Paul Merchant Collection

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Merchant, Paul
Title: Paul Merchant Collection
Dates: 1990-2006 (inclusive)
19902006
Quantity: 1.6 cubic feet, (5 boxes)
Collection Number: OLPb042MER
Summary: This collection includes correspondence related to research and editorial projects conducted by Paul Merchant, a poet, translator, teacher, and scholar, who lived both in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Repository: Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives

Aubrey R. Watzek Library
615 S. Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR
97219
Telephone: 5037687758
Fax: 5037687282
archives@lclark.edu
Access Restrictions: This collection has no restrictions and is open for research.
Languages: English

Biographical Note

Paul Merchant was born in Wales and studied at Cambridge, The Shakespeare Institute, and the University of Athens. His career has been varied and has included work as a teacher, an editor, a translator, a writer, and as the archivist for the William Stafford Archives. Merchant's teaching career included stints at the University of Warwick, the University of Tennessee, and Lewis & Clark College. He has edited the plays of Thomas Heywood, essays on Wendell Berry, three posthumous William Stafford books, and two books about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He has also worked as an editor for Breitenbush Press and Oregon State University Press. Merchant's work as a translator began as the translator of the first selection of Ritsos published in England, Modern Poetry In Translation 4 (1968). He is also the translator of Eleni Vakalo’s Genealogy (1971). His recent translations from Yannis Ritsos are Monochords (Trask House Press 2007), and Twelve Poems about Cavafy (Tavern Books, 2010). Merchant collections of his own poetry include Stones (Rougemont Press, 1973), Salt Water Island (Five Seasons Press, 1983), Bone from a Stag's Heart (Five Seasons Press, 1988), and Some Business of Affinity (Five Seasons Press, 2006). Bone from a Stag’s Heart was a 1988 British Poetry Book Society Recommendation and Some Business of Affinity was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award.

This collection includes editorial correspondence with authors and staff at the Oregon State University Press. It also includes correspondence with all of the contributors to Wendell Berry (Confluence Press, 1991). These correspondents include: Wendell Berry, Mindy Weinred, Wallace Stegner, Judith Weissman, Gary Snyder, Terry Tempest Williams, Wes Jackson, Hayden Carruth, Michael Hamburger, Gregory McNamee, Mark Shadle, Jack Hicks, Herman Nibbelink, Ross Feld, Carl Esbjornson, Donald Hall, Lionel Basney, William C. Johnson, and Jeffery Alan Triggs.

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Content Description

Includes editorial correspondence with publishers and authors, finished books, and research materials.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in the Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections requires written permission of the Head of Archives & Special Collections.

Preferred Citation

The Paul Merchant Collection (#OLPb042MER), Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged in a single series of topical files.

Location of Collection

Special Collections

Acquisition Information

Donated to Lewis & Clark College by Paul Merchant in 2009.

Processing Note

Processed in 2009.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Description: American Nature Writing 1999

published book

Container: File 1.1
Description: Empty Nets

correspondence with author and publisher

Container: File 1.2
Description: Empty Nets

published book

Container: File 1.3
Description: A Richer Heaven

correspondence with author and publisher

Container: File 1.4
Description: A Richer Heaven (1999)

published book

Container: File 1.5
Description: Writing the World, Tillamook, Noxious Weeds

correspondence with author and publisher

Container: File 1.6
Description: Tillamook/ Noxious Weeds (1999)

published book

Container: File 1.7
Description: Alaska Forests - Tongass

correspondence with author and publisher

Container: File 1.8
Description: Tongass (1999)

published book

Container: File 1.9
Description: Nature Writing 2000

correspondence with author and publisher

Container: File 2.1
Description: American Nature Writing 2000

published book

Container: File 2.2
Description: Melville Jacobs Book

correspondence with author and publisher

Container: File 2.3
Description: Badger and Coyote (2000)

published book

Container: File 2.4
Description: Two Wheels North

correspondence with author and publisher

Container: File 2.5
Description: Two Wheels North (2000)

published book

Container: File 2.6
Description: Nature Writing 2001

correspondence with author and publisher

Container: File 2.7
Description: American Nature Writing 2001

published book

Container: File 2.8
Description: American Sportsmen

correspondence with author and publisher

Container: File 2.9
Description: American Sportsmen (2001)

published book

Container: File 2.10
Description: Wildlife Habitat

correspondence with author and publisher

Container: File 3.1
Description: Wildlife Habitat (2001)

published book

Container: File 3.2
Description: Unforgiving Coast

correspondence with author and publisher

Container: File 3.3
Description: Unforgiving Coast (2002)

published book

Container: File 3.4
Description: OSU Atlas

correspondence with author and publisher

Container: File 3.5
Description: Atlas of the Pacific Northwest (1993 and 2003)

published book

Container: File 3.6
Description: Dispatchers and Dictators

correspondence with author and publisher

Container: File 4.1
Description: Dispatchers and Dictators (2002)

published book

Container: File 4.2
Description: OSU Press Nehalem Tillamook

correspondence with author and publisher

Container: File 4.3
Description: The Nehalem Tillamook (2003)

published book

Container: File 4.4
Description: OSU Press Two Paths

correspondence with author and publisher

Container: File 4.5
Description: Two Paths (2003)

published book

Container: File 4.6
Description: Bradford Washburn: A life of Exploration

correspondence with author and publisher

Container: File 4.7
Description: Bradford Washburn: A life of Exploration (2004)

published book

Container: File 4.8
Description: Wendell Berry Book Editorial Files Part 1

photos and correspondence with publisher and essay authors

Container: File 5.1
Description: Wendell Berry Book Editorial Files Part 2

correspondence with publisher, essay authors, Wendell Berry, and permissions correspondence

Container: File 5.2
Description: Wendell Berry Book Editorial Files Part 3

correspondence with publisher, essay authors, Wendell Berry, and permissions correspondence

Container: File 5.3
Description: Some Business of Affinity Editorial Files Part 1

page proofs and correspondence with publisher for Paul Merchant's book Some Business of Affinity 2006

Container: File 6.1
Description: Some Business of Affinity Editorial Files Part 2

page proofs and correspondence with publisher for Paul Merchant's book Some Business of Affinity 2006

Container: File 6.2
Description: Salt Water Island by Paul Merchant

typed drafts and proofs for Paul Merchant's book Salt Water Island 1983

Container: File 6.3

Paul Merchant Collection, 1990-2006

Table of Contents

Overview of the Collection

Biographical Note

Content Description

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Preferred Citation

Administrative Information

Arrangement

Location of Collection

Acquisition Information

Processing Note

Detailed Description of the Collection

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Personal Names

Corporate Names