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UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

A Descriptive Inventory of the Wilfred Watson Fonds

Accession Number: 91-117 & 95-131

Lynn McPherson Spring, 2002

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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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Wilfred Watson Fonds 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 .............................................................................................. 17 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9

1945-1960 ......................................................................................................................................... 17 COCKCROW AND THE GULLS NOTEBOOKS ......................................................................................... 23 1961-1965 ......................................................................................................................................... 25 1966-1970 ......................................................................................................................................... 35 1971-1975 ......................................................................................................................................... 42 1976-1980 ......................................................................................................................................... 49 1981-1985 ......................................................................................................................................... 52 1986-1990'S ....................................................................................................................................... 66 APPOINTMENT CALENDARS/DAILY DIARIES....................................................................................... 68

2. Literary Drafts/Writings .............................................................................................. 74 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7

POETRY: NOTEBOOKS/MANUSCRIPTS ........................................................................................ 74 PLAYS ...................................................................................................................................... 140 SHORT STORIES/NOVEL............................................................................................................ 153 ESSAYS..................................................................................................................................... 156 BOOKS...................................................................................................................................... 157 MISCELLANEOUS MANUSCRIPT PAPERS/NOTES ....................................................................... 164 PUBLICATIONS .......................................................................................................................... 172

3. Sketches/Artwork ...................................................................................................... 180 4. Correspondence......................................................................................................... 184 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5

WILFRED WATSON TO SHEILA WATSON .................................................................................. 184 SHEILA WATSON TO WILFRED WATSON ................................................................................... 192 WILFRED WATSON'S PARENTS ................................................................................................. 193 CORRESPONDENCE - OTHERS ................................................................................................... 193 CORRESPONDENCE-MISCELLANEOUS ....................................................................................... 231

5. Student Records ........................................................................................................ 238 6. Reference Material/Material from Other Sources ..................................................... 242 5

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7. Personal Papers ......................................................................................................... 250 7.1 7.2

FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS ............................................................................................ 250 PROMOTIONAL ITEMS - WILFRED WATSON'S WORKS ............................................................... 251

8. Audio-Visual Records ............................................................................................... 256 8.1 8.2

SOUND RECORDINGS ................................................................................................................ 256 PHOTOGRAPHS ......................................................................................................................... 257

Index ............................................................................................................................... 266

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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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Wilfred Watson Fonds 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 11

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Poems was published in 1972. This volume of poetry experimented with using different 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, and literary theorist, has steadily conducted a one-man revolution in Canadian letters from the 1950s to the present. (pp 382)

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Wilfred Watson Fonds 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 records Series eight: Audio-Visual records, further divided into sound recordings and photographs The 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 13

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weather observation from his study window. The notebooks also held loose sheets of 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 (91117-1): -'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

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Reading notebook.

September 1946

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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

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Reading notebook [1949]. See call slip, interleaved inscribed: "Record of books read, looked at and noted to be read or procured". Includes three sheets of interleaved manuscript notes.

[1949]

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Journal with diary-like entries.

June 20, 1952March 21, 1955

1

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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, 1955March 16, 1955

1

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Journal

March 21, 1955May 3, 1955

1

10

Journal

May 14, 1955-May 4, 1956

1

11

Loose-leaf materials removed from journal (91-117- May 14, 1955-May 10): 4, 1956 -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

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

Sept. 1, 1955-Nov. 7, 1955

1

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'Rue Vignon' workbook.

Feb. 10, [1956]

1

14

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

May 5, [1956]

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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

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

[1956]

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16

Notebook - 'The Misfits'

[1956]

2

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Journal

May 10, 1956August 18, 1957

2

18

Loose-leaf materials removed from Journal (91117-17): -'Pour Theatre and French Humanism', handwritten, typescript, and sketches, 4 pp.

May 10, 1956August 18, 1957

2

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

1956-1957

2

20

Journal, brown book Journal, green book

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

2

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Journal

Feb. 17-March 29, 1958

2

22

Loose-leaf material removed from Journal (91-11721): -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

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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.

2

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Journal

March 29-April 26, 1958

2

24

Journal

April 30-June 25, 1958

2

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Journals (two)

July 1-August 9, 1958 August 11-Sept. 2, 1958

2

26

Notebooks (two) - first notebook titled "New Phrase Sept. 2-Oct. 7, Book" and includes phrases, names and sketches 1958 reversed from end of book. Oct. 26-Nov. 14, 1958

2

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Journal

Nov. 14-Nov. 23, 1958

2

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Notebook

Nov. 26, 1958-Feb. 16, 1959

2

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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

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Notebook

Sept. 6-Oct. 28, 1959

2

32

Loose-leaf material removed from Notebook (91117-31): -copy of article, "The Enchanted Pond" by George

Sept. 6-Oct. 28, 1959

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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. S. Perry -two pp. manuscript, re: sale of car, with drawings -manuscript draft in examination booklet for play about "King of all the Russians" 2

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Notebook

Oct. 29, 1959March 12, 1960

2

34

Loose-leaf material removed from Notebook (91117-33): -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, 1959March 12, 1960

2

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Notebook in Mountains in Colour volume

January 25, 1960

3

36

Loose-leaf material removed from Notebook (91117-35): -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 21

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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. "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 3

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Journal

March 14- August 11, 1960

3

38

Loose-leaf materials removed from Journal (91117-37): -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

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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 (91117-40): -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

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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.

3

42

Journal/Notebook

Nov. 15-Dec. 24, 1960

1.2 Cockcrow and the Gulls Notebooks Box # File #

Description

Date

[1955-1956]

Acc. #91-117 3

43

"A Skeleton of Cockcrow"

3

44

"Notes 'Cockcrow'", interleaved is a program from a December 16, 1955 University Drama Workshop

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…"

May 12, 1956

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Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -twelve pp. manuscript miscellaneous notes re Cockcrow -typescript "Lines", "because a ghost" -manuscript notes re Cockcrow 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" 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 (91117-52): -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

May 15, 1958

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Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 typescript interleaved, draft of poem,"Compassioned…" with drawing on back. 3

56

Stagebook of "'C' and the Gulls"

[1959]

3

57

Loose-leaf materials removed from Stagebook (91117-56): -examination booklet with manuscript drafts of "Some love we eye wants" and notes on first year students

[1959]

1.3 1961-1965 Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 4

58

Notebook

January-January 19, 1961

4

59

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-58): -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 (91117-60): -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 (91117-62):

April 2- June 19, 1961

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Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -program for production of Coriolanus -drawings "Spirit of Christmas" - three drawings of woman -typescript of poem, "The Well" 4

64

Notebook

August 23-Nov. 26, 1961

4

65

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91August 23117-64): November 26, 1961 -program for Wail for Two Pedestals -programs, rehearsal schedules for Under the Black Bridge -announcement of Studio Theatre production of The Visit

4

66

Spiral notebook

[1961]

4

67

Notebook

Dec. 6, 1961-June 21, 1962

4

68

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-67): -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 Gulls manuscript 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 (91117-69):

August 1 - Oct. 27, 1962

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Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 4

71

Notebook

Dec. 24, 1962-Jan. 6, 1963

4

72

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-71): -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 Gulls"

Dec. 24, 1962-Jan. 6, 1962

4

73

Notebook

March 12-April 15, 1963

4

74

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91March 12-April 15, 117-73): 1963 -information sheet on Kabuki theatre -two examination booklets with manuscript draft passages for play with characters Borch and Smorch

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 (91117-77): 27

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 (91117-79): -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 (91117-81): -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

July 22 - Dec. 9, 1963

5

83

Notebook

Oct. 17-Dec. 7, 1963

5

84

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-83): -examination booklet with manuscript notes on metaphysical verse

Oct. 17-Dec. 7, 1963

28

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 5

85

Notebook

Dec. 13, 1963-Jan. 3, 1964

5

86

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-85): -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, 1964

5

88

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-87): -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 (91117-89): -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

Feb. 8 - March 4, 1964

29

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 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 5

91

Notebook

March 4 - April 7, 1964

5

92

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91March 4 - April 7, 117-91): 1964 -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 -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 (91117-93): -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"

April 9 - May 14, 1964

30

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -three examination booklets with drawings and notes 5

95

Notebook

May 18 - June 24, 1964

5

96

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-95): -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 (91117-97): -two examination booklets with notes for From Cliché to Archetype

June 29 - July 5, 1964

5

99

Notebook

July 21 - Sept. 22, 1964

5

100

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-99): -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 (91117-101): -program for Studio Theatre Upstairs -examination booklet with manuscript draft re Edge -manuscript notes "Black pollen"

August 29 - Sept. 15, 1964

31

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -typescript one page "I shot a trumpet into my brain" -examination booklet with manuscript draft "I shot an arrow into my brain" 5

103

Notebook

Sept. 22 - Oct. 15, 1964

5

104

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-103): -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 (91117-105): -fourteen pp. typescript of short story "The slink pouvoir" -several pp. miscellaneous manuscript notes and drawings, re courses, Shakespeare and From Cliché to Archetype

Oct. 5 - Nov. 15, 1964

5

107

Notebook

Nov. 4 - Nov. 13, 1964

6

108

Notebook - "Wail for Two Pedestals", a farce in two Nov. 24- Dec. 10, parts 1964

6

109

Notebook

Dec. 13-17, 1964

6

110

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-109): -examination booklet with notes for English 640

Dec. 13-17, 1964

6

111

Notebook

Dec. 21-29, 1964

32

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 6

112

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-111): -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 (91117-114): -examination booklet with manuscript "As the moon gets the weep" -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

Jan. 7 - April 21, 1965

6

116

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

Jan 25 - Feb. 27, 1965

6

117

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-116): -one page manuscript poem "Reply to the question" -examination booklet manuscript poem, "She came

Jan. 25-Feb 27, 1965

33

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 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 6

118

Notebook

March 5 - May 4, 1965

6

119

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-118): -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

6

121

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-120): -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 (91117-122): -manuscript notes "Eve is jealous"

March 21 - June 16, 1965

34

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117

6

124

Notebook

Dec. 8, 1965 April 7, 1966

6

125

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-124): -one page drawing and watercolor -drawing on tailors' advertisement in envelope

Dec. 8, 1965-April 7, 1966

1.4 1966-1970 Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 6

126

Notebook, black softcover

February 1966

6

127

Notebook

April 6 - June 3, 1966

6

128

Notebook

April 12 - June 5, 1966

6

129

Notebook

April 27 - May 16, 1966

7

130

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-129): -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 (91117-131): -one page notes on casting Cockcrow and drawing

June 23- August 7, 1966

35

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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" 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 (91Sept. 19 - Oct. 31, 117-1340: 1966 -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"

7

136

Notebook

Nov. 2, 1966Jan.3, 1967

7

137

Notebook

Jan. 9 - April 5, 1967

7

138

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-137): -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

139

Notebook

April 8 - June 8, 36

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 1967 7

140

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-139): -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 (91117-141): -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

7

144

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-143): -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 37

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 June 12, 1968 7

146

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91Sept. 10, 1967 117-145): June 12, 1968 -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

7

147

Notebook

Dec. 16, 1967 Jan. 4, 1968

7

148

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-147): -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 1967January 1968

7

150

Notebook, as above

Jan. 4 - April 4, 1968

7

151

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-150): -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, 38

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 1968 8

153

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-152: -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 (91Nov. 28, 1968 117-156): Jan. 31, 1969 -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

8

158

Notebook, gray "C/A [Cliché/Archetype] retrieval

February 1969

8

159

Toronto Notebook, gray, hard cover

February 7 - March 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):

May 14, 1969

39

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -one sheet of miscellaneous notes and jottings 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 (91Nov. 27, 1969 117-166): Jan. 1, 1970 -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

8

168

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

8

169

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91[1969/1970] 117-168): -one page manuscript "Answer to Bruce Hohol" -examination booklet with two manuscript variations on "The Lord is my Shepherd" and notes -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"

40

[1969/1970]

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 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 (91117-172); -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 (91117-174): -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

Notebook Oversize 95-131-1, Box 1

June 21 - July 16, 1970

9

178

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-177): -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

41

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117

9

181

Notebook, blue, hard cover

Dec. 16, 1970 Feb. 20, 1971

9

182

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-181): -one sheet of notes about experimental booklet

Dec. 16, 1970 Feb. 20, 1971

1.5 1971-1975 Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 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 (91May 23 - July 17, 117-185): 1971 -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 -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

42

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 (91117-187): -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 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

July 14 - Nov. 17, 1971

43

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 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 (91117-190): -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 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

Feb. 9 - May 18, 1972

44

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 (91117-194): -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 (91117-196): -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

10

198

Notebook

Feb. 25 - April 5, 1973

10

199

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-198): -examination booklet with manuscript notes on 'Everyman' and Phedre -foolscap sheet with manuscript notes on

Feb. 25 - April 5, 1973

45

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 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 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 (91117-201): -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 April 3, 1974

11

206

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-205): -two pp. manuscript plan and two examination booklets notes and drafts for "The Place Marie Dialogues"

Oct. 22, 1973 April 3, 1974

46

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117

11

207

Notebook

Dec. 23, 1973 April 18, 1974

11

208

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-207): -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 (91117-210): -two pp. typescript "Construction, untitled, in two parts" and one page attached ms -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

July 23 - Nov. 28, 1974

47

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 23, 1975)

May 8 - June 21, 1975

11

215

Notebook

June 24 - July 27, 1975

48

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 11

216

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-215): -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

1.6 1976-1980 Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 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 August 15 1976)

Sept. 28 - Dec. 11, 1976

12

224

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-223):

Sept. 28 - Dec. 11, 1976

49

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -"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 12

225

Notebook, red, hard cover

Dec. 9, 1976 April 11, 1977

12

226

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-225): -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 (91117-228): -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

12

231

Notebook, blue, hard cover

Jan. 1 - March 27, 1978

50

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117

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 (91117-242): -two sheets of number-grid verse, "blinded by her own insights" -one sheet of notes, "dialogues with MM"

13

243A

Notebook, blue with ten pp. of manuscript 51

Dec. 14, 1980 -

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

fragments interleaved

1982 Dec. 22, 1980 Jan. 3, 1981

Acc. #91-117

14

244

Lagoon Notebook

14

245

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-244): -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 Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 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 (91117-248): -draft of letter to Diane Bessai

January 5, 1981

52

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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]

14

251

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91January 21, 1981 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

14

252

Lagoon Notebook #5

February 9, 1981

14

253

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-252): -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 (91117-254): -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 (91117-256): -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

53

January 21, 1981

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 14

258

Lagoon Notebook #8

March 15, 1981

14

259

Lagoon Notebook #9

March 28, 1981

14

260

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91March 28, 1981 117-259): -pastel drawing, titled "self portrait as logoshemisphere with the mythos-hemisphere round its neck" on the back of which is drafted a letter to Scot Taylor dated "3.eight LXXXI"

14

261

Lagoon Notebook #10

14

262

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91April 8/May 7, 117-261): 1981 -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…"

14

263

Lagoon Notebook #11

April 8/May 7, 1981

May 7, 1981

54

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 15

264

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-263): -manuscript of draft of poem, "my soul is extinguished" on back of envelope

May 7, 1981

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 (91117-266): -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 (91117-269); -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 (91July 15, 1981 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 55

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 "Oedipus the shepherd" -manuscript draft of poem, "portrait of peter 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 (91117-273); -manuscript draft of poem, "chas olsen is a firstgeneration 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 (91117-275); -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

56

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 15

277

Lagoon Notebook #19

August 29, 1981

15

278

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-276); -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

August 29, 1981

15

279

Lagoon Notebook #20

October 7, 1981

15

280

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-279); -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 (91117-281); -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

November 4, 1981

57

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 Bay…" 15

283

Lagoon Notebook #22

December 21, 1981

16

284

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-283); -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 1982 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 58

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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" -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 (91117-288): -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 (91117-290): -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 (91117-292): -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

May 23, 1982

59

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 woman"; manuscript notes for Gramsci on reverse -photocopy of Marshall McLuhan, "Five Sovereign Fingers taxed the breath" 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 (91117-294): -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 (91117-296): -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

October 20, 1982

60

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 manuscript outline of scenes for Gramsci x 2 -typescript draft of letter to bp nichol, September 8, 1982, on receiving special issue on "Notation" -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 (91117-298): -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

61

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117

16

300

Lagoon Notebook #3/3

December 12, 1982

16

301

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-300): -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"

December 12, 1982

17

302

Notebook/Daily Journal

1983

17

303

Inuit Agenda/Calendar

1983

17

304

Loose-leaf materials removed from Notebook (91117-303): -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

1983

62

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 "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 (91117-306); -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

April 13, 1983

63

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 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" 64

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 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

308

Inuit Agenda/Calendar

1984

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

1984

65

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -copy of letter to David Staines, Dec. 14 1984 -card with manuscript notes for play "Blancnoir" -line drawing "Hail Brian!" 17

310

1984 Daily Appointment Book , also used as diary 1985 yearbook, used as a diary

1984-1985

17

311

Inuit Agenda/Calendar

1985

1.8 1986-1990's Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 17

312

Inuit Agenda/Calendar

1986

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

314

Inuit Agenda/Calendar

1987

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

1987

66

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 17

316

Inuit Agenda/Calendar

1988

17

317

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

1988

18

318

Notebook One 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

67

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117

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 Ca. 1990's Art of Simulation"

18

328

Notebook; no title or date; "culture & imperialism…" on inside cover

Ca. 1990's

18

329

Notebook Draft letters and number-grid poetry

Ca. 1990's

18

330

Notebook, marbled green Three 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 softcover See Also: 95-131-187

n.d.

1.9 Appointment Calendars/Daily Diaries Box # File #

Description

Date

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, green

1961

68

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Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 Seven miscellaneous items interleaved 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

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 calendar Oversize 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

69

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Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117

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

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 72

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notebooks. There are also rough manuscript drafts numbering in the 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. A file listing follows.

73

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Series 2 Literary Drafts/Writings 2. Literary Drafts/Writings 2.1 Poetry: Notebooks/Manuscripts Box # File #

Description

Date

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"

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1940, 1950's

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Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -typescript of "Chrysanthemums" -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 75

1939, 1940's-1950's

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 first man's blossom is" (Prologue for "The Double Hook") -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" 76

1950's

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -two typescript versions "The pig" -six typescript and three manuscript drafts "Poems grow tired of us" -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 77

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Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 rhyme wants a blank prose" -two drafts of "Thinking of Montreal" -carbon typescript "To the Shadbolts, with six quinces from Duncan" -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 78

n.d.

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -pome of grief -pome of smells -pome of emblems -pome of sun -pome of cuckolds -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 unicorn 79

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Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 epilogue Letters to the bachelor of wire: -Of course some of this verse is fake -This is my fiftieth letter -When you sir -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 80

n.d.

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 -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 81

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Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 -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 n.d. 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 82

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Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 -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") 83

n.d.

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 -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 pheasant Jenny'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 84

n.d.

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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) -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 85

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Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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) -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 86

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Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 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 87

n.d.

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Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 -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 88

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Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 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

n.d.

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

n.d.

20

365

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

n.d.

89

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Box # File #

Description

Date

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"

n.d.

Acc. #91-117

20

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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 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 90

1953-1955

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Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 -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" 91

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Acc. #91-117 -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" -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 92

1956

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Date

Acc. #91-117 -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. -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" 93

1950's

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Date

Acc. #91-117 (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" -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 Poems Book 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 94

1950's-1960's

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Acc. #91-117 "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" -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" 95

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Acc. #91-117 -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 1960's-1975 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" -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" 96

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Acc. #91-117 -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" 21

373

Typescript with manuscript revisions of poems 1960's-1970's 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"

97

Wilfred Watson fonds

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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" -"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"

1960's, 1970's

Acc. #91-117 21

374

98

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Acc. #91-117 -"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") -"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 99

1960's, 1970's

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Acc. #91-117 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"

n.d.

21

377

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

1964-1971

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"

1967-1975

100

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Acc. #91-117 -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 "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" 101

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Acc. #91-117 -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" -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" 102

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Acc. #91-117 -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 "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 selfportrait" -one manuscript and two typescript versions "The 103

1966-1972

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Acc. #91-117 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…" -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" 104

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Acc. #91-117 -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 on a "Centennial" theme, and including: -sixteen brief number poems with manuscript of 11th poem -"Irving Layton" -Ralph Gustafson" -"Brother Canada"

Ca. 1967

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"

1960's, 1970's

105

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Acc. #91-117 -"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" 21

384

The Dark Village Unpublished 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" -"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"

n.d.

22

388

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

n.d.

106

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Date

Acc. #91-117 poem) 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 1970's, 1980's 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 its satisfactions but…" -typescript "For Anne, who brought tulips" -manuscript draft "an apparition of new mankind" -manuscript and typescript versions "re antiSemitism 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" 107

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Acc. #91-117 -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" -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 108

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Date

Acc. #91-117 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 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" 109

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Acc. #91-117 -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 twovoiced 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" -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" 110

1970's, 1980's

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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" -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 111

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 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" -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" 112

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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: -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" 113

1970's, 1980's

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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" -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 114

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 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" -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" 115

1970's, 1980's

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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") -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 116

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 "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" -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" 117

1970's, 1980's

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 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" 118

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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 25121, using one or two words per line for each of fourteen slots

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

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

1970's, 1980's

119

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 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" -"re space as a rope of relations" -"pseudo-hokku" -"re the morning of april fourteenth" -"pseudo-hokku october 21 1976" 120

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -"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 1970's, 1980's 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" -"edmonton spaces the tory building" -"edmonton spaces a full moon" -"edmonton spaces the vertical sun" 121

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -"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" -one fragment [pg. two]

122

Ca. 1977

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 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" -" re indira gandhi" (three copies)

1970's, 1980's

123

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -"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

23

404

Typescript and manuscript sheets of number-grid 1976-1979, 1988poems: 1989 -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" 124

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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/constructions Honku 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",

April 21, 1976

125

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 one with manuscript draft of poem on back. 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

419

Number-grid poems, Series 10

n.d.

24

420

Number-grid poem manuscript Series 11

n.d.

24

421

Number-grid poems, Series 12

n.d.

24

422

Number-grid poems, Series 13

n.d.

126

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117

24

423

Number-grid poems, Series 14

1977

24

424

Number-grid poems, Series 15

n.d.

24

425

Number-grid poems, Series 16

n.d.

24

426

Number-grid poems, Series 17

June 4, 1978

24

427

Number-grid poems, Series 18

November 14, 1978

24

428

Number-grid poems, Series 19

n.d.

24

429

Number-grid poems, Series 20

n.d.

25

430

Number-grip poems, Series 21

n.d.

25

431

Number-grid poems See 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: 1970's, 1980's -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") 127

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -typescript "Haiku" ("…no longer boys") -two typescript versions "Hiku" ("Fred Flahiff went 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 128

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117

25

435

Typescript and manuscript drafts and versions of Ca. 1970's limericks: -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: 1970's, 1980's -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…" 129

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -one manuscript and two typescript drafts "no one understands me" -manuscript and typescript "I am a think of various shapes" -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 130

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -manuscript "I am a bawl of wool" -one manuscript and two typescript drafts "I am not a fisherman" -typescript "dark of complexion…" -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.

131

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 25

442

Collected Poems - manuscript.

n.d.

25

443

Poems: Collected/Unpublished/New - complete typescript

n.d.

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"

n.d.

132

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -"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") -"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; 1970's, 1980's 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" 133

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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" 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

1956, n.d.

134

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 sunrise glowering") -typescript and eight carbons "Hiku" ("Descartes thought") -seven typescript carbons "Hiku" ("Fred Flahiff went") -typescript and seven carbons "Hiku" ("The powerful") -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 7 135

1954, n.d.

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 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" -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 136

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -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" -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 137

n.d.

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 query "Is this a good revision?" at top) -three typescript versions "A requiem for those dying unchurched", two untitled 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 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" 138

1960, n.d.

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117

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 bake" -eleven typescript carbons "yates and molinari"

n.d.

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 neverpublished 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"

n.d.

139

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 -draft of a poem "To Anne" 26

460

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

n.d.

Description

Date

2.2 Plays Box # File # Acc. #91-117 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, n.d. with manuscript additions and revisions

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

1988

140

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 Play Productions: revisions pasted or written in the 1988 "Epilogue" to Cockcrow and the Gulls 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 two typescripts (18 pp & 56 pp), the latter with extensive manuscript revisions

Ca. 1962

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

Ca. 1962

141

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 Play Productions: design of Cockcrow and the Gulls 10 drawings, 41x55 cm Oversize 95-131-3, Box 1 "Trial of Corporal Adam" Coach House Theatre, Toronto, 1963; published 1988) 28

480

Trial of Corporal Adam - mimeographed script Ca. 1963 autographed to Diane Bessai with notes and inserted examination booklet with manuscript revisions

28

481

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

Ca. 1963

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) 142

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 Play Productions:

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

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 1967 Wilderness etc"; nine examination booklets, twentyfive pages, and one envelope of manuscript drafts and drawings

28

495

O holy ghost… - typescript copy with manuscript revisions and rehearsal notes "Soul is my Button" (Acadia University, 1969; revised as "Up against the wall Oedipus"; unpublished) 143

December 1967

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 Play Productions:

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

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 1969 of songs for Acadia University production of Soul is my Button, composer Jock Sirulnikov "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

144

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #91-117 Play Productions:

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 -copy of musical score with lyrics for production

1969

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

145

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131

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) "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"

146

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 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 the love everlasting…, 64 pp.

n.d.

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 147

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

The What Not - typescript

Ca. 1957

Acc. #95-131

2

20

"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.

"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 148

n.d.

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 "copy 2", 16 pp. "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" 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 n.d. -original typescript of play, 50 pp. -original typescript of different version of play titled "The Ventriloquists, or, the death of yidderman", 51 pp. "Inside the Canadian Border" (Unpublished play)

2

32

Inside the Canadian Border - manuscript draft in examination book and six pp. original typescript of play "The Burglar" (Unpublished play) 149

n.d.

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131

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.

"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 150

n.d.

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131

"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 pasted in

n.d.

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 151

October 1965

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131

"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" 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

152

n.d.

Wilfred Watson fonds

2.3 Short Stories/Novel Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131

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 story (novel?), 3 pp.

n.d.

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.

153

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 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 onepage 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 -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)

n.d.

3

72

Original typescript draft of "The Unfinished n.d. 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.

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

154

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 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 n.d. Box" with extensive manuscript revision and copy of fair typescript titled "The girl who lived in a glass box"

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 Ca. 1978 drawings and text

4

86

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

Ca. 1978

4

87

"The Magic Rake" - two typescript pages

n.d.

155

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131

Novel 4

88

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

4

89

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

n.d.

Description

Date

Carbon copy of typescript of essay "Tristram Shandy as a genius"

n.d.

2.4 Essays Box # File # Acc. #95-131 4 90

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

Ca. 1970'

156

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 a volume of essays planned for Coach House Press but not published) -typescript of essay "Marshall McLuhan and multiconsciousness: 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 2.5 Books Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 See Also: Friday's Child (published 1955) 91-117-367-370 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

157

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File # Acc. #95-131 5 100

Description

Date

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" -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

n.d.

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 158

1963-1968

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 -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. 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 -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] 159

1963-1965

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 -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 -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 160

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 -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 Antienvironment" 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 "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 161

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 -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 -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 162

1966-1970

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 -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 attached 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 163

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 -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

Ca. 1980 Collection of Short Plays, edited by Diane Bessai (1981) -typescript of "Wilfred Watson and the Modern Canadian Theatre", introduction by Gordon Peacock to The Collected Plays

2.6 Miscellaneous Manuscript Papers/Notes Box # File #

Description

Date

Miscellaneous manuscript and typescript materials: -manuscript draft of paragraph on poets and metaphor -typescript page, with manuscript revisions "A note

Ca. 1970's

Acc. #95-131 5

110

164

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 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 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

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

165

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 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) 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…") -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" 166

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 -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" -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 167

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 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: Ca. 1970's, 1980's -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 AgrellSmith" -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" 168

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 -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: Ca. 1970's, 1980's -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" -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 number169

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 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.

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)

Ca. 1970's, 1980's

170

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 -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 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

6

122

Miscellaneous manuscript notes on cigarette packages

Ca. 1980's

6

123

Miscellaneous manuscript notes on cigarette packages

Ca. 1980's

6

124

Miscellaneous manuscript notes on cigarette packages

Ca. 1980's

171

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 6

125

Miscellaneous manuscript notes on cigarette packages

Ca. 1980's

7

126

Miscellaneous manuscript notes on cigarette packages

Ca. 1980's

7

127

Miscellaneous manuscript notes on cigarette packages

Ca. 1980's

7

128

Miscellaneous manuscript notes on cigarette packages

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 Box # File #

Description

Date

"The Fifth Commandment: Some Allusions to Sir 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

1940, 1952, 1954, 1955

Acc. #95-131 7

133

172

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131

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 1961 Poems 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 photocopy Interview with WW about the Yardbird Suite in Inside, No. 1, Vol. II

1965, 1960's

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

1968

173

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Of Several Branches, eds. Gerry McCaughey and Maurice Legris, University of Toronto Press, 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 Pelican, Winter 1973; two copies

1973

8

152

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

1973

8

153

"Marshall McLuhan and multi-consciousness: The

1974

174

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Place Marie Dialogues" in Boundary 2, Fall 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 1975 Watson'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: 1982 Stories from Vancouver Island, eds. Ron Smith and Stephen Guppy, Victoria: Sone Nis Press, 1982; one additional photocopy

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

Reviews of Wilfred Watson's Publications: 9

164

Reviews of Wilfred Watson's publications: -review of Mass on cow back, by Jan O'Hagan, 175

1983-1994

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 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 CollombBoureau, 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 -review of Poems, by Ray Ellenwood, Brick 33 (Spring 1988): 54-8 -review of Gramsci x 3, by Sherill Grace, Canadian Literature: 169-70 176

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 -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

9

167

Newsclippings - reviews and publicity

1950's-1980's

9

168

Newsclippings - reviews and publicity

1950's-1980's

177

Wilfred Watson fonds

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." The series title is based on the content of the records. A file listing follows.

178

Wilfred Watson fonds

179

Wilfred Watson fonds

Series 3 Sketches/Artwork 3. Sketches/Artwork Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 9

169

Large sketchbook Oversize 95-131-4 Box 1

1955-early 1980's

9

170

Large sketchbook Oversize 95-131-5 Box 1

1955-early 1980's

9

171

Large sketchbook Oversize 95-131-6 Box 1

1955-early 1980's

9

172

Large sketchbook Oversize 95-131-7 Box 1

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 drawings Oversize 95-131-1, Box 2

n.d.

9

176

Construction paper sketchbook Oversize 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

Sketchpad Oversize 95-131-3, Box 2

November 19December 1988

10

181

Sketchbook with four loose drawings and one manuscript fragment interleaved

n.d.

180

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131

10

182

Eight drawings on cardboard by WW Oversize 95-131-4, Box 2

n.d.

10

183

One drawing on wood by WW Oversize 95-131-5, Box 2

n.d.

10

184

Cover drawing by WW for Plays at the Iron Bridge Oversize 95-131-6, Box 2

n.d.

10

185

Large sketchpad, with drawings Oversize 95-131-7, Box 2

Ca. 1990

10

186

Large sketchpad, with drawings Oversize 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)

181

Wilfred Watson fonds

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 182

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Trial of Corporal Adam. The letters provide a record, and a 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. The series title is based on the content of the records. A file listing follows.

183

Wilfred Watson fonds

Series 4 Correspondence 4. Correspondence 4.1 Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 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, SeptemberDecember, 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:

1956-1957

184

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131     

English 2 examination attached to February 28, 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

10

193

Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson, September 1957 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

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"

185

April-May, 1957

October-December, 1957

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 

attached to November 4, [1957] letter Manuscript draft of poem "Sparrows in the Snow" attached to November 28, 1957 letter

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

186

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 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; 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)

October 1958

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

October 1959

187

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 

Typescript of poem "A Christmas Tragedy" attached to October 19 letter

11

207

Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; twenty-four letters dating from November 2 - 30, 1959

November 1959

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"

May 1960

188

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 attached to May 6 letter 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

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 August 1960 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

12

217

Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; nine September 1960 letters dating from September 20 - 30, 1960

12

218

Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; October 1960 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

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

12

220

Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; nine December 1960 letters dating from December 2 - 12, 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;

February 1961

189

November 1960

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 twenty-one letters dating from February 1 - 28, 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

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; Ca. 1957-1958 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.

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

13

229

Letters from Wilfred Watson to Sheila Watson; May 1956 - May thirty-three letters, with incomplete or no dates and 1961 with no postmarked envelopes, from the period May 1956 to 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" 190

November 1956 May 1961

November 1956 May 1961

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131          



    

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 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"

191

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 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 Box # File #

Description

Date

1949, 1956

Acc. #95-131 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]

13

234

Letters from Sheila Watson to Wilfred Watson; nine 1957-1963 letters, dated from 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; Ca. 1960-1961 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.

192

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 13

239

Letters from Sheila Watson to Wilfred Watson; Ca. 1960-1961 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.

4.3 Wilfred Watson's Parents Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131

13

240

Correspondence from Frederick and Louisa Watson, 1952, 1959 Wilfred Watson's parents, to Wilfred Watson; four letters, dated in the 1950's

13

241

Correspondence from Frederick and Louisa Watson, 1960-1962 Wilfred Watson's parents, to Wilfred Watson; twenty letters, dating from 1960-1962

13

242

Correspondence from Frederick and Louisa Watson, 1964-1970 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

4.4 Correspondence - Others Box # File #

Description

Date

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

193

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent)

13

244

Harry Adaskin August 4, 1959 -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

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

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

1956

194

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) 30/7/56 (including Watson's prize) 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 -three letters

[1965]

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

1978-1991

195

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) 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) 13

262

Diane Bessai -nine letters (including one Christmas card and three greeting cards)

1981-1983, 19901993, 1998

13

263

Carl Bessai -one Christmas card and one letter

1993, n.d.

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 1984-1996 -fourteen letters, five postcards, one Christmas card; attached photographs moved to Series 8, Box 24, 196

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) #40 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" sheets

April 28, 1972

14

274

Colin Browne (School of Writing, David Thompson 1982, 1984 University Centre) -two letters

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

197

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) 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

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

198

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent)

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 Play'; WW's "Proposal for a Centennial Play"

1965

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

1990 199

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) -two letters; enclosed Ann Kipling Catalogue moved to Oversize 95-131-12, Box 3 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

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

1964

200

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) of Corporal Adam 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 -one letter

May 4, 1979

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

201

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent)

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

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

202

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent)

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.

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

203

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent)

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 -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

1955-1956

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

204

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent)

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

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

1982-1990

205

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) accompanying letter from Shirley Neuman attached to the June 28, 1985 letter; and an enclosed typescript by JF (Oct. 30, ??) 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

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

206

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent)

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 1967, 1981-1995 -seventeen letters and cards, including the following attachments: --program of Gruhlke and Montalbetti reading 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

1991-1992 207

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) -seven letters and cards, including the following attachments: --thesis proposal attached to July 26 1991 letter 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 - two letters

1986, 1987

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

December 12, 1989 208

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) -one letter re reprinting selections of Mass on cow back 15

384

Ruth Humphrey -ten letters

n.d.,1952, 19591960, 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.

15

392

Joan and Wayne Jennings -ten letters and cards; photograph moved to 95-13128, Box 24

1983-1997

15

393

Walter H. Johns -one letter, offering WW congratulations for his Governor General's award

March 1, 1956

209

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) 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

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

210

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent)

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 -one letter

April 16, 1962

15

412

Lester & Orpen Dennys Publishers (Gena Gorrell, Editor) -one letter

November 12, 1981

211

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) 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

15

422

Corinne McLuhan -one letter with enclosure re From Cliché to Archetype royalties and one Christmas card

1973, 1995

15

423

Marshall McLuhan

February 7, 1961 212

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) -three typescript pages from WW to MM, "Some Notes on Canadian Literature" See Also: WW/MM correspondence: 95-131-105108 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 -two letters

1967

15

428

Glenys McQueen-Fuentes -three letters

1989

213

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent)

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 -ten letters, with enclosed newspaper clipping (1962) and review (1983)

1960-1963, 1983

214

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) 16

438

George Melnyk -condolence card

February 11, 1998

16

439

Michael Millgate -one letter

December 20, 1965

16

440

Barbara Mitchell 1969, 1986-1998 -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)

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 -two letters

1956

215

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) 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 letter (SN to WW)

1985

216

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) --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

217

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) -one letter 16

457

W.H. (Bill) New -three letters

1986, 1992, 1993

16

458

NeWest Press 1983-1997 -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

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]

218

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) 16

465

Maureen Orten -one letter

May 9, 1968

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,

1963, 1968-1991

219

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) with manuscript note by WW to Kay Mathers --letter to University of Alberta Senate re GP, 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.)

1977-1986

220

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) --manuscript"Goosesongs" attached to letter (n.d.) 17

482

Lisa Potvin -four letters and cards

1993-1995

17

483

Prism 1959-1960, 1983 -eleven letters including correspondence with Jan de Bruyn and John Shoutsen

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

221

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent)

17

492

Ryerson Press, John Grant -one letter

July 31, 1961

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

1981-1982

222

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) attached to November 11 1981 letter 17

502

Jack Shadbolt -fifty-six letters and cards, with the following attachments: --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

1960-1990

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

223

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent)

17

511

David Staines -twenty-two cards and letters

1979-1988

17

512

David Stein -one postcard

May 21, 1971

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

224

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) 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 --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 1983-1984 -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

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 225

1980-1982

1985-1987

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) --copy of ST's Sacred Muzak attached to June 17 1987 letter --letter on cardboard moved to Oversize 95-131-2 Box 3 18

524

Scott Taylor -six letters with the following attachments: --manuscript by ST, Le Corbusier: Man Minus Machine Equals Mind and Alokamonet: the light watering studio attached to March 29 1989 letter --photographs moved to Series 8, Box 24 # 35

1989-1996

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

226

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) 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

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 1968 Trevor 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

1971-1972, 19891992, 1998

227

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) interdepartmental memos, invitation, and UofA press announcement (February 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

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

228

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent)

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 -one letter

December 6, 1964

18

549

Ken Welsh -fragment (KW to WW)

n.d.

18

550

Bruce Whiteman -draft, fragment (WW to BW)

n.d.

18

551

White Pelican Correspondence 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-

1973-1977

229

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) 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.) -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 Pelican Submissions 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

18

553

Nola and Gary Willis 1963-1969, 1980, -seven letters with the following attachments: 1982 --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

18

554

Warner Winter (Emery Collegiate Institute) -one letter

February 21, 1981

18

555

George Woodcock -three letters

1960, 1962

230

Ca. 1970's

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Correspondence to and from Wilfred Watson (occasionally to Sheila Watson) from others (arranged alphabetically by correspondent) 18

556

Yale University -one letter from Lewis P. Curtis

18

557

Norman and Nona Yates -seventeen letters and cards; notice for upcoming exhibit (October 7 1993); artwork attached to March 1 1997 letter

December 19, 1948

4.5 Correspondence-Miscellaneous Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 18

558

Correspondence from students, including: 1962-1981 -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

18

559

Opening Night telegrams: -from "Helen and Rod" March 29 1962 -from Dolores Bedingfield March 28 1962 -from "Interface" March 29 1962

231

1962

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 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 unidentified correspondents

1960-1976

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

1951-1961, 19831984

232

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 -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. 18

563

Letters from Wilfred Watson to various persons 1956-1973 (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 -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 233

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 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. -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 234

1948, 1959

Wilfred Watson fonds

235

Wilfred Watson fonds

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. The series title is based on the content of the records. A file listing follows.

236

Wilfred Watson fonds

237

Wilfred Watson fonds

Series 5 Student Records - Watson 5. Student Records Box # File #

Description

Date

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 Ca. 1946 University of Toronto; handwritten notes for essays; bibliographic notes

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

1949

238

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 University of Toronto/British Columbia; typescript papers 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

239

Wilfred Watson fonds

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. The series title is based on the content of the records. A file listing follows.

240

Wilfred Watson fonds

241

Wilfred Watson fonds

Series 6 Reference Material/Material from Other Sources 6. Reference Material/Material from Other Sources Box # File #

Description

Date

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

1968, 1971, 1983

242

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 WW 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 JeanLouis 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

243

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 20

599

Typescript of essay by Paula Grace Anderson on "Margaret Atwood: Images of Women and Liberation"

n.d.

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.

244

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 21

608

Works by Marshall McLuhan: -broadside by MM (excerpt from The Gutenberg Galaxy) -Issue No. 24 (March 1969) of MM's Explorations (pp. 81-104 of Spring 1969 issue of University of Toronto Quarterly)

1969

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

245

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131

21

618

Manuscript of number-grid verse poems by Strathcona Composite High School (Edmonton) students

Ca. 1980

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

1975

246

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 some text 21

628

Carbon typescript of George Woodcock's play, The Benefactors

n.d.

21

629

Unidentified student project on Yeat's phases of the moon

n.d.

247

Wilfred Watson fonds

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. The series title is based on the content of the records. A file listing follows.

248

Wilfred Watson fonds

249

Wilfred Watson fonds

Series 7 Personal Papers 7. Personal Papers 7.1 Financial and Miscellaneous Box # File #

Description

Date

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, 19451951

n.d.

22

633

Scrapbook with newsclippings about Studio Theatre 1961-1962 productions and letters pasted in Oversize 95-131-5, Box 3

22

634

Wilfred Watson's 1951 Ph.D. diploma from the University of Toronto Oversize 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

Ca. 1990's

250

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 records 7.2 Promotional Items - Wilfred Watson's Works Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 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 Gulls Up 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

n.d., 1990

251

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 -Poster announcing 1990 Edmund Kemper Broadus lectures by Shirley Neuman 22

643

Book: Friends, Hosers and Countrymen, Canadian caricatures by Isaac Bickerstaff, Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys 1982 (includes a caricature of Sheila Watson)

1982

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

252

Wilfred Watson fonds

253

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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-toreel 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 Watsonrelated material readings. The series title is based on the content of the records. A file listing follows.

254

Wilfred Watson fonds

255

Wilfred Watson fonds

Series 8 Audio-Visual Records 8. Audio-Visual Records 8.1 Sound Recordings Box # File #

Description

Date

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: November 29, 1967 New Poems by Wilfred Watson", read by Tom Peacocke and Meredith McLean; The Spoken Word program, broadcast on CKUA, November 29 1967 1/4 ", 900 ft.

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

256

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 23

11

Casin VHS Brock University Fall Production re number grid verse poetry

1986

23

12

BASF VHS Videotape Edmonton Fringe Production of "The Lady Taken in Adultery", followed by messages to WW from cast and crew

1987

8.2 Photographs Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 Portraits of Wilfred Watson, Sheila Watson and Family Members: 24

1

Formal portrait of Wilfred Watson Photographer: "Artona" Vancouver, B.C. 1 photograph, b&w, 12x17cm in 20x30cm matte

Ca. Late 1930's

24

2

Formal portrait of Wilfred Watson Photographer: "Ashley & Crippen", Toronto 1 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, NS 1 photograph, b&w, 9x14cm in 15x23cm matte

1942

24

4

Formal portrait of Wilfred Watson Photographer: Studio Berthes, Paris 1 photograph, b&w, 9x14cm in 11x16cm matte

Ca. 1940's

24

5

Portraits of Wilfred Watson; one taken for University of Alberta faculty file 3 photographs, b&w, 5x6cm, 8x10cm, and 12x17cm

Ca.1951, 1952

257

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 24

6

Formal portrait of Wilfred Watson Photographer: "Martin of Foto Craft" 1 photograph, b&w, 20x25cm in 25x33cm matte Oversize Photographs #6

Ca. 1955

24

7

Portrait Proofs (taken at same time as #6 above) 4 photographs, b&w, 9x12cm

Ca. 1955

24

8

As above - slightly different poses 5 photographs, b&w, 9x12cm

Ca. 1955

24

9

As above - different pose 3 photographs, b&w, 9x12cm

Ca. 1955

24

10

Proofs, with Wilfred Watson posed by step-stool 4 photographs, sepia, 9x12cm

Ca. 1955

24

11

Prints of two of the poses in #10 above 9 photographs, b&w, 9x12cm

Ca. 1955

24

12

Wilfred Watson, taken at Nanaimo (different views) September 3, 1987 1 sheet of contact prints, b&w, 20x25cm 2 photographs, b&w, 12x17cm

24

13

Portraits as in #12 above (these in color); two different poses 4 photographs, color, 12x9 to 12x17cm

September 3, 1987

24

14

Portrait of Wilfred Watson taken inside his Nanaimo home Photographer: Jorge Frascara 2 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 photograph 1 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 WW

n.d.

258

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 16 photocopies of photographs, b&w, 10x16 to 20x25cm 24

17

Formal portrait of Sheila Watson at about age 21 Photographer: "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 Watson Photographer: "Ashley and Crippen Ltd." 1 photograph, b&w, 25x32cm

Ca. 1950's

24

20

Two snapshots of Wilfred Watson and Sheila Watson 2 photographs, b&w, 8x10 and 9x12 cm

Ca. 1940's

24

21

Wilfred Watson and sister Joan and Wilfred Watson Ca. 1940's as a young child 2 photographs, b&w, 8x10 and 9x12 cm

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 dog 7 photographs, b&w, 5x8cm

Ca. 1940's

24

26

"Snapshot album"; views of Wilfred, Sheila, water scenes, Wilfred's parents (?)

Ca. 1950's

259

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 7 photographs, b&w, 7.5x11.5cm 24

27

Views of Wilfred Watson's parents (?), Louisa Claydon and Frederick Walter Watson 10 photographs, b&w, 5x8cm to 8x12cm

Ca. 1960-1965

24

28

Prints sent from Joan Dunning Linn Jennings of December 1986 family members; removed from 95-131-330 and 95- and 1991 131-392 4 photographs, color, 10x14cm, 5x6.5cm Friends/Sent by friends

24

29

Peter Montgomery 1 photograph, color, 5x8cm

Ca. 1960

24

30

Hilary and Roy Thompson and family 1 photograph, color, 8x12cm (From 95-131-529)

1974

24

31

Sheila, Wilfred, and friends (unidentified) on boat 6 photographs, b&w, 9x12cm

Ca. 1965

24

32

Photograph of Sheila Watson, Bishop Longstone, and Tom and Allan Callacombe 1 photograph, color, 5x8cm

March 30, 1980

24

33

Gail Osachoff 1 photograph, color, 9x12cm (From 95-131-466)

1978

24

34

Jack Shadbolt, in studio 1 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 campus 3 photographs, color, 10x15cm

1995

260

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131

24

37

Barbara Mitchell, Sheila and Wilfred; hats (From 95-131-440) 4 photographs, color, 10x15cm

August 1994

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 95-131487); 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 together 14 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 WW 1 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 rocks 1 photograph, color, 9x13cm 4 photographs, b&w, 4x5 to 14x18 cm

Ca. 1960-1963, 1983

261

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131

Other: Art/Performance 24

44

Burning grass at Lac La Biche; performance by Gruhlke and Montalbetti of Watson poetry - sent to WW from Donna Gruhlke (95-131-372) 2 photographs, color, 19x19 and 19x20 cm

n.d.

24

45

Sculpture in clay of Wilfred Watson 5 photographs, b&w, 7x7 to 8x12cm

n.d.

24

46

Portrait of a dog 1 photograph, b&w, 28x36cm (Oversize #2)

n.d.

24

47

Photo reproductions of Jack Shadbolt's newspaper gouaches 3 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 3 16 photographs, b&w, 13x18 to 18x24cm

n.d.

24

51

Tow photographs of Wilfred Watson and Tom Peacocke, Director of Gramsci x 3, in rehearsal 2 photographs, b&w, 12x18cm

1986

24

52

Photographs by Jorge Frascara for Gramsci x 3 posters 5 photographs, b&w, 28x43cm (Oversize #3)

n.d.

24

53

Gramsci x 3, Studio Theatre production prints (one

n.d.

262

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 of Tom Peacocke) 4 photographs, b&w, 10x12cm to 12x17cm 24

54

Photographs of Wilfred Watson play productions including O Holy Ghost and Cockcrow 10 photographs, b&w, 20x25cm

1962, 1967

24

55

Ibid. 15 photographs, b&w, 12x16 to 28x35cm 4 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 set 16 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, Nanaimo 12 photographs, color, 19x15 to 20x25cm 2 photographs, sepia, 10x15cm

1991

24

59

Color prints; four of 'heads' as described above, and two of paintings 4 photographs, color, 9x12.5cm

1991

24

60

Color views of Watson's property and surrounding area in Nanaimo 9 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

December 1987

263

Wilfred Watson fonds

Box # File #

Description

Date

Acc. #95-131 (Oversize #5) 24

62

Unidentified 'place' photographs (perhaps near where WW's parents lived) 9 photographs, b&w, 6x9 to 9x9cm

264

n.d.

Wilfred Watson fonds

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Wilfred Watson fonds

Index After Kafka The Judgement .............................. 153 Appointment Calendars .................. 5, 69 Atwood, Margaret ............... 46, 165, 245 Beach Story ....................................... 152 Bessai, Diane.... 9, 12, 14, 53, 57, 58, 59, 60, 111, 124, 126, 140, 143, 165, 176, 196, 197, 214, 245, 252 Bulon and Trill .................................. 151 Canvasses Point Gray ....................... 108 Ciano ................................................. 151 Clements, Patricia ......... 53, 56, 201, 232 Correspondence...... 5, 13, 140, 159, 160, 163, 164, 183, 185, 194, 219, 228, 229, 230, 232, 233, 235 Earlier Poems ...................................... 75 Essays ...................................... 5, 73, 157 Fang .................................................. 154 Financial ........................................ 6, 251 Fly Away, Moth ................................. 150 Four Times Canada is Four...... 156, 176 Frascara, Jorge 63, 64, 66, 206, 213, 218, 255, 259, 263, 264 From Cliche to Archetype 11, 31, 32, 33, 39, 41, 45, 73, 158, 159, 160, 164, 167, 175, 213, 214, 229 From Cliché to Archetype ..... 40, 45, 159 Government of Alberta .. 19, 28, 73, 157, 165, 183, 234 Gramsci 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, 245 Haiku ................. 126, 128, 132, 135, 170 Hurtig, Mel ........................................ 210 I begin with counting 108, 126, 128, 219 I Begin With Counting ........................ 12 Inside the Canadian Border .............. 150 Journals and Notebooks ...... 5, 13, 15, 17 Leda and the Swan ............................ 149

Let's Murder Clytemnestra According to the Principles of Marshall McLuhan ................................. 41, 145, 146, 252 Limericks/Riddles ............................. 129 Literary Drafts/Writings ...... 5, 13, 73, 75 Mass on Cowback .. 12, 60, 63, 157, 165, 213, 255, 264 McLuhan, 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 ................. 156 Mr. Warren's Daughter ..................... 151 Naden Chorus ................................... 151 Neuman, Shirley9, 10, 15, 62, 63, 64, 66, 73, 179, 183, 206, 213, 217, 218, 233, 252, 262, 264 Novel ............................... 5, 73, 154, 157 Number-grid Verse Poems ... 12, 71, 123, 126, 127, 128 Oedipus the King............................... 150 Osachoff, Gail .... 70, 120, 127, 220, 228, 232, 261 Over Prairie Trails to the Just Society ................................... 39, 40, 148, 175 Peacocke, Thomas 63, 67, 126, 216, 257, 261, 263 Plays at the Iron Bridge ..... 69, 107, 166, 182, 219 Poems Collected/Unpublished/New 132, 133, 165, 176 Publications ............. 5, 73, 173, 176, 209 Reference Material .......... 5, 13, 241, 243 Resentment ................................ 154, 156 Reviews ............................. 172, 176, 178 Shadbolt, Jack ...... 61, 67, 75, 76, 93, 95, 104, 133, 166, 189, 190, 191, 224, 234, 241, 246, 261, 263 Shakespeare.... 15, 30, 33, 36, 38, 42, 43, 46, 48, 66, 120, 138, 157, 167, 169, 174, 175, 222, 239, 257 266

Wilfred Watson fonds

Short Stories ............................ 5, 73, 154 Sketches/Artwork ............ 5, 13, 179, 181 Soul is my Button ...... 100, 144, 145, 257 Staines, David ................. 61, 66, 67, 225 Student Records .............. 5, 13, 237, 239 Studio 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, 149 The Apes of God ................................ 153 The Baie Comeau Angel... 155, 156, 176, 219 The Ballad of Mother and Son .......... 174 The Bestiary ........................................ 68 The Box ............................................. 153 The Canadian Fact ................... 144, 175 The Conspiracy ................................. 156 The Crucifixion of the Xmas Tree ..... 152 The Cyanide Pills .............................. 154 The Dark Village ............................... 107 The Double Hook 11, 41, 76, 94, 95, 133, 149, 183, 241, 247 The Glass Box ................................... 156 The Headaches .................................. 151 The Invention of Children ................. 156 The Lice............... 93, 155, 174, 175, 176 The Love Affair of Mr. Water Rat ..... 154 The Magic Rake .......................... 68, 156 The New Icarus ................................. 153 The Place Marie Dialogues ........ 47, 175 The Princess's Satire ......................... 149

The Rock Hook .................................. 149 The Shoes .......................................... 156 The Sorrowful Canadians 11, 44, 95, 97, 98, 100, 101, 104, 165, 247 The Spy .............................................. 154 The Unfinished Biography of Muriel N ....................................................... 155 The Ventriloquists ............................. 150 The Visit ........................................ 27, 29 The Walls .......................................... 154 The Whatnot ................................ 22, 183 The Woman Taken in Adultery .... 12, 152 Thing in Black ........................... 147, 257 Tom Jones Meets Fanny Hill at the Yardbird Suite ............................... 152 Trial of Corporal Adam 11, 22, 143, 184, 201, 218 Tristram Shandy . 17, 157, 168, 173, 198, 239, 260 Under the Black Bridge .. 22, 27, 32, 153 Under the Rabbit's Paw . 19, 28, 73, 157, 165, 183, 234 University of Alberta ... 7, 9, 11, 13, 156, 171, 183, 220, 228, 244, 247, 258 University of Toronto. 11, 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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