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UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

A Descriptive Inventory of the Wilfred Watson Fonds

Accession Number: 91-117 & 95-131

Lynn McPhersonSpring, 2002

Wilfred Watson fonds

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UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

Wilfred Watson Fonds

This guide was prepared with financial assistance from the Archives Society of Alberta, Access to Holdings grant. The University Archives gratefully acknowledges the assistance of this grant. Without it, these important records could not have been made accessible to researchers and the public.

Spring, 2002

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Descriptive Inventory of the Wilfred Watson Fonds.....................................................1

PREFACE........................................................................................................................ 7

INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................ 9

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.......................................................................................... 11

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE...................................................................................13

1. Journals and Notebooks............................................................................................ 171.1 1945-1960................................................................................................................................... 171.2 COCKCROW AND THE GULLS NOTEBOOKS....................................................................................241.3 1961-1965................................................................................................................................... 261.4 1966-1970................................................................................................................................... 361.5 1971-1975................................................................................................................................... 431.6 1976-1980................................................................................................................................... 501.7 1981-1985................................................................................................................................... 531.8 1986-1990'S................................................................................................................................ 671.9 APPOINTMENT CALENDARS/DAILY DIARIES..................................................................................69

2. Literary Drafts/Writings...........................................................................................752.1 POETRY: NOTEBOOKS/MANUSCRIPTS.....................................................................................752.2 PLAYS................................................................................................................................. 1412.3 SHORT STORIES/NOVEL.......................................................................................................1542.4 ESSAYS............................................................................................................................... 1572.5 BOOKS................................................................................................................................ 1582.6 MISCELLANEOUS MANUSCRIPT PAPERS/NOTES.....................................................................1652.7 PUBLICATIONS..................................................................................................................... 173

3. Sketches/Artwork................................................................................................... 181

4. Correspondence...................................................................................................... 1854.1 WILFRED WATSON TO SHEILA WATSON.............................................................................1854.2 SHEILA WATSON TO WILFRED WATSON..............................................................................1934.3 WILFRED WATSON'S PARENTS.............................................................................................1944.4 CORRESPONDENCE - OTHERS...............................................................................................1944.5 CORRESPONDENCE-MISCELLANEOUS....................................................................................232

5. Student Records..................................................................................................... 239

6. Reference Material/Material from Other Sources...................................................243

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7. Personal Papers...................................................................................................... 2517.1 FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS........................................................................................2517.2 PROMOTIONAL ITEMS - WILFRED WATSON'S WORKS...........................................................252

8. Audio-Visual Records............................................................................................ 2578.1 SOUND RECORDINGS...........................................................................................................2578.2 PHOTOGRAPHS.................................................................................................................... 258

Index............................................................................................................................ 267

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PREFACE

The University of Alberta Archives was established in 1968 at the recommendation of the President’s Standing Committee on Archives and Documents. Its primary mandate is to acquire, maintain, and preserve the records of the University, in any medium, which contain continuing administrative, legal, and historical value. The Archives constitutes the official “memory” of the University and represents the accumulated experience of our educational community. In addition to these official records, the University Archives also contain the private papers of the University staff whose subjects of research and teaching encompass the world.

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INTRODUCTION

The Wilfred Watson fonds consist of the personal records of Wilfred Watson, a noted poet, playwright, and faculty member of the Department of English at the University of Alberta. Included with the records are Watson's rich and creatively detailed notebooks and journals, numerous drafts of his poetry, plays, stories, essays and novels, as well as detailed correspondence files, reference files, and photographs and sound recordings.

SOURCE: Wilfred Watson's records were received at the University of Alberta in three separate accessions over a period of eight years. The first set of papers came from materials left with Professor Diane Bessai in 1980 when Watson moved from Edmonton to Nanaimo; the second donation was made directly to the Archives from Wilfred Watson; and the third donation of papers were sent from Shirley Neuman after Professor Watson's death in 1998. Shirley Neuman, Wilfred Watson's literary executor, oversaw the original listing, description, and transfer of the Watson records to the University of Alberta Archives.

ARRANGEMENT NOTE: The Wilfred Watson records were transferred as three separate deposits to the University of Alberta Archives. Each transfer of records was accompanied by a detailed file list and description provided by Shirley Neuman, Diane Bessai and others contracted to complete the listing. The individuals who worked on the listing were all very familiar with Dr. Watson's work, and were able to fill in information gaps with names, titles, and approximate dates. In this current finding-aid, the three accessions were pulled together physically and intellectually, but with the original listings and descriptions retained. The result is that the Watson fonds is described with two accession numbers, and arranged in eight series; many of these series reflecting the original order imposed by Dr. Watson and his literary executor on his records.

The records are in excellent physical shape and provide a very complete picture of the creative processes involved in one individual's writing and teaching career.

RELATED ACCESSIONS: Researchers may wish to consult Studio Theatre (University of Alberta) records for further information about the Watson plays that were produced and performed at Studio Theatre. As well, records from the Faculty of Arts, Department of English might be consulted for the years Professor Watson was a faculty member (1951-1976). Issues of White Pelican, the literary magazine Wilfred Watson helped establish, are located in the Archives (84-13), along with copies of some of his books (See 69-56, 76-5)

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ACCESS: The terms under which the records were deposited require those who wish to consult the records receive permission from Shirley Neuman, Dr. Watson's literary executor for his estate. These restrictions apply until the year 2010.

EXTENT: 10.60 m of textual records and other material.

DATE RANGE: 1946-1998

Includes ca. 10.60 m of textual records, 7 sound recordings, 4 video cassettes, .20 m of art work, and 356 photographic items

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Wilfred Watson was born in Rochester, England in 1911, the oldest child of Frederick Walter Watson and the former Louisa Claydon. He immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of fifteen, settling in Duncan, British Columbia. After one year of highschool, he found a job with a Vancouver Island sawmill. Watson attended the University of British Columbia from 1940 to 1943, earning a B.A. in English literature. During the Second World War, he served in the Canadian navy; after the war he continued his education at the University of Toronto, receiving an M.A. in 1946 and a Ph.D. in 1951. In 1949, Wilfred Watson was employed as a special lecturer in English at the University of British Columbia and from 1951 to 1953 he became professor in the Department of English at the University of Alberta, teaching at the Calgary campus. In 1954, he transferred to the Edmonton campus, remaining there as Professor of English until his retirement in 1977.

Wilfred Watson married Sheila Martin Doherty in 1941, who as Sheila Watson published The Double Hook in 1959. The Watson's both taught at the University of Alberta and participated in an intellectual circle that included the painter Norman Yates, and actor-directors Gordon Peacock and Thomas Peacocke among others (see Stefan Haag, M.A. thesis). Watson co-founded the Jazz Club "Yardbird Suite" in Edmonton in the early 1960's, and joined the editorial group of White Pelican (a quarterly review of the arts) in 1972. Wilfred Watson retired from the University of Alberta in 1977 and moved in 1980 to Nanaimo, B.C. with his wife Sheila. He passed away very shortly after his wife Sheila in Nanaimo in 1998, at the age of 87.

Wilfred Watson's writing career was prolific and continuously evolving and developing. T.S.Eliot accepted his first volume of poetry, Friday's Child, for Faber and Faber, publishing it in 1955, and Watson received the 1955 Governor General's Award for it. He lived in Paris, 1955-1956, as the recipient of a Canadian Government Overseas Fellowship. Here he was introduced to the theatre of the absurd, and in the following years explored this interest with his own writing and directing activities. In the early 1960s, Watson made contact with Marshall McLuhan and developed a growing interest in McLuhan's theories, culminating with their collaboration on the study, From Cliché to Archetype. Watson started work on his first major play, Cockcrow and the Gulls, in the mid-1950s, and it was first performed at the University of Alberta's Studio Theatre in March 1962. Studio Theatre, where Thomas Peacocke and Gordon Peacock were both associated, was an important venue for the production of Watson plays. During the 1960s Watson had his most prolific period of playwriting; Trial of Corporal Adam was produced in 1963; Wail for two Pedestals in 1964; and Let's murder clytemnestra according to the principles of marshall mcluhan in 1969. A play for Canada's centennial, O holy ghost, dip your finger in the blood of Canada, and write, I love you was produced in 1967. (For a complete listing of Watson's works, please refer to the Watson biography file at the University of Alberta Archives) During the 1970s, Watson concentrated on writing poetry, and his second volume of poetry, The Sorrowful Canadians and Other Poems was published in 1972. This volume of poetry experimented with using different

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typefaces and repetitions, and Watson later introduced Number-grid Verse in a volume titled I Begin With Counting. Number-grid verse involved a configuration that combines numerals and words juxtaposed on the page; this form allowed Watson to score poetry for oral performance by several voices. A second volume of number-grid verse, Mass on Cowback, was published in 1982. The 1980s also saw Watson return to writing for the stage; The Woman Taken in Adultery, a short play, was performed at the Edmonton Fringe Festival in 1987 and a major play trilogy, Gramsci x 3 was produced by Studio Theatre in 1986. The number-grid verse concept was applied to these later plays as well. Wilfred Watson also wrote some short stories, essays, and a novel, although a lot of what he wrote was never published. In her article on Wilfred Watson for the Gale Dictionary of Literary Biography, Diane Bessai writes:

Wilfred Watson, playwright, poet, teacher, andliterary theorist, has steadily conducted a one-manrevolution in Canadian letters from the 1950s to the present. (pp 382)

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SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The Wilfred Watson fonds span a period of over fifty years, and provide a wonderful record of the creative processes of a noted Canadian poet, playwright, teacher and literary theorist. Wilfred Watson was a writer brimming with ideas and his papers provide evidence of his creative endeavors; his numerous notebooks are filled with drafts of plays and poems, ideas for further development, excerpts from his own reading and study, sketches, and jottings about his daily activities. In addition to his notebooks, there are files of his writing drafts (encompassing the many genre he wrote in), very complete correspondence files, drawing files and sketchbooks, and supplemental material including sound recordings and photographs.

The records arrived at the University of Alberta Archives in three separate deposits (the last deposit of records made after Wilfred Watson's death), with excellent listings and descriptions attached. The archivist brought the records in each of the three deposits together physically and intellectually, while retaining many of the original groupings adhered to in the first listings. The notebooks, for example, were kept chronologically by Wilfred Watson, so the notebooks from all three deposits have been pulled together and arranged in their original date order. Likewise, the correspondence in each deposit was arranged alphabetically by correspondent and in the comprehensive finding aid, all of the correspondence is together and arranged in alphabetical order. The series designations include the following eight series, and were arrived at by considering the contents of the records:

Series one: Journals and Notebooks, further arranged by date and with a separate sub-series of Cockcrow and The Gull notebooks, and appointment calendars or daily diaries

Series two: Literary Drafts/Writings, with sub-series including poetry; plays; short stories/novel; essays; books; miscellaneous manuscripts; and publication related

Series three: Sketches/Artwork, including files of loose drawings and paintings, and sketchpads

Series four: Correspondence files, arranged in sub-series involving the correspondence between Wilfred Watson and Sheila Watson; Wilfred's parents; other correspondents (alphabetically arranged); and miscellaneous correspondence

Series five: Student Records (Watson)Series six: Reference Material (used by Wilfred Watson for his own research and

teaching purposes)Series seven: Personal papers, including financial records, and personal publicity

recordsSeries eight: Audio-Visual records, further divided into sound recordings and

photographsThe notebooks are of particular research value as they provide so much

information about Wilfred Watson's creative thought processes, as well as information about his teaching plans, readings, Department of English activities, and even a daily weather observation from his study window. The notebooks also held loose sheets of

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paper, and these have been removed for conservation purposes and placed in a separate file following the notebook they were retrieved from. The series of literary drafts and writing files is also very significant; often several different versions of a particular poem or even an entire play are present in the files. The writing files take on added significance since they provide evidence of, as Wilfred Watson was once described, "a prolific poet who publishes little." As Diane Bessai noted, Watson's plays, while given lively reviews in the daily press at the times of their first performances, "have not been widely produced since". His writing, particularly his later writing, was often considered controversial and experimetnal, and was not readily published or produced, so it is important that his work is preserved in his own archive. The correspondence files, particularly the letters between Wilfred Watson and Sheila Watson, provide another fascinating glimpse into these writers' minds. The Watsons, due to work and schooling circumstances, lived apart off and on over the years and their letters became their main link. Their letters, written regularly to one another, usually go beyond the ordinary to explore mutual ideas about writing, writers, literature, and projects they are working on in their own studies.

A detailed series and file list follows, with further information provided about each of the eight series in the Wilfred Watson fonds. A subject/name index is included at the end of the inventory to assist in locating specific files.

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Series 1

Journals and Notebooks

1. Wilfred Watson, Journals and Notebooks. --1945-1998.--3.8 m of textual records.

Archival Description: [the following description(s), both the Archival and the Scope and Content, are largely taken from an original listing and description provided by Shirley Neuman]

Series one is a large series, containing the many notebooksand journals that Wilfred Watson kept during his writing career. The earliest notebooks were usually 5 x 8 hardbound books, between 64 and 128 pages. By the early 1950s Watson was using 8 x 11 books, with the exception of a few books from Paris which were a smaller, paperbound format. All the books tend to be 64 to 80 sheets (128-160 pages). Each is filled, sometimes, particularly while working on Cockcrow, he keeps several at once. Beginning in 1980, Watson began buying 11 x 14 books of construction paper, usually 48 sheets for his notebook (the multicolored effect of several of them on a shelf was the effect sought for in the design of Mass on cowback). He also began keeping simultaneous notebooks in the white spaces and over the illustrations of calendars. All of the notebooks are filled with drawings, line, crayon, pastel, and watercolor, as well as with written text. There are approximately 345 notebooks, journals, and calendars and they make a complete record of Watson's work from 1945 to 1982, and a somewhat more fragmentary record for the last sixteen years.

Scope and Content: Wilfred Watson's earliest notebooks are manuscript notebooks. Increasingly over the years, the notebooks combined reflections on reading and conversations with others, ideas of poems, plays, and short stories, and manuscript drafts. Certain themes recur in the notebooks, among them ongoing meditations about Shakespeare's plays and, especially from 1965 on, a continuing engagement with the ideas of Marshall McLuhan. Nearly all Watson's plays, poems, and short stories are first draftedin the notebooks, sometimes with many variations. For some work, such as Cockcrow and the Gulls, the notebooks provide a complete history of the genesis and development of the script. The notebooks also include hundreds of ideas for poems, scenario for plays etc., some developed, some not, as well as a great many unpublished poems and plays. They provide an indispensable research tool for scholars wishing to trace the thought and the process of composition of Watson's Oeuvre. "The notebooks and journals provide a record of the conception, writing and revisions of all Watson's major works and of a great deal of important unpublished work, as well as a major and creative response to the intellectual and political changes of the period from 1950 to 1980".

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The series title is based on the contents of the records.

A file listing follows.

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Accession 2001-58

Series 1.

Journals and Notebooks

1. Journals and Notebooks

1.1 1945-1960

Box # File # Description Date

Acc. #91-117

The terms 'Notebook' and 'Journal' are used somewhat interchangably, although in the earlier volumes, notebooks tended to be filled more with writing drafts, ideas, and sketches, while the journals had more of the daily diary-type entry.

1 1 Notebook. Handwritten entries with drafts of poems, notes on readings and essays and journal entries.

Jan. 1945-May 15, 1950

1 2 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-1):-'Evening with the Endicott's (June 15, 1947), 2 pp-'Duchess of Malfi' - handwritten notes about play with sketch (Black Market) on reverse-Tristram Shandy - Sterne - Study preface, 10 typed pages-'Someone with Yellow Hair' (two manuscript versions) and T.S. Satiric Method notes on reverse-notes on 'language as a tool'-notes - 'Chancery of Hanover'-clipping - 'Eve with Serpent'-notes - 'Cyntenu'-notes - Points of view', 'knowledge'-notes - 'The Throne and the Lion'-John Smith - 'Discourses'-'The English Poets and Their Theories'

Jan. 1945-May 15, 1950

1 3 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-1), continued:-five drawings of mother and child-manuscript - "The Whited Sepulchres"

Jan. 1945-May 15, 1950

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Acc. #91-117


-typescript of play about the devil and the bishop, 29 pp-manuscript scenario for play about Lady Volpone-biographical notice/ typescript of riddle poem,"saga hwaet ic hatte-two pp. typescript poem, "Think yet the ruling passion…"-typescript poem, "Copious until…"-2 pp. typescript poem, "Saga hwaet ic hatte"-manuscript draft of poem, "The shivering cool of evening"-manuscript draft of poem, "Shy as a woe"-two manuscript versions of poem, "Someone with yellow hair"-two manuscript and one typescript pp. drafts for play with characters of Amalie and servant-manuscript notes and two drafts of poem, "Darkness is my enemy"-typescript of poem, "Now in the drastic asylum" clipped to typescript poem, "To Sheila"-two manuscript drafts of poem, "The fat partridge walks the streets"typescript draft with manuscript revisions of poem, "Until your flowers of flesh"-two typescript drafts of poem, "A dialogue of disapproval"-one page typescript draft of poem. "Who shall find bread and use"-nine typescript drafts and carbons with manuscript Revisions of poem, "Yellow corn-sheaf dew-sweet Ann…"

1 4 Reading notebook. September 1946

1 5 Reading notebook [1949]. See call slip, interleaved inscribed: "Record of books read, looked at and

[1949]

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noted to be read or procured". Includes three sheets of interleaved manuscript notes.

1 6 Journal with diary-like entries. June 20, 1952-March 21, 1955

1 7 Notebook with manuscript drafts and journal entries; two pp. of interleaved manuscript material.

1953-1955

1 8 Notebook - drafts and notes, re: "Cockcrow". Feb. 26, 1955-March 16, 1955

1 9 Journal March 21, 1955-May 3, 1955

1 10 Journal May 14, 1955-May 4, 1956

1 11 Loose-leaf materials removed from journal (91-117-10):-typescript carbon of pg. 50 of prose manuscript [Under the Rabbit's Paw]?-typescript of poem, "In the beginning"-six pp. manuscript draft "Four Acts and a Clown"-two pp. typescript of unidentified play

May 14, 1955-May 4, 1956

1 12 Journal: 'Rue Vignon' workbook; drawings and watercolors taped in journal.

Sept. 1, 1955-Nov. 7, 1955

1 13 'Rue Vignon' workbook. Feb. 10, [1956]

1 14 Workbook - largely play drafts with two interleaved sheets of manuscript Versions of 'Ghosts'.

May 5, [1956]

1 15 Notebook - 'Poetry Ideas Watson', with two manuscript pages of novel (?) interleaved.

[1956]

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1 16 Notebook - 'The Misfits' [1956]

2 17 Journal May 10, 1956-August 18, 1957

2 18 Loose-leaf materials removed from Journal (91-117-17):-'Pour Theatre and French Humanism', handwritten, typescript, and sketches, 4 pp.

May 10, 1956-August 18, 1957

2 19 Notebook with "Revisions" written from one direction and "The Scarlett Tree" written from the other direction.

1956-1957

2 20 Journal, brown bookJournal, green book

Aug. 21-Nov. 26 1957Nov. 26, 1957-Feb. 6, 1958

2 21 Journal Feb. 17-March 29, 1958

2 22 Loose-leaf material removed from Journal (91-117-21):-two sheets of manuscript notes, unidentified material-manuscript notes in examination booklet-manuscript draft in examination booklet, "I dreamt that Stanley Spenser…"-manuscript notes in examination booklet, "Bleak Pastoral (note for an anthology)"

Feb. 17-March 29, 1958

2 23 Journal March 29-April 26, 1958

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2 24 Journal April 30-June 25, 1958

2 25 Journals (two) July 1-August 9, 1958August 11-Sept. 2, 1958

2 26 Notebooks (two) - first notebook titled "New Phrase Book" and includes phrases, names and sketches reversed from end of book.

Sept. 2-Oct. 7, 1958Oct. 26-Nov. 14, 1958

2 27 Journal Nov. 14-Nov. 23, 1958

2 28 Notebook Nov. 26, 1958-Feb. 16, 1959

2 29 Journal Feb. 16-June 22, 1959

2 30 Journal with interleaved typescript carbon page from Cockcrow with drawing on back.

July 9 - Sept. 1, 1959

2 31 Notebook Sept. 6-Oct. 28, 1959

2 32 Loose-leaf material removed from Notebook (91-117-31):-copy of article, "The Enchanted Pond" by George S. Perry-two pp. manuscript, re: sale of car, with drawings-manuscript draft in examination booklet for play about "King of all the Russians"

Sept. 6-Oct. 28, 1959

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2 33 Notebook Oct. 29, 1959-March 12, 1960

2 34 Loose-leaf material removed from Notebook (91-117-33):-one page manuscript notes on Cassandra-program of one-act play festival including Wilfred Watson's The Whatnot-one page manuscript draft of "Subliminal organization in poetry"

Oct. 29, 1959-March 12, 1960

2 35 Notebook in Mountains in Colour volume January 25, 1960

3 36 Loose-leaf material removed from Notebook (91-117-35):-manuscript draft "Pome of actors"-manuscript notes on TV-manuscript notes on Adam-manuscript notes on "The Black Queen Mother"-manuscript draft of poem "With swollen thighs and breasts"-manuscript draft "Under the Black Bridge"-text list for 17th century poetry course-manuscript draft of response to article in Weekend magazine on the Canada Council-draft of an unaddressed letter to the Edmonton Journal, re: Cockcrow and the Gulls-draft manuscript pp. of Corporal Adam-questionnaire (for playwriting course)?-two pp. typescript with manuscript revisions "Theatrescript" (Studio Theatre playwriting and production program, WW secretary)-manuscript draft, incomplete, of letter to Roy [Daniells] re: abandoned book project-typescript "Ode: Denote me death…"-manuscript notes for Corporal Adam

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3 37 Journal March 14- August 11, 1960

3 38 Loose-leaf materials removed from Journal (91-117-37):-six pp. manuscript draft, "If you marry my sister"-manuscript draft of poem, "Why should I scribble this against J.T. Jones" and manuscript notes-manuscript notes of projected play, "The Mechanical Bridegroom"-manuscript draft of poem, "Elegy: Go if you must…"-manuscript notes written on back of letter to 'Jack' [Shadbolt]

March 14-August 11, 1960

3 39 Notebook ('A Coast Note Book'), brown, hardcover August 12-Sept. 15, 1960

3 40 Notebook Sept. 23-Nov. 13, 1960

3 41 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-40):-manuscript draft of poem, "Aging Nietzche is dead"-examination booklet with manuscript drafts of poems, "O Apollo", "Epstein", "The difficult backbone of background…"

Sept. 23-Nov. 13, 1960

3 42 Journal/Notebook Nov. 15-Dec. 24, 1960

1.2 Cockcrow and the Gulls Notebooks

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3 43 "A Skeleton of Cockcrow" [1955-1956]

3 44 "Notes 'Cockcrow'", interleaved is a program from a University Drama Workshop

December 16, 1955

3 45 'A Vision of Cockcrow - Book I' Started May 12, 1956

3 46 Loose-leaf materials removed from Cockcrow Book (91-117-45):-four pp. typescript drafts of poem, "The Fish"-three pp. typescript and carbon, draft of poem, "The Lions"-notes and score from Vivaldi La Stravaganza"-drawing "La femme dormant" on bookmark-examination booklet with manuscript of two poems, "The Spider Mother", and "O moon cloud rose" and with notes on Cockcrow-examination booklet with manuscript of poem, "The kingdom of love"-manuscript draft of poem, "The river stands winter long"-manuscript draft of poem, "He knew that love came as the angel of death" and "I have sailed…"-twelve pp. manuscript miscellaneous notes re Cockcrow-typescript "Lines", "because a ghost"-manuscript notes re Cockcrow

May 12, 1956

3 47 "Cockcrow Book I Part 3 - The City" [1956]

3 48 Notebook - "Cockcrow Book II. The Judgement on"

[1956]

3 49 Loose-leaf material removed from "Cockcrow Book II (91-117-48):-nine pp. typescript from novel with manuscript notes on reverse-examination booklet with manuscript "Revisions of Cockcrow"-one page manuscript draft of Cockcrow-typescript of poem, "The sucking stones"

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overwritten with manuscript draft of "Actors faces and voices"-typescript "Actors faces and voices," one page of which has manuscript draft "Vision of City of Carousel" on the reverse-one page manuscript draft "With the wood of this tree"

3 50 Notebook - "Cockcrow material" [1955-1956]

3 51 "Cockcrow Workbook", interleaved with six art postcards of Renoir paintings

[1955-1956]

3 52 Workbook - [Cockcrow] [1955-1956]

3 53 Loose-leaf material removed from Workbook (91-117-52):-four pp. of manuscript draft for play with Battista and Jacopo as characters

[1955-1956]

3 54 Workbook: Cockcrow Book II, Part III, Manuscript Book II

[1955-1956]

3 55 Notebook: "Nativity of Cockcrow"; one page typescript interleaved, draft of poem,"Compassioned…" with drawing on back.

May 15, 1958

3 56 Stagebook of "'C' and the Gulls" [1959]

3 57 Loose-leaf materials removed from Stagebook (91-117-56):-examination booklet with manuscript drafts of "Some love we eye wants" and notes on first year students

[1959]

1.3 1961-1965

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4 58 Notebook January-January 19, 1961

4 59 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-58):-manuscript drafts of "Lines - The University of Golgotha"

January 1961

4 60 Notebook Jan. 21-March 29, 1961

4 61 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-60):-one page manuscript notes for a short story-manuscript notes "The gulls"-two manuscript drafts of poem, "Darkness is full of nails of light"

January 21-March 29, 1961

4 62 Notebook April 2 -June 19, 1961

4 63 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-62):-program for production of Coriolanus-drawings "Spirit of Christmas"- three drawings of woman-typescript of poem, "The Well"

April 2- June 19, 1961

4 64 Notebook August 23-Nov. 26, 1961

4 65 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-64):-program for Wail for Two Pedestals-programs, rehearsal schedules for Under the Black Bridge-announcement of Studio Theatre production of The Visit

August 23-November 26, 1961

4 66 Spiral notebook [1961]

4 67 Notebook Dec. 6, 1961-June

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21, 1962

4 68 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-67):-draft manuscript "The Weasel's wife…"-examination booklet with various manuscript notes-three pp. ms of "pome" (Jenny Blake material), "Jenny Blake's pome of midnight"-manuscript draft of "Jenny Blake's pome of T.S. Eliot"-ms draft of letter to George Woodcock re Cockcrow and the Gullsmanuscript draft of poem, "Sir, all my tangle(?)" written on back of advertising brochure-sketch with comments on painting and pottery show

Dec. 6, 1961-June 21, 1962

4 69 Notebook August 1 - Oct. 27, 1962

4 70 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-69):-three examination booklets with drawings-examination booklet with draft of unidentified essay-examination booklet with miscellaneous notes-examination booklet with notes on the press and on CBC-three examination booklets with draft manuscript for a play about Theseus

August 1 - Oct. 27, 1962

4 71 Notebook Dec. 24, 1962-Jan. 6, 1963

4 72 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-71):-manuscript draft of poem, "Craftsman makes jugs"-manuscript draft of a speech to the Vancouver Institute-manuscript miscellaneous notes and drawings-manuscript draft of letter with drawing-manuscript draft "Preface to Cockcrow and the

Dec. 24, 1962-Jan. 6, 1962

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Gulls"

4 73 Notebook March 12-April 15, 1963

4 74 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-73):-information sheet on Kabuki theatre-two examination booklets with manuscript draft passages for play with characters Borch and Smorch

March 12-April 15, 1963

4 75 Notebook of plots Under the Rabbit's Paw with interleaved sketches.

n.d.

4 76 Exercise book with drawing on covers and divider. n.d.

4 77 Notebook May 20-July 3, 1963

4 78 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-77):-examination booklet with manuscript "Black Raspenny"-three examination booklets with manuscript notes for Another Bloody Page from Plutarch-manuscript notes "If you ask me about drama"

4 79 Notebook July 5-Oct. 14, 1963

4 80 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-79):-examination booklet with manuscript "Epigraphs for book of bicycles"-two examination booklets with manuscript "The importance of being earnest in Canada"

July 5 - Oct. 14, 1963

4 81 Notebook July 22 - Dec. 9, 1963

4 82 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91- July 22 - Dec. 9,

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117-81):-examination booklet with manuscript notes for "A Nativity" (play)-examination booklet with manuscript notes for "The Scaffold"-manuscript notes "Prologue" to a play-manuscript notes re "Suderman"-manuscript notes "The Mosquitoes" (Another Bloody Page from Plutarch)-examination booklet with drawing and with notes for candidacy examinations on the clown and circus motif in Beckett-manuscript draft of a letter re The Visit

1963

5 83 Notebook Oct. 17-Dec. 7, 1963

5 84 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-83):-examination booklet with manuscript notes on metaphysical verse-drawing and manuscript of poem, "Your face, my lord"-manuscript notes and draft of poem on "Claudia and Hamlet"-four examination booklets "Hamlet 1963" manuscript and draft of a letter to Gordon [Peacock]-examination booklet with manuscript notes "The Condemned Condemn"-one page manuscript notes

Oct. 17-Dec. 7, 1963

5 85 Notebook Dec. 13, 1963-Jan. 3, 1964

5 86 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-85):-examination booklet with manuscript notes "Shakespeare's Anti-Theatre"-examination booklet with notes for "Hamlet 1963"

Dec. 13, 1963-Jan. 3, 1964

5 87 Notebook Jan. 3 -Feb. 3,

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1964

5 88 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-87):-five examination booklets re "The Election of a Mayor"-one page manuscript "Scientists manufacture a man"

Jan. 3 - Feb. 3, 1964

5 89 Notebook Feb. 8 - March 4, 1964

5 90 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-89):-examination booklet, drawings and examination questions-examination booklet, manuscript notes on theatre-examination booklet, draft of "Anniversaries"-examination booklet, miscellaneous notes-examination booklet, manuscript of "pome of figureheads"-examination booklet, manuscript "The death of a form"-two pp. manuscript "The real aim of English studies"-manuscript draft of a letter to "Mr. Luke"-examination booklet with manuscript draft "The performance of critics"-examination booklet with manuscript draft "The Way of the World"-two examination booklets with miscellaneous manuscript notes

Feb. 8 - March 4, 1964

5 91 Notebook March 4 - April 7, 1964

5 92 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-91):-four examination booklets with manuscript drafts for From Cliché to Archetype and notes on plays-examination booklet with manuscript draft of a letter to a reviewer

March 4 - April 7, 1964

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-manuscript draft of two letters re university promotion-examination booklet with miscellaneous manuscript drafts-manuscript draft notes for lectures (?)-manuscript draft "Baliol's committee on trees"-two examination booklets with manuscript drafts re critics

5 93 Notebook April 9 - May 14, 1964

5 94 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-93):-examination booklet with notes for English 640 and manuscript draft "Blossoms branched"-examination booklet with manuscript draft "MacBeth with a Twist"-typescript of poem, "The songbirds of the moon"-examination booklet with miscellaneous notes, "Time and sonnets"-three examination booklets with drawings and notes

April 9 - May 14, 1964

5 95 Notebook May 18 - June 24, 1964

5 96 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-95):-manuscript of poem, "My mind is a nest of whores"-examination booklet with topics on "genetic wordplay"

May 18 - June 24, 1964

5 97 Notebook June 29 - July 5, 1964

5 98 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-97):-two examination booklets with notes for From Cliché to Archetype

June 29 - July 5, 1964

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5 99 Notebook July 21 - Sept. 22, 1964

5 100 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-99):-program for Under the Black Bridge-several drafts of a letter to Mel [Hurtig]-examination booklet with miscellaneous manuscript notes-examination booklet with manuscript "The New Howl"

July 21 - Sept. 22, 1964

5 101 Notebook August 29 - Sept. 15, 1964

5 102 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-101):-program for Studio Theatre Upstairs-examination booklet with manuscript draft re Edge-manuscript notes "Black pollen"-typescript one page "I shot a trumpet into my brain"-examination booklet with manuscript draft "I shot an arrow into my brain"

August 29 - Sept. 15, 1964

5 103 Notebook Sept. 22 - Oct. 15, 1964

5 104 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-103):-examination booklet with manuscript "Wordplay and Shakespearean problems"-examination booklet with manuscript notes on Shakespeare-examination booklet with miscellaneous notes

Sept. 22 - Oct. 15, 1964

5 105 Notebook Oct. 5 - Nov. 15, 1964

5 106 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-105):-fourteen pp. typescript of short story "The slink

Oct. 5 - Nov. 15, 1964

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pouvoir"-several pp. miscellaneous manuscript notes and drawings, re courses, Shakespeare and From Cliché to Archetype

5 107 Notebook Nov. 4 - Nov. 13, 1964

6 108 Notebook - "Wail for Two Pedestals", a farce in two parts

Nov. 24- Dec. 10, 1964

6 109 Notebook Dec. 13-17, 1964

6 110 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-109):-examination booklet with notes for English 640

Dec. 13-17, 1964

6 111 Notebook Dec. 21-29, 1964

6 112 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-111):-two examination booklets with notes for play "Giovanni's Sweetheart"-two programs of Wail for two Pedestals used as Christmas cards-examination booklet with notes for a play "The Albatross"-examination booklet with manuscript "Socred Dreams"-examination booklet with manuscript "A Cupful of Nailpolish for a Dead Whale"

Dec. 21-29, 1964

6 113 Notebook Dec. 30, 1964-Jan. 4, 1965

6 114 Notebook Jan. 7 - April 21, 1965

6 115 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-114):-examination booklet with manuscript "As the moon gets the weep"

Jan. 7 - April 21, 1965

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-manuscript with notes for play "Wail for the prophecy of the nails"-examination booklet with manuscript "Wail for the Death of the Rock Drill"-manuscript examination booklet with notes for "Wail" and watercolor-examination booklet manuscript of Hamlet dialogue-manuscript on calendar with notes on comedy and tragedy

6 116 Notebook - Part 2 of "Wail for Five Yardbirds", etc.

Jan 25 - Feb. 27, 1965

6 117 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-116):-one page manuscript poem "Reply to the question"-examination booklet manuscript poem, "She came into the class" and notes on a review of Wail for two Pedestals-manuscript draft of poem, "Because the moon grows sick"-examination booklet with manuscript draft of "male/female" dialogue-examination booklet with manuscript draft of poem, "as the moon goes mad"-examination booklet with manuscript draft of poem, "Said Donne to his harlot" and with English 640 notes

Jan. 25-Feb 27, 1965

6 118 Notebook March 5 - May 4, 1965

6 119 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-118):-examination booklet with manuscript comment on Edmonton Journal reviewing-examination booklet with miscellaneous notes-examination booklet with "Mr. and Mrs. That"

March 5 - May 4, 1965

6 120 Notebook March 1965

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6 121 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-120):-three examination booklets with manuscript draft for Chez vous, comfortable pew-two pp. typescript "The Playwright Speaks"-examination booklet with manuscript draft "Notes on absurdity"-examination booklet with manuscript draft of a response to Barry Westgate, Edmonton Journal reviewer

March 1965

6 122 Notebook March 21 - June 16, 1965

6 123 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-122):-manuscript notes "Eve is jealous"

March 21 - June 16, 1965

6 124 Notebook Dec. 8, 1965 - April 7, 1966

6 125 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-124):-one page drawing and watercolor-drawing on tailors' advertisement in envelope

Dec. 8, 1965-April 7, 1966

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6 126 Notebook, black softcover February 1966

6 127 Notebook April 6 - June 3, 1966


6 129 Notebook April 27 - May 16,

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1966

7 130 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-129):-examination booklet with notes on Shakespeare and list of characters for a play-one page manuscript notes on Shakespeare-two examination booklets with manuscript notes on "Jekyll and Hyde"

April 27 May 16, 1966

7 131 Notebook June 23 - August 7, 1966

7 132 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-131):-one page notes on casting Cockcrow and drawing-examination booklet with manuscript draft dialogue between Helen and Menelaus, between MacBeth and Lady MacBeth, and between Isaiah and Jeremiah and of a poem, "I thought I knew that tonight's moon"

June 23- August 7, 1966

7 133 Notebook Sept. 1, 1966 - Dec. 10, 1967

7 134 Notebook Sept. 19 - Oct. 31, 1966

7 135 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-1340:-fourteen pp. typescript "The Slink pouvoir"-examination booklet with manuscript scenario for a play-examination booklet with scenario for Lear-two pp. manuscript "Intersecting vortices vs. Containers and Contents"-two pp. manuscript poem, "The mice have got into the apple box/Dear old Yeats"-one page manuscript list of writings-one page manuscript notes on "A poem is a space probe"

Sept. 19 - Oct. 31, 1966

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7 136 Notebook Nov. 2, 1966- Jan.3, 1967

7 137 Notebook Jan. 9 - April 5, 1967

7 138 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-137):-manuscript list of plays-ms page of miscellaneous theatre notes and drawings-examination booklet, manuscript notes on Antigone and other notes

Jan. 9 - April 5, 1967


7 140 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-139):-one page manuscript notes on English 640 (Shakespeare)-seven pp. manuscript draft for O Holy Ghost and with draft of a letter to Marshall McLuhan-drawing-examination booklet with manuscript notes for O Holy Ghost

April 8 - June 8, 1967

7 141 Notebook May 8 - August 6, 1967

7 142 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-141):-five photocopied and color crayon drawings-examination booklet with manuscript "O for a muse of fire/O for a TV screen" and notes for O Holy Ghost; two drafts of a letter in response to a request for a script-two examination booklets with draft of Sunflower material for O Holy Ghost

May 8 - August 6, 1967

7 143 Notebook August 6 Nov. 17, 1967

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7 144 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-143):-examination booklet with manuscript notes for O Holy Ghost and for a dialogue with a Canadian writer and director-twenty-five typescript copies of "song" for O Holy Ghost, two with manuscript revisions-drawing of Sunflower-photocopied photograph-one page photocopied "Master of the Nubile Adolescent (about Balthus)

August 6 - Nov. 17, 1967

7 145 Notebook Sept. 10, 1967 - June 12, 1968

7 146 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-145):-typescript of unidentified lines (not likely by WW)- six examination booklets with manuscript drafts of Over Prairie Trails-one page manuscript notes on Hamlet-examination booklet with manuscript notes for From Cliché to Archetype

Sept. 10, 1967 - June 12, 1968

7 147 Notebook Dec. 16, 1967 - Jan. 4, 1968

7 148 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-147):-three pp. manuscript notes From Cliché to Archetype-examination booklet with draft passages for O Holy Ghost and with notes for From Cliché to Archetype-drawing and manuscript of poem, "The water hasn't yet discovered the fish"-examination booklet with various manuscript notes-two pp. manuscript notes for O Holy Ghost

Dec. 16, 1967 -Jan. 4, 1968

7 149 Notebook - Untitled brown hardcover notebook October 1967-January 1968

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7 150 Notebook, as above Jan. 4 - April 4, 1968

7 151 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-150):-drawing- draft of letter (March 11, 1968)-four examination booklets with notes about "The Stone Clothes", "Asooyos" and "…the unattached arms of woman; play notes

Jan. 4 - April 4, 1968

7 152 Notebook April 4 - May 21, 1968

8 153 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-152:-newspaper clipping-one page manuscript notes for a play about Phedre-examination booklet with scenario for a play-one page manuscript notes on the FBI-drawing

April 4 - May 21, 1968

8 154 Notebook, brown, hard cover May 28, 1968

8 155 Notebook, gray, hard cover October 28, 1968

8 156 Notebook, gray Nov. 28, 1968-Jan. 31, 1969

8 157 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-156):-one page pencil draft of poem, "Pick em up Danny"-one page pencil notes for "Over Prairie Trails"-one page notes on two kinds of quotations-four pp. pencil drafts of response to article by Barrington Nevitt

Nov. 28, 1968 - Jan. 31, 1969

8 158 Notebook, gray "C/A [Cliché/Archetype] retrieval February 1969

8 159 Toronto Notebook, gray, hard cover February 7 - March

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16, 1969

8 160 Loose-leaf materials removed from Toronto Notebook (91-117-159):-one news clipping

February 7 - March 16, 1969

8 161 Toronto Notebook, gray hard cover March 17 - May 13, 1969

8 162 Toronto Notebook, gray hard cover May 14, 1969

8 163 Loose-leaf materials removed from Toronto Notebook (91-117-161):-one sheet of miscellaneous notes and jottings

May 14, 1969

8 164 Notebook, gray, hard cover May 14, 1969 - July 4, 1970

8 165 Notebook, brown, hard cover Nov. 6 - 27, 1969

8 166 Notebook, brown hard cover Nov. 27, 1969 - Jan. 1, 1970

8 167 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-166):-two pp. pencilled notes re From Cliché to Archetype-offprint of R. B. Baldwin, "Pattern in the Novels of Edward McCourt"-examination booklet with draft of a response review by Beckford of Let's Murder Clytemnestra… and notes for setting lines from The Double Hook to music

Nov. 27, 1969 - Jan. 1, 1970

8 168 Notebook 1970/1971 (also called 69/70)"Thinktank book for English 684"

[1969/1970]

8 169 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-168):-one page manuscript "Answer to Bruce Hohol"-examination booklet with two manuscript variations on "The Lord is my Shepherd" and notes

[1969/1970]

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-examination booklet with manuscript draft "On whose side is the newspaper"-examination booklet with manuscript draft "the voices are electronic"-examination booklet with manuscript draft "I saw three ? in flames" and notes on The Taming of the Shrew-one page manuscript notes and play dialogue "The hired girl, the blind man, his son"-one page manuscript for poem, "The cold sleet falls into wind and rain"

9 170 Notebook, brown, hard cover Jan 1 - Feb. 10, 1970

9 171 Notebook, brown, hard cover Feb. 10 - April 4, 1970

9 172 Notebook, brown, hard cover April 4 - 20, 1970

9 173 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-172);-two examination booklets with notes for Chez Vous, Comfortable Pew-two drawings related to same play-one title page, crayon printing, for same play-pencil notes for a poem

April 4 - 20, 1970

9 174 Notebook, brown, hard cover April 25 - May 16, 1970

9 175 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-174):-three sheet drawings (crayon, pencil, ink); one with draft material for Chez Vous, Comfortable Pew on the back of it.

April 25 - May 16, 1970

9 176 Notebook, brown, hard cover May 16 - June 7, 1970

9 177 NotebookOversize 95-131-1, Box 1

June 21 - July 16, 1970

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9 178 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-177):-two pp. typescript with manuscript additions on "Shakespeare's genetic wordplay"

June 21 - July 16, 1970

9 179 Notebook - "Summer fallow journal" July 16 - August 19, 1970

9 180 Notebook, blue, hard cover August 2 - Dec. 13, 1970

9 181 Notebook, blue, hard cover Dec. 16, 1970 - Feb. 20, 1971

9 182 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-181):-one sheet of notes about experimental booklet

Dec. 16, 1970 - Feb. 20, 1971

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9 183 Notebook, blue, hard cover February 21, 1971

9 184 Notebook, blue, hard cover April 16, 1971

9 185 Notebook, blue, hard cover May 23 - July 17, 1971

9 186 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-185):-examination booklet with notes on the limerick and drafts of two limericks-draft of a letter to "Dora" on medieval and renaissance space -examination booklet with notes on the American influence on Canadian poets and with notes on Shakespeare

May 23 - July 17, 1971

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-ten pp. of draft notes for a play about Alice in Wonderland-two pp. of notes for a play rewriting the character of Millamant-examination booklet with draft notes for a play with the character Ngmimi and various other notes-examination booklet with draft notes on Canadian theatre "as an alien place"-sheet with drawings and notes for play, The Cuckold-examination booklet with notes for play. The Cuckold-three sheets of notes on Marshall McLuhan

9 187 Notebook"Postures of Survival No. One""Pitioppolis"

July 14 - Nov. 17, 1971

10 188 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-187):-examination booklet with manuscript notes on Canadian poets and drafts of poems on Canadian painters-examination booklet with manuscript notes on the alphabet and language-two pp. typescript poem, "The sword dies slowly…" (Nov. 13, 1971)-examination booklet, drafts of letter re city street lighting and of related poem, "the polluted moon"-examination booklet manuscript draft of poem "Whenever you tell the truth/tell it small"-two examination booklets with manuscript notes on Procne and Philomela-examination booklet with manuscript notes on incest and family and with two draft proposals for the graduate program-one page typescript "The bicycle is wet with bombs"-examination booklet with manuscript "all the days of my life"-examination booklet with manuscript of poem on McLuhan and notes on Chaucer, with poem, "There

July 14 - Nov. 17, 1971

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was a pretty matelot"-examination booklet with Everyman notes-examination booklet with manuscript notes on the great Canadian limerick-manuscript draft of letter re The Sorrowful Canadians-two manuscript drafts of poem, "I hate yet I love"-examination booklet with draft comments on graduate program and draft of a letter to Saturday Night-examination booklet with manuscript notes for a play, "Trial of the Socred Government"-examination booklet with manuscript "Everything is twisted in my ears"

10 189 Notebook, blue, hard cover November 27, 1971

10 190 Notebook/Journal Feb.9 - May 18, 1972

10 191 Notebook, blue, hard cover May 19 - June 22, 1972

10 192 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-190):-manuscript notes on Cliché-envelope with notes on Cliché and poem, "Portrait of the white pelican"-drawings and manuscript "Death of a department"-one page manuscript proposal for a novel, Death of Department, and poem, "Les professeurs des bicyclettes"-one page manuscript notes "the suicide of Hamlet prince of characters"-manuscript notes re Grandfather clock-examination booklet with manuscript notes on Matthews and Steele book-draft of letter to Dorothy; three unfinished versions-two pp. manuscript poems "her Berkeley is worse than her Chomsky"-three examination booklets with draft of play "The

Feb. 9 - May 18, 1972

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Lesson" (on theme of 'Everyman')-examination booklet with draft passages for From Cliché to Archetype and with notes about the CBC-examination booklet with reply to Gateway about a "short circuit" and notes on Tiresias-examination booklet with manuscript of poem, "It was a gay Saturday night"-examination booklet with Cliché to Archetype material and 'Everyman' material-examination booklet with manuscript material on 'Everyman' and meditation on poetry-one page manuscript on Phedre and Hippolytus-manuscript note on Irving Layton's poetry

10 193 Notebook, blue, hard cover June 22, 1972

10 194 Notebook July 22 - Nov. 29, 1972

10 195 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-194):-examination booklet with manuscript of limericks on Canadian writers and poem, "the paradox of poetry"

July 22 - Nov. 29, 1972

10 196 Notebook Jan. 6 -April 7, 1973

10 197 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-196):-examination booklet with notes for dialogue of God and Satan and notes on Shakespeare-one page manuscript notes for Wail for Two Pedestals-notes on envelope-examination booklet with miscellaneous notes-examination booklet with manuscript notes for play "The Hijackers"-typescript "Lines December 1972 (on Margaret Atwood)-examination booklet with notes on Shakespeare

Jan. 6 - April 7, 1973

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10 198 Notebook Feb. 25 - April 5, 1973

10 199 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-198):-examination booklet with manuscript notes on 'Everyman' and Phedre-foolscap sheet with manuscript notes on Shakespeare-one examination booklet - class notes-one examination booklet with notes for a play on Oedipus-examination booklet with manuscript notes on "Characterization, Plot, Setting, Imagery" and Canadian literature of the 1960's-manuscript sheet "Desolation Bay"-examination booklet with manuscript dialogue of "The Haunted House"-sketch and notes on envelope

Feb. 25 - April 5, 1973

10 200 Notebook April 7 - July 1, 1973

10 201 Notebook"17 ways", etc.

June 24, 1973

11 202 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-201):-drawing-examination booklet with poem, "I was no prophet nor was meant to be" and notes for The Burglar-examination booklet with 'Everyman' material-one page of manuscript re 'Everyman'-one page manuscript "the medium is the message"

June 24, 1973

11 203 Notebook July 1 - August 18, 1973

11 204 Notebook (titled: July 1, 1973) August 19 - Oct. 11, 1973

11 205 Notebook (lot of notes on McLuhan) Oct. 22, 1973 -

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April 3, 1974

11 206 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-205):-two pp. manuscript plan and two examination booklets notes and drafts for "The Place Marie Dialogues"

Oct. 22, 1973 - April 3, 1974

11 207 Notebook Dec. 23, 1973 - April 18, 1974

11 208 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-207):-one page manuscript play plot summary-examination booklet with manuscript dialogue about death-two examination booklets with manuscript drafts on "Semicolonialism"-examination booklet with poem, "The paradox of the professional"; also a draft on a single sheet-examination booklet with drafts of letters on department matters-examination booklet with notes on Shakespeare's imagery-examination booklet with manuscript draft "17 ways of…"-examination booklet with drawing and draft of examination questions-examination booklet with manuscript "A Bestiary of Canadian Writers" and a poem, "I meditate on the weight of Stonehenge"

Dec. 23, 1973 - April 18, 1974

11 209 Notebook, blue, hard cover (Tiessen/Rose) April 30 - July 19, 1974

11 210 Notebook July 23 - Nov. 28, 1974

11 211 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-210):-two pp. typescript "Construction, untitled, in two parts" and one page attached ms

July 23 - Nov. 28, 1974

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-eight diagrams of emotions and the arts in the Master-Mistress Sonnets 20-124-three pp. manuscript "19 reasons for not going to a short story conference"-list of writers and public figures-three pp. manuscript transpositions of Richard II-one page unidentified manuscript notes-one page manuscript "some notes on sexual identity of women"-one page manuscript "In an age born out of wedlock"-one page manuscript "I think of the motor flying/Out of Irving Layton's novel"-five pp. manuscript notes on "A character called Budmouth" and aboriginal rights-one page manuscript "On regarde chaque atome"-one page draft letter to Saturday Night re Robert Fulford-seven pp. manuscript notes on Shakespeare-examination booklet with Shakespeare notes and table of attributes of men and women-two pp. typescript "I walked under the water among the stupid sharks"-one page manuscript poem, "The doggerel lever on dogfood"-one page manuscript poem, "Montoronto"-three pp. manuscript "Constructions in/black wire/portrait of the artist as a construction worker"-manuscript of Satiric poem "the name of our president"-one page manuscript draft "Constructions in contempt of the times"-one page manuscript poem, "This poem is made of real words"

11 212 Notebook, blue, hard cover ("Continues July 23, 1974)

November - December 19, 1974

11 213 Notebook, blue hard cover (Dec. 19/Feb.25, continued March 23 1975)

March 23 - May 7, 1975

11 214 Notebook, hard cover (Continuing journal of March May 8 - June 21,

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23, 1975) 1975

11 215 Notebook June 24 - July 27, 1975

11 216 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-215):-manuscript on envelope "the green men of Edmonton"-examination booklet with manuscript draft "Poems for 1975" and "the identity of the fleece/is holy"-one page manuscript notes for a play "The Executioner"-three pp. notes on "Identity" and "Canadian Identity"

June 24 - July 27, 1975

12 217 Notebook, blue, hard cover July 28 - Oct. 6, 1975

12 218 Notebook, blue, hard cover Oct. 7 - Dec. 13, 1975

12 219 Notebook, blue, hard cover Dec. 14, 1975 - March 10, 1976

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12 220 Notebook, blue, hard cover March 10 - May 18, 1976

12 221 Notebook, blue, hard cover May 19 - August 14, 1976

12 222 Notebook, blue, hard cover August 15 - Sept. 27, 1976

12 223 Notebook, red ("September 27, 1976, to follow Sept. 28 - Dec. 11,

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August 15 1976) 1976

12 224 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-223):-"The Poetry of Quebec from 1967 to the Present: A Bibliography", prepared by Noreen Levine in October 1973-poem, "the numbered spaces of norman yates" drafted on back of envelope-manuscript notes for "A Woman taken in Adultery" drafted over student examination paper-three drafts of poem, "portrait of myself as paranoid" and notes for play "Blancnoir" drafted over student examination paper-notes for a play with characters John and Margaret Sawpress, drafted in student examination paper-newsclipping and one page manuscript notes

Sept. 28 - Dec. 11, 1976

12 225 Notebook, red, hard cover Dec. 9, 1976 - April 11, 1977

12 226 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-225):-one page of notes on play "Magpie"-card, with WW's note on envelope-two pp. notes re "Sunflower"

Dec. 9, 1976 - April 11, 1977

12 227 Notebook, blue, hard cover April 13 - August 8, 1977

12 228 Notebook, blue, hard cover ("to follow April 13") August 11 - Oct. 7, 1977

12 229 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-228):-three sheets of notes for play "Blancnoir"-Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Constantly risking absurdity," torn from a book; Jay Macpherson's "The Boatman" on the reverse

August 11 - Oct. 7, 1977

12 230 Notebook, blue, hard cover Oct. 9 - Dec. 29, 1977

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12 231 Notebook, blue, hard cover Jan. 1 - March 27, 1978

12 232 Notebook, blue, hard cover March 27 - June 16, 1978

13 233 Notebook, blue, hard cover June 16 - August, 1978

13 234 Notebook, blue, hard cover August 25 - Nov. 13, 1978

13 235 Notebook, blue, hard cover Nov. 14 - Dec. 30, 1978

13 236 Notebook, brown, hard cover, with green spine Jan. 1 - March 3, 1979

13 237 Notebook, green, hard cover, with blue spine March 4 - May 16, 1979

13 238 Notebook, green, hard cover, with blue spine May 19 - August 7, 1979

13 239 Notebook, brown, hard cover, with blue spine June 4, 1979 - Jan. 12, 1980

13 240 Notebook, green, hard cover March 25 - August 23, 1980

13 241 Notebook, brown, hard cover June 21 - Dec. 13, 1980

13 242 Lagoon Notebook December 13-21, 1980

13 243 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-242):-two sheets of number-grid verse, "blinded by her own insights"-one sheet of notes, "dialogues with MM"

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13 243A Notebook, blue with ten pp. of manuscript fragments interleaved

Dec. 14, 1980 - 1982

14 244 Lagoon Notebook Dec. 22, 1980 - Jan. 3, 1981

14 245 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-244):-notes on the short story and novel, one sheet-two sheets of notes on Marshall McLuhan-List of Watson short stories

1.7 1981-1985


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14 246 Animals The Museum of Modern Art Appointment Calendar 1981: Used as notebook, with entries in appointment spaces and writings and drawings over calendar illustrations.

January - June, 1981

14 247 Loose-leaf materials removed from Museum of Modern Art Calendar/Notebook (91-117-246):-postcard from B.C., unidentified sender-invitation from Norman Yates to attend opening of Ayrton exhibit in F.A.B.-one sheet of notes for "Blancnoir/deconstruction"-two sheets manuscript draft and typescript for part of number-grid poem, "Portrait of Patricia Clements"-draft of letter to bp nichol re WW's contribution to "notation" issue of Open Letter

January -June, 1981

14 248 Lagoon Notebook #3 Jan 5 1980 [actually 1981] January 5, 1981

14 249 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-248):

January 5, 1981

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-draft of letter to Diane Bessai-three sheets of notes for Gramsci x 3, one with notes on the reverse on the "aim of theatre"

14 250 Lagoon Notebook #4 Jan 21 1980 [actually 1981] January 21, 1981

14 251 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-250):-one sheet of notes and notes on envelope for a play, "The hijacker"-copy of English 150 essay "Celery, Stone Circles and Incest: or PHI on you, Fibonacci!"-sheet with manuscript draft of poem, "there are three standards" and on reverse, poem, "Everyone knows that Peter Lougheed…"-two manuscript drafts of letter, Jan. 23 1981 to Scot Taylor, about Marshall McLuhan's death

January 21, 1981

14 252 Lagoon Notebook #5 February 9, 1981

14 253 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-252):-typescript page with poem, "It's not surprising the English find us dull"

February 9, 1981

14 254 Lagoon Notebook #6 February 25, 1981

14 255 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-254):-one page of typescript from "short story", with manuscript notes on back

February 25, 1981

14 256 Lagoon Notebook #7 March 8, 1981

14 257 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-256):-manuscript notes for unidentified play with German characters, written over a book catalogue-two typescript drafts of a report (for Canada Council?) on 'Robert Zend, a bunch of proses & Nicolette'

March 8, 1981

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14 260 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-259):-pastel drawing, titled "self portrait as logos-hemisphere with the mythos-hemisphere round its neck" on the back of which is drafted a letter to Scot Taylor dated "3.eight LXXXI"

March 28, 1981

14 261 Lagoon Notebook #10 April 8/May 7, 1981

14 262 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-261):-typescript of draft of poem, "the rape of narcissus", with drawings on both sides-typescript of another draft of "the rape of narcissus"-typescript of poem, "prayer vs. death by drowning"-typescript of poem, "prayer vs. robots"-typescript of poem, "re Irving Layton," with manuscript revisions; on bottom of page, manuscript draft of same poem; on reverse, manuscript draft of poem, "mistress and maiden"-manuscript draft of poem, "Lampman", and on reverse, manuscript draft of poem, "the beautiful chain saw teeth of"-typescript draft of poem, "Who cares that England's lords…"-three pp. manuscript draft of "Who cares that England's lords…"-typescript draft of poem, "Re neglect as a formal cause" (revision of "Who cares that England's lords…"-two manuscript drafts of poem, "to develop under a sawtooth…"

April 8/May 7, 1981

14 263 Lagoon Notebook #11 May 7, 1981

15 264 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91- May 7, 1981

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117-263):-manuscript of draft of poem, "my soul is extinguished" on back of envelope

15 265 Lagoon Notebook #12 May 27, 1981

15 266 Lagoon Notebook #13 ("to follow May 27") June 8, 1981

15 267 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-266):-second page of typescript of poem on theatre of the absurd; on reverse manuscript notes about vortices and vorticism-three drawings on yellow construction paper-manuscript draft on back of advertising flyer or poem, "words as things exist among things…"

June 8, 1981

15 268 Lagoon Notebook #14 June 14, 1981

15 269 Lagoon Notebook #15 June 24, 1981

15 270 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-269);-manuscript draft of poem, "portrait of patricia clements"; on the back of one page on which is a draft of part of a letter of reference for John Lent, and a drawing

June 24, 1981

15 271 Lagoon Notebook #16 July 15, 1981

15 272 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-271);-manuscript draft of letter of reference for John Lent on the back of which is drafted notes on the "maelstrom of language" as the "vortex of technology"-manuscript notes on "as a subject beyond my years, portrait etc."-manuscript notes on a "technological allegory"-list of characters and scenario for projected play "Oedipus the shepherd"-manuscript draft of poem, "portrait of peter

July 15, 1981

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Acc. #91-117

lougheed as an oil slick several hundred kilometers long" and, on the reverse and attached page, four manuscript drafts of poem "art strives toward virtuosity…"-typescript of rough draft of poem, "portrait of peter lougheed…"-typescript numbered page two of poem, "in the context of battered angels"

15 273 Lagoon Notebook #17 July 26, 1981

15 274 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-273);-manuscript draft of poem, "chas olsen is a first-generation postmodernist" with drawing on back-typescript poem, "re wip wong and miss piggy as female impersonator"-typescript of poem "re Ptolemy: o/possum deconstruction"-three pp. of photocopied typescript from Daphne Marlatt, "similitude's" with explanatory note by Marlatt, on the reverse of which WW lists some of his works and drafts in manuscript a poem, "portrait of myself with experiments"-draft of letter to Scot Taylor dated "10.eight.LXXXI"

July 26, 1981

15 275 Lagoon Notebook #18 August 7, 1981

15 276 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-275);-draft of letter to Mary [Hamilton] dated 15.eight.LXXXI, with pastel drawing on back-draft of letter to Diane Bessai dated 13.eight.LXXXI-notes on Phedre and Hippolytys with drawing on back-typescript of poem, "re/making war by numbers"

August 7, 1981

15 277 Lagoon Notebook #19 August 29, 1981

15 278 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91- August 29, 1981

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Acc. #91-117

117-276);-sheet of manuscript notes on "psyche + techne"; also back of envelope with notes on same subject-typescript draft of poem, "re space"-manuscript draft of poem, "alas poor buds/what doth it boot" on back of cigarette package-manuscript draft of poem, "all this talk of how the mind bells poetry…" on back of cigarette package-manuscript draft of beginning of letter to Diane Bessai, 29.eight.LXXXI

15 279 Lagoon Notebook #20 October 7, 1981

15 280 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-279);-manuscript draft of poem, "portrait of my aunt phedre" on back of advertising flyer-manuscript draft of poem, "the forward youth" and other manuscript notes (one sheet)-typescript draft of poem, "at the cemetery"-typescript draft of poem, "re the new babel development

October 7, 1981

15 281 Lagoon Notebook #21 November 4, 1981

15 282 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-281);-one page manuscript notes re "shapes on the page"-two pp. manuscript notes on "the stoned bodystocking" (poem)-manuscript draft of poem, "re mouthfuls of" with drawing "mouthful of games" on reverse--typescript draft of poem, "my advice wasn't asked for" with two versions of second page and attached manuscript draft of same poem-manuscript and typescript draft of poem, "re november the thirteenth"manuscript draft of poem, "I am at Departure Bay…"

November 4, 1981

15 283 Lagoon Notebook #22 December 21, 1981

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Acc. #91-117

16 284 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-283);-two pastel drawings-typescript and manuscript drafts of poem, "portrait of alice zagreus"-manuscript draft of poem, "portrait of andrea's/lucerezia on the telephone"-typescript and manuscript draft of poem, "portrait of myself as authorial presence"-manuscript draft of poem, "re upper canada"-typescript draft of poem, "re blood relations" and five sheets of manuscript drafts for same poem, on reverse of which are two drafts of a poem, "moon moon water" and one draft of a poem, "out of the graveyard endlessly bellowing"- typescript draft of letter to Diane Bessai dated 23.one. LXXXII-two manuscript drafts of letter to Diane Bessai dated 28.twelve.LXXXI and 21.twelve.LXXXI-one sheet of notes on Caxton and Hippolytus-manuscript draft of poem, "the authors of a pay are its dramatist plus its performers"-typescript of poem by Colin Browne, "Off In"-photocopy of short story by Terence Donnelly, "The Sorcerer's Cave…and its Sequel"

December 21, 1981

16 285 Eskimo Graphic Engagement Calendar 1982, appointment spaces used as notebook, illustrations overdrawn and overwritten

1982

16 286 Loose-leaf materials removed from Eskimo Graphics Engagement Calendar (91-117-285):-typescript draft of poem, "here was a human being"-one sheet manuscript notes on the themes of i) the "deaf universe" as the "overriding theme of theatre of the absurd", and ii) "news aborts history"-two sheets of notes and dialogue for Gramsci 2-two sheets manuscript notes on documentary-typescript draft of poem, "re blood relations" on reverse of which are manuscript notes for Gramsci 3 and notes on when "the law is an ass"

1982

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-two sheets manuscript draft of "I shot a trumpet into my brain" on back of which are notes on racism-three sheets manuscript drafts of poem, "At the tomb of Chagall"-one page manuscript notes re "God is …, and sunrise"

16 287 Lagoon Notebook/Daily Journal March 1982

16 288 Lagoon Notebook #2/1 March 2, 1982

16 289 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-288):-typescript page "McLuhan's Documentary Satire"

March 2, 1982

16 290 Lagoon Notebook #2/2 April 15, 1982

16 291 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-290):-gift card from Sheila Watson-manuscript draft of letter to Diane Bessai (Sept. 6, 1982)-second page of manuscript draft letter re Mass on Cowback

April 15, 1982

16 292 Lagoon Notebook #2/3 May 23, 1982

16 293 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-292):-typescript poem, "flesh, flesh…"-manuscript notes for play, "the canadianization of billy the kid"-typescript (pg.2) of poem, "henry moore, master of sheep's faces"-seven sheets from examination booklets of drafts of poems-photocopy of typescript of poem, "re theory as kept woman"; manuscript notes for Gramsci on reverse-photocopy of Marshall McLuhan, "Five Sovereign Fingers taxed the breath"

May 23, 1982

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Acc. #91-117

16 294 Lagoon Notebook ("Brown book September 12/25 1982 W.W.""lagoon etudes for the four horsemen"

September 12/25, 1982

16 295 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-294):-manuscript draft of poem, "portrait of marlatt daphne" on reverse of which is manuscript draft of poem "semantic effectiveness"-typescript draft of poem, "from the brown book"-manuscript draft of poem, "the house of atreus"-manuscript draft of letter (5.ix.82) to Jack Shadbolt-draft of letter to bj (Sheila Watson's niece) dated Aug. 26, 1983 on back of which is manuscript draft of poem, "…and thinking of myself as bj's librettist…"-cigarette package with projected title, "heaps & tales" written on back-manuscript draft for riddle poem, "hedgehog"-manuscript draft of riddle poem, "my roof is ten thousand ? star"-manuscript draft of letter to David Staines dated 28.1x.82

September 12/25, 1982

16 296 Lagoon Notebook #3/1 October 20, 1982

16 297 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-296):-one page manuscript draft of poem, "the invoices if literacy"-typescript of poem, "to Celia/deconstruction"-two typescript versions of poem, "Sonnet" and one sheet manuscript draft-typescript of poem, "Sonnet" ("Rochester was such a city…"-typescript of poem, "wyatt deconstruction"-typescript of poem, "re norman yates" with manuscript outline of scenes for Gramsci x 2-typescript draft of letter to bp nichol, September 8, 1982, on receiving special issue on "Notation"

October 20, 1982

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Acc. #91-117

-manuscript draft of poem, "Ancestor pot for poppy seed"-manuscript draft of fictional acknowledgement for Gramsci x 3-letter from Universita delle arti-typescript of letter to John (Lent?) at Island magazine-manuscript draft of letter to David Staines (Feb. 11, 1983)-manuscript draft of poem, "the horizon is a black line on which the storm hangs its washing"-typescript draft with manuscript revisions of poem, "letter to the dead"-two pp. manuscript draft of poem, "as public face or mask of power"-one sheet of notes describing "cowback"

16 298 Lagoon Notebook #3/2 November 1982

16 299 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-298):-manuscript draft of poem, "riddle/coin"-typescript of poem, "Sonnet" ("because he from his mother's womb"-typescript of poem, "Sonnet/at the swedish ballet"-typescript of poem, "poor birds alas what doth it boot"-typescript of poem, "three sonnets" ("photographs are transformations, mechanical transcriptions")-typescript drafts of two versions of poem, "2 sonnets" ("houses with windows")-manuscript draft of poem, "it all began with my falling in love with tiresias" on the back of which are notes for "Oedipus Rex"-manuscript partial draft of letter to bp nichol 4.two.LXXXII-manuscript partial draft of letter to Shirley Neuman Feb. 1, 1982

November 1982

16 300 Lagoon Notebook #3/3 December 12, 1982

16 301 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91- December 12, 1982

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Acc. #91-117

117-300):-program for the sorrowful canadians: the poetry of wilfred watson told by donna gruhlke and ray montalbetti-two line drawing of mother and child-line drawing "The Shaman"-sheet of drawings-manuscript draft of letter to Tom Peacocke Jan. 6 1983-manuscript draft of letter to Shirley Neuman Dec. 13 1982-manuscript draft of letter to Shirley Neuman Dec. 14 1982-manuscript draft of letter to Davis Staines Jan. 17 1983-manuscript notes on "bankruptcy"-manuscript and typescript drafts of letter to bp nichol Jan. 3 1982-manuscript draft of letter to Shirley Neuman Jan. 3 1982-eight pp. manuscript notes "money is the language of politics", "Everyman", and "on passion"

17 302 Notebook/Daily Journal 1983

17 303 Inuit Agenda/Calendar 1983

17 304 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-303):-manuscript draft of undated beginning of a letter to Jorge Frascara-one sheet manuscript notes on Berkeley and Hume-list of characters for a play featuring Judge Bocaccio-twelve cigarette packages with various notes on reverse-note on Longspoon Press on back of envelope-two pp. manuscript notes for a play, "Judgement after Kafka," as well as notes on back of advertising flyer-pastel drawing of "Cowback" 12 Nov. 1983-manuscript draft of letter to Henry Van Ryk re

1983

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"The Wretch" dated Oct. 17, 1983

17 305 Lagoon Notebook, Construction paper notebook January 3, 1983

17 306 Lagoon Notebook #3/5 April 13, 1983

17 307 Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91-117-306);-letter from Alison Fisher and draft manuscript response from WW-manuscript draft "riddle/bell"-pastel drawing "after picasso"-manuscript draft of letter to Shirley Neuman and Jorge Frascara Oct. 21, 1983-manuscript draft of riddle, "I am hard-headed and think thoughts farmers plough by"-manuscript draft of poem, "at icarus point nanoose bay"-manuscript draft of letter to bp nichol February 14, 1982-manuscript draft of letter to Norman (?) April 3 1983-typescript and manuscript draft of letter to Shirley Neuman July 24 1983-manuscript draft of "riddle for Irma"-examination booklet with manuscript notes on Teresina (Gramsci) as a fictional character-manuscript draft of poem, "I recalled the new moon as a japanese sword-two line drawings on index card-manuscript draft of letter to Shirley Neuman and Jorge Frascara June 12 1983-manuscript draft of letter to Scot Taylor May 4 1983-one page of manuscript notes for Gramsci x 2 written over advertisement-letter from Henry Van Ryk (Sept. 20 1983) and draft of WW's response (Oct. 23 1983)-examination booklet with drafts of riddles, "fire", "ice", "pearl", "cross", "keyboard", "chain", "letter"-typescript draft of "riddle"-three manuscript drafts of a letter to Kathy

April 13, 1983

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Acc. #91-117

Benzekri-manuscript draft of "Riddle for Irma"-two typescript versions of poem, "re ezra pound"-manuscript version of "riddle (riddle)"-manuscript version of poem, "trees grass deer birds and foxes delight me"-typescript of poem, "re the trumpeter swan" with manuscript revisions-four pp. from examination booklet with notes on Alice in Wonderland-manuscript draft of letter to John Lent-examination booklet with scenario notes for play "walls: the girl who walked thru"-copy of manuscript letter to Shirley Neuman Feb. 21 1984-typescript (cancelled) of poem, "o uneclipsed moon"-draft contents for Collected Poems-manuscript draft of poem playing off Yeat's, "a terrible beauty is born"-two index cards with draft of poem, "Why did Kore with hair hay colored and grass green eyes"-six cards with draft of poem, "history is a catastrophe"-two cards with draft od poem, "stark stands the mother"-two manuscript drafts of poem, "A bell bawls in an empty sky"-manuscript draft of poem, "Layton/84"-manuscript draft of poem, "the jewish and the Xn father"-two cards of manuscript notes "So much for Muriel's McLuhan"-line drawing of sign on "cowback"-two cards of notes "re MM"-two cards of manuscript draft of poem, "The birth of Lowell"-manuscript draft of poem, "Lowell singing the same song"-card and envelope with draft of letter to Pauline Boote-manuscript draft of poem, "The theme of the legal

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mind"-three typescript versions with manuscript revisions of poem, "re/squamish names"-typescript version of poem, "re ezra pound"-typescript of poem, "re neglect as formal cause"-typescript of poem, "diana rigg"-typescript of poem, "Sonnet times three"-ts, of poem, "Construction, April, 1975"-card with draft of poem, "Grass abounding McCarthy"-notes written on back of cigarette packages


17 309 Loose-leaf materials removed from Inuit Agenda (91-117-308):-twenty-eight cigarette packages with notes on various subjects on back-two pp. manuscript notes on the theme "manque"-sheet with list of characters for "Blancnoir" and notes on eye/ear distinction-list of uncollected verse-manuscript draft of letter to Shirley Neuman-manuscript draft of notes on "Marshall McLuhan and Shakespeare"-copy of letter to Scot Taylor, winter 1983-two manuscript drafts of poem, "Solitary Confinement"-manuscript draft of poem, "Words dislocated the word"-manuscript draft of poem, "portrait of herself thinking" on back of cancelled typescript of "Haiky for S/J"-copy of letter to Jorge Frascara, March 8 1984-copy of letter to David Staines, Dec. 14 1984-card with manuscript notes for play "Blancnoir"-line drawing "Hail Brian!"

1984

17 310 1984 Daily Appointment Book , also used as diary1985 yearbook, used as a diary

1984-1985


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1.8 1986-1990's


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17 313 Loose-leaf materials removed from Inuit Agenda (91-117-312):-drawing on card-manuscript notes and aphorisms on the backs of a dozen cigarette packages-manuscript draft of poem, "portrait of myself as nino gramsci x 3"-draft of letter to Pat [Bruckman] Jan. 20 1986-draft of letter to Jack Shadbolt, March 7 1986-draft of letter to Pat Bruckman, Jan. 14 1986-collage drawing of "two bare boards and a passion"-draft of letter to Tom Peacocke-two pp. manuscript notes on technology-draft of letter to "Joan" (WW's niece), Jan. 16 1988

1986


17 315 Loose-leaf materials removed from Inuit Agenda (91-117-314):-aphorisms, drawings, word plays on back of five cigarette packages-draft of letter to Norman Yates, Feb. 25 1987-manuscript draft of poem, "Jenny Blake's pome re Rob Davies"-six pp. manuscript on the CBC's capacity for literary judgements-manuscript notes on envelope on dreaming, thinking, graphic design-draft of letter to David Staines, July 27 1988

1987


17 317 Loose-leaf materials removed from Inuit Agenda (91-117-316):

1988

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Acc. #91-117

-aphorisms on back of two cigarette packages-manuscript draft of poem, "Friday's child is mad and wild"-manuscript draft of poem, "I am not a cow"-manuscript draft of poem, "an angel wert thou first created"-manuscript draft of poem, "return o mother the perpetual cry of lost Aeneas"-manuscript draft of "riddle" ("bed")-manuscript draft of "riddle" ("wedding ring")-manuscript draft of letter to Donna Gruhlke, Jan. 31, 1988

18 318 NotebookOne miscellaneous item interleaved

Nov.15, 1988-Jan. 18, 1989

18 319 Notebook: "The Magic Rake" January 19, 1989

18 319A "Harbourfront Notebook" red softcover Feb. 6-11, 1989

18 320 Notebook: "The Bestiary"Five miscellaneous items interleaved

May 17, 1989

18 321 Notebook, red, softcover, spiral bound June 19, 1989

18 322 Notebook: "GP Support" Oct. 24-Nov. 7, 1989

18 323 Notebook. Turquoise, softcover, spiral bound June 16, 1990

18 324 Notebook: "By Grid or by God"Ten miscellaneous items interleaved or pasted in

November 15, 1991

18 325 Notebook/Address Book: "Plays at the Iron Bridge" Ca. 1990's

18 326 Notebook: "Collected Plays: Autobiography of Tom Horror"

Ca. 1990's

18 327 Notebook: "The Dream Notebook/The Movies as an Art of Simulation"

Ca. 1990's

18 328 Notebook; no title or date; "culture & Ca. 1990's

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imperialism…" on inside cover

18 329 NotebookDraft letters and number-grid poetry

Ca. 1990's

18 330 Notebook, marbled greenThree miscellaneous items interleaved

Nov. 6, 1979-Oct. 29, 1994

18 331 Writing tablet (blue Hilroy) Ca. 1990's

18 332 Notebook: "Lumpenman (1)", red softcover n.d.

18 333 Notebook: "Women of Trachis", red softcoverSee Also: 95-131-187

n.d.

1.9 Appointment Calendars/Daily Diaries


Acc. #91-117

18 334 Address file (1960's)Perpetual calendar/appointment book, black, spiral bound (1959-1960's)

1959-1960's

18 335 Appointment Book, greenSeven miscellaneous items interleaved

1961

18 336 Appointment Book, black 1969

18 337 "Herstory" Appointment Calendar, inscribed: "To Dr. Watson, Best Wishes for 1975, from Gail" [gift from Gail Osachoff]

1975

18 338 Perpetual Diary, maroon, spiral bound; used as appointment book and diary

1977

18 339 Appointment Book, brown, spiral bound; used as diary

1978

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19 340 "Day at a Glance" Appointment Book, also used as diary

1979

19 341 Appointment Calendar, brown, three miscellaneous items pasted in (1980)Appointment Calendar (1981)

1980, 1981

19 342 Appointment Calendar, one miscellaneous item interleaved (1982)

1982

19 342A 1984 wall calendarOversize 95-131-3, Box 3

1984

See Also 91-117-310 for 1984-1985 calendars and diaries

19 343 Appointment Calendar, one miscellaneous item interleaved (1986)Appointment Calendar, three miscellaneous items interleaved (1987)

1986, 1987

19 344 Appointment Calendar, three miscellaneous items interleaved (1988)Appointment Calendar, one miscellaneous item interleaved (1989)Appointment Calendar, two miscellaneous items interleaved (1989)

1988, 1989

19 345 "Day at a Glance 1990", used as a diary 1990

19 346 Appointment Calendar, two miscellaneous items interleaved (1991)Appointment Calendar, one miscellaneous item interleaved (1991)

1991

19 347 Appointment Calendar, two miscellaneous items stapled in and one miscellaneous item interleaved; one manuscript NGV (Number-grid verse) poem titled "Spitman's Hat" and signed Onoon(?) interleaved (1992)Appointment Calendar (1992)

1992

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19 348 Appointment Calendar (1993)Appointment Calendar, (Georgia O'Keefe) two miscellaneous items interleaved (1993)

1993

19 349 Daily Journal, one miscellaneous item pasted in (1994)Appointment Calendar (1994)

1994

19 350 Daily Journal, five miscellaneous items interleaved (1995)Appointment Calendar, three miscellaneous items interleaved (1995)

1995

19 351 Appointment Calendar, two newspaper clippings pasted in, three miscellaneous items interleaved (1996)Appointment Calendar (1996)

1996

20 352 Appointment Calendar, nine miscellaneous items interleaved (1997)Appointment Calendar, one miscellaneous item stapled in (1997)

1997

20 353 Appointment Calendar (1998)Appointment Calendar (1998)

1998

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Series 2.

Literary Drafts/Writings

2. Wilfred Watson, Literary Drafts/Writings, --1939-1994, 3.80 m of textual records.

Archival Description: [The following descriptions, both the Archival and Scope and Content, are largely taken from an original listing and description provided by Shirley Neuman]

The records in this series include Wilfred Watson's files of manuscript and typescript drafts of his writing, and are organized in the following sub-series: Poetry; Plays; Short Stories/Novel; Essays; Books; Miscellaneous Papers; and Publications. Many of the drafts are on loose sheets of paper or in examination booklets (those that were filed in the notebooks remain as part of Series 1). Notebooks devoted solely to poetry are included with this series. A lot of the drafts are also typescripts prepared for Watson from his manuscripts and used in preparing work for publication. Play-scripts are often production copies and many have manuscript revisions made by Watson during the rehearsals of the play, in which he always collaborated closely. There are typescripts for the performed plays; manuscript drafts of all the plays can be found in the notebooks (Series 1). There are also typescripts for several plays neither performed nor published. Some of the files contain only fragments of writing, notes written on cigarette packages, and notes on small pieces of cardboard, which are retained with miscellaneous papers (2.6).

Scope and Content: There are draft and final manuscripts and typescripts in the collection for nearly all of Watson's performed and/or published work as well as for many hundreds of unpublished poems, and for several plays and short stories. There are, for example, many typescript drafts of most of the poems in Friday's Child, and many of the poems in The sorrowful canadians and mass on cowback. There is also a complete typescript of a novel accepted by Faber and Faber in the late 1950s, but never revised for publication by Watson (Under the Rabbit's Paw; drafts of this novel are in the notebooks). Wilfred Watson published poetry and plays in literary journals throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. These publications are in this series, and published reviews of Watson's work are also included here.

Wilfred Watson and Marshall McLuhan collaborated on From Cliché to Archetype, a collaboration documented in this series (2.5). They wrote back and forth about the project from 1964 to 1969, sometimes letting it drop for awhile, sometimes writing every couple of days. There are 111 letters by Marshall McLuhan in this collection (letters not copied for the McLuhan archives at the National Library). There are copies of some 26 letters by Wilfred Watson to Marshall McLuhan; drafts of more of his letters can be found in the notebooks. There are also rough manuscript drafts numbering in the

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hundreds of pages of Watson's contributions to the book, as well as many notes of ideas, often diagrammed. There are up to three typescript versions of different portions of the book, with a complete typescript of the first draft which, the two agreed, would be Wilfred Watson's responsibility. The record provides considerable insight into, first, Watson's engagement with and contribution to McLuhan's work; second, the working out of the collaboration between them; and third, the development of an important work in the growing oeuvre of both Watson and McLuhan.

The series title is based on the content of the records.


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Series 2

Literary Drafts/Writings

2. Literary Drafts/Writings

2.1 Poetry: Notebooks/Manuscripts


Acc. #91-117

Earlier Poems:

20 354 Drafts and final versions of earlier poems:-typescript of "A is for Amlit, from Walt Whitman to Robert Coover-typescript of "A is for Apple and also for Ape"-typescript of "Albatross over Sooke Harbour"-four drafts and one manuscript draft of "for Alfred Hayley drowned returning from Thornby Island"-typescript of "An Anatomy of Critics"-typescript "For Anne, Who Brought Tulips"-typescript "An Anniversary for time's poet Dylan Thomas"-copy of Canadian Forum publication (1940) of "Armed Merchantman"-four typescript drafts, with manuscript emendations, of "Invocation" ("Appear O mother")-typescript of "Ballad" ("I took my heart to the river")-carbon typescript of "The Ballad of Faustus"-two typescript drafts of "Ballad of the fox and the owl"-carbon typescript of "Ballad of Jack Shadbolt"-two typescript drafts of "The Ballad of the white bird"-typescript of "Because without you/The night is always empty"-six typescript drafts of "the blackberry pickers"-typescript of "The blue-eyed tree"-typescript of "The Boar is made of brass"-typescript of "A bottle of windflowers"-typescript of "Poem for Bronwin"-typescript of "A canticle for birds"-typescript of "Chrysanthemums"

1940, 1950's

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-three typescript drafts of "This City"-copy of Canadian Forum publication (1940) of "Compartments"-typescript of "Complaint of Eros"-typescript of Cork Brows"-two typescript drafts of "The coy mistress reconsiders"-two typescript drafts of "Line in defence of John Cutts"-typescript of "Dialogue against argument"-four manuscript drafts of "Does light bleed darkness/or darkness sweat light?"-typescript "I dreamt of a vast desert"-typescript "drop sun, into the shadow"-two typescript drafts of "Emily Carr"-typescript of "Epilogue"-typescript of "Et incarnates est"-four typescript drafts of "Firm to the scaffold"-typescript draft of "The Fish"-typescript draft "From the mouth of the moon"-typescript "The funeral of Utrillo"-typescript of "Gentlemen"-typescript of "The Ghost"-typescript of "Good Friday Lecture"-typescript of "The Grandfathers and Grandmothers"-typescript of "Graveyard on a Cliff of White Sand"

20 355 Earlier poems, continued:-typescript of "To the Haleys, who sent dahlias"-typescript of "Hate me forever"-typescript of "The Hawk"-three typescript drafts with manuscript emendations "Of Hendrickje as Bathsheba"-typescript "I work at the work of the nightingale"-two typescript drafts of "The interruption"-four drafts (typescript and manuscript) of "invocation" ("Earth mother)-four typescript drafts of "The knot"-five typescript drafts of "Knowing how bright at first man's blossom is" (Prologue for "The Double Hook")

1939, 1940's-1950's

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-typescript "Let no other friend know me"-copy of Canadian Forum publication of "Lines for the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Declaration of War, August 4, 1914" (1939)-typescript "Lines written in 1945"-six typescript drafts of "The Lions" (There are blue magpies")-two manuscript drafts of "A lullaby for Falstaff"-typescript "The magical body"-typescript "Poem for Marnie"-typescript of "A masque for Jack Shadbolt", dedicated in manuscript to Jack and Doris Shadbolt and with manuscript notes-typescript of "McLuhan versified, or, a portrait of typographic man as the father of Canadian poetry"-manuscript and three typescript drafts of "o moon, you seem unchanged"-typescript "My mother appeared to me in London, Rome, and Paris"-three typescript drafts of "The necklace"-typescript "Never till out of my thought/You walked into the shadow of my heart"-three typescript drafts of "News Letter from Thebes"-typescript "Poem of not wanting even at this late date to go Jacobean"-two typescript drafts "Not with tongues of fireweed"-typescript "And if she simplify all this"

20 356 Earlier poems continued:-typescript "O love the sour smell of burnt wood"-typescript "The ontarioloy of poemism"-typescript "Orpheus and Eurydice"-typescript "The other mother"-typescript "The paradox"-typescript "Paris to Helen of Troy"-typescript "The parrot"-typescript "Pasiphae"-two typescript versions "The pig"-six typescript and three manuscript drafts "Poems grow tired of us"

1950's

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-typescript "Poem of myselves the figleaves"-typescript copy "Lines pro-pounding"-typescript "Proserpina I: The flower"-typescript "Proserpina II: Marriage with death"-typescript Pumpkin"-typescript "On a recent performance of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke"-typescript and carbon of a different version of "Scaffold of children"-typescript "A scientist reflects on anti-inspiration of Daryl Hine"-typescript and carbon of a different version of "A sermon on bears"-typescript "lines of seeing"-typescript and carbon of a different version "Seven variations on a theft by George Barker"-carbon typescript "A short litany"-typescript "And should she ask"-typescript of "The showman" with an explanatory manuscript note quoting Hopkins on Browning-carbon typescript "The simple cup"-typescript and carbons of two different versions "of Slink Pouvoir"-carbon typescript "Some blood for Phillip Flea"-carbon typescript "A song for the end of winter"-carbon typescript "Sonnet to Earle Birney"-manuscript draft "Tell me, said the girl to the woman"-typescript "These masters"-typescript "Three mosquitoes"-typescript "There was a man/heard sparrows sing"-typescript "These scholars, being young"-seven typescript drafts "They envy us our wild and open spaces"-typescript "They said, to march forward according to plan"-typescript "Sonnet" ("The one saw you in a man")-typescript draft with manuscript emendation "Some rhyme wants a blank prose"-two drafts of "Thinking of Montreal"-carbon typescript "To the Shadbolts, with six quinces from Duncan"

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-carbon typescript "Torso"-typescript "The traveller"-typescript "Pome of a tree"-four typescript drafts of "The trifle" (also titled "The Button")-manuscript "A Valediction for the Close of the Year, for Joyce Wentner" with annotations-typescript "Variations on a theme of Yeats"-two typescript drafts "Verse letter to …" (Pauline, a flower grows…")-typescript "Verse letter to the dead-letter office"-two typescript versions of "Verse-letter to Jamie Reaney"-typescript "What is all this murder for"-two typescript drafts "What the Boy Saw"-two typescript drafts "The wheel"-typescript "White-haired and wicked/that vulgar old man"

Jenny Blake:

20 357 Poems by Jenny Blake, manuscript collected by WW containing original typescript of the following poems:A Bawl of Wool:-pome for a dead soldier-pome of not drawing roses-pome of a girl-pome of a church-pome of my uncle-pome of mirrors-pome of maidenheads-pome of unknowing-pome of drawing water-pome of thoughts-pome of hair-pome of rain-pome of grief-pome of smells-pome of emblems-pome of sun-pome of cuckolds

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-pome of Helen of Troy-pome of Venus-pome of windows-pome of spring-pome of maids of honour-pome of a husband-pome of addition-pome of words-pome of a girl-pome of ghosts-pome of nothingness-lines of flesh and bones-pome of drawing tigers-pome of a tree-pome of keeping silence-lines for a pencil portrait-pome of shame-lines, of thought-lines by Jenny Blake-Lines: Once out of nature-pome of William Blake's Jenny-pome of rape-pome of the she-pit-pome of arguments-long pome of fire-lines of seeing-lines in my flesh-pome of disappearing-Lines on the English tongue-pome of the world-pome of love's finger-pome of not getting raped by Laurentian man-pome of headlines-lines upon a naked line-pome of myselves the figleaves-pome of the unicornepilogue

Letters to the bachelor of wire:-Of course some of this verse is fake-This is my fiftieth letter-When you sir

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-I am not that coy Kore-Some lost desperate adventurers-Let, I said, the past dissolved be the past dissolved-Sir, the anthropologist-An ant attempted to unpuzzle my bawl of wool-Sir, with my brassiere and luck at the hook-Sir - I have one false nipple and one true one-Sir, I and you know very well-Sir, you are my abstract-I would love you as if passion had just begun-Perhaps I could love a scientist-Sir, to cry bawl of wool-Sir, I am not that worn pantaloon-Sir, touching us, that is/in fact touching me-O everlasting darling, why do you change-I may see many honest nudes-I have made up my mind…-There is a fatal propensity to love now-Sir, forgive me that/within me sang-As seas leave water at the earth's wet lip-Sir, of the everlasting bonfire-Sir, will you not eat this my poem?-I see through your limb and your filament-I see faces as if squeezed in a vice-Of ordinary female headaches, sir-Last night I dreamt Faustus hid in my powder-room-This river of wire-Sir, firm to the scaffold walks the sentenced woman (two later typescript drafts)

20 358 A bawl of wool: pomes by Jenny Blake, collected by WW and including typescript with some manuscript emendations of the following:-pome of not drawing roses-pome for a dead soldier-pome of a girl-pome of a church-pome of mirrors-Jenny Blake's pome of maidenheads-pome of drawing water-Jenny Blake's pome of thoughts

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-pome of hair-Jenny Blake's pome of rain-pome of grief-pome of smells-pome of emblems-pome of honour-Jenny Blake's pome of sun-pome of cuckolds-pome of Helen of Troy-pome of Venus-pome of glory-Jenny Blake's pome of windows-Jenny Blake's pome of spring-Jenny Blake's pome of maids of honour-pome of a husband-pome of words-pome of a girl-pome of ghosts-pome of nothingness-Lines: of flesh and bones-Lines: of iron-pome of drawing tigers-pome of the tree-pome of keeping silence-Lines for a pencil portrait-pome of shame-Lines: of thought-pome for Adam-Lines by Jenny Blake-Lines: out of nature-Jenny Blake's pome of unreason-Jenny Blake's pome of William Blake and the spinning Jenny-pome of rape-pome of the she-pit-pome of arguments-pome of fire-Jenny Blake's pome of the unicorn-lines upon a naked line-Paradox-pome of sand-pome of the world

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-pome of sitting girl-pome of love's finger-Lines: of roses-Lines on the English tongue-lines of seeing-Lines in my flesh-epilogue-pome of disappearing

20 359 A bawl of wool: pomes by Jenny Blake, typescript of poem collection, with some manuscript emendations, collected by WW, and including the following poems:-pome of not drawing roses-pome for a dead soldier-pome of a girl-pome of a church-pome of mirrors-pome of windows-Jenny Blake's pome of spring-pome of maidenheads-pome of drawing water-Jenny Blake's pome of thoughts-pome of hair-pome of rain-pome of emblems-pome of honour-pome of glory-pome of darkness-Lines of flesh and bones-pome of drawing tigers-pome of waxwings-pome of shame-pome for Adam-Lines of glory-pome of cuckolds-pome of autumn-pome of Helen of Troy-pome of Venus-pome of maids of honour-pome of a wire bridegroom-pome of the unicorn

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-pome of nothingness-pome of the she-pit-lines of rape-pome of fire-pome of brassieres for the breasts of wisdom-pome of love's brass finger-pome of smells-Lines of iron-Lines of thought-pome of a girl-Lines in my flesh-Lines of seeing-lines of grief-lines of a maiden-ape of God-Song ("There blossoms forever")-Lines on the English tongue-pome of sand-pome of the world as imago dei-Lines out of nature-pome of substance-Jenny Blake's pome of William Blake and the spinning jenny-pome of keeping silence

20 360 Collection of Jenny Blake poemanuscript Collected by WW, original typescript with manuscript revisions. The collection includes the following:-Jenny Blake drawings-Jenny Blake's Church-Jenny Blake ("I drew a girl")-Jenny Blake ("You draw a vase")-Jenny Blake's Child-Jenny Blake ("I don't ever risk drawing roses")-Girl's poem for a dead soldier-Girl's poem-Pome of glory-Jenny Blake's pome of nothingness-Jenny Blake's pome of windows-Jenny Blake's pome of oil-Jenny Blake's pome of nothingness-letter to T.S. Eliot-Jenny Blake's poem of the Japanese woman

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-Jenny Blake's poem of the moon-Jenny Blake's poem of the spinning jenny-Jenny Blake's Ulysses-Jenny Blake's sonnet of oil-pome of the trap for John Keats-pome of maidenheads-Jenny Blake's pome of hair-pome of King Lear-pome of John Donne-Jenny Blake's pome of experience-Jenny Blake's pome of spring-Jenny Blake's pome of cuckolds-Jenny Blake's pome of maids of honour-Jenny Blake's pome of honour-Poem of nothingness-Jenny Blake's ode on the cock pheasantJenny's poem of the clothes-hanger

20 361 Loose manuscripts/typescripts of Jenny Blake poems:-epigraph from The Human Animal-the retort of form-I, jenny blake, would rather slide into a poem on my back-I, Jenny Blake/An indifferent head of yellow hair-pome of the absurd-Jenny Blake's pome of addition-pome of ants (two versions)-Jenny Blake's pome of arrogance-Jenny Blake's pome of autumn-Jenny Blake's pome of blue chalk-pome of brassieres for the breasts of wisdom-Jenny Blake's pome of broken hearts-Jenny Blake's pome of Bussy d'Ambois-pome of carnal knowledge-Jenny Blake's pome of a church-Jenny Blake's pome of a clothes-hanger-Jenny Blake's pome of Coriolanus-pome of critics-Jenny Blake's pome of cuckolds-Jenny Blake's pome for a dead soldier (two versions)

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-pome of defending-pome of disappearing-Jenny Blake's pome of the dragon-pome of drawing tigers-Jenny Blake's pome of destroying oneself-pome of eggheads-Jenny Blake's pome of emblems (three versions)-Jenny Blake's epilogue to King Lear-Jenny Blake's pome of experience-pome of the far-gone world-pome of the fathers-Jenny Blake's pome of fire-pome of fish-flamingo poem-Jenny Blake: lines of flesh and bone-four non-pomes of the pome, the critic, the function and the malfunction-pome of gentlemen-Jenny Blake's pome of a girl-Jenny Blake's pome of glory-pome of hair-Jenny Blake's pome of headlines-pome of hell (two versions)-Pome of honour-jazzpome, a marvell mourning. By Jenny Blake-jazzpome #2, by Jenny Blake. A tomcat mass for Dylan Thomas-Jenny Blake's pome of John Donne-pome of King Lear-Jenny Blake's pome of love-Jenny Blake's pome of love's finger-Jenny Blake's pome of maidenheads (one manuscript and three typescript versions)-Jenny Blake's pome of maids of honour-pome of mirrors-pome of misconceptions-Pome of morning (two versions)-Lines: upon a naked line (two versions)-pome of new lines-pome of newspapers-Jenny Blake's pome of not drawing roses (two versions)

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-Jenny Blake's pome of nothingness (three versions)-Jenny Blake's pome of oil-Lines: of all paradoxes-Lines for a pencil portrait-Jenny Blake's pome of picture-windows-J. Blake's pome of playing Ophelia-J.B. pome (I make a shape/of confusion)-pome of pome-Jenny Blake's pome of Professor Benton-pome of rain (two versions)-pome of sand-lines of seeing (six versions)-Jenny Blake's pome of shame (two versions)-Jenny Blake's pome of smells-Jenny Blake's pome of spring (three versions)-pome of stones-Jenny Blake's pome of sun-Jenny Blake's pome of swallows-Jenny Blake's pome of today-Jenny Blake's pome of the trap for John Keats-pome of the tree (two versions)-Jenny Blake's pome of Venus-Jenny Blake's pome of waxwings-Letter Fifty (two versions)-I would love you as if passion had just begun-Last night I dreamt Faustus had hidden in my powder-room-Sir, of course I've hear of Clauswitz-Of course some of this verse is fake-Perhaps I could love a scientist-Sir, comfort me and forgive me (manuscript and typescript versions)-Sir, firm to the scaffold walks the sentenced woman-Sir forgive me that within me sang-Sir with my brassiere and luck at the hook-letter to the dead-letter office (three versions)-ballad of barbed wire

20 362 Portions of a manuscript (pp. 18 to 107 with some pp. missing) of Jenny Blake poems; pp. 19-77 are carbon typescripts., while pp. 78 and on (a section

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titled "last poems of Jenny Blake") are original typescripts. The collection includes the following:-pome of sun-pome of cuckolds-pome Helen of Troy-pome of Venus-pome of addition-pome of words-pome of a husband-pome of a tree-lines for a pencil portrait-Lines by Jenny Blake-Lines: once out of nature-Pome by William Blake's Jenny-pome of rape-pome of the she-pit-pome of shame-Lines of flesh and bones-pome of nothingness-Lines: of thought-pome of arguments-Lines in my flesh-Lines of seeing-pome of disappearing-pome of the world-pome of love's finger-pome of headlines-this is my fiftieth letter-pome of broken hearts-I am that coy Kore-some lost desperate adventurer-pome of the far-gone world-pome of anthropologists-pome of ants-Sir, with my brassiere and luck at the hook-Sir, I have one false nipple and one true one-Sir, I and you know very well-Sir you are my abstract-I would love you as if passion had just begun-perhaps I could love a scientist-Sir, to cry bawl or wool-pome of the absurd

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-Sir, touching us-O everlasting darling-I may see many honest nudes-I have made up my mind-There is a fatal propensity to love-Sir forgive me that/within me sang-As seas leave water at the earth's wet lip-Sir, of the everlasting bonfire-Sir, will you not eat this by my poem-pome of wire-This river of wire-I see faces as if squeezed in a vice-Last night I dreamt Faustus hid in my powder-room

Last pomes of Jenny Blake, including original typescripts of:-pome of morning-dialogue between jenny blake and herself-pome of acrobat-pome of not wanting even at this late date to go jacobean-pome of defending-unpome about a pome-pome of a gentleman-pome of stating-pome (I make a shape/of confusion)-pome of neuroses-poem of critics-pome of misconceptions-pome of Jocasta-lines of a rival poet-pome of being Jenny Blake-pome of new lines-pome of withdrawals-pome of carnal knowledge-pome of destroying oneself-pome of figureheads-pome of my mind-pome of stones-pome of impasse-pome of not being there

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20 363 Tables of contents for a Jenny Blake collection and carbon typescript of a very few of the poems for it, including the following:-pome of words-pome of the falseness of pictures-pome of a husband-lines of flesh and bones-what do I, Jenny Blake, know/of the life of Maria Egyptiaca-Persephone's black husband Pluto-Paradox-Lines upon a naked line

20 363A Jenny Blake. A Bawl of Wool and other poems - typescript and table of contents

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20 364 Poems by Jenny Blake; bound manuscript; manuscript alternate titles "dancing to their flute", "vowels pitches"Photocopy of manuscript prepared by Sheila Watson (with notes about original publications) for the bawl of wool section of Collected Poems (some poems in manuscript omitted from the Collected Poems

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20 365 A Bawl of Wool: Pomes by Jenny Blake-typescript of poems with manuscript revisions

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20 366 Jenny Blake material-typescript draft of the beginning of an interview between "Jenny Blake" and "Wilfred Watson"-manuscript draft of "Jenny Blake's pome of horror"

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See Also 95-131-644, 645 (drawings of Jenny Blake poems)

Friday's Child (Book of poetry, published 1955)

20 367 Friday's Child material filed together by Wilfred Watson:-typescript of Vernon Watkins, "Pledges to

1953-1955

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Darkness" from The Death Well-typescript of "Lagoon" with manuscript epigraph and date (1955)-carbon typescript of "Here at Vancouver" (July 1955)-carbon typescript of "A Lullaby for Falstaff"-typescript of "A Canticle for Children" with manuscript revisions-typescript of "utter the images of doom"-typescript of three versions of "Christmas Eve: Edmonton 1954"-typescript of TESTIMONY by Vernon Watkins"-typescript of "Lines for my four nieces"-manuscript letter from WW to "Whom it May Concern", making Sheila Watson his literary executor (April 17 1955)-typescript of two drafts with manuscript revisions of letter to Ann Taylor, editor, McClelland and Stewart offering Friday's Child (August 3 1953)-four typescript versions and two manuscript versions of undated letter addressed "Dear Sir" offering Friday's Child-typescript of "The Fallen Cedar", with manuscript signature and note "Point Gray, B.C."-typescript of "lines propounding" with manuscript revisions, manuscript signature and date January 1955-typescript of "Firm to the Scaffold", manuscript signature-typescript of "In November", manuscript signature, and date "Calgary 1953"-typescript of "Lines" ("Toronto lies at the heart") with manuscript signature and date "Calgary 1954"-typescript of poem with manuscript title ("Moving Day, May 31, 1955")-typescript of "Admit the Clock"-typescript of "The Boar is Made of Brass"-typescript of "O Canada"-second typescript of "Firm to the Scaffold"-typescript of "The Canticle of Darkness", signed-typescript of "Lines: I praise God's mankind in an old woman" signed

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-typescript of "The Windy Bishop", signed-carbon typescript of one version of "Christmas Eve: Edmonton"-typescript of "The simple cup: a meditation on a still life of Stanley Cosgrove. For Ruth Humphrey" with manuscript note "Malcolm Ross Feb. 11" on top in Sheila Watson's hand-typescript of "Lines" ("Shining with its blank emptiness")-typescript of another, much revised, version of "lines propounding", with manuscript revisions, and manuscript dedication "For Sheila who discovered she was like Pound. W.W.", signed and dated "Edmonton, 1955"-carbon typescript of a letter from Elizabeth Gaskell reproduced from the Princeton University Library Chronicle-carbon copy of letter from W.W. to P.F. du Sautoy of Faber and Faber acknowledging agreement to publish Friday's Child-letter from Faber and Faber accepting Friday's Child and forwarding agreement-copy of "Memorandum of Agreement" with Faber and Faber-carbon typescript of "In November"-carbon typescript of "lines propounding"-carbon typescript of "ballad of mother and son"-carbon typescript of "Yeats and Maud Gonne"-carbon typescript of "letter to Dorothy Bazett"-carbon typescript of "Firm to the Scaffold"-carbon typescript of "Lines" (Toronto lies at the heart)-carbon typescript of "The Fallen Cedar"-carbon typescript of "Emily Carr"-typescript of "A Letter from Thebes"

21 368 Loose materials filed by Watson with Friday's Child material; many of these poems are signed with WW's 1956 Paris address:-crayon drawing-ink and watercolor drawing-typescript of "A Song of Sucking Stones"

1956

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-typescript of poem "When Francoise Sagan Drives her Jaguar" with manuscript revisions-typescript of "Lines: for the Reveillon of Clochards under Pont de Tournelle" with inscription "To Sheila a cause de suggestion about the title"-typescript of poem "A Love Story", with manuscript revisions and inscription to Sheila Watson-typescript of "The Poet and Laurentian Man" with manuscript inscription to Sheila Watson-typescript of "The Fish"-two typescript of "The lions"-two manuscript versions of "Lullaby for Falstaff"-three manuscript versions and six typescript versions of "I, Faustus, Long Ago" with various titles-ten typescript versions of "The yellow chrysanthemums"-typescript of poem "The double hook" with manuscript revisions and manuscript note "A dust cover blurb for the Penguin edition of the Double Hook W.W."-typescript of "The Romans" with manuscript revisions and manuscript inscription to Sheila Watson-manuscript draft of "Day of Judgement"-manuscript draft of "Let a lean archbishop/stifle a yawn"-two typescript versions of "The Interruption", one with manuscript revisions-typescript of "In a state of birds"-one typescript and one carbon typescript of different versions of poem "Retrospective Lampoon for Jack Shadbolt"-manuscript draft of "Let them crown him with a crown/But now the fox begins to bark"-typescript of short story, "The Lice" with manuscript revisions

21 369 Friday's Child materials filed together by Wilfred Watson; not all are published in book.

1950's

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-Contents (not the published version_-Biographical information-"The Neighbour's Cat" with manuscript revisions-"Nocturne" ("Drown Again") 1952-"Nocturne" ("From his cave…"0-"Firm to the Scaffold"; manuscript title "The Emblem"-"The last door"-"The ballad of the white bird"-"Anchises and the God of Love"-"Poem" ("Do not brute animals kindle?")-"An Ability to Mourn the Refusal to Burn the Alien"-"To ___" ("O white dove walking")-"Jocasta"-"Orpheus and Eurydice (1)"-"The Juniper Tree"-"Verse Letter to Dorothy Bazett"-three versions with manuscript revisions of "Lines: There is a babe in an old man growing"-"Lines: He seemed a shade removed"-"Lines: Let no other friend know me"-"Ghosts"-"Ecce Homo"-"I saw our mother with her dogs go hunting" (manuscript title: "Canvas")-"There stand those shining walls"-four versions of "Water's Paradox"-two versions of "Kwakiutl Poles"-four manuscript and five typescript versions of "In the cemetery of the sun"-six versions, with manuscript revisions, of "Song: Never till out of my thought"-two typescript versions with manuscript revisions and manuscript version of one passage of "Queen of Tarts"-two versions of "A Canticle of Darkness"-four versions of "Nativity Song", one with manuscript revisions-two versions of "Graveyard on a Cliff of White Sand", one with manuscript revisions-two versions of "The Harrow of Love"

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-two versions of "O my poor darling", one with manuscript revisions-three versions of "A Valediction for the end of the Year" with manuscript revisions in addition to one manuscript version-five versions of "The Double Hook"-two versions of "On Reading Eisler's Wolf into Man'-two versions of "On a Passenger Aircraft Wrecked Against Mt. Cream"-two versions of "A Design for Christmas"-"Turleygod poor Thomas"-manuscript copy of "Now with Unborrowed Beauty", signed A.M.A.

21 370 Friday's Child - carbon of manuscript 1950's

The Sorrowful Canadians and Other PoemsBook of poetry, published 1972(Includes poems written during this period)

21 371 Typescripts and manuscripts of poems from the 1950s and early 1960':-five typescript drafts with manuscript revisions of "The Double Hook"-two versions of "Not as to our Semele"-typescript and two carbons of "All their women's talk", retitled in manuscript "Pasiphae"-typescript "Lines" ("This new building")-typescript "Lines" ("I wish I had the sad drawn countenance")-typescript "Retrospective Lampoon for Jack Shadbolt"-typescript "Chrysanthemums"-typescript "The Other Mother"-typescript "The refectory table"-typescript "A ballad to death"-typescript "The hunger"-typescript "Cauchmer"-typescript "The vineyard complains of the harsh steward"-typescript "The painter"

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-typescript "Lines, pro-pounding"-typescript "A prayer for winter"-typescript "Irving Layton"-typescript "Ballad of Joy"-typescript "The net"-typescript McLuhan versified" (with second typescript and manuscript version of opening)-typescript "The simple cup"-typescript "The interruption"-typescript "Lines of cork"-typescript "Lines" ("These are the paperback/poet")-two typescript versions of "The Slink Pouvoir"-typescript "The ballad of Faustus" (marked "replace")-typescript and carbon of "Poem" (I had not thought death")-typescript "The moon"-typescript and carbon of "Poem" ("tea in a black cup")-typescript with revisions of "Skeleton"-typescript of two versions and carbon of "Pome of prophets"-typescript of "The lions"-typescript of "verse-letter to swp."-typescript of "The new poet"-small notepad with manuscript drafts of several poems-four typescript versions of poem, "I have loved a she-heart"

21 372 Typescripts and manuscripts of poems from the period of The Sorrowful Canadians:-manuscript draft of "They opened their mouths"-manuscript draft of "The sorrowful Canadians/the radiant grief of the/owners of so much snow"-manuscript draft of "It was zero/and 2 birds together"-Manuscript draft in examination booklet of "May I ask you a question"-manuscript draft in examination booklet and two typescript versions of "self-portrait aged seventeen"

1960's-1975

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-manuscript fragment of "portrait of the artist as a hangwoman"-manuscript draft of "prepill"-two manuscript drafts of "This is the air…"-examination booklet with manuscript drafts of "son don't let your hair grow long" and "liberate these prisoners"-examination booklet with manuscript drafts of "the department of invaders"-manuscript draft of fragment in examination booklet and three typescript drafts of "the invaders of Vietnam are prisoners"-manuscript in examination booklet and typescript version of "tea in a black tea cup"-typescript of "poem" ("you streamed about my life…")-typescript of "an excess of overkill…"-typescript of "what are they protesting"-three typescript drafts of "form"-two typescript drafts of "I stood in Venice…"-typescript of "I see them walking under a hill"-typescript in two versions of "Dialogue of A and B"-typescript and carbon of "Poem" ("I threw a sonnet into the North Saskatchewan River")-typescript and carbon of "Vision of the student body as Mayor Hawrelak"-carbon and typescript of "Skeleton"-typescript of "Poem" ("a soft landing on the moon")-manuscript and typescript drafts of "Poem" ("the laughter/is infectious")-typescript of "freestanding construction" ("the reverse charisma of joe clark")-four typescript drafts of "new construction" ("my name is Jimmy Carter")-typescript "construction, april, 1975" ("Walt Whitman to the dark tower came")-typescript of "Counter-canto"-typescript of "letter to the Mennonite people" -typescript of "Ode to the new building"

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21 373 Typescript with manuscript revisions of poems collected under title This Bicycle is Wet with bombs and other poems; many of the poems became part of The Sorrowful Canadians:-typescript with holography additions "portrait of a girl with leaf"-two typescript drafts, one with revisions, of "Lines" ("She shook her hair and said no")-typescript of "Lines" ("I ran down the street…")-typescript of "Lines for Jack McClelland"-typescript of "Lines for a Brave Viet Cong Eli Mandel"-typescript of "A Christmas Poem"-typescript of "glossary of four letter words"-typescript of "poem" (version of "portrait of the student body as mayor hawrelak")-two typescript versions, with manuscript revisions, of "The soldier goes to Vietnam"-two typescripts of "What gorgeous graveflowers blossom at that throat"-typescript of "an excess to overkill"

1960's-1970's

21 374 Typescript of collection of poems titled Bicycle with two different tables of contents and original typescript of pp. 104-161, with some pp. missing. This collection comes at WW's transition from the Jenny Blake poems to the choric verse of Sorrowful Canadians. It includes original typescripts of the following poems:-"To Irving Layton"-"The magical body"-"The long, cool seminars"-"letter to a helicopter"-"Viet Cong Chorale"-"sons of Oedipus"-"the porcupine"-"rain"-"prostitution of Canada in an age of leisure"-"no vision"-"portrait of a girl with leaf"-"four letters"-"portrait of the artist during centennial year"

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-"Lord Jesus, forgive us"-"the dead sunflowers"-"Jack's death…"-"I prepare my grave in quicksand"-'the dirge"-"the verse reading"-"the trojan horse"-"resurrection"-"the suicide"-"Je choisis vos sonnets qui sont plus doloureux"-"the sucked and hungry lioness"-"the common cold"-"conflagration"-"such welcome and unwelcome things at once"-"what are you doing all the other day"-"portrait of the student body as Mt. Eisenhower"-"I grew a sunflower in my head"-"the doves have eaten the roof"-"dead words dipped in fake gestures"-"the dragons are climbing up on the mantlepiece"-"ode"-"the belly of the dragon was made of boiler-plate"

21 375 Typescript for one version of The Sorrowful Canadians with two versions of a table of contents, and original typescripts of the following poems:-"epigraph by Jenny Blake"-"Hanoi"-"Form three" ("Hanoi is here")-"Form four" ("je t'attends")-"form seven" ("the invaders of Viet Nam are prisoners")-"form eight" ("the department of invaders")-"form nine" ("the invasion of Canada is over")-"they inked into my intestines" (very early prose poem version)-"form eleven" ("an ulcer in every crease of my heart")-"form twelve" ("the sorrowful canadians")-"form 44" ("witch on cowback")-"form 16" ("the gaudy blabbing and remorseless day")

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-"form 43" ("go gorgeous if you must")-"form 23" ("and he shall lick the little girl's neck")-"form ten" ("they inked in my intestines")-"form 27" ("how solitary doth this city sit")-"form 33" ("the metaphysical shudder")-"form 39" ("o helix culpa")-"form 52" ("the fifth of the jet is a white wing feather")-"form 53" ("son col secouera cette blanche agonie")-"form 59" ("I may be striped although themselves be sombre")-Prologue from 'Soul is my Button'-untitled song ("another world is going on")-"this is the air, that is the glorious sun"-"why would this make a man a man of salt"-Song from 'Soul is my Button'-Ballad from 'Soul is my Button'-"Ulysses in Wonderland" from 'Soul is my Button'-Ballad from 'Soul is my Button' ("when daughters fail their fathers")-"I stood in Venice on the bridge of sighs"-"an excess of overkill"-"contemplating the sole of her foot"-"they provided me with words harder than stone"-"I suspect in my auspicious bone"-"I have received a hurt"-"there will be no more money for you"-"facie ad faciem"-"There is a window in my breast"-"All the theatre things are dead things"-"what gorgeous graveflowers blossom at that throat"-"Lines 1966" ("the long, cool seminars")-"Antigone aux ale mains"

21 376 Two typescript version, one with extensive manuscript revisions, of "The Wasps"

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21 377 The Sorrowful Canadians and Other Poems - photocopied collection, including the following poems:

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-"lines 1964" ("the black mouth of the dog")-"poem summer 1967" ("the long sorrow…")-"lines 1967" ("there will be no more money")-"lines summer 1967" ("I prepare my grave in quicksand")-"lines 1967" ("hanoi is here")-"lines January 1971 ("pour moi, j'ai retire mes pieds")-"poem 1970" (" my wild body is a corpse")-"Antigone aux salesmains"-"lines 1968" ("an excess of overkill")-lines winter 1971 ("the while pelican mountains")"the sorrowful Canadians"

21 378 Loose-leaf typescript and manuscript versions of choric poems (generally of The Sorrowful Canadians period:-two typescript version of "all the days of my life I have offended the moon"-manuscript of "an excess of overkill"-three typescript versions of "answering service…")-four typescript versions of "they inked in my intestines"-manuscript of "the ballad of northrop frye"-three typescript version of "the beautiful sea things with nineteen legs"-typescript of "because I do not hope to flower again"-typescript of "lines 1967" ("the belly of the dragon…")-typescript of "lines January 1967" ("portrait of the artist during centennial year…")-three versions of typescript over drawing "build one bomb and get two bombs"-manuscript of "A compassion for Irving Layton"-typescript of "construction" ("the aim of the man of action")-typescript of "construction" ("their breasts bulging…")-typescript of "construction with driftwoods"-typescript of "construction with herring bones…")-one manuscript and two typescript versions of

1967-1975

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"construction with soft spaces"-typescript of "counter-canto 45"-typescript of "november 1971"-typescript "lines" (the death of white pelicans")-three manuscript and typescript versions, incomplete, of "Deconstruction for Barbara Frumm, Mary Lou Findlay and Peter Kent"-two typescript versions of "the department of invaders"-three typescript drafts of "the department of parasites"-typescript with manuscript revision of "Do not go sweetly"-typescript of "lines 1967" ("the dragons are climbing")-typescript of "dying snow men")-two typescript versions of "en regrattant les miroirs/construction with mirrors"-typescript of "lines Ash Wednesday 1970"-typescript of "lines 1971" ("fils conduisant son pere a la mort")-typescript of "flesh"-six typescript versions, drafts of "Florence Standingribbon"-typescript of "The French Bear"-typescript of "From the place in the map"-two typescript version of "Hanoi"-typescript of "he pointed his sharp ego at my throat"-typescript "lines 1970" ("he stood in Venice")-typescript of "sainthood is so exhausting"-four typescript versions, drafts of "Hysterico passio down"-typescript of "lines 1970" ("I may be strobe")-typescript with manuscript revisions of "I really think it's quite a tragic thing"-manuscript and typescript of "I said sixpence"-manuscript of "I saw the 10 commandments in his face"-typescript of "I see them walking under a hill"-manuscript of "I set my heart on a hyssop"-three typescript versions of "If I was tall enough"

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-typescript of "lines January 1971" ("In search of form")-three typescript versions of "the invaders of Vietnam"-typescript of "lines September 1969" ("the invasion of Canada is over")-typescript of "poem 1968"-two typescript versions of "lines February 1971"-typescript with manuscript revisions of "the last moon of August"-thirteen typescript versions and drafts, with manuscript revisions. Of "Letter to Garcia Lorca"-typescript of "letter to marian engel"-two typescript version "Letter to the Mennonite people"-typescript of "lines are open but sunflowers crowned"-typescript of "lines 1966" ("the long cool seminars")-typescript of "lines" ("low fretfulness mellows…")-typescript of "the machine of a guitar"-typescript of "may I ask you a question"-typescript of "lines 1970" ("the metaphysical shudder")-typescript of "the moon was as mad…"-four typescript versions of "my arm was in a hurry"-typescript of "my mind is full of waxwings…"-typescript of "nightmares that happen in another country"-typescript of "no man is a coral island"-four typescript versions of "new construction 1975" ("if they slow mill…")

21 379 Loose-leaf poems, typescripts and manuscripts; choric poems from the period of The Sorrowful Canadians:-typescript "O Canada"-two typescript versions of "lines 1968"-typescript "lines 1971" -two typescript versions "On the water plane"-one manuscript and four typescript versions of

1966-1972

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"Piteopolis"-manuscript "portrait of abraham lincoln…"-manuscript "portrait of jack shadbolt…"-manuscript "portrait of myself aged thirty-four years and a half"-manuscript "portrait of myself as the crucified unrepentant thief"-manuscript "portrait of smw as the chief, the only mourner"-typescript "lines 1967" ("portrait of the student body as Mount Eisenhower")-two typescript version of "portrait as a woman"; one followed by "dialogue between jenny blake and herself"-manuscript "self-portrait of the artist as self-portrait"-one manuscript and two typescript versions "The predator can go too far"-twenty-one loose-leaf pp. and three examination booklets of manuscript and typescript drafts of a poem around the figure of "Professor Erosion"-typescript "lines 1968" ("portrait of the girl with leaf")-typescript with manuscript continuation, "re blood relations"-four typescript and three ms drafts of "the reply"-four manuscript drafts of "portrait of peter lougheed"-typescript "St. Valentine's day 1972"-typescript "les sangs le sang coula dans les cirques"-two typescript versions "the sermons of laurence sterne"-typescript "seventeen reasons for subscribing to Saturday Night-manuscript draft "seventeen ways of describing the madness..."-ten manuscript sheets and one typescript sheet of drafts of "17 ways of not getting from there to here"-four typescript versions, one with extensive manuscript revisions, of "17 ways of not looking at the face of margaret atwood…"

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-typescript "lines 1968" ("she shook her hair and said no")-typescript "Lines May 1 1966"-typescript "lines 1968" ("the sucked and hungry lioness"-typescript "lines" ("son, don't let you hair grow long")-typescript "sonnet with ragged edges"-one manuscript and seven typescript version of "the sorrowful Canadians"-typescript "the suicide summer 1966"-typescript "lines spring 1969"-typescript "this poem is closed at both ends"-typescript "lines 1965" ("thou still unravished bride of quietness")-typescript draft "though it is not easy to speak of the sea"-typescript "I shot a trumpet into my brain"-typescript "an ulcer in every crease of my heart"-typescript "lines 1968" ("the vision of the viet cong…")-two manuscript drafts "I walked into the love shop…"-typescript "lines winter 1970" ("the gaudy blabbing and remorseless day")-one manuscript and two typescript version "lines January 1971" ("the whalebone comb of love")-ms draft "portrait of bob hannah"-typescript "lines 1966" ("what more did they expect")-two typescript versions "witch on cowback"-typescript "your crotch is part of you"-typescript "lines 1972" ("poetry is improbable…")

21 380 Typescript of two poems, "I think I have gone one better than Milton" and "November the ninth"

n.d.

21 381 Poem for 2 rain drops frozen dead on the rear view mirror - typescript and carbon copy with some manuscript notations.

1960's-1970's

21 382 Typescript and carbon of untitled poem collection Ca. 1967

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on a "Centennial" theme, and including:-sixteen brief number poems with manuscript of 11th poem-"Irving Layton"-Ralph Gustafson"-"Brother Canada"

21 383 Poems submitted to and returned from The London Magazine (?), including typescripts of the following poems"-"The white bird"-"Yeats and Maud Gonne"-"Of Henrickje as Bathsheba"-"Semele"-"The Windy Bishop"-"Firm to the Scaffold"-"Ghosts"-"Lines: Toronto lies at the heart"-"In the cemetery of the sun"-"And should she ask"-"A Curse of Dahlias"-"In November"-"O Canada"-"Love Song"

1960's, 1970's

21 384 The Dark VillageUnpublished poem collection, carbon copy, 135 pp.

n.d.

21 385 Typescript with manuscript emendations of poem "The Dark village"

n.d.

21 386 Typescripts of two poems bound together, "Essay on Criticism" (original) and "Albatross over Sooke Harbour" (carbon)

n.d.

22 387 Carbon of typescripts of tables of contents for projected books and some of the poems listed in the contents, including:-"the ballad of Faustus"-"The black berry pickers"-"The Trifle"

n.d.

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-"O heron my father"-"The funeral of Utrillo"-"Some blood for Phillip Flea"-"A bottle of windflowers"-"The Heloising of Peter Abelard"-"Firm to the Scaffold"-"The double hook"-"Cordelia"-"Scaffold of children"-"All their women's talk"-"A lullaby for Falstaff"

22 388 At the Iron Bridge-manuscript draft of dedication to Gordon Peacock-typescript of "Plays at the Iron Bridge: (epigraphic poem)

n.d.

22 389 Canvasses Point Gray - book length unpublished manuscript of poems; carbon copy

n.d.

I Begin with Counting/ Number-grid Poetry

22 390 I begin with counting - carbon typescript of draft table of contents

1970's

22 391 I begin with counting - page proofs. 1970's

22 392 Typescripts and manuscript versions and drafts of number-grid verse:-typescript "re aboriginal rights"-typescript "re adversary positions"-typescript "abortion"-typescript "adversary variations: on a theme by michael ondaatje"-typescript "after the commonwealth games"-copy of typescript "after the snow fall"-typescript "after the storm, january 5, 1978"-manuscript "against the window glass is crushed image of fire and image of bed"-two manuscript versions "alas poor birds"-typescript "the alienated laughter of Ulysses"-two manuscript drafts of "the animal interiorizes

1970's, 1980's

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its satisfactions but…"-typescript "For Anne, who brought tulips"-manuscript draft "an apparition of new mankind"-manuscript and typescript versions "re anti-Semitism as a projection of Jewish resentment"-manuscript "the april sun …"-copy of typescript "at the tomb of chagall" with manuscript note about verse form attached-ms "Auden"-typescript "backgardenspace number one"-two typescript versions "the ballad of hydrogen sulphide"-typescript "the ballad of little brother"-typescript "re bathsheba"-two typescript versions "bessai topology"-typescript "between the house and the park"-typescript "re bill bissett"-typescript "the birds eat the cat"-typescript "the birth of lowell"-typescript "re the birth of Yeats"-typescript "the black bear of Calgary"-typescript "blake's evangelism"-photocopied typescript "re the blue jays of april fifteenth"-typescript "re the blur-machine and popcorn"-three typescript version, drafts, "brainspace number one"-manuscript draft 'the brown/cracked land/o rene/o levesque"-two typescript versions "re burying an ex-prime minister"-photocopied typescript "byron modernized Chaucer"-typescript "re ca reich"-typescript "re canadian content"-typescript "re cannibalism"-typescript "chez gabriel marcel"-manuscript "cloud images"-typescript "the colonization of susan jackel"-manuscript "the concept of bureaucracy in the poetry of robert bourassa"-typescript "les colonels sont toujours polis"

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-typescript "consider the caterpillar"-photocopied typescript "construction April 1975, for four voices…" ("walt whitman to the dark tower came")-photocopied typescript "re consuela …"-manuscript draft "count, count, count your blessings"-typescript "re counting"-manuscript "cover design for a book of no poetry"-two typescript drafts, one with manuscript revision, "re craft fetishism"-typescript "re the crappy sun…"-two typescript versions "re the dance of the white spiders…"-manuscript "darkness"-manuscript "the darkness I occupy"-typescript "re daybreak at pipers' lagoon"-typescript "re the death of irma sommerfeld's brother"- photocopied typescript "the death of the sea-lion"-typescript "december fog"-typescript "december fantasy 1977"-typescript "deconstruction chez popowich"-typescript "re deconstructed narcissus"-three typescript drafts and several ms drafts "Dies iraie, dies illa"-five manuscript drafts "the different-than"-typescript "re donna gruhlke, at Kelowna"-manuscript and typescript version of "a dream of petrifying"-typescript "re ducks"-manuscript version and two typescript versions, one with extensive manuscript revisions, "re the editor-figure"-typescript "Edward Munch paints the High Level bridge"-typescript "the englishman thinks of poetry as changing history"-one manuscript and two typescript drafts of "epitaph" (the blustering wind…")-typescript "epitaph ("this is the cemetery…")-manuscript draft "epitaph" ("who reads this but the

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angry wind")-typescript "essay on castle mountain"-manuscript draft "eternity possessed and plundered"-typescript "etudes from the brown book"-manuscript draft "everywhere by good old fashioned revolution"-typescript "re the expectations of the arbitrary man"-two typescript drafts "re the explosions at the power station"-typescript "re ezra pound"-typescript "re the faces of doom every evening"-typescript "re the famous"-typescript "re the farm show"-typescript "Farmer Bolshevik"-typescript "february abstract"-typescript "the first daffodils"-typescript "footnote to northrop frye"-manuscript draft "Four-voiced prelude and two-voiced fugue"-typescript "from the left hemisphere"-typescript "the full moon of October 4 1982-typescript "full moon and rolls royce"-typescript "re genetic wordplay"-typescript "re gramsci quoting romain rolland"-typescript "grey gulls in triangle of cloud"

22 393 Typescript and manuscript drafts of number-grid verse:-typescript "re the haiku as analog methodology"-three manuscript drafts of "halibut sonnet"-typescript "re hamlet"-manuscript draft "the great fragile almost extinct whooping crane"-typescript "re haydn recordings"-manuscript "archetypes are images …"-nine pp. manuscript drafts of "the head in the birdcage"-typescript "re herakles"-manuscript "the hermeneutics of disbelief"-two typescripts "re the hermeneutics of space"

1970's, 1980's

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-manuscript "the heron interiorizing beach"-five manuscript and seven typescript drafts, versions "hers is the beauty of the japanese sword"-typescript "re hipolitus"-manuscript "his face an implacable moon"-typescript "How can the homeless…"-typescript "how to get fat"-manuscript and typescript versions "I complained to eternity…"-manuscript draft "I dreamed I found myself in a city"-manuscript draft "I invented blank verse in 1957"-typescript "I looked into a book of verse"-typescript "I recall nights/when the moon"-manuscript "I think of an invasion of privacy"-typescript "I think of the small mind…"-typescript "I think that I shall never see a butterfly as lovely as a bee"-manuscript "I was an eyewitness"-manuscript "And if the horned moon"-manuscript "in an invented world"-manuscript "in the mindspace the adultery was a triangle…"-seven versions (typescript and manuscript) "re indira gandhi"-typescript "re indira my neighbour"-typescript "Invocation"-typescript "for Irma who brought chrysanthemums"-two typescript versions :"iseult"-typescript "it is the night of february ninth 1977"-typescript "re joe magesky"-typescript "june and july came in both cameras blazing"-six manuscript and six typescript versions "re la tete nouvelle de mimi mandel"-two manuscript and two typescript versions of "landspace for norman yates"-two typescript "re language as exponential"-manuscript "the last real snow storm"-typescript "re laughter"-typescript "laughter is a sudden sense of glory"

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-typescript "Layton/84"-typescript "les lauriers sont coupables"-manuscript "Let exegesis with esoteric view extend"-manuscript "let us remember Walter Stowbowski"-typescript "letter to BM"-typescript "Letter to marian engel"-typescript "letter to roy kiyooka"-typescript "like history"-manuscript "Lines for Anne whose life is a poem"-typescript "Lines forbidding foreboding"-typescript "Lines having nothing to do with summer solstice"-three typescript versions of "listening to evette levesque"-typescript "listening to Judith Rendle"-typescript "re liz gagnon's feet"-two manuscript and one typescript version of "Look Again" ("if you want to murder love")-one manuscript and two typescript versions of "Look Again" ("silly old lioness")-two typescript versions "re the long poem"-typescript "lowell"-nine typescript and several manuscript versions of "re the machine gun"-manuscript "maggot maggot"-typescript "re mallarme"-two typescript versions "many many exasperate things"-two manuscript and two typescript versions of "march 1977"-manuscript "March twelfth 1977 I bought five tightly closed daffodils"-manuscript "march 4 moon"-typescript "re march 3 1980 ("the swearing in of pierre eliot trudeau")-typescript "re mario pirzek and glenn gould's examination of the music of the 1950's"-typescript "re the marshall mcLuhan, george woodcock controversy"manuscript "re maureen magutte"-typescript "re may 13 1978 at 0500 hrs"

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-typescript "re McAlmon as monkey king"-two typescript version "McLuhan to Diane Bessai"-typescript "meditations on a park renamed after Bill Hawrelak, millionaire"-typescript "memo to Sylvia Vance"-typescript "meditations on the godfathers"-typescript "re counting"-typescript "les colonels sont toujours tres polis"-typescript at agamemnon's tomb"-typescript "re nino gramsci"-typescript "in memory of george price"-typescript "mere poetiqueness"-manuscript "re mike duffy's notebook"-manuscript "re michael ondaatje"-manuscript "the military victim…"-typescript "re mimi mandel and haydn"-typescript "the modern era, John Newlove"-typescript "the moon light falls from a full moon"-manuscript "moon moon out of the sea graveyard"-typescript "re the moon"-typescript "re the morning of January 14. 1978"-two typescript versions "motion picture"-typescript "re murder most foul"-typescript "re the music of the hemispheres"-typescript "re my last duchess"-typescript "re myrna kostash"-manuscript "Nanaimo to Red Deer…"-typescript "re narcissus in the bathroom"-typescript "re narcissus"-typescript "re new pastoral"-manuscript "Nietszche could never forgive the Christians"-typescript "the night Keith Ashwell murdered the word 'brilliant'"-typescript "re the night rideau hall burnt down"-two typescript version "re norman yates"-typescript "no vacancies"-typescript "norman yates"-typescript "the nose extended"

22 394 Manuscript and typescript drafts of number-grid verse:

1970's, 1980's

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-typescript "the moon hangs over the river"-two manuscript drafts "nothing nothings nothing"-typescript "re number grids"-manuscript "the proper subject for number poetry"-carbon typescript "the offshore canadians"-typescript "old woman though your title wears a crown"-manuscript and typescript versions of "on karl kleber's brahmns"-typescript "on a painting by georges de la tour"-typescript "On Receiving R. Lowell"s Notebook"-typescript "O/possum deconstruction: sophoclea"-manuscript "organic form"-typescript "re origins"-one manuscript and two typescript versions, "re painting by numbers"-one manuscript and I typescript version of "paradise"-typescript "pas de trombones"-typescript "past the anguish however great of the cross"-typescript "paukenmesse"-typescript "re performance and creation"-typescript "re petunia"-typescript "re phedre jones"-typescript "re phedre jones again"-one manuscript and two typescript versions, drafts "Poe deconstructed"-typescript "poem for ricou"-one manuscript and one typescript version, "the poem as pewter mirror"-two typescript drafts "poem for jan sauve"-four manuscript and one typescript version of "the point as adversary position"-one manuscript and two typescript version "polypheme"-two manuscript drafts "the pornographic images of case histories"-one manuscript and three typescript drafts of "portrait of the artist/for 3 voices"-manuscript draft "portrait of the eagle…"-manuscript "portrait of george melnyk"

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-typescript "portrait of hannah arendt"-manuscript "portrait of mankind with child"-manuscript "portrait of myself aged seventeen"-manuscript "portrait of myself as a gull"-manuscript "portrait of myself as my face"-manuscript "portrait of myself as j.s. bach"-typescript "portrait of peter lougheed"-typescript "portrait of parascotus"-manuscript "portrait of proserpina alias jamila ismail"-typescript "portrait sketch of margaret thatcher"-two manuscript drafts of "portrait of veronica tennant"-typescript "portrait of wong"-manuscript "portrait of a young girl"-typescript "postscript"-typescript "predictions"-typescript "Prelude (for 4 voices) and fugue (for 2 voices)"-manuscript "preparing to write a documentary called Dorothy"-typescript "the professor merchant"-two typescript versions "re provincial rights vs. people power"-manuscript "p.s. iago iagoes cleopatra"-typescript "p.s. to shirley neuman during the postal strike"-typescript "p.s. to sylvia vance"-typescript "the pulp mills are dying"-three manuscript and six typescript versions, drafts, "putting one environment around another"-typescript "re phyllis webb and wilson's bowl

22 395 Manuscript and typescript versions and drafts of number-grid verse:-"the racist of edmonton"-typescript "the rainbow child"-manuscript draft and typescript "re…" ("Was there a second Troy for her to burn")-typescript "re reaching for the glory"-typescript "re reading circuits"-typescript "re realism"

1970's, 1980's

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-typescript "recreating the sentence"-typescript "remembering tom peacocke's durenmatt"-typescript "re rent control in Alberta"-typescript "reversal"-two manuscript versions of "the righteous and the gauche"-typescript "riddle/for robert kroetsch"-manuscript and typescript "rodin deconstruction"-manuscript "rough blew the winds"manuscript "ruin, ruin"-two manuscript drafts and typescript "after sappho"-typescript "re in search of indigenous form"-typescript "re the sea-wall"-two typescript version "seeing through haydn"-typescript "re the semantic maelstrom"-typescript "re the senses"-typescript re september 25 1979"-typescript "re september 28 1981-typescript "re shakespeare's husbandry"-typescript "re shore birds"-typescript "short essay on Agamemnon"-typescript "re silence as continuum"-two typescript version of "small talk in a barber shop, o.s."-typescript "re the smell of greatness"-typescript "re smiling and laughing"-two manuscript drafts of "the smile of peter kent"-typescript "the snow storm on April 21 1976"-typescript "the soldiers bathing"-two typescript versions "some things are funny, some aren't"-manuscript "someone"-manuscript and typescript "self-portrait"-manuscript "7 April 1984 "-manuscript "sonnet" ("the aim of news…")-manuscript "sonnet" ("the chainsaw itch of hate")-manuscript "sonnet" (" dipping their fingers in kwakiutl waters")

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-two manuscript drafts "go, lovely rose"-manuscript and typescript versions "sonnet" ("since in a net …")-three typescript versions "sonnet" ("Tears")-ms "sonnet/hook"-manuscript and typescript versions "sonnet june second/84"-one manuscript and two typescript versions, drafts "sonnet for robert lowell"-typescript "sonnet written during the eclipse"-typescript "autobiography"-typescript "sonnet for three voices"-manuscript and typescript "sonnet x 3 ("portrait of myself as my father")-typescript and manuscript "sonnet x 3 for luisa vallenzuela"-typescript "the soporific bluejay"-typescript "Spences bridge (1)"-typescript "Spence's bridge (3)"-typescript "Spence's bridge (4)"-typescript "Spence's bridge (6)"-typescript and two manuscript drafts "re the squamish fly"-manuscript "stark stand the mother sorrowing"-typescript "still, from the blur machine"-typescript "re the storm february 1979"-typescript "re the storm march 29 1981"-manuscript "re susan sontag and understanding media"-typescript "re the swans at quamichan lake"-three typescript versions "re swp"-photocopied typescript "re swp who asks questions"-photocopied typescript "re swp's sunflowers"-two typescript versions "re sylvia vance as metaphysical conceit"-typescript "taking off from nanaimo harbour"-two typescript versions "re the technologies as amputations"-two manuscript versions "re 10th December 1988"-two typescript versions "that's my incomparable husband shuffling down the stairs"

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-two typescript versions "the theatre of the absurd of adrienne clarkson"-typescript "re theory as a kept woman"-typescript "la belle dame sans merci"

22 396 Manuscript and typescript drafts and versions of number-grid verse"-typescript "there are moments in our lives"-manuscript "there is a tide in the affairs of men"-manuscript "best of all he loves nature poetry"-manuscript "man and bird the heron and the tugboat"-typescript "there is no penance due to innocence deconstructed"-manuscript "there are such troubles"-typescript "re those of us who lead lives of quiet desperation"-typescript "thoughts in the snow storm of February 20 1980"-typescript "thoughts of the great lone land"-typescript "the three sisters"-manuscript over drawing, "the tide rises/a girl…"-typescript "re tides and earthquakes"-typescript "time moves past into time future"-manuscript "the tin soldier"-typescript "tombeau"-typescript "au tombeau de george fall"-typescript "in the tribal village king herod is global king"-typescript "re two-headed poems"-manuscript (notebook) and typescript "two or three bare boards"-typescript "re an unborn mistress"-typescript re an unwritten novel"-typescript "turning into the service lane…"-manuscript "trying to stereotype the set up"-typescript "vanni fucci"-typescript "re variation without deviation"-two typescript versions "variations on a theme by swp wong"-typescript "variations on a theme by thomas hardy"-typescript "verse letter to barbara frum, re

1970's, 1980's

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brainspace # thirteen"-typescript "versus peter lougheed"-typescript "a vision of whooping cranes"-typescript "re the vulgarization of disgust"-four manuscript drafts "waking up years ago…"-typescript "wall space"-typescript "re wanting to return"-typescript "a wasp is a wasp is a wasp"-typescript "the waxwings are waiting"-manuscript "we complained bitterly to eternity about pierre eliot trudeau"-typescript "we cut down the forest to make a park"-typescript "what about anne of green gables"-typescript "what the photographers see"-typescript "what velasquez sees in Canada"-typescript "when queen anne died in 1714"-manuscript "white gull walking down the empty sky"-two manuscript versions "who so list to hunt"-typescript "why do they photograph margaret atwood's face…"-typescript "re wife battery"-two typescript versions "re witch on cowback"-two typescript versions "at wood buffalo park"-photocopy typescript "re woody allen's annie hall"-manuscript and typescript drafts "words are into numbers"-photocopied typescript, manuscript dedication "For Wong", "re words around numbers"-typescript "yates and molinari"-several manuscript and seven typescript version "Yatesian spaces"-typescript "yorick song transcribed"-manuscript "you would have to write a very long poem…"-typescript "young woman walking in the sun"

22 397 Sixteen pages of unidentified number-grid poems, both manuscript and typescript.

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

22 397A Number-grid versions of Shakespeare sonnets 25-121, using one or two words per line for each of

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

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fourteen slots

23 398 Collection of poetry, some 97 poems, numbered by poem rather than page; some poems missing or without a title; including the following poems in original typescript:-"les lauriers sont coupables"-"listening to evette levesque"-"re putting one environment around another"-"what the barber told me"-"re la montagna que drizza"-"edmonton morning and evening spaces"-"february river"-"the habit and the hang-up"-"the stolen greatcoat"-"how it happened"-"dance of the whooping crane"-"hallucination"-"waiting outside the hairdresser's"-"re the harmony of things"-"a mirror of narcissism"-"the first daffodils"-"a dream of stoned stones"-"the two spaces"-"the center as adversary position"-"thinking of indira gandhi"-"re the editor-figure"-"winter night"-"the transvestite"-"hating george the third"-"someone"-"the matrix"-"water-colour cloud"-"the drought"-"meditations on a park renamed after Bill Hawrelak, millionaire"-"harlequin romance"-"cornered"-"a vision of whooping cranes: cloud images"-"re palm Sunday 1977"-"re pop art as victim"-"re evening grosbeaks"

1970's, 1980's

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-"re space as a rope of relations"-"pseudo-hokku"-"re the morning of april fourteenth"-"pseudo-hokku october 21 1976"-"peter kent smiles beautifully"-"concerning beautiful people"-"the birth of w.b.yeats"-"often during the seek of june 5, 1977"-"the achievement"-"re the rhetoric of animals"-"et in arcadia ego"-"letter to gail osachoff"-"dialogue of discomfort"-"letter to gail osachoff" (a different poem)-"re bloomscreed"-"re canada"-"their americas"-"re lions at her face"-"re grey power…"-"reading Kroetsch from diane"-"les colonesl sont toujours tres polis"-"at wood buffalo national park"-"re James Joyce's Ulysses"-"re the blue jays of april fifteenth"-"pseudo-haiki: title poem: re literacy"-"re/contemporary blindness"-"documentary"-"the well-lighted city"

23 399 Typescripts of number-grid verse, numbered (in lieu of titles), so as to suggest they were intended as part of a series, and including:-"twelve haydn quartets on six recordings"-"there are white birds falling out of the sky:-"that was another day"-"the machine in the garden talks to the sparrow"-"edmonton spaces the corner of jasper"-"edmonton spaces robert kroetsch walks across the high level bridge"-"edmonton spaces the north bank of the north saskatchewan river"-"edmonton spaces the art gallery"

1970's, 1980's

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-"edmonton spaces the tory building"-"edmonton spaces a full moon"-"edmonton spaces the vertical sun"-"my father he took me swimming"-"lovers are lousy poets"-"my o so beautiful sister in law"-"the more and more Canadian poetry I read"-"the real misery of age"-"cow girl harry the impersonator"-"it was when she took off her polka dot dress"-"edmonton spaces the chock cherry exploding"-"I have committed folornification"-"she is occupied"-"agape agape says the machine gun"-"the obvious topics for poetry are occupied"-"two make kiyookan laughter"-"lovers are lousy poets"-"spring a leafy hairy guerilla"-"in margaret atwood's wilderness of mirrors"-"kiyooka is a bright wasp"-"kiyooka is a bright wasp" (a second poem)-"a wasp who had been called a wasp over and over"-"the gospel is cornflakes"-"mirror creeps into mirror"-"of mirror systems"-"edmonton is a non-existent space"-"in the great hand of god"-"a sensibility ago"-"the new starved face of mimi mandel"-"I dreamt I saw george melnyk"-"hamlet"-"compare means"-"what a great pity that milton…"-"norman yates drawings and paintings"-"seaspace"-"listening to evette levesque"

23 400 Number-grid verse poems:-two versions typescript "January 23, 1977 - Yates and Molinari"-two typescript versions of "8/122"

Ca. 1977

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-one fragment [pg. two]

23 401 Manuscript and typescript pages of number-grid verse including the following poems:-"Driving with Graham McEwen"-"riddle: those who say they love me"-"for Anne, who brought tulips"Also includes blank WW letterhead (with drawings, etc.)

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

23 402 Typescripts of number-grid verse poems, including the following:-"re the poetry of thomas hardy"-"three copies of typescript "construction 1975"-"re the prairie as archetype"-"re woody allen's annie hall"-"at rideau hall: the dance of the white spiders"-"verse letter to diane bessai, re philosophy" (three copies)-"the leviathan and the people"-"re the long poem" (two copies)-"re painting by numbers"-"the offshore canadians" (two copies)-"re the eclipse"-"re maelstrom and vortex" (two copies)-"re the university of toronto's graduate english torture system" (three copies)-"construction, April 1975, for thomas peacocke" (three copies)-"Edvard Munch paints the High Level bridge"-"Picasso and gertrude stein"-"re march 3, 1980" (two copies)-"deconstruction chez flahiff"-"re ned pratt after barker fairley" (two copies, one incomplete copy_-"re narcissus"-"re pater and foucault" (three copies)-"Marvell deconstruction" (three copies)-"re words around numbers" (five typescript copies and one manuscript version)-"re the shirt of nessus" (three copies)-"letter to marian engel"

1970's, 1980's

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-" re indira gandhi" (three copies)-"re the aboriginal protestant"-"re Phyllis Webb & Wilson's Bowl"-"re the Sunday afternoon news" (three copies)-"a left-handed apology to tac tanabe" (three copies)-"re Jack Spicer and Robin Blasé…" (two copies)-"la belle dame sans merci"-"what roy kikooka told me" (two copies)-three unidentifiable typescript pages

23 403 Manila envelope marked "NeWest Publishers" containing the following poems and items:-multiple typescript copies of "stone riddle"-multiple typescript copies of "yates and molinari"-multiple typescript copies of "Come, Aristotle"-draft typescripts of WW's Canadian Who's Who entry-photocopies of "The People's Cinema", a poem by Glyn Maxwell

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

23 404 Typescript and manuscript sheets of number-grid poems:-manuscript draft of description of different groups of performers of number-grid poetry-typescript with manuscript revisions "NSG as notation"-ms craft "re litcrit/critlit"-typescript "Yeats", signed and dated-photocopies typescript "yates and molinari" with manuscript signature "wilfred watson (tag)"-typescript with manuscript revision "au tombeau de George Fall"-typescript "re swp;s sunflowers, september 25, 1979" with manuscript dedication to Sheila Watson-photocopied typescript "re september 35th 1979"-typescript "I am a cat, a bird…"-typescript "re the birth of michael john dunning", with attached birth announcement-typescript "I spent seven years"-typescript "at the tomb of chagall"-photocopied typescript "re shakespeare on husbandry"

1976-1979, 1988-1989

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-photocopied typescript "re indira gandhi"-typescript "I complained about george baldwin's competence"-photocopied typescript "portrait of parascotus"-photocopied typescript "re like history"-photocopied typescript "riddle: the other"-photocopied typescript "reversal", with manuscript dedication "for Sheila"-typescript "stone riddle" with manuscript dedication to Sheila Watson-typescript "I am, my habit of being"

23 405 Photocopies of typescript of 118 pp. collection titled: "no. [i.e. number-grid] poems 1976/1978" 'Improvisations; constructions for two or more voices'.

1976-1978

23 406 Improvisations; constructions for two or more voices - bound copy of typescript with manuscript dedication to Diane Bessai.

Ca. 1978

23 406A Script for Tom Peacocke production with "number grid kids" of I begin with counting

May 1978

Haiku/Number-grid Notebooks

23 407 HNIQ Haiku/constructionsHonku Book 1, Series 1

February 3, 1976

23 408 HN2Q Honku Book 2, Series 2

March 2, 1976

23 409 HN3Q, Series 3 March 27, 1976

23 410 HNQ constructs, Series 4 April 7-21, 1976

23 411 Number-grid poems, Series 5 April 21, 1976

23 412 Loose-leaf materials removed from Series 5 Notebook (91-117-411)-two typescript drafts of poem, "edmonton spaces", one with manuscript draft of poem on back.

April 21, 1976

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23 413 Number-grid poems, Series 6 May 6, 1976

24 414 Loose-leaf materials removed from Series 6 Notebook (91-117-413)-postcard from Heesoon Bai-manuscript draft of poem, "the thesis is play"-manuscript notes on "leisure"

May 6, 1976

24 415 Number-grid poems, Series 7 May 30, 1976

24 416 Loose-leaf materials removed from Series 7 Notebook (91-117-415)-manuscript draft of poem "the moon mirrored"-manuscript notes on the theatre, written over a student examination paper-sheets torn from examination booklet with manuscript drafts of poem about James Joyce in two version, poem "pseudo-hokku" and poem "at night with night's sexual arrogance"-notes for play "Blancnoir"-examination booklet with miscellaneous notes-draft of letter re completion of Gail Osachoff's thesis and draft of poem "1516 hours december twenty nine"typescript draft of paragraph for story, "Go down my people…"

May 30, 1976

24 417 Number-grid poems, Series 8 September 25, 1976

24 418 Number-grid poems, Series 9 n.d.


24 420 Number-grid poem manuscript Series 11 n.d.



24 423 Number-grid poems, Series 14 1977

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24 426 Number-grid poems, Series 17 June 4, 1978

24 427 Number-grid poems, Series 18 November 14, 1978



25 430 Number-grip poems, Series 21 n.d.

25 431 Number-grid poemsSee Oversize 95-131-2, Box 1

n.d.

25 432 Scrapbook: I begin with counting 1976

25 433 Four Notebooks of Haiku poetry August - September 1989

25 434 Manuscript and typescript drafts of "haiku" poems:-typescript "Four haikus for my neighbours the Lanes"-typescript "haiku times three june twenty-third/84"-typescript "prelude to pseudo-hokku re apparition of hare on january 9, 1978"-typescript "haiku re the neutralization of dread"-typescript "haiku for the tomb of"-typescript "haiku" ("the beautiful people are always sorrowful…")-typescript "haiku" ("Brian lied…")-two typescript drafts "hiku-haiku"-typescript "Hiku" ("Descartes though of machines…")-two typescript version "Haiku" ("the few and the not many")-typescript "Haiku" ("…no longer boys")-two typescript versions "Hiku" ("Fred Flahiff went

1970's, 1980's

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to the circus")-typescript "haiku" ("gray sea sand")-typescript "hiku-hiku" ("The great are always preaching…")-typescript "Chemainus Hiku"-typescript "Hiku" ("In soft September…")-typescript "Hiku-Haiku" ("Landscapes with stretched gut")-typescript "Haiku" ("A language is…")-typescript "Hiku" ("Letter that recount ourselves…")-typescript "Hiku-Haiku" ("My heart is full…")-typescript "Hiku-Haiku" ("o moon, carpe noctem")-typescript "Haiku" ("on the plane…")-typescript "Hiku-haiku" ("Plato ate toast…")-typescript "Haiku" ("Plato spoke of the human tongue")-typescript "Hiku" ("The powerful have their day")-typescript "Hiku" ("A red-hatted sunrise")-typescript "Hiku-Haiku" ("stabat mater)-typescript "Hiku" ("there came a bird…")-typescript "Hiku-Haiku, re Wittgenstein"-typescript "Hiku-Haiku" ("to reflect on Derrida's pervasive concern…")-typescript "Haiku" ("Veronica Evelyn Karen")-typescript "Haiku" ("What is rain…")-typescript "Haiku" ("Your, she said, includes our")-typescript "haiku/april 7m 1984, 1000 hrs"-typescript "Haiku for february 4"-manuscript "A haiku for John Dunning"-typescript "haiku for the tomb of"0-typescript "haiku for the winter solstice, 1978"-typescript "haiku for a disappearing country"-typescript "pseudo-hokku" ("her breasts…")-typescript "pseudo-hokku" ("james joyce…")-typescript "pseudo-hokku" ("sexual love is best")-typescript "pseudo-hokku for gertrude stein"

Limericks/Riddles

25 435 Typescript and manuscript drafts and versions of limericks:

Ca. 1970's

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-typescript "postscript 1972"-manuscript "a man from nanaimo"-manuscript "an apple-strudel maker…"-manuscript " I do not like thee Dr. Swell"-manuscript "there was a young man named Mulroney"-manuscript "a romantic young lady from Port Hardy"-manuscript "there was a young girl from Regina"-manuscript "John Broccoli, a rower who rows from sea to sea"-manuscript "Jill Asparagus had terrible dreams"-manuscript and typescript "Consuela Pasta"-typescript of eight limericks beginning with "re Colin Cornbread"-typescript "there was a guerilla from Mullet"-typescript of seventeen limericks beginning with "There once was an ex-mayor of Vancouver"-typescript of four limericks beginning with "There once was on old woman who lived on Jasper Avenue"

25 436 Riddles:-typescript, seven riddles "For Gillian"manuscript list of riddles-one manuscript and two typescript drafts "my name rhymes with dumb"-one manuscript and two typescript drafts "I have a little mouth"-manuscript "sometimes I am the sun…"-manuscript and typescript "who have heard paralyzed"-typescript "and the first clue is…"-two manuscript and two typescript versions "riddle for Irma"-manuscript "riddle for jack pecover"-manuscript and typescript "women kiss my claws…"-one manuscript and two typescript drafts "no one understands me"-manuscript and typescript "I am a think of various shapes"

1970's, 1980's

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-typescript "riddle/hill"-manuscript and typescript "a hammer shaped me:-typescript "riddle for irma sommerfeld"-typescript "My initials suggest vision …"-typescript "Riddle for IS"-manuscript and typescript "riddle/lamp"-two manuscript and two typescript versions "I travel much through space"-manuscript "riddle/machine"-manuscript "riddle/man"-manuscript "riddle/melancholy"-one manuscript and one typescript "poets hate me beating on their drum"-typescript "I am a pig with the head of a king"-two typescript versions "riddle: the other"-manuscript "riddle (paintbrush)"-typescript "riddle for irma" ("women love me…")-typescript and manuscript "what job, not what job says"-typescript "riddle/poet"-manuscript "riddle/pumpkin"-typescript "riddle (riddle)"-typescript "my people are of the sea"-manuscript and typescript "autobiographical riddle"-typescript "riddle for irma sommerfeld" (shore)-two manuscript and one typescript draft of "Riddle for s who loved me"-manuscript "riddle/starfish"-two typescript versions "riddle/statue of liberty"-typescript "stone riddle"-manuscript and typescript "I say little and much"-manuscript "riddle/tongue"-manuscript "riddle/tray"-manuscript "riddle/word"-typescript "riddle for robert kroetsch"-typescript "I am not as tall as a tower" with manuscript dedication to Sheila Watson-manuscript "I am a bawl of wool"-one manuscript and two typescript drafts "I am not a fisherman"-typescript "dark of complexion…"

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-typescript "I live among names…"-typescript "I am shaped like a maelstrom"-typescript "They say they have stood Nietszche on his head"-typescript "wasped at by his own…"-typescript "I am poor…"-typescript "those who say they love me…"-manuscript "a woman's dog"-manuscript "shape an inside and an outside"-manuscript "sometimes I am waspish"-manuscript "majesty of the rex tremendae"-manuscript "portrait of myself…"-typescript "I am a cat, a bird…"-two typescript and one manuscript of "I have a twisted wit"

25 437 Envelope of poems and papers, including:-typescript "riddle: I am not as tall"-typescript Reason is full of rank despairs"-eighteen pages of "Hiku-Haiku" (typescript)-three ink line drawings

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

25 438 Various loose manuscript and typescript pages relating to "riddle" poemanuscript

Ca. 1975

Poems: Collected/Unpublished/New (Book of poetry)

25 439 Drafts of section headings, titles, and dedications for Collected Poems

n.d.

25 440 Three manuscript drafts of biographies of WW and manuscript draft of unpublished dedication of Collected Poems

n.d.

25 441 Collected Poems - manuscript. n.d.

25 442 Collected Poems - manuscript. n.d.

25 443 Poems: Collected/Unpublished/New - complete typescript

n.d.

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Poetry: 1970's, 1980's, 1990's

26 444 Notebook containing six typescripts of the following poems:-"O moon…"-"H.M.S. Valiant at Plymouth, 1916"-"Valiant 2"-"I'm not my body's mind out on parole"-"Remembrance Day"

n.d.

26 445 Poem typescripts:-eight typescript copies of "O moon…"-seven typescript copies of "Remembrance Day"-seven typescript copies of "H.M.S. Valiant"

n.d.

26 446 Multiple typescript copies of the following poems:-"The Double Hook"-"This City"-"The Blue-Eyed Tree"-'The Coy Mistress Reconsiders"-"Lines at the full of the moon"-"Who Mocks My Virgin"-"Some Blood for Philip Flea"

n.d.

26 447 Three drawings by WW and typescripts of the following poems: (originally together in manila envelope)-"The net"-"Verse letter to Sheila"-"This city"-"Though rhyme wants a blank prose" (inscribed "For Sheila, Wilfred")-"Some Blood for Philip Flea"-"The coy mistress reconsiders"-"Lines at the full of the moon"-"The blue-eyed tree"-"Good Friday lecture" (inscribed 'For Sheila tout seule, W.")-"Lines on the queen's visit"-"retrospective lampoon for Jack Shadbolt" (inscribed "For the greatest of Cn. short story writers from W")

n.d.

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-"The double hook"-"Who mocks my virgin"-"Lines"

26 448 Manila envelope postmarked Stanford containing typescripts for the following poems:-"The Queen of Tarts"-"And Should She Ask"-"Proserpina (1) The Flower"-"O my poor darling"-"A curse of Dahlias"

n.d.

26 449 Typescripts of poetry:-"new construction"-"freestanding construction"-typescript collection of ten prose poems titled "To be continued"

n.d.

Poetry and Miscellaneous Prose(Filed together by Wilfred Watson)

26 450 Typescripts of poems and miscellaneous prose; undated and arranged alphabetically:-four typescript versions "8/125", two with manuscript revisions-typescript "The Amoeba"-typescript and three carbons "April Fool's Day Letter"-typescript and three carbons "Arachne Song"-typescript "As told to Lisa Potvin"-typescript "Assignment for Sheila"-typescript fragment "The autobiography of Tom Horror/the birth of W.W."-two typescript carbons of :brain space number one"-typescript "Canticle of Darkness"-typescript "Cauchemar"-typescript and five carbons "Come, Aristotle"-typescript carbon "Construction, April, 1975…" (13 pages)-four typescript versions, some with manuscript revisions, "dear sheila: it verges on three o'clock"

1970's, 1980's

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26 451 Typescripts of poems and miscellaneous prose (continued):-two typescript versions "Descartes thought of animals"-typescript "A Design for Christmas"-two typescript version, one with manuscript revisions, "Did Cass…"-typescript fragment "Driving with Graham McEwan…"-typescript "The Drunk and the Dumb"-typescript (7pp) and carbon, with revisions, "Edvard Munch paints the high level bridge"-typescript "et Incarnatus Est"-typescript "Eyes, eyes"-typescript "Family Song" (6 pp. with one manuscript revision on first page and WW's signature on last)-two typescript version and one manuscript version "Graveyard on a cliff of white sand"-typescript carbon "The Great Majority Corpse; Christ"-typescript and eight carbons of "Haiku" ("Veronica Evelyn")-typescript "The harrow of love"-miscellaneous typescript pages of play: her brothers' daughters (29 pp.)

n.d.

26 452 Typescripts of miscellaneous poems and prose (continued):-three typescript versions "The Herons/The Barking Herons" (first dedicated "For Sheila, W.W" and dated Dec. 10, 1956; third labeled "Version III" and dedicated "For SWP…"-typescript and seven carbons "Hiku" ("A red-hatted sunrise glowering")-typescript and eight carbons "Hiku" ("Descartes thought")-seven typescript carbons "Hiku" ("Fred Flahiff went")-typescript and seven carbons "Hiku" ("The powerful")

1956, n.d.

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-two typescript versions "Hiku for a mechanical bestiary"-three carbons of 17 pp. typescript "Hiku-Haiku" ("In 1984")-three typescript carbons of "Hiku-Haiku" ("Stabat mater")-typescript "Hiyu Haiku" ("Today, thanks to")-typescript fragment "The HMS Valiant at Plymouth, 3"-two typescript carbons "I'm not by body's mind out on parole"-typescript of "Jenny Blake's Drawings" (with manuscript revisions)-typescript "jenny blake's pome of the albatross"-typescript "Jenny Blake's Tree of Benzine"

26 453 Typescripts of poems and miscellaneous prose (continued):-typescript "La belle dame sans merci"-typescript carbon "a left-handed apology to tac tanabe"-typescript "Let me not", with manuscript revisions-typescript "Lines" ("I dreamt I stood…") with dedication "For Shuswap Wlp"-typescript "Lines" ("I work at the work…") with dedication "For Slp. Wilfred"-typescript "Lines" ("I write this, not on the stones…")-typescript "Lines"("This night a yellow yellow moon", with one manuscript revision-typescript "Lines" ("Upon St David's day")-typescript "Lines for St. David's Day")-typescript "Lines: I praise God's mankind in an old woman" (with return envelop postmarked Jan 7 1954)-typescript "Lines on Rembrandt's Painting…"-typescript "Lines propounding"-two typescripts of "Love Song for Friday's Child"-typescript "Maud: a dirge for a Prime Minister's Lying in State"-typescript carbon "the machine gun"-typescript "Marvell deconstruction"

1954, n.d.

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-typescript "May the unsleeping…"-typescript "Mettre en conte le dream" (19 pp. with various manuscript revisions throughout)-typescript "a mouth full of tennis balls"

26 454 Typescript of poems and miscellaneous prose (continued):-typescript "O moon"-typescript carbon "o/possum deconstruction: sophoclea"-typescript carbon "the offshore canadians"-typescript fragment "The Pigs"-typescript "Picasso and gertrude stein"-typescript "Poem" ("There were two sisters")-typescript "Poem" ("within these glass walls…"), with manuscript revisions-typescript "Poem for the coming on of May" with manuscript revisions-typescript "Poems grow tired of us"-four typescript carbons "pome of Laforgue"-two typescript versions and six carbons "Pritemps/1987"-typescript "Prolusion"-typescript "Proserpina I: The Flower", with manuscript revisions-typescript "Proserpina II: The Marriage with Death", with manuscript revisions-three typescript carbons "putting an old environment inside a new one"-typescript "The Queen of Tarts"-typescript fragment "Quis puer gracilis: after Milton and Horace", with manuscript draft of telegram from WW on verso-typescript "Raining cats and dogs"-typescript and two carbons "re…"-two typescript carbons "re abortion"-four typescript carbons "re edmonton"-typescript "Re hipolitus"-typescript "re jack spicer and robin blaser…"-two typescript versions and four carbons "re naming: an horation ode"-typescript "re PLAYS AT THE IRON BRIDGE"

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

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-typescript "re ptolemy: o/possum deconstruction", with manuscript revisions-three typescript carbons "re/putting one environment around another"

26 455 Typescripts of poems and miscellaneous prose (continued):-two typescript carbons "re Shakespeare on husbandry"-typescript and three carbons "re swans at quamichan lake"-typescript carbon "re the blue jays of april fifteen"-typescript fragment and three manuscript "re the city"-typescript carbon "re the explosion at the power station"-typescript "re the gang of six"-typescript and three carbons "re the march election"-three typescript carbons "re the poetry of thomas hardy"-two typescript carbons "re the prairie as archetype"-typescript and three carbons "re the rain forest…"-typescript "re the shirt of nessus"-typescript "re the Sunday afternoon news"-typescript and six carbons "Reason is full of rank despairs (version 1)-eight typescript carbons "Reason is full of rank despaits" (version 2)-four typescript carbons "remembering tom peacocke's durrenmatt"-typescript "Report to Apollo", with manuscript query "Is this a good revision?" at top)-three typescript versions "A requiem for those dying unchurched", two untitled

n.d.

26 456 Typescripts of poems and miscellaneous prose (continued):-three typescript version "Retract the flame/Retract the fire"-typescript and four carbons "riddle" ("I am a cat")-two complete typescript carbons and two

1960, n.d.

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incomplete carbons of "riddle" ("I am not as tall")-typescript "Riddle/crib"-typescript carbon "riddle for irma"-typescript "riddle/machine"-typescript "Satire four: the ape in the clay"-typescript "The scaffold: a canticle of children"-typescript Scaffold of children"-typescript "The scales"-three typescript carbons "short essay on Agamemnon"-typescript carbon "small talk in a barber shop, o.s."-typescript "A song for the burial"-typescript "Sonnet: Now all my thought was knotted in my brain"-two typescript carbons "stone riddle"-typescript "Sucking stones" (with manuscript excision)-typescript "The sun (folks) is a yellow bucket"-typescript "this our still unravished child…"-typescript "There was heard afar"-typescript "This" (Nov 27/60)-typescript "This was my day but yet I knew it not"-twelve pp. typescript carbon "To be continued" (10

prose poems)-two typescript versions "to geri dangerfield"-typescript "To S…" -typescript "To S…" ("Away from you with

thoughts…")-typescript "To Sheila, a Complaint"-typescript "To the dead letter office"-typescript and carbon of "The Trifle"

26 457 Typescripts of poems and miscellaneous manuscripts (continued):-typescript "verse letter to diane bessai, re philosophy"-four typescript carbons "verse letter to margaret kapala alias charlotte corday"-typescript "A warning of oboes"-three typescript carbons "What mirrors do to us"-typescript carbon "what roy kiyooka told me"-two typescript versions "When the peas began to

n.d.

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bake"-eleven typescript carbons "yates and molinari"

26 458 Script for CBC reading of four of Wilfred Watson's poems

n.d.

26 458A Correspondence with CBC, re the recording of five poems read by WW (From Friday's Child); includes poetry scripts

n.d.

26 459 Bound notebook: Saga hwaet ic hatte. This volume includes:-manuscript drafts of WW's early and never-published riddles-manuscript drafts of essay material on "utility"-manuscript drafts of essay material on Henry James' art-manuscript draft of an untitled short story-manuscript material on "Sterne's didacticism"-notes on "Smith's Moral Sentiments"-manuscript draft material on "Theory of Negative, or Oblique Imitation"-drafts of four untitled poems-manuscript notes on communications, on allegory, on :Blake on Satire", on "The Wheel from T.S. Eliot, and on Hume-draft of a poem "Lucretius"-draft of a poem "Who kill Charity/say some"-draft of a poem "The Destruction of Shilbeth"-draft of a poem "The Trial"-draft of a poem "To Anne"

n.d.

26 460 Prose and poetry version of "Manifesto for Beast Poetry" (for CBC?)

n.d.

2.2 Plays

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Play Productions:

"Cockcrow and the Gulls" (Studio Theatre, March 29 1962; published 1988)

See Also: 91-117-43-57 (Notebooks)

26 461 Version of Cockcrow and the Gulls, mixed original typescript and carbon with manuscript revisions

n.d.

26 462 Cockcrow and the Gulls - manuscript version with draft manuscript notes, ca. 100 pp., bound together by WW.

n.d.

26 463 A Vision of Cockcrow - two versions, carbon copies, with manuscript additions and revisions

n.d.

26 464 Cockcrow and the Gulls - mimeograph copy with some manuscript revision, labelled "Draft made after performance"

n.d.

26 465 Cockcrow and the Gulls - copy of, with manuscript dedication "For swp from wlp"

n.d.

27 466 Several manuscript drafts of the "Note" to Cockcrow and the Gulls in Collected Plays

n.d.

27 467 Four pp. manuscript and several original typescript versions, with extensive manuscript/typescript revisions pasted or written in the 1988 "Epilogue" to Cockcrow and the Gulls

1988

27 468 Vision of Cockcrow Draft of Summer 58, original typescript

Ca. 1962

27 469 Vision of Cockcrow - 'plan' and 'definition' of action Ca. 1962

27 470 Cockcrow and the Gulls - Primary play script with some inserted pp. and manuscript excisions; second copy of script with some revisions

Ca. 1962

27 471 Cockcrow and the Gulls - six pp. of manuscript and Ca. 1962

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Play Productions:

two typescripts (18 pp & 56 pp), the latter with extensive manuscript revisions

27 472 Cockcrow and the Gulls - Master copy of play for G.P. [Gordon Peacock]; includes all five acts with act 1 proofed and corrected.

Ca. 1962

27 473 Cockcrow and the Gulls - Copy of play; not many revisions

Ca. 1962

27 474 Cockcrow and the Gulls - Copy of play Ca. 1962

28 475 Cockcrow and the Gulls - Copy of play Ca. 1962

28 476 Cockcrow and the Gulls - bound typescript; some manuscript revisions (two copies)

Ca. 1962

28 477 Cockcrow and the Gulls - bound typescript; some manuscript revisions (one copy)

Ca. 1962

28 478 Cockcrow and the Gulls - program notes written by Ian Sowton, with manuscript note from Sowton to Watson appended to the end of it; includes a carbon typescript of :"Director's Note" by Gordon Peacock

Ca. 1962

28 479 Theatre design - drawings by Norman Yates for set design of Cockcrow and the Gulls10 drawings, 41x55 cmOversize 95-131-3, Box 1

Ca. 1962

"Trial of Corporal Adam" Coach House Theatre, Toronto, 1963; published 1988)

28 480 Trial of Corporal Adam - mimeographed script autographed to Diane Bessai with notes and inserted examination booklet with manuscript revisions

Ca. 1963

28 481 Trial of Corporal Adam - "copy for transcribing" for Coach House Theatre production with two pp.

Ca. 1963

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Play Productions:

drawings inserted

28 482 Trial of Corporal Adam - typescript copy with manuscript additions and revisions

Ca. 1963

"Wail for Two Pedestals" (Yardbird Suite, 1964; published 1965)

28 483 Wail for Two Pedestals - typescript "draft from which the published version was made" with information from performance

Ca. 1964

28 484 Wail for Two Pedestals - typescript of play Ca. 1964

28 485 Wail for Two Pedestals - typescript of play Ca. 1964

"Chez-vous Comfortable Pew" (Yardbird Suite, 1965; unpublished)

28 486 Chez-vous Comfortable Pew - manuscript material Ca. 1965

28 487 Chez-vous Comfortable Pew - photocopy of typescript with manuscript revisions

Ca. 1965

"Two Teardrops frozen in the rear-view mirror" (Walterdale Playhouse, 1967; unpublished)

28 488 Two Teardrops frozen in the rear-view mirror (unpublished play) - Photocopy of typescript

Ca. 1967

28 489 Two Teardrops frozen in the rear-view mirror - two versions of typescript for unpublished play, with performance notes

Ca. 1967

"The Canadian Fact" (Walterdale Playhouse, 1967; published 1972)

28 490 The Canadian Fact - mimeographed copy labelled "rough draft"

May 1967

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Play Productions:

28 491 The Canadian Fact - typescript Ca. 1967

"O holy ghost, dip your finger in the blood of Canada, and write, I love you" (Studio Theatre, 1967; published 1988)

28 492 O holy ghost… - photocopied typescript with some manuscript revision; original typescript and unpublished leaflet distributed at performance

December 1967

28 493 O holy ghost… -"Chaconne: A Wilderness of Sunflowers" with "Yes we have no black pyjamas"; manuscript drafts

December 1967

28 494 O holy ghost… -"Rough Plan for a Passacaglia for a Wilderness etc"; nine examination booklets, twenty-five pages, and one envelope of manuscript drafts and drawings

1967

28 495 O holy ghost… - typescript copy with manuscript revisions and rehearsal notes

December 1967

"Soul is my Button" (Acadia University, 1969; revised as "Up against the wall Oedipus"; unpublished)

28 496 Soul is my Button (Unpublished) - fragments of typescript.

1969

29 497 Soul is my Button - photocopy of full typescript of play as produced at Acadia Playhouse 1969 with manuscript revisions

1969

29 498 Soul is my Button - "Record Book" with outline of play, preliminary drafts

1969

29 499 Soul is my Button - manuscript fragments filed by Wilfred Watson in blue notebook

Ca. 1969

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Play Productions:

29 500 Soul is my Button - complete typescript copy, with extensive manuscript revisions and notes; appears to be copy used for Acadia University production

1969

29 501 Soul is my Button - typescript copy with revisions made in production

1969

29 502 Soul is my Button - Extensive manuscript and typescript draft material

1969

29 502A Original musical score, score with lyrics, and copies of songs for Acadia University production of Soul is my Button, composer Jock Sirulnikov

1969

"Let's Murder Clytemnestra According to the Principles of Marshall McLuhan" (Studio Theatre, 1969; published 1988)

29 503 Let's Murder Clytemnestra… - working script, photocopy of typescript with manuscript revisions

1969

29 504 Let's Murder Clytemnestra… - Fourteen pp. typescript with manuscript revisions, including unpublished dedication, one ditto master, title variations

1969

29 505 Let's Murder Clytemnestra… - Fourteen pp. manuscript draft and seven examination booklets with manuscript draft

1969

29 506 Let's Murder Clytemnestra…- extensive draft passages, manuscript and typescript

1969

29 507 Let's Murder Clytemnestra… - original typescript of full-length play

1969

29 508 Let's Murder Clytemnestra…-two pp. and an examination booklet of manuscript drafts-gray hardcover notebook of manuscript draft

1969

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Play Productions:

-copy of musical score with lyrics for production

29 509 Let's Murder Clytemnestra…typescript and carbon typescript with many pencilled manuscript revisions

1969

"Gramsci x 3" (Studio Theatre, 1985; published 1983)

29 510 Gramsci x 3 - bound typescript of Gramsci: part one, the young officer

May 1978

29 510A Gramsci x 3 - ibid. 1978

29 511 Gramsci x 3 - original typescript versions, including:-original typescript of Gramsci: part one-original typescript, with extensive manuscript revisions of "Note to Gramsci x 3-original typescript of "Epilogue" to Gramsci x 1 and Gramsci x 2

Ca. 1978

29 512 Gramsci x 3 - three notebooks with draft materials Ca. 1980's


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1 1 Gramsci x 3 - original typescript titled Deputy Gramsci, an inquest into the death of

Ca. 1980's

1 2 Gramsci x 3 - extensive manuscript drafts of various passages

Ca. 1980's

1 2A Permission letters re Gramsci x 3 Ca. 1980's

Other Plays (Most never produced, some unpublished)

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"Another Bloody Page from Plutarch"

1 3 Another Bloody Page from Plutarch - typescript n.d.

1 4 Another Bloody Page from Plutarch - gestetner master of pp. 1-26 (Act 1)

n.d.

1 5 Another Bloody Page from Plutarch - earlier version with typescript note "Returned by Sarnia Little Theatre"

n.d.

1 6 Another Bloody Page from Plutarch - typescript n.d.

"Thing in Black" (Yardbird Suite 1967, unpublished)

1 7 Thing in Black - typescript Ca. 1967

1 8 Thing in Black - mimeographed copy, pages with drawings

Ca. 1967

1 9 Thing in Black-mimeograph copy with some revisions pencilled in and marked "rehearsals 1967"-carbon copy of typescript designated "revised 1972"

1967, 1972

"Blancnoir"

1 10 Blancnoir - "The negroids" (unpublished, unperformed; possible early version of Blancnoir; includes typescript with some manuscript notes

n.d.

1 11 Blancnoir-typescript of play "The White Rhodesians: a tragic farce"; [incomplete, part of the Blancnoir play material]

n.d.

1 12 Blancnoir - unpublished full-length play; original typescript of a version titled A negress who smelled as if she'd crawled through wild grass - limerick and fuge on the theme, my love is clean contrary to

n.d.

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the love everlasting…, 64 pp.

1 13 Blancnoir - differently titled versions of Blancnoir:-carbon with original manuscript emendations of version titled The White Rhodesians-carbon typescript of version titled The Harlequin

n.d.

1 14 Blancnoir - manuscript and typescript drafts of Blancnoir material, various versions

n.d.

2 15 Blancnoir - original typescript, 125 pp., of version titled Blancnoir yes/jocaste non

n.d.

"Over Prairie Trails to the Just Society"

2 16 Over Prairie Trails- mimeographed copy Ca. 1973

2 17 Over Prairie Trails -carbon typescript with numerous original ink manuscript revisions-manuscript drafts in three examination booklets-original typescript with numerous illustrations

Ca. 1973

2 18 Over Prairie Trails - typescript Ca. 1973

"The What Not" (unpublished)

2 19 The What Not - typescript Ca. 1957

2 20 The What Not - typescript Ca. 1957

"The Rock Hook" (unpublished)

2 21 The Rock Hook - [incomplete] dramatization of Sheila Watson's The Double Hook, typescript, 13 pp.

n.d.

2 22 The Rock Hook (a dramatization of The Double Hook)-carbon copy-two title pages and original typescript of opening page of different version

n.d.

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"Make Love not Wasps"

2 23 Make Love not Wasps - [unpublished or part of "O Holy Ghost"?]-alternating mimeographs and typescript pages-typescript with some manuscript revisions and drawings

n.d.

"The Albatross"

2 24 The Albatross - mimeograph masters, 26 pp. n.d.

2 25 The Albatross - carbon typescript n.d.

"Leda and the Swan"

2 26 Leda and the Swan - two pp. typescript and manuscript notes for projected play

n.d.

2 26A Leda and the Swan - examination booklet and one sheet of loose-leaf, along with two pp. original typescript of materials for play

n.d.

"The Princess's Satire" (Unpublished play)

2 27 The Princess's Satire - mimeograph copy, labelled "copy 2", 16 pp.

n.d.

"Fly Away, Moth" (Unpublished play)

2 28 Fly Away, Moth -carbon copy, 21 pp. n.d.

"Oedipus the King" (Incomplete play)

2 29 Oedipus the King-manuscript drafts in examination booklet-manuscript drafts of scenario and dialogue labelled Oedipus and Jocasta, 14 pp

n.d.

"The Ventriloquists"

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2 30 The Ventriloquists-manuscript draft of material, 6 pp.-manuscript draft of sections of the play in a Graduate Calendar, "Yidderman or the Ventriloquists"-manuscript draft of sections of the play in a UA calendar, "Yidderman The Ventriloquists:-manuscript draft of sections of the play in a Collier catalogue, "The Ventriloquists"-original typescript of section of "The Ventriloquists:, 10 pp.

n.d.

2 31 The Ventriloquists-original typescript of play, 50 pp.-original typescript of different version of play titled "The Ventriloquists, or, the death of yidderman", 51 pp.

n.d.

"Inside the Canadian Border" (Unpublished play)

2 32 Inside the Canadian Border - manuscript draft in examination book and six pp. original typescript of play

n.d.

"The Burglar" (Unpublished play)

2 33 The Burglar - manuscript sheet of notes for play 1971

2 34 The Burglar - original typescript, labelled "rough draft"

1971

"Ciano" (Incomplete play)

2 35 Drafts of scenarios and dialogues for an incomplete play titled, variously, "Ciano II", "buono Ciano", "Ciano mio", "Ciano il dilplomatico"

n.d.

"The Headaches"

2 36 The Headaches - two different versions, including some different characters, of play

n.d.

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"Mini-opera: The Coats"

2 37 Mini-opera: The Coats - manuscript draft of scenario for play, 2 pp.

n.d.

"Naden Chorus"

2 38 Naden Chorus - two examination booklets and loose-leaf manuscript drafts of play

n.d.

"Bulon and Trill" (Untitled play)

2 39 Manuscript draft of argument and dialogue for a play about Bulon and Trill

n.d.

"The Suicide of Herman Korp"

2 40 The Suicide of Herman Korp - two examination booklets with manuscript draft of materials for play

n.d.

"Mr. Warren's Daughter"

2 41 Mr. Warren's Daughter - three examination booklets with manuscript draft of materials for play

n.d.

"Colonel Rulf" (Untitled play)

2 42 Single page of manuscript for play about Colonel Rulf; other versions are short story

n.d.

"The crucifixion of the Xmas Tree"

2 43 The crucifixion of the Xmas Tree - manuscript draft of materials for play, 3 pp.

n.d.

"The Woman Taken in Adultery" (Fringe Festival, 1987; published 1972)

2 44 The Woman Taken in Adultery - photocopy of typescript used in production, with manuscript revisions in ink and original typescript revisions

n.d.

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pasted in

2 45 The Woman Taken in Adultery - typescript n.d.

"Beach Story"

2 46 Beach Story - typescript n.d.

"The Woman of Trachis" (Unpublished play)

2 47 The Woman of Trachis - complete original typescript and original typescript with a different version of the first page, 11 pp.

n.d.

"Ng'n'ng"

2 48 Ng'n'ng": a fertility ritual in four acts - mimeograph copy with some manuscript revisions

n.d.

"Tom Jones Meets Fanny Hill at the Yardbird Suite"

3 49 Tom Jones… - mimeograph copy with program of premiere performance folded in

October 1965

"Under the Black Bridge"

3 50 Under the Black Bridge - mimeograph copy with rehearsal and performance notes

n.d.

"After Kafka: The Judgement"

3 51 After Kafka… - manuscript drafts of various passages; original typescript

n.d.

"The New Icarus"

3 52 The New Icarus - manuscript scenario and draft of first page of play

n.d.

"Writing my father's life"

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3 53 Hardback journal cover with flyleaves covered with manuscript including an outline for "writing my father's life"

n.d.

"Psychodelic Satan"

3 54 Pschodelic Satan - typescript-"A verse reading to commemorate the tercentenary of the publication of Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) For Gordon Peacock"

1967

"The Box"

3 55 The Box: a motion picture scenario adapted for stage presentation - typescript of play

n.d.

"The Apes of God" (Incomplete play)

3 56 The Apes of God - typescript of play, after novel by Wyndham Lewis

n.d.

2.3 Short Stories/Novel


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Short Stories:

3 57 "The Love Affair of Mr. Water Rat" - short story manuscript

n.d.

3 58 "The Spy" (Unpublished) - two typescripts with manuscript revisions

n.d.

3 58A "The Spy" - three typescript versions (with marked differences)

n.d.

3 59 Typescript and manuscript drafts of short stories; manuscript draft and two typescript version of a

n.d.

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story (novel?), 3 pp.

3 60 Manuscript draft in two examination booklets of unidentified short story

n.d.

3 61 Original typescript of unpublished short story, "The Walls"

n.d.

3 62 Photocopied typescript of "short story" ("There was an old man from Ontario")

n.d.

3 63 Manuscript draft of unpublished short story, "Fang" n.d.

3 64 Photocopied typescript and manuscript draft of an unpublished short story, "Resentment"

n.d.

3 65 Manuscript draft of unpublished short story, "The Cyanide Pills"

n.d.

3 66 Seven typescript drafts, with manuscript corrections and additions, and a fair typescript of short story, "The Woman from Pelican Hills" (titled "But me no buts" in the first five drafts)

n.d.

3 67 Single page typescript draft of untitled short story, "His friends call him Pierre…"

n.d.

3 68 Manuscript draft in examination booklets and one-page typescript draft of beginning of short story "The mysteries at the Sherlock Holmes Club"

n.d.

3 69 One page typescript draft of unidentified short story beginning "Paul Borg utters a terrible oedipean cry of guilt…"

n.d.

3 70 Manuscript drafts and typescript draft of an unpublished short story "The fireworks"

n.d.

3 71 Drafts of "The Unfinished Autobiography of Muriel N", including:-twenty-eight pieces of cardboard with manuscript draft

n.d.

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-one larger piece of cardboard with manuscript draft-one notebook with manuscript draft-typescript draft of "Marshall McLuhan's Muriel", 3 pp.-one cardboard sheet with writing about Marshall McLuhan (Oversize: 95-131-4, Box 3)

3 72 Original typescript draft of "The Unfinished Autobiography of Muriel N", 30 pp. and original typescript of a short story identified in headers as either "The Shellfish" or "L'homard c'est moi", 9 pp.

n.d.

3 73 Original typescript draft of "Design, zwitschen Tur aund Angel", later titled "The Baie Comeau Angel"; includes a copy of above typescript with letter from Don Theall commenting on it

n.d.

3 74 "The Baie Comeau Angel and Other Stories" - typesetting copy

Ca. 1970's

3 75 Original typescript of "The Lice", with manuscript corrections

Ca. 1960

3 76 Original typescript of "Mettre en Conte le Dream" with manuscript corrections and six pp. manuscript draft

Ca. 1988-1989

3 77 Two typescript version of "Four Times Canada is Four" with marked variation; one with ms corrections

n.d.

3 78 Original typescript of "The Conspiracy" n.d.

3 79 Photocopied typescript of "The Shoes" n.d.

3 80 Original typescript of first pages of "The Glass Box" with extensive manuscript revision and copy of fair typescript titled "The girl who lived in a glass box"

n.d.

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3 81 Typescript of unpublished collection of animal fables "To be Continued", 12 pp.

n.d.

3 82 Typescript draft of incomplete, unpublished short story "Standard Fiction"

n.d.

3 83 Typescript draft of the beginning of a short story, "The Invention of Children"

n.d.

3 84 Manila envelope marked "Department of English, University of Alberta" containing typescripts for seven short stories: "Short Story", "The Shoes", "Resentment", "The Girl Who Lived in a Glass Box". "Mettre en conte le dream", "The Baie Comeau Angel", and "The Conspiracy"; includes one page of acknowledgements

n.d.

4 85 "Sex et non" - hardcover notebook, book 1; includes drawings and text

Ca. 1978

4 86 "Sex et non" - hardcover notebook; with drawings and text

Ca. 1978

4 87 "The Magic Rake" - two typescript pages n.d.

Novel

4 88 Under the Rabbit's Paw: parapsychotransmitted from the Canamerican of Everett Hozard by Wilfred Watson; a novel accepted by Faber and Faber but never revised by Watson

n.d.

4 89 Under the Rabbit's Paw… - typescript of Chapter 15, "The Threat of Winter", with manuscript revision

n.d.

2.4 Essays

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Acc. #95-1314 90 Carbon copy of typescript of essay "Tristram

Shandy as a genius"n.d.

4 91 Manuscript draft of essay on number-grid verse; version of this essay were published in Open Letter as an appendix to Mass on Cowback

Ca. 1980

4 92 Draft of statement by WW on his aims in the theatre; manuscript notes; notes for essay on Shakespeare's use of the genetic pun; notes for panel on "Two Bare Boards and a Translation"

n.d.

4 93 Typescript of article "Futurism and its Environment" with several ink emendations and excisions

n.d.

4 94 Essays on Marshall McLuhan and reviews, including the following:-typescript page (notes for a talk on McLuhan?)-two examination booklets with notes about McLuhan (notes for a talk?)-typescript with manuscript revisions of essay, "McLuhan's methodological wordplay" (written for a volume of essays planned for Coach House Press but not published)-typescript of essay "Marshall McLuhan and multi-consciousness: the Place Marie dialogues" with covering letter from Robert Kroetsch at Boundary 2 re reading of proofs-one page of typescript "Why Pluck is the most important word in Shakespeare" (published in Explorations)-four copies of typescript of review by Watson of Understanding Media-two copies of typescript of another review by Watson of Understanding Media-manuscript draft in examination booklet of a letter to the Edmonton Journal re its comments on McLuhan

Ca. 1970'

2.5 Books

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From Cliché to Archetype by Wilfred Watson and Marshall McLuhan, published in 1970

4 95 Typescript of From Cliché to Archetype, 111 pp. Ca. 1970

4 96 Typescripts and manuscript notes and drafts for sections of From Cliché to Archetype

Ca. 1970

4 97 Typescript drafts of sections of From Cliché to Archetype

Ca. 1970

4 98 Manuscript notes and drafts for From Cliché to Archetype

Ca. 1970

4 99 Typescript drafts for From Cliché to Archetype Ca. 1970

5 100 Manuscript notes and drafts for From Cliché to Archetype

Ca. 1970

5 101 Typescript drafts for From Cliché to Archetype Ca. 1970

5 102 From Cliché to Archetype-manuscript draft, 9 pp.-brown hardcover notebook titled "July 12 1968 C/A is Today is C/A (drafts of material for the book, but also of other work-manuscript draft, 4 pp.

1968

5 103 From Cliché to Archetype-small black notebook with notes for book-galley proofs for book

Ca. 1970

5 104 Materials related to From Cliché to Archetype and essays about McLuhan:-typescript draft with manuscript corrections of essay, "Retrospective on Cliché"-typescript draft with manuscript corrections of essay on "McLuhan's Collective Wordplay", 2 pp.-manuscript draft (cardboard sheet) of the "two McLuhans"

n.d.

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Acc. #95-131-manuscript draft of essay on "McLuhan's Postmodern Satire" mixed with number-grid verse, 33 pp.-typescript draft "MM and invortication", 2 pp.-manuscript draft of "Retrospective on Cliché", 4 pp.-miscellaneous manuscript pages with drafts of essays about McLuhan-three typescript drafts of a letter re McLuhan in Dewline

Watson/McLuhan Correspondence re From Cliché to Archetype

5 105 Watson/McLuhan correspondence 1963-1968; undated letters and loose clippings, essays, and citations sent by McLuhan to Watson"-manuscript drafts of four letters WW to MM-six manuscript letters from MM to WW-newspaper clipping-carbon of typescript "Method of Procedure in Establishing the …of Sensory Modality Usage" by ?-typescript "A field guide to Government jargon" by Spencer Klaw-typescript excerpt from "The colors of clarity" by John Holloway-text of address by MM to National Film Board on "Future of the Film in Canada"-photocopy of page from Natural Language and the Computer, ed. Paul L. Garvin-copy of The Mike November 20 1964-"Changing Notions of Consciousness of Change in Philosophy from the Seventeenth Century to the Present" by A. Eisenberg.

1963-1968

5 106 Correspondence between Wilfred Watson (WW) and Marshall McLuhan (MM), mostly about From Cliché to Archetype, from 1963-1965. Occasional letters from MM to Sheila Watson (SW) and to and from Eric McLuhan (EM):-MM to WW; September 27, 1963-MM to WW & SW, February 8, 1964

1963-1965

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Acc. #95-131-MM to WW & SW, February 9, 1964-MM to WW & SW, [1964]-MM to WW & SW, [1964]-WW to MM, March 10, 1964; draft-MM to WW, March 17, 1961-MM to WW, [March 1964?]-MM to WW, March 24, 1964-MM to WW, March 31, 1964-MM to WW, April 10, 1963-MM to WW, April 13, 1964-MM to WW and SW; [May 1964?]-MM to WW, May 13, 1964-MM to WW & SW, "sat. night" [1964]-MM to WW, "Sunday 4 pm" [1964]-MM to WW, [1964]-MM to WW, [1964]-MM to WW, July 10, 1964-MM to WW & SW, July 12, [1964]-MM to WW, July 14, 1964-MM to WW, July 16, 1964-MM to WW, July 21 [1964]-MM to WW, July 23, [1964]; draft-WW to MM, July 26, 1964-MM to WW, "Thurs. 5 pm" [1964]-carbon of typescript of "Bilimbo" from WW to MM-carbon of typescript of "Bilimbo Awards" from WW to MM-MM to WW, "Sat 4 pm" [Aug. 1964]-MM to WW, "Sat noon" [Aug 1964]-MM to WW, August 9 [1964]-MM to WW, "Monday morn" [August 1964]-MM to WW, Friday, August 27 [1964]-MM to WW & SW, [1964]; enclosure typescript "Apropos the centre…"-MM to WW, "Friday 10 pm" [1964]-portion of letter from MM typescript and manuscript, [1964]-carbon of typescript outline of book's chapters; WW to MM [summer 1964]-WW to MM, October 10, 1964; draft-WW to MM, December 11, 1964-MM to WW, March 26, 1965

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Acc. #95-131-MM to WW, "Saturday" [March 1965]-MM to WW, May 25, 1965-WW to MM, June 1, 1965; draft and two carbons of typescript-MM to WW, June 4, 1965-MM to WW & SW, June 5, 1965-WW to MM, June 6, 1965; carbon-MM to WW, June 6, 1965-MM to WW, June 7, 1965-WW to MM, June 7, 1965; typescript and carbon-WW to MM, June 10, 1965; manuscript draft and carbon typescript-MM to WW, June 12, 1965-MM to WW, June 18, 1965; typescript, carbon, and third carbon of a portion with manuscript addition-MM to WW, June 21, 1965-MM to WW, [June 1965]-MM to WW, June 24, 1965-WW to MM, June 25, 1965; manuscript draft and typescript carbon-MM to WW, "Sat 4pm", [June 1965]; manuscript and typescript-MM to WW, June 28, 1965-MM to WW & SW, June 29, 1965; manuscript and typescript-MM to WW, June 29, 1965-MM to WW, June 30, 1965; citation from The Broken Image attached-MM to WW, July 1 [1965]; manuscript and typescript-MM to WW, July 2 [1965]; manuscript and typescript-MM to WW, July 3, 1965; typescript of McLuhan's essay "Relation of the Environment to the Anti-environment" attached-MM to WW, July 18, 1965-WW to MM, July 19 & 20, 1965; manuscript draft and typescript carbon-MM to WW, July 21, 1965; clippings attached-MM to WW, August 28, 1965-MM to WW, "Thurs 5pm" [September 1965]-MM to WW, September 6, 1965; citation on

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Acc. #95-131"obsolescence" attached-WW to MM, September 12, 1965-MM to WW, September 14, 1965; excerpt from Leonard Woolf Beginning Again, essay "Concerning Cliches," and typescript carbon of MM's review of Jacques Ellul Propaganda, attached-MM to WW, September 17, 1965-WW to MM, September 20, 1965; typescript carbon-MM to WW, September 27, 1965-MM to WW; clippings from McCall's September 30, 1965-MM to WW, September 30, 1965-MM to WW, October 2, 1965-MM to WW, October 4, 1965-MM to WW, October 6, 1965-MM to WW, "Sat afternoon" [October 1965]-MM to WW, October 12, 1965-MM to WW, October 13, 1965-MM to WW, October 17, 1965-MM to WW, October 26, 1965; attached citation from Readings in Psychology-MM to WW, November 1, 1965-MM to WW, November 5, 1965-MM to WW, November 12, 1965-MM to WW, November 25, 1965-MM to WW, November 30, 1965-MM to WW, December 8, 1965-MM to WW, December 29, 1965-WW to MM, December 31, 1965; typescript carbon; newspaper clippings related to 'cliches'

5 107 Correspondence between Wilfred Watson (WW) and Marshall McLuhan (MM) continued (see note to Folder 106 above):-WW to MM; January 2, 1966; typescript carbon-MM to WW, January 3, 1966-MM to WW, January 4, 1966-MM to WW, January 7, 1966; and photocopy-MM to WW, January 16, 1966-MM to WW, January 17, 1966-MM to WW, January 19, 1966-EM to WW, January 20, 1966

1966-1970

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Acc. #95-131-WW to EM, January 21, 1966; typescript carbon-WW to MM, January 22, 1966; typescript carbon-MM to WW, January 27, 1966-MM to WW, January 28, 1966-MM to unidentified addressees, January 28, 1966; typescript carbon-WW to EM & MM, [February 1966]; typescript carbon-MM to WW, February 4, 1966-MM to WW, February 13, 1966-MM to WW, February 14, 1966-MM to WW, March 25, 1966-MM to WW, April 19, 1966-MM to WW June 1, 1966-MM to WW, June 2, 1966-MM to WW, June 15, 1966; typescript carbon-MM to WW, July 1, 1966-MM to WW, September 18, 1966-WW to MM, September 20, 1966-WW to MM, September 23, 1966; typescript carbon-MM to WW, September 29, 1966-MM to WW, October 27, 1966-MM to WW, November 8, 1966-MM to WW, November 24, 1966-MM to WW, February 9, 1967-MM to WW, February 22, 1967; photocopied pages from The Shape of Medieval History attached-WW to MM, February 26, 1967-WW to MM, June 14, 1967; typescript carbon-WW to MM, June 17, 1967; typescript carbon-MM to WW, June 21, 1967-MM to WW, July 4, 1967; two sheets of advertisements from Glamour attached-MM to WW, October 24, 1967-MM to WW, November 10, 1967-MM to WW & SW, December 15, 1967; attached carbon typescript of MM to "Phillip and Molly" and cartoon drawing playing on the "medium is the message"-MM to WW, April 5, 1968-MM to WW, June 12, 1968; typescript carbon

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Acc. #95-131attached on "The Future of Education", "The Future of Objectives", "The Future of Architecture", etc.-MM to SW, June 12, 1968-MM to WW, June 21, 1968-MM to WW & SW, July 6, 1968-MM to WW & SW, July 8, 1968-WW to MM, March 30, 1970; partial draft typescript

5 108 Correspondence from Viking Publishers with Watson and McLuhan re From Cliché to Archetype:-Clay Felker to MM, May 14, 1965-Alan Williams to MM with copy to WW, September 8, 1965-Alan Williams to WW, September 20, 1965-Alan Williams to MM, copy to WW, September 20, 1965-Alan Williams to MM, April 14, 1966; copy-Alan Williams to MM, September 26, 1966-Alan Williams to WW, October 31, 1967-Alan Williams to WW, November 10, 1967-Alan Williams to WW, November 10, 1969-Walter Wriggins to WW, November 25, 1970-Royalty statement, April 30, 1971-Royalty statement, October 31, 1971-Walter Wriggins to WW, September 29, 1978

See Also 91-117-30

See Also: The Sorrowful Canadians and Other Poems (1972): 91-117-371-389

See Also: Mass on Cowback (1982): 95-131-91

See Also: Gramsci x 3 (1983): 91-117-510-512, 95-131-1-2

See Also: Poems: Collected/Unpublished/New (1986): 91-117-439-443

5 109 Collection of Short Plays, edited by Diane Bessai (1981)

Ca. 1980

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2.6 Miscellaneous Manuscript Papers/Notes


Acc. #95-131

5 110 Miscellaneous manuscript and typescript materials:-manuscript draft of paragraph on poets and metaphor-typescript page, with manuscript revisions "A note on radical absurdity"-manuscript draft of description of the "main theme" of Under the Rabbit's Paw-examination booklet with draft dialogue between Job and the devil-manuscript draft of plan for Studio Theatre Centennial project-manuscript listing of pictures owned by the Watson's-manuscript in examination booklet about Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman-manuscript draft in examination booklet about Esslin's theory of theatre of the absurd-manuscript draft of poem "Some girl asked for bread"-manuscript draft of remarks on the centennial year and Canadian theatre (examination booklet)-manuscript draft of poem, "I dreamt of a vast desert"-manuscript draft of poem, "Let alone the moon"-"A portfolio of sketches of the author of DH [Double Hook] by Augustus Johns, Wyndham Lewis Picasso etc." (drawings)-portrait of Margaret Atwood (felt pen drawing)-typescript and carbon with manuscript revisions ("Some notes on satire, the theatre of the absurd, etc.)-manuscript in examination booklet, "Dear

Ca. 1970's

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Beelzebub…you ask how become a Canadian poet?"

5 111 Various typescripts, carbons, and manuscript pages relating to Plays at the Iron Bridge; four typescript copies of poem "Family Song"

n.d.

5 112 Loose manuscript papers:-cardboard beginning "patina of vulgarity" (writing on recto and verso)-examination booklet titled "Lives in Time of War, 1953", with two manuscript poems interleaved ("Forgive me that I loved you far" and "Praise to the lord of sleep")-manuscript "Sonnet for Jack Shadbolt"-manuscript "Riddle" ("I have a little mouth")-manuscript fragment of number-grid verse poem beginning "Juliet"-grid lined notepad beginning "MM & the extensions of man"-"Leda" letterhead with manuscript fragment ("I am a genetic pun")-examination booklet with prose manuscript beginning "He was finishing up the haircut he was working on"-five pp. (recto and verso) manuscript treatment for play "The paratigate of P. Lumpenman"(?)-"Leda" letterhead with manuscript drafts of three poems, recto and verso ("There once was a girl", "There once was a boy" and "This cat sent for a/walk in the park')-cardboard headed "Poems 1936/1985" (recto and verso)

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

5 113 Loose manuscript papers:-manuscript fragment ("Which no one owns")-stapled grid-lined notepad with WW's notes on driving, motor vehicle and road rules-grid-lined manuscript page beginning "the autobiography of Tom Horror…"-manuscript fragment ("around. One knows that the logs…")

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

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-grid-lined manuscript page with letters of the alphabet-manuscript draft "Descartes thought of animals"-"Leda" letterhead with manuscript fragment "I think of noble Emerson's"; manuscript draft of number-grid verse poem on verso, "the creative imaginations…"-cardboard beginning "It makes all the difference"-manuscript fragment titled "Catechism"-examination booklet containing manuscript "Poem for October"-manuscript "For Adam was my father"-examination booklet containing manuscript "A Valediction for Joyce…"-manuscript fragment "What dire offence…"-thirteen page manuscript relating to number-grid verse poems on From Cliché to Archetype-letterhead with manuscript fragment ("why pluck is the most important word in Shakespeare")-letterhead with manuscript fragment ("The evolutionist")-manuscript page listing several book titles, call number, page references and prices-manuscript fragment beginning "But the more I see…"-ms fragment beginning "I cannot let you make up my unfundable poetry…" [possible draft of letter to Lisa Potvin, see 95-131-428]-manuscript fragment beginning "Kuhn's proposal"

6 114 Loose manuscript papers:-examination booklet with manuscript fragment on cover ("Is history's tom harrowing into cut-grass")-manuscript fragment beginning "you but whore" (recto and verso)-manuscript "Riddle/Saga hwaet id hatte"-examination booklet with manuscript fragments relating to Gramsci x 3-examination booklet stapled to envelope titled "Poems to Donna Gruhlke"-examination booklet beginning "The Browning monologue"

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

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-examination booklet titled "The sweet sex life of alice in ann of green gableland"-examination booklet beginning "We looked through a keyhole…"-twelve loose examination booklet pages containing manuscript drafts of WW's examination questions-two manuscript pages relating to WW's thoughts on Tristram Shandy-manuscript fragment beginning "erosion is beautiful…"-manuscript fragment beginning "portrait of 20c woman"-manuscript fragment beginning "today is Monday"-manuscript fragment beginning "George what a wonderful…"-six manuscript pp "Re the gang of six"-manuscript fragments and booklet all beginning "but oh how sharper than a beaver's tooth…"-seven stapled manuscript pages beginning "Found Marian Engel's…"-manuscript fragment beginning "Old woman…"-examination booklet titled "Cockcrow and other plays, 1962/1969-manuscript fragment with stapled card beginning "Fables of moral indignation"-four stapled manuscript pages beginning "Today rose…"-manuscript fragment beginning "There was an old man"-manuscript fragment beginning "dolorosamente"

6 115 Loose manuscript papers:-three split envelops with manuscript draft of "Short Story"-two stapled manuscript pages beginning "There was an old man from Ontario"-nine manuscript pages beginning "you hate me…" (recto and verso, with drawing of Daphne Marlatt)-advertisements with manuscript Fragment on Sophocles" Oedipus plays-examination booklet beginning "Ken Agrell-Smith"

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

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-examination booklet beginning "What is space"-Canada Council bulletin titled "Collected Poems"-grid-lined notepad pages with manuscript drafts of "Pome of Laforgue," "Jenny Blake's pome of the albatross," and Poem for May 1 1987"-envelope with manuscript draft of "riddle/say what I am called"-manuscript of "Jenny Blake's poem of autumn"-manuscript fragment beginning" I informed him…"-examination booklet beginning "Dear Norman"-manuscript fragment beginning "I think the taxpayer"-manuscript titled "Wilfred Watson : Cockcrow and other plays"-manuscript with drawings of "The Shirt of Nessus"-manuscript fragment beginning "It would be too simple"-manuscript fragment beginning "There is a great deal more to learn from Shakespeare"-examination booklet beginning "Does the flag…"-manuscript fragment beginning "Jenny Blake re Robertson Davies"-manuscript fragment beginning "Gods and other mortals"

6 116 Loose manuscript papers:-manuscript fragment on letterhead ("The automobile…")-ms "Haiku for July 20"-manuscript "The English Haiku"-manuscript fragment beginning "The Barbara of Seville"-manuscript of "Haiku" ("Marshall McLuhan")-manuscript of "Haiku" ("The extension of mankind")-manuscript of "Haiku for a bestiary"-examination with manuscript "Haiku" ("Every revolution reinvents the world")-manuscript "Haiku for July 20/69"-manuscript "Haiku July 27"-manuscript "Hyku for Patricia Marchand"

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

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-manuscript "Haiku" ("Every technology…")-manuscript "At the scene of the accident"-manuscript fragment on letterhead beginning "auditory space"-examination booklet with manuscript "riddle/machine"-manuscript fragment beginning "Reason is full of …"-ms of "Poem" ("There were two sisters")-manuscript fragments beginning "invented number-grid verse form as a successor to blank verse"-manuscript fragment beginning "The technology …")-examination booklet with manuscript of "The haircut"-examination booklet with manuscript of "riddle" ("I am a cat")-manuscript fragment beginning "MM and the technology of verse"-manuscript fragment on verso of letterhead beginning "of all the lonely…"-manuscript fragment beginning "nothing sweeter…"-manuscript fragment beginning "The twin nieces…"-examination booklet beginning "Note: It is to the school of fine arts at Banff…"-examination booklet beginning "the triple myth"-manuscript fragment beginning "the word is the common sense…"-manuscript fragment beginning "In the beginning was the word"-two manuscript pages titled "Who mothered modern poetry"-manuscript fragment beginning "Hadn't they, busy people as they were…"-manuscript fragment on "Leda" letterhead beginning "I am…"

6 117 Grid-lined notepad titled "The poetry and plays of Wilfred Watson as told to Lisa Potvin"

n.d.

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6 118 Typescript fragments:-contents page for unpublished Selected Poems (?)-title page to "The girl who lived in a glass box"-fragment beginning "I find that there are many…"-fragment for Mass on cowback table of contents-carbon of unidentified number-grid verse poem, 2 pp. (p.2 begins: "submit but my identity")-blank number-grid verse grid-blank HIKU grid (recto and verso)-page 2 of an unidentified number-grid verse poem ("from them")-page 2 of an unidentified number-grid verse poem ("match the flagrant")-page 14 of "NGV and notation", with manuscript notes on verso-page 79 beginning "Incomparable Death"-page 3 from unidentified story/play/article ?-fragment, possibly by WW, titled "Review of Harrowhouse"-minutes of University of Alberta Playwriting Committee meeting

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

6 119 Manuscript fragments undersized (21 items) n.d.

6 120 Reviews by Wilfred Watson:-typescript draft of review of Marian Engel The Glassy Sea-"Kiyooka, Lent, Humphreys" - copy-edited typescript-"Kiyooka, Lent, Humphreys" - original typescript-tidetables over which is written manuscript draft of an unpublished autobiographical introduction to Wilfred Watson Collected Plays-offprint review of Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan, 1964 and review of The Anniversaries, edited by Frank Manley 1963

1963, 1964, n.d.

6 121 Miscellaneous manuscript notes on cigarette packages

Ca. 1980's

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Ca. 1980's


Ca. 1980's


Ca. 1980's


Ca. 1980's


Ca. 1980's

7 129 Miscellaneous manuscript notes on cardboard Ca. 1980's

7 130 Miscellaneous manuscript notes on cardboard Ca. 1980's

7 131 Large series of aphorisms, wordplays, etc. by WW on cardboards; some with drawings

1980's

7 132 Lists of books to read n.d.

7 132A Two brief academic papers written by WW re Marshall McLuhan

n.d.

2.7 Publications


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7 133 "The Fifth Commandment: Some Allusions to Sir 1940, 1952, 1954,

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Robert Filmer's Writings in Tristram Shandy" (reprint) 1940"The Queen of Tarts" in Contemporary Verse, Number 38, Summer 1952, pp. 18-19"An admiration for Dylan Thomas" in Fiddlehead, February 1954"A Contempt for Dylan Thomas" in The Paris Review, Summer 1955

1955

7 133A "The Ballad of Mother and Son" in The Paris Review, no. 10, Fall 1955, pp. 50-52"Graveyard on a Cliff of White Sand" in The London Magazine, August 1955, Vol. 2, no. 8, pp. 24-25

1955

7 134 "The Lice" in Prism, Fall 1960, pp. 34-37 (two copies)

1960

7 135 "Interstructuralization in Drama and the other arts" in Thought from the Learned Societies 1961Poems by Wilfred Watson in Prism 2:2, winter 1961

1961

7 136 "Interstructuralization in Drama and the other arts" in Humanities Association Bulletin, Winter 1962; two copies

1962

7 137 "Pomes by Jenny Blake" in Humanities Association Bulletin, Fall 1963; two copies

1963

8 138 "Tarquin, the Master-Mistress and the Dark Lady--" in Humanities Association Bulletin, Autumn 1964; offprint of same article interleaved; two copies of Bulletin

1964

8 139 Wail for Two Pedestals in Humanities Association Bulletin, Fall 1965; three offprints of Wail for Two Pedestals

1965

8 140 "Collage" in The Literary Review, VIII:4, Summer 1965, pp. 503-510; with additional photocopyInterview with WW about the Yardbird Suite in

1965, 1960's

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Inside, No. 1, Vol. II

8 141 "Seven Variations" and "The Lions" in Pumpjack, No. 1, June 1966, pp. 12-14; two copies

1966

8 142 "Tarquin, the Master-Mistress, and the Dark Lady: The Role of the Poet in Shakespeare's Sonnets" in Of Several Branches, eds. Gerry McCaughey and Maurice Legris, University of Toronto Press, 1968

1968

8 143 "Marshall McLuhan's Centre for Culture and Technology" in St. George's Dragon, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1968; two copies

1968

8 144 Offprints of "Response to New Media" and "Why Pluck is the Most Important Word in Shakespeare" in Explorations 23, November 23, 1968

1968

8 145 Galley proofs from Explorations 23, November 1968 with "Response to New Media" and "Why Pluck is the most Important Word in Shakespeare"

1968

8 146 "Education in the Tribal/Global Village" in Twentieth Century Literature, July 1970; two offprints included

1970

8 147 "Towards a Canadian Theatre" in White Pelican 1.1 (1971) broadside"Sonnet with Ragged Edges" and "Towards a Canadian Theatre" in White Pelican, Winter 1971

1971

8 148 Poems by Wilfred Watson in White Pelican 2.4, Fall 1972

1972

8 149 "The Canadian Fact" in White Pelican, 2.1, Winter 1972; two copies

1972

8 150 "The Lice" in Stories from Western Canada, ed. Rudy Wiebe, Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, 1972

1972

8 151 "Over Prairie Trails to the Just Society" in White 1973

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Pelican, Winter 1973; two copies

8 152 Del clise al arquetipo (Spanish edition of From Cliché to Archetype, 1973

1973

8 153 "Marshall McLuhan and multi-consciousness: The Place Marie Dialogues" in Boundary 2, Fall 1974

1974

8 154 "Myth and Counter-myth" by Sheila Watson and Wilfred Watson's review of Encounter in White Pelican, Winter 1974

1974

8 155 "Construction -- the coming of Robert Creely to Vancouver…" in White Pelican 5.1, 1975

1975

9 156 "Love Shop" in NeWest Review, December 1975Watson's Review of Roy Kiyooka transcanada letters in NeWest Review, May 1976; two copies

1975, 1976

9 157 "I Begin with Counting" in The Canadian Forum, Vol. LVIII, No. 685, Oct./Nov. 1978

1978

9 158 "Sisterly Satire" in NeWest Review, Vol. 4, No. 8, April 1979

1979

9 159 "The Lice" in Not to be Taken at Night, ed. John Robert Colombo and Michael Richardson, Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1981

1981

9 160 "Four Times Canada is Four" in Rainshadow: Stories from Vancouver Island, eds. Ron Smith and Stephen Guppy, Victoria: Sone Nis Press, 1982; one additional photocopy

1982

9 161 "NGV as notation" in Open Letter, Spring 1982 1982

9 162 "The Lice" in West of Fiction, eds. Leah Flater, Aritha Van Herk, Rudy Wiebe, Edmonton: NeWest Press, 1983

1983

9 163 "NGV as notation" in The Dirty Goat, Texas Host Publications, Inc., 1990

1990

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Reviews of Wilfred Watson's Publications:

9 164 Reviews of Wilfred Watson's publications:-review of Mass on cow back, by Jan O'Hagan, Grain, (1983?): 59; with envelope from Longspoon marked Sept. 13 1983-review of Mass on cow back, by Robert Kroetsch, Books in Canada (January 1983): 31-2-review of Mass on cow back, by Mark Lowey, Calgary Herald (1983?)-review of Mass on cow back, by Rob Scott, NeWest Review (March 1983): 17-review of Mass on cow back, by Candas Jane Dorsey, Edmonton Bullet, March 25, 1983-review of Mass on cow back, by William Rankin, Edmonton Journal, April 30, 1983-review of Mass on cow back, by Charles R. Steele, Canadian Book Review Annual-review of Gramsci x 3, by Renate Usmiani, Canadian Book Review Annual-review of Mass on cow back, by Colette Collomb-Boureau, Afram Newsletter 18 Jan 1984: 58; with envelope from Longspoon postmarked Feb. 3 1984-review of Gramsci x 3, Books in Canada (April 1984):15-review of Gramsci x 3, by Dale Jacobson, North Dakota Quarterly 52.3 (Summer 1984): 307-8-review of Gramsci x 3, by Richard Paul Knowles, The Fiddleheadv143 (Spring 1985): 84-7-review of Gramsci x 3, by Ann Wilson, with envelope from Longspoon dated Jan 18 1985-Dictionary of Literary Biography entry on WW, by Diane Bessai, with cover letter from Margaret Hill (editor) dated May 15 1987-review of Lady Taken in Adultery, by Cheryl Hesse, The St. Albert Gazette August 26, 1987, B2 (two copies with three handbills of play, and 1987 Edmonton Fringe Schedule-review of Poems: Collected/Unpublished/New, by Ron Hatch, University of Toronto Quarterly 57.1 (Fall 1987): 36-7; three copies

1983-1994

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-review of Poems, by Ray Ellenwood, Brick 33 (Spring 1988): 54-8-review of Gramsci x 3, by Sherill Grace, Canadian Literature: 169-70-review of The Baie Comeau Angel and other stories, by WH New, Canadian Literature (1994?): 5-review of The Baie Comeau Angel, by Patricia Donoghue, The Sunday Daily News Sept. 12 1993, 50-review of The Baie Comeau Angel, Prairie Books Now 1.1 (Summer 1993)-review of The Baie Comeau Angel, by Bob Wakulich, Calgary Herald, August 28 1993-review of The Baie Comeau Angel, by Ayse Tuzlak, Books in Canada (September 1993): 50, two copies-review of The Baie Comeau Angel, by E.E. Cran, St. John Telegraph Journal January 15 1994-review of The Baie Comeau Angel, by Paul Denham, NeWest Review (April/May 1994): 32

9 165 Reviews of Wilfred Watons's plays, and occasional book reviews - newsclippings

1950's-1980's

9 166 Newsclippings - reviews and publicity 1950's-1980's



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Series 3.

Sketches/Artwork

3. Wilfred Watson, Sketches/Artwork, --1955-1990, .20 m of drawings.

Archival Description: This is a small series, but represents another source of creative output from Wilfred Watson. Drawings, watercolors, pastel and crayon sketches, etc. cover the papers he writes on; even the stationery he uses for letters includes photocopies of his drawings as part of the letterhead. This series consists of 10 large sketchpads filled with drawings; some of the sketchpads are made of construction paper, while others have a heavier art paper composition. There are also files of loose drawings, and several files of drawings done on smaller pieces of colored cardboard. Reference is also made in this series to a box of drawings Watson completed to accompany his "Jenny Blake" poetry material.

Scope and Content: The material in Series 2 consists of drawings and artwork, including line drawings, crayon sketches, pastels, and watercolors. Wilfred Watson loved to draw; his notebooks are filled with drawings and watercolor paintings that illustrate the material he was working on or thoughts he wanted to visualize. Drawings and sketches are a part of the notebooks in Series 1 and sometimes on the reverse of the writing drafts found in Series 2. Occasionally, drawings are included with the letters he sent to Sheila Watson and other correspondents. This series, however, is composed of the sketchbooks and files of drawings he maintained separately from his textual material. As Shirley Neuman writes in her description of the Watson archive: "the drawings are vigorous and spontaneous; they often use allegorical figures to make political comments."



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9 169 Large sketchbookOversize 95-131-4 Box 1

1955-early 1980's


1955-early 1980's


1955-early 1980's


1955-early 1980's

9 173 Folder of sketches and artwork (pastels, crayon, paint); inscribed "For Sheila"

1955, 1956

9 174 Large number of sketches in pastels, watercolors, and drawings

n.d.

9 175 Sketchbook of drawingsOversize 95-131-1, Box 2

n.d.

9 176 Construction paper sketchbookOversize 95-131-2, Box 2

n.d.

9 177 Drawings, sketches and artwork (48 items) n.d.

9 178 Drawings on yellow cardboard (27 items) n.d.

10 179 Drawings on blue cardboard (50 items) n.d.

10 180 SketchpadOversize 95-131-3, Box 2

November 19-December 1988

10 181 Sketchbook with four loose drawings and one manuscript fragment interleaved

n.d.

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10 182 Eight drawings on cardboard by WWOversize 95-131-4, Box 2

n.d.

10 183 One drawing on wood by WWOversize 95-131-5, Box 2

n.d.

10 184 Cover drawing by WW for Plays at the Iron BridgeOversize 95-131-6, Box 2

n.d.

10 185 Large sketchpad, with drawingsOversize 95-131-7, Box 2

Ca. 1990

10 186 Large sketchpad, with drawingsOversize 95-131-8, Box 2

Ca. 1990

10 187 Large sketchpad, titled August 1990 with manuscript notes for Her Brothers' Daughters, etc.Oversize 95-131-9, Box 2

1990

10 188 ASCII Art "Mona Lisa"Oversize 95-131-1, Box 3

n.d.

See Also: 95-131-644, 645 (drawings for a collection of Jenny Blake poems)

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Series 4

Correspondence

4. Wilfred Watson, Correspondence, --1945-1998, 1.70 m of textual records.

Archival Description: The correspondence described in this series consists of letters, cards, and notes with occasional enclosures that might include newsclippings, academic papers, poems, and drawings; any photographs enclosed with the letters were noted and removed to be stored separately for better conservation. The letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and chronologically within each file. The correspondence is in excellent physical condition.

Scope and Content: The material in Series 2 has been arranged according to the following sub-series: 1) Letters sent to Sheila Watson from Wilfred Watson; 2) Letters sent from Sheila Watson to Wilfred Watson; 3) Letters to and from Wilfred Watson's parents; 4) Correspondence with Others and 5) Miscellaneous Correspondence.

[The following paragraph is taken from the original description to the Watson records provided by Dr. Shirley Neuman]

Wilfred and Sheila Watson were apart for two extended periods: during the public school term in 1951-1952 when Sheila Watson was teaching high school at Powell River, and Wilfred Watson was teaching in the English Department at the University of Alberta (Calgary), and again during the spring of 1956 to the spring of 1961 (with periods together over Christmas and in the summers), when Sheila Watson was studying for her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto and Wilfred Watson was teaching at the University of Alberta (Edmonton). They wrote regularly, sometimes more often than once a day. Sheila Watson destroyed most of her letters to Wilfred Watson some years ago; some 350 remain and are in this series. There are over 950 letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson which survive and are in this series. They are always substantial in the details of daily teaching and living, but, more importantly, and most of the time, about the ongoing intellectual life and activities of both the correspondents. These are the years when Sheila Watson undertook important work on Wyndham Lewis, wrote most of her short stories, and made the final alterations to The Double Hook to meet the publication suggestions of McClelland and Stewart. They are years in which Wilfred Watson had become known for Friday's Child, and just completed his unpublished novel, Under the Rabbit's Paw, was engaging in the long labour to compolete his first, hihghly innovative and successful play, Cockcrow and the Gulls, was completing and seeing performed short works such as The Whatnot, was writing short stories and many poems, and was beginning work on The Trial of Corporal Adam. The letters provide a record, and a

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dazzingly written one, of all this activity as wall as the exchange of ideas between two people who both thought intensely, creatively, and playfully.

In the sub-series of correspondence with others, there exists an impressive record of the individuals (friends, colleagues, students, etc.) Wilfred Waton corresponded with over many years. With some individuals there may only be one or two letters on file, while with other individuals there are several files of letters.



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4.1 Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson


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10 189 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson and 1945 Christmas cards:-four Christmas greetings drawn by Wilfred? Sheila? Watson on index cards, dated Dec. 25, 1945-seventy letters from WW to SW, dating from September 7 - December 17, 1951

1945, September-December, 1951

10 190 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; seventy letters dating from January - April, 1952, with the following documents attached: "A Sonneted Conceit for Sheila on St.

Valentine's Day, 1952; attached to typescript of "Nocturne" ("Drown again/Drown again, o moon")

typescript of "Nocturne" ("From his cave, that cave of ice"), attached to letter dated February 19, 1952

poem "On an Ash Wednesday Hill", attached to letter dated February 27, 1952

"Match of Progress to Bed" (drawing and narrative), [March 1952]

two typescript versions of "Bathsheba" with manuscript revisions, sent to Sheila Watson in [March 1952]

January - April, 1952

10 190A Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; forty-five letters dating from August 16, 1956 - April 21, 1957 (only some of the letters are dated)

1956-1957

10 191 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; twenty-four letters dating from November 1956 to March 1957, with the following documents attached: English 2 examination attached to February 28,

1956-1957

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1957 letter Typescript of poem "The Sparrows" inscribed

"For Shuswap, Wilfred" attached to March 3, 1957 letter

Typescript of poem "Poker", inscribed "For Swp, Wcp" attached to March 14, 1957 letter

Typescript of poem "Polchuk" attached to March 16, 1957 letter

Typescript of poem "Lines for F.M Salter" attached to March 28, 1957 letter

10 192 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; fourteen letters dating from April 2 - May 13, [1957], with the following documents attached: Canadian Players Stratford program attached to

April 7 [1957] letter Typescript of poem "Euridice" attached to April

11 [1957] letter Carbon copies of two poems, "Semele" and "A

Lullaby for Falstaff", both inscribed "To Swp" and attached to May 13, [1957] letter

April-May, 1957

10 193 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson, twelve letters dating from September 13, [1957] to September 28 [1957], with the following documents attached: Carbon typescript of poem "Orpheus: his

lament" dated September 27 1957 by Sheila Watson

September 1957

10 194 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; thirty-four letters dating from October to December 1957, with the following documents attached: Typescript of poem "In Small Praise of John

Wain" attached to October 8, [1957] letter Typescript of poem "Orpheus: his one-eyed

lament" with manuscript dedication to Sheila Watson attached to October 10, [1957] letter

Typescript version of "Chrysanthemums" attached to November 4, [1957] letter

Manuscript draft of poem "Sparrows in the Snow" attached to November 28, 1957 letter

October-December, 1957

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10 195 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; twelve letters dating from January 10 - 31, 1958, with the following documents attached: Typescript of two poems "The Soft Jewess" and

"The Tamarack" attached to two letters dated January 24, [1958]

Typescript of poem "Some Variations on a Sentence of Yeats" attached to January 31, [1958] letter

January 1958

10 196 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; twenty letters dating from February to March 1958, with the following documents attached: Typescript of poem "Fragment" attached to

February 7 [1958] letter Manuscript of two poems, "The Rainy Goose"

and "The Boatman-Jay", each with a drawing illustrating the poem and attached to February 11, [1958] letter

February-March 1958

10 197 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; seventeen letters dating from April-May 1958, with the following documents attached: Typescript of poem "The Coy Mistress

Considers" with explanatory manuscript note on first page, attached to April 5, 1958 letter

Poem "Song of the Work of the Nightingale" attached to April 9, 1958 letter

April-May, 1958

10 198 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; seventeen letters dating from May 1 - June 5, 1958

May-June, 1958

10 199 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; eight letters dating from August 21 - August 31, 1958

August 1958

10 200 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; twenty-four letters dating from September 1 - 30, 1958

September 1958

11 201 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; October 1958

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fourteen letters dating from October 1-25, 1958, with the following documents attached: Letter from unidentified Vancouver

correspondent to Sheila Watson, attached to October 1, 1958 letter

Poem "The Hawk" attached to October 8, 1958 letter

(in the October 24th letter the finishing of Cockcrow is recorded)

11 202 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; thirteen letters dating from October-November, 1958, with the following documents attached: Dialogue from Cockcrow attached to November

8, 1958 letter Drawings, attached to November 11, 1958 letter

October November 1958

11 203 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; twelve letters dating from January - April, 1959

January April 1959

11 204 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; twenty letters dating from May - June, 1959, with the following documents attached: Typescript of poem "Mr. Mandel's aerialists"

attached to May 19 1959 letter

May-June 1959

11 205 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; thirteen letters dating from September 9-30, 1959

September 1959

11 206 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; twenty-five letters dating from October 2 - 31, 1959, with the following documents attached: Manuscript copy of poem by C.S. Edwards

inscribed "For Mrs. Watson", and attached to October 14 letter

Typescript of poem "A Christmas Tragedy" attached to October 19 letter

October 1959

11 207 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; twenty-four letters dating from November 2 - 30, 1959

November 1959

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11 208 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; eleven letters dating from December 1 - 15, 1959

December 1959

11 209 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; fifteen letters dating from January, 1960

January 1960

11 210 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; eighteen letters dating from February 1 - 28, 1960, with the following documents attached: Typescript carbon of four pp. poem "The Other

Mother/or alma mater dolorosa" with some manuscript notes, attached to February 16 letter

Typescript carbon of poem "Good Friday Lecture" attached to February 17 letter

February 1960

11 211 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; twenty-seven letters dating from March 1 - 30, 1960

March 1960

11 212 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; twenty-one letters dating from April 1 - 29, 1960, with the following documents attached: Typescript of poem "Poem for my birthday in

May", attached to April 13 letter

April 1960

11 213 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; twenty-eight letters dating from May 2 - 31, 1960, with the following documents attached: Typescript of poem "Artificial Flowers",

attached to May ? (first letter) in file Typescript of poem "A mask for Jack Shadbolt"

with comments by author in manuscript, attached to May 2 letter

Typescript of poem "Good Friday Lecture" attached to May 6 letter

May 1960

12 214 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; thirty letters dating from June 1 - 30, 1960, with the following documents attached: Typescript of poem "This Face you Wear"

attached to June 2 letter Clippings attached to June 12 letter

June 1960

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12 215 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; twenty-two letters dating from July 1 - 28, 1960

July 1960

12 216 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; nine letters dating from August 2 - 10, 1960, with the following documents attached: Typescript carbon of draft of poem "A Masque

for Jack Shadbolt" attached to August 3 letter

August 1960

12 217 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; nine letters dating from September 20 - 30, 1960

September 1960

12 218 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; thirty letters dating from October 1 - 31, 1960, with the following documents attached: Typescript of poem ""Retrospective Lampoon

for Jack Shadbolt" attached to October 8 letter Typescript carbon of poem "Christ and

Krishna" attached to October 26 letter

October 1960

12 219 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; twenty-seven letters dating from November 1 - 29, 1960, with the following documents attached: Drawing attached to November 4 letter

November 1960

12 220 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; nine letters dating from December 2 - 12, 1960

December 1960

12 221 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; seventeen letters dating from January 9 - 31, 1961

January 1961

12 222 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; twenty-one letters dating from February 1 - 28, 1961

February 1961

12 223 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; twenty-six letters dating from March 1 - 31, 1961

March 1961

12 224 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; twenty-two letters dating from April 5 - 30, 1961

April 5 - 30, 1961

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12 225 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; sixteen letters dating from May 2 - 19, 1961

May 2 - 19, 1961

12 226 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; eleven letters dating from May 31 - June 23, 1961

May 31 June 23, 1961

12 227 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; eighteen letters, with incomplete or no dates and with no postmarked envelopes, from the period 1957-1958; attached to one is a typescript of a poem, "The Jackass" and to another the schedule for Sheila Watson's Ph.D. comprehensive papers.

Ca. 1957-1958

13 228 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; thirty-three letters, with incomplete or no dates and with no postmarked envelopes, from the period November 1956 to May 1961

November 1956 - May 1961

13 229 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; thirty-three letters, with incomplete or no dates and with no postmarked envelopes, from the period May 1956 to May 1961

May 1956 - May 1961

13 230 Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; seventeen letters, with incomplete or no dates and with no postmarked envelopes, from the period November 1956 to May 1961; with the following documents attached: Typescript of draft of poem "Some Lines on

William Blake" attached to "Monday" letter (first letter in file)

Typescript draft of poem "The Other Mother" attached to "Sunday" letter (second letter in file)

Typescript of poem "Vilanico-Green Grows the Grass" attached to Friday September 5 letter

Typescript draft of poem "Christ and Krishna" attached to "Wednesday" letter (fourth letter)

Typescript carbon of poem "The Hawk" attached to "Thursday" letter (fifth letter)

Typescript carbon of poem "The day of judgement" attached to Tues. March 4 letter

Typescript carbon of poem "Mask for Jack

November 1956 - May 1961

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Shadbolt" attached to "Thursday" letter (seventh letter)

A group of satirical pieces and quotations filed by Sheila Watson with letters from WW, evidently sent her by him; includes

"BBB" [Bruckman Bed Board}; typescript "Milton Acorn" from Moment Magazine, n.d. signed AWP, 2 pp.;

Typed sheet of citations from Alfred Kazin; "The mystery of Gertrude Stein", with note

from WW to SW; Typescript of satirical "Limerick on Work in

Progress", signed [in Wilfred Watson's hand] P. Wyndham Lewis, with written note on top, "Here is a Lewis manuscript you might care to have. WW"

Seven point satirical piece with drawing about Jay MacPherson and James Reaney, in connection with Watson's "Manifesto for Beast Poetry" [unlikely this is by Watson himself]

Drawing of head of a giraffe, with handwritten note by WW

Line drawing of lion and seal, by WW, titled [or signed?] "Ashley and Crippen", with note in French beneath

Three envelopes with drawings Birthday card from WW to SW, with note Line drawing with note from WW re "vision of

the pheasant-like a doe"

13 231 Three undated letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson

Ca. 1963

13 232 Two letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson, late 1960's

Late 1960's, July 29, 1969

4.2 Sheila Watson to Wilfred Watson

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13 233 Letters from Sheila Watson to Wilfred Watson; included in this file is one watercolour, one newsclipping, and a letter dated September 5 [1956]

1949, 1956

13 234 Letters from Sheila Watson to Wilfred Watson; nine letters, dated from 1957-1963

1957-1963

13 235 Letters from Sheila Watson to Wilfred Watson; sixty-nine undated letters and four loose pages

Ca. 1956-1961

13 236 Letters from Sheila Watson to Wilfred Watson; ninety-three undated letters written between 1956 and 1961; included is a one watercolor portrait of Wilfred Watson (November 1955)

1955, 1956-1961

13 237 Letters from Sheila Watson to Wilfred Watson; fifty-five letters and six pp. fragments; all are dated by the day of the week and internal evidence suggests that all belong to the period 1960-61 when Sheila Watson was in Toronto and Wilfred Watson in Edmonton.

Ca. 1960-1961

13 238 Letters from Sheila Watson to Wilfred Watson; sixty letters; all are dated by the day of the week and internal evidence suggests that all belong to the period 1960-61 when Sheila Watson was in Toronto and Wilfred Watson in Edmonton.

Ca. 1960-1961

13 239 Letters from Sheila Watson to Wilfred Watson; sixty letters; all are dated by the day of the week and internal evidence suggests that all belong to the period 1960-61 when Sheila Watson was in Toronto and Wilfred Watson in Edmonton.

Ca. 1960-1961

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13 240 Correspondence from Frederick and Louisa Watson, Wilfred Watson's parents, to Wilfred Watson; four letters, dated in the 1950's

1952, 1959

13 241 Correspondence from Frederick and Louisa Watson, Wilfred Watson's parents, to Wilfred Watson; twenty letters, dating from 1960-1962

1960-1962

13 242 Correspondence from Frederick and Louisa Watson, Wilfred Watson's parents, to Wilfred Watson; fifteen letters, dating from 1964-1970; included is a bill from Westwood Funeral Home for Mr. Watson's funeral on October 15, 1970

1964-1970

4.4 Correspondence - Others


Acc. #95-131

Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent)

13 243 Catherine Ackroyd-Christmas card

December 16, 1993

13 244 Harry Adaskin-one letter with attached program of Vancouver International Festival, and review of program which included Milla Andrew singing four songs composed by Robert Turner to poems from Friday's Child

August 4, 1959

13 245 Alberta Culture-carbon copy of letter of support for "Number Grid Kids" application for funding

October 12, 1978

13 246 Brenda Anderson-one letter with attached newspaper clipping

January 24, 1972

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13 247 Roland and Brigitte Anderson-four letters

April - October 1968

13 248 R.N. Anderson (Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge)-one letter

February 17, 1978

13 249 Ann Angus-four letters

1957, 1883-1986

13 250 Arts Canada-one letter from Anne Brodzky, Arts Canada

January 15, 1967

13 251 Arts Council of Britain and Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts…-certificate of election to fellowship in the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce-letter from Eric White, Assistant Secretary, Arts Council of Britain; attached is a copy Poetry Book Society Bulletin-announcement of Arts Council Poetry Prizes 30/7/56 (including Watson's prize)

1956

13 252 Heesoon Bai-handmade greeting card

December 16, 1975

13 253 Brian Baillie (Studio Theatre)-two letters re Gramsci x 3

1985

13 254 Terry Barber-two letters

[1972, 1973]

13 255 Douglas Barbour and Sharon Barbour-one postcard and three Christmas cards

1980, 1983, 1993, 1994

13 256 Dorothy Bazett [1965]

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-three letters

13 257 Nancy Beaty-five letters

1983-1984

13 258 Henry Beisel-two letters re Edge

April 16, 1963

13 259 Beloit Poetry Journal-one letter, attaching carbon copy of WW's "And Should She Ask"

October 26, 1953

13 260 Berkman Family-Christmas card

December 14, 1983

13 261 Diane Bessai and Carl Bessai-twenty-one letters, dating from 1978-1991, with the following documents attached:--clipping of column by Myrna Kostash attached to June 5, 1980 letter (DB to WW)--draft of Wilfred Watson entry for Dictionary of Literary Biography attached to May 19, 1981 letter DB to WW)--two drafts of the beginning of a letter re Sharon Pollock's Blood Relations attached to December 19, 1981 letter (WW to DB)--two drafts of the beginning of a letter re Sharon Pollock's Blood Relations attached to February 5, 1982 letter (WW to DB)--"Wilfred Watson" in Dictionary of Literary Biography (end of file)

1978-1991

13 262 Diane Bessai-nine letters (including one Christmas card and three greeting cards)

1981-1983, 1990-1993, 1998

13 263 Carl Bessai-one Christmas card and one letter

1993, n.d.

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13 264 Tom Bessai-christening announcement for Santiago Thomas Bessai [1996]; condolence card

[1996], February 12, 1998

13 265 E.D. Blodgett-two Christmas cards, one with enclosed poem

1983, 1991

13 266 Anne Blott-three letters with Igor Stravinsky interview attached to September 20, 1995 letter

1995, 1997, 1998

13 267 George Blott-one letter

September 20, 1995

13 268 Stewart Blott-four letters, c.v. attached to April 4, 1992 letter

1969, 1974, 1992

14 269 Pauline Boote-fourteen letters, five postcards, one Christmas card; attached photographs moved to Series 8, Box 24, #40

1984-1996

14 270 Pauline and Maurice Boote-six letters, one undated and written on back of poster [1970's]; one poem (sent Oct. 19 1976); one postcard and attached photocopy of 1976 design by PB; photographs moved to Series 8, Box 24, #58

Ca. 1976-1991

14 271 Neville Braybrooke, Editor, The Wind and the Rain -one letter

October 15, 1953

14 272 J. Bricker-one letter re home purchase

May 17, 1962

14 273 Connie Brissenden, Canadian Theatre Centre, Toronto-one letter with two attached "Author Information"

April 28, 1972

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sheets

14 274 Colin Browne (School of Writing, David Thompson University Centre)-two letters

1982, 1984

14 275 Patricia and John Bruckman-six letters; attached materials re Tristram Shandy project

1960, 1984, n.d.

14 276 Elizabeth Brunskill-one letter

July 18, 1950

14 277 Frank Bueckert-two letters

1967, 1969

14 278 Ruth Calder-copy of play by Ruth Calder sent to WW, Mary's Soul (n.d.); condolence card

n.d., February 11, 1998

14 279 Canada Council-twenty-one letters from Canada Council representatives including Peter Dwyer, Ann Coffin, Lillian Breen, Naim Kattan, Helen Hodgson, Kathy Berg, and Kathy Benzekri; includes notification of WW's Senior Arts Award (March 30 1977)

1963-1980

14 280 Canada Council-thirty letters from Canada Council representatives including Kathy Benzekri, Maynard Collins, Robert Kennedy, Gwen Hoover, and Ellen Pierce; includes "Aid to Artists" enclosure with December 2 1985 letter; a partial draft of assessment of Wittgenstein Elegies (WW to Canada Council); draft of manuscript assessment of John Riddell Transitions (from WW) and draft assessment of manuscript by Helen Humphreys (WW to Canada Council)

1981-1988

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14 281 Canadian Art (Paul Arthur)-one letter

August 2, 1963

14 282 Canadian Authors Association-two letters, to and from Don Thomson

May 1962

14 283 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation-four letters and two telegrams from Robert Weaver, Robert Turner, and Paul Wright of the CBC

1957-1962

14 284 Canadian Literature-eighteen letters with George Woodcock (Editor, CL), W.H. New (Editor, CL), and Beverly Westbrook (Business Manager, CL)

1959-1985

14 285 Canadian University Theatre Association (John Terfloth)-one letter

June 20, 1968

14 286 Canadian Who's Who-one letter with enclosures

Sept 12, 1992

14 287 Bob and Gwen Carmichael-one letter

May 18, 1971

14 288 Richard Cavell-one letter

January 11, 1988

14 289 John Chalmers-two letters

July 1979

14 290 Don Chapin-two letters, one Christmas card

1995, 1998

14 291 Christian Drama Council of Canada-four letters; copy of Christian Drama Council of Canada "General Specifications for a Centennial

1965

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Play'; WW's "Proposal for a Centennial Play"

14 292 Joan Church-draft fragment (WW to JC)

n.d.

14 293 Fred Clandfield-six letters

1961-1963, 1968

14 294 Kit Clare (MacMillan's)-one letter

April 18, ?

14 295 Kenneth Clark (British Arts Council)-one telegram

June 27, 1956

14 296 Marjorie Clark-one letter

February 4, 1998

14 297 Jude and John Clarke-two letters; enclosed Ann Kipling Catalogue moved to Oversize 95-131-12, Box 3

1990

14 298 Patricia Clements-two letters

1981, 1993

14 299 Coach House Theatre (Toronto)-five letters with Agatha Leonard, Pamela Beckwith, and Michael Tait of Coach House Theatre

1962-1963, 1967,

14 300 Mort Cohn-five letters; poems, gallery notice and notes on Spencer and Joyce attached to correspondence

1974-1978

14 301 Helen Collensen-two letters

July, August 1983

14 302 John Robert Colombo-four letters, one postcard

1969, 1981, 1986

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14 303 Copyright registrations of plays by WW-of "Faith, Let the Modest Matrons" (October 9 1946); "Counting Re/Counting" (July 25 1978) and "Gramsci" (August 30 1978)

1946, 1978

14 304 Jim Corrigan-one letter

November 7, 1982

14 305 Robert Corrigan-two letters

1962

14 306 Ken Coryland (Stage South/East Ottawa)-one letter

August 25, ?

14 307 Ken Coupland-two letters with attachment re ideas for production of Corporal Adam

1964

14 308 Jim Coutts-draft letter (WW to JC)

October 1, 1986

14 309 Adam Crawley-three letters

1951, 1952

14 310 Susan Crean, Canadian Forum-draft fragment with enclosure (WW to SC)

n.d.

14 311 Duane Credico-one letter

June 3, 1974

14 312 Crux Magazine-letter from Frederic Vanson (Editor, CM)

December 6, 1953

14 313 Dr. and Mrs. J.P. Cutts-two letters, one birth announcement

1960, 1961

14 314 Jim Daley May 4, 1979

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-one letter

14 315 Bud D'Amur-one letter, one postcard

n.d., January 21, 1986

14 316 Roy Daniells-eleven letters, one telegram

1950-1965

14 317 Alison Davies-six letters

1983-1986, 1989

14 317A William Deacon-one letter

July 2, 1956

14 318 Jan de Bruyn (Prism)-one letter

May 28, 1959

14 319 Descant magazine-invitation with handwritten note from Managing Editor

n.d.

14 320 Lila Dicken-two letters

1964, 1965

14 320A Kildare Dobbs-draft of letter (WW to KD)

April 16, 1961

14 321 Merle Doherty-two letters

n.d., 1972

14 322 Dominion Drama Festival-four letters with Vida Peens (Drama Festival), Heather McCallum (Toronto Public Library), and Dorothy Madge (Windsor Public Library)

1962, 1965

14 323 Candace Jane Dorsey-draft of letter (WW to CJD)

April 12 1990

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14 324 Dorothy Dowlan-one letter

n.d.

14 325 Deane Downey-one letter

July 9, 1974

14 326 Joanne Ducharme-unposted fair copy?, draft? (WW to JD)

n.d.

14 327 Lloyd Duchemin (Chair of English, Mount Allison University)-three letters

October 1964

14 328 Allen Dueck-two letters

1973, 1974

14 329 Doreen [Watson] Dunning-ten letters

1960-1961, 1970

14 330 Joan [Dunning] [Linn] Jennings (Wilfred Watson's niece)-twenty-nine letters; includes results of an activity for using number-grid verse to teach disabled students (July 13, 1973); photographs moved to Series 8, Box 24, #28

1960-1990

14 331 John and Jane Anne Dunning and family-three letters, two Christmas cards, condolence card

1960, 1961, 1981, 1984, 1998

14 332 Edmonton City Performing and Creative Arts Award Committee (G.N. Strickland)-one letter

March 12, 1973

14 333 The Edmonton Journal-carbon of letter (from WW)

April 19, 1979

14 334 Caterina Edwards-one letter

n.d.

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14 335 C.S. Edwards-one letter

n.d.

14 336 Mr. A. Elder-correspondence re R. Harvey thesis; includes Harvey's thesis proposal and related letter from A. Elder

1972, 1973

14 337 Ray Ellenwood-five letters

1987-1988

14 338 Gilian Espinasse-one letter

October 29, 1958

14 339 Betty Evans-one letter

October 30, 1963

14 340 Kenneth Evans-one letter

May 8, 1968

14 341 Ronald Evans (Toronto Telegram)-one telegram, one letter

1963

14 342 Explorations-one letter from James Feeley, April 30 1968-copy of "Well, I'll be a Monkey's Uncle" by Richard Racey with draft comments by WW-copy of "Speed Reading and Changing Consciousness" by R.D. Berg with draft comments by WW-copy of review by R.D. Berg of Through the Vanishing Point-copy of paper by James Feeley, "A Shift in the Bias: Plato and McLuhan" and a draft letter of response from WW

1968

14 343 Department of External Affairs 1955-1956

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-correspondence with the Royal Society of Canada, President Stewart (UofA), and James Whidden (Bursar, UofA); includes notice of Overseas Award from External Affairs to WW, May 6 1955

14 344 Faber and Faber Ltd. Publishers-correspondence with Peter de Santoy, Charles Montieth, T.S. Eliot, Valerie Fletcher, Violette Fleur, L.R. Simmons, and Liza Wyatt; includes Memorandum of Agreement and contract for Friday's Child and an enclosed request from Robert Turner for permission to set WW's poems to music (July 1973)

1955-1957, 1967, 1973

14 344A George Gray Falle-Christmas card

December 5, 1983

14 345 Fanshawe College (Aidan Spiller)-two letters

November 1968

14 346 Farrar Straus and Cudahy Publishers-one letter

November 2, 1956

14 347 Fiddlehead magazine (Fred Cogswell, Editor)-two letters

1953, 1954

14 348 Don Flahiff-Christmas card

December 15, 1983

14 349 Fred Flahiff-five letters, includes enclosed obituaries of SW from The Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail

1982, 1986, 1989, 1998

14 350 Michael and Mary Flahiff-one letter, one greeting card

n.d., 1986

14 351 James Flannery-one letter

May 10, 1968

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14 352 Emma Flint-three letters

1961

14 353 Isabelle Ford-five letters

1967-1968

14 354 Jean-Pierre Fournier-five copies of draft typescript (WW to JPF)

n.d.

14 355 Jorge Frascara-sixty-four letters; includes drawings, an accompanying letter from Shirley Neuman attached to the June 28, 1985 letter; and an enclosed typescript by JF (Oct. 30, ??)

1982-1990

15 356 Dorothy Fraser-five letters with attached clipping from The Globe and Mail about WW (February 13, 1989)

n.d., 1955, 1959, 1989

15 357 Sylvia Fraser-five letters, one Christmas card

1982 - 1986

15 358 Northrup Frye-one letter

April 30, 1979

15 359 Gage publishers-three requests to reprint poems

1982

15 360 Greg Gatenby-six letters; attachments with August 17, 1979 letter

1979-1988

15 361 James Gilhooly-one card, two postcards

1980, 1981

15 362 Robert Gill, Hart House Theatre-one letter

April 16, 1962

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15 363 Glenbow Museum-eight letters re Shadbolt exhibit, including loan agreement, shipping forms, travel insurance, and invitation

1991-1993

15 364 Government of Alberta (C. Les Usher, Special Adviser to the Minister of Culture)-one letter with enclosure

April 24, 1980

15 365 Government of British Columbia-one letter re Pharmacare

June 19, 1984

15 366 Letters to WW on receipt of Governor General's medal for poetry-President Stewart (UofA)R. Hilton Smith (GG Committee)

1956

15 367 Sherrill Grace-four letters; a description of the Lowry letter project and an essay on editing Lowry's letters attached to September 25 1989 letter

1986, 1989, 1991

15 368 Sherrill and John Grace-five greeting cards

1991-1998

15 369 John Gray (Macmillans)-three letters

1961

15 370 Lucy Gray-one letter

January 27, 1958

15 371 G.P. Greenwood-one draft? Unposted fair copy? (WW to GPG)

October 28, 1986

15 372 Donna Gruhlke-seventeen letters and cards, including the following attachments:--program of Gruhlke and Montalbetti reading

1967, 1981-1995

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Watson poetry--handbill March 25 1982--handbill for Sorrowful Canadians performance attached to February 13 1983 letter-photographs removed (See Series 8, Box 24, #44

15 373 Ralph Gustafson-two letters

1957, 1959

15 374 Stefan Haag-seven letters and cards, including the following attachments:--thesis proposal attached to July 26 1991 letter

1991-1992

15 375 Dick Halhed-six letters and one Christmas card

1985-1989

15 376 Donald Hall-three letters

n.d., 1956

15 377 Mary Hamilton-thirteen letters and cards; newspaper clippings and photocopy of WW's essay "McLuhan's Collective Wordplay" attached to February 12, 1981 letter

1980-1982

15 378 Laverne Hansen-two draft letters of reference for Laverne Hansen to Robert Jordan (UBC); copy of poem "The Betrayal" by L. Hansen

1977

15 379 Dick Harrison-one letter with attached program for "The Poet and the Critic" conference

May 16, 1969

15 379A Rod Harvey-one letter

September 26, 1974

15 380 Margaret Hill, Dictionary of Literary Biography 1986, 1987

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- two letters

15 381 Jack Hodgkins-one letter

February 5, 1982

15 382 Mrs. W.H. Hogg (Central Ontario Drama League)-two letters

1965

15 383 Host Publications-one letter re reprinting selections of Mass on cow back

December 12, 1989

15 384 Ruth Humphrey-ten letters

n.d.,1952, 1959-1960, 1967

15 385 Nigil Hunt (Editor, Theatrum)-six typescript draft fragments (WW to NH)

September 28 - October 1, 1990

15 386 Mel Hurtig-one letter

October 7, 1970

15 387 Mr. Ingles (?)-draft fragment? Unposted fair copy? (from WW)

n.d.

15 388 International University Consortium (Melinda Frisch)-one letter

June 10, 1986

15 389 Elsie Jack-one letter

February 7, 1998

15 390 Susan Jackel-six letters; enclosure with July 23, 1982 letter

1982-1983

15 391 Roberto and Wendy Jaen-one letter with enclosure, one greeting card with enclosure, and one Christmas card

1982, 1986, n.d.

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15 392 Joan and Wayne Jennings-ten letters and cards; photograph moved to 95-131-28, Box 24

1983-1997

15 393 Walter H. Johns-one letter, offering WW congratulations for his Governor General's award

March 1, 1956

15 394 Lynne Johnson-one letter

July 26, 1980

15 395 J.T. Jones-four letters with copies of correspondence sent to or about Joan C. Laird, lecturer in English at the UfoA, July 14-18, 1958

1955, 1958-1959

15 396 Denise Kenney-one letter

October 23, 1990

15 397 David Kent-five letters

1987-1989

15 397A Kenny, Denise-one letter, with video (AV #9)

February 12, 1991

15 398 Joe Keogh-two letters; enclosures with February 17, 1984 letter

1967, 1984

15 399 Kiyooka, Roy-one letter (WW to RK) returned by post office; includes crayon drawing

December 10, 1988

15 400 Carl Klinck-one letter

July 10, 1964

15 401 Tut Kodar-one letter

December 6, 1962

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15 402 Henry and Esther Kriesel-eight letters and cards; offprint of "Two Sisters in Geneva" inscribed to WW

1961, 1982-1983, 1986-1987, 1993

15 403 Joan Krisch-one letter

March 8, 1971

15 404 Robert Kroetsch-three letters

1973-1974

15 405 T. Larsen-one letter

January 7, 1946

15 406 Dave Lawrence-one letter

March 3, [1995]

15 407 Sharon Lea-six letters

1961-1964

15 408 Robert Lecker-one letter

November 13, 1978

15 409 John Lehman (The London Magazine)-three letters

1954-1955

15 410 John Lent-twelve letters and cards with the following attachments:--six manuscripts by Lent postmarked February 19 1980--manuscript attached to May 23 1989 letter--photocopy of story in Event attached to June 21, 1990 letter--poems by WW attached to December 30 ? letter--manuscript attached to October 23 ? letter

1983-1996

15 411 Douglas LePan April 16, 1962

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-one letter

15 412 Lester & Orpen Dennys Publishers (Gena Gorrell, Editor)-one letter

November 12, 1981

15 413 Charles Lewson-one letter

October 9, 1960

15 414 Dorothy Livesay-three letters

1958

15 415 Kathy Logatueti-two letters

1963-1964

15 416 Longspoon Press-ten letters, including correspondence with Shirley Neuman, Paul Hjartarson, June Charter, and Jorge Frascara re Mass on Cow back, and Gramsci x 3; includes royalty statements, forwarded letters, and reviews

1983-1989

15 417 Miss McCallum (Toronto Public Library)-draft letter (from WW)

March 13, 1965

15 418 J.A. McDonald-six letters, one telegram, and a receipt from JMcD to WW for loan of car (August 12 1955)

1955, 1961-1963

15 419 Brian McGugan-condolence card

February 18, 1998

15 420 K. MacLean-one letter

September 10, 1951

15 421 Brian and David McLellan-three Christmas cards and one condolence card

1992, 1994, n.d., 1998

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15 422 Corinne McLuhan-one letter with enclosure re From Cliché to Archetype royalties and one Christmas card

1973, 1995

15 423 Marshall McLuhan-three typescript pages from WW to MM, "Some Notes on Canadian Literature"See Also: WW/MM correspondence: 95-131-105-108

February 7, 1961

15 424 Marshall McLuhan-twenty-six letters with the following attached documents:--letter from Kenneth Evans to MM Sept. 5 1967, copy of undated response from MM to Evans, and attached two further letters to MM from Evans Feb.7 1968 and Nov. 2 1968 attached to February 21, 1968 letter (MM to WW)--newsclipping attached to May 1 1968 letter--letter from Kenneth Evans April 22 1968 and carbon of reply to Evans by WW May 2 1968, attached to May 2 1968 letter (WW to MM)--copies of three letters from Harold Ober Publishers re From Cliché to Archetype--two copies of a letter from MM to Claude Bissell (University of Toronto), December 24 1968--copy of letter of MM to Diane Bessai October 3 1974 with handwritten note from MM to WW--copy of essay "Casting his Perils Before Swains"--MM to WW, "Thanksgiving"

1960-1979

15 425 Millar MacLure-two letters

March 9 [?], 1958

15 426 Juliet and Rowland McMaster and family-one Christmas card

December 15, 1983

15 427 Trevor McNeely 1967

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-two letters

15 428 Glenys McQueen-Fuentes-three letters

1989

15 429 The Malahat Review, (Connie Rooke)-one letter with attached copies of poems of WW

May 2, 1986

15 430 Sandra Mallet-condolence card

February 12, 1998

15 431 Eli Mandel-two letters; an inscribed copy to WW by EM of EM review article "Giants, Beasts and Men in Recent Canadian Poetry"; typescript copy of Black and Secret Man inscribed by EM to SW and WW

1961-1963

15 432 Francis Mansbridge-letter from FM to WW re Layton biography and two draft versions of WW's reply, both unsigned

1994

15 433 Judith Mappin (Owner, Double Hook Bookstore, Montreal)-one letter

February 28, 1998

15 434 Philip Marchand-ten letters and cards; manuscript book of bilingual couplets and drawings by PM

1985-1998

15 435 [Janet Markham]-five letters dated "aout" [1965], unsigned or signed "J"

[1965]

16 436 Daphne Mariatt-one postcard (DM to WW) and one draft fragment? Unposted fair copy? (WW to DM)

1979, 1984

16 437 Kay Mathers 1960-1963, 1983

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-ten letters, with enclosed newspaper clipping (1962) and review (1983)

16 438 George Melnyk-condolence card

February 11, 1998

16 439 Michael Millgate-one letter

December 20, 1965

16 440 Barbara Mitchell-fifty-three cards and letters, (including 22 postcards sent from BM during the summer of 1986); with the following documents attached:--copy of letter from BM to Tom Peacocke July 7 1986, attached to July 7 1986 letter (BM to WW)--review from Vancouver Sun of Collected Poems attached to July 14 1986 letter (BM to WW)--series of politically satirical poems attached to November 25 1988 letter (BM to WW)--post-it note on enclosed document attached to March 21 1991 letter (BM to WW)--enclosure with November 4 1992 letter--attached photocopies and "construction", n.d.--four photographs removed (95-131-37, Box 24)

1969, 1986-1998

16 441 Nora Mitchell -two draft letters (WW to NM)

1989, 1991

16 442 B. Moeslein (?)-one Christmas card

December 19, 1983

16 443 Peter Montgomery-three letters

1972, 1981

16 444 Raymon Montalbetti-one letter

Ca. mid-1980's

16 445 Geoffrey Moore 1956

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-two letters

16 446 Robert Mumford-two letters ; enclosures with September 24 1986 letter

1986, 1987

16 447 National Gallery of Canada-invitation to Shadbolt Opening

November 26, 1992

16 448 Petronela Negosanu-one letter

March 22, 1976

16 449 James Nelson-Christmas card

December 14, 1993

16 450 Shirley Neuman-forty-seven cards and letters, with the following attachments:--letter from Susan Jackel to WW and SW July 23 1982 and of WW's response July 31 1982 attached to September 20 1982 letter (WW to SN)--letter from Susan Jackel to SN with funding application for actors to perform WW's work at "Celebrations" December 17 1982--newspaper clippings attached to October 1 1983 letter (SN to WW)

1981-1983

16 451 Shirley Neuman-thirteen letters, with the following attachments:--poem, "September 3rd, not quite sad…" attached to [1984] letter (WW to SN)--enclosures with February 22 1984 card--enclosures with April 2 1984 card

1984

16 452 Shirley Neuman-nineteen letters, with the following attachments:--photocopy of letter and poem "The Trifle" from WW to Alison White attached to April 15 1985

1985

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letter (SN to WW)--inscribed copy of "Riddle" "Hers is the beauty of the Japanese" attached to April 28 1985 letter

16 453 Shirley Neuman-fifty-six cards and letters with the following attachments:--draft of response from WW clipped to July 2 1986 letter (SN to WW)--WW's annotations attached to April 18 [1987] letter (SN to WW)--drawing as a birthday card for SN and Jorge Frascara October 1988--poem "Stone Riddle" attached to January 4 1989 letter (WW to SN)

1986-1989

16 454 Shirley Neuman-fifteen cards and letters with the following attachments:--NeWest Press to SN July 30 1992 attaching contract for Collected Plays--contract from NeWest Press attached to September 8 1992 letter (SN to WW)

1990-1992

16 455 Shirley Neuman-nineteen letters and cards with the following attachments"--enclosed copy of letter from SN to Lisa Potvin attached to April 24 1995 letter (SN to WW)--copy of "riddle" ("Troy") inscribed by WW to SN. n.d.--copy of "au tombeau de George Fall" inscribed by WW to SN and Jorge Frascara, n.d.--original typescript of 1988 Epilogue to Corporal Adam, inscribed by WW to SN--Photographs removed: See Series 8, Box 24, #38

1994-1996 and undated

16 456 The New Statesman & Nation February 5, 1954

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-one letter

16 457 W.H. (Bill) New-three letters

1986, 1992, 1993

16 458 NeWest Press-Correspondence with NeWest Press staff including: Jack Lewis (General Manager), Elizabeth Grieve (General Manager), George [Melnyk], Carolyn Pogue, and Kathy McLean; royalty statements for I begin with counting, The Baie Comeau Angel and Other Stories, and Plays at the Iron Bridge; forwarded letter from W.H. New re permissions and other enclosures attached to July 20 1993 letter

1983-1997

16 459 BpNichol-two letters

1982, 1987

16 460 Eleanor Nichol-condolence card

February 6, 1998

16 461 Charles Noble-four letters

1984, 1986

16 462 Northern Lights-"minutes of an impromptu meeting with respect to the launching of a poetry magazine to be called Northern Lights

May 14, 1957

16 463 Northern Review Press (John Sutherland)-two letters with attachments: "In the Cemetery of the Sun" and "And Should She Ask", both by WW

1953

16 464 Lenore Noujaim-one letter

[1967]

16 465 Maureen Orten May 9, 1968

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16 466 Gail Osachoff-twenty-nine cards and letters; copy of Canadian Drama article by GO attached to 1983 letter; one photo moved to Series 8, Box 24, #33

1973-1998

16 467 Lyndal Osborne-two letters

1986

16 468 Sue Otley-five greeting cards

1989-1995

16 469 P.K. Page-three letters

1980, 1984

16 470 Paris Review-one letter from J. De Chalain, for the Editors

December 19, 1953

16 471 Brian Parker-one letter

October 22, 1969

16 472 Harley Parker-one letter

October 4, 1963

16 472A Marcia Pasika-one letter with attached copies of her poems

January 12, 1991

16 473 Graeme Patterson-one letter

January 18, 1990

16 474 Gordon Peacock-fifteen letters and cards, with the following attachments:--blind copy to WW of letter by GP to Powys Thomas (National Theatre School), June 24 1963, with manuscript note by WW to Kay Mathers--letter to University of Alberta Senate re GP,

1963, 1968-1991

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October 5 1989--c.v. attached to October 14 1989 letter (GP to WW)--clipping attached to February 7 1991 letter

16 475 Gordon and Georgina Peacock-seven greeting cards

1991-1995

16 476 Thomas and Judy Peacocke-ten cards and letters, including the following attachments:--card from the office of Jacqueline Kennedy attached to September 1 1964 letter (TP to WW)--copy of a letter to TP from Paul Morrison (Neighbourhood Playhouse), June 24 1963--three photographs moved to Series 8, Box 24, #36

1964-1995

16 477 Jack Pecover-ten letters

1973-1974, 1985, 1989, 1990 1998

17 478 Peter Owen Limited (Michael Levien)-one letter

September 30, 1960

17 479 Poetry Magazine (Chicago)-one letter with returned poem "In the Cemetery of the Sun" by WW

November 27, 1953

17 480 Helen and Rodney Poisson-one letter

February 11, 1998

17 481 Larry Popowich-10 letters and cards with the following attachments:--copies of number-grid verse by LP attached to letter (n.d.)--manuscript"Goosesongs" attached to letter (n.d.)

1977-1986

17 482 Lisa Potvin 1993-1995

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17 483 Prism-eleven letters including correspondence with Jan de Bruyn and John Shoutsen

1959-1960, 1983

17 484 Laura Prissinotti-Christmas card

December 15, 1980

17 485 Queen's Quarterly-one letter with returned typescript, "Lines on Rembrandt's Painting" by WW

November 3, 1953

17 486 James Reaney-seven letters; program for JR's The Easter Egg with note by JR (March 2 1962)

1960-1962

17 487 Sandy Rodin-one letter; photographs removed (see Series 8, Box 24, #39)

July 30, 1985

17 488 S.B. Rollins-two letters (one of the letters addressed to Henry Kreisel)

1966

17 489 M. Consuella Ross-four letters and cards; enclosure with May 28 1982 letter

1980-1983

17 490 Royal Shakespeare Company-letter from Garry O'Connor

May 12, 1963

17 491 Roland Ryder-Smith-one letter

December 20, 1953

17 492 Ryerson Press, John Grant-one letter

July 31, 1961

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17 493 Saint Michael's College, University of Toronto-invitation to conferring of honorary degree to SW

November 16, 1995

17 494 F.M. Salter-one letter

October 7, 1956

17 495 Anthony Saroop-one letter with attached grant application

December 10, 1968

17 496 Saturday Night-unsigned dated rejection slip attached to copy of WW's "To the Haleys who sent dahlias"-unsigned dated rejection letter attached to copy of WW's "O Canada"

n.d.

17 497 Leslie Saunders-two letters and one Christmas card

1983, 1990

17 498 Bob Scammell-one letter

October 8, 1960

17 499 Stephen & Maureen Scobie-five letters and cards

1979-1981

17 500 Elaine Sebron (?)-four cards and letters

1995, 1998

17 500A Garnet Sedgwick-one letter

June 23, 1947

17 501 David Sereda-three letters; enclosed copies of WW poems annotated for "Number Grid Kids" performance attached to November 11 1981 letter

1981-1982

17 502 Jack Shadbolt-fifty-six letters and cards, with the following attachments:

1960-1990

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--letter from Doris Shadbolt to SW and WW enclosed with September 6 1962 letter--letter to Mrs. Doherty (SW's mother) from JS March 8 1971--subscription renewal form for White Pelican attached to July 9 1974 letter (JS to WW & SW)--wine bottle label featuring Shadbolt reproduction attached to May 17 1989 letter

17 503 H. Shandro-one letter

March 7 1963

17 504 Christina Shannon and Linda Shannon-seven cards; fragment (WW to CS)

17 505 Edith Sharp-one letter

November 20, 1964

17 506 Jack Sherriff-two letters

1969

17 507 Irma Sommerfeld-one letter, one postcard, one condolence card

1971, 1989, 1998

17 508 Glen Sorestad-two letters; enclosed poems by John Lent

1988

17 509 Ian [Sowton]-one letter

Ca. Early 1960's

17 510 Linda Spalding-one letter

November 7, 1988

17 511 David Staines-twenty-two cards and letters

1979-1988

17 512 David Stein-one postcard

May 21, 1971

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17 513 C.R. Stelck, University Research Committee-one letter

February 2, 1968

17 514 Donald Stephens-greeting card

November 27, 1992

17 515 Gertrude Story-one letter

June 30, 1964

17 516 R.H. Strachan (Macmillan of Canada)-one letter

April 10, 1958

17 517 Ronald Sutherland-one letter with enclosures relating to MA in Comparative Literature at the University of Sherbrooke

February 25, 1969

17 518 Andras Than-one letter

September 10, 1980

17 519 Michael Tait-four letters

1962-1963, 1990

17 520 Scott Taylor-fourteen letters with the following attachments:--play by ST, Sleep Talk attached to February 1976 letter--clipping attached to April 2 1977 letter--one cassette tape moved to AV Box 1, #1

1974-1979

17 521 Scott Taylor-twenty-three letters with the following attachments:--clippings and enclosures attached with March 28 1980 letter--two enclosed newspaper clippings attached to August 8 1981 letter

1980-1982

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--enclosures attached to January 30 1982 letter--birth announcement attached to February 3, 1982 letter--attachment with February 10 1982 letter--number-grid verse poems by ST enclosed with December 21, 1982 letter

17 522 Scott Taylor-twenty letters with the following attachments:--enclosures attached to April 14 1983 letter--enclosures attached to April 26 1983 letter--enclosures attached to July 14 1983 letter--enclosures attached to August 14 1983 letter--copy of letter from ST to Robert Wilson, article by ST, and three number-grid verse poems by ST attached to October 24 1983 letter--enclosures attached to May 1984 letter--typescript reviews by ST attached to July 14 1984 letter--newspaper clipping attached to July 22 1984 letter

1983-1984

17 523 Scott Taylor-forty-one letters with the following attachments:--lecture by ST on McLuhan attached to January 31 1985 letter--typescript article (26 pp.) by ST on WW's Gramsci x 3--invitation and map, n.d.--attachment with July 8 1986 letter--newsclipping attached to June 1 1987 letter--copy of ST's Sacred Muzak attached to June 17 1987 letter--letter on cardboard moved to Oversize 95-131-2 Box 3

1985-1987

18 524 Scott Taylor-six letters with the following attachments:--manuscript by ST, Le Corbusier: Man Minus

1989-1996

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Machine Equals Mind and Alokamonet: the light watering studio attached to March 29 1989 letter--photographs moved to Series 8, Box 24 # 35

18 525 Don Theall-one letter

December 13, 1988

18 526 Theatre Network-one letter from Brenda Doner, General Manager

February 4, 1981

18 527 Theatrum-one letter from Nigel Hunt

December 13, 1988

18 528 Powys Thomas (National Theatre of Canada)-two letters

1963

18 529 Hilary and Roy Thompson-two letters-Photo removed, See Series 8, Box 24, #30

1974, n.d.

18 530 Paul Thompson-two letters

1969

18 531 Paul and Hideggard Tiessen-five letters and cards; includes carbon copy of letter to Ronald Ayling attached to July 11 1977 letter and enclosures attached to October 19, 1995 letter

1977, 1993-1998

18 532 William Toye-six letters

1987-1988

18 533 Tulane Drama Review, Robert Corigan-one letter

May 9, 1962

18 534 Edwin Turner-two letters

1963, 1969

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18 534A University of Alberta-Correspondence, etc. relating to WW's appointment to the University of Alberta; includes the following documents:--notice of Ph.D. defense, University of Toronto, 1951--letter from H.D. Williamson re purchase of house July 20 1962--George Samuel to WW February 14 [?]-annual report, 1964--Central Research Fund grant applications, 1965 & 1967--Promotions Committee worksheet November 1 1967--salary letter March 21 1968--Salary and promotions worksheet 1968Trevor McNeilly to WW April 12 1970--George Baldwin to Vice-President McCalla, re journal that WW is to edit June 4 1970--Robert White to WW June 28 1972--Ron Ayling to W.D. Gainer, re Gail Osachoff June 7 1978--copies of various class assignments

1951, 1962-1978

18 535 University of Alberta-seven letters and memoranda with individuals including R. Mary Totman (Executive Officer, Senate) and Paul Davenport (President); includes interdepartmental memos, invitation, and UofA press announcement (February 1998)

1971-1972, 1989-1992, 1998

18 536 University of Guelph-one letter from G.D. Killam, Chair, English Department

April 12, 1985

18 537 University of Regina-one letter from R.R. Robinson, Dean of Arts

April 9, 1984

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18 538 University of Toronto-two telegrams and one letter from J.H. Sword, Acting President

1968

18 538A University of Toronto-Correspondence relating to 1868-69 appointment to Centre for Technology, University of Toronto

1968

18 539 Vancouver Sun-draft fragment? Unposted fair copy?; typescript fragment to Nigel Hunt on verso (from WW)

n.d.

18 540 Henry Van Rijk-three letters with enclosures including a play script by HVR

1983-1984

18 541 Cleo Vaughn-one letter

December 27, 1981

18 542 Elaine Verbicky-one letter

March 19, 1968

18 543 Viking Press (New York)-royalty statement re From Cliché to Archetype

August 30, 1973

18 544 Village Bookshop (Barbara Munro)-one letter

July 31, 1979

18 545 R.T. Wallace-two letters

January 1967

18 546 Arthur Wang (Hill and Wang)-one letter; catalogs enclosed

April 13, 1962

18 547 Doreen Watt-four letters

1982, 1983, 1988, n.d.

18 548 Don Wells December 6, 1964

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18 549 Ken Welsh-fragment (KW to WW)

n.d.

18 550 Bruce Whiteman-draft, fragment (WW to BW)

n.d.

18 551 White PelicanCorrespondence and subscriptions, as listed:-Theresa Quigley to WW, with attached poems March 28 1977-Ian Adam to WW March 5 1974-nine poems by Miriam Mandel, 1975-copy of short story, "Niagara" by Michael Penny-Tom Wayman to WW with attached poem August 13 1973-Tom Wayman to WW September 17 1973-review of Ian Adam, Encounter, unidentified reviewer-three poems, unidentified author-review of Miriam Mandel Lions at her Face, unidentified reviewer-review of Al Purdy Sex and Death, unidentified reviewer-review of Eli Mandel Crusoe by Elaine Verbicky-Park-three translations from Michel Beaulieu by Noreen Golfman Levine-Judith Rendle to Sheila Watson, with four poems attached September 3 1973-Alison Mitcham to WW September 20 1973-typescript of three poems by Judith Rendle-typescript of four poems by Gary Ross-Raymond Gariepy to WW, with attached poem November 14 1973-Jim Green to White Pelican August 1973-manuscript poems by Karen Lawrence (12 pp.)

1973-1977

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-Ian Adam to White Pelican with attached poem September 1 1973-Charles Noble to White Pelican with poems attached (12 pp.) July 9 1973

18 552 White PelicanSubmissions to White Pelican from Mary Humphrey Baldridge, J.E. Bencheikh, Mort Cohen, Nancy Shelstraete, Raymond Gariepy, Lavern Hansen, Robert Kroetsch, Robin Matthews, Alan Ricketts, and Hilary Thompson

Ca. 1970's

18 553 Nola and Gary Willis-seven letters with the following attachments:--Sonnets for Faithful Lovers and The Ballad of Calgary attached to November 4 1980 letter (GW to WW)--Emma Lake attached to December 16 1982 letter

1963-1969, 1980, 1982

18 554 Warner Winter (Emery Collegiate Institute)-one letter

February 21, 1981

18 555 George Woodcock-three letters

1960, 1962

18 556 Yale University-one letter from Lewis P. Curtis

December 19, 1948

18 557 Norman and Nona Yates-seventeen letters and cards; notice for upcoming exhibit (October 7 1993); artwork attached to March 1 1997 letter

4.5 Correspondence-Miscellaneous

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18 558 Correspondence from students, including: -Brenda Anderson (one letter, 1971)-Fred Clandfield (two letters, 1962)-Patricia Clements (later Gallivan) (two letters, 1964, 1979)-D.S. Hair re Anthony Saroop (one letter, December 3 1969)-Gail Osachoff (three letters, 1976, 1979)-David Sharpe (one letter, July 31 1973)-Nancy Shelstraete (postcard, June 12 1980)-Bill Stocks (one letter, June 1 1970)-Hilary Thompson (three cards/letter 1976)-Doreen Watt (two Christmas cards and a draft typescript from WW to Doreen Watt responding in detail for request for help about thesis on his work, November 16 1981

1962-1981

18 559 Opening Night telegrams:-from "Helen and Rod" March 29 1962-from Dolores Bedingfield March 28 1962-from "Interface" March 29 1962

1962

18 560 Unidentified correspondents:-"Gerald" (University of Oregon) to WW July 1 1969-Diane [Snow] to WW, January 11 and February 11 1969-"Tony" to WW, November 15 1968 and July 6 1969-two notes/cards from "Marcie" [English Department Secretary] to WW-telegram from "Marcie and Wally" [secretaries] to WW-[Professor Kenneth MacLean], who supervised WW's doctoral thesis, Victoria College May 1 [?]-unidentified signature, Theatre Department, Brandeis University, to WW September 20 1976-[Mrs. C.E. Doherty, Sheila's mother], Vancouver, to WW October 4 1960 and January 4 1961-"Mary B' to WW, New York, May 10 [?]-[Paula Grace], thank you note-three letters and one postcard to WW from

1960-1976

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18 561 Correspondence - Other-Stefan Haag to Shirley Neuman September 6 1995, with enclosure re permission to reproduce figures from WW's poems-unidentified draft fragment from WW to ? (unsent)-postcard from WW to Joan and Jerry (niece of WW's ?), unsent, n.d.-unidentified to WW and SW, Christmas card

1995, n.d.

18 562 Correspondence to Sheila Watson:-Alan Creighton (Canadian Forum), September 18 1951-Ruth Humphrey to SW (three letters; one with enclosed clipping from Ubyssey, 1956-William Bassett to SW, April 9 1957-A.F. Key (Calgary Allied Arts Council) to SW January 15 1959-Mrs. E Carter, Beta Sigma Phi, to SW May 18 1960-telegram from Watson Kirkconnell to SW January 5 1961-Anne Angus to SW, April 10 1961-Bunny Pound to SW, Christmas card, December [1983]-Brian Fawcett to SW, Christmas card, December 9 1983-Jane Grace Court to SW, Christmas card, December 12, 1983-Smith College (Northampton, MS) to SW, Christmas card, December 8 1983-Geoffrey Winter to SW, February 15 1984-"Ruth" (not Humphrey) to SW, card, n.d.-[Roy Daniells] to SW, n.d.

1951-1961, 1983-1984

18 563 Letters from Wilfred Watson to various persons (carbons, drafts, unmailed letters):-WW to F.M. Salter, enclosure typescript of poem "Cordelia" March 21 1956-WW to Alfreda Hall (on her congratulations for the GG medal) March 20 [1956]; unmailed letter

1956-1973

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-WW to E.P. Scarlett, Chancellor, UofA (on his congratulations for the GG medal) March 20 1956, unmailed-WW to "John" [Watson?], manuscript draft [1956]-WW to Earle [Buxton]; announces completion of novel Under the Rabbit's Paw; manuscript draft, April 30 [1956]-WW to Roy [Daniells], typescript carbon, June 2 1960-WW to Roy Daniells, typescript carbon, January 2 1962-WW to John McDonald (Humanities Association Bulletin), typescript carbon, January 2 1962-WW to Jan de Bruyn (Prism), typescript carbon, December 29 1961-WW to Jan de Bruyn, typescript carbon, April 14 1959-WW to his mother, manuscript draft, n.d.-WW to editor of Edmonton Journal re review of MacLeish by Jack Bilsland; typescript draft with manuscript revisions, February 22 1963-WW to Kay [Mathers?], typescript, (mailed?), re Wail for Two Pedestals, January 18 1965-WW to Day [Mathers?], January 7 1970 (mailed?)-WW to Mr. Flannery, manuscript draft re request for O Holy Ghost, June 19 1968-letter from Isabelle Foord (n.d.) and two typescript drafts of WW's reply November 18 1968-WW to Tom [Peacocke?], typescript carbon, December 17 1968-WW to Gordon [Peacock], manuscript draft, July 27 1968-WW to Michael Morris (Image Bank), July 13 1971-WW to Jack Shadbolt (drafts and typescript copies), 1962, 1969-manuscript draft to unidentified reviewer of Friday's Child [1956]-three sheets incomplete manuscript (letter?) on, among other things, Canadian theatre-manuscript draft in examination booklet to George Baldwin, re year's work in English department, n.d.

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-holograph draft in examination booklet of letter in defense of a student [Mort Cohn] n.d. (ca. 1960's)-typescript carbon of letter to Professor C.R. Stelck, University Research Committee, UofA, December 15 1965-typescript carbon of letter to Earl Cameron, Viewpoint, CBC, December 1 1973-typescript draft of letter with manuscript additions to Norman [Yates], October 11 1968-manuscript draft of letter to Tom [Peacocke}, n.d.-two manuscript drafts of letter to Juliet [McMaster] August 25 1971-typescript carbon of letter to J.M. Stedman (Humanities Association) with attached typescript of "The Poet in Canada"

18 564 Correspondence re rental properties-letter from E. Hopewell June 15 1948-receipt from C.S. Edwards December 31 1959

1948, 1959

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Series 5.

Student Records - Watson

5. Wilfred Watson, Student Records, --1943-1951, .17 m of textual records.

Archival Description: The records in this small series consist of Wilfred Watson's student papers while at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia. The original file divisions are retained, with added description provided about the file contents. The files consist of typescript and manuscript lecture notes; some essays, and copies of Watson's thesis(s); the papers are in excellent physical condition.

Scope and Content: This is a small series, but interesting for the record it provides of Watson's post-secondary schooling experience. Copies of an honors thesis, his M.A. thesis, and his Ph.D. thesis are included, along with files of notes and papers related to coursework while attending both the Universities of Toronto and British Columbia.



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Acc. #95-131

18 565 "Shakespeare's Use of Courtly Love Conventions", Honours thesis, University of British Columbia

1943

18 566 Bound version of Wilfred Watson's Ph.D. thesis, "Sterne's Satire on Mechanism: A study of the imagery of Tristram Shandy

Ca. 1951

19 567 Ibid. (different version) Ca. 1951

19 568 Loose papers removed from folders 566 & 567 above

Ca. 1951

19 569 "Obadiah Walker's Of Education and its Relationship to Tristram Shandy", MA thesis, University of British Columbia; two copies; typescript dialogue adaptation of Tristram Shandy, 2 pp.

June 1, 1946

19 570 Student notes of Wilfred Watson while at the University of Toronto; handwritten and typescript notes and papers

1945-1946

19 571 Student notes of Wilfred Watson while at the University of Toronto; English notes and 'History of Educational Thought' notes; papers

1945-1946

19 572 Student notes of Wilfred Watson while at the University of Toronto; handwritten notes for essays; bibliographic notes

Ca. 1946

19 573 Student notes of Wilfred Watson while at the University of Toronto; handwritten and typescript notes and papers; notes on Morris W. Croll, etc.

1946

19 574 Student notes of Wilfred Watson while at the University of Toronto/British Columbia; typescript

1949

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19 575 Student notes of Wilfred Watson while at the University of Toronto/British Columbia; handwritten notes; copy of 'Miss Elizabeth Brunskill's transcript of entries in the issue book, Minister Library

1948

19 576 Student notes of Wilfred Watson while at the University of Toronto; handwritten course notes (History of the Royal Society)

Ca. 1945-1946

19 577 Student notes of Wilfred Watson while at the University of Toronto; handwritten and typescript notes (Physio-Theology)

Ca. 1945-1946

19 578 Student notes of Wilfred Watson while at the University of Toronto; handwritten and typescript notes (William Jones - First Principles of Natural Philosophy (1762) Metaphysical/Religion/Philosophy notes

Ca. 1945-1946

19 579 Student notes of Wilfred Watson while at the University of Toronto; handwritten notes (philosophy/ philosophers)

Ca. 1945-1946

19 580 Student notes of Wilfred Watson while at the University of British Columbia; handwritten notes (philosophy/ philosophers); includes a letter re thesis

1948-1950

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Series 6.

Reference Material (Material from Other Sources)

6. Wilfred Watson, Reference Material, --1955-1995, .40 m of textual records.

Archival Description: The records in this series include a lot of published material such as newsclipppings, magazine articles, and offprints. There are also typescript materials including essays, poetry, and articles that others have sent to Wilfred Watson for his perusal. Often the material is in a reproduced form such as a photocopy or carbon, and many of the items are personally inscribed to Watson. The material is in excellent condition.

Scope and Content: The material in Series 6 represents some of the reference material Wilfred Watson retained. It includes newsclippings and articles about Marshall McLuhan, and a series of articles he clipped about contemporary theatre. There are newsletters and theatre programs, as well as collected articles, essays, papers and poems written by others. Included with this last grouping, are some student works including undergraduate essays, a Ph.D. thesis written by Stefan Haag (studying Wilfred Watson's writings), a M.A. thesis chapter, and poetry written by former students of Watson's. Material related to artist Jack Shadbolt's exhibits is included in this series, along with a copy of Sheila Watson's Antigone and a carbon copy of The Double Hook with manuscript emendations.



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Acc. #95-131

19 581 Newspaper clippings and miscellaneous materials relating to Marshall McLuhan

1970-1981

19 582 Copied articles and printed matter relating to Marshall McLuhan

Ca. 1970's

19 583 File of articles on contemporary theatre 1960's, 1970's

20 584 Articles on Dance and Theatre clipped by WW 1967-1969

20 585 Article on Le Theatre Total clipped by WW 1965

20 586 Articles on Black Theatre clipped by WW 1969

20 587 Articles on "the New Musical" clipped by WW 1968, 1969

20 588 Articles on "Off off Broadway" clipped by WW 1965-1968

20 589 Articles on "The Performance Group" clipped by WW

1966, 1969

20 590 Articles on "Theatre of the Ridiculous" clipped by WW

1968

20 591 Articles on "Intermedia" (Happenings, Multi-media etc.) clipped by WW

1965-1969

20 592 Articles on European Theatre clipped by WW 1967-1969

20 593 Articles on Theatre of Cruelty clipped by WW 1966-1967

20 594 Articles on Guerilla Theatre and Radical Theatre clipped by WW

1967-1969

20 595 Miscellaneous newsletters about theatre kept by WW

1968, 1971, 1983

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20 596 Program of Theatre Marigny production of Le Chien du Jardinier and Les suites d'une course, bound into Cahiers de la companie Madeleine Renaud Jean-Louis Barrault, 4(December 1955): "L'Age d'or espagnol"-Cahiers de la companie Madeleine Renaud Jean-Louis Barrault 11(July 1955): Eschyle et L'Oreste

1955

20 597 Theatre programs, announcements, and advertisements

1960's-1980's

20 598 Articles, etc. received by Wilfred Watson from others:-"The Water Symbol in The Prelude" by Kenneth MacLean; offprint-Moment 4-unnamed literary magazine from University of Alberta; March 1962-typescript copy of "Theatre Space for the Space Age" by Horace W. Robinson (lecture at First Western Canadian Educational Theatre Conference)-typescript "How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear" by Alison White-typescript copy of "The Theatre in Search of a Fix" by Robert Corrigan (lecture at First Western Canadian Educational Theatre Conference)-image on cardboard from the Image Bank, 1971-copy of Warren Tallman, "Wonder Merchants: Modernist Poetry in Vancouver During the 1960s, boundary 2 Fall 1974-photocopy of typescript, marked for oral delivery, of "Excerpts from an interview with Dr. Alfred Tomatis" by Timothy Wilson (Soundscape: 1978)

1962-1978

20 598A Two issues of Rampike Magazine, Oversize Box 3, #5)

1986, n.d.

Works by Other People

20 599 Typescript of essay by Paula Grace Anderson on "Margaret Atwood: Images of Women and

n.d.

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20 600 Photocopy of article by Diane Bessai on "Documentary Theatre in Canada", Canadian Drama 6.1 (1980): 9-21

1980

20 601 Manuscripts of other poets:-manuscript from Mort Cohn, four poems-one poem from Bill Bissett-one unidentified poem

n.d.

20 601A English 684 portfolio assignment by Sylvia Elchen, on Edward Albee Oversize 95-131-6, Box 3

n.d.

20 602 Typescript of essay by Fred Flahiff on "Lear's Map" n.d.

20 603 Photocopy of article by Martin Gardner on "Mathematical Games" Scientific American (January 1977): 110-21

1977

20 604 Typescript of student essay by Meg Gillies on "The Early Works of Genet's Theatre"

1972

20 605 Inscribed Ph.D. dissertation by Stefan Haag on "Allegories of the Postmodern: The Work of Wilfred Watson and R. Murray Schafer"

1995

20 606 Signed and numbered Island Magazine broadsides by John Newlove, Phyllis Webb, Fred Wah and John Marshall

n.d.

20 606A Typescript of Karen Lawrence, The Inanana Poems with letter asking WW to read the manuscript and critique, September 28 1977

1977

20 607 Typescripts by John Lent: "Modern Drama"; "Monet's Garden" (short stories); and "The Woodcutter's Dream"

n.d.

21 608 Works by Marshall McLuhan:-broadside by MM (excerpt from The Gutenberg Galaxy)

1969

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-Issue No. 24 (March 1969) of MM's Explorations (pp. 81-104 of Spring 1969 issue of University of Toronto Quarterly)

21 609 Inscribed copy of Robin Matthews' chapbook The Plink Savoir

n.d.

21 610 Copy of Brick 23 (winter 1985) with three works by bp Nichol

1985

21 611 Typescript of poems by Larry Popowich n.d.

21 612 Jim Salt's typescript with revision of his "Emily Dickinson and the telegraph"

n.d.

21 613 Offprint of article by Anthony Saroop on "Adrian Henri's Anti-Teleological Catalogues"

n.d.

21 614 Typescript of essay by Stephen Scobie on "Love in the Burning City: The Poetry of Wilfred Watson"

n.d.

21 615 Newspaper clippings on Jack Shadbolt n.d.

21 616 Jack Shadbolt's exhibition announcements and promotional materials

1965-1995

21 617 Copy of Jack Shadbolt (National Gallery of Canada Catalogue, 1969) with newspaper clippings interleaved; copy of Marjorie M. Halpin's Jack Shadbolt and the Coastal Indian Image (1986), inscribed by JS

1969, 1986

21 617A Two posters of Jack Shadbolt's Night Garden Transformation Oversize 95-131-7, Box 3

1977

21 617B Jack Shadbolt Night Garden Transformation, a signed limited edition of sixteen b&w variations on a theme Oversize 95-131-8, Box 3

Ca. 1985

21 618 Manuscript of number-grid verse poems by Strathcona Composite High School (Edmonton) students

Ca. 1980

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21 619 Typescript of University of Alberta graduate thesis chapter by Keith Swift

n.d.

21 620 Works by F. Scott Taylor-University of Alberta examination paper for English 332, April 1973-typescript of story by FST ("Copertina"), 1977-typescript of story by FST ("The Resistance"). 1980-University of Toronto MA thesis by FST on "Automatic Stein: The Literature of Dissociation"

1973-1980

21 621 Envelope of material related to student, Hilary Thompson

n.d.

21 622 Typescript of The Living End, a play by Henry Van Rijk

n.d.

21 623 Carbon copy of Sheila Watson, The Double Hook, with manuscript corrections, inscribed by SW to WW

n.d.

21 624 Typescript draft with emendations of Sheila Watson, Antigone

n.d.

21 625 Inscribed offprint by Alison White on "Mother Goose Reread"

n.d.

21 626 Typescript of convocation address delivered by Rudy Wiebe at Wilfred Laurier University, June 1 1991, and Brock University, June 7 1991 (quotes extensively from WW's The Sorrowful Canadians

June 1991

21 627 Typescript of student essay by Nina Wolodko on "Vivie's Progress through Mrs. Warren's Profession; writing by WW on back pages and over some text

1975

21 628 Carbon typescript of George Woodcock's play, The Benefactors

n.d.

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21 629 Unidentified student project on Yeat's phases of the moon

n.d.

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Series 7.

Personal Papers

7. Wilfred Watson, Personal Papers, --1951-1996, .20 m of textual records and other material.

Archival Description: The eclectic content of this series means that the material described involves different formats. There is textual material, published items, posters, diplomas and certificates, and two medals. A lot of the items required oversize storage, but all is in excellent physical condition.

Scope and Content: The material in Series 7 represents a small amount of material, but is not easily described in any other series. While the designation 'personal' could apply to the notebooks and correspondence, the term is used here to capture those items in the collection that are uniquely personal to Wilfred Watson. Included in this series are Watson's financial and income tax records which he retained for nearly 25 years, as well as specific citations and certificates he was awarded. It includes items such as a scrapbook he kept related to Studio Theatre productions, and programs from conferences he was involved with over the years. Included also is promotional material related to Wilfred Watson and his work. There are biographical entries intended for literary reference sources, as well as the posters and programs printed to promote his plays. Finally, there are his address files, rolodex cards, and small sheets of cardboard he kept to record snippets of information (names, addresses, book titles, etc.)

Includes .20 m of textual records, 15 posters, .10 m of drawings 2 medals.



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7. Personal Papers

7.1 Financial and Miscellaneous


Acc. #95-131

21 630 Wilfred Watson's library cards n.d.

21 631 Financial and Income tax records 1972-1996

22 632 One manuscript sheet "correspondence with SW"; includes reminiscences about their situation, 1945-1951

n.d.

22 633 Scrapbook with newsclippings about Studio Theatre productions and letters pasted inOversize 95-131-5, Box 3

1961-1962

22 634 Wilfred Watson's 1951 Ph.D. diploma from the University of TorontoOversize 95-131-9, Box 3

1951

22 635 City of Edmonton certificate awarded Wilfred Watson: "Performing and Creative Arts Award"Oversize 95-131-10, Box 3

April 18, 1973

22 636 Programs of conferences Wilfred Watson participated in:-Educational Theatre and the Profession 1965 program; announces Wilfred Watson as participating in a panel "The Playwright Speaks" and announces a performance of Wail for Two Pedestals at Yardbird Suite-Poet and Critic registration form-Poet and Critic conference program November 1969, with performance of "Loss moidur Clytemetcetc"

1965, 1969

22 637 Original prepared finding-aid to Wilfred Watson's records

Ca. 1990's

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22 638 Bibliographies, encyclopedia articles on Watson, etc:-The Brock Bibliography of Published Canadian Stage Plays in English 1900-1972-Diane Bessai's notes for her entry on WW in The Oxford Companion to Literature in English-two versions of Diane Bessai's article on WW in The Oxford Companion (1982)-list of Watson's publications, performances, reviews-photocopy of entry on Watson in Creative Canada (1972)-bibliography of WW's poems, plays, and essays with some photocopies

22 639 Theatre programs, tickets and publicity announcements for Wilfred Watson's work

1950's-1980's

22 640 Posters:Cockcrow and the GullsUp Against the Wall Oedipus (two versions, two of each)Let's Murder Clytemnestra…Oversize 95-131-13, Box 3

n.d.

22 641 Posters:Gramsci x 3 (seven posters)Oversize 95-131-14, Box 3

n.d.

22 642 Posters - Other-Catalogue on Guido Molinari-Poster advertising Talonbooks poetry releases-Poster announcing 1990 Edmund Kemper Broadus lectures by Shirley Neuman

n.d., 1990

22 643 Book: Friends, Hosers and Countrymen, Canadian caricatures by Isaac Bickerstaff, Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys 1982 (includes a caricature of Sheila

1982

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22 644 Drawings for a collection of Jenny Blake poems with a covering letter from WW to John ?

n.d.

22 645 Drawings for a collection of Jenny Blake poems n.d.

22 646 Note cards (blue): with recorded names, ideas, reading notes, etc.

Ca. 1960's

22 647 File cards with addresses and notes (quotations, thoughts, etc.)

n.d.

22 648 Rolodex cards with recorded addresses and names n.d.

22 649 Two medals presented to Wilfred Watson:-Governor General's Annual Literary Award for Poetry, 1955-The President's Medal, University of Western Ontario, 1962

1955, 1962

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Series 8.

Audio-Visual Records

8. Wilfred Watson, Audio-Visual Records, --1930s-1991, 8 sound recordings, 4 video tape recordings, and 334 photographs.

Archival Description: The material in Series 8 includes the audio-visual material Wilfred Watson collected. It is a small series, consisting of 11 tape cassettes, 5 reel-to-reel tapes, 4 videotape recordings, and 334 photographic items. The material is in very good physical condition.

Scope and Content: The audio-visual material, although not extensive, helps to present a fuller picture of Wilfred Watson. The photographs include photographs of Watson's immediate family including his parents, sister Jean, and other family members. There are two lovely portraits of a young Sheila Watson, and several formal portraits of Wilfred Watson taken while he was in his 30s and 40s. There are also some lovely photographs, many taken by Jorge Frascara, of Wilfred at his home in Nanaimo, B.C. Several of Frascara's photographs were mounted in a special album and titled "Cowback and so Much More". A friend, Pauline Boote, took some wonderful photographs of the 'heads' Watson created from painting on driftwood. As well, there are snapshots of friends (and their children) included with correspondence, and a large number of 'play' photographs (play production prints and proofs). The sound recordings are limited, and some of the material remains unidentified. The tapes, both sound and video, relate almost totally to Wilfred Watson's work and includes sound tracks and recordings of plays or Watson-related material readings.



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8. Audio-Visual Records

8.1 Sound Recordings


Acc. #95-131

23 1 Cassette tape sent to WW from F. Scott Taylor (removed from 95-131-520): "Three Monologues by F. Scott Taylor read by Nancy Cole at the Western Front"

n.d.

23 2 Unidentified reel-to-reel tape [Soul is my Button] n.d.

23 3 Unidentified reel-to-reel tape n.d.

23 4 Reel-to-reel tape: "The Bicycle is Wet With Bombs: New Poems by Wilfred Watson", read by Tom Peacocke and Meredith McLean; The Spoken Word program, broadcast on CKUA, November 29 19671/4 ", 900 ft.

November 29, 1967

23 5 Reel-to-reel tape (7"); Sound track for Up Against the Wall Oedipus (play)

n.d.

23 6 Reel-to-reel tape (7"); Recording of excerpts from Shakespeare

n.d.

23 7 Reel-to-reel tape (7"); Recording of Latin mass n.d.

23 8 Thing in Black show tape n.d.

23 9 VHS Videotape (120 minutes)"Just Maybe" (4:30)"Sorrowful Canadians"

n.d.

23 10 VHS Videotape'Munch' scene for WW (see Denise Kenny letter: 95-131-397A)

1991

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23 11 Casin VHSBrock University Fall Production re number grid verse poetry

1986

23 12 BASF VHS VideotapeEdmonton Fringe Production of "The Lady Taken in Adultery", followed by messages to WW from cast and crew

1987

8.2 Photographs


Acc. #95-131

Portraits of Wilfred Watson, Sheila Watson and Family Members:

24 1 Formal portrait of Wilfred WatsonPhotographer: "Artona" Vancouver, B.C.1 photograph, b&w, 12x17cm in 20x30cm matte

Ca. Late 1930's

24 2 Formal portrait of Wilfred WatsonPhotographer: "Ashley & Crippen", Toronto1 photograph, b&w, 11x16cm in 23x32cm matte

Ca. 1940's

24 3 Formal portrait of Wilfred Watson (in Navy uniform)Photographer: "J.D. Gallant", Halifax, NS1 photograph, b&w, 9x14cm in 15x23cm matte

1942

24 4 Formal portrait of Wilfred WatsonPhotographer: Studio Berthes, Paris1 photograph, b&w, 9x14cm in 11x16cm matte

Ca. 1940's

24 5 Portraits of Wilfred Watson; one taken for University of Alberta faculty file3 photographs, b&w, 5x6cm, 8x10cm, and 12x17cm

Ca.1951, 1952

24 6 Formal portrait of Wilfred Watson Ca. 1955

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Photographer: "Martin of Foto Craft"1 photograph, b&w, 20x25cm in 25x33cm matteOversize Photographs #6

24 7 Portrait Proofs (taken at same time as #6 above)4 photographs, b&w, 9x12cm

Ca. 1955

24 8 As above - slightly different poses5 photographs, b&w, 9x12cm

Ca. 1955

24 9 As above - different pose3 photographs, b&w, 9x12cm

Ca. 1955

24 10 Proofs, with Wilfred Watson posed by step-stool4 photographs, sepia, 9x12cm

Ca. 1955

24 11 Prints of two of the poses in #10 above9 photographs, b&w, 9x12cm

Ca. 1955

24 12 Wilfred Watson, taken at Nanaimo (different views)1 sheet of contact prints, b&w, 20x25cm2 photographs, b&w, 12x17cm

September 3, 1987

24 13 Portraits as in #12 above (these in color); two different poses4 photographs, color, 12x9 to 12x17cm

September 3, 1987

24 14 Portrait of Wilfred Watson taken inside his Nanaimo homePhotographer: Jorge Frascara2 photographs, b&w, 20x25cm

Ca. 1989

24 15 Portrait of Wilfred Watson taken inside his Nanaimo home (very similar to #14 above)'Linda Johnston' written on back of photograph1 photograph, b&w, 20x25cm

Ca. 1989

24 16 Photocopies of black and white photographs of Wilfred Watson's family and friends, all identified on back of paper by WW16 photocopies of photographs, b&w, 10x16 to

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20x25cm

24 17 Formal portrait of Sheila Watson at about age 21Photographer: "Worsley", Duncan, B.C.1 photograph, sepia, 12x17cm in 18x25cm matte

Ca. 1930

24 18 Formal portrait of Sheila Watson 2 photographs (original and copy), b&w, 12x17cm in 20x30CA. 1939cm matte

Ca. 1930

24 19 portrait of Sheila WatsonPhotographer: "Ashley and Crippen Ltd."1 photograph, b&w, 25x32cm

Ca. 1950's

24 20 Two snapshots of Wilfred Watson and Sheila Watson2 photographs, b&w, 8x10 and 9x12 cm

Ca. 1940's

24 21 Wilfred Watson and sister Joan and Wilfred Watson as a young child2 photographs, b&w, 8x10 and 9x12 cm

Ca. 1940's

24 22 Wilfred Watson's sister Joan (?)1 photograph, b&w, 11x13cm

April 1952

24 23 Wilfred Watson at Cape Cod, and at Harvard University during the same summer (working in the Harvard Libraries on his thesis on Tristram Shandy)10 photographs, b&w, 5x8cm

Summer 1947

24 24 "On the outskirts of Calgary with the English painter Christopher Doto"4 photographs, b&w, 5x8cm

Ca. 1948

24 25 "Pixiebook Snaps" Wilfred and Sheila on a beach with a black dog7 photographs, b&w, 5x8cm

Ca. 1940's

24 26 "Snapshot album"; views of Wilfred, Sheila, water scenes, Wilfred's parents (?)7 photographs, b&w, 7.5x11.5cm

Ca. 1950's

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24 27 Views of Wilfred Watson's parents (?), Louisa Claydon and Frederick Walter Watson10 photographs, b&w, 5x8cm to 8x12cm

Ca. 1960-1965

24 28 Prints sent from Joan Dunning Linn Jennings of family members; removed from 95-131-330 and 95-131-3924 photographs, color, 10x14cm, 5x6.5cm

December 1986 and 1991

Friends/Sent by friends

24 29 Peter Montgomery1 photograph, color, 5x8cm

Ca. 1960

24 30 Hilary and Roy Thompson and family1 photograph, color, 8x12cm (From 95-131-529)

1974

24 31 Sheila, Wilfred, and friends (unidentified) on boat6 photographs, b&w, 9x12cm

Ca. 1965

24 32 Photograph of Sheila Watson, Bishop Longstone, and Tom and Allan Callacombe1 photograph, color, 5x8cm

March 30, 1980

24 33 Gail Osachoff1 photograph, color, 9x12cm (From 95-131-466)

1978

24 34 Jack Shadbolt, in studio1 photograph, color, 10x12cm

Ca. 1980

24 35 Christopher Taylor (son of F. Scott Taylor) (From 95-131-520)3 photographs, color, 5x6cm to 10x15cm

1982, 1984

24 36 Snapshots sent to Wilfred Watson from Tom Peacocke (From 95-131-476); includes views of the Peacocke's grandchildren, and the new theatre building on the UofA campus3 photographs, color, 10x15cm

1995

24 37 Barbara Mitchell, Sheila and Wilfred; hats (From 95-131-440)

August 1994

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4 photographs, color, 10x15cm

24 38 Snapshots of her kitchen and garden sent to the Watsons from Shirley Neuman (From 95-131-455)6 photographs, color, 8.5x12.5cm

Ca. 1988

24 39 Photographs sent from Sandy Rodin (From 95-131-487); includes a picture of WW's driftwood/acrylic paint 'object' taken under veranda of Nanaimo house; a picture of a table with numerous sculptures by WW and others in front of living room window at Nanaimo house; three views of Wilfred Watson; two views of Jamila Ismail, two views of Sheila Watson, and five views of Sheila and Jamila together14 photographs, color, 10x15cm

July 30, 1985

24 40 Photographs sent from Pauline Boote; includes a mounted photograph of an elderly man (unidentified), a cat, and a photograph inscribed on the back "from my black and white day P.B." (From 95-131-271 and 95-131-270)3 photographs, b&w, 13x24cm and 20x25cm

1986

24 41 Color snapshot of a man (unidentified) sitting in a living room; sent to SW from WW1 photograph, color, 9x13cm

April 1960

24 42 "Joyce"3 photographs, b&w, 4x5 to 9x12cm

1956

24 43 Unidentified individuals, including a color snapshot of two children; portrait of a man wearing a graduation gown, view of two women in a garden, four-panel shot of an unidentified woman; and a snapshot of two children playing on rocks1 photograph, color, 9x13cm4 photographs, b&w, 4x5 to 14x18 cm

Ca. 1960-1963, 1983

Other: Art/Performance

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Gruhlke and Montalbetti of Watson poetry - sent to WW from Donna Gruhlke (95-131-372)2 photographs, color, 19x19 and 19x20 cm

24 45 Sculpture in clay of Wilfred Watson5 photographs, b&w, 7x7 to 8x12cm

n.d.

24 46 Portrait of a dog1 photograph, b&w, 28x36cm (Oversize #2)

n.d.

24 47 Photo reproductions of Jack Shadbolt's newspaper gouaches3 photographs, b&w, 23x30cm

n.d.

24 48 Photograph of Jack Shadbolt's 'Calligraphy' which hung over WW's small pine writing desk (two copies)2 photographs, b&w, 20x25cm

n.d.

24 49 From Rowland [McMaster?] with explanatory note on envelope (picture of bicycle wheel and leg)2 photographs, b&w, 17x18 and 19.5x25cm

n.d.

24 50 Photographs from the Gramsci Institute, Rome of Gramsci and his wife (used as the basis for screens on Gramsci x 316 photographs, b&w, 13x18 to 18x24cm

n.d.

24 51 Tow photographs of Wilfred Watson and Tom Peacocke, Director of Gramsci x 3, in rehearsal2 photographs, b&w, 12x18cm

1986

24 52 Photographs by Jorge Frascara for Gramsci x 3 posters5 photographs, b&w, 28x43cm (Oversize #3)

n.d.

24 53 Gramsci x 3, Studio Theatre production prints (one of Tom Peacocke)4 photographs, b&w, 10x12cm to 12x17cm

n.d.

24 54 Photographs of Wilfred Watson play productions including O Holy Ghost and Cockcrow

1962, 1967

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24 55 Ibid.15 photographs, b&w, 12x16 to 28x35cm4 contact sheets, b&w, 35 mm4

1962, 1967

24 56 Play proofs (unidentified)17 photographs, b&w, 12x17cm

n.d.

24 57 Play proofs (unidentified) and Edmonton Journal photograph of Wilfred Watson and another man on a play set16 photographs, b&w, 9x12cm and 12x17 with a 20x23cm matte

n.d.

24 58 Wilfred Watson's 'heads', taken by Pauline Boote' 'Head's done by WW with acrylic paint on drift wood, some hanging on deck at 3612 Place Road, Nanaimo12 photographs, color, 19x15 to 20x25cm2 photographs, sepia, 10x15cm

1991

24 59 Color prints; four of 'heads' as described above, and two of paintings4 photographs, color, 9x12.5cm

1991

24 60 Color views of Watson's property and surrounding area in Nanaimo9 photographs, color, 9x12.5cm to 12x18cm

1991

24 61 "Cowback and so much more'A photo scrapbook put together by Jorge Frascara; includes views of WW, Jorge Frascara, Shirley Neuman, and the 'heads' and mostly taken out of doors (Piper's Lagoon)31 photographs, b&w, 10x12cm to 19x25cm (Oversize #5)

December 1987

24 62 Unidentified 'place' photographs (perhaps near where WW's parents lived)9 photographs, b&w, 6x9 to 9x9cm

n.d.

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Index

After KafkaThe Judgement..............................153

Appointment Calendars...................5, 69Atwood, Margaret...............46, 165, 245Beach Story.......................................152Bessai, Diane...9, 12, 14, 53, 57, 58, 59,

60, 111, 124, 126, 140, 143, 165, 176, 196, 197, 214, 245, 252

Bulon and Trill.................................151Canvasses Point Gray.......................108Ciano................................................151Clements, Patricia.........53, 56, 201, 232Correspondence.....5, 13, 140, 159, 160,

163, 164, 183, 185, 194, 219, 228, 229, 230, 232, 233, 235

Earlier Poems.....................................75Essays.....................................5, 73, 157Fang.................................................154Financial.......................................6, 251Fly Away, Moth................................150Four Times Canada is Four......156, 176Frascara, Jorge63, 64, 66, 206, 213, 218,

255, 259, 263, 264From Cliche to Archetype11, 31, 32, 33,

39, 41, 45, 73, 158, 159, 160, 164, 167, 175, 213, 214, 229

From Cliché to Archetype.....40, 45, 159Government of Alberta..19, 28, 73, 157,

165, 183, 234Gramsci x 3. 12, 53, 59, 60, 61, 64, 146,

147, 165, 168, 176, 196, 201, 213, 226, 252, 263

Haag, Stefan........11, 208, 233, 241, 245Haiku.................126, 128, 132, 135, 170Hurtig, Mel.......................................210I begin with counting.108, 126, 128, 219I Begin With Counting........................12Inside the Canadian Border..............150Journals and Notebooks......5, 13, 15, 17Leda and the Swan............................149

Let's Murder Clytemnestra According to the Principles of Marshall McLuhan................................41, 145, 146, 252

Limericks/Riddles.............................129Literary Drafts/Writings......5, 13, 73, 75Mass on Cowback..12, 60, 63, 157, 165,

213, 255, 264McLuhan, Marshall. . .11, 15, 38, 43, 52,

53, 54, 60, 64, 66, 73, 145, 155, 157, 158, 159, 160, 163, 164, 166, 170, 172, 173, 175, 213, 214, 241, 243, 246

Mettre le Conte le Dream..................156Mr. Warren's Daughter.....................151Naden Chorus...................................151Neuman, Shirley....9, 10, 15, 62, 63, 64,

66, 73, 179, 183, 206, 213, 217, 218, 233, 252, 262, 264

Novel..............................5, 73, 154, 157Number-grid Verse Poems. .12, 71, 123,

126, 127, 128Oedipus the King..............................150Osachoff, Gail. . .70, 120, 127, 220, 228,

232, 261Over Prairie Trails to the Just Society

..................................39, 40, 148, 175Peacocke, Thomas63, 67, 126, 216, 257,

261, 263Plays at the Iron Bridge....69, 107, 166,

182, 219Poems

Collected/Unpublished/New 132, 133, 165, 176

Publications.............5, 73, 173, 176, 209Reference Material..........5, 13, 241, 243Resentment................................154, 156Reviews.............................172, 176, 178Shadbolt, Jack.....61, 67, 75, 76, 93, 95,

104, 133, 166, 189, 190, 191, 224, 234, 241, 246, 261, 263

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Shakespeare...15, 30, 33, 36, 38, 42, 43, 46, 48, 66, 120, 138, 157, 167, 169, 174, 175, 222, 239, 257

Short Stories...........................5, 73, 154Sketches/Artwork............5, 13, 179, 181Soul is my Button.......100, 144, 145, 257Staines, David.................61, 66, 67, 225Student Records..............5, 13, 237, 239Studio Theatre.....9, 11, 22, 27, 32, 141,

144, 145, 146, 165, 196, 249, 251, 263

Taylor, F. Scott. 54, 55, 57, 64, 66, 225, 226, 227, 247, 257, 261

The Albatross..............................34, 149The Apes of God...............................153The Baie Comeau Angel. .155, 156, 176,

219The Ballad of Mother and Son..........174The Bestiary........................................68The Box.............................................153The Canadian Fact...................144, 175The Conspiracy.................................156The Crucifixion of the Xmas Tree......152The Cyanide Pills..............................154The Dark Village..............................107The Double Hook11, 41, 76, 94, 95, 133,

149, 183, 241, 247The Glass Box...................................156The Headaches.................................151The Invention of Children.................156The Lice...............93, 155, 174, 175, 176The Love Affair of Mr. Water Rat.....154The Magic Rake..........................68, 156The New Icarus.................................153

The Place Marie Dialogues.........47, 175The Princess's Satire.........................149The Rock Hook.................................149The Shoes..........................................156The Sorrowful Canadians11, 44, 95, 97,

98, 100, 101, 104, 165, 247The Spy.............................................154The Unfinished Biography of Muriel N

......................................................155The Ventriloquists.............................150The Visit........................................27, 29The Walls..........................................154The Whatnot................................22, 183The Woman Taken in Adultery....12, 152Thing in Black...........................147, 257Tom Jones Meets Fanny Hill at the

Yardbird Suite...............................152Trial of Corporal Adam11, 22, 143, 184,

201, 218Tristram Shandy 17, 157, 168, 173, 198,

239, 260Under the Black Bridge...22, 27, 32, 153Under the Rabbit's Paw.19, 28, 73, 157,

165, 183, 234University of Alberta...7, 9, 11, 13, 156,

171, 183, 220, 228, 244, 247, 258University of Toronto11, 174, 176, 183,

214, 223, 228, 229, 237, 239, 240, 246, 247, 251

White Pelican 9, 11, 175, 176, 224, 230, 231

Yates, Norman...11, 50, 53, 61, 67, 111, 122, 142

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