John B. Lee fonds

John B. Lee fonds. – 1957-2006. – 8.6 m of textual records and other material.

Series 1
Correspondence. – 1973-2001. – 7 cm of textual records. – Title based on content of the series. – Series contains correspondence with enclosures, primarily concerning Lee’s submissions to various publishers. Most of the correspondence is incoming to Lee. Some letters were redirected to Lee though not originally sent to him, such as the correspondence concerning Dogwood Press. Series also contains notebooks which list submissions of poetry sent by Lee to publishers, noting the publishers’ replies. The correspondence has been arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent. See also other series for additional correspondence.

BOX 1
F.1 Poetry submission blank [outgoing], [1981?-1987?], 6 letters. Unsent.
F.2 Poetry submission to unknown publication [outgoing], [1983?], 1 letter with enclosures. Unsent.
F.3 Rejection letter from unknown publication, n.d., 1 letter.
F.4 Surname unknown.
Carolyn and Edwin [—], n.d., 1 letter.
Dianne [—], n.d., 1 letter.
John [—], 2002, 1 letter with enclosure.
Marnie [—], 1992, 1 letter.
F.5 A-E
A
Acta, 1984, 1 letter.
Addison-Wesley Publishers Limited, 1990, 1 letter.
Aethlon: The Journal of Sports Literature, 1992, 1 letter.
The Alchemist, 1984-6, 5 letters.
Althouse Press, 1986, 2 letters.
Anansi, 1982-1987, 5 letters.
Antigonish Review, 1987-1991, 2 letters.
Arc, n.d., 1987-1989, 6 letters.
Argo Publishing Company, n.d., 1 letter.
Ariel, n.d., 5 letters.
John Atkin, n.d., 1 return address taken from envelope.
Damien Atkins, 1992, 1 letter.
Aya Press, n.d., 1987, 2 letters.

B
Don Bailey and Daile Unruh [outgoing / incoming], 1991, 1 letter with reply on same letter.
Herb Barrett (Tidepool; Hamilton Haiku Press), 1987-1989, 3 letters.
[Roger Bell?], 1989, 1 postcard.
bill bissett, 1994, 1 postcard.
Black Moss Press, n.d., 1992, 4 letters.
Breakthrough!, 1986-1989, 2 letters.
Brick Books (Stan Dragland), 1985-1991, 5 letters.
Cathy Brown, 1991, 1 letter.

C
Cactus Tree Press, 1988, 1 letter.
The Camrose Review / The Dinosaur Review, 1984-1985, 2 letters.
Canadian Author and Bookman (Sheila Martindale), 1983-1988, 5 letters, and 1 open letter (3 pp.).
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, [1981]-1994, n.d., 12 letters.
Canadian Children’s Annual (Potlatch Publications Limited), 1991, 1 letter.
Canadian Federation of University Women Norfolk, 1993, 1 letter.
Canadian Historical Society, 1992, 1 letter.
Canadian Literary Magazines, n.d., 1 letter with enclosure.
The Canadian Forum, n.d., 4 letters. To, 1983, 1 letter.
Canadian ISBN Agency (National Library of Canada), 1984, 1 letter.
Canadian Literature, 1983-1987, 2 letters.
The Capilano Review, n.d., 2 letters.
Carousel, 1988, 1 letter.
Champagne Horror, 1989, 1 letter.
Chiron Press, [1989?], 1 letter with enclosure.
The Coach House Press, 1975-1989, 7 letters with enclosure; [outgoing], 1973, 1 letter.
Mark Cochrane, 1995, 1 letter.
Commonwealth Institute, 1990, 1 letter.
Contemporary Verse, 1987, 1 letter.
Gregory M. Cook, 1994, 1 letter with enclosures.
Copperfield [outgoing], 1979, 1 letter.
Cormorant Books, 1987, 1 letter.
Coteau Books, 1989, 1 letter.
Cross-Canada Writers Inc., 1988, 1 letter.
CV2, 1987-1988, n.d., 4 letters.

D
Dandelion, n.d., 1 postcard, 8 letters.
James E. Deahl, 1987, 1 letter.
J.M. Dent and Sons [outgoing], 1986, 1 letter.
Descant, 1984,-1991, n.d., 11 letters, 3 postcards.
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, n.d., 1 letter.
Clive Doucet, n.d., 1 letter.
Dollarpoems, 1986, 1 letter.
Stan Dragland, 1980-1981, n.d., 6 letters, 1 postcard.

E
Fred J. Eaglesmith, 1994, 1 letter.
Esquire, n.d., 1 letter.
Event: The Douglas College Review, n.d., 9 letters.
Rod Exelby, 1992, 1 letter.
Exile, n.d., 1 letter.

F.6      F-N
F
The Fiddlehead, 1981-1992, 23 letters with enclosure.
Fiddlehead Poetry Books / Goose Lane Editions, 1983-1988, 12 letters.
Focus [outgoing / incoming], 1987, 1 letter with reply on same letter.
William Fox and Emma Waverman, n.d., 2 fax cover letters.
J.H. French and Company, 1985, 1 letter.
John Frost (American Poetry Anthology), n.d., 3 letters with enclosure.

G
Gage Educational Publishing Company, 1986, 1 letter.
Germination [outgoing], 1988, 1 letter with reply on same letter.
Marty Gervais (Black Moss Press) [outgoing], 2000-2001, 2 e-mails.
Don B. Giles, n.d., 1 letter.
Stephen Gill, 1989-1992, n.d., 5 letters.
Imogen Givens, 2004, 1 letter with enclosure.
Grain, 1982-1984, n.d., 5 letters.
Richard M. (Tai) Grove [outgoing], 1998, 1 letter.
Guernica Editions [outgoing / incoming], [1980s], 1 letter with reply on same letter.

H
Philip Hall, 1988, 1 letter.
Haze, n.d., 1 letter.
Steve Heighton, 1991, 1 letter.
David Hillen, 1992, 1 letter.
Hillfield-Strathallan College, 1990-1992, 2 letters
Amber Homeniuk, 1993, 2 letters with enclosure.
Houghton Mifflin Canada Limited, 1989, 1 letter.
Hounslow Press [outgoing / incoming], [1980s], 1 letter with reply on same letter.
Laurence Hutchman, 1993-1994, 2 letters.

I-L
Inkstone, n.d., 1984, 3 letters.
Island, [1980s]-1987, 5 letters.
E.T. Jackson, 1974, 1 poem.
Penn Kemp, n.d., 1 poem.
Mike and Kathleen Kether, 1987, 1 letter.
League of Canadian Poets, 1988, 1 letter.

M
Rod MacIntyre, 1992, 1 letter.
Owen and Jane MacLean, 1987, 1 letter.
The Malahat Review, 1988-1992, 14 letters.
Martin Garth Press, 1988, 1 letter.
Sheila Martindale, 1993, 1 letter.
Julie Mason [outgoing / incoming], 1998, 8 letters.
Matrix, n.d., 1985-1986, 5 letters.
McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1983-1991, 6 letters; [outgoing], 1987, 1 letter.
McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1986, 1 letter.
Don McKay, n.d., 1 letter.
Christopher McKneally [incoming / outgoing], 2000, 1 e-mail with original e-mail in text.
Ministry of Education (British Columbia), 1993, 1 letter with enclosures.
Ministry of Natural Resources (Ontario), n.d., 1 letter with memo notice attached.
Moonstone Press, 1988-1989, 2 letters.
Moosehead Anthology and Review, n.d., 2 letters.
Colin Morton (Ouroboros), 1988, 2 letters.
Mosaic Press, n.d., 2 letters.
Museletter, 1992, 1 letter.

N
Nebula Press, n.d., 1984, 1 letter with 11 enclosures; 1 letter with reply on same letter.
Nelson Canada, 1993, 3 letters.
Next Exit, 1989-1991, 2 letters.
The New Quarterly, n.d., 1984-1988, 4 letters.
Nexus, n.d., 1 letter.
Eleanor and Sarah Nichol, 1989-1990, 1 letter, 1 Christmas card.
Nimrod: International Journal of Prose and Poetry, 1994, 1 letter.
North York Arts Council, 1987-1988, 2 letters.
Northern Light, n.d., 3 letters.
W.W. Norton and Company, 1983, 1 letter.

F.7 O-Z
O
Oberon Press [outgoing], 1976, 1 letter; [incoming], n.d., 1976-1983, 4 letters.
Ontario Council of Teachers of English, 1992, 3 letters with enclosure.
Origins, 1981, 1 letter. [see also Herb Barrett]

P
Penumbra Press, 1989, 1 letter.
Peterborough Poetry Festival, 1988, 1 letter.
Piranha: Toronto’s National Satirical Magazine, 1986, 1 letter.
Poetry Canada, n.d., 1984-1992, 13 letters.
Poetry Toronto [outgoing], 1988, 1 letter with enclosure; [outgoing / incoming], 1988, letter with reply on same letter; [incoming], n.d., 5 letters.
The Porcupine’s Quill Incorporated, 1982-1988, 2 letters, 1 card.
Lewis J. Poteet, 1993, 1 letter.
Prairie Fire, n.d., 1988-1992, 4 letters.
Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1986, 1 letter.
PRISM international, n.d., 1983-1985, 5 letters with enclosure.
Prison Arts Foundation, 1992, 1 letter with newsletter 1992/3.
Public Lending Right Commission, 1993, 1 letter.

Q
Quadrant Editions, 1982, 1 letter.
Quarry Press, n.d., 1987-1989, 5 letters.
Queen’s Quarterly, n.d., 1992, 4 letters.

R
The Raddle Moon, n.d., 1983, 4 letters.
Rampike, n.d., 2 letters.
Antje Rauwerda (Hearsay), n.d., 1 letter.
James Reaney (University of Western Ontario), 1984, 1 letter.
Red Kite Press [outgoing], 1988, 1 letter. Unsent.
Rhythm-and-Rhyme, 1986, 1 letter. With enclosure.
Dale Ritterbusch [incoming / outgoing], n.d., 1 letter with reply on same letter.
Robert Land Academy, 1991, 1 letter.
Stan Rogal, 1993, 1 postcard.
Rubicon, 1987, 3 letters.
Runner’s World, n.d., 1 letter.

S
Salmon Arm and District Chamber of Commerce, 1990, 1 letter.
Saturday Night, n.d., 1984-1992, 5 letters.
Scrivener, 1987, 2 letters.
Kelly Shurr, n.d., 1 letter.
Jim Slominski, 2004, 1 letter with notes by Lee.
Sono Nis Press, n.d., 1986, 2 letters.
Glen Sorestad 1992, 1 letter with enclosures.
Richard [Stevenson], 1990, 1 letter.
Stoddart Publishing Company Limited, 1991, 1 letter.
Sun-Scape Publications / Sun-Scape Records, [1979], 1 letter.

T
Talonbooks, 1986, 1 letter.
Cliff Taylor, 1993, 1 letter.
Tendril, [1986?], 1 letter.
This, 1986, 2 letters.
Thistledown Press, 1988-1989, 2 letters with enclosure.
Toronto Life, 1986-1990, 6 letters.
Turnstone Press, 1983, 1 letter.
John Tyndall, n.d., 1 letter.

U-Z
University of Toronto Review, 1987, 1 letter.
University of Windsor Review, n.d., 3 letters.
Véhicule Press, 1988, 1 letter.
Wascana Review, n.d., 1984, 4 cards.
Waves, n.d., 10 letters with enclosure.
Brian T.W. Way, 1984, 1 letter with return address from envelope.
Whetstone, n.d., 1 letter.
White Wall Review, n.d., 1 letter.
Wild East, 1990, 1 letter.
Dave Worsley (Under Wraps Books and Publishing), 2001, 1 e-mail with original outgoing message.
Writ [outgoing / incoming], 1988, 1 letter with reply on same letter.
Yak, n.d., 1 letter.
Zymergy, [1991?], 1 letter.

F.8
Submissions list, 1977, 2 pp. Loose pages.
Submissions list, 1983-1986. Notebook.
Submissions list, 1986-1989. Notebook with loose pages.
Submissions list, 1990-1993. Notebook with loose pages.

Series 2
Manuscripts. – 1974-2006. – 3.2 m of textual records. – Title based on content of series. – Series consists of draft manuscripts, in whole or in part, for Lee’s works of poetry, novels and short stories, children’s poetry and stories, plays, and non-fiction. Materials have been arranged within these sub-series in an alphabetical arrangement. Titles of published works appear in italics. Iterations of drafts have been placed in approximate chronological order. Loose pages without any positive identification as to associated manuscripts have been gathered into a sub-series of undescribed manuscript pages. Other records include research materials, correspondence, and artwork relating to the manuscripts. In addition, essays written by university students referring to Lee’s published works have been placed in this series.

Poetry

BOX 1
Accidental Dogs, unpublished, n.d.
F.8 Draft [see also The Madman Shakes a Red Geranium].

All the Cats are Gone, Penumbra Press, 1993.
F.9 The Swallows Used to Swoop the Cats But All the Cats Have Gone [working title of All the Cats are Gone], early draft [see also The Art of Walking Backwards].
F.10 Incomplete draft.
F.11 Draft.
F.12 Draft.
F.13 Draft.
F.14 Revised draft with editing [by Stan Dragland?].
F.15 Draft with editing [by Stan Dragland?].
F.16 Draft with editing [by Stan Dragland?].

BOX 2
Alphabet, unpublished, [1977?].
F.1 Draft [title page artwork by Lee?].

Alphabet Reprise, unpublished, 1978.
F.2 Draft [title page artwork by Lee?].

Animals and Where They Live, unpublished, 1977.
F.3 Corrected draft.
F.4 Draft. 2 copies.
F.5 Photocopy of draft.

Art of Walking Backwards, Black Moss Press, 1993.
F.6 Early drafts. 2 copies, disordered [see also All the Cats Have Gone; Bad Rice; Ruined by Reality; and When Thistles Have Flowered and Gone to Seed].
F.7 Pages from draft.
F.8 Incomplete draft.
F.9 Draft.
F.10 Incomplete and disordered draft.
F.11 Draft.
F.12 Corrected draft, 106 pp.
F.13 Late draft, 87 pp.

Baby Woodcock, unpublished, n.d.
F.14 Draft.

Bad Philosophy of Good Cows, Black Moss Press, 1989.
F.15 Draft.
F.16 Edited draft.
F.17 Draft, with correspondence from CBC regarding its submission.
F.18 Draft, with Lee’s selections and editing.
F.19 Proofs with final edits, and correspondence with Marty Gervais.

BOX 3
Bad Rice, unpublished, n.d.
F.1 Draft [see also The Art of Walking Backwards].
F.2 Draft.

The Beatles Landed Laughing in New York, Black Moss Press, 1995.
F.3 The Night the Beatles Sang into a Wall of Screams [working title], draft versions of poems.
F.4 Draft.
F.5 Draft.
F.6 Proofs.

Beware the Dancing Card Table, unpublished, [ca. 1987].
F.7 Draft.
F.8 Draft.
F.9 Draft.

The Blue Bottle Prophecies of Biddy Early, unpublished, n.d.
F.10 Draft [see also Small Worlds].
F.11 The Blue Bottle and Small Worlds [later working title], draft. Some poems signed by Lee, some edited [by Stan Dragland?].
F.12 The Blue Bottle / Small Worlds [later working title], draft.

The Broken Oak, unpublished, n.d.
F.13 Draft.

BOX 4
Busride to Apocalypse High, unpublished, [c. 1990s].
F.1 Incomplete draft.
F.2 Draft.
F.3 Draft.

Catwalk, unpublished, [ca. 1987].
F.4 Draft.
F.5 Draft.
F.6 Draft selection of poems.

Clumsy Lover Suites, unpublished, n.d.
F.7 Draft.
F.8 Draft.
F.9 Draft.

Computer Sales, unpublished, [ca. 1990s].
F.10 Draft.
F.11 Draft.

The Day Jane Fonda Came to Guelph, Plowman Press, 1989.
F.12 Draft.
F.13 Draft.
F.14 Draft.

A Delicate and Beautiful Complexity, unpublished, n.d.
F.15 Draft.
F.16 Draft.

The Echo of Your Words Has Reached Me, Meckler and Deahl, 1998.
F.17 Early draft.
F.18 Late draft.

Everything to Be King, unpublished, n.d.
F.19 Draft, 20 pp.
F.20 Draft, incomplete, 9 pp.

Flat Stones Upon Still Ponds, unpublished, [ca. 2000s].
F.21 Draft.

BOX 5
Fossils of the Twentieth Century, Vesta Publications, 1983.
F.1 Folder cover with notes, 1980.
F.2 Draft.
F.3 Draft
F.4 Draft.

Getting Through the Winter, unpublished, n.d.
F.5 Draft.

The Girls in the Blue Bloomers Run Past, unpublished, [ca. 2002?].
F.6 Draft.

Haiku Movies, unpublished, n.d.
F.7 Draft.

The Halfway Tree, Black Moss Press, 2001.
F.8 Draft.
F.9 Draft.
F.10 Draft.
F.11 Draft.
F.12 Annotated and corrected draft, pp. 1-158.
F.13 Annotated and corrected draft, pp. 159-236, with several pages of later annotated and corrected draft.
F.14 Index, with e-mail correspondence with Marty Gervais, 2001.

BOX 6
Hired Hands, Brick Books, 1986.
F.1 Early draft, 1978. Some poems signed by Lee [see also Plays for related work Tom: The Story of a Hired Man].
F.2 Draft.
F.3 Incomplete draft, some poems signed by Lee.
F.4 Songs from Hired Hands, annotated for a slide show [for play version?].
F.5 Draft.
F.6 Draft of songs, including musical notation.
F.7 Draft, signed by Lee.
F.8 Draft, edited [by Stan Dragland?].
F.9 Draft. Includes draft of related play Tom: The Story of a Hired Man. 2 disordered copies.
F.10 2 poems from draft.
F.11 Draft.
F.12 Draft.
F.13 Corrected proofs.
F.14 Contract with illustrator, unsigned. 2 copies.

Hockey Player Sonnets, Penumbra Press, 1991.
F.15 Draft.
F.16 Proofs.
F.17 Undergraduate essays concerning Hockey Player Sonnets, 1994.

How Beautiful We Are, Black Moss Press, 2006.
F.18 Draft, 39 pp. With page of corrections made.

BOX 7
In the Terrible Weather of Guns, Mansfield Press, 2002.
F.1 Content, ‘King Joe’ [index to certain research materials, see FF.2-11 below], 1 p. [see also Voices in the Peacock Stone].
F.2 Willcocks (Wilcox), Dictionary of Canadian Biography [research materials #1]. Photocopy of Dictionary of Canadian Biography entry, with genealogical notes by Lee. Title from index in F.1.
F.3 Joseph Willcocks: Sheriff, Member of Parl., and Traitor: by Wm Renwick Riddell [research materials #2], 25 pp. Includes “Ft. Erie and U.S. Operations on the Niagara Frontier, 1814,” 5 pp. Title from index in F.1.
F.4 The Canadian Volunteers, Donald Graves [research materials #3], 6 pp. Title from index in F.1.
F.5 The Career of Joseph Willcocks [research materials #4], 7 pp. Title from index in F.1.
F.6 Letter from J. Willcocks re Grand River Indians and map [research materials #5], 3 pp. Includes bibliographical notes by Lee. Title from index in F.1.
F.7 A Study of Disaffection in Upper Canada, Cruikshank [research materials #6], 55 pp. Title from index in F.1.
F.8 County of Norfolk War of 1812, Cruikshank [research materials #7], 34 pp. Title from index in F.1.
F.9 Benjamin [sic, should read Benajah] Mallory, Riddell [research materials #8], 6 pp. Title from index in F.1.
F.10 Markle [research materials #9], 2 pp. Photocopy of Dictionary of Canadian Biography entry. Title from index in F.1.
F.11 Bibliography [research materials #10], 2 pp. Title from index in F.1.

BOX 51 [oversized materials]
F.1 Willcox Diaries and a Letter [i.e. Letterbook] [research materials #11], 200 pp. Photocopied from National Archives of Canada, Joseph Willcocks fonds (MG 24, vol. 1, file C2), 1998. Title from index in Box 7, F.1.

BOX 7
F.12 Joseph Willcocks Esq., First Sheriff of York (Toronto) [research materials], 8 pp. Photocopies from National Archives of Canada, Joseph Willcocks fonds (MG 24, vol. 1, file C2), 1998.
F.13 The Diary of Joseph Willcocks [research materials], 74 pp.
F.14 A Contemporary Account of the Rebellion in Upper Canada, 1837 [research materials], 61 pp.
F.15 Research materials and correspondence.
F.16 Donald E. Graves, “Joseph Willcocks and the Canadian Volunteers: An Account of the Political Disaffection in Upper Canada during the War of 1812” [research materials], 1982, 152 pp.
F.17 Charles Beardsley, Victims of Tyranny, vol. 1 [research materials], 1847, 260 pp.
F.18 Charles Beardsley, Victims of Tyranny, vol. 2 [research materials], 1847, 235 pp.

Infinite Solitudes, unpublished, 1979.
F.19 Draft.
F.20 Draft. 2 copies.
F.21 Corrected draft.

BOX 8
Life in Johnland, unpublished, [ca. 1985].
F.1 Early incomplete draft. Poetry and prose. Includes early draft of Featherhead [see also Children’s Poetry and Stories in this series].
F.2 Early draft.
F.3 Draft.
F.4 Incomplete draft.
F.5 Incomplete draft.
F.6 Draft.
F.7 Draft.

Lizard in My Mouth, unpublished, [1982?].
F.8 Draft [see also Novels and Short Stories in this series for prose piece bearing same title].

BOX 51 [oversized materials]
Love Among the Tombstones, Dogwood Press, 1980.
F.2 Plates.

BOX 8
The Madman Shakes a Red Geranium, unpublished, [ca. 1994].
F.9 Draft [see also Accidental Dogs].
F.10 Draft. 2 copies.

The Mission of Angels, unpublished, n.d.
F.11 Draft, 50 pp. [portions published under titles In a Language With No Words for Horses and Though Their Joined Hearts Drummed Like Larks].
F.12 Draft. With research materials.
F.13 Draft, 57 pp. With correspondence with Brick Books regarding possible publication.
F.14 Selected poems for inclusion in Souwesto 1, 2000, 17 pp. With correspondence.

Mixed Givings, unpublished, 1978.
F.15 Corrected draft, 62 pp. [see also Still Life and Sonnets from the Dogstar].
F.16 Draft. 2 copies.
F.17 Draft. Section 2 only.

The Moon is Never Lonely, unpublished, [1993].
F.18 Draft [see also The Art of Walking Backwards].
F.19 Draft.
F.20 Draft.

BOX 9
Never Hand Me Anything If I Am Walking or Standing, Black Moss Press, 1997.
F.1 Draft.
F.2 Drafts #1,2, and 5, 48 pp.
F.3 Draft.

Olularra, Unpublished, [1982?].
F.4 Draft, 3 pp.

Pig Dance Dreams, Black Moss Press, 1991.
F.5 Draft.
F.6 Draft.
F.7 Draft, 40 pp.
F.8 Pages of draft.
F.9 Incomplete draft.
F.10 Incomplete draft.
F.11 Draft, edited by unknown hand with responses to comments and corrections by Lee.
F.12 Draft for publisher, 107 pp.
F.13 Corrected proofs.
F.14 Recommended Code of Practice for Care and Handling of Pigs, Agriculture Canada Publication 1771/E [research material], 37 pp. Cover illustration removed.

Poems for the Pornographer’s Daughter, Black Moss Press, 2005.
F.15 Notes.
F.16 Draft. Disordered. With correspondence.
F.17 Draft.
F.18 Proofs.
F.19 Correspondence with Marty Gervais’ Editing Practicum Class, University of Windsor.

BOX 10
Post Cards from the Hind Teat, unpublished, n.d.
F.1 Numerous pages from several drafts, disordered.

Rediscovered Sheep, Brick Books, 1989.
F.2 Early draft.
F.3 Pages from an early draft.
F.4 Draft, slightly corrected.
F.5 Draft, edited [by Stan Dragland?].
F.6 Draft of new addition to manuscript.
F.7 Full draft, edited by two hands [including Stan Dragland?].
F.8 Draft, edited [by Stan Dragland?].
F.9 Final draft, edited [by Stan Dragland?].

Ruined by Reality, unpublished, n.d.
F.10 Draft. 2 copies [revised and published as The Art of Walking Backwards].

Small Worlds, Vesta Publications, 1986.
F.11 The Pontiff of Highgate Road [working title], early draft, 41 pp. Disordered.
F.12 The Pontiff of Highgate Road [working title], edited draft, 1983.
F.13 The Pontiff of Highgate Road [working title], partial draft.
F.14 The Pontiff of Highgate Road [working title], introduction to draft.
F.14 The Pontiff of Highgate Road [working title], partial draft.
F.15 The Pontiff of Highgate Road [working title], partial draft.
F.16 The Pontiff of Highgate Road [working title], full draft, 1983. With correspondence with CBC concerning its submission.
F.17 Several pages of a draft.
F.18 Incomplete draft.
F.19 Introduction to draft.

BOX 11
F.1 Incomplete draft [lacks Pontiff poem].
F.2 Several poems from draft.
F.3 Later draft.

Soldier’s Heart, Black Moss Press, 1998.
F.4 Draft.
F.5 Proofs. Separated into corrected pages, with correspondence with editor John [Glen?], and remaining uncorrected pages.
F.6 Final proofs.
F.7 Research materials.

Sonnets from the Dogstar, unpublished, 1974.
F.8 Early draft [see also Space Between Stars].
F.9 Single page of draft, 1974.

Space Between Stars, unpublished, [1974?].
F.10 Middle portion of early draft [see also Sonnets from the Dogstar].
F.11 Early draft, edited by several hands.
F.12 Draft, disordered. Multiple copies of many poems.

Stella’s Journey, Black Moss Press, 1999.
F.13 Research materials and correspondence.
F.14 Poems from early draft.
F.15 Draft, 87 pp.
F.16 Edited draft, 87 pp. With research notes by Susan Scaman (3 pp.; 2 copies)
F.17 Final draft, 78 pp.
F.18 Early proofs corrected by Lee, 1999, 86 pp. With note from Lee to editor on title page: “Brian, this looks great. / The changes have been / made right on the / text and marked in pink / marker. / All the best / John.”
F.19 Corrected proofs.

Still Life, unpublished, [1978-80?].
F.20 Draft, edited by Lee.

BOX 12
Stone Hands, unpublished, [1997].
F.1 Draft.

Suddenly Breathless, unpublished, [ca. 2000?].
F.2 Edited draft.

There Are Spiders of the Spirit Weaving Webs, unpublished, [ca. 1997].
F.3 Draft.
F.4 Draft.

These Are the Days of Dogs and Horses, Black Moss Press, 1994.
F.5 Title page, 1 p.

Things My Grandfather Did, unpublished, [1990].
F.6 Edited draft. [see also Variations on Herb].

Though Their Joined Hearts Drummed Like Larks, Passion Among the Cacti Press, 2004.
F.7 Research materials.

Thirty-Three Thousand Shades of Green, Leaf Press, 2004.
F.8 Edited draft. With correspondence.

To Kill a White Dog, Brick Books, 1982.
F.9 Early draft, [1970s?]. Apart from the first poem, this draft bears little resemblance to later drafts.
F.10    Draft. 2 copies.
F.11 Draft, edited by pen and by scissors.
F.12    Draft, edited [by Stan Dragland?].
F.13    Final draft. 2 copies.
F.14    Final poem. 2 copies.

Tongues of the Children: Upper Canada Chronicles, Black Moss Press, 1996.
F.15 Voices in the Peacock Stone [part 1], draft. Disordered.
F.16 Voices in the Peacock Stone [part 1], draft edited by Lee. Disordered.
F.17 Voices in the Peacock Stone [part 1], draft. Slightly disordered.

BOX 13
F.1 Voices in the Peacock Stone [part 1], incomplete draft.
F.2 Voices in the Peacock Stone [part 1], draft, 79 pp. Edited by Roger Bell.
F.3 Voices in the Peacock Stone [part 1], partial final draft.
F.4 Voices in the Peacock Stone [part 1], research materials and correspondence, 1991-2.
F.5 Voices in the Peacock Stone [part 1], research materials and correspondence.
F.6 Voices in the Peacock Stone [part 1], research materials.
F.7 Voices in the Peacock Stone [part 1], Cuesta (Spring 1981) [research materials].
F.8 Voices in the Peacock Stone [part 1], research materials and correspondence, 1992-8.
F.9 Voices in the Peacock Stone [part 1], index [see also Willcocks research materials].
F.10 Voices in the Peacock Stone [part 1], research materials and correspondence.
F.11 Voices in the Peacock Stone [part 1], research materials.
F.12 Voices in the Peacock Stone [part 1], research materials.
F.13 Sudden Flash of Fire [part 2], draft.
F.14 Sudden Flash of Fire [part 2], draft. Additional handwritten comments by Lee and edited by Roger Bell. With correspondence with editor Roger Bell.
F.15 Sudden Flash of Fire [part 2], research materials.
F.16 The Tongues of the Children Were Green from Eating Grass [part 3], draft. Edited by Roger Bell.
F.17 The Tongues of the Children Were Green from Eating Grass [part 3], draft.
F.18 Darkies [working title for part 4], draft. Additional handwritten comments by Lee and edited by Roger Bell.

BOX 14
F.1 Kicheraboo, We Are Dying [part 4], selected poems.
F.2 Kicheraboo, We Are Dying [part 4], draft.
F.3 Blasted Monuments [part 5], draft.
F.4 Blasted Monuments [part 5], edited draft.
F.5 Tongues of the Children: Upper Canada Chronicles [all parts], incomplete draft.
F.6 Notes on the poems and stories in The Upper Canada Chronicles, draft.
F.7 Tongues of the Children: Upper Canada Chronicles [all parts], draft.
F.8 Tongues of the Children: Upper Canada Chronicles [all parts], proofs.

Variations on Herb, Brick Books, 1993.
F.9 Other Versions of Herb [working title], draft, 19 pp. [see also Things My Grandfather Did].
F.10 Other Versions of Herb [working title], draft, 25 pp.
F.11 Other Versions of Herb [working title], draft. Disordered, with multiple copies of several pages.
F.12 Draft, marked “#37”
F.13 Draft.
F.14 Draft, 1990. Disordered. Edited by Stan Dragland, with correspondence from Stan Dragland.
F.15 Draft. Disordered. Edited by Stan Dragland.
F.16 Final draft, 104 pp. Edited by Stan Dragland.

BOX 15
Waterfront Anthology, unpublished, 1979.
F.1 Draft [see also Love Among the Tombstones and Thoughts of a Mouse at High Tide (Series 6)].

When Shaving Seems Like Suicide, Goose Lane Editions, 1991.
F.2 There Are Certain Days When Shaving Is Like Suicide [working title], early draft.
F.3 There Are Certain Days When Shaving Is Like Suicide [working title], draft.
F.4 Draft, 1990-1, edited by John Timmins. With unselected poems and correspondence.
F.5 Later draft, 71 pp.

When Thistles Have Flowered and Gone to Seed, unpublished, n.d.
F.6 Incomplete early draft [see also The Art of Walking Backwards].
F.7 Incomplete draft.
F.8 Draft. 2 copies.

Novels and Short Stories

BOX 15
Adolph’s Embryo, unpublished, n.d.
F.9 Drafts.

The Book of Days, unpublished, [ca. 1997].
F.10 Draft.

Dark and Dirty, unpublished, n.d. Written with Maj. G. Scott Bowman under pseudonym Lee Bowman.
F.11 Early draft.

BOX 16
F.1 Draft. With correspondence from G. Scott Bowman.
F.2 Draft.
F.3-4 Draft, 310 pp.
F.5 Portion of draft, pp. 149-57.
F.6 Draft, 233 pp. With 3½” floppy disk.
F.7 Draft pages, research materials, and correspondence, ca. 1990.
F.8 Research materials and related records from trip to Washington, DC.
F.9 Correspondence, 1990. With notes and draft pages for sequel Praying Mantis.
F.10 Draft page for sequel Praying Mantis.

BOX 17
The Horse’s Nose, unpublished, n.d.
F.1 Handwritten draft, 26 pp.

Lizard in My Mouth, unpublished, n.d.
F.2 Typescript and handwritten draft, 6 pp.

Praise the Night, unpublished, [1990s].
F.3 Draft.

The Wolf Who Slipped Under the Door, unpublished, n.d.
F.4 Draft. Disordered and incomplete.
F.5 Draft. With title page illustrated by Lee.

Children’s Poetry and Stories

Broom Bagatha and the Enchanted Basement, unpublished, n.d.
F.6 Draft.

Children’s Poetry in Progress [title from folder], n.d.
F.7 Various drafts.

Children’s Poetry, various, 1996.
F.8 Floppy computer disk with file directory.

Don’t Be So Persnikety! The Runaway Sneezing Poems, Songs and Riddles of John B. Lee, Black Moss Press, 2000.
F.9 Dilly Wakeup and the Runaway Head [working title], draft.
F.10 Dilly Wakeup and the Runaway Head [working title], draft.
F.11 Dilly Wakeup and the Runaway Head [working title], draft. 2 copies.
F.12 Draft, 66 pp.

Featherhead, The Giant Who Invaded Brantford: A Children’s Novel, unpublished, n.d.
F.13 Early draft, 1970s? [see also Poetry Fossils of the Twentieth Century].
F.14 Draft. 3 copies, the third incomplete.

Saint Nicholas and the Boy Who Lived in a Glass House, unpublished, n.d.
F.15 Draft. 3 copies.

Shy Johnny Grow Up, unpublished, n.d.
F.16 Draft, 8 pp.

Tarantula: A Book of Riddles, unpublished, [1996?].
F.17 Draft.

Will Alvin Alligator Ever Meet Zelda Zipper: An Alphabet Book, unpublished, n.d.
F.18  Draft.

Plays

BOX 17
The Cyclist, performed at Waterford District High School, [1979?].
F.19 Corrected draft, 7 pp. [see also Series 8, F.1]

Tom: The Story of a Hired Man, performed at Waterford District High School, 1982.
F.20 Early draft [see also Hired Hands and Photographs (Series 7)].
F.21 Introductory pages to draft, 1982, with casting and other notes by Lee.
F.22 Draft, 1982, 27 pp. With clipping of still from play in Nanticoke Times. 2 copies, second incomplete, third with notes concerning lighting of play and signed “Mark Sitke” on title page.
F.23 Draft, revised by Lee, 22 pp. 2 copies

Non-Fiction

BOX 17
Building Bicycles in the Dark: A Practical Guide to Writing, Black Moss Press, 2001.
F.24 Draft.
F.25 Draft.

The Farm on the Hill He Calls Home: A Memoir, Black Moss Press, 2004.
F.26 Proofs.

“What’s in a Name? The Pursuit of George Peacock ...,” Family History News, 3:3 (Aug. 1997), pp. 16-19 [article by Lee on George Peacock].
F.27 Early draft, 56 pp. With notes and pages from Voices in the Peacock Stone draft.
F.28 Photocopy of published article, 1997, 4 pp.

Unidentified Manuscript Pages

BOX 18
F.1-25 [ca. 1975]-[ca. 1985?]

BOX 19
F.1-23 [ca. 1985]-[ca. 1995]

BOX 20
F.1-6 [ca. 1985]-[ca. 1995]
F.7-28 [ca. 1995]-[ca. 2005]

BOX 21
F.1-17 [ca. 1995]-[ca. 2005]

Series 3
Notebooks. – 1972-2003. – 85.5 cm of textual records. – Title based on content of the series. – Series includes notebooks for poetry and prose composition, sometimes supplemented by diary entries relating to the writing. Titles, where known, are taken from the front covers of the books themselves. Specific terminal dates often appear on the inside front cover and have been supplied in the file description. Some notebooks contain loose manuscript pages, not always corresponding in date with the notebook itself. These files have been arranged in chronological order.

BOX 21
F.17 The Third Lie in a Series, 1974.
F.18
Thirteen Story House [2 notebooks], 1975.
Poetry, 1975.

BOX 22
F.1
Notebook, 1976. Removed from binding.
Poems, [1976?].
F.2
Notebook, 1978.
Notebook, [ca. 1978?].
F.3
Notebook, 1978.
Notebook, [1978].
F.4
Poems, Lizard in My Mouth, [ca. 1978?].
Western Journal, 1978-1979.
F.5
Poems & Stories, Summer 1979, 1979.
Poems, 1979.
Lizard in My Mouth, [1979?].
Poems, [1979?].
The Wolf That Slipped Under the Door [3 notebooks], [1979?].
F.6
Stories, 1980.
Olularra & To Kill a White Dog, 1980.
Book 1, [1980?].
Poems Begun Sept. 2/1980, 1980.
Contains To Kill a White Dog, [1980?].
2 Notebooks, [ca. 1980?].
F.7 Space Between Stars, [1981?].
F.8
Poems Begun Oct. 25/1981, 1981.
Poems Begun Jan. 11/1982, 1982.
Begun Sept. 9/1982, 1982.
Notebook, [ca. 1982-3?].
July 26, 8.00 PM, 1983.
Notebook, [ca. 1983?].
Notebook, [1983].
F.9
Life in John-Land & The Clumsy Lover, [1984?].
Selected Poems, [1984?].

BOX 23
F.1 Rediscovered Sheep, [1984?].
F.2 Life in Johnland, Haunted by Goats, 1984-1985, 37 pp. Removed from binding.
F.3
Metaphysical Nonsense, 1984.
Notebook, [ca. 1984?].
5 Notebooks, [ca. 1984-1988?].
F.4
Notebook, [ca. 1984-1988?].
Notebook, 1985.
Notebook, 1985-1986.
2 Notebooks, [ca. 1985-1986?].
2 Notebooks, 1986.
Notebook, 1986. “Begun May 5, 86.”
“Poems,” 1987. “Begun March 3, 87.”
F.5
Notebook, 1987. John Lennon photograph on cover.
Notebook, 1987. “Begun July 1, 87, finished Aug. 20, 87.”
F.6
2 Notebooks, [1987?].
Notebook, [1987-8].
Notebook, 1988. “Begun Feb. 1, 88.”
Notebook, 1988. “March 88.”
Notebook, 1988. “June 88.”
Notebook, [ca. 1988?]. “OC 3.”
F.7
Notebook, [ca. 1988?].
Notebook, 1988.
Notebook, 1988. “Begun Nov. 25, 88.”
F.8
Notebook, 1989. “Begun Nov. 20, 89.”
Notebook, 1989.
Notebook, [1989?].
F.9
3 Notebooks, [ca. 1990?].
Notebook, 1990.
Notebook, [1990?].

BOX 24
F.1
Notebook, 1991. “Jan. 14, 91.”
Notebook, 1991. “Feb. 8, 91 - Feb. 26.”
Notebook, 1991. “Feb 26.”
Notebook, 1991. “March 17, 91.”
Notebook, [1991?].
F.2
14 May, 91, 1991.
2 Notebooks, [ca. 1991?].
F.3
Notebook, [1991?]. “May 31.”
Notebook, 1991. “Begun Sept. 4, 91.”
Notebook, [1991?]. “Oct. 30.”
Notebook, 1991. “Nov. 25, 91.”
Notebook, [ca. 1991?].
F.4
3 Notebooks, [ca. 1991?].
Notebook, 1992. “Feb. 5, 92.”
Notebook, 1992. “March 6, 92.”
F.5
Notebook, [ca. 1992?].
Notebook, 1992. Ring binding.
Summer 92, 1992.
2 Notebooks, [ca. 1992?].
F.6 Notebook, [1992?]. Clothbound.
F.7
Notebook, 1993. Clothbound, “Jan. 5, 93.”
Notebook, 1993. Clothbound, “Jan. 93.”
F.8
Notebook, 1993. “April 19, 93.”
8 Notebooks, [1993?].

BOX 25
F.1 Notebook, [1993-1994?]. Clothbound.
F.2
2 Notebooks, [ca. 1993-1994?].
Notebook, 1993-1994.
Notebook, 1994.
Notebook, 1994. “Begun March 1, 94.”
Notebook, 1994. “Dec. 8, 94.”
F.3 4 Notebooks, [ca. 1994-1995?].
F.4
Notebook, 1995. “Begun March 16.”
Notebook, 1995. “Feb. 6, 95.”
2 Notebooks, [1995?].
F.5
Notebook, 1995.
Notebook, [1995?].
F.6
Starless and Blue at Midnight: The Baffin Island Journals, 1996.
Notebook, 1996.
F.7
Notebook, 1996. “Sept. 96.”
Notebook, 1996. “Oct. 23, 96.”
Notebook, [ca. 1996?]. Ring binding.
Notebook, 1997.

BOX 26
F.1
6 Notebooks, [ca. 1997-1998].
Notebook, 1998.
Notebook, [1998?].
F.2
Notebook, 1998. “Nov. 10, 98.”
Notebook, 1998. “Dec. 9, 98.”
3 Notebooks, [1999?].
F.3
Notebook, 1999.
Notebook, 1999. “March 11, 99.”
Notebook, 2000.
2 Notebooks, [ca. 2000?].
Notebook, [ca. 2000?]. “May 10.”
Notebook, 2000.
2 Notebooks, [ca. 2000?].
F.4 Manuscript Book, [Aug-Sept 2000].
F.5 Notebook, 2000.
F.6 Notebook, [2000?].
F.7
Notebook, [2000?]. Ring binding.
Notebook, [2001?]. Ring binding.
F.8
3 Notebooks, [2001?].
Notebook, 2001. “Dec. 5, 2001.”
F.9
Notebook, 2002. “May 29, 2002.”
2 Notebooks, [2002?].
Notebook, 2003. “Feb. 7, 2003.”

BOX 27
F.1 -- 2 Notebooks, 2003. Ring binding.
F.2 -- 2 Notebooks, [ca. 2003?].
F.3
2 Writing pads, n.d.
Notebook, n.d.
F.4 -- 6 Notebooks, n.d.
F.5 Notebook, n.d.
F.6 -- 4 Notebooks, n.d.
F.7 -- 6 Notebooks, n.d.
F.8 Notebook, n.d. Cover removed.
F.9 -- 2 Notebooks, n.d.
F.10 -- 2 Notebooks, n.d. Ring binding.

Series 4
Secondary Poetical Activities. – 1999-2003. – 79 cm of textual records. – Title based on content of series. – Series consists of records generated through Lee’s activities in the poetry community secondary to writing poetry: as editor for various publications and for other poets, as member of professional poetry associations, as facilitator for poetry workshops, as presenter of public readings, performances, and conference papers on poetry, as judge for poetry contests, as book promoter (for his own books and others of the presses publishing his work, including the writing of introductions and blurbs), and as writer-in-residence. Files have been arranged alphabetically into sub-series defining Lee’s areas of activity as delineated above.

Editor, Poetry Anthologies

BOX 28
Body Language: A Head-to-Toe Anthology, Black Moss Press, 2003.
F.1 Submission letters.

Following the Plough: Recovering the Rural - Poems and Stories on the Land, Black Moss Press, 2000.
F.2 Submissions list and correspondence, 1999-2000.
F.3 Correspondence with J.R. (Tim) Struthers, 1999.
F.4 Essay for Lee’s introduction.

Henry’s Creature: Poems and Stories on the Automobile, Black Moss Press, 2000.
F.5 Edited proofs with correspondence and submissions.
F.6 Cars [part 1], rough draft
F.7 Journeys [part 2], rough draft.
F.8 Incidental [part 3], rough draft.
F.9 Submissions and evaluations.
F.10 Submissions and evaluations.
F.11 Submissions.
F.12 Submissions.
F.13 Submissions with a high rating.

I Want to be the Poet of Your Kneecaps: Poems of Quirky Romance, Black Moss Press, 1999.
F.14 Submissions [see also Loser’s First: Poems and Stories on Game and Sport].
F.15 Press kit [also for Loser’s First: Poems and Stories on Game and Sport].

BOX 29
Loser’s First: Poems and Stories on Game and Sport, Black Moss Press, 1999.
F.1 Submissions and correspondence [see also I Want to be the Poet of Your Kneecaps: Poems of Quirky Romance].
F.2 Section 1, rough draft.
F.3 Section 2, rough draft.
F.4 Authors’ proofs with correspondence, 1999.

Smaller than God: Words of Spiritual Longing, Black Moss Press, 2001.
F.5 Submissions, A.
F.6 Submissions, B.
F.7 Submissions, C.
F.8 Submissions, D.
F.9 Submissions, A-Gordon.
F.10 Submissions, Klassen-Preda.
F.11 Submissions, Rule-Woehl.

BOX 30
F.1 Submissions, David Hillen. Includes 3.5" floppy computer disc.
F.2-3 Submissions, maybe. Title from folder.
F.4-5 Selected poems.
F.6 Soul Searching [chapter 1], draft.
F.7 God in the World [chapter 2], draft.
F.8 A Prayerfulness [chapter 3], draft.
F.9      Skewed View: An Odd Theology [chapter 4], draft.
F.10 Where Is God [chapter 5], draft.
F.11 Authors’ proofs, with corrections.
F.12 Final draft. Incomplete proof pages.
F.13 Galley proofs, with corrections and notes by Lee.
F.14 Correspondence.
F.15 Correspondence.
F.16 Correspondence.
F.17 Correspondence and notes.
F.18 The Interpretation of the Bible in Church, 1994 [printed 2000], 62 pp. Research materials?
F.19 Papal encyclical letters, n.d. Research materials?

University of Windsor Review. 36: 2 (Fall 2003). The Sporting Life issue.
F.20 Correspondence, 2001, 5 pp.

Editor, Poems of Roger Lee

BOX 31
F.1 Drafts of poems, n.d.
F.2 University of Toronto Review, 3 (Spring 1979). Signed by Bell on cover “To my editor, John B. Lee / From a grateful pupil. / Roger.”
F.3 Roger’s Poems, n.d. Title from folder.

Other Professional Activities

BOX 31
F.4 OSSTF Norfolk 47 District News, 1980-2. School district newsletter edited by Lee.
F.5 An Anthology of New Atlantic Canadian Poetry, Hugh MacDonald and Brent MacLaine, eds., 2001. Blurb by Lee for cover. With correspondence.
F.6 Stephen Gill, The Dove of Peace, 1993. Introduction by Lee. With correspondence
F.7 Poetry contest judging, 2000-1. Notes, programme, and correspondence.

Professional Associations

BOX 31
F.8 Cross-Canada Writers’ Workshop, [ca. 1980s?], 1 p.
F.9 Sport Literature Association, 1992, 4 pp.
F.10 Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers, 1993, 1 p.
F.11 League of Canadian Poets, 1986-2000. Includes correspondence [see also Box 32, F.27 for Lee’s participation in Poets in the Schools Programme].

Public Appearances and Promotion

BOX 31
F.12 Newspaper and internet clippings, 1976-1996. Originals and photocopies.
F.13 Outlines for two readings, ca. 1983?, 12 pp. With songs from Hired Hands.
F.14 Outline of presentation / reading, [ca. 1985?], 6 pp.
F.15 Biographical preface for poetry reading by Lee and John Tyndall [at Lynnwood Arts Centre?], [1987?].
F.16 Posters, programmes and brochures for readings or presentations, [1989-2000], 7 pp.

BOX 51 [oversized materials]
F.3 Large posters , [1990s?].

BOX 31
F.17 Book lists and promotional materials, 1991-2000, 7 pp.
F.18 Ontario Council of Teachers of English Annual Conference. Language: The Power and the Glory, 1992, 61 pp. Presenters’ pack [Lee presented 30 October] and programme. Programme signed by Lee with manuscript of a poem from inside cover to title page, and another at back on Notes page.
F.19 Word Up, 1994-1995. Contracts with correspondence.
F.20 Promotion package endorsed by Marty Gervais, 1996.
F.21 Interview by James Deahl. Poemata, 1997, 11 pp.
F.22 Reviews, 1999-2000, 2 pp.
F.23 Presentation on Black Moss Press books, 2001.

Workshop Facilitator

BOX 32
F.1 Poems for and by children from unknown workshop.
F.2 Blessed Kateri, Grade Five, n.d.
F.3 Tweedsmuir School. n.d.
F.4 Various schools, 1983-1987. Correspondence and invoices.
F.5 Poetry Unit, Designed for 7-8, ca. 1984. Teaching materials, with children’s work.
F.6 Farringdon Enrichment Centre, Temporary Mode Program, Creative Reading and Writing of Poetry, 1986-1990.
F.7 Unknown school, 1988.
F.8 Peterborough Poetry Festival, 1988. Programme distributed to high-school teachers in advance of poets visiting the schools.
F.9 Various schools, 1988-2002.
F.10 W. Ross Macdonald School, 1989. Graduation program includes “An Idea is Born” [facilitated by Lee], with handwritten manuscript of same.
F.11 Valley Heights, 1989.
F.12 Our Lady of Peace, 1990. 2 booklets.
F.13 St. Anthony, St. Catharines, 1990.
F.14 Brantford area public schools, 1991, 32 pp. Written in calligraphic script.
F.15 Primary Additional Basic [teachers’ college?] class presentation, 1992, 16 pp.
F.26 Brantford Collegiate Institute and Vocational School, 1993.
F.27 Poets in the Schools, League of Canadian Poets, 1993, 28 pp.

Writer-in-Residence, Kitchener Public Library

BOX 33
F.1 Appraisals, session #1 [title from folder], 2001.
F.2 Appraisals, session #2 [title from folder], 2001.
F.3 Appraisals, session #3 [title from folder], 2001.
F.4 Appraisals, session #4 [title from folder], 2001.
F.5 Appraisals, session #5 [title from folder], 2001.
F.6 Appraisals, session #6 [title from folder], 2001.
F.7 Appraisals, session #7 [title from folder], 2001.
F.8 Dates, times and schedules, 2001.
F.9 Contract, map, publicity, 2001.
F.10 Publicity, correspondence, 2001.
F.11 Final readings, 2001.
F.12 Preliminary materials, 2001.
F.13 Miscellaneous, 2001.
F.14 Writer-in-Residence Resource List, 2001, 3 pp.

Series 5
Professional teaching. – 1975-1994. – 7 cm of textual records. – Title based on content of series. – Series includes records of Lee’s years as a professional teacher, principally at Waterford District High School and Canadore College. Arrangement has been made chronologically.

BOX 33
F.15 Teaching certificates, 1975-1978, 4 pp. Includes correspondence.
F.16 Waterford District High School, 1978-1983.
F.17 Waterford District High School, Creative Writing class 5A, 1976-[1979?].
Kaleidoscope, 1976.
Kaleidoscope, 1977. Signed “To John Lee / June, 1977 / B.B.” by editor Brian Babineau.
Kaleidoscope, [1978 or 1979?].
Kaleidoscope, [1978 or 1979?].
F.18 Waterford District High School, Creative Writing class 5A, 1979-1988.
Kaleidoscope, 1979/80.
Kaleidoscope, 1979/80.
As Black As Snow, [1980-87?]. 2 copies, first without cover.
Kaleidoscope, 1987.
Kaleidoscope, 1988.
F.19 Canadore College, Artsperience Summer School of the Arts, 1993-1994. Programmes

Series 6
Personal records and juvenilia. – 1957-[2003?]. – 22.5 cm of textual records. – Title based on content of series. – Contents reflect Lee’s personal life, including work submitted to school and also his earlier works of poetry written up to 1973. Arrangement has been made chronologically, with records pertaining to the Lee family appearing at the end of the series.

BOX 33
F.25 Apathetic Man is a Pathetic Man, [ca. 1965-1969?]. High-school submission.
F.26 Five Faces of Time [poetry], unpublished, 1967; Smut for Hollow Faces, unpublished, 1969. Several authors including Lee, bound together with cover illustration by Lee.
F.27 Thoughts of a Mouse at High Tide [poetry], 1969. See also Series 2, Waterfront Anthology.
F.28 My Fingers are Not Philosophers [poetry], unpublished, 1970.
F.29 Fire Puzzles and Fire Lords [poetry], unpublished, 1971.
F.30 Address book, 1971. Signed “Georgina Lee, 1961 John Lee, 1971.”
F.31 University of Western Ontario undergraduate timetable, 1972.

BOX 34
F.1 The Poem So Far, unpublished, 1973. Undergraduate paper submitted to Prof. Stan Dragland.
F.2 Self-Portrait: A Chapter, 1973. Undergraduate paper submitted to Prof. Stan Dragland.
F.3 Waterfront Anthology, ca. 1973 [see also Series 2].
F.4 Some Remarks on Certain Problems, 1974, 29 pp. Undergraduate paper by Lee’s friend George O’Leary.
F.5 Spring convocation, University of Western Ontario,1974.
F.6 Professor’s comments on graduate papers, 1984.
F.7 The Pontiff of Highgate Road / The Pontiff Chronicles / Disregarding the Mask, 1984. 2 drafts, with correspondence with editor George [O’Leary?]. Graduate paper submitted to Prof. Tausky [see also Series 2].
F.8 Stone Boats and Pitch Forks, 1984. 3 drafts. Graduate paper submitted to Prof. James Reaney.
F.9 This Creature Noise: The Teaching of Modern Canadian Poetry in Senior English, 1984. 3 drafts, with correspondence. MA thesis submitted to Prof. Linden.
F.10 Spring Convocation, University of Western Ontario,1985. 2 copies.
F.11 Calendars, 1986-1990.
F.12 Ontario driver’s licence, 1987.
F.13 Peacock Point Cottage Owners Association, 1994. 2 pp.

BOX 35
F.1 Food and Exercise Note Book, [1997 or 2003].
F.2 The Beatles, n.d.. [see also trading cards in Series 7].

BOX 51 [oversized materials]
F.4 The Beatles, oversized, 1989.
F.5 Artwork for children, n.d.

BOX 35
F.3 Artwork, n.d.
F.4 Miscellaneous records, [1970s-1990s?]. Poems by students, various cards.
F.5 Family records – Herbert Lee.
Correspondence with McGillivray (Mac) Lee, 1957-1991. 5 letters.
Portion of unknown article, n.d. Photocopied article describing Herb Lee’s prize-winning sheep.
F.6 Family records – McGillivray Lee, correspondence, 1991, 2 letters.
F.7 Family records – Cathy (Morden) Lee [see also Series 8].
University of Western Ontario Examination Report, 1974, 1 p.
Journal from camping trip, n.d.
A Poem for John on Easter Day, 1988.
F.8 Family records – Dylan and Sean Paul Lee. Artwork and poems [see also Series 8].

Series 7
Other media. – 1959-2005. – 91 photographs: b&w and col. – 20 slides: b&w and col. – 13 post- and trading cards. – 10 video cassettes. – 32 audio cassettes. – 1 audio reel. – Title based on content of series. – Series consists of audio and visual media associated primarily with Lee, his family, and his work as a writer. Photographs have been thematically arranged largely, though not exclusively, in accordance with Lee’s own practice; other materials have been arranged chronologically. Records pasted by Lee into a photograph album were removed from the album for preservation purposes. See also Series 8 for photographs and slides included in Lee’s scrapbooks.

Photographs and Cards

BOX 35
F.9 Photograph Album
A: Photographs, 1959-1963
1          Grade 2, 1959. – b&w. – Lee second row, fourth from left.
2          Story Book Gardens, 1959. – b&w.
3          Tip and me, 1961. – b&w. Lee with family dog.
4          Farm house, 1961. – b&w. Lee farm in Highgate, ON.
5          Mom and Dad, 1962. – b&w. Lee’s parents.
6          Me and calf, 1962. – b&w.
7          Georgina and calf, 1963. – b&w.
8          Tip and me, 1963. – b&w. Lee with family dog.
9          Farm, n.d. – b&w. Lee farm in Highgate, ON.

B: Postcards [all but last unsent]
Casa Loma, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, n.d. – colour.
Buffalo Stampede, How the West Was Won, n.d. – colour.
Casa Loma, Toronto, Canada, n.d. – colour.
The Battle of Shiloh [from motion picture How the West Was Won], n.d. – colour.
Henry Ford and Thomas A. Edison, n.d. – colour.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Canada, 1962. – colour. With note from parents to Lee.

C: Beatles Colour Cards [numbers from cards]
11        George Harrison, n.d. – colour.
16        Ringo, Paul and John in carriage, n.d. – colour.
38        Paul, n.d. – colour.
42        Ringo, Paul, and John, n.d. – colour.
49        Paul, n.d. – colour.
55        The band performing, n.d. – colour.
58        Ringo and Paul, n.d. – colour.

F.10    Photographs, 1963-[2000s?]
1.         Woman standing in from of palisade, [early 1960s]. – b&w. Blurred image.
2.         Stand of evergreens, [early 1960s]. – b&w. Blurred image.
3.         Two boys and two girls at a lemonade stand, [early 1960s].. – b&w.
4.         Boat in a field, [early 1960s]. – b&w. Blurred image.
5.         Shoreline, [early 1960s]. – b&w. Blurred image.
6.         Boy and girl with young child walking past baseball diamond, [early 1960s]. – b&w.
7.         Lake with trees in foreground, [early 1960s]. – b&w.
8.         Woman with arms crossed in front of brick wall, [early 1960s]. – b&w. Blurred image.
9.         Trees at shoreline of lake, [early 1960s]. – b&w. Blurred image, some scuffing at bottom of print.
10.       Man with two women standing in front of tipi, [early 1960s]. – b&w.
11.       Tip, [1963?]. – b&w. Blurred image. Lee family dog.
12.       Lee with dark calf, 1964. – b&w.
13.       Lee’s mother?, 1964. – b&w.
14.       Lee’s sister Georgina?, 1964. – b&w.
15.       Christmas tree in living room, [1965?]. – b&w. Blurred image, damaged in bottom left corner by adhesion to other print.
16.       Crystmas [sic], 1965. – b&w. Slightly blurred image. Two men seated with two boys playing in living room.
17.       Lee with white calf, Aug. 1965. – b&w.
18.       Mom and Dad, Chucto?, 1966?. – b&w. Blurred image, top left corner peeled off. Lee’s parents standing in front of house.
19.       Lee with brown calf in yard, [1966?]. – colour.
20.       Lee with white calf, [1967?]. – b&w.
21.       Lee with white calf, [1967?]. – b&w.
22.       Lee with white calf, [1967?]. – b&w.
23.       Lee with dark calf, [1967?]. – b&w.
24.       Band in high school auditorium, [early 1970s?]. – colour.
25.       Band in high school auditorium, [early 1970s?]. – colour. Damaged in upper left corner.
26.       Cello on steps, [1980s?]. – b&w.
27.       Don Hurst prepares a Limerick for John Lee, [1980s?]. – b&w.
28.       Couple seated on couch beside silver Christmas tree, [1980s?]. – colour.
29.       Two hockey teams, [1990s?]. – colour.
30.       Painting bound in twine of man’s face, [1990s]. – colour.
31.       Room with five paintings hung, [1990s]. – colour.
32.       Sculpture, [1990s]. – colour.
33.       Penn Kemp reading poetry at Oasis club, Toronto, accompanied by piano and percussion, [2000s?]. – colour.
F.11    Tom Mallot
Photographs
1.         Mallot with cows, Feb. 1964. – b&w.
2.         Mallot with Lee and Cathy Morden at their wedding, [1971?]. – colour.
3.         Mallot with other wedding guests at wedding of Lee and Cathy Morden, [1971?]. – colour.
4.         Mallot with woman [Lee’s mother?] dressed for a wedding, [1971?]. – colour.
5.         Mallot with couple, dressed for a wedding, [1971?]. – colour.
6.         Mallot in overalls in rec. room, [ca. mid-1970s]. – colour.
7.         Mallot standing with Lee and two women [including Lee’s mother? seated on couch, [ca. mid-1970s]. – colour.
8.         Mallot with Lee and family dog in winter, [ca. mid-1970s]. – colour.
9.         Mallot in front of wall, [mid-1970s?]. – colour.
10.       Mallot painting, [ca. 1986?]. – colour. Photograph depicts painting by Michel Binette dated 1973 used for cover of Hired Hands
11.       Mallot painting, [ca. 1986?]. – colour. Photograph depicts painting by Michel Binette dated 1982 used as internal artwork for Hired Hands

Slides. – All are slides of photographs, most taken in Apr. 1982, of earlier photographic prints unless noted. Numbers (4-21) given below from the slides.
4.         Farmhouse, n.d. – b&w
5.         Farmhouse, n.d. – b&w
6.         Flooded field, n.d. – b&w
7.         Mallot with cows (see F.11 photograph 9). – b&w
8.         Wedding photo (see F.11 photograph 1). – colour.
9.         Lee with Malott (see F.11 photograph 7). – colour.
10.       Lee’s wedding (see F.11 photograph 2). – colour.
11-12. Lee with family in rec room (see F.11 photograph 6), 2 slides. – colour.
13.       Malott in panelled room (see F.11 photograph 5). – colour.
14-16. Malott in front of wall (see F.11 photograph 8), 3 slides. – colour.
17.       Malott with others in front of car. – colour.
18.       Malott with woman [see F.11 photograph 3]. – colour.
19-21. Tom Malott, 3 slides. – b&w. Photograph depicts newspaper article with photograph of Malott standing in field with wheat sheaves.
No #.   Painting of Malott holding an implement, 1978.– colour. Obverse: “#21 Binette / Sold / Sep78- 01” Reverse: “10 / Michel Binette.”
No #.   Painting of Malott holding an implement, 1978. – colour.

F.12    Photographs of performance of Lee’s play Tom
1-38.   Waterford District High School performance of Tom: The Story of a Hired Man, [1982], 38 photographs. – b&w.

Audio-Visual
BOX 36
F.1 Major Project, John B. Lee, Roger D. Bell, 1974-1975. – ¼” audio reel, 900 ft., 2-track monaural. With letter from Lee and Roger Bell to Professor McKeon.
F.2
Music and plays. – 1 audio cassette, 40 min., normal bias.
Side A, Pink Floyd, n.d. Recorded music.
Side B, Steve, Dale, Renee, Cheryl: TAR 300 01 per 6, [early 1980s?]. Plays by students in Lee’s theatre arts class, Waterford D.H.S.
Interview. – 1 audio cassette, 60 min., normal bias.
Side A, Cabbages & Kings, 1984. Lee interviewed by Sheila Martindale.
Side B, Blank.
F.3
Sound Poetry. – 1 audio cassette, 60 min., normal bias.
Side A, Bowww Ringgg [sic], Sound Poetry, 1986.
Side B, Music, n.d. Lee playing guitar and singing. Left channel only.
CBC – 1 audio cassette, [30 min.?], normal bias.
Side A, John’s interview, [1987-1989?]. Lee interviewed on CBC Radio with readings of his poems [see also F.4].
Side B, Poem, n.d. Blank.
F.4
Wild Cows. – 1 audio cassette, 90 min., normal bias.
Side A, Music, n.d. Songs from Hired Hands. Guitar and vocals by Lee.
Side B, Radio programs, [1987-9?]. Lee interviewed on CBC Radio and CKPC 92.1 FM with readings of his poems [see also F.4]. Track list on insert.
Joggers, ca. 1989. – 1 audio cassette, [30 min.?], normal bias.
Side A, Joggers, ca. 1989. Read by Lee Major of CBC [see also F.3].
Side B, untitled, n.d. Blank.
F.5
Enrichment Program, The Violent Poets. – 1 audio cassette, 60 min., normal bias. – poor playback quality.
Side A, Enrichment Program, The Violent Poets, 1988. Group sound poetry [in poetry class or workshop?].
Side B, untitled, n.d. Blank.
Reading, University of Guelph. – 1 audio cassette, 90 min., normal bias.
Side A, John B. Lee Reading, 1990, 38 min. 20 sec.
Side B, untitled, n.d. Blank.
F.6
Interview. – 1 audio cassette, 90 min, normal bias.
Side A, John B. Lee interviewed by Brent Wood, 1990. Lee interviewed at university of Guelph [for Ontarion?].
Side B, Interview continued, 1990, total running time 60' 48".
Hockey Poet. – 1 audio cassette, 60 min., normal bias. “Later the Same Day” written on inside of insert.
Side A, Hockey Poet, 1991. Lee interviewed by Sue Prestage on CBC Radio.
Side B, untitled, n.d. Blank.
F.7
John B Lee.– 1 audio cassette, 60 min., normal bias.
Side A, John B. Lee CJRT FM, Tom Foulton, [1991-1993?]. Lee interviewed by Tom Foulton on CJRT FM and by Sue Prestage on CBC Radio. Track list on insert.
Side B, untitled, n.d. Blank.
Kicheraboo, We Are Dying. – 1 audio cassette.
Side A, Kicheraboo, We Are Dying, [1995?]. Lee reading poem.
Side B, untitled, n.d. Blank.
F.8
John B. Lee on “In Other Words”. – 1 audio cassette, 90 min., high bias.
Side A, Interview, [1995]. Interview of Lee by Susan Helwig on CKLN FM (rebroadcast). Poor playback quality.
Side B, untitled, n.d. Blank.
The Tilden Literary Competition on The Arts Tonight. – 1 audio cassette, 90 min., normal bias.
Side A, The Tilden Literary Competition on The Arts Tonight, [1995]. Recording of original CBC Radio broadcast.
Side B, untitled, n.d. Blank.
F.9
J.B. Lee. – 1 audio cassette, 90 min., high bias.
Side A, John B. Lee on Morningside, 1996. Lee interviewed by Peter Gzowski on CBC Radio.
Side B, untitled, n.d. Blank.
John B. Lee with Peter Gzowski (Morningside). – 1 audio cassette, 90 min., normal bias.
Side A, John B. Lee, Morningside, 1996. Lee interviewed by Peter Gzowski on CBC Radio.
Side B, untitled, n.d. Blank.
F.10
Morningside / P. Gzowski, Tongues of the Children. – 1 audio cassette, 60 min., normal bias. Case broken.
Side A, Bruce Cockburn - (1) Inner City Front [mismatched title from cassette], [1996?]. Lee interviewed by Peter Gzowski on CBC Radio. Preceded by 11:00 am news broadcast, followed by Gzowski’s interview with Graham Clark of Ottawa concerning sumo. Variable playback, with dropouts and warbling.
Side B, Bruce Cockburn - (2) Inner City Front [title from cassette], n.d. Blank.
CBC / War in Kosovo interview. – 1 audio cassette, 60 min., normal bias.
Side A, CBC on the War in Kosovo, 1999. Roundtable dinner hosted by Avril Benoit, with Lee and other guests Stu Geddes, Stella Rosa Iria Ciron?, Brenda McMorrow.
Side B, untitled, 1999. Roundtable dinner continued from Side A.
F.11
Music. – 1 audio cassette, 30 min., normal bias. No case.
Side A, untitled, n.d. Lee playing guitar. Ambient noises in background including dishes and small child.
Side B, untitled, n.d. Blank.
Wedding. – 1 audio cassette, 60 min., normal bias.
Side A, Lee Wedding [title from cassette], [1971?]. Wedding of Lee and Cathy Morden.
Side B, untitled, [1971?]. Wedding of Lee and Cathy Morden continued from Side A.
F.12
Hey There Mr. Poetry, Scholastic Tape [title from insert]. – 1 audio cassette, 60 min., high bias.
Side A, J Hendrix & C. Of Cows [title from cassette], n.d. Songs and poems for children. Track list on insert.
Side B, untitled, n.d. Songs and poems for children continued from Side A. Track list on insert.
Hey There Mr. Poetry. – 1 audio cassette, 45 min., normal bias.
Side A, Hey There Mr. Poetry, n.d. Songs and poems for children. Track list on insert.
Side B, Hey There Mr. Poetry, n.d. Songs and poems for children continued from Side A. Track list on insert.
F.13
Ballads. – 1 audio cassette, 90 min., normal bias.
Side A, Recorded music, n.d. Track list on inside of insert.
Side B, Recorded music, n.d. Track list on inside of insert.
Music. – 1 audio cassette, 60 min., normal bias. Case broken.
Side A, Belly Up, Original Compositions, n.d. Lee playing guitar.
Side B, Belly’s Up, 2. Original Comps. and miscellaneous, n.d. Lee guitar and vocals. Songs include “Mull of Kintyre.”
F.14
Penn Kemp, Jamming in the Bardo. – 1 audio cassette, 90 min., normal bias. Case broken.
Side A, Penn Kemp, Jamming in the Bardo, n.d. Live poetry readings [by Kemp?] with musical accompaniment and interludes. Track list on insert.
Side B, Epiphanies, n.d. Live poetry reading [by Kemp?] with musical accompaniment and interludes. Track list on insert.
Royal Canadian Air Farce – 1 audio cassette, 60 min., normal bias.
Side A, Royal Canadian Air Farce, n.d.. CBC Radio comedy shows.
Side B, Royal Canadian Air Farce, n.d. CBC Radio comedy shows. At end, Lee reading “The One-Eyed Man.”
F.15
Hired Hands songs. – 1 audio cassette, 60 min., normal bias.
Side A, Hired Hands Songbook, John B. Lee, n.d. Lee playing guitar and singing.
Side B, 1930's, n.d. Recorded music.
Hired Hands Songbook. – 1 audio cassette, 90 minutes, normal bias.
Side A, Kemeny and Rhiannon, n.d. Lee and wife playing with children; music; conversation with Grade 6 children Kemeny and Rhiannon [Babineau?] about story-writing; CBC Radio programming.
Side B, Bruce Rodgers - J. Major, Declining Enrolment, n.d. Interview [not with Lee] about declining school enrollment [reflecting Lee’s professional interest in teaching?].
F.16
Hired Hands songs. – 1 audio cassette, 90 min., normal bias.
Side A, This Side, n.d. Lee playing guitar and singing. Songs from Hired Hands.
Side B, untitled, n.d. Blank.
Hired Hands. – 1 audio cassette, 60 min., normal bias.
Side A, Hired Hands, (Imagine), n.d. John Lennon “Imagine” [taped from record], followed by computer data storage. Track listing of data on insert.
Side B, Hired Hands, n.d. Computer data storage. Track listing of data on insert.
F.17
Small Worlds. – 1 audio cassette, 60 min., normal bias.
Side A, Magnetic computer storage, n.d.
Side B, Magnetic computer storage, n.d.
Rediscovered Sheep. – 1 audio cassette, 60 min., normal bias.
Side A, untitled, n.d. Magnetic computer storage.
Side B, untitled, n.d. Magnetic computer storage.
F.18 Ice Dreams. – 2 compact discs. Recording of CBC broadcast, including readings of Lee’s poems in Episode 2 (disc 1).
F.19 Souwesto Words: 25 Poets in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, various artists, Ergo Productions, recorded Dec. 1998-Feb. 1999. – 1 compact disc. Jewel case broken. “If I Were a Nation Innocent of War” [track 26]; “My Cousin Sings of Wood” [track 27]; “I Want to be the Poet of your Kneecaps” [track 28].
F.20 Word Up, various artists, 1995. – 1 compact disc. Jewel case broken. “John B. Lee, Jimi Hendrix in the Company of Cows” [track 24].

BOX 37
F.1 John B. Lee, on TV, 1990. – 1 VHS video cassette. Lee addressing audience at St. Thomas Poetry and Poster Festival, counter position 5:51-39:00.
F.2 John B. Lee, interview, [ca. 1994?]. – 1 VHS video cassette. Lee and family interviewed for student production at cottage at Peacock Point.
F.3 John B. Lee, Word Up Segment, 1994-1995. – 1 VHS video cassette. Lee performing poem “Jimi Hendrix in the Company of Cows” for Much Music WordUp segment broadcast, counter position 00:00-01:06. Previous recording of video for “Let’s Get Married” by The Proclaimers (1993) not erased from cassette, leaving one partial and one full version.
F.4 John B. Lee on McLean and Co., 1995. – 1 VHS video cassette. Lee interviewed, counter position 02:00-11:51. Aired 6 Jan. 1995, originally recorded Dec. 1994 [from case].
F.5 Imprint, 1995, 1 min. 27 sec. – 1 VHS video cassette. Lee reading “Hot House Flowers” from These Are the Days of Dogs and Horses, counter position 16:21-17:48.
F.6 John Lee and Michael Schatte, 1995. – 1 VHS video cassette. Lee playing guitar and singing, Schatte playing guitar, counter position 00:00-24:56.
F.7 Canadian. Heroes, 1996. – 1 VHS video cassette. Lee reading four poems for Global TV program Canadian Heroes, counter positions 8:20-9:22, 19:32-20:37, 29:22-30:14, and 44:15-44:50. Second half of tape comprises a 1-hour documentary on Milton Acorn.
F.8 Ridgetown District High School Hall of Excellence, April 28, 2002.” – 1 VHS video cassette. Lee with family before award ceremony, counter position 00:09-01:54; Lee accepting award, counter position 37:30-43:00.
F.9 John B. Lee and Michael Schatte at Chatham Literary Festival, 2005. – 1 VHS video cassette. Lee reading poems, counter position 29:12-59:25, preceded by Schatte performing on guitar and vocals.

Series 8
Scrapbooks. – 1976-2006. – 60 cm of textual records. – 60 photographs. – 3 slides. – Title based on content of series. – Series consists of scrapbooks compiled by Lee in a roughly chronological order. Among the more important records contained in them are contracts, correspondence, photographs, and drafts of poems. An alphabetized and partial selection of the records contained in each scrapbook has been itemized under headings to match the series in this fonds. Newspaper articles from the Brantford Expositor, the Ridgetown Dominion, and other newspapers concerning Lee and his work, which are quite numerous in the scrapbooks, have not been included in the partial contents lists.

BOX 38 (Oversized material)
F.1 Scrapbook, 1974-1981. – Contained in folded poster from 1980 Quebec referendum in absence of original covers.
Series 1 (Correspondence): Alive Press. Applegarth Follies. Margaret Avison. The Canadian Forum. Coach House Press. Connexion. Dalhousie Review. Event. The Fiddlehead. General Publishing. Stephen Gill. Grain. The House of Anansi Press. Intermedia Press. Penny [sic] Kemp. Killaly Press. League of Canadian Poets. Mosaic Press. Nebula Press. Northern Light. Oberon Press. Other Voices. Poetry Toronto. Port Dover Composite School. Quadrant Editions. Quarry. Waves.
Series 2 (Manuscripts): “Funeral.”
Series 4 (Other Activities): Library Journal.
Series 6 (Personal): Cathy (Morden) Lee.
Series 9 (Publications): Applegarth Follies Catalogue - Spring and Summer 1975. Brick Books 1981.
F.2 Portion of scrapbook, 1974-1992. – With other records [to be scrapbooked?].
Series 1 (Correspondence): Margaret Avison. Black Moss Press. CJRT 91.1 FM. Stan Dragland. Ted Jackson. Oxford University Press Canada [outgoing]. Penumbra Press. The Poem Factory. Queen’s Quarterly. Thistledown Press. Willson, Gallagher, Reynolds and Collins.
Series 2 (Manuscripts): “Dylan Opens his Mouth and ...”
Series 4 (Other Activities): St. Thomas Arts Festival. Roger Bell poems.
Series 6 (Personal): Cathy (Morden) Lee. Dylan Lee.
Series 9 (Publications): Black Moss Press Catalogue 1992.
F.3 Scrapbook, 1976, 1989-1991.
Series 1 (Correspondence): Applegarth Follies. John Atkin. Linda Bishop (Nelson Canada) [outgoing and incoming]. Black Apple. Mick Burrs (Grain). Gregory M. Cook (Writers’ Union of Canada). Dandelion. Stan Dragland (Brick Books). The Fiddlehead. Suzanne Fortin (Skylark). Marty Gervais (Black Moss Press). Goose Lane Editions. Laurence Hutchman. Mitsu Ikemura. Karen Litton. Sheila Martindale. Don McKay (Brick Books). Moonstone Press. Ontario Arts Council. Penumbra Press. Mary Powell. Harry Rudolfs. Eleonore Shoenmaier (Poetry Halifax Dartmouth). George Swede (Cross-Canada Writers’ Magazine). Rod Willmot (Black Moss Press). Brent Wood, “A Deconstruction of John B. Lee’s The Bad Philosophy of Good Cows” [essay for Pro F. Patrick Holland, University of Guelph].
Series 4 (Other Activities): Carousel. Charterhouse Poetry Festival. Port Colbourne Canadian Children’s Authors Day Committee. Prairie Fire. St. Thomas Poetry and Poster Festival. Valley Heights Secondary School.
F.4 Scrapbook, 1980-1989.
Series 1 (Correspondence): John R. Atkin. Black Moss Press. Canadian Author and Bookman. Carousel. Stan Dragland. Douglas Glover. Poetry Halifax Dartmouth. Queen’s Quarterly. Margaret Simpson. South End Press. Waves. Paul Winslow (Bay Cities Animal Hospital). Margaret Young.
Series 4 (Other Activities): W. Ross Macdonald School.
F.5 Scrapbook, 1980-1993.
Series 1 (Correspondence): Arc. Heather Barclay. Herb Barrett. Black Moss Press. Brick Books. Jean Burnet (Ontario History). Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Canadian Urdu Writers Association. Stan Dragland. Stephen Gill. Grain. Head-of-the-Lake Historical Society. Kairos. John D. Kennedy. The Malahat Review. Ministry of Education (British Columbia). The New Quarterly. Ontario Arts Council. Penumbra Press. Ted Plantos. Prism International. Prison Arts Foundation. Stan Rogal. Stuart Ross. Glen Sorestad. John Tyndall. Gertrude Story. Wild East.
Series 4 (Other Activities): Suzanne Alexander (Goose Lane Editions). Durham Board of Education. Hillfield-Strathallan College. Amber Homeniuk. St. Joseph’s School, Simcoe. Society for International Hockey Research. The Windsor Star.
Series 6 (Personal): Sean-Paul Lee.
Series 7 (Other Media): Lee reading at Milton Acorn Festival (2 colour photographs).
F.6 Scrapbook, 1980-1994.
Series 1 (Correspondence): American Poetry Association. Arc. Brick Books. Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers. Fiddlehead. Stephen Gill. Goose Lane Editions. Steve Heighton. Rachel Hoffman. Amber Homeniuk. Trish Hopkins. Laurence Hutchman. Morningside League of Canadian Poets. The Malahat Review. Sheila Martindale (Scene). Matrix. Frances McLeod. The New Quarterly. Ontario Arts Council. (CBC Radio). Ontario History. Paper Rain (Central Elgin C.I.). Robert Priest. Queen’s Quarterly. Saturday Night. Glen Sorestad. Vesta Publications.
Series 4 (Other Activities): Cedarland School. Midland Public Library. Milton Acorn Festival. National Book Festival.
Series 6 (Personal): St. Joseph’s School, Simcoe.
F.7 Scrapbook, 1982-1987.
Series 1 (Correspondence): American Poetry Association. Arc. Margaret Atwood. Brick Books. BSPS Journal. The Canada Council. Canada Pavilion Expo ‘86. Canadian Author and Bookman. Contemporary Verse 2. Stan Dragland. Event. Forum Magazine. Stephen Gill. Goose Lane Editions. House of Anansi Press. Laurence Hutchman. The Malahat Review. Sheila Martindale.. The New Quarterly. North York Arts Council. Poetry Canada Review. Poetry Toronto. Prairie Fire. Quarry. Richard Stevenson. Toronto Life. Tower Poetry Society. Waves.
Series 4 (Other Activities): Lynnwood Arts Centre Poetry Symposium. Wilson MacDonald Memorial School Museum.
Series 9 (Publications): Vesta Catalogue 1983.
F.8 Scrapbook, 1983-1991.
Series 1 (Correspondence): Antigonish Review. Arc. Canadian Author and Bookman. The Canadian Forum. Stan Dragland. Event. Sheila Finestone, MP. Stephen Gill. Grain. League of Canadian Poets. Moonstone Press. Moosehead Review. Ontario Arts Council. Penumbra Press. Poetry Canada Review. Prism International. Public Lending Right Commission. Quarry. Queen’s Quarterly. Saturday Night. Scrivener. Richard Stevenson. Toronto Life. University of Windsor Review. Vesta Publications. Watchwords. Waves.
Series 4 (Other Activities): Essex County Board of Education.
F.9 Scrapbook, 1987-1988.
Series 1 (Correspondence): Arc. Black Moss Press. BS Poetry Society. Breakthrough! Bill Butt. John J. Carey. Carousel. Conservatory of American Letters. Celine Cooper. Dong Jiping. Stan Dragland. Don Linehan. Sheila Martindale. McMaster Divinity College. Colin Morton. New Muse of Contempt. The New Quarterly. Next Exit. Ontario Arts Council. Red Kite Press. Tidepool. Tower Poetry Society. Writer’s Quarterly. Yak.
Series 4 (Other Activities):
Series 6 (Personal): George and Irene Lee [parents].
F.10 Scrapbook, 1987-1992.
Series 1 (Correspondence): John R. Atkin. Margaret Avison. Perrin Beatty. Brick Books. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Dandelion. James Deahl. Melissa Devlin. Event. Goose Lane Editions. Grain. League of Canadian Poets. The Malahat Review. Penumbra Press. Port Colbourne Canadian Children’s Author Day Committee. Public Lending Right Commission. Queen’s Quarterly. James Reaney. Robert Land Academy. Saturday night.
Series 2 (Manuscripts): “Ode on a Pig.”
Series 4 (Other Activities): A.G. Hodge. North Park Family Enrichment Committee. Strathallan College.
Series 6 (Other Media): Lee facilitating workshops for children (4 colour photographs).
F.11 Reviews, 1987-1994. Title from scrapbook.
Series 1 (Correspondence): Margaret Avison. Roger Bell. Stan Dragland. Goose Lane Editions.
Series 9 (Publications): People’s Poetry Letter, 1:1 (Summer/Fall 1993). Pig Dance Dreams, 1993 People Poetry Winner, pp. 3-5.
Series 4 (Other Activities): Various reviews.

BOX 39 (Oversized materials)
F.1 Scrapbook, 1994-1995.
Series 1 (Correspondence): Arc. Black Moss Press. Roger Bell. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Canadian Writer’s Journal. Cancopy. City Clerk’s Department (Brantford). Dandelion. Jeff DeLuzio. James Deahl. EMI Music Canada. Famine Museum. Fan. Flying Camel Press. Foxglove Collective. Goose Lane Editions. Richard Harrison. Steve Heighton. Highgate Public Library. Penn Kemp. Christopher Levenson. Sheila Martindale. Ministry of Natural Resources (Ontario). Much Music (Word Up). National Library of Poetry. The New Quarterly. Ontario 4-H Council. Ontario Arts Council. Poetry Canada. Mary Powell. Queen’s Quarterly. Quill and Quire. Redwood Coven Press. Tony Scavetta. Margaret Simpson. Betsey Struthers.
Series 4 (Other Activities): Centauri Summer Camp. Farringdon Enrichment Centre. Milton Acorn Festival. North Park Family Enrichment Committee. St. Paul School. Harbourfront Reading Series.
Series 6 (Personal): Dylan Lee. George and Irene Lee [parents].
Series 7 (Other Media): Lee at Milton Acorn Festival (3 colour photographs). Lee, Marty Gervais, Robert Hilles and others at festival (7 colour photographs). Mr. And Mrs. John and Jodi Button in Highgate Library (1 colour photograph). Lee at Highgate Library (7 colour photographs). Lee reading to public school class (3 colour photographs).
F.2 Scrapbook, 1995-1996.
Series 1 (Correspondence): Arc. John Atkin. Jill Battson (Word Up). Arthur Black (CBC Radio). Cynthia A. Brown. Mick Burrs. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Canadian Poetry Association. James E. Deahl. Denise Donlon (Word Up). Lucy Duke (Ontario 4-H). Wynne Edwards (The Books Collective). Event. Robert Hamblin (Aethlon). Kenneth J. Harvey. David Humphrey. Iron Press. Glynn A. Leyshon. League of Canadian Poets. The Malahat Review. McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited. Prism International. Desmond O’Malley. Ontario Arts Council. Ted Plantos. Redwood Coast Press. Glen Sorestad. Andris Taskans. John Tyndall.
Series 4 (Other Activities): Arthur Robinson Public School. Black Moss Press. Brant County Board of Education. Centauri Summer Camp. Foxglove Collective. Marty Gervais. Kent County Board of Education. National Milton Acorn Festival.
Series 6 (Personal): The Beatles Arena.
Series 7 (Other Media): Lee reading to public school class (4 colour photographs).
F.3 Scrapbook, 1996.
Series 1 (Correspondence): The Amethyst Review. Angmarlik Interpretive Centre. Annick Press. The Antigonish Review. Roger Bell. Black Moss Press. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Coteau Books. Theresa Davis. Descant. Richard Doxtator. EMI Music Canada. The Fiddlehead. Grain. Susan Helwig. Mary Hooper. M.T. Kelly. Penn Kemp. Kids Can Press. Wendy King. League of Canadian Poets. Literary Review of Canada. Mekler and Deahl. Mercury Press Publishers. The New Yorker. Eleanor and Sarah Nichol. Lyle Olsen. Ontario Arts Council. Susan Parker. Peter Gzowski Invitational. Quill and Quire. Qwerty. Red Deer College Press. Rowan Books. Glen Sorestad. Julia Steinecke. University of Maine at Presque-Isle
Series 2 (Manuscripts): “Red Heaven” edited by Roger Bell. “I’ll be the One.”
Series 4 (Other Activities): Art Soup Festival. Enrichment Centre, Farringdon Hill School. North Park Family Enrichment Committee. Sport Literature Association.
Series 7 (Other Media): Various subjects (7 colour photographs). Lee in school class (11 photographs). Lee with two women (1 colour photograph).
F.4 Scrapbook, 1996-1998.
Series 1 (Correspondence): Above/Ground Press. The Antigonish Review. Backwater Review. Roger Bell. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Contemporary Verse 2. Descant. The Fiddlehead. Foxglove Collective. Grain. Richard (Tai) Grove. Hamilton and Region Arts Council. Robert Hilles. Mary Hooper. Trish Hopkins (Family History News). Laurence Hutchman. David Knight. League of Canadian Poets. Richard Lukas (The Beatles Arena). The Malahat Review. Mekler and Deahl. Karen J. Moore. Nelson Canada. Peter Gzowski International [golf tournament]. Prism International. Quill and Quire. Scenes Magazine. Sport History Review. Jane Stewart [outgoing]. Themes and Variations. University of Akron. University of Maine at Presque-Isle. Maria van Dyck. Pamela Wallin. Jennifer Weiler. Zygote.
Series 4 (Other Activities): Acorn-Livesay People’s Festival. Centauri Summer Camp. Kent County Board of Education. Hamilton and Region Arts Council. Jean Vanier School. National Milton Acorn Festival. Pauline Johnson Collegiate-Vocational School. St. George German School. Saskatchewan Writers Guild. Speakeasy Reading Series. Sport Literature Association. Tundra Books. Tweedsmuir Public School. Valley Heights Secondary School. The Writers Circle.
Series 7 (Other Media): Lee with son on Baffin Island? (3 colour slides).

BOX 40 (Oversized materials)
F.1 Scrapbook, 1998.
Series 1 (Correspondence): The Amethyst Review. Margaret Avison. Beach Holme Publishing. Canada Council for the Arts. Celebrate the Thames. Dina E. Cox. Firefly Books [outgoing / incoming]. Gage Educational Publishing. Groundwood / Douglas and McIntyre. Richard M. (Tai) Grove. William Hallberg. Robert Hill. Laurence Hutchman. Bunny Iskov. Kairos. League of Canadian Poets. Rob Mclennan. Mekler and Deahl. Ontario Arts Council. People’s Poetry. Poetry Nation. Prairie Fire. Seeds. Tar River Poetry. This. Tundra Books. Véhicule Press [outgoing]. West Meadow Press.
Series 4 (Other Activities): Art Soup. Kent County Board of Education. North Ward School. Sport Literature Association. The Writers’ Development Trust.
Series 6 (Personal): John Fisher.
F.2 Scrapbook, 1998-1999.
Series 1: Roger Bell. Dave Bidini. Joe Blades (Broken Jaw Press). Allan Brown. Canada Council for the Arts. Canadian Authors Association. Canadian Literary Awards. Dina E. Cox. James Deahl. Descant. Ergo Productions. Penny L. Ferguson (Canadian Poetry Association). John Flood. Marty Gervais. Don Giles. Richard M. (Tai) Grove. Robert Hilles. Hockey Hall of Fame. Nancy Hunsley. Kairos. McMaster University. Ministry for International Cooperation (Canada). Ministry of National Defence (Canada). Eleanor and Sarah Nichol. Leila Pepper. Erin Pettit. Ted Plantos. Poets for Peace. Louise O’Neil. James Reaney. Room. Saskatchewan Book Awards. Simcoe County Museum. Spotted Cow Press. Bruce Tallman. George Whipple. Wilfred Laurier University [outgoing].
Series 2: “Let these words / stick not as daggers ...” “The Trappist Funeral” [edited]. “No More Need for This Old Man.”
Series 4: Canadian Poetry Association. Centauri Summer Camp. Bunny Iskov. St. Peter’s Secondary School (Peterborough, ON). University of Windsor.
Series 6: “Darcey’s Night Cannon” [poem by Sean Lee].
F.3 Scrapbook, 1999-2000. “Begun October 19, 1999.”
Series 1 (Correspondence): Acorn-Livesay People’s Festival. Aethlon. The Amethyst Review. ARC. Austin International Poetry Festival. Brick Books. Broken Jaw Press. Cambridge Writers Collective Literary Competition. Canadian Literary Awards (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). Dabi Istvan. Fiddlehead. John Flood. Marty Gervais (Black Moss Press). Sean-Paul Lee. Mekler and Deahl. Ontario Arts Council. Papertiger. Ted Plantos. Robert Priest. Saturday Night.
Series 2 (Manuscripts): “Living in the Red Dust.”
Series 4 (Other Activities): Acorn-Livesay People’s Festival. Hamilton Poetry Centre. Knoxdale Public School. Angela White and Senja Hawkin (Brantford Collegiate Institute and Vocational School).
Series 7 (Other Media): Lee reading to high school students (1 colour photograph).
F.4 Scrapbook, 2000-2001.
Series 1 (Correspondence): Aethlon. The Amethyst Review. Arc. Margaret Avison. Terry Barker. Brick Books. Canada Council for the Arts. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Canadian Poetry Association. Cancopy. Cider Press. Convergence. James Deahl. Descant. Stan Dragland. Marty Gervais. Richard Harrison. Robert Hill. Bunny Iskov. Lexicon Publishing. The Malahat Review. Mekler and Deahl. Marlene Menard. Graham J. Miles. Ontario Arts Council. Papertiger. Ted Plantos. Prince Edward Island Council of the Arts. James Reaney. John Reeve. Spotted Cow Press. Frank W [ie Woodcock?].
Series 2 (Manuscripts): “Listening More than Twice” [draft of Lee’s review of Penn Kemp CD].
Series 4 (Other Activities): Dufferin School (Brantford). Essex District High School. King George Elementary School. Lethbridge Public Library. Mount Royal Satellite Series. Plattsville and District Public School. Windsor Jewish Community Centre.
F.5 Scrapbook, 2001-2002.
Series 1 (Correspondence): Caron Andregg (Cider Press). Margaret Atwood. Margaret Avison. Nelson Ball. Sheila Bauman. Roger Bell. Joe Blades (Broken Jaw Press). Carousel. Hon. James H. Clarke. Cranberry Tree Press. Lilka H. Croydon. Rienzi Crusz. Peter Darbyshire (Descant). Erica Dudszus. Marty Gervais [outgoing]. Laurence Hutchman. Don Giles?. May Newberry (Descant). Eleanor and Sarah Nichol. Ontario Arts Council. Ontario Poetry Society. James Reaney. Ridgetown District High School. Susan Evans Shaw. J. Gordon Shillingford Publications Inc. Anneliese G. Unterharnscheidt. Vallum. George Whipple.
Series 2 (Manuscripts): “Roger Bell is Making Apple Jelly.” “The Horses of the Bethany Hills.”
Series 4 (Other Activities): Acorn Livesay Poetry Festival. Centauri Arts Canada. College Avenue Secondary School. Essex District High School. Grand Erie District School Board. Kitchener Public Library. Richard Kosydar (Tower Poetry Society). Major Ballachey Public School. McMaster University. Need to Read Festival. Plattsville and District Public School. University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. Heather E. Wright.
F.6 Scrapbook, 2002.
Series 1 (Correspondence): Salvatore Ala. Laurie Allan. Margaret Avison. Roger Bell. Carousel. Mayor, Municipality of Chatham-Kent. Rienzi Crusz. Denis De Klerck. James Deahl. Marty Gervais. Richard M. (Tai) Grove. Michael Henderson. James Lipton [outgoing]. Les Murray. Nelson Mandela Foundation. Penumbra Press. Public Lending Right Commission. Erin Smith. Richard Stevenson. Desmond Tutu. George Whipple.
Series 4 (Other Activities): Centre for Cultural Renewal. “What I’m Missing to Be Here” [script of presentation by Lee at Ridgetown District High School].

BOX 41 (Oversized materials)
F.1 Scrapbook, 2002.
Series 1 (Correspondence): Access. Margaret Avison. Canada Council for the Arts. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The Griffin Trust. Don Gutteridge. Laurence Hutchman. Bunny Iskov. Richard Paré (Library of Parliament). Penumbra Press. Marilyn Gear Pilling. Desmond Tutu. Frances Ward.
Series 2 (Manuscripts): “Why We Need Poets.”
Series 4 (Other Activities): College Avenue Secondary School (Woodstock). Essex District High School. Major Ballachey Public School. Stratford Book Festival.
Series 6 (Personal): Cathy (Morden) Lee.
F.2 Scrapbook, 2003-2004.
Series 1 (Correspondence): Margaret Avison. CV2. Pier Giorgio Di Cicco. John Flood. Marty Gervais (Black Moss Press). Vallum. Elizabeth Glenny. Robert Hamblin (Aethlon). David Howarth (Park Publications). C.M. Mayo (Tameme). Molly Peacock. Pooka Press. William Byron Sheardown (Quills). Eric Solomon. George Whipple.
Series 4 (Other activities): Brantford Cultural Network. Central Public School. Essex District High School. The Graduate Bar and Grill. Major Ballachey Public School. Rural Roots Literary Festival.
F.3 Scrapbook, 2004.
Series 1 (Correspondence): Kathleen Abley. Arkay Design and Print. Margaret Avison. Terry Barker. Roger Bell. Grace Butcher. Carousel. Rienzi Crusz. James Deahl. Lenny Everson. Marty Gervais. John Landry. Dave Levac, MPP [outgoing]. Heather Neale. Eleanor and Sarah Nichol. Br. Paul Quenon. Serengeti Press. Bryan Smith. Square Lake. George Whipple.
Series 2 (Manuscripts): Though Their Joined Hearts Drummed Like Larks, proof copy. Thirty-Three Thousand Shades of Green, proof copy.
Series 4 (Other Activities): Essex District High School. Sacred Heart/St. Judes. St. John’s-Kilmarnock School (Breslau, ON). Quills. Windsor Festival of the Book.
Series 6 (Personal): John C. Lee [uncle]. George Lee [father], Lee’s eulogy.
Series 7 (Other Media): Lee with wife Cathy and 2 women (2 colour digital photographs, printed on paper). Archaeological exhibit, 2002 (9 colour photographs). John’s chapbook about to be stapled, 2004 (1 colour Polaroid photograph).
Series 9 (Publications): Spire Poetry Poster, 1:5 (Mar. 2004). “Skating with my Wife ...”
F.4 Scrapbook, 2005. “Spring Summer 2005.”
Series 1 (Correspondence): Margaret Avison. Grace Butcher. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Corporation of the City of Brantford. Rienzi Crusz. CV2. League of Canadian Poets. Mekler and Deahl. Pauline Michel. Pax Christi USA. Marilyn Gear Pilling. Pooka Press. Public Lending Right Commission. Qwerty. Matt Robinson. Lynn Tait. Manuel Velázquez Léon. George Whipple.
Series 4 (Other Activities): Grand Erie District School Board. Langton Public School. Major Ballachey School. Need to Read Festival. Our Lady of Fatima. Random Acts of poetry.
Series 6 (Personal): Trip to France.
Series 7 (Other Media): Truman getting John’s chapbooks ready to mail, 2004 (1 colour Polaroid photograph).
F.5 Scrapbook, 2005-2006. “Fall Winter 2005.”
Series 1 (Correspondence): Corporation of the City of Brantford. Brantford Cultural Network. Canada Council of the Arts. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Hon. James H. Clarke. Roméo A. Dallaire. James Deahl. Novalis Inc. Ontario Poetry Society. Penumbra Press. Marilyn Gear Pilling. Dylan Lee. Vancouver Public Library.
Series 2 (Manuscripts): “I am learning the meaning of zero ...” “Wishing I Were Me.”

Series 9
Printed materials. – 1975-2006. – 3 m of textual materials. – Title based on content of series. – Series consists of publications with some connection to Lee, divided into three main sub-series: serials containing poems, reviews and articles by him, interviews with him, or announcements concerning him or his poetry; programmes and brochures relating to him or his poetry; and catalogue entries advertising the sale of books written or edited by him. Except in the instance of the catalogue entries, the nature of Lee’s connection with each publication is indicated, where known. Arrangement has been made alphabetically by title for serials and brochures but by publisher in the case of the catalogue entries.

Serials
Note: Known connections with Lee, including names of poems featured in the issue, are given.

BOX 42
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature
12:2 (Spring 1995). Review of The Hockey Player Sonnets, pp. 189-190.
13:2 (Spring 1996). “On Sunday with my Uncles,” p. 185-6.
17:2 (Spring 2000). “Night Gone the Shadow of God,” pp. 65-6; “Elegy for Lyle Olsen,” p. 170.
19:2 (Spring 2002). [no clear link to Lee except poem by Roger Bell pp. 116-19].
21:1-2 (Fall 2003-Spring 2004). “The Girls in the Blue Bloomers Run Past,” 134-5.
22:1 (Fall 2004). No known connection with Lee.

The Ambassador
2:2 (Nov. 2004). “The Audible Mud of Love,” pp. 16-17; trans. “El Perceptible Barro Del Amor,” pp. 18-19.
The Amethyst Review
1:1 (Winter 1993). “In a Year of Poorness and Slender Means,” p. 21.
4:1 (Summer 1996). “Green House Glass,” “My Father Often Thinks of Food,” “The Coal Miners,” pp. 60-2.
6:1 (Summer 1998). “Inuit Graveyard, Iqualuit [sic],” “First Impressions from the Air,” pp. 20-1.
8:1 (Summer 2000). “Watching Walter Read the Rings of Trees,” “His Sister and His Dentist,” pp. 70-2.
9:1 (Summer 2001). “Cold Weather Writing,” pp. 62-3.

The Antigonish Review
56 (Winter 1984). 2 poems, pp. 23-25.
106 (Summer 1996). 3 poems, pp. 7-10.
111 (Autumn 1997). 2 poems, pp. 62-3.
Applegarth Follies
2 (1975). “The Man Who Wasn’t a Tree,” p. 81.

Arc: Canada’s National Poetry Magazine
11 (Spring 1984). Five poems, pp. 31-6
16 (Spring 1986). Three poems, pp. 36-9.
17 (Fall 1986). Three poems, pp. 36-9.
18 (Spring 1987). Two poems, pp. 50-1.
19 (Autumn 1987). Two poems, 71-2.
21 (Autumn 1988). Five poems, pp. 44-50.
33 (Fall 1994). Four poems, pp. 19-24; “All Aboard the Ark!” [review of four books by Lee], pp. 79-82.
34 (Spring 1995). Confederation Poets Prize announcement, special mention to Lee, p. 3.
37 (Autumn 1996). Poem of the Year Contest, honourable mention to Lee, p. 3.
44 (Summer 2000). “For a Woman Gone One Hundred,” p. 53.

Ars Medica
2:1 (Autumn 2005). “Words I Cannot Say in English,” “The Greying Over,” Clapperdudgeon,” pp. 52-55.

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Backwater Review
1:2 (Fall-Winter 1997). “The Drowned Man Is Lying All Alone in the River,” “The Guinea Pig Wars,” “Adolph Eichman [sic] Sold Vacuum Cleaners Before the War,” “From Within the Touch of Dream,” pp. 16-20.
Bad News Bingo
Gardens Issue (n.d.). “An Ingoing,” p. 11.
Black Apple
1:2 (Winter 1991). Eight poems, pp. 12-15.

Books in Canada: The Canadian Review of Books
25:3 (Apr. 1996). Review of The Beatles Landed Laughing in New York, p. 17.
Breakthrough!
2:3 (Sept. 1986). No known connection with Lee.
2:4 (Dec. 1986). “Line of Fire,” p. 19.
3:4 (Dec 1987-Feb. 1988). “Snow,” p. 43.
Brick
15 (Spring 1982). “The Breath of a Personified Universe” [review by Lee of August Kleinzahler, A Calendar of Airs], p. 31.
18 (Spring 1983). “Seeking Her Soul” [review by Lee of Anne Corkett, Between Seasons], pp. 30-2.
23 (Winter 1985). “First Love,” back cover.
26 (Winter 1986). No known connection with Lee.

Broadway
(July-Aug. 1993). “The Irish Famine,” p. 11.
(July-Aug. 1994). “Funny Violence and Cartoon Dreams,” p. 11.
Burlington Runners Times Newsletter
(Jan. 1989). “Joggers,” p. 26.

Canadian Author and Bookman
59:4 (Summer 1984). “Rigidity,” p. 23.
60:3 (Spring 1985). Review of Fossils of the Twentieth Century, p. 24.
65:4 (Summer 1990). Review by Lee of Stephen Brockwell, The Wire in Fences, pp. 11, 21.
Canadian Children’s Literature
109-110 (Spring-Summer 2003). Review of Don’t Be So Persnickety ... , pp. 122-126.
Canadian Writer’s Journal
11:3 (Fall 1994). “My Grandfather Stopped his Ploughing,” 18.

Carousel
1 (1988). “Blinded by Orchids,” p. 35; “The Bad Philosophy of Good Cows,” p. 51.
6 (1989). “On the Way Home from the Meat Factory,” p. 5; “Eating the Young,” p. 53-4.
7 (1991). “November Ditch and the Pasture Beyond,” “He Will Think of Grazing Cows,” “Drowned Guitar,” pp. 68-70.
8 (1992). “Dog Meeting Cat in the Dark,” “As Long As It Isn’t Sweet,” “There is a Stone-Skipper at the Lake,” pp. 32-4.
9 (1993). Four poems, pp. 120-3.
10 (1994). “These Were the Stories That Needed to be Told,” pp. 61-79; four poems, pp. 80-3.
11 (1996). “The Legend of Peaches,” “Dwindling Brothers, Dying Sons,” “Caskets Shaped by the Wind,” pp. 130-5.
12 (1998). “No Such Place as Nowhere,” p. 94-5.
13 (2001?). “Martyrs in the Landscape,” pp. 140-1.
15 (Spring 2004). “A Dark Little Psalm Against War,” p. 33.
16 (Fall 2004). “Drugging the Fishes,” pp. 42-3.

Cider Press Review
2 (2001). “My Cousin Sings of Wood,” pp. 74-75.
Contemporary Verse 2
10:2 (Fall 1986). “If I Were a Sheep,” “Confrontation,” “The Applause of Tourists,” 27-31.
20:1 (Summer 1997). “Lying Between Grampa [sic] and Lloyd,” “The Door Scrapes Open on a Bachelor’s Life,” pp. 10-11.
20:3 (Winter 1998). “Boys Who Have No Sisters,” “Hope Chest,” pp. 11-14.
26:1 (summer 2003). “An Interview with John B. Lee,” pp. 11-23; six poems, 24-30.
28:1 (Summer 2005). “After the Optic Operation,” p. 75.

Countryside Tales
18 (Summer 2004). “For the Poet, John Clare,” p. 28.

BOX 44
Cross-Canada Writers’ Quarterly / Cross-Canada Writers’ Magazine
6:2 (1984). “In The Home For Old People,” p. 11.
9:2 (1987). Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Award announcement, p. 3.
10:1 (1988). Review of Hired Hands, p. 24.
Curriculum News
2:1 (Nov. 1986). No known connection with Lee.

Dandelion
19:2 (Fall 1992). Two poems, pp. 11-12.
22:1 (1995). “As Free as Farm Dogs Used to Be,” p. 64.
24:1 (1997). Two poems, pp. 69-70.
Descant
99 (Winter 1997). “How in our Secret Houses,” “What Means the Looking Glass,” pp. 156-8.
108 (Spring 2000). “No More Need for This Old Man,” “The Men with Broken Faces,” “His Change of Heart When it Comes to War,” pp. 41-6.

Education Forum
32:1 (Winter 2006). Review of Witness: Anthology of Poetry, Lee ed., p. 37.
Education Matters
(Spring 2002). Announcement concerning Lee as speaker in schools for League of Canadian Poets
En Route
15:9 (Sept. 1987). No known connection with Lee.
Essays on Canadian Writing
55 (Spring 1995). “Dancing with Pigs” [review of Lee’s Pig Dance Dreams], pp. 264-8.

Event: The Douglas College Review
11:1 (1982). “Hunting for God,” “The Magic Necktie,” pp. 146-7.
13:1 (1984). “Melon,” p. 130.
15:2 (1986). “Horses ‘nd Asses,” pp. 156-7.
25:2 (Summer 1996). “Wounded Beyond Kindness,” pp. 18-21.

Family History News
3:1 (Feb. 1997). No known connection with Lee.
3:3 (Aug. 1997). “What’s in a Name? The Pursuit of George Peacock ... ,” pp. 16-19.
Fan: A Baseball Magazine
19 (summer 1995). “The Feckless Boy Considers His Batting,” p. 22.
The Fiddlehead
111 (Fall 1976). Review of Poems Only a Dog Could Love, pp. 139-42.
127 (Fall 1980). Five poems, pp. 9-12.
170 (Winter 1991). “That Morning We Watched the Gray Cat Swim,” “Hired Man in Paradise,” “A Book of Days for my Sister,” pp. 26-9.
175 (Spring 1993). “The Big Man in the Filthy Shirt,” p. 35.
182 (Winter 1994). “The Long Low Mounds that Trace the Unmarked Graves,” “There is a Mass Grave near Kingston,” pp. 99-101.
191 (Spring 1997). Announcement of thanks to Lee for judging poetry contest, p. 5.
198 (Winter 1998). Two poems, pp. 75-77.

BOX 45
Freedom to Read
21 (2005). “Vivisected Beaver,” p. 31.
Graffito: The Poetry Poster
2:1 (Dec. 1995). “Oh, What a Wonderful Wind,” p. 2.
Grand Memories: Brant County’s Magazine of Yesterday and Today
(Sept. 1990). “This Broken City,” “Today on my Walk I Thought,” “Poem for the First Tree to Turn in my Street,” p. 25.

Grain
8:1 (1980?). One poem, p. 21.
18:1 (Spring 1990). Two poems, pp. 72-3.
19:4 (Winter 1991). “To See the Cat Dead on the Road,” “Ernie’s a Hell of a Cat,” pp. 128-9.
20:3 (Fall 1992). “Dogs and Horses,” “The Cottage Boys Are out Chasing Country Cows,” “Lamb Killing,” pp. 214-16.
24:3 (Winter 1997). “My Mother, Reading at Night,” p. 78.
27:3 (Winter 1999). “Stumping,” “Art,” “The Invisible Girl,” pp. 97-100.
30:4 (2003). “The Waving Girl,” “The Season of Touch,” pp. 58-60.

Hammered Out
1 (Sept. 2003). No known connection with Lee.
3 (May 2004). “Elegy for Al Purdy.”
4 (Sept. 2004). “Ode on Venus De Milo’s Missing Arms.”
5 (Feb. 2005). “Much Lower Still.”
6 (Apr. 2005). “His Sister and His Dentist.”
7 (Oct. 2005). “Woman in Bathtub.”
8 (Winter-Spring 2006). “Not at All.”

Heart Quarterly
2:3-4 (Winter/Spring 1999). “The Two Chicagos,” pp. 8-10.
4:2 (Winter 2001). “In the Eleventh Hour,” pp. 7-8.
5:3 (Spring 2002). Letter by Lee to editor, p. 12.
Hub City
(2000). “Mystery of the Green Stick,” p. 1.
Humanitas Poetry Annual
1 (1993). Announcement of honourable mention in poetry contest, p. 3.

Implosion
4 (1988). “Ronald Reagan’s Hearing Aide is Bugged by the Cagey Bees,” pp. 24-25.
Indirections
17:3 (Sept. 1992). No known connection with Lee.
Iron Magazine
76 (Jul.-Oct. 1995). Review by Lee of Fun House and five other collections, pp. 66-67.

Journal of Canadian Poetry: The Poetry Review
16 (1999). Review of Stella’s Journey, I Want to Be the Poet of Your Kneecaps, and Losers First, pp. 18-21.
Kairos
5 (1993). “Giving Disney the Jesus Treatment,” “Herb and Stella and the Stone Wheel,” pp. 4-6.
10 (1998). “In the Terrible Star-Still Night,” 6; autobiographical comments by Lee, pp. 70-4.
11 (1999). “Reading the River,” “The Mind is a Glass Touched Ocean,” “The Farmhouse Far from the Road,” pp. 38-44.
Kaleidoscope: An International Journal of Poetry
2:2 (2001). “Sleeping in the Kitchen,” “St. Christopher’s Lost Tribe,” pp. 20-3.

Lichen
3:1 (Spring 2001). “Listening More than Twice” [reviews by Lee of Penn Kemp CD On Our Own Spoke and poetry anthology Four Women], pp. 14-15.
5:1 (Spring 2003). “A Sharing of Equal Wonder: The Poems of George Whipple” [review by Lee of Whipple book Tom Thomson], p. 98-9.

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Linden Lake Magazine
15:3-4 (Autumn-Winter 1996). No known connection with Lee.
Literary Review of Canada
5:5 (May 1996). “And so I Set my Pages Down,” p. 9.
Lynn River Review
1 (1983) [edited by Lee and others]. “At Lynnwood Reading to Munchkins,” p. 19; “Not Only Poets,” p. 20; Untitled, p. 21
            
The Malahat Review
89 (Winter 1989). Review of Rediscovered Sheep, p. 126.
104 (Fall 1993). “Shovelling Snow with my Sons,” pp. 64-5.
131 (Summer 2000). “A Second Purpose,” p. 83.
Matrix
43 (Summer 1994). “Cuban Journey,”pp. 15-18.
Minus Tides!
12:1 (Summer 2000). Review of The Echo of Your Words Has Reached Me, p. 32.

Moosehead Review
8 (1983). “To What We Are Entitled,” “Ghosts,” pp. 17-19.
Museletter
70 (Oct. 1989). Announcement in Calendar: Member News section, p. 10.
91 (May 1992). “Memorizing the Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat ... ,” pp. 30-2.
(May 1998). “It’s Not that the Light Had Failed their Flesh,” p. 23.
The New Chief Tongue
1:1 (Winter 2004). “My Son Swatting at Bats in Costa Rica, Early Evening.”
4 (Winter 2006). “The Desecration of the Dead.”
New Muse of Contempt
2:1 (1988). “Two Bad Poems Fornicating in the Snow,” p. 14.

The New People
31:3 (Mar. 2001). “In the Eleventh Hour,” p. 13.
The New Quarterly: New Directions in Canadian Writing
6:4 (Winter 1987). “Haircut,” “Longpig Contemplates his Inclinations,” pp. 79-82.
8:3 (Fall 1988). “A Glass of Milk,” “Cows Mount Cows,” pp. 126-7.
13:4 (Winter 1994). “I Am Awakened from Sleep by the Sound of my old Dog Drinking at the Toilet,” “Two Ways of Visiting the Beach,” pp. 111-13.
15:3 (Fall 1995). “We Played a Game of Hiding from our Friends,” “Sky Diving,” pp. 96-7.
Next Exit
11 (Nov. 1987). “Elvis Loves You,” p. 18; Review of Small Worlds, p. 20.
North York News
10:6 (Mar. 1987). “Fly Speculations,” p. 9.
10:7 (Apr. 1987). “Before Death There Is: Still Life,” p. 9.

Outreach Connection
261 (11-18 Dec. 1998). Feature on Lee, p. 11.
379 (7-13 Mar. 2001). “My Wife at the Window Watching,” p. 11.
People’s Poetry Letter
1:3 (Fall-Winter 1994). Announcement of 1995 Milton Acorn Award nomination, p. 4.
2:1 (Winter/Spring 1995)
3:1 (Spring-Summer 1996). Lee thanked as judge for 1996 Milton Acorn Award, p. 5.
3:2 (Fall-Winter 1996). “If I Were a Nation Innocent of War,” p. 5.
3:3 (Spring/Simmer 1997)
4:2 (Spring/Summer 1998)
6:1 (Fall/Winter 1999/2000)

The Pittsburgh Quarterly
2:3 (Summer 1992). “The President Cam in on a Huey Gunship,” pp. 61-62.
The Plowman
1:12 (Nov.-Dec. 1989). “The Sad Mathematics of Our Lives,” “When This Old Poet Shambles Past,” “Queen Anne’s Lace,” p. 95.
2:2 (Mar.-Apr. 1990). Review of The Day Jane Fonda Came to Guelph, p. 11.
Plowman Calendar
1995: “Queen Anne’s Lace,” August page.
Poemata
13:2 (1997). “John B. Lee’s Latest Book up for Two Major Awards,” p. 1.
18:4 (July-Aug. 2002). “Not by Reason alone” [article by Lee], pp. 1-3.
19:3 (June 2003). “To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme” [article by Lee], pp. 1-2.
21:1 (Jan.-Apr. 2005). “Hidden Treasures” [article by Lee], p. 16.
21:2 (June-Sept. 2005). “Suddenly Breathless,” p. 20.

Poetry Australia
109 (1986). Untitled, p. 32.

BOX 47
Poetry Canada
(2005), “Community Poet” [article on Lee], p. 5.
Poetry Canada Review
1:3 (Spring 1980). “St. John’s Nightfall,” p. 11.
5:2 (Winter 1983-84). “Ripe,” p. 7.
6:2 (Winter 1984-85). “This Was my Room,” p. 20.
6:4 (Summer 1985). No known connection with Lee.
7:1 (Autumn 1985). No known connection with Lee.
7:2 (Winter 1985-86). No known connection with Lee.
8:2-3 (Spring 1987). Review of Small Worlds, p. 38.
8:4 (Summer 1987). No known connection with Lee.
9:1 (Fall 1987). “The Hollow Dark,” p. 11.
9:2 (Winter-Spring 1998). No known connection with Lee.
9:3 (Summer 1988). No known connection with Lee.
15:4 (Mar. 1996). “Butterfly Boys and other poems,” pp. 4-5.
16:1 (1997). No known connection with Lee.

Poetry Halifax Dartmouth / Halifax-Dartmouth BSPS Journal
6 (Mar. 1987). “Everything in this Store is Black,” “Canine Pylons.”
10-11 (July-Aug. 1987). “Black Flowers,” p. 22.
16-17 (Jan.-Feb. 1988). “Hear How She Brags,” p. 29.
21 (Jun. 1988). “The Swallows Used to Swoop the Cats But All the Cats Are Gone,” p. 12.
26 (Nov. 1988). “The Day Hemingway Shot the head Off the Chicken,” p. 14.
30 (Mar. 1989). “For Saint X Who Ate the Pus of Leppers [sic],” pp. 4-6.
31 (Apr. 1989). “The Myth of Cohen,” p. 14.
35 (Dec. 1989). “Dying on the Ice at 39 is Hard,” p. 7.
36 (Feb. 1990). “The Unforgiven Father,” pp. 7-8.
37 (Apr. 1990). Announcement of reading by Lee, p. 11.
38 (Jun. 1990). “John Keats Has a Fur Ball,” p. 17.
41 (May 1991). “Where Apple Blossoms Might Lie in the Midnight Grass,” p. 15.

Poetry Toronto
22 (Oct. 1977). “Love as an Axe,” p. 12.
102 (June 1984). “Winter,” p. 16.
136 (Apr. 1987). “Ideolove,” “The Great Electric Etc.,” pp. 19-20.
The Pomseed
1:1 (Spring 1973). “Inventory of a Padded Mind.” “Metamorphosis,” “Your Alternate Lover,” “Morning Air in the Country Cold,” “The Digression,” pp. 23-8. Signed by Lee on title page.
2:1 (Spring 1974). “My Backbone is Poetry,” p. 1; “The Garden,” pp. 14-17.
3:1 (Spring 1975) [edited by Lee and others]. Signed [by Roger Bell?] “Best of luck / in the future / HA / RB” on front flyleaf.
(1984). “Purple Jesus,” p. 9; “Cosset,” p. 27. Signed by Lee on title page.

Prairie Fire
6:2 (Spring 1985). “Tough Love,” pp. 56-7.
11:4 (Winter 1990-91). Four poems, pp. 56-9.
15:3 (Autumn 1994). Two poems, pp. 59-61.
20:1 (Spring 1999). Two poems, pp. 126-7.

BOX 48
Prime Time: The Newspaper for Fifty Plus in Brantford
(Jan. 1995). “John B. Lee on Grandfathers” [review of Variations on Herb], pp. 17-18.
Prism International
23:1 (Fall 1984). “Nothing,” p. 28.
32:4 (Summer 1994). “Think of the White Refrigerator Standing in your Kitchen,” p. 40.
36:1 (Fall 1997). “Twenty Writers Discuss the Importance of Knowing the Size and Weight of Testicles,” p. 66.

Professionally Speaking
(Sept. 1998). “Write What You Know and Care About” [article on Lee], pp. 52-53.
Quarry
31:1 (Winter 1982). “Confrontation,” p. 48-9.
33:3 (Summer 1984). “Come the Resolution,” p. 59.
35:4 (Autumn 1986). “She Too Is a Kind of Clock,” p. 7.
38:4 (Fall 1989). “To Find and Forgive,” p. 43.
39:2 (Spring 1990). No known connection with Lee.

Queen’s Quarterly
91:3 (Autumn 1984). “Melt,” p. 621.
99:1 (Spring 1992). “The Art of Walking Backwards,” p. 162.
101:4 (Winter1994). “Amaryllis,” p. 1015.
Qwerty
(Spring 1997). Letter by Lee to editor, p. 5.
(Spring 2003). “For the Ashes under ‘L’,” p. 49.

Quill and Quire
62:8 (Aug. 1996). Review by Lee of David Whyte, Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America (Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1996), p. 37.
Quills
1:1 (Winter 2004). “Heartstop: A Poem on the Passing of Leni Riefenstahl,” pp. 50-1.
1:2 (Spring 2004) : “The Undergarments of the Virgin Queen,” p. 140.
1:3 (Summer 2004). “The Bright Red Apples of the Dead,” pp. 184-6.
1:4 (Autumn 2004). “Suddenly Breathless,” pp. 302-3.
2:2 (Spring 2005). “Mulberry Song,” pp. 70-1.
2:3 (Summer 2005). “The Death of the My [sic] Dog, the Death of the Pope, a Late-Spring Snow and a Glacier Calving into the Sea,” pp. 150-1.

BOX 49
River King Poetry Supplement
9:1 (Spring 2003), “The Gift of Death,” p. 4.
Room
11 (1995?). “Free Love, Henry Miller, and the Small Press” [article on Black Moss Press], pp. 4-5.
19 (1996). “He Landed Laughing in Windsor” [article on Lee], p. 6.
55 (1999). “Poet Lee Prefers Memory to History” [review of Soldier’s Heart], p. 12.

Saturday Night
110:4 (May 1995). No known connection with Lee.
110:5 (June 1995). “Kicheraboo, We Are Dying,” pp. 81-82.
The Saving Bannister: Niagara Poetry Anthology.
17 (2002). No known connection with Lee.
18 (2003). “Judges Remarks,” “About the Judge,” pp. 7-8.
Scenes
(Spring 1997). Review of Tongues of the Children and other books, p. 14.
(Summer 1997). “It Only Takes One Bully to Ruin a Village,” p. 8.
Scrivener
5:1 (Winter 1984). “Getting Even,” p. 8.
Seeds
4:2 (1997). Four poems from Never Hand Me Anything ..., pp. 29-32.

The Shepherd: A Guide for Sheep and Farm Life
45:9 (Sept. 2000). “If Wool Be Thy Care ... ” [article on Lee family farm], pp. 11-13.
Skylark
2:6 (Jan.-Feb. 1991). “In the Heart of a Great Noise,” p. 7.
Snapping Turtle and Grand River Rattler
1 (Aug. 1998). Announcement of Lee as regular contributor.
2 (Sept. 1998). “You Weren’t Here When You Were Away” [article by Lee].
Spike
3:2 (ca. 2000?). No known connection with Lee. But various by Roger Bell.

Spire Poetry Poster
1:5 (Mar. 2004): “Skating with my Wife on the Rideau Canal on the Last Day of March.” [two different printings]
Spokes
2:2 (Summer 1988). “Upon Refusing to Finish a Poem the Poet Takes to the Ring,” p. 8.
Sport History Review
28:1 (May 1997). Review by Lee of All I Thought about was Baseball, William Humber and John St. James eds.], pp. 71-2.
Square Lake
6 (Fall 2004). “Raspberry Picking,” p. 38.
Stanza
1:12 (Apr. 1997). Announcement for appearance by Lee, inside back cover.

Theodolite
8:4 (1989). Review by Lee of Margaret Allen, trans. Bestiary (Winnipeg: St. John’s College Press, 1984), p. 40.
This
37:1 (Jul./Aug. 2003). Announcement of Lee among winners and shortlisted entries of 2003 Great Canadian Literary Hunt, p. 33.
37:2 (Sept./Oct. 2003). No known connection with Lee.
Tidepool
4 (1987). No known connection with Lee.
5 (1988). “Dead Bird,” “First Love,” “My Poems as Light,” “Five Beside Five Haiku,” “Tedium Dee Dum Haiku,” pp. 30-31.

Toronto Life
26:9 (June 1992). No known connection with Lee.
Tower Poetry
35:1 (Summer 1986). “Sheep Behind the Wheel,” p. 14; “Make Work,” p. 15.
36:1 (Summer 1987). “Full Leafed We Fall,” p. 13.
37:2 (Winter 1988). “Signposts,” p. 38.
48:2 (Winter 1999-2000). No known connection with Lee.

University of Western Ontario Alumni Gazette / Western Alumni Gazette
62: 4(Summer 1986). Gazette of his recent achievements, p. 30.
63:1 (Fall 1986). Listing of alumni publications, including Small Worlds and Hired Hands, p. 24.
71:3 (Spring 1995). Gazette of his recent achievements, p. 32.
72:3 (Spring 1996). Gazette of his recent achievements, p. 35.
73:1 (Fall 1996). Gazette of his recent achievements, p. 33.
(Fall 2004). Review of The Farm on the Hill He Calls Home, p. 32.
University of Windsor Review / Windsor Review
18:2 (Spring/Summer 1985). “Aging Hired Hands,” “Hired Hands: Blistered Feet,” “T.V. Time for a Hired Hand,” “Spring on the Farm for an Aging Hired Hand,” pp. 52-5.

Windsor Review
30:2 (Fall 1997). “Individual Vision,” “The Well,” pp. 48-49.
32:1 (Spring 1999). “Literature and the Land: Everything I Know about Literature I Learned on the Farm,” pp. 1-9.
33:2 (Special Poetry Issue 2000). “When You Throw a Man in the Lake,” pp. 101-2.
34:2 (Fall 2001). “Born to the Sign of the Rain” [editorial by Lee], pp. vi-vii; “The Hockey Wars,” “Elegy for Lyle Olsen,” pp. 52-5.
35:1 (Spring 2002). No known connection with Lee.
35:2 (Fall 2002). “Driving to London on February Twenty-Fifth,” “Lost,” “When You’re Down on your Knees in a Field Called Forever,” pp.32-6.
36:2 (Fall 2003) [issue guest edited by Lee]. “The Other Twenty-Three Hours” [editorial], pp. v-vi.
37:1 (Spring 2004). “Women in Hardware,” p. 30.
38:1 (Spring 2005). “The Faiths of Time,” “Sea Change,” pp. 13-21.

BOX 50
Vallum
3:1 (Fall/Winter 2005). “Alone,” pp. 60-1.
Verse Afire
1:1 (May/Aug. 2005). “There is a Nation.”
1:2 (Sept./Dec. 2005). Announcement of Lee winning Eric Hill Award; “Sometimes Now.”
2:1 (Jan./May 2006). Review by Lee of Jasmine Star Light, by Anna Yin; “America.”
2:2 (May/Aug. 2006). “Red Heaven.”
Waves
11:2-3 (Winter 1983). “When He Plays Harmonica,” p. 70. Signed by Lee on half-title page.
12:2-3 (Winter 1984). “Thaw,” p. 79.
14:1-2 Fall 1985). “When Sheep Sleep,” p. 80.

We Are T.O.P.S.
2:2 (May/Aug. 2001). “False Lions.”
2:2 (Sept./Dec. 2001). “More Beautiful Than I Remember (A Poem for Cathy on her Birthday).”
3:1 (Jan./Apr. 2002). “When I was a Boy and the Farm Pond Froze.”
3:2 (May/Aug. 2002). “The Fourth Sparrow.”
4:1 (Jan./Apr. 2003). “There’s Nothing Like a Shade Tree in a Field of Grain.”
4:2 (May/Aug. 2003). “Driving South in a Dream.”
4:3 (Sept./Dec. 2003). “The Swallows Used to Swoop the Cats But All the Cats are Gone.”
5:1 (Jan./Apr. 2004). “The Broken Oak.”
5:2 (May/Aug. 2004). Handwritten notes made in text by Lee concerning submission to anthology Witness (Lee ed.) planned by Serengti Press; “Precious Time.”
5:3 (Sept./Dec. 2004). Review by Lee of Space Alchemy: A Trilogy, by Katherine L. Gordon and others; “One Leaf in the Breath of the World.”
6:1 (Jan./Apr. 2005). “I Was Spreading Manure in the Summer of Love.”

Wee Giant
5:2 (1982). “Fish Seen Through an Attic Window,” p. 23.
Wild East
2:1 (Winter 1990). No known connection with Lee.
Writer’s Lifeline
1983 Special Poetry Issue (July 1983). No known connection with Lee.
1984:2 (1984). “John B. Lee,” pp. 13-14.
1986:2 (1986). “Why Did I Start to Write,” pp. 21-2.
1986:5 (1986). “How Do I Write,” p. 27.
1987:3 (1987). “John B. Lee: A Diffident and Talented Poet,” pp. 23-5.

Words from Inside, the Annual Arts Anthology of Prison Arts Foundation
11 (1991). No known connection with Lee.
Yak
Spring Preview (1987). “Domestic,” p. 9.
(Spring 1987). “Lost Long Ago,” p. 22.
Zygote
5:1 (Winter 1998). “The Night My Brain Froze Four Inches Back,” p. 34.

Programmes, brochures and teaching materials.
Note: Known connections with Lee, including names of poems featured in the volume, are given.
BOX 50
F.1
Brantford Visitor Guide, 1997, 40 pp. Excerpt from “Why I Walk,” p. 33.
Celebrate the Thames, 1999, 8 booklets. “Reading the River,” Booklet 7, p. 2. With correspondence.
Grand Footpaths: A Guide to 20 Favourite Hiking Trails in Brant County, 1995, 48 pp. “Why I Walk,” p. 7. Signed “To John / Gwen Howlett” by author.
Sing and Play on Special Days, by Denise Gagne, 1997. “When Witches Walk,” p. 14.

Publishers’ Catalogues
Note: Sub-series consists of the covers and any pages relevant to the sale of John B. Lee’s publications, excised from the entire catalogues.

F.2
Beach Holme Publishing, Spring 1999.
Black Moss Press, 1991; Fall/Spring 1995-1996; Fall 1997; Fall 1998; 2000.
Brick Books, 1989; 1990; 1992-5; Spring 1996; Fall 1997; Fall 1998; Spring 2000.
Goose Lane Editions, Autumn 1993; Spring 1994; Autumn 1994; Spring 1995; Autumn 1996; Spring 1997; Autumn 1998; Spring 1999; Spring 2000; Fall 2000; 2000-2001.
Firefly Books, Fall 1996; Fall 2001; Fall 2004; Spring 2005; Fall 2005.
The Literary Press Group, Spring 1980; 1983.
Mansfield Press, Fall 2003. Includes In the Terrible Weather of Guns.
Penumbra Press, Fall/Winter 1991; 1998-1999; Fall 1999; Fall/Winter 2003-2004.
Véhicule Press, Spring/Summer 1999.
Vesta Publications catalogues, 1982. Includes Fossils of the Twentieth Century.

Box 51
Oversize. Contents of this box have been described in earlier series.

Box 52
Anthologies edited by Lee
Body Language: A Head-to-Toe Anthology, Black Moss Press, Windsor, ON, 2003.
Henry’s Creature: Poems and Stories on the Automobile, Black Moss Press, Windsor, ON, 2000. Edited with Roger Bell.
The Hockey Player Sonnets: Overtime Edition, Penumbra Press, Ottawa, ON, 2003. Second Edition.
Loser’s First: Poems and Stories on Game and Sport, Black Moss Press, Windsor, ON, 1999.
Smaller Than God: Words of Spiritual Longing, Black Moss Press, Windsor, ON, 2001. Edited with Br. Paul Quenon.

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