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Stephen Michael Tomaske Memorial Collection of Thomas Pynchon: Finding Aid http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89p36d6 No online items Stephen Michael Tomaske Memorial Collection of Thomas Pynchon: Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Julie Yamashita and Natalie Russell, February 24, 2009. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Manuscripts Department 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2129 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org © 2009 The Huntington Library. All rights reserved. Stephen Michael Tomaske mssTomaske papers 1 Memorial Collection of Thomas Pynchon: Finding Aid Overview of the Collection Title: Stephen Michael Tomaske Memorial Collection of Thomas Pynchon Dates (inclusive): approximately 1392-2001 Bulk dates: 1770-2001 Collection Number: mssTomaske papers Creator: Tomaske, Stephen Michael. Extent: Approximately 2,500 pieces. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscripts Department 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2129 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org Abstract: The collection contains biographical research materials related to author Thomas Pynchon (1937-) collected by librarian and Pynchon scholar Stephen Tomaske (1956-2002). Many of the documents are photocopies of originals obtained from various libraries and institutions. Language: English. Access Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department, with the following restrictions: • Tomaske obtained a copy from the Ford Foundation of Pynchon’s autobiography, submitted to the Ford Foundation with a grant application. The material was later sealed by the Foundation, who asked that Tomaske return his copies. He did so. Transcriptions of the text in full or in part have been redacted and are to be sealed until January 2, 2040, in accordance with the Ford Foundation’s restriction on the original material (Box 10, Folder 1 [redacted]; Box 22, Folders 7 and 9 [sealed]). Other correspondence with the Ford Foundation and application materials are not sealed. • The correspondence between Stephen Tomaske and Luc Herman, Tomaske’s taped interview of Herman, and Herman’s notes are sealed for Mr. Herman’s lifetime (Box 21, Folder 7 and 26, Box 22, Folder 6, and Box 25, Folder 10). • The correspondence between Stephen Tomaske and Terry Reilly is sealed until January 2, 2033 (Box 21, Folders 14 and 38). For more information, contact Reader Services. Publication Rights Use Restrictions: • The contents of Box 20 (2), facsimile materials from Brandeis University, are not to be copied or reproduced in any way and are to be used for reference only. If you wish to obtain copies of this information please contact: Director Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department Brandeis University 415 South St. Waltham, MA 02454-9110 http://lts.brandeis.edu/research/archives-speccoll/index.html • The contents of Box 20 (3), facsimile materials from Columbia University, are not to be copied or reproduced in any way and are to be used for reference only. If you wish to obtain copies of this information please contact: Rare Book & Manuscript Library Butler Library 6th Fl. East 535 West 114th St. New York, NY 10027 [email protected] Telephone: (212) 854-5153 Fax: (212) 854-1365 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/rbml/index.html • The contents of Box 20 (4), facsimile materials from the Harry Ransom Research Center, at the University of Texas, are not to be copied or reproduced in any way and are to be used for reference only. If you wish to obtain Stephen Michael Tomaske mssTomaske papers 2 Memorial Collection of Thomas Pynchon: Finding Aid copies of this information please contact: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center The University of Texas at Austin P.O. Box 7219 Austin, TX 78713-7219 http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/ • The contents of Box 20 (5), facsimile materials from the Rockefeller Archive Center, are not to be copied or reproduced in any way and are to be used for reference only. If you wish to obtain copies of this information please contact: The Rockefeller Archive Center 15 Dayton Avenue Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591 http://archive.rockefeller.edu/ • The contents of Box 20 (6), facsimile materials from the University of Missouri, are not to be copied or reproduced in any way and are to be used for reference only. If you wish to obtain copies of this information please contact: Western Historical Manuscript Collection - Columbia 23 Ellis Library University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri 65201-5149 USA voice 573-882-6028 fax 573-884-0345 [email protected] http://whmc.umsystem.edu/ • The contents of Box 20 (7), facsimile materials from the Linton R. Massey Papers, Box 3, Accession 6271-ai, at the University of Virginia, are not to be copied or reproduced in any way and are to be used for reference only. If you wish to obtain copies of this information please contact: Director, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library University of Virginia P.O. Box 400110 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4110 434-924-4968 fax http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/ • The contents of Box 20 (8), miscellaneous facsimile materials from unknown sources, are not to be copied or reproduced in any way and are to be used for reference only. The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher. Preferred Citation [Identification of item]. Stephen Michael Tomaske Memorial Collection of Thomas Pynchon, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Provenance Gift of Gordon Stuart Tomaske and Lorna Mae Miller, September 2002 and February 2009 (Pynchon Notes Vol. 54-55). Separated Materials The following books and periodicals can be found in the Rare Books Department or Reference Library. • 12 from the sixties / selected and introduced by Richard Kostelanetz. New York : Dell • Publishing Co., Inc., 750 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017, c1967 • Against the day / Thomas Pynchon. New York : Penguin Press, 2006. Ayisha / by Helen Noga. New York : Arbor House, c1972. • Best modern short stories : selected from the Saturday evening post. 1st ed. New York : Curtis Books, [c1965] • Black humor / edited by Bruce Jay Friedman. New York : Bantam Books, c1965. • A companion to The crying of lot 49 / J. Kerry Grant. Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1994. • The crying of lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon. Bantam Windstone ed. New York : Bantam, 1982, c1966. • The crying of lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon. Bantam ed. New York : Bantam Books, 1967, c1966. • The crying of lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon. 1st Perennial fiction library ed. New York : Perennial Library, 1986, c1966. Stephen Michael Tomaske mssTomaske papers 3 Memorial Collection of Thomas Pynchon: Finding Aid • The crying of lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon. 1st Perennial fiction library ed. New York : Perennial Library, [1990], c1966. • Gravity's rainbow / Thomas Pynchon. New York : Viking Press, [1973] • Gravity's rainbow / Thomas Pynchon. London : Vintage, 1995, c1973. • Gravity's rainbow / Thomas Pynchon. New York : Penguin Books, 1987, c1973. • Gravity's rainbow / Thomas Pynchon. Bantam ed. New York : Bantam Books, 1974, c1973. • Gravity's rainbow. 4th printing New York : Viking Press, c1973. • A Gravity's rainbow companion : sources and contexts for Pynchon's novel / by Steven Weisenburger. Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c1988. • Lineland : mortality and mercy on the internet's [email protected] discussion list / by Jules Siegel, Christine Wexler, et al. 1st ed. Philadelphia : Intangible Assets Manufacturing, c1997. • Low-lands / Thomas Pynchon. [London] : Aloes Books, 1978, c1960. • Mason & Dixon / Thomas Pynchon. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 1997. • Mindful pleasures : essays on Thomas Pynchon / edited by George Levine and David Leverenz. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, 1976. • Mortality and mercy in Vienna / Thomas Pynchon. London : Aloes Books, [197-?] • Nelson Algren's own book of lonesome monsters. [First printing] [New York] : Published by Bernard Geis Associates : distributed by Random House, [1962?] • New world writing. [New York] : New American Library of World Literature [etc.], -1964. • Positively 4th street : the lives and times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña / David Hajdu. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. • The Pulitzer prizes and the National Book Awards for fiction, 1950-1965. [S.l.] : [s.n.] 1966. • Pynchon Malta and Wittgenstein / P. Bianchi, A. Cassola, P. Serracino Inglott ; with a preface by E. Mendelson. [Malta] : Malta University Publishers, c1994. • Pynchon notes. Middletown, Conn. : J.M. Kraft and K. Tololyan, c1979- . v.10 (Oct. 1982)- v.11 (Feb. 1983), v.14 (Feb. 1984)- v.44/45 (Spring 1999) • The secret integration / Thomas Pynchon. London : Aloes Books, 1980. • Signs and symptoms : Thomas Pynchon and the contemporary world / Peter L. Cooper. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1983. • Slow learner / Thomas Pynchon. Bantam Windstone ed. Toronto ; New York : Bantam, 1985, c1984. • Slow learner : early stories / Thomas Pynchon. [1984] • Slow learner : early stories / Thomas Pynchon. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c1984. • The small rain / Thomas Pynchon. London : Aloes Books, [1982] Superfiction : or, The American story transformed : an anthology / edited by
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