	1	Ghiselin: Notes from Symposium	1940
58	2	Ghiselin: Publishers and Publications
58	3	Ghiselin: Records and Poems Submitted
58	4	Ghiselin: "Unity of Joyce's Dubliners
58	5	Goel, Yan, "Hemispheres"
58	6	"A Good Man: Fathers and Sons in Poetry and Prose"
		Authors, Essays, and Correspondence
Box	Folder
59	1	Hart, Ed
59	2	Hinkley, Fred
59	3	Hopkins, G.M., "Reading Springs Rhythms"
59	4	"The Arts and Human Potential"
59	5	"Humanism"
59	6-7	Humanities
59	8	Imagination
59	9	Correspondence from Jarret, Dennis
59	10	Correspondence from Johnson, Ronald L.
59	11-14	"Labyrinth"
59	15	"Landscapes"
59	16	Loughlin, New Directions
59	17-19	Lawrence, D. H.
59	20	Leavis, F. R.
59	21	Leopardi, Giacomo
59	22	Letters: Writers
59	23-24	Lytle, Andrew, "Selva Oscura"
59	25	Manuscript Collections
		Authors, Essays, and Poems
Box	Folder
60	1	Mill Mountain Review
60	2	Morse, Samuel Frank
60	3	Mulder, William
60	4	Miles, Josephine
60	5	"Myths and Symbolism in Indian Art"
60	6	"Nims, John Frederick, as Translator"
60	7	Notes	1958-1968
60	8	Ong, Walter J.
60	9	"Paeonic Measures in English Verse: Jeffers and Others"
60	10	Palamon Press
60	11	Patmore, Coventry
60	12	Poetry, "Twentieth Century"
60	13	Published Articles
60	14	Readings of Poetry
60	15	Shapiro, Karl
60	16	Shelley, Robert
60	17	Shinn, Gerald
60	18	Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
60	19-20	Poetry of Radcliffe Squires
60	21-22	Stegner, Wallace	1980
60	23	Stein, Gertrude
60	24	Strand, Mark
60	25-28	Students
60	29	"Symbols" and Concrete Forms in Poems
60	30	Symbolism in Medieval Thought
60	31	"Religious Symbolism"
		Authors, Essays and Symposiums
Box	Folder
61	1	Swallow, Alan
61	2	Tate, Allen, "A Dove"
61	3	Dr, E. W. Tedlock, Jr.
61	4	"Tremers and Transcendence: Poetry of Radcliffe Squires"
61	5	Undergraduate Papers
61	6	University of California Press
61	7-11	Utah State Institute of Fine Arts
61	12	Vendler, Helen
61	13	Virginia Wolfs Party
61	14	World Authors	1980-1985
61	15	Interview with Ghiselin	1971

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Subject Terms

Authors--Congresses--20th century--Archives
Authors--Scholarships, fellowships, etc.--20th century
Authorship--Marketing--20th century
College students' writings--Specimens--20th century
Poetry--Competitions
Poets as teachers--Utah
Poets--Congresses--20th century--Archives

Personal Names

Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987
Cheever, John
De Voto, Bernard, 1897-1955
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970
Fisher, Vardis, 1895-1968
Krutch, Joseph Wood, 1893-1970
La Farge, Oliver, 1901-1963
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993
West, Jessamyn
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963

Corporate Names

Poetry Society of Amerca--Archives
University of Utah. Department of English--Faculty--Archives
University of Utah. Writers' Conference--Archives

Form or Genre Terms

Biographies
Brochures
Business correspondence
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Conference materials
Conference papers and proceedings
Essays
Financial records
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Manuscripts
Newsletters
Personal correspondence
Poetry
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