Finding Aid for the Paul Alexander Bartlett Papers, 1923-1990

Processed by Lilace Hatayama; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé

UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections

Manuscripts Division

Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library

Box 951575

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575

Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu

URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/

Finding Aid for the Paul Alexander Bartlett Papers, 1923-1990

Collection number: 2106

UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections

Manuscripts Division

Los Angeles, CA

Contact Information

Manuscripts Division
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/

Processed by:: Lilace Hatayama, October 1981
Encoded by:: Caroline Cubé
Online finding aid edited by:: Josh Fiala, February 2002

Descriptive Summary

Title: Paul Alexander Bartlett Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1923-1990

Collection number: 2106

Creator: Bartlett, Paul Alexander

Extent: 9 boxes (4.5 linear ft.)

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.

Los Angeles, California 90095-1575

Abstract: Paul Alexander Bartlett (1909- ) was born in Moberly, Missouri, and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. He was an instructor in creative writing at Georgia State College (1955) and editor of publications at the University of California Santa Barbara (1964-70). Bartlett contributed short stories and poetry to magazines and anthologies. His published books include: Adios, mi México, and When the Owl Cries. The collection consists of literary manuscripts, correspondence, research notes, published works, ephemera, diaries, photograph albums and genealogy materials of Paul Alexander Bartlett. Correspondents include John Dos Passos, James Michener, Upton Sinclair, and Frank Tannenbaum.

Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

Language: English.

Administrative Information

Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Restrictions on Access

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

Provenance/Source of Acquisition

Gift of Paul Alexander Bartlett, 1981 & 1984.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Paul Alexander Bartlett Papers (Collection 2106). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Biography

Bartlett was born on June 13, 1909 in Moberly, Missouri, and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; BA, Oberlin College, 1932; also attended University of Arizona, and later studied art at the National University of Mexico and in Guadalajara; instructor in creative writing, Georgia State College, 1955; editor of publications, University of California Santa Barbara, 1964-70; contributed short stories and poetry to magazines and anthologies; published books include Adios, mi México, and When the Owl Cries.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of literary manuscripts, correspondence, research notes, published works, ephemera, diaries, photograph albums and genealogy materials of writer Paul Alexander Bartlett. Correspondents include John Dos Passos, James Michener, Upton Sinclair, and Frank Tannenbaum.

Organization and Arrangement

Arranged in the following series:

Manuscripts by PAB and related material (Boxes 1-2).
Correspondence (Boxes 2,8).
Journals by PAB (Boxes 3-5).
Poetry and miscellaneous prose by PAB, photograph albums, genealogy material (Box 6).
Unpublished writings (Boxes 6-7).
Published writings (Boxes 7-9).

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects

Bartlett, Paul Alexander--Archives.

Authors, American--20th century--Archival resources.

Poets, American--20th century--Archival resources.

Genres and Forms of Material

Diaries.

Manuscripts for publication.

Related Material

Paul Alexander Bartlett Collection of Submissions to the Literary Annual, Workshop (Collection 926) . Available at Department of Special Collections, University Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Container List

Manuscripts by Paul Bartlett and Related Material

Box 1, Folder 1

Notebook: Source data for Forward, Children! v.p., v.d..

Physical Description: ca. 150 leaves.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, notes, postcards, photographs, pamphlets.

Box 1, Folder 2

Forward, Children! n.p., n.d.

Physical Description: 182 leaves. Typescript.

Box 1, Folder 3

Reviews and comments re Forward, Children!

Physical Description: 5 leaves. Typescript, typescript (carbon), photocopy.

Box 1, Folder 4

The Journal of Leonardo da Vinci. San Diego. 1977.

Physical Description: 170 leaves. Typescript, photocopy.

Scope and Content Note

With this: ephemera. 1 item.

Box 1, Folder 5

Maelstrom. n.p., n.d.

Physical Description: 267 leaves. Typescript.

Box 1, Folder 6

Mexican Footprints. n.p., n.d.

Physical Description: 271 leaves. Typescript, typescript (carbon). Bound. Signed by the author.

Scope and Content Note

With this: photocopy of foreword by Don M. Wolfe.

Box 2, Folder 1

The Mexican Haciendas by Paul Alexander Bartlett. n.p., n.d.

Physical Description: 83 leaves. Typescript, typescript (carbon), photocopy.

Box 2, Folder 2

Spokes for Memory. n.p., 1977-1978.

Physical Description: 140 leaves. Typescript, typescript (carbon), photocopy. Signed by the author.

Box 2, Folder 3

Spokes for Memory. Bartlett, Paul Alexander. Baltimore: Icarus Press, c. 1979.

Physical Description: Papers. Signed by the author.

Box 2, Folder 4

To Reason Why. n.p., n.d.

Physical Description: 249 leaves. Typescript, typescript (carbon), Bound. Signed by the author.

Box 2, Folder 5

When the Owl Cries. Ephemera. v.p., v.d.

Physical Description: 28 items.

Scope and Content Note

Includes dustjacket of the book, clippings, photocopies of clippings.

Note

First published by Macmillan, 1960.

Box 2, Folder 6

Correspondence. v.p., v.d.

Physical Description: 10 items.

Scope and Content Note

Adamas, J. Donald. 1 item.
Barnstone, Willis. 1 item
Dietrich, Susan. 1 item.
Dos Passos, John. 1 item.
Fraenkel, Michael. 1 item.
Gorman, Herbert. 1 item.
Ippolito, Donald. 1 item.
Roeder, Ralph. 1 item.
Sinclair, Upton. 1 item.
Walsh, Richard J. 1 item.

Note

NOTE: The letters are photocopies, not original letters.

Box 2, Folder 7

Publications

Physical Description: (3 items)

The Greyledge Review. Chickering, by Paul Alexander Bartlett, Fall 1979.

Bartlett, Paul Alexander. Adios, mi Mexico. San Diego, Autograph Editions, c. 1979.

Physical Description: Paper. Signed by author.

Bartlett, Paul Alexander. Wherehill. Colima, Mexico. Autograph Editions, 1975.

Physical Description: Paper. no. 95/100. Signed by the author.

Box 2, Folder 8

Ephemera re Paul Bartlett.

Physical Description: 5 items.

Correspondence

Box 8, Folder 10

Adams, J. Donald. April 10, 1946; December 11, 1947.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Note

All letters are photocopies except for 1 item in folder 32.

Box 8, Folder 11

Abramson, Ben (Argus Book Shop).

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

July 26, 1939.

Box 8, Folder 12

Babelon, Jean.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

June 7, 1967.

Box 8, Folder 13

Balch, Earle (G.P. Putnam's Sons.).

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

June 13, 1940.

Box 8, Folder 14

Barnstone, Willis.

Physical Description: 9 items.

Scope and Content Note

December 26, 1962
March 30,1963
April 29, 1963
October 4, 1963
November 10, 1963
December 8, 1963
July 27, 1966
May 30, 1968, February 6, n.d.

Box 8, Folder 15

Beals, Carleton.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

December 28, 1950.

Box 8, Folder 16

Chase, Stuart.

Physical Description: 3 items.

Scope and Content Note

September 26, 1956
January 16, 1967
January 28, 1972

Box 8, Folder 17

Cole, Lois Dwight (The MacMillan Company).

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

March 5, 1935.

Box 8, Folder 18

Conroy, Jack.

Physical Description: 4 items.

Scope and Content Note

September 27, 1962
November 4, 1962
September 28, 1971
April 9, 1975

Box 8, Folder 19

De Conde, Alex.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Scope and Content Note

February 1, 1972
December 12, 1973

Box 8, Folder 20

Dos Passos, John.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Scope and Content Note

September 15, 1952
September 23, 1952

Box 8, Folder 21

Eoyang, Eugene (Doubleday & Company Incorporated).

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

November 13, 1963.

Box 8, Folder 22

Fillmore, Louise (Macdowell Associates).

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

May 10, 1949.

Box 8, Folder 23

Fraenkel, Michael.

Physical Description: 1 item (& 1 copy).

Scope and Content Note

September 10, 1950 (With another copy).

Box 8, Folder 24

Gardner, David Pierpont.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

July 11, 1973.

Box 8, Folder 25

Gessler, Clifford. 2 items (& 2 copies).

Scope and Content Note

November 25, 1947 (2 copies)
December 8, 1950

Box 8, Folder 26

Gorman, Herbert, 3 items (& 2 copies).

Scope and Content Note

March 5, 1940
July 11, 1948 (and 2 copies)
May 3, 1949

Box 8, Folder 27

Hicks, Granville.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

March 27, 1970.

Box 8, Folder 28

Kerr, Chester (Harcourt, Brace & Company).

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

October 26, 1939.

Box 8, Folder 29

Kirk, Russell (The University Bookman).

Physical Description: 9 items.

Scope and Content Note

April 26, 1963
April 18, 1965
January 3, 1968
June 5, 1969
November 14, 1973
February 18, 1974
April 7, 1974
December 5, 1975
August 15, 1982

Box 8, Folder 30

Matthews, Diane.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

26 March 1973.

Box 8, Folder 31

Maxwell, Allen ( Southwest Review).

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

February 5, 1948.

Box 8, Folder 32

Mayer, John (Farrar, Straus & Company).

Physical Description: 2 items.

Scope and Content Note

March 16, 1949 (original letter)
March 16, 1949 to MacDowell Colony.

Box 8, Folder 33

Michener, James.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Scope and Content Note

April 18, 1988
June 7, 1988

Box 8, Folder 34

Montgomery, Rutherford.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

May 3, 1963.

Box 8, Folder 35

Pearce, Charles.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

September 14, 1935.

Box 8, Folder 36

Phillips, Howard S. ( Mexican Life).

Physical Description: 2 items.

Scope and Content Note

April 18, 1944
June 15, 1971

Box 8, Folder 37

Poland, Reginald. (Atlanta Art Associates).

Physical Description: 2 items.

Scope and Content Note

September 4, 1959
March 23, 1961

Box 8, Folder 38

Powell, Desmond ( Arizona Quarterly).

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

October 22, 1948.

Box 8, Folder 39

Quinn, Kerker ( Accent).

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

May 13, 1944.

Box 8, Folder 40

Ransom, John Crowe ( The Kenyon Review).

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

March 8, 1948 (and 1 copy).

Box 8, Folder 41

Roeder, Ralph.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Scope and Content Note

November 14, 1950
July 28, 1951

Box 8, Folder 42

Rothenberg, William L. (Carnegie Fund for Authors).

Physical Description: 2 items.

Scope and Content Note

May 10, 1961
January 25, 1973

Box 8, Folder 43

Stokes Company (Frederick A.).

Physical Description: 2 items.

Scope and Content Note

September 1, 1939
January 8, 1940

Box 8, Folder 44

Sinclair, Upton.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Scope and Content Note

February 18, 1952 (and another copy)
March 21, 1952

Box 8, Folder 45

Tannenbaum, Frank.

Physical Description: 5 items.

Scope and Content Note

October 5, 1950
May 28, 1954
November 16, 1955
October 18, 1961
May 8, 1963.

Box 8, Folder 46

Tillotson, M.R. (National Park Service).

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

March 31, 1936.

Box 8, Folder 47

Tomasic, Irene.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

n.d.

Box 8, Folder 48

Trutner, Kathryn (Doubleday, Doran & Company).

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

January 30, 1933.

Box 8, Folder 49

Unwin, Stanley (Allen & Unwin Ltd.).

Physical Description: 2 items.

Scope and Content Note

March 9, 1942 (Unwin to PAB)
January 18, 1939 (copy of transcript only from Ford Madox Ford to Unwin)

Box 8, Folder 50

Walsh, Mrs. Richard J.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

February 16, 1951.

Box 8, Folder 51

Wheelock, John Hall (Charles Scribner's sons).

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

April 10, 1951.

Box 8, Folder 52

Woodburn, John.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

August 3, 1945.

Box 8, Folder 53

Wolfe, Don M.

Physical Description: 3 items.

Scope and Content Note

June 25, 1970
May 20, 1971 (DMW to John Meyer)
May 20, 1971 (DMW to PAB)

Box 8, Folder 54

Zavala, Silvio.

Physical Description: 4 items.

Scope and Content Note

May 13, 1953
December 12, 1966
December 5, 1973
July 3, 1974

Box 8, Folder 55

Zuno, Jose G. (Escuela de Bells Artes).

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

August 25, 1949.

Journals by PAB

Journals by Paul Bartlett, 1923-1948

Note

(Additions, November 1984)

Box 3, Folder 1

1923.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 3, Folder 1

1925.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 3, Folder 2

1928.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 3, Folder 2

1926-1928.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 3, Folder 3

1928-1940.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 3, Folder 4

1942.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 3, Folder 4

1942.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 3, Folder 5

1943.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 3, Folder 5

1944.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 3, Folder 6

1947.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 3, Folder 6

1948.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Journals by Paul Bartlett, 1949-1972

Note

(Additions, November 1984)

Box 4, Folder 1

1950.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 4, Folder 1

1949.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 4, Folder 2

1951-1952.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 4, Folder 3

1953.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 4, Folder 3

1954.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 4, Folder 4

1955-1956.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 4, Folder 4

1956-1960.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 4, Folder 5

1963-1964.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 4, Folder 5

1965-1968.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 4, Folder 6

1969-1970.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 4, Folder 6

1970-1971.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 4, Folder 7

1971.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Journals by Paul Bartlett, 1973-1983

Note

(Additions, November 1984)

Box 5, Folder 1

1973.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 5, Folder 1

1974.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 5, Folder 2

1975.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 5, Folder 2

1977-1978.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 5, Folder 3

1979.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 5, Folder 3

1978-1979.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 5, Folder 4

1979.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 5, Folder 4

1979-1980.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 5, Folder 5

1980.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 5, Folder 5

1980-1981.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 5, Folder 6

1981.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 5, Folder 6

1982.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 5, Folder 7

1982.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 5, Folder 7

1983.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Poetry and Miscellaneous Prose by PAB, Photograph Albums, genealogy Material

Note

(Additions, November 1984)

Box 6, Folder 1

Poetry and miscellaneous prose pieces by Paul Bartlett. v.p. 1941-1948.

Physical Description: ca. 100 leaves. Holograph.

Photograph Albums

Physical Description: (2 items)

Box 6, Folder 2

1923-1943.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

Generally family photographs.

Box 6, Folder 2

Mexico, 1941-1942.

Physical Description: 2 items.

genealogy Material

Physical Description: (3 items)

Box 6, Folder 3

Bartlett coat of arms

Box 6, Folder 3

Postcard, 1660

Scope and Content Note

Bartlett House, Manomet. Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Box 6, Folder 3

Bartlett, Robert Merrill. Pilbrim Robert Bartlett (1603-1676) and some of his descendants, c. 1966.

Physical Description: 26pp.

Scope and Content Note

Plymoth, Massachusetts: Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlett of Plymoth, Incorporated.

Unpublished Writings by PAB

Box 6, Folder 7

The White Cactus. Santa Barbara, n.d.

Physical Description: 232pp.

Scope and Content Note

Bound Typescript with list of the author's publications.

Box 7, Folder 1

Black Aspirins. San Diego, n.d.

Physical Description: 233pp. Typescript with some photocopy pages.

Scope and Content Note

With original pen and ink illustration for frontispiece.

Box 7, Folder 2

Wherehill. San Diego, n.d.

Physical Description: 222pp. Photocopy of typescript.

Scope and Content Note

With typescript preface laid in novel and holograph memoir, Christmas at Wherehill [incomplete].
With original pen & ink illustration My father's world signed by PAB.

Box 7, Folder 3

The H-Man. San Diego, 1982.

Physical Description: 240pp. Photocopy of typescript.

Scope and Content Note

With list of publications, copies of reviews of When the Owl Cries and a letter of re transmittal to an unnamed publisher.

Box 7, Folder 6

Tepui. n.p., June 11, 1989.

Physical Description: 32pp. Photocopy of typescript and holograph manuscript.

Scope and Content Note

PAB's last work.

Short Story

Box 8, Folder 9

Exile. n.p., n.d.

Physical Description: 6pp. Photocopy of typescript manuscript.

Note

Unpublished?

Trio

Box 7, Folder 4

Burning Glass. San Diego, April 9, 1985.

Physical Description: 63pp. Typescript and photocopy of typescript.

Scope and Content Note

Part two of Bartlett's unpublished Trio. Original manuscript is at the American Heritage Center.

Box 7, Folder 5

Campeta. n.p., revised by PAB March 27, 1989.

Physical Description: 69pp. Photocopy of typescript and holograph manuscript.

Scope and Content Note

With copies of 7 pen and ink illustrations by PAB. Part 3 of PAB's Trio. The original manuscript is at the American Heritage Center.

Voices From the Past

Box 6, Folder 4

Christ's Journal. n.p., n.d.

Physical Description: 124pp. Photocopy of typescript on yellow paper.

Box 6, Folder 5

Shakespeare's Journal: A Film Novel. Colima, Mexico, n.d.

Physical Description: 227pp. Bound typescript with holograph corrections.

Box 6, Folder 6

Abraham Lincoln's Journal. San Diego, n.d.

Physical Description: 179pp. Typescript title page & list of quotations. Photocopy of typed manuscript.

Scope and Content Note

With reproduction of Gettysburg Address and original pen and ink sketch by PAB for frontispiece.

Published Writings by PAB

Box 7, Folder 7

The Haciendas of Mexico.

Scope and Content Note

Folder of background materials. Published by University of Colorado Press, 1990.

Box 7, Folder 8

The Haciendas of Mexico.

Scope and Content Note

Proof copy. Corrected April 17, 1989.

Box 9, Folder 1

When the Owl Cries.

Scope and Content Note

Reviews and excerpts from reviews, ca. 1960-1961, on oversize pasteup board.

Non-Fiction

Box 8, Folder 4

The Hacienda Mansions.

Scope and Content Note

Mexican Life, vol.46 no.4 (April 1970), pp.11-12.

Short Story

Box 8, Folder 1

Chickering.

Scope and Content Note

Unusual, 1955, pp.27-32.

Box 8, Folder 2

Ancient Seeds.

Scope and Content Note

Southwest Review, (Winter 1958), pp.37-45.

Box 8, Folder 3

Diosbotic.

Scope and Content Note

Mexican Life, vol.45 no.3 (March 1979), pp.7-8.

Box 8, Folder 5

The Inner Ear.

Scope and Content Note

Mexican Life, vol.46 no.11 (November 1970), pp.7-8.

Box 8, Folder 6

The Inner Ear.

Scope and Content Note

Southwest Review, vol.67 no.3 (Summer 1982), pp.282-286.

Box 8, Folder 7

Against the Wall.

Scope and Content Note

Dalhousie Review, (Winter 1983), pp.651-658. Photocopy of published story.

Box 8, Folder 8

The Last Gun.

Scope and Content Note

Wind Magazine, vol.15 no.55 (1985), pp.54-60. Photocopy of published story.

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