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Colin Fletcher Papers MS 17 1 Colin Fletcher Papers

Collection number: MS 17

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Descriptive Summary Title: Colin Fletcher papers Dates: 1900-2007 Dates: (bulk 1960-2000) Collection number: MS 17 Creator: Fletcher, Colin Collection Size: 169 half cartons Repository: University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library. Special Collections and Archives Santa Cruz, California 95064 Abstract: This collection includes manuscripts and drafts of both Colin Fletcher's published and unpublished material, personal and business correspondence, scrapbooks and biographical material, photographs, slides & maps related to his travels and writings, as well as some audio media and realia. Physical location: Collection stored off-site at NRLF: Advance notice is required for access. Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English Access Collection open for research. Publication Rights Literary rights are gifted to the Regents, but managed by literary executor Carl Brandt, of Brandt and Hochman Literary Agents, New York. Preferred Citation Colin Fletcher Papers. MS 17. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz. Acquisition Information Gift of Colin Fletcher, 1994, and the estate of Colin Fletcher, 2008, 2010 Processing Information This collection has been sorted but only minimally processed. Biography Colin Evan Boulton Fletcher was born in Cardiff, Wales on March 14, 1922. He was educated in England and served for six years in the Royal Marines, advancing from Marine to Captain during World War II. In 1946 he married his first wife, Sonia Mary Savage, in Bexhill, England. Together they managed a hotel in Kenya from 1947 to 1948, but in February 1951 the marriage ended in divorce, after Mr. Fletcher had already moved on to become a farmer. In July of 1952 he left Kenya to help with surveying and road building in Southern Rhodesia. He then returned to England, and while working for an export company accompanied a shipment of cattle to Canada, where he stayed on, moving to a cabin in Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. He worked as a geologist's assistant in Canada until September 9, 1956, when he entered the United States and moved south to California.

Colin Fletcher Papers MS 17 2 One of his first jobs in San Francisco was acting as Santa Claus in the City of Paris department store, something he already had experience doing in Kenya and had enjoyed immensely. He soon found janitorial work at a San Francisco hospital, but from February of 1958 on he considered himself a professional writer. He had already been writing many articles and stories for various publications, even in Africa, but in 1958 he walked the length of California and the journey resulted in his first full-length book, The Thousand Mile Summer. He was briefly married a second time in 1959 to Thelma Iveagh Mary Brad. From 1962 through the autumn of 1971 he lived in Berkeley, attending at least one class at the University of California before turning to writing as a full-time occupation, on the way to becoming a best-selling author of ten books. His most famous book, The Man Who Walked Through Time, is based on the trek he completed in 1963, when he became the first person, by himself and all in one go, to walk the length of Grand Canyon National Park. In late 1971 he moved to Carmel Valley, California, some 125 miles to the south, where he found a modest home above the valley and bordering the Ventana Wilderness to serve as a home base for his extensive travels. By this time he was considered "the father of modern backpacking" and an American folk hero. In 2001 he was hit by a car while walking near his home, and although he was in excellent shape, he never completely recovered, and died six years later (in June of 2007) as a result of his injuries. Besides his 10 published books, there are 4 unpublished books and hundreds of articles and stories, as well as an autobiographical manuscript he had worked on for years, but which never got beyond covering his childhood. The successive editions of The Complete Walker remain definitive works in the history of backpacking. Title: The Thousand Mile Summer, Date: 1964 Title: The Man Who Walked Through Time, Date: 1968 Title: The Complete Walker (1st ed.), Date: 1968 Title: The Winds of Mara, Date: 1973 Title: The New Complete Walker, Date: 1974 Title: The Man from the Cave, Date: 1981 Title: The Complete Walker III, Date: 1984 Title: The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher, Date: 1989 Title: River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea, Date: 1997 Title: The Complete Walker IV, Date: 2001 Scope and Content of Collection This collection includes correspondence, business papers, notes, drafts and manuscripts of published and unpublished works, scrapbooks, maps, slides, audiotapes and photographs related to Fletcher's travels and writings. The collection is divided into 7 series: Biographical; Correspondence; Writings (monographs, short stories and articles, unpublished manuscripts, notebooks, and literary miscellany); Media; Maps; Images (slides, photographs and negatives); and Realia. Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. Fletcher , Colin--Archives Backpacking Hiking Grand Canyon (Ariz.) California--Description and travel

Colin Fletcher Papers MS 17 3 Separated Material Mr. Fletcher's personal books (including those written by himself) and his personal copy of Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang, have been cataloged separately. They are available through the library's online catalog.

boxes 1-4, 133, Series 1 Biographical, circa 1940-2000, or no date 167 Physical Description: 6 boxes Series Scope and Content Summary This series contains material related to Mr. Fletcher's personal life, and interests not necessarily related to his writing activities, as well as awards he received.

box 1 Fletcher family genealogy, travel ephemera, passports, letters of recommendation, biography, circa 1950-2000 box 2 Desk and wall calendars, writing timetable, 1960-1972 box 3 Calendars, house papers, travel material, 1971-2000 box 4 Travel material, Carmel Valley material, West Buckland School, divorce documents, mining companies information for shareholders, 1980-2000 box 133 Awards, 1988, or no date box 167 Notebooks, personal miscellany, no date boxes 5-17 Series 2 Correspondence, circa 1953-2004, or no date Physical Description: 6 boxes Series Scope and Content Summary This series contains the correspondence isolated by Mr. Fletcher himself. There is much more to be found mixed in with the writings files, when the letters are concerned specifically with a book or other writing project.

box 5 Correspondents A-E, incl. Audio Press, Backpacker Magazine, Explorers Club, fan mail, circa 1964-2000 box 6 Correspondents F-L, incl. Fort Ord closure, Glen Canyon Environmental Impact Statement, Grand Canyon (movie), Hatton Canyon Freeway, circa 1972-1998 box 7 Correspondents L-O, incl. "Politicians", Outdoor Magazine, Outdoor Retailer, circa 1967-2002 box 8 Correspondents P-S, incl. the Sierra Club, rejection slips, notes from publixhers, circa 1953-2001 box 9 Correspondents S-W, incl. Space flight, Vintage Editions, F. F. Williams (father), circa 1965-2003 box 10 F.F. Williams (father), World War II Commando Unit & "F Troop", circa 1932-1999 box 11-14 Unsorted letters, 1954-1998 box 11 1954-1975 box 12 1976-1984 box 13 1985-1992 box 14 1992-1998 box 15 Christmas cards, Get Well cards, 1999-2004, or no date box 16-17 Fan mail, circa 1964-2004 boxes 18-140, 166 Series 3 Writings, circa 1949-2001, or no date Physical Description: 123 boxes Scope and Content Note Contains research notes, manuscripts, typescripts, "propaganda" and post-production correspondence, proofs, and other material related to Mr. Fletcher's fiction and non-fiction writings. Arrangement Arranged following Mr. Fletcher's files, but further divided into three subseries: monographs, shorter works, and unpublished material, including autobiographical manuscripts.

Colin Fletcher Papers MS 17 4 Series 3 Writings, circa 1949-2001, or no date Subseries 1 Monographs, circa 1958-2000, or no date

boxes 18-87, Subseries 1 Monographs, circa 1958-2000, or no date 89-116, 131, 134 Physical Description: 98 boxes Subseries Scope and Content Summary Contains material related to the writing and production of Mr. Fletcher's published monographs. Arrangement Arranged chronologically by title, except for The Complete Walker, where all four editions are arranged together chronologically.

box 18 The Thousand-Mile Summer - Typescript with corrections, notes, possible titles, no date box 19 The Thousand-Mile Summer - Typescripts "1", "2", "The Walk" and "Off The Road" with corrections, notes, correspondence, circa 1959-1964 box 20 The Thousand-Mile Summer and "Off The Road" - Clean typescripts, royalty statements, correspondence, circa 1958-2000 box 21 Lonesome Road [ The Thousand-Mile Summer] - Typescript manuscript with corrections, notes, circa 1961 box 22 Lonesome Road [ The Thousand-Mile Summer] - Typescript manuscript pages with corrections, notes, circa 1961 box 23 Lonesome Road [ The Thousand-Mile Summer] - typescript manuscript with corrections, notes, paperback subsidiary rights, retail sales, circa 1961-1987 box 24 The Man Who Walked Through Time - Manuscript pages with notes, corrections, no date box 25 Man Who Walked Through Time - Manuscript and typescript pages with notes, corrections, circa 1964 box 26 The Man Who Walked Through Time - Typescript with corrections, notes, circa 1964 box 27 The Man Who Walked Through Time - Typescript pages with corrections, notes, circa 1964 box 28 The Man Who Walked Through Time - Poster, typescript pages with corrections, notes, circa 1964-1980 box 29 The Man Who Walked Through Time - Typescript with corrections, notes, post publication correspondence, circa 1964-1988 box 30 Book of Walking [ The Complete Walker] - Manuscript notes, diary entries, research, planning, reviews, circa 1964-1973 box 31 Book of Walking [ The Complete Walker] - Manuscript pages with notes, corrections, circa 1964-1970 box 32 Book of Walking [ The Complete Walker] - Correspondence, outlines, manuscript pages with corrections, notes, 1964-1968, or no date box 33 Book of Walking [ The Complete Walker] - Manuscript with corrections, notes, copy 2 of typescript, no date box 34 Book of Walking or The Complete Walker - Galley proofs, copy 3 of typescript, circa 1968-1969 box 35 The Complete Walker - Manuscript pages and typescript with corrections, post-publication material, circa 1968-1973 box 36 The Complete Walker - Galley proofs, 1st edition and revised 1st edition, annotated, circa 1968 box 37 The Complete Walker - Galley proofs, revised first edition and marked set, circa 1968 box 38 The New Complete Walker - Fan mail, ideas from readers, post-publicity, propaganda, reviews, subsidiary rights, 1969-1984 box 39 Complete Walker II [ New Complete Walker] - Correspondence; research on food, life vests, battery life, sleepings, and including " A Structural Analysis of Selected Backpack Frames" by Ron Barstad; sources, water needs, typescript pages with corrections, 1972-1974

Colin Fletcher Papers MS 17 5 Series 3 Writings, circa 1949-2001, or no date Subseries 1 Monographs, circa 1958-2000, or no date

box 40 Complete Walker II [ New Complete Walker] - Final corrected typescript, notes, circa 1974-1975 box 41 Complete Walker II [ New Complete Walker] - Grand Canyon notes (photocopies), correspondence, research, final galley proofs, 2 annotated copies of 1971 edition, circa 1968-1975 box 42 Complete Walker II [ New Complete Walker] - Research material (gear catalogs), circa 1963-1973 box 43 The Complete Walker III - Research backup and notes, correspondence, circa 1975-1983 box 44 The Complete Walker III - Research backup & correspondence, circa 1976-1983 box 45 The Complete Walker III - Transcriptions of research tapes, research backup & correspondence, circa 1981-1985 box 46 The Complete Walker III - Research material, backups, notes & correspondence, circa 1983-1985 box 47 The Complete Walker III - Working papers, correspondence, illustrations, jacket & index, pre-publication, promotion, circa 1974-1998 box 48-51 The Complete Walker III - Working papers, manuscript pages with corrections and edits, circa 1983-1985 box 52 The Complete Walker III - Annotated typescript, Betty's typed index, circa 1983-1985, and no date box 53 The Complete Walker III - Annotated typescripts, circa 1983-1985 box 54 The Complete Walker III - Typescript & galley proofs, circa 1983-1985 box 55 The Complete Walker III - Final typescript, circa 1983 box 56 The Complete Walker III - Annotated manuscript photocopies, revised proofs, circa 1983 box 57 The Complete Walker III - Working galley and revised proofs, no date box 58 The Complete Walker III - Working galley proofs, previous editions with corrections and edits, circa 1983 box 59 The Complete Walker IV - Manuscript & Acknowledgemnts, no date box 60 The Complete Walker IV - Draft #2 & notes, no date box 61 The Complete Walker IV - Typescript, Draft #3, circa 2000-2001 box 62 The Complete Walker IV - Typescript, final draft, correspondence, circa 1985-2001 box 63 The Complete Walker IV - Correspondence; Africa - The Winds of Mara - Pre-publication, illustrations, correspondence, manuscript with corrections, circa 1967-2001 box 64 Research materials - Africa [ The Winds of Mara] - Maps, trip diaries, Mountain Travel, Inc. correspondence, circa 1960-1973 box 65 Africa [ The Winds of Mara]- Manuscript, notes, notebook, circa 1967[?]-1973 box 66-67 Africa [ The Winds of Mara]- Manuscript with corrections, notes, circa 1970-1973, and no date box 68 Africa [ The Winds of Mara] - Original artwork, Flor Pereañez, Tom Harris, manuscript with corrections, & notes, propaganda, post-publication; The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - articles, propaganda, post-publication, circa 1966-1985, and no date box 69-70 The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - "Dead working papers Box II" - Manuscript pages with corrections, notes, research, circa 1975-1981 box 71 The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - "Dead working papers Box II" & "Trunkman - Dead Papers" - Manuscript pages with corrections, notes, research, circa 1975-1981 box 72 The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - "Dead Papers" - Manuscript pages with corrections, notes, research, circa 1975-1981 box 73-74 The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - "Dead Papers - Trunkman III" - Manuscript pages with corrections, notes, research, circa 1975-1981 box 75 The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - "Dead working papers Box II" - Manuscript pages with corrections, notes, research, circa 1975-1981 box 76-77 The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - Working papers - Manuscript pages with corrections, notes, research, circa 1975-1981

Colin Fletcher Papers MS 17 6 Series 3 Writings, circa 1949-2001, or no date Subseries 1 Monographs, circa 1958-2000, or no date

box 78 The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - Working papers - Revised manuscript pages with corrections, notes, circa 1975-1981 box 79 The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - "Typescript photocopy (end), memo pad, "Chronology - Bill's Life," pre-publication, map for book, "Appendices", circa 1975-1981 box 80-81 The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - Working papers - Manuscript pages with corrections, notes, research, circa 1975-1981 box 82 The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - Working papers - Manuscript pages with corrections, notes, research, photographs, circa 1975-1981 box 83 The Man from the Cave, 1989 ed. [Trunkman] [?] - Working papers - "Desert", circa 1987-1989 box 84 The Man from the Cave, 1989 ed. [Trunkman] [?] - Working papers - Manuscript pages with corrections, notes, research, photographs, circa 1987-1989 box 85 The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - "T'man IV" working papers, circa 1975-1981 box 86 The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - "T'man IV" working papers, typescript photocopy, circa 1975-1981 box 87 The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - Galleys, proofs, circa 1975-1981 box 89 The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher [SWCF] - Pre-publication & publicity, "Walking With Colin", circa 1980-1989 box 90 The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher [SWCF] - Typescript, master set, "foul" proofs, circa 1987-1989 box 91-94 The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher [SWCF] - Typescript, proofs with corrections, notes, circa 1987-1989 box 95 River - CF's files, "Logistics & Schedule", "Clothing", "Equipment" notes, etc., no date box 96 River - CF's files, "RB - Researched Material", notes, etc., no date box 97 River - CF's files - River Rafting - Permits, map sources, food information, "READ", photography, Green & Colorado Rivers log, Mississippi pre-river rafting, American Airlines (Jeff Peachey), no date box 98 River - Articles, notes, location information, research materials, 2nd Montana trip, "River R7", "River R10", "River 19 RN", river rafting - Colorado, correspondence, photographs, post-publication, circa 1968-1999 box 99 River - Research material re: Colorado River & Grand Canyon, correspondence & notes, circa 1988-1997 box 100-112 River - Manuscript pages, typescript pages with corrections, etc. [original order], no date box 113 River - Final galleys (corrected), promotion, memo pad, uncorrected proof, Knopf material, circa 1996-1997 box 114 River - Front matter & Chapters 1-22 typescripts, Bank Copy [final copy], promotion, circa 1995-1997 box 115 River - Main notes from Colorado R3.1 Writings: River Trip, 1989-1990 box 116 River - Colorado Raft Trip [RBTAPE19-35] Tape Transcription, manuscript with corrections & notes, circa 1989-1990 box 131 "Green World - WWCII - River" - Notes, correspondence, old Walking notes, circca 1971-1987 box 134 "Papers of Grace" [re: The Man From the Cave, Grace O. Mazeris - correspondence, legal documents, "Trails & trials" by Ruby Young & Grace O. Mazeris, writings, clippings; The Man From the Cave: A Play by George Crowe - draft, script, correspondence, circa 1940-1951, 1984

boxes 18, 98-99, Subseries 2 Short Stories, Articles and Miscellany, circa 1949-2000, or no date 118-133, 135, Physical Description: 22 boxes 138, 166 Subseries Scope and Content Summary Contains manuscripts, notes and research for short stories, articles, and other miscellany written by Mr. Fletcher. Arrangement Arranged as found.

Colin Fletcher Papers MS 17 7 Series 3 Writings, circa 1949-2001, or no date Subseries 2 Short Stories, Articles and Miscellany, circa 1949-2000, or no date

box 18 The Thousand Mile Summer: possible titles; "Follow My Shadow" manuscript pages with corrections, notes; "The Outdoorsman's Medical Guide" by Alan Nourse, M.D. (typescript), no dates box 98 "The Colorado" - not for "River", circa 1964-1975 box 99 Colorado River Basin River Mile Index, Maps re: Colorado River Basin & Grand Canyon, no date box 118 "It's the Altitude" manuscript, typescript with notes, corrections, rejection correspondence; "The Dream" First Arrangement; "Go Small, Go Slow, Go Simple"; "Whitewater Backpacking", circa 1952-1955, 1960-1969, or no date box 119 "Death Trap on the Devil's Playground", "Double Life of the Rattler: In Fearful, Fancy and Solid Fact", "I've Rediscovered Walking", "June 6th, 1964", "The Placid, Un-Eager Beaver", "Why I Use a Walking Staff When Backpacking" - manuscripts with corrections, notes; Rattlesnakes - manuscripts with corrections & notes, circa 1960-1969 box 120 "Alaska", "Lightning Strike on Bugaboo Spire", "More Than a Day's Walk"; "Pathway in the Sky" book review typescript with corrections, notes; "The Butterflies of Michoacan" ["Monarchs"], "Turtles", circa 1963-1986 box 121 "A Time For Resolution" - multiple manuscripts, typescripts, "A Trinity of Troubles", "A=E+h", "Monkey Business", "Only the Years Can Build" - manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, "The Man and the Music", "The Other Road" (with old versions under different titles), "Britain's Narrow Boats are Foundering", "Diary of an Affair", "Jo Post-Jo", circa 1955-1980 box 122 "Dark Mischief", "Don't Let Gadgets Get In the Way", "America's Universal Mammal", "Backpack Food: A Calculating Approach", "Come and Get Me", "Double Take", "In the Beginning was the Number", "Johnny Takes a Trip", "Living Alone", "Nothing's a Treat When It's Always", "Plants That Feed on Animals" (carnivorous plants), "Spiders", "The Most Unforgetable Character I've Ever Met", "The Patient, Death-dealing Doodlebug", "The Rounded Square House", "Yes Always Look it in the Mouth", "Passing the Brake", Taking the Mike", "Tall but True: A Day's Roach Fishing", "Animals and Your Camera", "The Perfect Squelch", "All Gassed up and Nowhere to go", "Jack Scott and Mau Mau", "Bulldozing", "The Stenographer's Legacy", "The Car", "Grunks", Odds and Ends, Queries, concepts, 3 ads submitted to Mad Magazine, circa 1956-1968 box 123 "Battle of the Bandages" (tennis article/book), "Bay", "Bed" (Letters from Bed), "Galapagos", "Garden" book, "How to Stay Clean, Be-gardened & Happy on 50 Gallons a Day", "Lasrever Emit", "Sanctuary", "The Jam" - San Clemente Dam, "The Pleasures of Living Alone by Choice", "The Purist", "The Still Small Voice at the Eye of the Hurricane", "Thusly Said Jereboa", "Wings"; Articles, phrases, ideas, concepts, "Odd Notes (Probably worthless)", circa 1957-1996, and undated box 124 "Hills" Chapters 1-9, J1-M44, "In His Own Image" manuscript, typescript with corrections, notes, "John Muir's a Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf", "Mrs. Merriman Meets Her Grunks", Road to the River", notes on birds, circa 1960-2000 box 125 "A Bend in the Road", "A Christmas Story", "A Good Prospect", "A River's a Two-Face", "An Invitation" to "A Quiet Light" by John Sexton, "How to Give Her the Fishing Bug", "In Search of 59", "Jonathan Somebody Seagull", "Let the Earth Live", "Life Photo Text", "Like Father Like Son", "My First Steelhead", "Returning to Kenya (& UK)", "Suds Fishing", "The Beginner", "Under the Dragon Rock", "Up the River and Into the Trees", "Why Can't All Our Hospitals Be More Like This?", "Wronging by Writing", circa 1948-1998 box 126 "The Man Who Walked Through Wine", "2nd Time Around", "Don't Seal Off Those Labyrinths, Brother, Maybe They're All We Got", "From the Fish's Point of View", "I Married My Binoculars To My Camera", "I Walked the Length of Unspoiled California", "Shops That Pass in the Night", "The Rolling English Road", "What People Are Talking About in... England", "Think Like a Fish", "What's It Like Being a Real Santa Claus?", "Whitewater Backpacking", Wadell Creek, Grand Canyon story proposal, possible story ideas, circa 1956-1969, and no date

Colin Fletcher Papers MS 17 8 Series 3 Writings, circa 1949-2001, or no date Subseries 2 Short Stories, Articles and Miscellany, circa 1949-2000, or no date

box 127 "Sitting There, Waiting", "The Los Diablos Riots", "B&W" [backpacking stories], "Concerto For Two Ordinary People", Lecture: "Lonesome Road [TMS]", lecture: Y.P.O. East Central Regional Conference in Vail, Colorado, Backpacker Magazine correspondence, published article tear sheets, Reader's Digest possible story ideas, circa 1950-2000 box 128 "Poems and Such" (manuscripts with corrections and correspondence), "Mojave" TV documentary - part of the story, "Moon Walking And Scorpions", "Surplice Syndrome" or "Surplus Surpluses", "The Man Who Walked Through Time" movie possibility, "The Lake" [Colin's Lake], "The Very Last Wilderness Trail Guide [TG]", "Three Men" or "Three Well-Known Men", "What a Wonderful Civilization We've Built! ... It?", Grand Canyon notes & miscellany, 1955-1990, or no date box 129 "Hot Backpacking Beside a Wild River - and In It Too", "On the Crest of the West", "All This and Heaven Too?", "Elk on the Sidewalk", "Looking Back", "What a Way to Earn a Living", The Trend Towards Beards", "The Oral", "Roebuck Gets Away With It", "Toward the Peaks", short story ideas and notes, Articles about Fletcher (magazine and newspaper tearsheets), 1949-1991 box 130 "Backtrekking", Branwood [btBRAN.doc], Wellsprings & Branwood, preface material, Wales [bt2WALES.doc and WALES/Old Wales], no date box 131 "Backtrekking", [GEN/WALES/ECHOES/Footprints], Wales [bt32wales.doc], "Beware the Expectancy Barrier", "Bobber Boffin", "Photo Finish", "Shouldn't Someone Tell LBJ", "The Man & the Music", "The Many Colors of Our Inner Lives", "Woof", fillers, ideas, concepts, title possibilities & notes, 1957-1969, or no date box 132 "Airwaves" [What is the Future of Old, Threatened Civilization] manuscript, "Living the Rest of Your Life", "The Butterflies of Michoacan" manuscript, "The Man From the Cave" [re: Schmueller Smithsonian article on the book], "Ugly and Useless", "This TIme a Grand Canyon House" (Material on "Back-Packing in Grand Canyon" etc.), Fletcher's miscellaneous files: Mulloy, Gardnar, tennis, endorsement request for Soft Paths, Knowledge Symposium in San Jose, Peak Performance - Charles Garfield, The Self-Organizing Universe - Erich Jantsen, Therm-a-rest leak issue, White Rock Club - Carmel, Ventana, circa 1964, 1980-1992 box 133 "Changing Times At the Old Cave Temple" manuscript with corrections, "Living in China" manuscript with travel diaries, correspondence, Adventure Travel article "Slightly Footloose on the Mongolian Grasslans" manuscript with corrections, notes, Miscellaneous files on China travel: cassettes and guide, research materials, photos by George Holton, 1979-1982 box 135 American Hiking Society, articles and ideas, possible RD articles, UCLA Green World Convention, 1977-1979, and no date box 138 Proposing a Book: "Poems and Such" - photocopy & correspondence, misc. notes, no date box 166 Illustrations, no date

box 135-140 Subseries 3 Autobiographical & Unpublished Material, 1972-2001, or no date Physical Description: 6 boxes Subseries Scope and Content Summary Contains autobiographical material and other unpublished writing. Arrangement Arranged as found.

box 135-136 "Echoes I" [Shambles] - manuscript pages with corrections, notes, no date box 137 "Shambles" manuscript, correspondence, notes; Canada, childhood, Discipline & Freedom, Setting Back on Feet, Kenya, postwar interlude, resume, Return to Kenya (& UK) - Success, Jo, war, school, circa 1983-1986 box 138 "Shambles" - "For relocation: chap[ter]s", possible titles, notes, tentative thoughts on new Shambles, "Ch. 10 Success", "Ch. 11 Losing way/ Pre-Troubles", "Ch. 12 Lilith Post-Troubles", "Ch. 13 Finale", Returns to WBS, autobiographical notes about CF, circa 1983-2001

Colin Fletcher Papers MS 17 9 Series 3 Writings, circa 1949-2001, or no date Subseries 3 Autobiographical & Unpublished Material, 1972-2001, or no date

box 139 Autobiography - "A Funny Thing...", "Father & Mother", "Rouse, Alfred Arthur + The Blazing Car Murder", "1st Idaho-Montana Trip, July-Aug 1986", notes, notes about CF with Carl comments, Parstonian Grammar School, Research correspondence, tentative chapters, Footprints, Spare, Beginnings or childhood, Footprints, WALE, Spare, circa 2000-2001 box 140 Autobiography - "Poems", "The Valley, Late Valley", Berkeley, Africa, Astronomer, Canada, Late, ACSD Admiralty: False start, 1939-1940, Cambridge - Unfolding 1930-1934, M2, San Francisco, Starvecrow, War, Buckland learning 1934-1939, Echo one from Wales, UK Summer 1961, notes, circa 2000-2001 boxes 117 & 141 Series 4 Media, circa 1989-1990s Physical Description: 2 boxes Series Scope and Content Summary This series contains mostly audiocassettes used by Mr. Fletcher for interviews, but also some of his books on tape.

box 117 Cassettes #1-35 for Colorado Raft Trip & "Misc. stuff from before and during [river] trip", circa 1989-1990 box 141 Books on tape; audiocassettes, no date boxes 142-145 Series 5 Maps, circa 1950-2000 Physical Description: 4 boxes Series Scope and Content Summary This series contains Mr. Fletcher's personal maps.

box 142 Topo maps #1-13, Colorado River, Lake Mead, Lake Powell, Cataract Canyon, Lake Havasu, Grand Canyon, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, circa 1970-2000 box 143 California, "Thousand Mile Summer", circa 1970-2000 box 144 Alaska, California, Arizona, Nevada, general United States, circa 1970-2000 box 145 Canada, England, Germany, Mexico, circa 1950-2000 boxes 146-165 Series 6 Images (Photographs, Negatives, & Slides), circa 1900-2007 Physical Description: 19 boxes Series Scope and Content Summary This series contains photograph albums, slide collections, negatives, and loose photographs related to both family and travels.

box 146 "Selection of Instructional Climbing Photographs, Commando Cliff Assault Centre, England", "The Man Who Walked Through Time", "Trunkman", aerial views of Normandy, Canada, Colin Fletcher, F.F.Williams [step-father], Fishing, Landscape, Margaret Elizabeth [mother], Sonya Marie ashe [1st wife], circa 1944-1992 Box 147 Photographs of Colin Fletcher, miscellaneous subjects, Photo Stories, "Thousand Mile Summer", circa 1940-2007 box 148 Photographs of mostly British Columbia, fishing, camping snapshots, and contact sheets, circa 1953-1956 Box 149 Photographs for "Trunkman" research, Palo Verde, Garnet, Imperial Valley, Ripley, CA, claim sites, documents, plaques, Bill Simmons, Braddock, British Columbia, Vancouver Island, Nitinat, Canada, Colin Fletcher working, fishing, Grace Simons "Trunkman", Juan "Trunkman", Kenya, Northwest, Vancouver, British Columbia, San Francisco, The Pittburgh Bible 5, Circle K - new house, snowfall March 3, 1976, Carmel Valley, Colin Fletcher as "Santa" playing tennis, D-Day Normandy "45" Vintage Association Reunion, Judy's visit, Philip Lyle's 80th Birthday party, Turtle Creek, circa 1953-2007

Colin Fletcher Papers MS 17 10 Series 6 Images (Photographs, Negatives, & Slides), circa 1900-2007

box 150 Photograph Albums: 1900-1929 - Mother's 1st marriage, Colin's birth, childhood, few pictures of biological Father; 1937-1945 - Margaret Fletcher Williams & Frank F. Williams, 2nd marriage; 1940-1945 - Margaret Fletcher Williams; May-June 1945 - Colin E. Fletcher - Germany to England - War's end; June 1945 - March 1946 - Fishing & Military Assignments; March 1946-May 1948 - Colin E. Fletcher & Sonya M. Ashe Fletcher - Early years of marriage from Cornwall to Africa; March 1948-1952 - Colin E. Fletcher - Africa, Kitale, Farming, Cattle, Rongai, Molo River, Malini, Nakuru; 1952-1953 - Southern Rhodesia, Kenya, Italy, England, circa 1900-1953 Box 151 Negatives, circa 1940-2007 box 152 Slides of the Grand Canyon, 1963-1964 Box 153 Miscellaneous slides of Colorado, backpacking, "Pre-Kenya", Kern, Shasta, Bishop, Cascades, Bright Angel, "Pre-Grand Canyon", CF portraits, 1964-1967 box 154 Slides of Kenya, 1967-1968 Box 155 Slides of 2nd Kenya trip, Needles, Sierra [Nevada], 1967-1970 box 156 Slides: Tennis championship, Buick, San Simeon, Big Horn sheep, Owens Valley, Los Angeles, to Europe Panama Canal, England, France, Spain, Ventana Rehabilitation, Alaska, Carmel Valley house, animals, bugs, spiders, Gear layout for The New Complete Walker, 1970-1979 Box 157 Slides of China (1980), Carmel Valley: animals, bugs, people, Sunday portraits; Trunkman, 1980, and no date box 158 Slides: 1000 Mile Summer, River; China, Ventana, Colin Fletcher portraits, Sierra, Mexico City, "Finish", 1958, 1980, 1989-1992, and no date Box 159 Miscellaneous slides: animals, San Francisco, people, Wine Country 1956-1959, Articles SF Walking Trips, Sea Fishing, Wyoming, Boronda & vicinity 1959-1961, England 1961, Canada 1955-1956, River 1989-1992, England & Canals 1961, Nitinat, Canada 1955-1956, 1955-1992 box 160 Slides: "Lonesome Road [TMS]" Rolls 1-18 (Mexico-Saratoga Springs), Rolls 19-30 (Saratoga Springs-Dead Horse MW), Rolls 19-42 (Dead Horse MW-Mt. Tallac; Calif. Coastline; Animals; Los Angeles; Yosemite, SF Walking Trips, Taylor St. SF, Sea Fishing, Wyoming, Wind River, Boronda & vicinity; Seals, Santa Claus, San Francisco, 1959-1961 Box 161 Slides: "Lonesome Road [TMS]" Rolls 19-42 (Dead Horse MW - Mt. Tallac; Flowers, Lizards, Piutes, snakes; 2nd Montana Trip 1987; Santa Claus 1988, River Rafting 1988; Carmel Valley House & life 1989-1998; Ventana; Canada?, circa 1955-1998 box 162-163 "RR" slides of the Green and Colorado Rivers, circa 1989-1990 box 164 "RR" slides of the Green and Colorado Rivers, Vail 2000, Carmel Valley, and un-numbered slides, circa 1958-1961, and circa 1989-2000 box 165 Oversize photographs, no dates boxes 88, 168-169 Series 7 Realia, circa 1975-2000, undated Physical Description: 3 boxes, oversize items Series Scope and Content Summary This series contains artifacts from Mr. Fletcher's research into the "Trunkman", as well as some three-dimensional objects.

box 88 The Man from the Cave [Trunkman] - artifacts, circa 1975-1981 box 168-169 Miscellaneous realia, circa 1950-2000 oversize Truck Realia, no date

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