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Lisa Bloom (University of California, Santa Cruz) seeks to connect the mythical schema of the exploration of the North Pole to different male cultural identities of the U.S. Part of the afternoon sessions at the Scholar and Feminist Conference XIV. This tape is preceded by BC13-58_SFAudio_208. Papers presented or name of session: "The Post-Mortem Condition: Re-membering Marilyn Monroe"; "The North Polar Expeditions of Robert E Curry, Matthew Henson and Frederick Cook: A semiology of American Nationalist and Masculanist Discourses"; "Pilgrimage as Poetics: Dorothy Richardson"; "Frances Farmer and the Legacy of Hysteria" .

(includes correspondence with Norman Sklarewitz, Esther Sklarewitz, Irvin Sablosky, Francesca Siboeea, Monroe S. Singer, Andrew A. Stern, Lois Cunniff, Julie Smith Sewell, Isaac Stern, Paul Sack, William Steinberg, Jim Truitt, William C. Trueheart, Warren W. Unna, May nard Frank Wolfe, Charles R. Temple, L. J. (Tony) Wilkinson, Sally Anderson, Carroll Shershun, Tom Pepper, Anne Angus, James P. Pickerell, Richard W. Petree, Edwin O. Reischauer, Barbara Reynolds, Joseph L. Rauh, Earle Reynolds, Richard H. Riddell, David Berman, Gordon Manning, Archibald MacLeish, John M. Mecklin, David E. Lilienthal, Jr., Robert Gibson, Burt Glinn, Philip L. Graham, Marshall Green, Eldon Griffiths, Eugene S. Staples, Thomas B. Morgan, Fred Emery, Edward J. Clarkson, Michael Tuchner, Deanna P. Bautista, C. R. Beecham, Stimson Bullitt, Dennis Bloodworth, Kim Hyun Cook, Lorna Kreiss, Selig S. Harrison, Woburn Abbey Bletchley)

(includes correspondence with Isaac Asimov, Lynn Seligman, Norman Sklarewitz, Andrew A. Stern, Donald A. Schanche, Julie Smith Sewell, Ryuji Takeuchi, Bruce Van Voorst, Robert Vermillion, Earl W. Redding, May nard Frank Wolfe, T. Yamane, Ambassador Kenneth Young, Gerald Walker, James H. Pickerell, George R. Packard, David A. MacEachron, Robert M. Ruenitz, Chalmers M. Roberts, Michael Ruby, Edwin O. Reischauer, M. E. Rappaport, Robert Manning, Jay D. Moses, Larry Martz, Webb McKinley, Donald H. McLean, Olvin McBarnette, George Lang, Anthony Lewis, Herbert P. Gleason, Henry A. Grunwald, Sheila Gary, Eldon Griffiths, Frank B. Gilbert, Philip Foisie, Eugene S. Staples, Thomas Morgan, Osborn Elliott, Albert Erskine, Peter Derow, John Mack Carter, Robert O. Boorstin, Otis Cary, Leon Botstein, Mary Suggatt, Robert Kelly, Ravelle Brickman, Julian Bach, Lester Bernstein, Michael Tuchner, Steve Barber, Louis Banks, Edward Kosner, Bernard Krisher, Richard Kimball, Stan Karnow, Jun Kawashima, Kim Hyun Cook, Stan Karnow, Emmet John Hughes, Selig S. Harrison)

Panel Discussion S. Paige Baty (listed in program as Page Baty; University of California, Santa Cruz) introduces and explains her research on the misconstructured telling of Marilyn Monroe's life. Next, Thyrza Goodeve (University of California, Santa Cruz) explains her research on movie star Frances Farmer and her analysis of the history of hysteria. Next, Suzan Gevirtz (University of California, Santa Cruz) looks at the fictions modern women (poets) have constructed for themselves. Part of the afternoon sessions at the Scholar and Feminist Conference XIV. This tape is continued on BC13-58_SFAudio_209. Papers presented or name of session: "The Post-Mortem Condition: Re-membering Marilyn Monroe"; "The North Polar Expeditions of Robert E Curry, Matthew Henson and Frederick Cook: A semiology of American Nationalist and Masculanist Discourses"; "Pilgrimage as Poetics: Dorothy Richardson"; "Frances Farmer and the Legacy of Hysteria" .

[This 1970 notebook accompanied Griffin on one of his most significant trips to Europe, researching for his biography of Thomas Merton. His seventeen year old daughter, Susan, accompanied him on the journey. The first stop was Amsterdam, on January 27, 1970, pronouncing himself "more at home here than anywhere in the states." It was a city that his close friend, pianist Robert Casadesus often performed, especially at the Concertgebow, where Griffin attended an all-Beethoven concert by pianist Annie Fischer. He took the opportunity to photograph this great musician in performance, and visited with her afterward... pronounced the recital "a real glory--one of the finest concerts I ever heard. Like Lipatti and Schnabel combined". The next morning he visited the Rijks Museum, "seeing the Rembrandts, Vermeers, etc. Tremendous. To the Van Gogh Museum this afternoon." After three days in Amsterdam, he spent three days in Brussels, staying with the psychiatrist and Merton enthusiast Dr. Vander-Elst. On February 2nd, he took the train to Strasbourg and was met by his old friends, Antoinette and Alexander Grunelius. These great friends of the Maritains drove Griffin and his daughter to their Chateau at Kolbsheim (the repository of the papers of Jacques and Raissa Maritain), where they stayed a few days.. Griffin then spent five days with Jacques Maritain in Toulouse, where the 87 year old philosopher had a tiny hermitage on the grounds where the motherhouse of the Little Brothers and Sisters Order is located. Many passaqes here about Maritain, several of the sisters who did his secretarial work (Sister Marie Pascale, in particular, who typed the philosopher's manuscripts and letters--her signature is under many of Maritain's letters on file at HRC), as well as several interesting cooking experiences with Sister Marie Emmanuel.. A week later, Griffin made several trips to Prades (Merton's birthplace), Montaubin and St. Antonin (where Merton lived as a child), and on to Paris, photographing and notetaking all the way. On February 14, he visited with the daughter of Leon Bloy, the French writer and thinker who was instrumental in converting the Maritains to Catholicism, after a search of several days. Part of this experience, though not mentioned in this notebook, laid the groundwork for his last piece of fiction--the humorous take-off upon hearing the sweet sound of a sackbutt (Pilgrimage, Latitudes Press, 1985).

[The first four pages of a letter beginning] My dearest M. Our expedition has been very prosperous... After a paddle of about 3 hours [on lake Huron] in the canoes, we select one of the innumerable islands to eat our breakfast on; while it is preparing, we generally all bather; then breakfast or hot tea & coffee & fresh broiled fish which we may procure from some of the Indian canoes we may pass during our paddle. We get off from this ??? usually before 12 & then paddle on till near sunset where we pith on some thin island where there is enough of flat rock for pitching the tents & wood for the fires to cook; this is a very busy & picturesque home of preparation, with tens being fixed, baggage pulled about, the canoes [sic] of their respective canoes lighting their separate fires, boiling their pots... the meal was spread upon one oil cloth on the bare rock under the star light & consisted of hot pea soup, hot fish, the fine trout & white fish of these lakes, a cold round of beef, hot potatoes, hot plum pudding, wine & hot brandy & water in some abundance & I must own that the song & chorus of our party sometimes rose upon the midnight echoes of the lake... We were in the midst of an encampment of about 6000 Indians; some of them from great distances & the wildest & most grotesque figures imaginable; we had war dances, canoe races, councils, smoking of pipes; mixed with all this we had our Protestant Bishop, besides Baptists & Methodists &