Letters to and from William Everson,, 1945
Scope and Content
This collection of William Everson's personal papers consists of manuscripts and typescripts of poems, correspondence, and ephemera. Boxes 1-13 were given to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in 1949 by William Everson and contain a record of Everson's life and work to that date. Boxes 1 through 7 are primarily poetry; boxes 8 through 13 are primarily correspondence. It is likely that the typescripts and manuscripts of the poems were collected and arranged for the 1948 edition of The Residual Years.
Boxes 14 through 25 consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, working drafts of poems, proof pulls, galley proofs, magnetic tapes of Everson (as Brother Antoninus) reading his poetry, and ephemera. This material was given to the Library over a period of eleven years and from four different sources, Everson being one of them.
Boxes 26 through 30 contain William Everson's autobiography, Prodigious Thrust, and consist of manuscripts, typescripts, three complete typescript working drafts, and one final complete typescript (all with holograph corrections). They were given to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in October 1961. The autobiography is contained in five boxes, with the final typescript in a binder. Boxes 26 through 28 contain the three complete working drafts; box 29 contains "worksheets" that Everson discarded while completing his autobiography from the summer of 1955 through the summer of 1956. Box 30 contains manuscript and typescript chapters from both the first draft (Fire on the Earth) and the final draft (Prodigious Thrust), and Everson's notes on a variety of topics (mostly religious) that he eventually included in his autobiography.
Dates
- Creation: 1945
Access
Collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 11.9 Linear Feet (31 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
General Physical Description note
155 items. From Ham [Tyler], Ferner [Nuhn], Ruth [Suckow], Jack [Jacob Sloan], Jim, J. F. Powers, Gilbert [Neiman], Gregory Laite, Gordon Newell, William Fitt, Dean Jeffers, Russell Sanders Joyce [Lancaster Harvey], Joe, Robert, Albert McCarthy, Vlad [Dupre], C. F. MacIntyre, Earl Kosbab, Delby (?), Art Wiser, Bob, Mary and Jack, Hubert and Barbara [Buel], Lloyd Sullivan, Winslow Ames, William Fifield, Robert Beloit, Larry, Mahon Naill, Josephine Miles, Will Ransom, Morris Keeton, Chris [Rambo], Joe, George Reeves, A. J. Muste, Johan Franco, Dion O'Donnol, Vera [Everson Shorey], C. S. Price, Bill Shanks, Lila Rogers, John G. Cotter, Bob Vosper, H. Richard Archer, Harvey, J. [James] Laughlin, James H. Kinnell, Jay [Tuck], Frank K. Olmstead, James H. Kinnee, James T. Parker, Geo. H. Walker, [Harold] Hackett, Edwin Sanders, Adrian [Wilson], Manche [Langley], Lang, Jim Atkinson. To George Reeves, Dorothy Norman, Ruth [Suckow], Jacob Sloan, William Fett. Includes Ts. of "Chronicle of Division", "In the Malibu Range, Several Stones Balance On An Unnamed Summit" (by Gordon Newell),"Atom Man" by "Lloyd Sullivan", card and photograph of James Townsend, 1 galley proof (criticism), 1 letter to Edwa from Vera. William Stafford Helen re: "Vocational Art and Community Living" by William Everson. Newspaper clipping of article on Ezra Pound belongs with this group. 1 letter to Vlad Dupre and William Everson from George Reeves. Also, a copy of a letter from W. Harold Row to Enoch Crumpton regarding Kemper Nomland, with a copy of a letter from William Everson responding to it.
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository