XOE_SC0093 Guide to the Keith Abbott Papers1960-2021 Abbott (Keith) Papers Finding aid created by Michael Taylor. Western Washington University, Special Collections © 2023
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This finding aid was created by Special Collections staff on 2023-12-21. Description is written in: English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Western Washington University, Special Collections
Special Collections 516 High St. Bellingham, WA 98225-9103 Phone: (360) 650-3193 Email: speccoll@wwu.edu http://library.wwu.edu/special-collections
Keith Abbott Papers XOE_SC0093 Abbott, Keith, -- 1944- 12 linear ft. 30 boxes approximately 1960-2021 Literary manuscripts, correspondence, artwork, and other papers of Keith Abbott, a WWU alumnus, author of fiction and poetry, and professor of writing at Naropa University. English .

The collection is open to the public.

Literary manuscripts, correspondence, artwork, and other papers of Keith Abbott (1944-2019). A graduate of WWU, Abbott wrote fiction and poetry and taught creative writing at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. The collection contains extensive correspondence with publishers and noted writers of the Beat generation, among others. Also available are numerous artworks in the Buddhist tradition.

The collection is currently unprocessed. Many of the files contain brief explanatory notes by Keith's wife, Lani Abbott.

Keith Abbott Papers, Special Collections, Western Libraries Archives & Special Collections, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9103.

Donated by Lani Abbott in 2021.

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 Abbott, Keith, -- 1944- -- Archives. Abbott, Keith, -- 1944- -- Correspondence. Beat Generation (Group of writers) -- History -- Sources. Authors, American -- History -- Sources. Poets, American -- History -- Sources. Buddhist art. Buddhist art objects. Records (Documents) Personal correspondence. Art. Fiction. Poetry. Higher Education