John Hulcoop fonds LMS-0236 Dates: 1950-2016 Extent: 133 cm of textual record and other material.

Biographical Note: Scholar, critic, editor and poet John Hulcoop was born in London, England in 1930, and pursued his education at University College London. Hulcoop emigrated to Canada in the 1950’s and began teaching in the English Department at the University of , where he is now Professor Emeritus. A 19th Century scholar by training, Hulcoop has written on both the novel and the long poem, and has published work on Robert Browning, George Eliot, Truman Capote, and Virginia Woolf. As an editor and critic of ’s work, he edited and wrote the introduction to Phyllis Webb’s Selected Poems of Phyllis Webb, 1954-65 (Talonbooks, 1971) and published Phyllis Webb and Her Works (ECW Press, 1990). John Hulcoop has also maintained a long friendship with Phyllis Webb. During his college days at University College London, Hulcoop came to know Jane Rule and the meeting resulted in another important friendship. As a critic, Hulcoop pursued a critical interest in Timothy Findley and produced the first major critical essay on Findley’s work for Canadian Literature (Winter 1981). As an editor and poet he has come into contact with a number of other Canadian writers and has produced two works of poetry, Three Ring Circus Songs (Talonbooks, 1968) and Untuning the Sky (Pamina Publishing, 2000). John Hulcoop lives and works in .

Scope and Content: The fonds contains correspondence with writers such as Phyllis Webb, Jane Rule, Timothy Findley and David Watmough; as well as handwritten drafts, typescripts and final typescripts for writing by Jane Rule, Phyllis Webb, David Watmough and for Hulcoop’s own poetic works. In many cases, the files include notes to researchers by the fonds creator indicating the relevance of the material. The fonds contains the following series: Series I. Phyllis Webb, Series II. Jane Rule, Series III. Various Correspondence, Series IV. Poetry by John Hulcoop, and Series V. Sally Hulcoop.

Finding Aid: This finding aid is a combination of the calendar of items submitted by John Hulcoop along with the material and a RAD (Rules for Archival Description) description to the file level by the archivist. The itemized lists by John Hulcoop inserted after the RAD description of each file are noted for their personal detail and assistance to the researcher. Note by the donor on his itemized lists: By “item” I mean one card, one letter (which may be long or short), one enclosure or attachment, which may be a single poem in typescript or a collection of poems sent on one occasion; it may be an article by PJW or by somebody else; or the item may be as large as the typescript of a complete book of poems. Unless otherwise stated, all items are letters. Asterisk indicates photocopy. “pc” indicates post-card. “discard” indicates hand painted card by PJW. Items from original list: 306 items, 150 letters, 12 notes, 36 cards, 28 postcards, 3 “discards”

Restrictions on Access: Correspondence from Series V. Sally Hulcoop is RESTRICED and will remain sealed until her death.

1 Access Provision: Correspondence with Phyllis Webb requires the permission of Phyllis Webb and John Hulcoop.

Series I. Phyllis Webb Dates: 1951, Oct. 12, 1953-2015 Extent: 83.75 cm of textual record. – 6 photographs: col. – 9 volumes. Scope and Content: This series contains correspondence, draft and typescript material from John Hulcoop’s friendship with Phyllis Webb and his role as editor. Also includes nine published monographs containing Hulcoop’s annotations. Title Note: Title based on contents of series. Arrangement Note: Arrangement maintains donor’s original order. Some files were arranged in reverse chronological order by the donor. Access Provision: Correspondence with Phyllis Webb requires the permission of Phyllis Webb and John Hulcoop.

Series II. Jane Rule Dates: [1953?]-2007. Extent: 28 cm of textual record. – 18 photographs: b&w Scope and Content: Series contains letters, cards, and typescripts of stories. Also included are letters with Helen Sonthoff, Jane Rule’s life partner. Title Note: Title based on contents of series.

Series III. Various Correspondence Dates: Oct. 7, 1966-1999. Extent: 4.25 cm of textual record. – 1 audio compact disk. Scope and Content: This series contains correspondence between Hulcoop and various writers including David Watmough, Timothy Findley and Miriam Waddington. Series contains the following subseries: A. Correspondence with Timothy Findley, B. Correspondence with David Watmough and C. Miscellaneous Correspondence. Title Note: Title based on contents of series.

Subseries A. Correspondence with Timothy Findley Dates: Nov. 3, 1981-Dec. 1, 1989. Extent: 30 p. – 4 postcards. Scope and Content: Subseries contains correspondence with Timothy Findley asking for information used in a 1981 article on Findley by Hulcoop (see Canadian Literature Winter 1981): the first major article on Findley’s work to be written/published. Subseries includes 15/20 letters and cards from Findley, and copies of two of Hulcoop’s letters to Findley. Title Note: Title based on contents of sub-series.

Subseries B. Correspondence with David Watmough Dates: Sept. 2, 1974-1999 Extent: 1.75 cm of textual record. – 1 audio compact disk. Subseries contains material relating to David Watmough’s work including: 6 letters 1974-95, a manuscript of “Class Warfare,” typescripts of 6 stories, 1 sermon, 1 lecture, 2 articles on Watmough and/or his work, and a CD of Watmough reading (for

2 which John Hulcoop wrote the liner notes). Title Note: Title based on contents of subseries.

Subseries C. Miscellaneous Correspondence Dates: 1956, Jul. 2, [1961], Jan. 21, 1963, Oct. 7, 1966-Sept. 11, 1994, Sept. 2002 Extent: 1.5 cm of textual record. Scope and Content: File contains correspondence with various other writers arising from Hulcoop’s work as an editor and poet, and from his friendships. Title Note: Title based on contents of sub-series.

Series IV. Poetry by John Hulcoop Dates: [196-]-2000 Extent: 7.5 cm of textual record. Scope and Content: Series contains John Hulcoop’s writing as a poet and includes comprehensive manuscript, draft and final versions for Three Ring Circus Songs and Untuning the Sky. Title Note: Title based on contents of the series. Arrangement: Based on donor’s folder arrangement

Series V. Sally Hulcoop Dates: 1968-2016, predominant 1987-1995. Extent: 3.5 cm of textual record. Scope and Content: Series consists of one file of correspondence between Sally Hulcoop, John Hulcoop’s ex-wife, and various Canadian literary figures, most notably Phyllis Webb, Jane Rule and Timothy Findley. Tile Note: Title based on contents of the series. Restrictions on Access: Correspondence is RESTRICTED and will remain sealed until Sally Hulcoop’s death.

1st Accession

Series I. Phyllis Webb

Box 1 f. 1 1955-1975 : Correspondence. – Oct. 12, 1953-[19-?]. – 42 p. File contains: 20 letters, 2 postcards, 2 poems, 2 contracts listed, surrounding Phyllis Webb’s publication of Even Your Right Eye, The Sea is Also a Garden, and Selected Poems; typescripts of two poems by Webb and a typescript of “Triad” by Jane Rule. Title Note: Title taken from donor’s folder title, other title information is based on contents of the file. Physical Description: Typescripts (some photocopies and carbon copy).

1955 3 Oct. Contractual agreement between PJW and McClelland & Stewart (refers to “poetry manuscript”: Even Your Right Eye)* 1962 22 Mar. Contractual agreement between PJW and Ryerson Press for The Sea Is Also A Garden* 1970 13 Oct JFH to David Robinson [DR] (ed. Talon Bks), re Selected Poems* [SP ] 25 Oct JFH to DR, re. SP* 21 Nov JFH to DR, re. SP*

3 1971 25 Mar JFH to DR, re. proofs of SP* 1970 11 Sept PJW to David Robinson, re. Selected Poems* 14 Oct PJW to DR, re. SP* 1971 26 Jan PJW to DR, re. SP* 18 Mar PJW to DR, re. SP* 15 Apr PJW to DR, re. SP * postcard [pc]* 26 Apr PJW to DR, re. SP* 2 May PJW to DR, re. SP* 5 June PJW to DR, re. SP* 15 June PJW to DR, re. SP* 1971? [72?] 2 Sept PJW to DR, re. SP* 1974 24 Jan PJW to DR, re. John Bentley Mays “attack” on PJW pc* 3 Apr PJW to DR, re. new ed’n of SP* 11 Sept PJW to DR* 15 Nov PJW to DR* 1975 21 Aug PJW to DR, re. new ed’n of SP* 21 Aug PJW to Ernest Hall, re. provincial arts funding* 22 Sept. PJW to DR, re. new ed’n of SP* 11 Oct PJW to DR, re. contract* 19?? PJW, two poems: “Solitary Confinement,” “from The Kropotkin Poems” 1965 Jane Rule to PJW, “Triad”: a short piece in three sections written after Rule received her copy of Naked Poems (the first two sections of allude to a relationship between PJW and Rule), typescript (carbon copy)

f. 2 1963-1970 : Correspondence. – Dec. 3, 1963-Nov. 15, 1970. – 39 p. File contains: 15 letters and 2 typescripts of poems. Title note: Title taken from donor’s folder title, other title information is based on contents of the file. Physical Description: Typescripts (some carbon copies).

1963 3 Dec PJW to Sally & John Hulcoop [SH, JFH] 6 Oct PJW to SH & JFH 6 Nov PJW to SH & JFH 1964 9 July PJW PJW to SH & JFH 1 Sept. PJW to SH 1965 8 Feb PJW to JFH 1966 6 Feb PJW to JFH, re. my first Webb article on Naked Poems in Can. Lit. 13 Feb PJW to SH 23 May PJW to JFH, re. our new phone number. We moved from W 14th to W 38th in the spring of 1966 May? PJW to JFH, this letter may precede the previous. It comments on the new house 1968 24 Sept PJW to JFH, re. Ideas series on “Disappearing Boundaries,” for which I wrote two scripts; also the Massey Lectures--R.D. Laing on “The Politics of the Family” 1970 3-12 Jly PJW to JFH, re. SP--first of many really important letters 10 Oct PJW to JFH, re. SP ???? Typescript of “A Question Questions” parts I,II,II and IV” (part V is referred to in the preceding letter) 3 Nov PJW to JFH, re. SP 15 Nov PJW to JFH, contains typescript of “A Question of Questions” part V

f. 3 Selected Poems : introduction and associated items. – 1970-1972. – 2 cm of textual record.

4 File contains: notes and drafts for the introduction to written by John Hulcoop for Phyllis Webb’s Selected Poems, 1954-1965. Title Note: Title taken from donor’s folder title. Physical Description: Typescripts. – Handwritten. Physical Condition: Selotape on item 6. **

1. “The Making of a Book,” written by JFH in 1972 2. Typescripts of two poems by PJW 3. Notes relating to the selection of poems for the text of SP 4. Brief biographical jottings 5. “Introduction,” in manuscript form, well over 100pp 6. “Introduction,” typescript, with revisions 7. Some notes taken while researching the introduction

f. 4 Phyllis Webb Selected Poems, 1954-1965 : almost fair text. – [197-?]-June 18, 1974. – 2 cm of textual record. File contains the typescript and paste-ups for Selected Poems as well as related correspondence with Talonbooks. Title Note: Title taken from donor’s folder title. Physical Description: Typescripts, annotated. – Printed. Physical Condition: Selotape. **

Original text, typescript and paste-ups 1970 20 Sept. JFH to DR, re. SP 1971 18 May DR to JFH, a telegram 1974 18 June Karl Siegler to JFH, re. new ed’n of SP

f. 5 1971-1979 : correspondence. – Mar. 20, 1971-Nov. 20, 1979. – 47 p. – 4 postcards. File contains 15 letters, 4 postcards, 9 poems, including a typescript of the original version of Wilson’s Bowl, 1 essay, 1 review, 1 newspaper-cutting, and a note to researchers. Title note: Title taken from donor’s folder title, other title information is based on contents of the file. Physical Description: Handwritten. – Typewritten (some photocopies). – Printed, photocopied. Conservation: One letter has a dried flower attached**: this has been encased in mylar.

1999 19 May JFH “A Note to Researchers” (really important because omitted from SP) 1971 20 Mar PJW to JFH, plus newspaper cutting [n.d.] PJW, “A Question of Questions,” from Tamarack Review, No.58, 1971* 21 July PJW to JFH 11 Aug PJW to JFH 19 Sept PJW, a copy of “from The Kropotkin Poems ” 1973 25 Aug PJW to JFH, plus a copied extract from Menen’s The Space Within the Heart, re V. Woolf 1974 12 Feb PJW to JFH, with pressed wild flower 4 Oct PJW to JFH (from Paris) 1975 1 Mar PJW, copy of her review of Blown Figures by Audrey Thomas*

5 1976 17 Oct PJW, a poem, unpublished, written for her Creative Writing Class at UBC 1976 Dec PJW, “Polishing up the view,” essay, contained in copy on CVII, 2:4 [Pamphlet Box 1 - this published item has been transferred to the general collection]] 1977 15 Apr PJW to JFH 23 July PJW to JFH, plus a copy of the Table of Contents of Levi-Strauss’s The Raw and The Cooked 16 Oct PJW to JFH {n.d.] PJW, a copy of the original version of “Wilson’s Bowl,” which contains variant readings from the printed version 1978 9 May PJW to JFH, pc 14 Nov PJW to JFH, plus a copy of “Composed Like Them” with the original dedication, later dropped, which explains the reference to “Pat Bay” 1979 1 Jan PJW to JFH (reference to “The night at La Raclette,” when PJW and I had a major row about feminism) 17 Jan PJW to JFH, plus a copy of “The King of Kings has left the Peacock Throne” containing a line later revised, on the telephone ? Mar PJW to JFH, pc, plus a copy of the “Eschatology of Spring,” plus a copy of Canadian Forum containing “Imperfect Sestina” [Pamphlet Box 1] (this published item has been transferred to the general collection) 13 June PJW to JFH, pc 10 Sept PJW to JFH (refers to two poems also sent; obviously from WB, don’t know which) 22 Oct PJW to JFH, pc 20 Nov PJW to JFH, plus a copy of “The Days of the Unicorns” dated 15/16 Nov

f. 6 Wilson’s Bowl : typescript. – June 1980. – 71 p. File contains: 1 photocopy of the typescript of the text of Wilson’s Bowl, and 1 dust- jacket blurb, asked for but not used in the final publication. Title note: Title taken from donor’s folder title. Physical Description: Typescripts, annotated (some photocopies).

Wilson’s Bowl, which is dedicated, “For John and Sally Hulcoop” Dust-jacket blurb I was asked to write, but which was not used

f. 7 1980-1983 : correspondence. – Jan. 2, 1980. – 122 p. – 11 cards. File contains: 35 letters, 4 notes, 2 cards, 5 postcards, 1 gift-tag (note), 9 poems, 3 articles by Webb, “Forword to Wilson’s Bowl,” Hulcoop’s “blurb” for WB, Hulcoop’s notes for a CBC Radio interview with PJW, a copy of Notable Works & Collections published by the University of Saskatchewan Library (includes an article on Webb) [located in Pamphlet Box 1 - this published item has been transferred to the general collection], copy of Phyllis Webb Papers: 2nd Series, an application for CC short-term grant, and a program of Calgary Opera’s Otello. Title note: Title taken from donor’s folder title, other title information is based on contents of the file. Physical Description: Typescripts, annotated (some photocopies). – Handwritten. Printed.

1980 2 Jan PJW to JFH 6 Jan PJW to JFH 23 Jan PJW to JFH 1 Feb PJW to JFH

6 21 Mar PJW to JFH, plus an application for a Canada Council Short term Grant for which PJW wanted me to write a recommendation, which I did 12 May PJW to JFH, ref. to Poetics Today, a Christmas present PJW gave me and which didn’t begin arriving for months [n.d] PJW to JFH and SH, accompanying a copy of the “Notes” to Wilson’s Bowl 17 June PJW to JFH, plus a copy of the “Forword” to Wilson’s Bowl, including a paragraph later omitted. I had sent PJW A Lover’s Discourse by Barthes as a birthday present, along with Barthes on Barthes, I think (not certain) 21 June PJW to JFH, re. my response to Wilson’s Bowl, and to one of my poems 4 July PJW to JFH, plus a copy of Notable Works & Collections, U of Sask. Library, containing a copy of Margaret Butcher’s article on “The Webb Collection” (1979) [located in Pamphlet Box 1 - this published item has been transferred to the general collection] 25 July PJW to JFH, birthday card, plus the card that was in the gift--Kobbe’s Opera Book--PJW gave me for my 50th birthday 5 Aug PJW to JFH, plus a copy of the “blurb” I wrote for WB (not used) 18 Aug JFH: notes for major CBC interview with PJW, prod. John Merritt 10 Sept PJW to JFH (I was off to England, on sabbatical, working on the Findley article) 26 Oct PJW to JFH 16 Nov PJW to JFH: “Messages,” a poem, first read to me on the phone 16 Nov. 8 Dec PJW to JFH, with a program for the Calgary Opera’s 1980 Otello in which my friend Gilda Cruz-Romo sang Desdemona [Pamphlet Box 1 - this published item has been transferred to the general collection] 1981 4 Jan PJW to JFH. This letter is misdated Dec. 4 1981, but the envelope and internal references make it clear that it was written in January. (The question at the top of the letter re. “Lulu” refers to Berg’s Lulu, with Teresa Stratas in the title-role which I saw at the Met in NYC on 3 Jan. 1981) 24 Jan PJW to JFH (an important letter referring back to an earlier letter--apparently mislaid--in which PJW offered quite seriously to marry Wayne McDermott (my partner [WM]) in order to get him into Canada 28 Feb PJW to JFH, photocopy of typescripts of “Field Guide to Snow Crystals,” together with an embossed white card, a snow crystal with bried inscription 8 Mar PJW to JFH, pc 15 Mar PJW to JFH (re. my forthcoming article on Findley) ? Apr PJW to JFH, handwritten, in response to the ts of my article on PJW for the Dictionary of Literary Biography 13 Apr PJW to JFH, together with a photocopy ts of “On The Line” Spring 1981 Poetry Canada Review cover story on PJW 20 June PJW to JFH, a handwritten note left on the kitchen counter the morning after PJW and I had dinner together, and row, again about feminism and my being made to feel like “A second-class” Canadian because I wasn’t born here) 21 June PJW to JFH, pc 23 June PJW to JFH (more about the evening we spent together and “the turn” or turning point in the evening at which we began to disagree with each other seriously, painfully 9 Sept PJW to JFH, pc 5 Nov PJW to JFH, pc (the “love to you both” refers to Wayne McD and me; Wayne moved permanently to Canada in July 1981, with “landed immigrant” status 23 Nov PJW to JFH, together with photocopies of ts poems, “Blood Relations” and “Prison Report” 8 Dec PJW to JFH, together with a copy of “THIRTEEN/Anti Ghazals,” on which is the inscription “For Dear John--my best reader--/Love--/Phyllis” 24 Dec PJW to JFH, note attached to ???? (Christmas card? a present?) 31 Dec PJW to JFH, note inside Christmas present--a book

1982 25 Feb PJW to JFH, together with my copy (photocopy of ts) of “I Daniel,” which is

7 covered with the marginalia I made in reading and re-reading the poem, and preparing to write to PJW. My letter to her (which must be in the Webb Collection) is dated 10th June 1982 4 Mar PJW to JFH 19 Mar PJW to JFH 20 Apr PJW to JFH, plus a copy of the “Phyllis Webb Papers: Second Series: 1982” (subsequently deposited in the National Library after an agreement had been reached with the University of Sask. to let the National Library acquire the “First Series”) 26 Apr PJW to JFH 18 Oct PJW to JFH 23 Oct PJW to JFH, a note, plus as copy of “Sitting, 1982” which PJW forgot to include in Talking 1983 18 June PJW to JFH, pc. 26 June PJW to JFH 28 June PJW to JFH, plus a copy of “The Muse Figure” for Women & Words, 1 July 1983 15 July PJW to JFH, plus first copies of 11 ghazals (which I heard PJW read when I visited Salt Spring and which eventually appeared in Water and Light), plus a copy of “Leaning,” plus a copy of “Following” (which did not get included in W&L) 21 July PJW to JFH. Letter, which includes an unpublished poem dating from the 70s, is in part a response to my review of Talking (or Sunday Water)--Talking I think) 1 Oct PJW to JFH

Box 2 f. 1 1984-1988 : correspondence. – Feb. 17, 1984-. 134 p. – 10 cards. File contains 17 letters, 6 notes, 2 cards, 6pcs, typescript of Water & Light, 3 poems, 5 articles, 1 review of Water & Light. Title note: Title taken from donor’s folder title, other title information is based on contents of the file. Physical Description: Typescripts, annotated (some photocopies). – Handwritten (some photocopies). – Printed, photocopied.

1984 17 Feb PJW to JFH. re W&L) 21 Mar PJW to JFH. “And why do you and I write poems...?”) 21 Mar Typescript of Water and Light 19 Jul. PJW to JFH 2? Dec Christmas card, with note re. J[ohn] M[erritt]: he received a redundancy notice from CBC on Christmas Eve 31 Dec PJW to JFH pc 1985 13 Jan PJW to JFH & WM Mar or Apr PJW to JFH (on U of Vic. Memorandum) 1986 14 Jan PJW to JFH pc (Miro) 14 Apr PJW to JFH 22 May PJW to JFH: accompanied paper by Susan Glickman subsequently returned to PJW) 4 June PJW to JFH (on U of Vic. Memorandum), plus a xerox of Barbara Godard’s review of Water and Light, in Poetry Review June PJW to JFH: note to accompany a copy of Katherine Ann Porter’s TheLeaning Tower, a collection of stories. PJW had recently written “Leaning” 11 June PJW to JFH: major letter in response to some of my inquiries regarding PJW’s career. I was beginning to work on the monograph published by ECW in 1990: Phyllis Webb in the Canadian Writers and Their Works series 25 June PJW to JFH: note, plus a copy of PJW’s review of Stilt Jack by Peter Sanger 31 July PJW to JFH: further response to my list of questions sent to PJW; plus a copy of the

8 questionnaire, 5pp; plus a xerox of my 28 June letter to PJW, trying out some of the ideas I explored in the monograph, 6pp 28 Sept PJW to JFH pc 25 Dec PJW to JFH and WM 1987 26 Jan PJW to JFH, plus a copy of “Unearned Numinosity”) 8 Feb PJW to JFH: response to an emergency phonecall I made to PJW, having had a panic attack in the middle of teaching a graduate seminar. She was the only person I knew wd understand) 7 Apr PJW to JFH: the poem she refers to of mine is “In the Spring and Old Man’s Fancy....” 2 May PJW to JFH pc (Gold Head of a Bull) 14 May PJW to JFH pc (Godrevy Lighthouse--see To the Lighthouse) 20 May PJW to JFH: PJW sent books from her own collection which I wanted to read in preparing the ECW monograph; plus a copy of “How the Indians....” 19 June PJW to JFH pc (from Finland) Sept PJW to JFH: a copy of PJW “panel discussion” script delivered at the Manitoba Writers” Guild in Oct. 1987 24 Dec PJW to JFH: a note, plus a copy of “Imaginations Companion” 1988 10 Jan PJW to JFH: major letter in which the origins of Hanging Fire [HF ] are made visible. Responses to more of my poems 29 Feb PJW to JFH: more indications of the new book to come, plus a copy of “Ambrosia,” included in HF 23 Mar PJW to JFH 11 Apr PJW to JFH: card, with letter; trauma of dealing with Bill Hoffer 28 Apr PJW to JfH: in response to articles on Woolf; plus an earlier version of “A Model of the Universe” than that [printed in HF 20 June PJW to JFH: another “biggy”: a note; plus another note; plus typescripts of 17 poems: all but four included in HF. “Perfect Pitch” (a blank page!), “Minimalist Feast” and “Carapace” were not included or indeed published. Neither was “Fragments of Quartz” though the phrase haunted PJW and was incorporated into one of the poems in HF 28 June PJW to JFH: note about HF 19 Dec PJW to JFH: card with short letter

f.2 1989-1993 : correspondence. – July 31, 1989-Jul. 1 1993. – 166 p. – 7 cards. 1 broadside : 26 x 31 cm. File includes: 16 letters, 2 notes, 1 card, 1 “discard,” 5 pcs, 1 typescript of Hanging Fire, poems “Mother Russia”, “Lenin Skating” and “Bronwen’s Earrings”, 1 broadsheet, 1 lecture, 1 bibliography. Title note: Title taken from donor’s folder title, other title information is based on contents of the file. Physical Description: Typescript, annotated (some photocopies). -- Handwritten. Printed.

1989 (the year my son, Adam, was killed in an air crash) 25 July Birthday card with refs to poems read over the phone and sent a month later 31 July note, plus typescript of “Message Machine” (pub’d in “Language in Her Eye” 1990 23 Aug PJW to JFH Includes typecripts of “Imprint 1-4,” “Anaximander” and “Self-City” 1 Sept PJW to JFH, plus “a list of what I think has been publushed in the last two years” 4 Dec PJW to JFH (wonderful letter written after my son’s funeral; PJW sat with Sally Hulcoop and me in the Church) 1990 1 Apr PJW to JFH, plus typescript of Hanging Fire, personally inscribed It contains one poem omitted from printed volume; the title of one poem is different from the printed version; the order of poems in the third 9 section, “Scattered Effects,” is quite different; it lacks three poems subsequently added (and is therefore a great manifestation of the way Webb works/ed to ensure that the volume as a whole was coherent 9 May pc of “The evaporation spiral El Caracol. . .Mexico 15 May PJW to JFH (thanking me for close reading the book “ms”; talk agin of a play she might write; comments on John Metcalf; copy of Trio sold for $400 27 May PJW to JFH, another letter about Hanging Fire, very important. She calls me “the great reader” again and comments on John Metcalf’s Freedom from Culture pub’d by Wm Hoffer, Vancouver 1987 [Pamphlet Box 1 - this published item has been transferred to the general collection] 12 June PJW to JFH Enclosed are revisions of “Mother Russia” and “Lenin Skating,” a copy of “Bronwen’s Earrings”. 11 July PJW to JFH 2 Aug Note enclosed with a CD (Birgit Nielson) birthday present. 4 Dec PJW to JFH, more talk about Hanging Fire 1991 19 Jan PJW to JFH 20 Feb PJW to JFH, re. the publication, finally, of Phyllis Webb and Her Work in the ECW series. “I am very touched by this great devotion to my work 21 June pc “Images of Cornwall” 27 Aug (?) pc, Rembrandt, ref. to postal strike 21 Oct PJW to JFH, a letter about my article on “‘Krakatoa’ and ‘Spiritual Storm’” written for the D.G. Stephens festschrift, Inside the Poem, edited by Bill New, plus a memo from Bill New on the article 1992 2 Mar pc from Australia 14 Mar pc from New Zealand 28 Mar “Grape Vine” -- a broadsheet, published on the anniversary of Woolf’s death, as I pointed out to PJW. 17 Nov “A ‘Discard’ by P.W.” a small watercolour by PJW, made into a card and sent as the anniversary of my son’s birthday and deathday approached (an early Webb painting) 1993 nd Jan PJW to JFH 18 Feb PJW to JFH 22 Mar PJW to JFH, plus a copy of “Poetry and Psychobiography,” a lecture PJW at the Vancouver Institute. Cannot remember why I wasn’t there. May have been at the opera in Seattle or....? 13 Apr PJW to JFH 1 July PJW to JFH, recounts an interesting encounter with Leonard Cohen

f.3 1994-1996 : correspondence. – Jan. 17, 1994-Nov. 15, 1996. – 96 p. – 3 cards. File contains 28 items: 21 letters, 1 card, 2 postcards, 1 poem, 2 articles, 1 outline for a paper. Title note: Title taken from donor’s folder title, other title information is based on contents of the file. Physical Description: Typescripts, annotated (photocopied). – Handwritten.

1994 17 Jan PJW to JFH, plus a poem “The Tree Speaks” (unpublished), written long after PJW said she had given up writing poetry; plus a review of Robin Blaser’s The Holy Forest. 26 Jan PJW to JFH, re. a Glenn Gould CD. Also first reference to Findley’s play on Elizabeth 1 (Elizabeth Rex), not produced until 2000. 7 Apr PJW to JFH. “This is a major letter for me,” meaning that she finds/ found letter-writing more and more difficult 15 Apr A cat card with letter 13 June PJW to JFH, comment on Findley’s The Stillborn Lover 20 July pc “Détail du cercueil du cnacelier Nakhti”

10 30 Aug PJW to JFH 4 Oct PJW to JFH, plus a ts of article for , “might-Have-Been: The Tedious Shores” 26 Oct PJW to JFH, re. an article I wrote on Findley but never submitted partly because PJW says “he might be devastated by it”--it’s about his obession with lies and lying, and his inability to “come out” and write about homosexuality with any kind of directness; also comments on my poem “Looking Ahead” (pub’d in Untuning the Sky, 2000) 14 Nov An outline of the paper PJW wrote for the Blaser Conference 1995 7 Mar PJW to JFH, plus an inscribed copy of “Crannies of Matter” the big paper on Robin Blaser 30 Mar PJW to JFH, in answer to my close reading of her Blaser article: “many thanks. I really can’t say enough.” 17 Apr PJW to JFH, a commentary on my working version of A Speaking Figure, a large book of poems from which I selected 15 poems published as Untuning the Sky in Aug. 2000. Wonderful examples of the poet’s mind at work 8 May PJW to JFH, comments on my essay “Must Socrates Die Again?” which was commissioned by David Lemon for a second issue of Forum edited by Max Wyman--and never brought to fruition, or published. 28 Aug PJW to JFH, a comment on my translation and adaptation of the “Homeric Hymn to Hermes” still unpublished as yet (17 Nov 2000) 23 Sept pc, plus a revised typescript of “Crannies of Matter”--interesting to compare the earlier and later and published versions 5 Oct PJW to JFH, further commentary on the poems in A Speaking Figure 12 Oct PJW to JFH, a continuation of the previous letter (full of great examples of the way in which PJW’s creative mind as poet works) 17 Oct JFH to PJW 22 Dec PJW to JFH, a response to my letter about Nothing But Brush Strokes. A copy of my letter is included. 1996 10 Jan PJW to JFH 26 Jan PJW to JFH, about the impact of Merrill’s book on me--which PJW must have given me for Christmas (The Changing Light at Sandover) 19 Feb PJW to JFH, amongst other things a comment on my Callas lecture delivered to VOS 30 Apr PJW to JFH: “You musn’t die before me, dearest J., because you have to be my litex” 23 June[July?] PJW to JFH, and sent express, presumably for my birthday. So I think PJW simply misdated June for July 10 Oct PJW to JFH, comments on Findley’s You Went Away 15 Nov PJW to JFH

f. 4 1997-2000 : correspondence. – Mar. 2, 1997-Jan. 15, 2000. – 26 p. – 12 cards. File contains 11 letters, 6 cards, 1 “discard,” 4 pcs, I article, 1 copy of The Threepenny Review [located in Pamphlet Box 1 - this published item has been transferred to the general collection]. Title note: Title taken from donor’s folder title, other title information is based on contents of the file. Physical Characteristics: Handwritten. – Typewritten.

1997 11 Mar PJW to JFH, includes reference to G. Bowering on “Phyllis’s Questions” 21 Mar pc (“Cotignac”) from Paris 4 May PJW to JFH, plus a copy The Threepenny Review (69 Spring 97) containing a poem PJW knew I would be interested in seeing 5 June pc (“Snowy Night,” by Shinsu Ito): PJW thinks I wd like it because it obviously “echoes “The Making of a Japanese Print.” She thanks me

11 for the Bartok (complete string quartets) which I had sent for her birthday 1 July PJW to JFH. To accompany an article on ghazals. Refs to the Findley conference, to a Freud article and to PJW’s re-reading of Bridehead Revisited 23 July (?) Birthday card containing a long note. The “this” refers to a copy of Joseph Sobran’s Alias Shakespeare wch PJW sent for my birthday (I was re- reading all of Shakespeare) 17 Sept PJW to JFH, in response to a poem I sent (“Reading the Signs #1?) 5 Nov PJW to JFH. Contains literary executorship matters and a copy of “The Confluence of Imaginations,” PJW’s paper on Findley for the conference 14 Dec card (“Gundestrap Cauldron”), containing letter. Ref. to “the divine quartets” is to the late Beethovens which I had sent as a Christmas present Dec Christmas card containing note 1998 13 Apr PJW to JFH, with an important quotation from Wistowa Szborska’s View With a Grain of Soul, a credo with which PJW identifies 12 July PJW to JFH, refs to painting and problems with the Nat. Library 25 July Birthday card containing note with all kinds of refs 8 Oct PJW to JFH. In response to my close-reading of her Blaser article (?); all kinds of refs to the work I was engaged on (5 lectures on Woolf’s The Waves) and to a satisfactory conclusion to her dealings with the Nat. Lib. 17 Nov a card: “a very early watercolor exercise” by PJW. She is writing to remember the anniversary of my son’s death 1999 21 Jan PJW to JFH, thanking me for Christmas CDs and anticipating a meeting 24 Feb pc (“Coupe de fruits,” Dufy) the reference to “Ingrid” is to Ingrid Tedford, who was, at the time, dying of cancer. She and Phyllis had been close way back in the 60s [the absence of other correspondence for this year puzzles me; and yet I am sure I haven’t thrown anything away. PJW was having more and more trouble writing and using a typewriter: that may (or may not) explain the absence. We also tend to talk more on the telephone nowdays. But the correspondence resumes in 2000. Mystery to me.] 2000 21 Feb PJW to JFH. It came with a copy of Helen Vendler’s article on James Merrill, the poet to whom Phyllis introduced me and whose Changing Light at Sandover has become a major passion of mine (the article is now in my copy of Merrill’s poem) 17 Mar card (flowers), responding to my letter to PJW about the Vendler article 24 Apr pc “Scotland Street School”), thanking me for her birthday present: I picked PJW up at the ferry, drove her into town, we had a lovely long lunch at Le Crocodile, then I drove her back to the ferry. This was what she said she wanted for her birthday--an “in the flesh” meeting 20 Aug PJW to JFH. About my new book, Untuning the Sky 18 Sept PJW to JFH. About one of the two “Phyllis” poems in Untuning the Sky 14 Nov card (“Fleurs de neige,” Matisse) remembering the upcoming anniversary of Adam’s death

f.5 Cards. – 1980-2000. – 24 cards. – 3 gift-tags. File contains: birthday, Christmas and thank-you cards including two hand-painted cards by Phyllis Webb (7 x 9 and 8 x 10 cm.). Title Note: Title taken from donor’s folder title. Physical Characteristics: Handwritten.

Most of these cards cannot be dated (a couple by inside references maybe). I kept them simply because the choice of cards, together with the messages, show how meticulous PJW has been in celebrating the rituals of friendship. Some cards reveal her love of cats; others, her respect of my love of music. Others reveal her sense of humour.

12 f.6 Critical work on PJW. – [1995?]. -- 12 p. File contains a review of Webb’s final volume of verse Nothing But Brushstrokes, as well as drafts and notes. Title Note: Title taken from donor’s folder title. Physical Characteristics: Handwritten. – Typewritten, annotated.

Series II. Jane Rule

Box 3 f.1 Correspondence 1953. – [1953?]-Oct. 12, 1953. – 52 p. – 1 slide. File contains correspondence from Rule to Hulcoop and one slide accompanying letter dated July 27, 1953. Title Note: Title based on contents of file. Physical Description: Handwritten.

f.2 Correspondence 1954. – Feb. 20, 1954-Nov. 14, 1953. – 32 p. File contains correspondence from Rule to Hulcoop. Title Note: Title based on contents of file. Physical Description: Handwritten. – Typescripts.

f.3 Correspondence 1955. – Mar. 9, 1955-Dec. 27, 1955. – 39 p. -- 1 postcard. File contains correspondence from Rule to Hulcoop. Title Note: Title based on contents of file. Physical Description: Handwritten. -- Typescripts.

f.4 Correspondence 1956. – Jan. 8, 1956-Dec. 11, 1956. – 81 p. – 2 cards. File contains correspondence from Rule to Hulcoop. Title Note: Title based on contents of file. Physical Description: Handwritten. -- Typescripts.

f.5 Correspondence 1957-1958. – Nov. 11, 1957-Dec. 26, 1958. – 18 p. File contains correspondence from Rule to Hulcoop. Title Note: Title based on contents of file. Physical Description: Handwritten. – Typescripts.

f.6 Correspondence 1959. – Jan. 1, 1959-Sept. 29, 1959. – 36 p. 1 unopened letter. File contains correspondence from Rule to Hulcoop and includes a hand-drawn map. Title Note: Title based on contents of file. Physical Description: Handwritten. – Hand-drawn

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Box 4b f.1 Correspondence 1960. – Jan. 6, 1960-Dec. 15, 1960. – 49 p. File contains correspondence from Rule to Hulcoop and was originally accompanied by two typescripts of the stories, “Woman Prose Limerick III” (originally attached to letter dated Feb. 11, 1960) and “Your Father and I”. [Typescripts located in Box 4a and are open to consultation] Title Note: Title based on contents of file. Physical Description: Handwritten. – Typescripts.

f.2 Correspondence 1962-1968. – July 7, 1962-Aug. 30, 1968. – 18 p. File contains correspondence from Rule to Hulcoop. Title Note: Title based on contents of file. Physical Description: Handwritten. – Typescripts.

f.3 Correspondence 1980’s. – Dec. 1, 1980-Nov. 25, 1989. – 8 p. File contains correspondence from Rule to Hulcoop. Title Note: Title based on contents of file. Physical Description: Handwritten. – Typescripts.

f.4 Correspondence 1991-2000. – Dec. 16, 1991-Oct. 17, 2000. – 9 p. File contains correspondence from Rule to Hulcoop. Title Note: Title based on contents of file. Physical Description: Typescripts.

f.5 Correspondence 1950-2000. -- [195-]-2000. – 91 p. – 12 cards. File contains correspondence from Rule to Hulcoop originally accompanied by typescripts of the stories, “Marriage is a Way of Life”, “The Easter Tree”, “The Coward”, “Gift Grotesque”, “On Finding a Story”, “The Chosen Two”, “If There Is No Gate”, “My Father’s House” and “Triad”. [Typescripts are located in Box 4a and are open to consultation] Title Note: Title based on contents of file. Physical Description: Handwritten. – Typescripts (some carbons, some photocopies).

Box 4a f.1 Typescripts which accompanied Box 4b f.1. f.2 Typescripts which accompanied Box 4b f.5. f.3 Letters from Helen Sonthoff. – [1956?]-Oct. 24, 1960. – 23 p.

14 File contains correspondence (12 letters) from Helen Sonthoff, Jane Rule’s partner, to Hulcoop and his wife Sally. Title Note: Title taken from donor’s note in file. Physical Description: Handwritten. – Typescripts.

Series III. Various Correspondence Subseries A

Box 4a f.4 Correspondence with Timothy Findley. – Nov. 3, 1981-Dec. 1, 1989. – 30 p. 4 postcards. Title Note: Title taken from donor’s folder title. Physical Description: Typescripts (some carbon copies). -- Handwritten.

Subseries B

Box 5 f.1 Correspondence with David Watmough. – Sept. 2, 1974-1999. – 93 p. File contains correspondence with Watmough as well as typescripts of Watmough’s work titled: “Cornish Satyr”, “The Unwonted Memoirs of Marmeduke Taverner- Thorpe”, “The Protagonist in the Mirror”, “A Sermon for Redwood City United Church”, and “Vancouver Summer Pudding”; also included are two articles on David Watmough “The Perseverence of Davey Bryant” in BC Book World and “The Novel that Never Ends” in Pacific Northwest Review of Books [both articles located in Pamphlet Box 1 - this published item has been transferred to the general collection]]. Title Note: Title based on donor’s folder title. Physical Description: Typescripts, annotated (some photocopies). – Printed. f.2 Class warfare : manuscript / David Watmough. – [19-?]-July 25, 1980. 66 p. – 1 postcard. File contains a handwritten manuscript of the Watmough story, “Class Warfare”. Title Note: Title taken from title page. Physical Description: Handwritten. f.3 Stories. – [1991?]. – 53 p. – 1 audio compact disk. File contains drafts of the following stories by Watmough “A First Death”, “Thank you Siegfried Sasson”, and “The Reluctant Club” which were recorded by him on CD David Watmough Readings in 1991 [the CD, PD-15 located in the audio cabinet]. Title Note: Title based on contents of file. Physical Description: Typescripts (photocopied)

Subseries C. Miscellaneous Correspondence f.4 Miscellaneous Correspondence. – Oct. 7, 1966-Sept. 11, 1994. – 24 p. –2 postcards File contains correspondence from, Northrop Frye, David Lodge, Michael Ondaatje, Miriam Waddington, and an elegy for written by Hulcoop.

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Series IV. Poetry by John Hulcoop f.5. Three Ring Circus Songs. – [196-]. – 4 cm of textual record. File contains draft material for Three Ring Circus Songs (1968) John Hulcoop’s first published book of poems: including a large number of the manuscript drafts and the typescripts (which include, in many cases, annotations regarding the separate publication of these poems), plus some loose unbound sheets of the first edition. Title Note: Title taken from donor’s folder title. Physical Description: Typescripts. – Printed. -- Handwritten.

f.6. Untuning the Sky. – [1988]-2000. – 3.5 cm of textual record. File includes the draft material for Hulcoop’s second published book of poems, Untuning the Sky (1999): including some manuscript drafts, a large number of computer typed drafts, and the final typescript of the book. Title Note: Title taken from donor’s file title. Physical Description: Handwritten. – Typescripts, annotated.

2nd Accession

Series V. Sally Hulcoop

Box 6 - RESTRICTED f. 1. Correspondence. – 1968-2016, predominant 1987-1995. – 3 cm of textual record. File contains correspondence between Sally Hulcoop (John Hulcoop’s ex-wife) and the following individuals: Phyllis Webb, Jane Rule and Timothy Findley. Includes letters, postcards, and cards. Also includes several poems and essays by Phyllis Webb and Jane Rule. Restrictions on access and use: Correspondence is RESTRICTED. Poems and essays are open for consultation and are located in Box 7, f.1.

Box 7 f. 1 Poems and essays from Sally Hulcoop correspondence. – 1982, 1988, 1994, 1997, 2007. – 0.5 cm of textual record.

File contains poems I, Daniel; Messages; The Cat Guarding the Gate; Ambrosia; Krakatoa and Spiritual Storm; and an essay titled Might-Have-Been: The Tedious Shores by Phyllis Webb. Also includes a bundle of poems by Webb: There Are The Poems; Miasma; Evensong; Seeking Shape, Seeking Meaning; As Rare as Hen’s Teeth; Sliding Doors; The Minds of the Poet; Eidetic Image; Cornflowers & Saffron Robes Belittle the Effort; On the Wave of My Anger; Gate Crashing; The Mills of God; Ignis Fatuus; Hanging Fire; Long Suffering. Also includes an essay by Jane Rule titled Other People’s Children: Jonathan and Adam. Arrangement Note: The poems and essays were removed from the Sally Hulcoop co

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Series I. Phyllis Webb

Box 7 f.2. Phyllis Webb Material: Correspondence. – 1964, 1966, 1970-1971, 1999, 2001. – 1 cm of textual record. File contains 8 letters and 1 postcard, between John Hulcoop and Phyllis Webb. Includes a copy of Blake’s Shakespeare by W. Moelwyn Merchant with a note from Webb.

Series III. Various Correspondence Subseries C. Miscellaneous Correspondence f.3. Miscellaneous letters. – 1956, 2 July [1961?], 21 Jan. 1963, Sept. 2002. – 1 cm of textual record. File contains letters from David Lodge, Helen Sonthoff, and William Whitehead.

Series III. Various Correspondence Subseries B. David Watmough f.4 Correspondence with David Watmough. – 12 Aug. 1977. – 0.25 cm of textual record. File contains a letter from David Watmough.

Series II. Jane Rule f.5 Correspondence with Jane Rule. – 22 Apr. 1971, 2001-2002, Sept. 2004, 1 Dec. 2005, 2007. – 2 cm of textual record. – 18 photographs: b&w.

File contains letters and cards. Also contains photographs of John Hulcoop and Jane Rule. Arrangement Note: Photographs are located in box 11.

Series I: Phyllis Webb f. 6 Correspondence with Phyllis Webb. – 1981, 1995, 2012-2014, predominant 2013. – 1 cm of textual record.

File includes letters and cards between John Hulcoop and Phyllis Webb. f. 7 Correspondence regarding Hulcoop’s Webb works. – 3 Jan. 1966, [197-?], 13 Aug. 1971, 1983, 14 Mar. 1990, Jun. 2013. – 0.5 cm of textual record.

File contains correspondence with Kevin Williams from Talonbooks, Robert Lecker and Jack David from ECW Press, and Northrop Frye.

17 f.8 Peacock Blue research file: Reviews and articles and unpublished poems. – 1967, [ca. 1982], 1990. – 1 cm of textual record.

File includes an unpublished poem by Webb titled “There’s Not Only One Way to Do It”, and four of Hulcoop’s reviews of various Webb poetry collections. f. 9 The uncollected poems in tentative chronological order. – [ca. 2014]. – 0.5 cm of textual record.

File includes the uncollected Phyllis Webb poems for Peacock Blue. Title note: Title taken from donor’s folder title f. 10 Collected poems by Phyllis Webb. – 7 Aug. 1978, 2013. – 1.5 cm of textual record.

File includes copy of Hulcoop’s contract with Talon Books for editing and introduction to Peacock Blue. File also includes a selection of Phyllis Webb’s collected poems for Peaock Blue and Hulcoop’s research and editorial notes. Title note: Title taken from donor’s folder title f. 11 Frey bibliography. – 1981. – 1 cm of textual record.

File includes National Library of Canada literary manuscript guide, correspondence with Cecelia Frey, Hulcoop’s editorial notes on Cecelia Frey’s annotated bibliography of Phyllis Webb, and National Library archival finding aid to the Phyllis Webb fonds with Hulcoop’s notes. Title note: title taken from donor’s folder title f. 12 Biographical. – [n.d.]. – 0.5 cm of textual record.

File includes biographical notes on Phyllis Webb and list of questions tilted “Webb diggings”. Title note: Title taken from donor’s folder title f. 13 Individual poems and notes. – 1951-1986, 1990-1992, 1994, 2001, 2007 – 4 cm of textual record.

File includes potential poems and Hulcoop’s editorial notes for Peacock Blue. Title note: Title taken from donor’s folder title f. 14 Webb collected poems: Early work notes. – [ca. 2013]. – 1 cm of textual record.

File includes Hulcoop’s early work notes for Peacock Blue. Title note: Title taken from donor’s folder title f. 15 Text to Phyllis Webb Collected Poems. – [ca. 2014]. – 4.5 cm of textual record.

File includes manuscript draft of Peacock Blue: The Collected Poems of Phyllis

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Box 8 f. 1 Drafts of the introduction to Peacock Blue. – 2013. – 1.5 cm of textual record.

File includes drafts of the introduction Hulcoop wrote for Peacock Blue, as well as drafts of the acknowledgements. f. 2 Cards. – [ca. 1983], 1995, 2001-2002, 2004, 2006-2010, 2013, 2015. – 3 cm of textual records.

File includes cards and postcards to Hulcoop from Phyllis Webb. Title note: Title taken from donor’s folder title. f. 3 Letters. – 2010-2013. – 3 cm of textual record.

File includes letters to Hulcoop from Phyllis Webb. Title note: Title taken from donor’s folder title. f. 4 Phyllis Webb material. – 2001-2009. – 3 cm of textual record. – 10 photographs: col.

File includes correspondence between Hulcoop and Phyllis Webb and photographs. Also includes a 2002 copy of Trek featuring an article by Hulcoop on Webb, and an advertisement for the exhibit Phyllis Webb; Elemental held at the National Library of Canada. Title note: Title taken from donor’s folder title. Arrangement Note: Photographs are located in box 12 f.5 Annotated books. – 1956, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1980, 1982, 1984. – 9 volumes.

File includes 9 published monographs that contain Hulcoop’s annotations: The Sea is Also a Garden: Poems by Phyllis Webb. Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1962; Wilson’s Bowl by Phyllis Webb. Toronto: Coach House Books, 1980; Water and Light: Ghazals and Anti Ghazals by Phyllis Webb. Toronto: Coach House Books, 1984; Naked Poems by Phyllis Webb. Vancouver: Periwinkle Press, 1965; Selected Poems: The Vision Tree by Phyllis Webb. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1982; Even Your Right Eye by Phyllis Webb. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1956; Sunday Water: Thirteen Anti Ghazals by Phyllis Webb. Lantzville: Island Writing Series, 1982; Selected Poems: 1954 – 1965 by Phyllis Webb. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1971; Talking by Phyllis Webb. Dunvegan: Quadrant Editions, 1982.

Box 9 f. 1 Canadian Writers and Their Works: Phyllis Webb. – 1987-1988. – 1.25 cm of textual record.

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File includes correspondence with ECW Press, draft of text on Phyllis Webb for Canadian Writers and Their Works (CWTW) with annotations, Hulcoop’s handwritten notes, uncorrected and corrected copies of the text for CWTW. f. 2 Galley for CWTW. – 1990. – 1 cm of textual record.

File includes galley proof of text for Phyllis Webb essay in CWTW. Also includes corrigenda and handwritten notes. f. 3 Phyllis Webb articles by other authors. – 1964, 1970, 1973, 1986, 1988, 2012. – 2 cm of textual record.

File contains copies of articles about Webb written by various authors, with annotations by Hulcoop. File also contains pages of handwritten notes. f. 4 Corrected Webb essay for CWTW. – 1989. – 1 cm of textual record.

File contains Xeroxed copy of the corrected Webb essay with corrigenda and Hulcoop’s handwritten notes. File also contains some correspondence with ECW press about the Webb essay for CWTW. f. 5 Phyllis Webb entry for DLB. – [ca. 1985]. – 2 cm of textual record.

File contains handwritten and typeset drafts of the text for Webb essay in Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB). Also includes correspondence from McGill University regarding this project and a style sheet for the DLB. f. 6 Notes/ideas for “works” section of Webb monograph. – 1986-1987. – 1 cm of textual record.

File contains handwritten notes for CWTW. Title note: Title taken from donor’s folder title. f. 7 Working file. – 1985-1987. – 1 cm of textual record.

File contains articles about Phyllis Webb, correspondence with National Library of Canada regarding Webb material for citations, handwritten course notes, notes about costs associated to the CWTW publication and correspondence regarding CWTW. f. 8 Notes and drafts of review of Water and Light. – 1985. – 2 cm of textual record.

File contains correspondence, notes and drafts of Hulcoop’s review of Phyllis Webb’s Water and Light. f. 9 Notes and draft of review of Hanging Fire. – 1990. – 0.5 cm of textual record.

File contains handwritten notes and handwritten draft of Hulcoop’s review of Phyllis

20 Webb’s Hanging Fire. Also contains newspaper clipping. f. 10 Notes and draft review of The Vision Tree. – 1983. – 0.5 cm of textual record.

File contains handwritten notes and Hulcoop’s draft review of Webb’s The Vision Tree. f. 11 Notes on Naked Poems. – 1964, 1978, 1985-1986. – 1 cm of textual record.

File contains Hulcoop’s seminar notes on Webb’s Naked Poems. File also contains annotated photocopy of Naked Poems, and individual copies of Webb’s poems, some of which were not published. f. 12 Notes regarding Webb “works” section. – [ca. 1985]. – 1 cm of textual record.

File contains search notes. Title note: Title taken from donor’s folder title. f. 13 Manuscript drafts of Phyllis Webb section for CWTW. – 1986. – 2.5 cm of textual record.

File contains handwritten drafts of Webb section for CWTW.

Box 10 f. 1 Drafts of “Webb’s Book of Revelation”. – 1991. – 2 cm of textual record.

File contains drafts of the text for “Webb’s Book of Revelation” published in Inside the Poem, ed. W.H. New (1992). f. 2 Proof of “Webb’s Book of Revelation”. – 1992. – 1 cm of textual record.

Fil includes proof of Hulcoop’s essay, including correspondence from the publishers. File also contains handwritten notes. f. 3 Typescript of Webb essay for CWTW. – 1987. – 4 cm of textual record.

File includes typescript of Hulcoop’s essay on Webb for CWTW. Includes a proofed and corrected version. File also includes notes and works cited for the publication. f. 4 Drafts of “Webb’s Book of Revelation”. – [ca. 1991]. – 1 cm of textual record.

File include typescript drafts of the text for “Webb’s Book of Revelation”, published in Inside the Poem, ed. W.H. New (1992). f. 5 Index cards with notes. – [ca. 198?]. – 4 cm of textual record.

File contains index cards of notes related to Phyllis Webb and poetry.

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