Finding Aid
Patrick Lane fonds, 1966-1971. -- 37 cm of textual records and graphic material.
Box 1 Manuscripts
F.1
Letters from the Savage Mind. 1966.
Original ts. 73 pp.
F.2
Collected poems of Red Lane. 1968.
Annotated carbon ts. 87 pp.
F.3
Separations. 1969. (originally titled "Newspaper Walls.") Original ts. 26 pp.
Versions of the poems:
"The Absinthe Drinker." ts. 14 p.
"The Bottle Pickers." Annotated ts. , 12 pp.
"Cattle are Stupid." ts. 6 pp.
"Cold." ts. and ills. 12 pp.
"Execution--C.B.S. News." ts. 12 pp.
"For Rita--In Asylum." ts. and carbon ts. 7 p.
"For Ten Years." Annotated ts. 11 pp.
"In this field." Ms. and ts. 2 pp.
"Julie." Ts. and annotated ts. 15 pp.
"Last night in Darkness." Annotated ts. 22 pp.
"My father's house." Annotated ts. and carbon ts. 29 pp.
"Natasha." Annotated ts. 27 pp.
"On the bum in Edmonton." Ms. and annotated ts. 27 pp.
"Saskatchewan." Ts. 4 p.
"Spanish banks." Annotated ts. 5 pp.
"Surcease." Annotated ts. and carbon ts. 13 pp. "Ten miles in from Horsefly." Ts. 4 pp. "Testaments." Ms. and annotated ts. 16 pp. "There was a woman bending." Annotated ts. and carbon ts. 20 pp. "Toronto the Ugly." Annotated ts. 5 pp. "Wild Horses." Annotated and carbon ts. 9 pp. Miscellaneous sheets for poems in Separations. Annotated ts. and carbon ts. 45 pp.
F.4 Journals, poetry and sketches by Patrick Lane.
F.5 Leaflets and clippings
F.6 Red Lane--excerpts from his journals. 4 pp. ts.
Box 2 Correspondence
Milton Acorn. 2 TLS + 4 pp. encl. 1964.
Margaret Atwood. 3 TLS. 1970.
Ken Belford. 2 ALS, 1 TLS. 1969-1970.
Earle Birney. 9 TLS, 1 ALS, 7 APcs., 2 TPcs. 1965-1970.
Bill Bissett. 4 ALS + poems. [n.d.] 1964.
Douglas Blazek. 1 TLS, 1 TPcs., 1968.
George Bloomfield. 1 ALS. [n.d.]
George Bowering. 3 TLS. 1965-1967.
Canada Council. 2 TLS. 1967.
Frederick Candelaria. TLS. 1966.
Chuck Carlson. 3 ALS, 10 TLS.+ poems. 1966-1967,1970.
Fred Cogswell. 4 ALS, 2 TLS. 1965-1967.
Victor Coleman. 1 TLS. [n.d.]
John Robert Colombo. 7 TLS. 1967-1970.
Judith Copithorne. 1 ALS. 1969
Louis Cormier. 1 TLS. 1970.
Delta Canada (Louis Dudek, Glen Siebresse). 5 TLS. 1966 Gail Fox. 3 TLS. 1970.
Roy Fraser. 6 TLS, 1 APcs. 1969-1970.
Gary Geddes. 2 ALS + poems. 1970. Gerry Gervais. 2 TLS. 1970.
John Gill and Elaine Gill. 13 TLS., 9 ALS., 1 TPcs. 1968-1970
David Harris (Fleye Press) 4 TLS., 1 TPcs. [n.d.] 1966.
House of Anansi. 2 TLS. 1968, 1970.
George Jonas. 1 TLS. 1970.
Lionel Kearns. 1 ALS. 1968.
Zeljko Kujundzic. 2 ALS. 1966.
John Lane. 1 TLS. [n.d.]
Red Lane. 9 ALS. 2 TLS. [n.d.], 1958-1964.
Irving Lay ton. 1 ALS. 1 TLS. 1969-1970.
League of Canadian Poets. 1 ALS. 1968.
Dorothy Livesay. 10 ALS. 12 TLS. + poems. [n.d.] 1265~1970.
Box 3
Tom Marshall. 2 ALS. 1969-1970.
Tyndale Martin. 1 TLS. 1967.
Seymour Mayne. 4 APcs. 23 TLS. 7 ALS. [n.d.] 1966-1971.
McClelland and Stewart. 4 TLS. 1966,1970.
John Newlove. 1 TLS. 1969. bp Nichol. 2 TLS. 1 Telegram. [n.d.] 1965.
Alden Nowlan. 2 TLS. 1969-1970.
Gary Olson. 1 ALS. 1 APcs. 1970.
Desmond Pacey (The Fiddlehead) 1 TLS. + HN. 1965.
Charlie Potts. 4 TLS. [n.d.] 1967.
Al Purdy. 8 TLS. [n.d.] 1967,1969-1970.
James Reaney. 1 ALS. 1966.
Joe Rosenblatt. 2 ALS. 2 TLS. + poems. 1968,1970.
George Ryga. 2 TLS. [n.d.] 1966.
Norma Ryga. 4 TLS. 1 ALS. 1967-1968.
Ron Schreiber. 2 TLS. 1970.
Edith Sharp. 2 TLS. 1966.
Earle Toppings. 14 TLS. 1966-1968.
Vancouver Sun. 1 TLS. 1966.
Very Stone House business correspondence. 1966-1968.
Miriam Waddington. 1 ALS. 1968.
John Wardle. 1 ALS. 1967.
Weed/flower Press (Nelson Ball). 1 TLS. 1966.
Lori Whitehead. 1 ALS. 1968.
Milton Wilson. 1 TLS. 2 ALS. 1964-1966.
Liz Woods. 2 TLS. 1969-1970.
Dick Woollatt. 1 TLS. 1970.
Unidentified correspondence.
Outgoing correspondence. [n.d.] 1964,1966-1967, 1971.
Third accrual:
Letter from Patrick Lane to Asher Joram (Jack), 29 January 1972
Letter from Patrick Lane to Norman Hart, 29 March 1971
14 b&w print illustrations to be used in one of Lane's books
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