Philip Whalen papers, 1941-1979

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Series I: Correspondence, 1962-1979



Box 1 Folder 1 Abbott, Keith to Whalen, March-December, 1971 (2 letters), December, 1971


Box 1 Folder 2 Abbott, Ward to Whalen, 1968 May 28


Box 1 Folder 3 Allen, Tony to Whalen, undated


Allen, Donald to Whalen


Box 1 Folder 4 1963-1966 (3 letters), 1963-1966


Box 1 Folder 5 1967 January- September (8 letters), 1967


Box 1 Folder 6 1968 November (2 letters), 1968 November


Box 1 Folder 7 1969 September- December (4 letters), 1969


Box 1 Folder 8 1970 (6 letters), 1970


Box 1 Folder 9 1971 January- March, 1971, (6 Folders)


Box 1 Folder 10 1972-1973, (6 Folders)


Box 1 Folder 11 American Academy of Arts and Letters to Whalen, 1968


Box 1 Folder 12 American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, 1968


Box 1 Folder 13 Artisjus, 1966


Box 1 Folder 14 Aston, James to Whalen, 1968


Box 1 Folder 15 B., Wallace to Whalen, undated


Box 1 Folder 16 Baldwin, Geoffrey Rowan to Whalen, 1968


Box 1 Folder 17 Barrett, Neil to Whalen,1967 (3 letters), 1967


Box 1 Folder 18 Baynard, Ed to Whalen, [1968]


Box 1 Folder 19 Benedikt, Michael to Whalen, 1974 January 4


Box 1 Folder 20 Benello, George to Whalen, John Armstrong, and Gary Snyder, 1965 March 31


Box 1 Folder 21 Berkson, Bill to Whalen, 1969 February 3


Box 1 Folder 22 Berrigan, Alice Notley,1972-1973 (2 letters), 1972-1973


Box 1 Folder 23 Berrigan, Ted and Alice Notley to Whalen, 1972


Box 1 Folder 24 Berrigan, Ted to Whalen, 1967-1968, (2 letters)

(includes draft of poem "Poem for Philip Whalen")


Box 1 Folder 25 Bertolino, James to Whalen,1968 andundated, 1968, undated, (2 letters)


Box 1 Folder 26 Boucher, Paul to Whalen, 1968 August 29


Box 1 Folder 27 Brainard, Joe to Whalen, 1971 July -1972 April(6 letters), 1971 July


Box 1 Folder 28 Brinkman, Rolf Dieter,1968 (2 letters), 1968


Box 1 Folder 29 Brody, Jim to Whalen, 1968, (2 letters)

(includes poem "War Poems Notation")


Box 1 Folder 30 Brown, William to Whalen,1964-1974 (9 letters), 1964-1974


Box 1 Folder 31 Brown, Zoe to Whalen,1966-1967 (3 letters), 1966-1967


Box 1 Folder 32 Brownstein, Michael to Whalen, 1972 April 13


Box 1 Folder 33 Burke, Clifford to Whalen, December 18, 1970

(includes poem "Quiet Return to San Francisco, Thanksgiving, 1970")



Box 2 Folder 1 Caen, Herb to Whalen, Gary Snyder, and John Armstrong, 1965 March 23


Box 2 Folder 2 Callahan, Bob to Whalen, 1973 May 30

(contains a Turtle Island Foundation catalog)


Box 2 Folder 3 Carey, Steve to Whalen,1966-1967 (2 letters), 1966-1967

(contains "I Will not Faint in the Market" and "Philip Whalen we Love you Come Home")


Carpenter, Dan to Whalen


Box 2 Folder 4 1966 andundated (10 letters), 1966, undated


Box 2 Folder 5 1967 (19 letters), 1967


Box 2 Folder 6 1969 (8 letters), 1969


Box 2 Folder 7 Carrell, Paul to Whalen, 1972 November 23


Box 2 Folder 8 Caufle, Don to Whalen, 1968 August 11-12


Clark, Tom to Whalen


Box 2 Folder 9 1966 (4 letters), 1966


Box 2 Folder 10 1967 (4 letters), 1967


Box 2 Folder 11 1969 (6 letters), 1969


Box 2 Folder 12 1969 October 26

(includes poem "Things About You")


Box 2 Folder 13 1971 September 16


Clements, Marshall to Whalen


Box 2 Folder 14 1968 (3 letters), 1968


Box 2 Folder 15 1970 July 27


Box 2 Folder 16 Committee on Poetry Statements on LeRoi Jones and Lenny Bruce,, 1964-1968


Box 2 Folder 17 Contemporary Films, 1968 May 8


Coolidge, Clark to Whalen


Box 2 Folder 18 Undated (5 letters), Undated


Box 2 Folder 19 1966-1973 (7 letters), 1966-1973


Corman, Cid to Whalen


Box 2 Folder 20 1967-1969 andundated (10 letters), 1967-1969, undated


Box 2 Folder 21 1970-1973 (19 letters), 1970-1973


Box 2 Folder 22 Corso, Gregory to Whalen, 1972 December 18


Box 2 Folder 23 Conze, Edward to Whalen, 1967 September 22


Box 2 Folder 24 Creeley, Robert to Whalen, 1967 November 23


Box 2 Folder 25 DaBoll, Irene and Ray to Whalen, 1965


Box 2 Folder 26 Danchick, Anita M. Benton to Whalen, 1968 November 5


Box 2 Folder 27 Deemer, Bill to Whalen,1966 andundated (7 letters), 1966, undated



Box 3 Folder 1 Denney, Randy to Whalen, 1968


Box 3 Folder 2 Detro, Gene to Whalen, 1974 July 21


Box 3 Folder 3 Dias, Robert Vas to Whalen, 1969 August 6


Box 3 Folder 4 Dilia to Whalen, 1966


Box 3 Folder 5 DiPrima, Diane to Whalen,1966-1972 (12 letters), 1966-1972


Box 3 Folder 6 Di Suvero, Victor M. to Whalen, 1965


Box 3 Folder 7 Dorfman, Elsa to Whalen, 1968 April 28


Box 3 Folder 8 Doss, Margot, 1968


Box 3 Folder 9 Drake, Albert to Whalen,1971 (2 letters), 1971


Box 3 Folder 10 Duerden, Richard to Whalen,1966-1970 (6 letters), 1966-1970


Box 3 Folder 11 Eckert, George, 1968 July 17


Box 3 Folder 12 Eigner, Larry to William Brown, undated


Box 3 Folder 13 Eshleman, Clayton to Whalen, 1971 December 18


Box 3 Folder 14 Eutsler, Lee to Whalen, 1968 January 28


Box 3 Folder 15 Factor, Don to Whalen, 1961 March 19


Box 3 Folder 16 Fagin, Larry to Whalen1970-1973 (12 letters), 1970-1973


Box 3 Folder 17 Fairbank, Alfred to Whalen, 1966 August 17


Box 3 Folder 18 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence to Whalen,1971-1973 (3 letters), 1971-1973


Box 3 Folder 19 Finch, Peter to Whalen,1971-1972 (5 letters), 1971-1972


Box 3 Folder 20 Friedman, Richard to Whalen, 1973 March 24


Box 3 Folder 21 Gay, Rginald to Whalen,undated (3 letters), undated


Box 3 Folder 22 Gifford, Barry to Whalen, 1969 October 24


Box 3 Folder 23 Gilbert, Steve to Whalen, June-August, 1968 (2 letters), June-August, 1968


Ginsberg, Allen to Whalen


Box 3 Folder 24 1966-1968 (18 letters), 1966-1968


Box 3 Folder 25 1969-1971 (13 letters), 1969-1971


Box 3 Folder 26 1972-1973 (12 letters), 1972-1973


Box 3 Folder 27 1974-1979 (11 letters), 1974-1979



Box 4 Folder 1 Ginsberg, Louis to Whalen,1968-1971 (4 letters and miscellaneous items), 1968-1971


Box 4 Folder 2 Gitin, David to Whalen,1968-1970 (5 letters), 1968-1970


Box 4 Folder 3 Green, Paul to Whalen,1967 (2 letters), 1967


Box 4 Folder 4 Greenfelder, Robert to Whalen, 1965 March 28


Box 4 Folder 5 Grossman, Martin to Whalen,1972andundated, 1972, undated, (2 Folders)


Box 4 Folder 6 Grossman Publishers, 1973 January-June (3 letters), 1973 January-June


Box 4 Folder 7 Guggenheim Foundation, 1969 February 28


Box 4 Folder 8 Gwerder, Urban to Whalen, 1969 April 11


Box 4 Folder 9 Hadley, Drummond and Diana to Whalen, 1968 November


Box 4 Folder 10 Hall, Donald to Whalen, 1971 August-September (3 letters), 1971 August-September


Box 4 Folder 11 Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1968-1970

(regarding publication ofOn Bear's Head)


Box 4 Folder 12 Harvey, Nick (Glibe Urban Center), 1970 May-November (4 letters and 1 carbon reply), 1970 May-November


Box 4 Folder 13 Haselwood, Dave to Whalen, 1966 May and 1967 May (3 letters), 1966 May, 1967 May


Box 4 Folder 14 Helmsley, Kris to Whalen, 1972 February 14


Box 4 Folder 15 Hollo, Anselm to Whalen,1971 October-1973 (3 letters), 1971


Box 4 Folder 16 Hoogstraten, Harry to Whalen, undated


Box 4 Folder 17 Hoppe, Art to Whalen and Joan Armstrong, 1965 March (2 letters), 1965 March


Box 4 Folder 18 Howard, Peter to Whalen, 1968-1970 (5 letters), 1968-1970


Box 4 Folder 19 Hoyem, Andrew to Whalen, 1968 November 8


Box 4 Folder 20 Humphrey, James to Whalen, 1969-1970 (4 letters), 1969-1970


Box 4 Folder 21 Inada, Lawson Fusai to Whalen,1970 (2 letters), 1970


Box 4 Folder 22 Kanaseki, Hisao to Whalen, 1968 November (2 letters), 1968 November


Box 4 Folder 23 Karhu, Clif to Whalen, 1968 August


Box 4 Folder 24 Kelly, Robert to Whalen, 1971 August 5


Box 4 Folder 25 Kennedy, Dick to Whalen,1966-1968 (6 letters), 1966-1968


Box 4 Folder 26 Kerouac, Gabrielle-Ange Levesque to Whalen, 1965 December 17


Box 4 Folder 27 Kerouac, Jack to Whalen, 1969 January 16


Box 4 Folder 28 Keyes, Roger to Whalen, 1968 August 1


Box 4 Folder 29 Kherdian, David to Whalen, 1966-1970 (19 letters), 1966-1970


Box 4 Folder 30 Kleinzahler, August to Whalen, undated


Box 4 Folder 31 Knight, Arthur and Glee to Whalen, 1973-1974, (5 letters with enclosures)


Box 4 Folder 32 Knox, Hugh to Whalen, 1969 March 27


Box 4 Folder 33 Koch, Kenneth to Whalen, 1967 October 10


Koller, James to Whalen



Box 5 Folder 1 1965-1968 (23 letters), 1965-1968


Box 5 Folder 2 1969-1974 (24 letters), 1969-1974


Box 5 Folder 3 Kuhn, Donald (Glide Urban Center), 1970 November (2 letters), 1970 November


Box 5 Folder 4 Kuroda, Yoshiyuki to Whalen, 1968 December 25


Box 5 Folder 5 Kyger, Joanne Elizabeth to Whalen, 1966 March 28


Box 5 Folder 6 Kyger, Joanne Elizabeth and John P. Boyce to Whalen, 1966 May-1968 September (22 letters), 1966 May-1968 September


Box 5 Folder 7 Kyger, Joanne to Whalen, 1968 October-1971 March (21 letters), 1968 October-1971 March


Box 5 Folder 8 Le Pellec, Yves to Whalen,1974 (2 letters), 1974


Box 5 Folder 9 Linenthal, Mark to Whalen, 1968 February 6


Box 5 Folder 10 Lloyd, Norman to Whalen, 1968 October 2


Box 5 Folder 11 Loewinsohn, Ron to Whalen,1966-1968 (3 letters), 1966-1968


Box 5 Folder 12 Longville, Tim to Whalen,1969-1972 (5 letters), 1969-1972


Box 5 Folder 13 Lourie, Ivan to Whalen, 1969 September 10


Box 5 Folder 14 Lowell, Jim to Whalen, 1965 March-April (2 letters), 1965 March-April


Box 5 Folder 15 LaVigne, Robert to Whalen, 1973


Box 5 Folder 16 Leavitt, Dick to Whalen, 1968-1969


Box 5 Folder 17 Luckenbach, Roger to Whalen, 1968 November 23


Box 5 Folder 18 MacAdams, Lewis to Whalen, 1968


Box 5 Folder 19 McBean, Judy to Whalen, undated


McClure, Michael to Whalen


Box 5 Folder 20 1969-1973 andundated (15 letters), 1969-1973, undated


Box 5 Folder 21 1975-1977 (8 letters), 1975-1977



Box 6 Folder 1 McCullough, Frances (Coward-McCann, Inc.) to Whalen, 1970 August 13


Box 6 Folder 2 McMenamin, Thomas John to Whalen,1969 Spring, 1969


Box 6 Folder 3 Madsen, Jack to Whalen,1968 andundated (4 letters), 1968, undated


Box 6 Folder 4 Malamut, Laura to Whalen, 1968 September 21


Box 6 Folder 5 Malley, Joan to Whalen, 1969 July 26


Box 6 Folder 6 Marlowe, Alan to Whalen,1966-1968 and undated, 1966-1968, undated, (5 letters)


Martin, John to Whalen


Box 6 Folder 7 1970-1971, (12 letters)


Box 6 Folder 8 1972, (10 letters)


Box 6 Folder 9 Sister Mary Norbert to Whalen, 1968 February 9


Box 6 Folder 10 Mayfield, Carl to Whalen, 1974 March 13


Box 6 Folder 11 Melanga, Gerard to Whalen, 1966-1972, (3 letters)


Box 6 Folder 12 Meltzer to David to Whalen,1968-1970 and undated, 1968-1970, undated, (14 letters)


Box 6 Folder 13 Meredith, Lawrence to Whalen, 1968-1969


Box 6 Folder 14 Miles, Josephine to Whalen, 1969 February 16


Box 6 Folder 15 Montgomery, John to Whalen, 1974 February 14


Box 6 Folder 16 Morgan, Pete to Whalen, 1970 February 24


Box 6 Folder 17 Muste, Abraham John to Whalen, 1965 March 23


Box 6 Folder 18 Nelson, Gene to Whalen, 1965 March 20


Box 6 Folder 19 Newman, Julia to Whalen,1968-1971 (4 letters), 1968-1971


Box 6 Folder 20 Nims, John to Whalen,1973-1974 (2 letters), 1973-1974


Box 6 Folder 21 Nichol, Robert S., to Whalen, 1968 November 24

(includes "Kami: A Visit to Philip Whalen")


Box 6 Folder 22 Norse, Harold to Whalen, 1974 September 12


Box 6 Folder 23 Oppenheimer, Joel to Whalen, 1971-1973, (4 letters)


Box 6 Folder 24 Padgett, Ron to Whalen, 1967 February 5


Parkinson, Thomas Francis


Box 6 Folder 25 To Whalen, 1962-1970, (9 letters)


Box 6 Folder 26 Poetry- "Eros: Poems for the City," "Homage to Monte Berico," "Thanatos: Poems on Death"


Box 6 Folder 27 Pearson, Norman Holmes to Whalen, 1974 January 6


Box 6 Folder 28 Penguin Books to Whalen, 1966


Box 6 Folder 29 Peterson, Don to Whalen, 1970 August 28, (2 letters- one in the form of a poem)


Box 6 Folder 30 Pivano, Fernanda Sottsass to Whalen,, 1966-1969


Box 6 Folder 31 Plymell, Charles to Whalen,1968 1971 andundated, 1968, 1971, undated, (4 letters)


Box 6 Folder 32 Rabin, Daniel to Whalen, undated


Ray, David



Box 7 Folder 1 1965-1966, (2 letters)


Box 7 Folder 2 Poems sent to Whalen- "Homage to Ed Dorn," "An Idyll Perhaps," "Salisbury Sandwiches"


Box 7 Folder 3 Reed, Sweeney to Whalen, 1969 May 22


Box 7 Folder 4 Rexroth, Kenneth to Whalen,1966-1970 and undated, 1966-1970, undated, (9 letters and 10 poems)


Box 7 Folder 5 Reynolds, Lloyd to Whalen, 1966


Box 7 Folder 6 Rimer, Thomas to Whalen,1966 and undated, 1966, undated


Box 7 Folder 7 Robbins, Henry to Whalen, 1970 March 13


Box 7 Folder 8 Rose, Sandy to Whalen, September, 1968


Box 7 Folder 9 Rosenthal, Irving to Whalen, 1966 May-1967 November, (16 letters)


Box 7 Folder 10 Rossett, Barney to Whalen, 1965 March 19


Box 7 Folder 11 Sakaki, Nanao to Whalen, undated


Box 7 Folder 12 Sandberg, David to Whalen, 1966, (3 letters)


Saroyan, Aram to Whalen


Box 7 Folder 13 1966-1969, (12 letters)


Box 7 Folder 14 1970-1972, (12 letters)


Box 7 Folder 15 Poems and an interview with Whalen


Box 7 Folder 16 Schuchat, Simon to Whalen, 1972-1973, (2 letters)


Box 7 Folder 17 Senauke, Alan to Whalen, undated


Box 7 Folder 18 Shoemaker, Jack to Whalen, 1969-1970, (5 letters)


Box 7 Folder 19 Silliman, Ron to Whalen, Richard Duerden, an Gary Snyder, 1969 January 6


Snyder, Gary to Whalen


Box 7 Folder 20 1965-1966 December, (14 letters)


Box 7 Folder 21 1967 February-1970 October, (24 letters)


Box 7 Folder 22 1971 January-1974 November, (26 letters)


Snyder, Gary



Box 8 Folder 1 to Whalen, 1975 February-1979 June, (17 letters)


Box 8 Folder 2 Poems and Miscellany


Box 8 Folder 3 Stafford, Bill to Whalen, 1968 June 1


Box 8 Folder 4 Steinbeck, John IV to Peter Collier, 1968 August 7


Box 8 Folder 5 Stevens, Jean Andre to Whalen, 1974 July 20


Box 8 Folder 6 Taggart, John to Whalen, 1968 October-1970 March, (3 letters)


Thomas, Bill to Whalen


Box 8 Folder 7 1966, (13 letters)


Box 8 Folder 8 1967 March-1968 December, (24 letters)


Box 8 Folder 9 Miscellaneous


Box 8 Folder 10 Thomas, Jody to Whalen, 1968 October 3


Box 8 Folder 11 Thompson, L. to Whalen, 1969


Box 8 Folder 12 United States Government Correspondence and Documents,1969-1970 andundated, 1969-1970, undated


Box 8 Folder 13 University of California at Los Angeles to Whalen,, 1964-1968


Box 8 Folder 14 Van Aelstyn, Edward to Whalen,, 1966-1968, (3 letters)


Box 8 Folder 15 Veitch, Tom to Whalen, 1971 March-May, (4 letters)


Box 8 Folder 16 Wagstaff, Christopher to Whalen, 1968 December -1969 February, (5 letters)


Box 8 Folder 17 Waldman, Anne to Whalen, 1969 February-1973 December, (20 letters)



Box 9 Folder 1 Wang, David Rafael to Whalen, 1966-1967, (2 letters and the poem "The Knack")


Box 9 Folder 2 Warsh, Lewis to Whalen, 1967-1969, (5 letters)


Box 9 Folder 3 Webb, Jon to Whalen, 1968 March 12


Box 9 Folder 4 Weinstein, Norman to Whalen, undated, (2 letters)


Box 9 Folder 5 Weishaus, Joel to Whalen, 1970 July-October, (5 letters)


Box 9 Folder 6 Wells, Michael to Whalen, 1968 December 27


Whalen, Philip


Box 9 Folder 7 To Thomas Clark, August 1967, (2 letters)


Box 9 Folder 8 To Diane Di Prima, 1964 December-1968 January, (6 letters)


Box 9 Folder 9 To Pamela Millward, 1967 August 21


Box 9 Folder 10 To Edward Sanders, 1963-1966, (6 letters)


Box 9 Folder 11 To Mr. Winslow, undated

(with Winslow's essay on Whalen- corrected by Whalen)


Box 9 Folder 12 Wilentz, Elias S. to Whalen, 1966 October- November, (2 letters)


Box 9 Folder 13 Williams, Jonathan to Whalen, 1967-1968, (7 letters and miscellaneous)


Box 9 Folder 14 Wilson, Robert to Whalen, 1965-1970, (4 letters)


Box 9 Folder 15 Woessner, Warren to Whalen, 1973 April 15


Box 9 Folder 16 Worcester, Thomas K. to Whalen, 1966 February 8


Box 9 Folder 17 Wyatt, Bill to Whalen, 1968 June 6


Box 9 Folder 18 Young, Geoffrey to Whalen, 1971 January-December, (3 letters)


Box 9 Folder 19 Miscellaneous and Unsigned Correspondence