Fletcher family genealogy, travel ephemera, passports, letters of recommendation, biography, circa 1950-2000
Desk and wall calendars, writing timetable, 1960-1972
Calendars, house papers, travel material, 1971-2000
Travel material, Carmel Valley material, West Buckland School, divorce documents, mining companies information for shareholders, 1980-2000
Awards, 1988, or no date
Notebooks, personal miscellany, no date
Series 2 Correspondence, circa 1953-2004, or no date
Correspondents A-E, incl. Audio Press, Backpacker Magazine, Explorers Club, fan mail, circa 1964-2000
Correspondents F-L, incl. Fort Ord closure, Glen Canyon Environmental Impact Statement, Grand Canyon (movie), Hatton Canyon Freeway, circa 1972-1998
Correspondents L-O, incl. "Politicians", Outdoor Magazine, Outdoor Retailer, circa 1967-2002
Correspondents P-S, incl. the Sierra Club, rejection slips, notes from publixhers, circa 1953-2001
Correspondents S-W, incl. Space flight, Vintage Editions, F. F. Williams (father), circa 1965-2003
F.F. Williams (father), World War II Commando Unit & "F Troop", circa 1932-1999
Unsorted letters, 1954-1998
1954-1975
1976-1984
1985-1992
1992-1998
Christmas cards, Get Well cards, 1999-2004, or no date
Fan mail, circa 1964-2004
Series 3 Writings, circa 1949-2001, or no date
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Subseries 1 Monographs, circa 1958-2000, or no date
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
Arrangement
The Thousand-Mile Summer - Typescript with corrections, notes, possible titles, no date
The Thousand-Mile Summer - Typescripts "1", "2", "The Walk" and "Off The Road" with corrections, notes, correspondence, circa 1959-1964
The Thousand-Mile Summer and "Off The Road" - Clean typescripts, royalty statements, correspondence, circa 1958-2000
Lonesome Road [ The Thousand-Mile Summer] - Typescript manuscript with corrections, notes, circa 1961
Lonesome Road [ The Thousand-Mile Summer] - Typescript manuscript pages with corrections, notes, circa 1961
Lonesome Road [ The Thousand-Mile Summer] - typescript manuscript with corrections, notes, paperback subsidiary rights, retail sales, circa 1961-1987
The Man Who Walked Through Time - Manuscript pages with notes, corrections, no date
Man Who Walked Through Time - Manuscript and typescript pages with notes, corrections, circa 1964
The Man Who Walked Through Time - Typescript with corrections, notes, circa 1964
The Man Who Walked Through Time - Typescript pages with corrections, notes, circa 1964
The Man Who Walked Through Time - Poster, typescript pages with corrections, notes, circa 1964-1980
The Man Who Walked Through Time - Typescript with corrections, notes, post publication correspondence, circa 1964-1988
Book of Walking [ The Complete Walker] - Manuscript notes, diary entries, research, planning, reviews, circa 1964-1973
Book of Walking [ The Complete Walker] - Manuscript pages with notes, corrections, circa 1964-1970
Book of Walking [ The Complete Walker] - Correspondence, outlines, manuscript pages with corrections, notes, 1964-1968, or no date
Book of Walking [ The Complete Walker] - Manuscript with corrections, notes, copy 2 of typescript, no date
Book of Walking or The Complete Walker - Galley proofs, copy 3 of typescript, circa 1968-1969
The Complete Walker - Manuscript pages and typescript with corrections, post-publication material, circa 1968-1973
The Complete Walker - Galley proofs, 1st edition and revised 1st edition, annotated, circa 1968
The Complete Walker - Galley proofs, revised first edition and marked set, circa 1968
The New Complete Walker - Fan mail, ideas from readers, post-publicity, propaganda, reviews, subsidiary rights, 1969-1984
Complete Walker II [ New Complete Walker] - Correspondence; research on food, life vests, battery life, sleepings, and including " A Structural Analysis of Selected Backpack Frames" by Ron Barstad; sources, water needs, typescript pages with corrections, 1972-1974
Complete Walker II [ New Complete Walker] - Final corrected typescript, notes, circa 1974-1975
Complete Walker II [ New Complete Walker] - Grand Canyon notes (photocopies), correspondence, research, final galley proofs, 2 annotated copies of 1971 edition, circa 1968-1975
Complete Walker II [ New Complete Walker] - Research material (gear catalogs), circa 1963-1973
The Complete Walker III - Research backup and notes, correspondence, circa 1975-1983
The Complete Walker III - Research backup & correspondence, circa 1976-1983
The Complete Walker III - Transcriptions of research tapes, research backup & correspondence, circa 1981-1985
The Complete Walker III - Research material, backups, notes & correspondence, circa 1983-1985
The Complete Walker III - Working papers, correspondence, illustrations, jacket & index, pre-publication, promotion, circa 1974-1998
The Complete Walker III - Working papers, manuscript pages with corrections and edits, circa 1983-1985
The Complete Walker III - Annotated typescript, Betty's typed index, circa 1983-1985, and no date
The Complete Walker III - Annotated typescripts, circa 1983-1985
The Complete Walker III - Typescript & galley proofs, circa 1983-1985
The Complete Walker III - Final typescript, circa 1983
The Complete Walker III - Annotated manuscript photocopies, revised proofs, circa 1983
The Complete Walker III - Working galley and revised proofs, no date
The Complete Walker III - Working galley proofs, previous editions with corrections and edits, circa 1983
The Complete Walker IV - Manuscript & Acknowledgemnts, no date
The Complete Walker IV - Draft #2 & notes, no date
The Complete Walker IV - Typescript, Draft #3, circa 2000-2001
The Complete Walker IV - Typescript, final draft, correspondence, circa 1985-2001
The Complete Walker IV - Correspondence; Africa - The Winds of Mara - Pre-publication, illustrations, correspondence, manuscript with corrections, circa 1967-2001
Research materials - Africa [ The Winds of Mara] - Maps, trip diaries, Mountain Travel, Inc. correspondence, circa 1960-1973
Africa [ The Winds of Mara]- Manuscript, notes, notebook, circa 1967[?]-1973
Africa [ The Winds of Mara]- Manuscript with corrections, notes, circa 1970-1973, and no date
Africa [ The Winds of Mara] - Original artwork, Flor Pereañez, Tom Harris, manuscript with corrections, & notes, propaganda, post-publication; The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - articles, propaganda, post-publication, circa 1966-1985, and no date
The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - "Dead working papers Box II" - Manuscript pages with corrections, notes, research, circa 1975-1981
The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - "Dead working papers Box II" & "Trunkman - Dead Papers" - Manuscript pages with corrections, notes, research, circa 1975-1981
The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - "Dead Papers" - Manuscript pages with corrections, notes, research, circa 1975-1981
The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - "Dead Papers - Trunkman III" - Manuscript pages with corrections, notes, research, circa 1975-1981
The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - "Dead working papers Box II" - Manuscript pages with corrections, notes, research, circa 1975-1981
The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - Working papers - Manuscript pages with corrections, notes, research, circa 1975-1981
The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - Working papers - Revised manuscript pages with corrections, notes, circa 1975-1981
The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - "Typescript photocopy (end), memo pad, "Chronology - Bill's Life," pre-publication, map for book, "Appendices", circa 1975-1981
The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - Working papers - Manuscript pages with corrections, notes, research, circa 1975-1981
The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - Working papers - Manuscript pages with corrections, notes, research, photographs, circa 1975-1981
The Man from the Cave, 1989 ed. [Trunkman] [?] - Working papers - "Desert", circa 1987-1989
The Man from the Cave, 1989 ed. [Trunkman] [?] - Working papers - Manuscript pages with corrections, notes, research, photographs, circa 1987-1989
The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - "T'man IV" working papers, circa 1975-1981
The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - "T'man IV" working papers, typescript photocopy, circa 1975-1981
The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - Galleys, proofs, circa 1975-1981
The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher [SWCF] - Pre-publication & publicity, "Walking With Colin", circa 1980-1989
The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher [SWCF] - Typescript, master set, "foul" proofs, circa 1987-1989
The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher [SWCF] - Typescript, proofs with corrections, notes, circa 1987-1989
River - CF's files, "Logistics & Schedule", "Clothing", "Equipment" notes, etc., no date
River - CF's files, "RB - Researched Material", notes, etc., no date
River - CF's files - River Rafting - Permits, map sources, food information, "READ", photography, Green & Colorado Rivers log, Mississippi pre-river rafting, American Airlines (Jeff Peachey), no date
River - Articles, notes, location information, research materials, 2nd Montana trip, "River R7", "River R10", "River 19 RN", river rafting - Colorado, correspondence, photographs, post-publication, circa 1968-1999
River - Research material re: Colorado River & Grand Canyon, correspondence & notes, circa 1988-1997
River - Manuscript pages, typescript pages with corrections, etc. [original order], no date
River - Final galleys (corrected), promotion, memo pad, uncorrected proof, Knopf material, circa 1996-1997
River - Front matter & Chapters 1-22 typescripts, Bank Copy [final copy], promotion, circa 1995-1997
River - Main notes from Colorado R3.1 Writings: River Trip, 1989-1990
River - Colorado Raft Trip [RBTAPE19-35] Tape Transcription, manuscript with corrections & notes, circa 1989-1990
"Green World - WWCII - River" - Notes, correspondence, old Walking notes, circca 1971-1987
"Papers of Grace" [re: The Man From the Cave, Grace O. Mazeris - correspondence, legal documents, "Trails & trials" by Ruby Young & Grace O. Mazeris, writings, clippings; The Man From the Cave: A Play by George Crowe - draft, script, correspondence, circa 1940-1951, 1984
The Thousand Mile Summer: possible titles; "Follow My Shadow" manuscript pages with corrections, notes; "The Outdoorsman's Medical Guide" by Alan Nourse, M.D. (typescript), no dates
"The Colorado" - not for "River", circa 1964-1975
Colorado River Basin River Mile Index, Maps re: Colorado River Basin & Grand Canyon, no date
"It's the Altitude" manuscript, typescript with notes, corrections, rejection correspondence; "The Dream" First Arrangement; "Go Small, Go Slow, Go Simple"; "Whitewater Backpacking", circa 1952-1955, 1960-1969, or no date
"Death Trap on the Devil's Playground", "Double Life of the Rattler: In Fearful, Fancy and Solid Fact", "I've Rediscovered Walking", "June 6th, 1964", "The Placid, Un-Eager Beaver", "Why I Use a Walking Staff When Backpacking" - manuscripts with corrections, notes; Rattlesnakes - manuscripts with corrections & notes, circa 1960-1969
"Alaska", "Lightning Strike on Bugaboo Spire", "More Than a Day's Walk"; "Pathway in the Sky" book review typescript with corrections, notes; "The Butterflies of Michoacan" ["Monarchs"], "Turtles", circa 1963-1986
"A Time For Resolution" - multiple manuscripts, typescripts, "A Trinity of Troubles", "A=E+h", "Monkey Business", "Only the Years Can Build" - manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, "The Man and the Music", "The Other Road" (with old versions under different titles), "Britain's Narrow Boats are Foundering", "Diary of an Affair", "Jo Post-Jo", circa 1955-1980
"Dark Mischief", "Don't Let Gadgets Get In the Way", "America's Universal Mammal", "Backpack Food: A Calculating Approach", "Come and Get Me", "Double Take", "In the Beginning was the Number", "Johnny Takes a Trip", "Living Alone", "Nothing's a Treat When It's Always", "Plants That Feed on Animals" (carnivorous plants), "Spiders", "The Most Unforgetable Character I've Ever Met", "The Patient, Death-dealing Doodlebug", "The Rounded Square House", "Yes Always Look it in the Mouth", "Passing the Brake", Taking the Mike", "Tall but True: A Day's Roach Fishing", "Animals and Your Camera", "The Perfect Squelch", "All Gassed up and Nowhere to go", "Jack Scott and Mau Mau", "Bulldozing", "The Stenographer's Legacy", "The Car", "Grunks", Odds and Ends, Queries, concepts, 3 ads submitted to Mad Magazine, circa 1956-1968
"Battle of the Bandages" (tennis article/book), "Bay", "Bed" (Letters from Bed), "Galapagos", "Garden" book, "How to Stay Clean, Be-gardened & Happy on 50 Gallons a Day", "Lasrever Emit", "Sanctuary", "The Jam" - San Clemente Dam, "The Pleasures of Living Alone by Choice", "The Purist", "The Still Small Voice at the Eye of the Hurricane", "Thusly Said Jereboa", "Wings"; Articles, phrases, ideas, concepts, "Odd Notes (Probably worthless)", circa 1957-1996, and undated
"Hills" Chapters 1-9, J1-M44, "In His Own Image" manuscript, typescript with corrections, notes, "John Muir's a Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf", "Mrs. Merriman Meets Her Grunks", Road to the River", notes on birds, circa 1960-2000
"A Bend in the Road", "A Christmas Story", "A Good Prospect", "A River's a Two-Face", "An Invitation" to "A Quiet Light" by John Sexton, "How to Give Her the Fishing Bug", "In Search of 59", "Jonathan Somebody Seagull", "Let the Earth Live", "Life Photo Text", "Like Father Like Son", "My First Steelhead", "Returning to Kenya (& UK)", "Suds Fishing", "The Beginner", "Under the Dragon Rock", "Up the River and Into the Trees", "Why Can't All Our Hospitals Be More Like This?", "Wronging by Writing", circa 1948-1998
"The Man Who Walked Through Wine", "2nd Time Around", "Don't Seal Off Those Labyrinths, Brother, Maybe They're All We Got", "From the Fish's Point of View", "I Married My Binoculars To My Camera", "I Walked the Length of Unspoiled California", "Shops That Pass in the Night", "The Rolling English Road", "What People Are Talking About in... England", "Think Like a Fish", "What's It Like Being a Real Santa Claus?", "Whitewater Backpacking", Wadell Creek, Grand Canyon story proposal, possible story ideas, circa 1956-1969, and no date
"Sitting There, Waiting", "The Los Diablos Riots", "B&W" [backpacking stories], "Concerto For Two Ordinary People", Lecture: "Lonesome Road [TMS]", lecture: Y.P.O. East Central Regional Conference in Vail, Colorado, Backpacker Magazine correspondence, published article tear sheets, Reader's Digest possible story ideas, circa 1950-2000
"Poems and Such" (manuscripts with corrections and correspondence), "Mojave" TV documentary - part of the story, "Moon Walking And Scorpions", "Surplice Syndrome" or "Surplus Surpluses", "The Man Who Walked Through Time" movie possibility, "The Lake" [Colin's Lake], "The Very Last Wilderness Trail Guide [TG]", "Three Men" or "Three Well-Known Men", "What a Wonderful Civilization We've Built! ... It?", Grand Canyon notes & miscellany, 1955-1990, or no date
"Hot Backpacking Beside a Wild River - and In It Too", "On the Crest of the West", "All This and Heaven Too?", "Elk on the Sidewalk", "Looking Back", "What a Way to Earn a Living", The Trend Towards Beards", "The Oral", "Roebuck Gets Away With It", "Toward the Peaks", short story ideas and notes, Articles about Fletcher (magazine and newspaper tearsheets), 1949-1991
"Backtrekking", Branwood [btBRAN.doc], Wellsprings & Branwood, preface material, Wales [bt2WALES.doc and WALES/Old Wales], no date
"Backtrekking", [GEN/WALES/ECHOES/Footprints], Wales [bt32wales.doc], "Beware the Expectancy Barrier", "Bobber Boffin", "Photo Finish", "Shouldn't Someone Tell LBJ", "The Man & the Music", "The Many Colors of Our Inner Lives", "Woof", fillers, ideas, concepts, title possibilities & notes, 1957-1969, or no date
"Airwaves" [What is the Future of Old, Threatened Civilization] manuscript, "Living the Rest of Your Life", "The Butterflies of Michoacan" manuscript, "The Man From the Cave" [re: Schmueller Smithsonian article on the book], "Ugly and Useless", "This TIme a Grand Canyon House" (Material on "Back-Packing in Grand Canyon" etc.), Fletcher's miscellaneous files: Mulloy, Gardnar, tennis, endorsement request for Soft Paths, Knowledge Symposium in San Jose, Peak Performance - Charles Garfield, The Self-Organizing Universe - Erich Jantsen, Therm-a-rest leak issue, White Rock Club - Carmel, Ventana, circa 1964, 1980-1992
"Changing Times At the Old Cave Temple" manuscript with corrections, "Living in China" manuscript with travel diaries, correspondence, Adventure Travel article "Slightly Footloose on the Mongolian Grasslans" manuscript with corrections, notes, Miscellaneous files on China travel: cassettes and guide, research materials, photos by George Holton, 1979-1982
American Hiking Society, articles and ideas, possible RD articles, UCLA Green World Convention, 1977-1979, and no date
Proposing a Book: "Poems and Such" - photocopy & correspondence, misc. notes, no date
Illustrations, no date
"Echoes I" [Shambles] - manuscript pages with corrections, notes, no date
"Shambles" manuscript, correspondence, notes; Canada, childhood, Discipline & Freedom, Setting Back on Feet, Kenya, postwar interlude, resume, Return to Kenya (& UK) - Success, Jo, war, school, circa 1983-1986
"Shambles" - "For relocation: chap[ter]s", possible titles, notes, tentative thoughts on new Shambles, "Ch. 10 Success", "Ch. 11 Losing way/ Pre-Troubles", "Ch. 12 Lilith Post-Troubles", "Ch. 13 Finale", Returns to WBS, autobiographical notes about CF, circa 1983-2001
Autobiography - "A Funny Thing...", "Father & Mother", "Rouse, Alfred Arthur + The Blazing Car Murder", "1st Idaho-Montana Trip, July-Aug 1986", notes, notes about CF with Carl comments, Parstonian Grammar School, Research correspondence, tentative chapters, Footprints, Spare, Beginnings or childhood, Footprints, WALE, Spare, circa 2000-2001
Autobiography - "Poems", "The Valley, Late Valley", Berkeley, Africa, Astronomer, Canada, Late, ACSD Admiralty: False start, 1939-1940, Cambridge - Unfolding 1930-1934, M2, San Francisco, Starvecrow, War, Buckland learning 1934-1939, Echo one from Wales, UK Summer 1961, notes, circa 2000-2001
Cassettes #1-35 for Colorado Raft Trip & "Misc. stuff from before and during [river] trip", circa 1989-1990
Books on tape; audiocassettes, no date
Topo maps #1-13, Colorado River, Lake Mead, Lake Powell, Cataract Canyon, Lake Havasu, Grand Canyon, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, circa 1970-2000
California, "Thousand Mile Summer", circa 1970-2000
Alaska, California, Arizona, Nevada, general United States, circa 1970-2000
Canada, England, Germany, Mexico, circa 1950-2000
"Selection of Instructional Climbing Photographs, Commando Cliff Assault Centre, England", "The Man Who Walked Through Time", "Trunkman", aerial views of Normandy, Canada, Colin Fletcher, F.F.Williams [step-father], Fishing, Landscape, Margaret Elizabeth [mother], Sonya Marie ashe [1st wife], circa 1944-1992
Photographs of Colin Fletcher, miscellaneous subjects, Photo Stories, "Thousand Mile Summer", circa 1940-2007
Photographs of mostly British Columbia, fishing, camping snapshots, and contact sheets, circa 1953-1956
Photographs for "Trunkman" research, Palo Verde, Garnet, Imperial Valley, Ripley, CA, claim sites, documents, plaques, Bill Simmons, Braddock, British Columbia, Vancouver Island, Nitinat, Canada, Colin Fletcher working, fishing, Grace Simons "Trunkman", Juan "Trunkman", Kenya, Northwest, Vancouver, British Columbia, San Francisco, The Pittburgh Bible 5, Circle K - new house, snowfall March 3, 1976, Carmel Valley, Colin Fletcher as "Santa" playing tennis, D-Day Normandy "45" Vintage Association Reunion, Judy's visit, Philip Lyle's 80th Birthday party, Turtle Creek, circa 1953-2007
Photograph Albums: 1900-1929 - Mother's 1st marriage, Colin's birth, childhood, few pictures of biological Father; 1937-1945 - Margaret Fletcher Williams & Frank F. Williams, 2nd marriage; 1940-1945 - Margaret Fletcher Williams; May-June 1945 - Colin E. Fletcher - Germany to England - War's end; June 1945 - March 1946 - Fishing & Military Assignments; March 1946-May 1948 - Colin E. Fletcher & Sonya M. Ashe Fletcher - Early years of marriage from Cornwall to Africa; March 1948-1952 - Colin E. Fletcher - Africa, Kitale, Farming, Cattle, Rongai, Molo River, Malini, Nakuru; 1952-1953 - Southern Rhodesia, Kenya, Italy, England, circa 1900-1953
Negatives, circa 1940-2007
Slides of the Grand Canyon, 1963-1964
Miscellaneous slides of Colorado, backpacking, "Pre-Kenya", Kern, Shasta, Bishop, Cascades, Bright Angel, "Pre-Grand Canyon", CF portraits, 1964-1967
Slides of Kenya, 1967-1968
Slides of 2nd Kenya trip, Needles, Sierra [Nevada], 1967-1970
Slides: Tennis championship, Buick, San Simeon, Big Horn sheep, Owens Valley, Los Angeles, to Europe Panama Canal, England, France, Spain, Ventana Rehabilitation, Alaska, Carmel Valley house, animals, bugs, spiders, Gear layout for The New Complete Walker, 1970-1979
Slides of China (1980), Carmel Valley: animals, bugs, people, Sunday portraits; Trunkman, 1980, and no date
Slides: 1000 Mile Summer, River; China, Ventana, Colin Fletcher portraits, Sierra, Mexico City, "Finish", 1958, 1980, 1989-1992, and no date
Miscellaneous slides: animals, San Francisco, people, Wine Country 1956-1959, Articles SF Walking Trips, Sea Fishing, Wyoming, Boronda & vicinity 1959-1961, England 1961, Canada 1955-1956, River 1989-1992, England & Canals 1961, Nitinat, Canada 1955-1956, 1955-1992
Slides: "Lonesome Road [TMS]" Rolls 1-18 (Mexico-Saratoga Springs), Rolls 19-30 (Saratoga Springs-Dead Horse MW), Rolls 19-42 (Dead Horse MW-Mt. Tallac; Calif. Coastline; Animals; Los Angeles; Yosemite, SF Walking Trips, Taylor St. SF, Sea Fishing, Wyoming, Wind River, Boronda & vicinity; Seals, Santa Claus, San Francisco, 1959-1961
Slides: "Lonesome Road [TMS]" Rolls 19-42 (Dead Horse MW - Mt. Tallac; Flowers, Lizards, Piutes, snakes; 2nd Montana Trip 1987; Santa Claus 1988, River Rafting 1988; Carmel Valley House & life 1989-1998; Ventana; Canada?, circa 1955-1998
"RR" slides of the Green and Colorado Rivers, circa 1989-1990
"RR" slides of the Green and Colorado Rivers, Vail 2000, Carmel Valley, and un-numbered slides, circa 1958-1961, and circa 1989-2000
Oversize photographs, no dates
The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - artifacts, circa 1975-1981
Miscellaneous realia, circa 1950-2000
Realia, no date