Finding Aid to the Wesley McNair Papers MCNAIR.1

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Table of Contents

Summary Information ...... 6 Biographical note ...... 6 Arrangement ...... 7 Administrative Information ...... 7 Controlled Access Headings ...... 7 Collection Inventory ...... 8 Series A: Early Materials ...... 8 Subseries: Little Brown Koko Scrapbook (brown cover) ...... 8 Subseries: Little Brown Koko Scrapbook (yellow cover) ...... 9 Subseries: "Tot Books" ...... 9 Subseries: 8th Grade Report ...... 9 Subseries: High School Band Trip Materials ...... 9 Subseries: High School Yearbooks ...... 10 Subseries: Scrapbook (black cover) ...... 10 Series B: Photographs ...... 10 Subseries: Photograph Album (brown cover) ...... 11 Subseries: Photograph Album ("Memory album") ...... 11 Subseries: Loose Photographs ...... 12 Series C: Maine Times Materials ...... 12 Subseries: Correspondence ...... 12 Subseries: Poetry Sections / Complete Issues (with gaps) ...... 13 Series D: Notebooks ...... 13 Subseries: Notebooks, 1960s...... 14 Subseries: Notebooks, 1970s...... 14 Subseries: Notebooks, 1980s...... 16 Subseries: Notebooks, 1990s...... 27 Subseries: Notebooks, 2001-2005...... 34 Subseries: Notebooks, 2006-2007...... 38 Subseries: Notebooks, undated (prior to 2006)...... 40 Subseries Notebooks, 2008-2009...... 41 Subseries: Notebooks, 2010...... 43 Subseries: Notebooks, undated (prior to March 2011)...... 43 Series E: Manuscript Materials ...... 43

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Summary Information

Repository: Special Collections Creator: Wesley McNair Title: Wesley McNair Papers. ID: MCNAIR.1 Date: 1941 - present. Physical Description: 155.0 Linear Feet Language of the English Material:

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Biographical note

Wesley McNair was born 19 June 1941 in Newport N.H. He received a B.A. degree (English) from Keene State College in 1963; an M.A. degree (English) from the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, in 1968; and an advanced master's degree at Bread Loaf (M.Litt. in American Literature) in 1975. He is the author of nine volumes of poetry, including two limited editions. He has received two Rockefeller Fellowships for study at the Bellagio Center in Italy, and has held grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim foundations, a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship in Literature, and two National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowships in poetry. Other honors include the Devins Award for Poetry, the Jane Kenyon Award, the Robert Frost Award, the Theodore Roethke Prize, the Eunice Tietjens Prize from Poetry magazine, the Sarah Josepha Hale Medal, an Emmy award, and three honorary degrees for literary distinction. He has served four times on the nominating jury for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and was among the first recipients of a United States Artists Fellowship (2006). From 1998 to 2001 he was poetry editor for the Maine Times. His work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize annual; two editions of The Best American Poetry; over fifty anthologies; and eighteen books, including poetry, essays, and anthologies. A guest editor in poetry for the 2010 Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses, he recently published a volume of new and selected poems, Lovers of the Lost (David R. Godine, 2010).

As an educator McNair has been a teacher at the Hillsboro and the New London Central High Schools (N.H., 1963-1968); a visiting professor at Dartmouth College (1984); and a professor of English at Colby-Sawyer College (1968-1987), where he founded the American Studies program. As a professor at the Univerity of Maine at Farmington from 1987 until his retirement in 2004, he founded and directed

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Arrangement

Collection arranged in eleven series.

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Administrative Information

Publication Statement Colby College Special Collections

Accruals Accrual expected for some series as indicated in series notes.

Processing Information Materials in some series are still being processed.

Conditions Governing Access All materials protected by copyright. Some series restricted as indicated in series notes. All requests for access should be directed to Colby College Special Collections: [email protected] or 207-859-5150.

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Controlled Access Headings

• Poetry • Photographs - Page 7- Finding Aid to the Wesley McNair Papers MCNAIR.1 • Letters • Manuscripts • McNair Family • Donald Hall • Robert Begiebing • Joshua Bodwell • Jeanne Braham • Robert Brinkerhoff • Dozier Bell • Malcolm Cochran • Gibson Fay-LeBlanc • Peter Harris • Phil Jordan • Sheila Jordan • Susan Kenney • Robert Kimber • Sharon Olds • Jan Owen • Cathie Pelletier • Mike Pride • William Roorbach • Phil Shultz • Thomas Smith • Betty Twitchell

Collection Inventory

Series A: Early Materials, 1941 – 1959. Physical Description: 3 Linear Feet. Related information

Relevant chronological details: Born 19 June 1941 in Newport, NH. Attended Southview Elementary School, VT, 1947–1951. Attended Way School, Claremont, NH, 1951–1953. Attended Stevens High School, NH, 1956–1959.

Scope and Contents

Pre-school and school-age materials documenting McNair's early creative efforts, career ambitions and education.

Conditions Governing Access: Conditions Governing Access

Materials are restricted. Access requires prior permission from Wesley McNair. Contact Special Collections for more information.

Subseries: Little Brown Koko Scrapbook (brown cover), 1940s. - Page 8- Finding Aid to the Wesley McNair Papers MCNAIR.1

Physical Description: 3 Folders. Related information

Episodic stories of a fictional black boy named Little Brown Koko, read to McNair by his mother. He identified with the character Koko. Scrapbook made by McNair.

Title/Description Instances Folder F-A1-1: Original clippings (14).

Folder F-A1-2: Photocopies of original clippings.

Folder F-A1-3: Scrapbook covers and sample pages.

Subseries: Little Brown Koko Scrapbook (yellow cover), 1940s. Physical Description: 3 Folders. Related information

Episodic stories of a fictional black boy named Little Brown Koko, read to McNair by his mother. He identified with the character Koko. Scrapbook made by McNair.

Title/Description Instances Folder F-A1-4: Original clippings (10).

Folder F-A1-5: Photocopies of original clippings.

Folder F-A1-6: Scrapbook covers and sample pages.

Subseries: "Tot Books", 1953. Physical Description: 1 Folder. Related information

"Tot Books" were so titled because they told stories intended for young children. Made by McNair at age 12.

Title/Description Instances Folder A1-1: Original "Tot Books" (4).

Subseries: 8th Grade Report, 1954-1955. Physical Description: 1 Folder. Related information

School report titled "Commercial Art as a Profession."

Title/Description Instances Folder A1-2: Report titled "Commercial Art as a Profession."

Subseries: High School Band Trip Materials, 1957. Physical Description: 2 Folders.

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Related information

The Stevens High School (NH) band was chosen to march in the January 1957 presidential inauguration of Dwight David Eisenhower. McNair was in the band's color guard.

Title/Description Instances Folder A1-3: Clippings and ephemera.

Folder A1-4: Washington DC souvenirs.

Subseries: High School Yearbooks, 1956-1959. Physical Description: 4 Folders. Related information

Yearbooks from Stevens High School, titled Red and Black.

Title/Description Instances Folder A1-5: 1956 Red and Black Yearbook.

Folder A1-6: 1957 Red and Black Yearbook.

Folder A1-7: 1958 Red and Black yearbook.

Folder A1-8: 1959 Red and Black yearbook.

Subseries: Scrapbook (black cover), 1946-1959. Physical Description: 5 Folders. Related information

Scrapbook made by McNair.

Title/Description Instances Folder A2-1: Front cover and pages 1-8.

Folder A2-2: Pages 9-19.

Folder A2-3: Pages 20-29.

Folder A2-4: Loose items and back cover.

Folder A2-5: Photocopies of original pages.

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Series B: Photographs, 1941 - 2000s. Physical Description: 3 Linear Feet.

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Scope and Contents

Two family-related photograph albums, publicity contact sheets, and loose photographs of McNair, family members, students and colleagues.

Accruals: Accruals

Accruals expected for this series.

Conditions Governing Access: Conditions Governing Access

Materials are restricted. Access requires prior permission from Wesley McNair. Contact Special Collections for more information.

Subseries: Photograph Album (brown cover), 1941 - mid 1950s. Physical Description: 8 Folders. Related information

The album was compiled throughout McNair's childhood and youth by his mother and includes her explanatory captions.

Title/Description Instances Folder F-B1-1: Photographs from pages 1a-7b.

Folder F-B1-2: Photographs from pages 8a-12a.

Folder F-B1-3: Photographs from pages 12b-18b.

Folder F-B1-4: Photographs from pages 19a-22a.

Folder F-B2-1: Original pages and captions.

Folder F-B2-2: Photocopies of original pages with page/photo numbers assigned.

Folder F-B2-3: Loose items found inside back covers.

Folder F-B2-4: Original covers.

Subseries: Photograph Album ("Memory album"), ca.1984. Physical Description: 5 Folders. Related information

The "Memory album" was created to commemorate the 25th wedding anniversary of Wes and Diane McNair (1987).

Title/Description Instances Folder B1-1: Photographs.

Folder B1-2: Original pages and captions.

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Folder B1-3: Loose items found inside back cover.

Folder B1-4: Photocopies of original pages.

Folder B1-5: Section of original front cover with inscription.

Subseries: Loose Photographs, ca.1988 - 2003 and undated. Physical Description: 13 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder B2-1: ca.1988.

Folder B2-2: 1991.

Folder B2-3: 1992.

Folder B2-4: 1993.

Folder B2-5: 1994.

Folder B2-6: 1995.

Folder B2-7: 1996.

Folder B2-8: 1997-1998.

Folder B3-1: 2000.

Folder B3-2: 2001.

Folder B3-3: 2002.

Folder B3-4: 2003.

Folder B3-5: Undated.

Folder B3-6: Undated (Wilbur McNair).

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Series C: Maine Times Materials, 1996 - 2002. Physical Description: 4 Linear Feet. Related information

McNair was poetry editor of The Maine Times from 1998 to 2002, when the publication closed down. The Maine Times was started in 1968 and became an important venue in the state for commentary on timely social and political issues. It also acted as a forum for creative expression by Maine artists.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence documenting McNair's personal editorial style. Also includes loose Maine Times issues with gaps.

Subseries: Correspondence, 1996 - 2002 and undated.

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Physical Description: 29 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder C1-1: 1996-1997.

Folders C1-2 - C1-5: January - July 1998.

Folders C2-1 - C2-2: August - December 1998.

Folders C2-3 - C2-6: January - July 1999.

Folders C3-1 - C3-3: August - December 1999.

Folders C3-4 - C3-7: 2000.

Folders C4-1 - C4-4: January - September 2001.

Folders C5-1 - C5-2: October - December 2001.

Folders C5-3 - C5-6: 2002.

Folder C5-7: Undated correspondence and loose poems.

Subseries: Poetry Sections / Complete Issues (with gaps), 1998 - 2002. Physical Description: 8 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder C6-1: Poetry sections, 1998.

Folder C6-2: Poetry sections, 1999.

Folder C6-3: Poetry sections, 2000.

Folder C6-4: Complete issues, 1997-1999.

Folder C7-1: Complete issues, 2000.

Folders C7-2 - C7-6: Complete issues, January - July 2001.

Folders C8-1 - C8-3: Complete issues, August - December 2001.

Folders C8-4 - C8-5: Complete issues, January - April 2002.

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Series D: Notebooks, late 1960s - present. Physical Description: 17 Linear Feet. Accruals: Accruals

Accruals expected for this series.

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Scope and Contents

Composition notebooks containing ideas for and revisions of poems, also notes about teaching activities. Many notebooks have been annotated by McNair to indicate contents.

Conditions Governing Access: Conditions Governing Access

Materials are restricted. Access requires prior permission from Wesley McNair. Contact Special Collections for more information.

Subseries: Notebooks, 1960s. Physical Description: 5 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder D1-1: Fourteen Examination books (light blue covers)., late 1960s. General

Contents described for two books.

Folder D1-2: Six notebooks (various brands, brown covers)., late 1960s. General

Not annotated.

Folder D1-3: One notebook (Dartmouth brand, tan cover)., late 1960s. General

Not annotated.

Folder D1-4: One notebook (Middlebury brand, green cover)., late 1960s. General

Not annotated.

Folder D1-5: One notebook (Middlebury brand, white cover)., 1969? General

Not annotated.

Subseries: Notebooks, 1970s. Physical Description: 46 Folders.

Title/Description Instances

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Folder D6-1: One notebook (Dartmouth brand, tan cover)., 1971? General

Not annotated.

Folder D6-2: One notebook (Ampad brand, green cover)., mid 1970s General

Contents: "The last peacable kingdom"; "Where are the Quelches"; "The thugs of old comics".

Folder D6-3: One notebook (Steno brand, white cover)., 1974? 1975? General

Contents:"The thugs of old comics"; "Where are the Quelches".

Folder D6-4: One notebook (Steno brand, red/blue cover)., 1974? General

Contents:"Where are the Quelches"; "Going back poems"; "Rufus Porter by himself".

Folder D6-5: One notebook (Torre brand, blue cover)., 1976-1977 General

Contents:"The slow children play baseball" ("The retarded children play baseball"); "The bald spot"; "beggars"; "When Superman died in Springfield, Vermont"; "The thugs of old comics"; "Memory of North Sutton".

Folder D6-6: One notebook (photograph on cover)., mid 1970s General

Contents:"Where are the Quelches"; "The thugs of old comics".

Folder D6-7: One notebook (Torre brand, blue cover)., 1976-1977 General

Contents:"The bald spot"; "The slow children play baseball"; "To my father"; "Holding the goat".

Folder D6-8: One notebook (Colon brand, red cover)., 1978

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General

Contents: "Memory of North Sutton"; "To my father"; "Baldness"; "The bald spot"; "The poetic license"; "Beggars"; "The slow children play baseball"; "Where I live".

Folder D6-9: One notebook (Pens Unlitd. brand, green cover)., 1978

Folder D6-10: One notebook (Cuaderno Uni. brand, blue cover)., 1978

Folder D7-1: One notebook (Torre brand, blue cover)., 1978

Folder D7-2: One notebook (Torre brand, blue cover)., 1978

Folder D7-3: One notebook (Note Book brand, lime cover)., 1978

Folder D7-4: One notebook (Colon brand, blue cover)., 1978? General

Contents: "Memory of North Sutton"; "The retarded children play baseball"; "Poem for the blind beggar of Chile"; "Beggars"; "The poetic license"; "The last peaceable kingdom"; "Where I live".

Folder D7-5: One notebook (Eagle Line brand, yellow cover)., 1978 General

Contents: "The thin man"; "The before people"; "Hair on television".

Folder D7-6: One notebook (3 Subject brand, tan cover)., Late 1970's

Folder D7-7: One notebook (Mead brand, green cover)., 1979

Subseries: Notebooks, 1980s. Physical Description: 77 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder D7-8: One notebook (no cover)., Early 1980's

Folder D7-9: One notebook (Pen-Tab brand, brown cover)., Early 1980's

Folder D8-1: One notebook (Pen-Tab brand, yellow cover)., Early 1980's

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General

Contents: "What people say (do) to animals"; "The visit"; "Hunt walking"; "Pearley Hunt"; "The shooting"; "Seeing Cooch"; "The name"; "What it is".

Folder D8-2: One notebook (Mead brand, tan cover)., Early 1980's General

Contents: "The longing of the feet"; "Mina Bell's cows"; "Mute"; "When I saw the time…film of the city".

Folder D8-3: One notebook (National brand, green/white cover)., Early 1980's General

Contents: "The longing of the feet".

Folder D8-4: One notebook (Pen-Tab brand, red cover)., 1980 General

Contents: "Fat lady"; "Where I live"; "Wilary Farm Centre"; "Opening the road"; "Small towns are passing"; "Slow children"; "Retarded children play baseball"; "When Paul flew away"; "Longing of the feet"; "My brother inside the revolving door".

Folder D8-5: One notebook (Mead brand, orange cover)., Early 1980's General

Contents: "Fat in history"; "The fat people of the old days"; "Where I live"; "Trees that pass us in our cars"; "A dream of Herman"; "The people upstairs"; "Waving goodbye".

Folder D8-6: One notebook (Pens Unltd. brand, tan cover)., Early 1980's General

Contents: "Names of horses"; "Fire in Enfield"; "The people upstairs"; "Far in history"; "Waving goodbye"; "Opening the road".

Folder D8-7: One notebook (Pen-Tab brand, tan cover)., 1980 General

Contents: "The fat people of the old days"; "The slow children play baseball"; "My brother running"; "The

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Folder D8-8: One notebook (3 Subject brand, tan cover)., 1980-1981 General

Contents: "Mina Bell's cows"; "Trees that pass us in our cars"; "The fat people of the old days"; "The people upstairs"; "A dream of Herman"; "The before people".

Folder D8-9: One notebook (Mead brand, orange cover)., 1980 General

Contents: "To my father"; "My brother running"; "A dream of Herman"; "Small towns are passing".

Folder D9-1: One notebook (Top Scholar brand, light yellow cover)., 1982? General

Contents: "To my father"; "My brother running"; "Paul playing the accordion"; "When Paul flew away"; "After the ice"; "Spring"; "My brother inside the revolving doors".

Folder D9-2: One notebook (Dartmouth brand, tan cover)., 1982? General

Contents: "The before people".

Folder D9-3: One notebook (Pens Unltd. brand, white cover)., 1982? General

Contents: "Big cars"; "Mute", "My mother falling asleep"; "The shooting"; "When Paul flew away".

Folder D9-4: One notebook (Camp's brand, tan cover)., 1982? General

Contents: "When Paul flew away'; "The before people"; "The discovery of the mantis"; "Big cars"; "Mute"; "After the ice"; "April excavation"; "The laying of the feet".

Folder D9-5: One notebook (Pen-Tab brand, brown cover)., 1981-1982?

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General

Contents: "Looking for Johnny"; "My brother running"; "Waving goodbye"; "The people upstairs"; "The before people"; "The slow children play baseball"; "Helen"; "The fat in history"; "The fat people of the old days"; "Driving poem"; "A dream of Herman".

Folder D9-6: One notebook (Mead brand, blue cover), 1981-1982 General

Contents: "Big cars"; "Mute"; "After the minister's death"; "The minister's house"; "Remembering aprons"; "Town limits".

Folder D9-7: One notebook (Mead brand, red cover)., 1983? General

Contents: "When Paul flew away"; "The longing of the feet"; "The secret life of the feet"; "To my father"; "My brother inside the revolving doors".

Folder D9-8: One notebook (Mead brand, orange cover)., 1982-1983 General

Contents: "The faith healer".

Folder D9-9: One notebook (Citadel brand, blue cover)., 1982-1983? General

Contents: "The Portuguese dictionary"; "To my father"; "My brother running".

Folder D10-1: One notebook (Colby-Sawyer brand, blue cover)., 1983 General

Conents: "The shooting"; "Remembering aprons"; "The faith healer"; "The last time Shorty Towers fetched the cows".

Folder D10-2: One notebook (Russell brand, green cover)., 1983? General

Contents: "Breath"; "The letter".

Folder D10-3: One notebook (Mead brand, blue cover)., 1983?

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General

Contents: "The faith healer".

Folder D10-4: One notebook (Colby-Sawyer brand, yellow cover)., 1982-1983? General

Contents: "The visit"; "Breath"; "The hand"; "The fat people of the old days".

Folder D10-5: One notebook (College Comp brand, tan cover)., 1984 General

Contents: "A traveler's advisory"; "The hand".

Folder D10-6: One notebook (Composition brand, black/white cover)., 1984 General

Contents: "A traveler's advisory"; "The town of No"; "Advisory"; "Ghosts"; "Hunt walking"; "Where are the Quelches"; "Helen".

Folder D10-7: One notebook (Harvard Sq. brand, red cover)., 1983? General

Contents: "Breath"; "The faith healer".

Folder D10-8: One notebook (A Plus brand, orange cover), 1984 General

Contents: "The man with the radios"; "The name"; "Breath"

Folder D10-9: One notebook (Russell brand, red cover)., 1984 General

Contents: : "For my father dying in a supermarket"; "The man with the radios"; "The name"; "Breath"; "Making things clean".

Folder D11-1: One notebook (Mead brand, blue cover)., 1984 General

Contents: "A traveler's advisory".

Folder D11-2: One notebook (3 sections brand, red cover)., 1984

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General

Contents: "In 1944 a boy"; "Seeing Cooch"; "Jack Merrill".

Folder D11-3: One notebook (Composition brand, lime cover)., 1985? General

Contents: "Town limits"; "Remembering aprons"; "The shooting"; "The faith healer"; "Child in mirror"; "The retarded children play baseball"; "When the slaughtered animals cannot find"; "Killing the animals"; "Breath".

Folder D11-4: One notebook (Pen-Tab brand, red cover)., 1984 General

Contents: "What it is"; "The name".

Folder D11-5: One notebook (Pen-Tab, tan cover)., 1984 General

Contents: "What it is"; "The name".

Folder D11-6: One notebook (Pen-Tab brand, light blue cover)., 1984 General

Contents: "The name"; "The visit"; "What it is"; "The deaf girl in night class"; "The shooting"; "Seeing Cooch".

Folder D11-7: One notebook (A Plus brand, green cover)., 1985 General

Not annotated.

Folder D11-8: One notebook (Colby-Sawyer brand, blue cover)., 1985 General

Contents: "The hand"; "Town limits".

Folder D11-9: One notebook (Colby-Sawyer brand, light green cover)., 1985? General

Contents: "Where are the Quelches?"; "The hand"; "Boy in 1944"; "The visit".

Folder D12-1: One notebook (Dello brand, green cover)., 1985?

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General

Contents: "The Name"; "What it is"; "Pearley Hunt walking"; "Hunt walking".

Folder D12-2: One notebook (Colby-Sawyer brand, green cover)., 1984? 1985? General

Contents: "The faith healer".

Folder D12-3: One notebook (PCS brand, blue cover)., 1985 General

Contents: "Helen".

Folder D12-4: One notebook (Mead brand, green cover)., 1984? 1985 General

Contents: "Remembering aprons"; "The faith healer"; "The last time Shorty Towers fetched the cows"; "Killing the animals"; "The farm museum"; "The shooting".

Folder D12-5: One notebook (Colby-Sawyer brand, blue cover)., 1984-1985? General

Contents: "Ghosts"; "Breath".

Folder D12-6: One notebook (Colby-Sawyer brand, tan cover)., Mid 80's General

Contents: "Breath"; "Making things clean"; "The chore".

Folder D12-7: One notebook (Colby-Sawyer brand, gray cover)., Early-Mid 80's General

Contents: "Breath"; "The letter".

Folder D12-8: One notebook (Colby-Sawyer brand, tan cover)., Early-Mid 80's General

Contents: "The retarded children play baseball"; "History of the fat people in America"; "The fat people of the old days"; "The fat enter heaven"; "What the slaughtered animals cannot find"; "Killing the animals".

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Folder D12-9: One notebook (Pen-Tab brand, tan cover)., Mid 1980's General

Contents: "The shooting"; "Seeing Cooch"; "My brother running".

Folder D12-10: One notebook (Empire brand, green cover)., 1986 General

Contents: "To my father"; "Hunt walking"; "My brother running"; "Ghosts".

Folder D13-1: One notebook (Mentor brand, yellow cover)., 1986 General

Contents: "The abandonment"; "My brother running"; "The revival"; "The question"; "The farm museum"; "The puppy"; "The new puppy".

Folder D13-2: One notebook (National brand, green cover)., 1986 General

Contents: "The revival"; "String"; "The house".

Folder D13-3: One notebook (Colby-Sawyer, yellow brand)., 1985-1986? General

Contents: "Where are the Quelches?"; "The hand"; "The visit"; "Felix".

Folder D13-4: One notebook (Pens Unltd. brand, orange cover)., 1986 General

Contents: "Breath"; "The farm museum"; "The introduction"; "String"; "The abandonment"; "House on the corner"; "Stars".

Folder D13-5: One notebook (Mentor brand, light blue cover)., 1985-1986? General

Contents: "Hunt walking"; "The trouble with Hunts"; "The dog"; "The revival"; "The question"; "The man with the radios".

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Folder D13-6: One notebook (National brand, orange cover)., 1986 General

Contents: "The question"; "The revival"; "First class at night school".

Folder D13-7: One notebook (Stuart Hall brand, green cover)., 1987 General

Contents: "After my stepfather's death"; "My brother running"; "Driving to dark country"; "String"; "The invitation"; "Walking in dark town".

Folder D13-8: One notebook (Mead brand, purple cover)., 1987 General

Contents: "My brother running".

Folder D13-9: One notebook (Spring brand, tan cover)., 1987 General

Contents: "Sue Reed walking": "Happiness"; "What my brother did"; "Breath"; "Her shyness"; "Town limits"; "My brother running"; "After my stepfather's death"; "My stepfather's hands"; "The farm museum"; "Driving to dark country".

Folder D14-1: One notebook (Centauro brand, blue cover)., 1987 General

Contents: "My stepfather's hands"; "Happiness".

Folder D14-2: One notebook (Victor brand, red cover)., 1987 General

Annotations illegible.

Folder D14-3: One notebook (WriteRight brand, yellow cover)., 1987 General

Contents: "Placing myself"; "Mother's place"; "Thawing"; "Happiness"; "My brother running"; "The invitation"; "Driving to dark country"; "End notes".

Folder D14-4: One notebook (Centauro brand, blue cover)., 1987

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General

Contents: "My brother running".

Folder D14-5: One notebook (Pens Unltd. brand, blue cover)., 1987 General

Not annotated.

Folder D14-6: One notebook (Centauro brand, blue cover)., 1987 General

Contents: After my stepfather's death"; "My brother running"; "Happiness"; "Sue Reed walking".

Folder D14-7: One notebook (Stuart Hall brand, blue cover)., 1987 General

Contents: "Walking in dark town"; "The invitation"; "Trying to find her teeth"; "The transformation"; "House in spring"; "Driving to dark country"; "The abandonment"; "My brother running".

Folder D14-8: One notebook (Mead brand, blue cover)., 1988 General

Contents: "My brother running"; "The Chester Greenwood earmuff parade"; "The bird man"; "The first class in night school".

Folder D14-9: One notebook (Pen-Pal brand, yellow cover)., 1988 General

Contents: "My brother running"; "The secret".

Folder D14-10: One notebook (Pen-Pal brand, light yellow cover)., 1988 General

Contents: "John Quick"; "My brother running"; "The Chester Greenwood parade"; "The bird man".

Folder D15-1: One notebook (National brand, orange cover)., 1988?

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General

Contents: "The house John built onto"; "My brother running".

Folder D15-2: One notebook (College Line brand, red cover)., 1988? General

Contents: "House in wind"; "House in spring".

Folder D15-3: One notebook (National brand, red cover)., 1988 General

Contents: "Walking in dark town"; "The discovery"; "Town limits"; "Young man going uphill with a bird"; "The search"; "My brother running"; "The secret"; "House in spring".

Folder D15-4: One notebook (UMF brand, green cover)., 1989? General

Contents: "The match"; "The one who will save you"; "My brother running"; "Bob"; "John Quick"; "The Chester Greenwood earmuff parade"; "The invitation"; "Walking in dark town".

Folder D15-5: One notebook (Coil Lock brand, red/white cover)., 1988-1989 General

Contents: "My brother running"; "His father's house"; "Flying on Mohegan Island"; "The things my brother did"; "Driving to dark country"; "House in the wind"; "House in spring".

Folder D15-6: One notebook ([Logo] brand, blue cover)., 1987-1988 General

Contents: "Young man going uphill with a bird"; "What it is"; "Poem for my feet"; "Walking in dark town"; "The invitation"; "My brother running"; "The antenna"; "Here lies the body of John McNair".

Folder D15-7: One notebook (Herlitz brand, red cover)., Late 1980's General

Contents: "My brother running".

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Folder D15-8: One notebook (Herlitz brand, blue cover)., Late 1980's General

Contents: "My brother running"; "The one I think of now"; "Eggs".

Folder D15-9: One notebook (Herlitz brand, green cover)., 1988? 1989? General

Contents: "My brother running".

Folder D16-1: One notebook (Stuart Hall brand, light blue cover)., Late 1980's General

Contents: "The secret"; "The Chester Greenwood parade"; "My brother running"; "His stepfather's house".

Subseries: Notebooks, 1990s. Physical Description: 48 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder D16-2: One notebook (Pen-Tab brand, black cover)., Early 1990's General

Contents: "My brother running".

Folder D16-3: One notebook (Pen-Tab brand, yellow cover)., 1990 General

Contents: Reading poems at the grange meeting in what must be heaven"; "My brother running"; "Big dog, little dog"; "Mother's place"; "Reading poems at the grange meeting".

Folder D16-4: One notebook (Herlitz brand, yellow cover)., 1990 General

Contents: "The leg"; "Reading poems at the grange meeting at what must be heaven"; "The one I think of now"; "Coming for Brad Newcomb"; "The lover".

Folder D16-5: One notebook (Pen-Tab brand, putty color)., Early 1990's

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General

Contents: Coming for Brad Newcomb"; "The lover"; "Reading poems at the grange meeting in what must be heaven"; "The life"; "The retarded children play baseball"; "The match"; "Heads on TV"; "Faces".

Folder D16-6: One notebook (UMF brand, red cover)., 1990 General

Contents: "The sound the dog made"; "Glass night"; "The retarded children play baseball"; "My brother running"; "The restorer"; "My brother running".

Folder D16-7: One notebook (Pen-Pal brand, yellow cover)., Early 1990 General

Contents: "The one who will save you"; "Coming to get Dallas"; "Making things clean"; "The carpenter's leg"; "Coming for Brad Newcomb"; "Mother's place"; "Walking in dark town"; "Old talk"; "The life"; "Young man going uphill with a bird"; "My brother running"; "A brief history of some of the unknown dead"; "The one I think of now".

Folder D17-1: One notebook (Herlitz brand, red cover)., 1990? General

Contents: "The restorer"; "My brother running".

Folder D17-2: One notebook (Mead brand, pink cover)., 1990 General

Contents: "Presenting the head"; "My head, your head"; "The discovery"; "Mother's place"; "Frances bound"; "When the trees came for her"; "The secret"; "My brother running".

Folder D17-4: One notebook (UMF brand, gray/green cover)., 1990 General

Contents: "The one who will save you"; "My brother running".

Folder D17-3: One notebook (Herlitx brand, yellow cover)., 1990 General

Contents: "My brother running".

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Folder D17-5: One notebook (University brand, violet cover)., 1991? General

Contents: "My brother running".

Folder D17-6: One notebook (Mead brand, red cover)., 1991? General

Contents: "My brother running".

Folder D17-7: One notebook (Union Camp brand, blue cover)., 1991 General

Contents: "My brother running".

Folder D17-8: One notebook (Union Camp brand, pink cover)., 1991? General

Contents: "My brother running".

Folder D18-1: One notebook (Comp Book brand, green/white cover)., 1990-1992 General

Contents: "Boothed".

Folder D18-2: One notebook (Atlantic Pen brand, tan cover)., 1992 General

Contents: "Making things clean"; "When the trees came for her"; "Shaking hands"; "Heads"; "Faces"; "The lover".

Folder D18-3: One notebook (Stuart Hall brand, red/green cover)., 1992-1993 General

Contents: "Tuning things out"; "What (illegible) the lips"; "Mother's place"; "House in spring"; "Herds"; "Faces"; "Old guys".

Folder D18-4: One notebook (Mead brand, purple cover). General

Contents: "When the trees came for her".

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Folder D18-5: One notebook (Roaring Spr. brand, black/white cover)., 1993-1995 General

Not annotated.

Folder D18-6: One notebook (Clean-Perf brand, blue cover)., 1993 General

Contents: "History by George B. Yeaton"; "Poem for my feet"; "Home"; "As they are"; "Goodby to the old life"; "My brother running".

Folder D18-7: One notebook (Mead brand, green cover)., 1993? General

Contents: "The wish"; "Fire".

Folder D18-8: One notebook (Coil Lock brand, red cover)., 1993 General

Contents: "The hotdog diet of the stars".

Folder D19-1: One notebook (Roaring Spr. brand, gray cover)., 1993 General

Contents: "The puppy"; "Fire"; "The dance"; "The characters of dirty jokes"; "The hotdog diet of the stars".

Folder D19-2: One notebook (no brand, tan cover)., 1994 General

Contents: "Fire".

Folder D19-3: One notebook (A Plus brand, green cover)., 1994? General

Contents: "Fire".

Folder D19-4: One notebook (A Plus brand, red cover)., 1994 General

Contents: "Fire"; The wish"; "The dance".

Folder D19-5: One notebook (Mead Comp. brand, black/white cover)., 1995 - Page 30- Finding Aid to the Wesley McNair Papers MCNAIR.1

General

Not annotated.

Folder D19-6: One notebook (Artistic brand, blue cover)., 1995 General

Contents: "The weight"; "Weeds"; "Blame"; "Gringos".

Folder D19-7: One notebook (Ampad brand, dark blue cover)., Mid 1990's? General

Contents: "Placing myself"; "Sleep"; "Driving north in winter"; "Speech"; "Massive".

Folder D19-8: One notebook (Mead brand, red cover)., Mid 1990's General

Contents: "Old talk"; "Clothes"; "Fire"; "The puppy"; "Why we need poetry".

Folder D19-9: One notebook (Mead brand, light blue cover)., Mid 1990's General

Contents: Fine"; "Losses"; "Fire"; "Being quiet"; "Old talk"; "Clothes".

Folder D19-10: One notebook (Mead brand, red cover)., Mid 1990's General

Contents: "Seeds"; "Trying to find her teeth"; "Fire"; "The book of A"; "When Paul flew away"; "Presenting the head"; "In the dark above them at four"; "The cabbie".

Folder D20-1: One notebook (Tech brand, green cover)., Mid 1990's File Plan

Contents:"The trick"; "The wish"; "The puppy".

Folder D20-2: One notebook (UMF brand, green cover)., Mid 1990's General

Contents: "Red"; "Old talk"; "The wish"; "The dance"; "Town limits"; "Waving goodbye".

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Folder D20-3: One notebook (Mead brand, purple cover)., 1996? General

Contents: "What they are".

Folder D20-4: One notebook (Mead brand, black cover)., 1996 General

Contents: : "Weeds"; "My father has come back"; "Blame"; "Fire"; "My mother falling asleep"; "Gringos"; "The map".

Folder D20-5: One notebook (Basic brand, green cover)., Mid 1990's General

Contents: "The cabbie".

Folder D20-6: One notebook (Artistic brand, red cover)., 1996? General

Contents: "Fire"; "The wish".

Folder D20-7: One notebook (Omni brand, red cover)., 1997? General

Contents: "What they are"; "Fire"; "Placing myself".

Folder D20-8: One notebook (Five Star brand, blue cover)., 1998 General

Contents: "Presenting the head"; "The invention of the present"; "Massive"; "The one I think of now"; "Wonder"; "History of talking into the phone"; "The place where it happened"; "Dark dreams, dark sayings"; "Speech"; "Fire".

Folder D21-1: One notebook (Five Star brand, dark blue cover)., 1999? General

Contents: "The dance"; "An executive's afterlife"; "Shovels"; "The one I think of now"; "Ray's gift"; "The unspoken".

Folder D21-2: One notebook (Mead brand, dark blue cover)., 1999?

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General

Contents: "Waving goodbye"; "Home"; "Fire"; "The wish".

Folder D21-3: One notebook (Omni brand, dark blue cover)., 1999? General

Contents: "Massive"; "How she told him"; "The future".

Folder D21-4: One notebook (Five Star brand, dark green cover)., 1999? General

Contents: "The one I think of now"; "How she told him"; "Town limits"; "My mother falling asleep"; "The boy"; "Home".

Folder D21-5: One notebook (Stuart Hall brand, blue cover)., Late 1990's General

Contents: "Fire".

Folder D21-6: One notebook (Carolina brand, green cover)., Late 1990's General

Contents: "Fire".

Folder D21-7: One notebook (Mead brand, dark blue cover)., Late 1990's General

Contents: "Fire".

Folder D22-1: One notebook (Omni brand, red cover)., Late 1990's General

Contents: "Fire"; "The wish".

Folder D29-6: One notebook (Pen-tab brand, green cover)., 1990 General

Contents: "Love Handles"; "Minister"; "Town Limits"; "The Match"; "The Retarded Childen Play Baseball"; "Reading Poems at the Grange Meeting"; "The One Who Will Save You"; "The Offering"; "The One I Think of - Page 33- Finding Aid to the Wesley McNair Papers MCNAIR.1 Now"; "Seeing Mercer, Maine"; "Mother's Place"; "Sure Reed in Nova Scotia".

Folder D30-1: One notebook (UMF brand, white cover)., 1994? General

Components: "The Characters of Dirty Jokes"; "'s Animal Confederates".

Folder D30-2: One notebook (Herlitz brand, red cover). , 1991/1992 General

Contents: "Wordy and the Cluster Greenword Parade"; "Big Dog, Little Dog"; "Seeing Mercer, Maine"; "Hot Dog Diet of the Stars"; "Glass Night"; "My Brother Running".

Folder D30-3: One notebook (Atlantic Pen Co. brand, tan cover)., 1992 General

Contents: "Ministers"; "Town Limits"; "Love Handles"; "The Retarded Children Play Baseball"; "Old Guys"; "Old People Portraits"; "Old Talk"; "Disavowal".

Subseries: Notebooks, 2001-2005. Physical Description: 23 folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder D22-2: One notebook (Wiremaster brand, blue/gray cover)., 2000 General

Contents: "Fire."

Folder D22-3: One notebook (Five Star brand, black cover)., 2000-2001 General

Contents: "Shovels"; "The visitors"; "Invitation".

Folder D22-4: One notebook (Five Star brand, dark green cover)., 2000-2001 General

Contents: The invention of the present"; "The place where it happened"; "Dark dreams"; "An executive afterlife"; "The two gods"; "The one I think of now"; "Town limits".

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Folder D22-5: One notebook (Mead brand, light blue cover)., 2001 General

Contents: "Fire"; "The ghosts"; "Cheese"; "If you had come"; "Pondside"; "My stepfather's hands"; "My mother falling asleep"; "Ray's gift"; "The one I think of now"; "The visitors"; "Where did he get this watchfulness"; "Being a man".

Folder D22-6: One notebook (Five Star brand, dark blue cover)., 2001? General

Contents: "What became"; "That nothing"; "Gods"; "The two gods"; "The unspoken"; "The good-boy suit"; "Watch"; "The visitors"; "Questions at one o'clock"; "The host"; "Shovels"; "Invention of the present".

Folder D22-7: One notebook (Omni brand, black cover)., 2001-2002? General

Contents: "Fear"; "Elegy for a college"; "How I became a poet"; "This poem"; "Smoking"; "To the dog-sitter"; "It"; "Getting ready".

Folder D22-8: One notebook (Roaring Spr. brand, green cover)., Early 2003 General

Contents: "Seeds"; "My father going away"; "That nothing"; "The side"; "My father going away".

Folder D23-1: One notebook (APP brand, green/black cover)., 2002? 2003? General

Contents: "Your life"; "Fear"; "Visiting Richard"; "Getting ready".

Folder D23-2: One notebook (Five Star brand, red cover)., 2002 General

Contents: "The last black and white TV"; "The offer"; "Mistakes about heaven".

Folder D23-3: One notebook (UMF brand, blue cover)., 2002

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General

Contents: "My mother falling asleep"; "The last black and white TV"; "My mother enters heaven"; "The 1950's"; "Hymn to the comb-over".

Folder D23-4: One notebook (Roaring Spr. brand, red cover)., 2002-2003 General

Contents: "Seeds"; "My father going away"; "The license photo"; "Flight"; "Gravity".

Folder D23-5: One notebook (Roaring Spr. brand, yellow cover)., 2003? General

Contents: "The side"; "Seeds"; "The license photo"; "The life".

Folder D23-6: One notebook (Five Star brand, dark green cover)., 2002-2003 General

Contents: "My mother enters heaven"; "If you had come"; "How I became a poet"; "Elegy for a college"; "Ray's gift"; "The ideal father"; "My father going away".

Folder D23-7: One notebook (Mead brand, red cover)., 2003? General

Contents: "The future"; "The egg ball"; "The planet of the eye"; "The belt"; "Seeds"; "Mistakes about heaven".

Folder D24-1: One notebook (Mead brand, green cover)., 2002-2003? General

Contents: "Night shift"; "Voiceless"; "I don't care"; "The pathetic unwanted"; "I cannot catch her eye"; "Longing"; "The client"; "This poem"; "Your life"; "Toast"; "Cheese"; "Getting ready".

Folder D24-2: One notebook (Roaring Spr. brand, orange cover)., 2004 General

Contents: "The triumph of the face"; "Draw me".

Folder D24-3: One notebook (Mead brand, yellow cover)., 2004

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General

Contents: "Love".

Folder D24-4: One notebook (Mead brand, red cover)., 2004 General

Contents: "The one he turned into"; "Just taking advantage of Herb"; "Love"; "The life"; "The triumph of the face"; "Dump attendants"; "Love".

Folder D24-5: One notebook (CVS brand, purple cover)., 2003-2004 General

Contents: "The couple at the writer's conference"; "Couple"; "As if the voices in the background"; "The body's poem"; "Your life"; "50's car"; "Toast".

Folder D24-6: One notebook (Mead brand, yellow cover)., 2003-2004 General

Contents: "The match"; "The overstuffed choir": "All you have to do"; "As I am"; "What I remember".

Folder D24-7: One notebook (Roaring Spr. brand, purple cover)., 2005 General

Contents: "Living twice"; "The elders".

Folder D24-8: One notebook (Five Star brand, blue-gray cover)., 2005

Folder D25-1: One notebook (Mead brand, purple cover)., 2005 General

Contents: "When my mother called about the fire"; "Voiceless"; "My stepfather's hands"; "My mother falling asleep".

Folder D27-1: One notebook (Mead brand, purple cover), 2004 General

Contents: "Kuhre's farm"; "Belief"; "The overstuffed chair"; "The side"; "Cheese".

Folder D27-2: One notebook (Mead brand, green cover)., 2004

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General

Contents: Imponderables"; "Love"; "Indirect eatery"; "My neighbor I put the fence up for"; "When the news arrived that my poem was accepted"; "The man he turned into"; "The poem".

Folder D27-3: One notebook (Staples brand, lime cover)., 2005 General

Contents: "Longing".

Folder D27-4: One notebook (3 Subject brand, dark red cover)., Late 2004 - early 2005 General

Contents: "Stars"; "The gangsters of old movies"; "My town".

Folder D27-5: One notebook (1 Subject brand, red cover)., August 2005 General

Not annotated.

Folder D28-1: One notebook (Staples brand, orange cover)., 2005 General

Contents: "A few of the unknown dead".

Folder D29-1: One notebook (Mead brand, blue cover)., 2004 General

Contents: "As I am"; "Belief"; "November 22, 1963"; "Love"; "The life".

Folder D29-2: One notebook (3 Subject brand, purple cover)., 2003 General

Contents: "The ones I carried the flag for"; "The boy carrying the flag"; "Love poem".

Subseries: Notebooks, 2006-2007. Physical Description: 8 folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder D27-6: One notebook (Staples brand, yellow cover)., 2006 - Page 38- Finding Aid to the Wesley McNair Papers MCNAIR.1

General

Not annotated.

Folder D27-7: One notebook (Staples brand, blue cover)., Summer 2006 General

Not annotated.

Folder D27-8: One notebook (Summer Journal brand, gray cover)., Late 2006-2007 General

Contents: "What she means"; "Sometimes I find myself"; "My brother's paper route"; "To the lovers of the suddenly lost".

Folder D27-9: One notebook (3 Subject brand, blue cover)., Early 2007 General

Not annotated.

Folder D27-10: One notebook (Staples brand, red cover)., Summer 2007 General

Not annotated.

Folder D28-2: One notebook (Staples brand, blue cover)., March 2007 General

Not annotated.

Folder D28-3: One notebook (Five Star brand, red cover)., 2007 General

Not annotated.

Folder D29-5: One notebook (3 Subject brand, red cover)., November 2006 General

Contents: "What his daughter means"; "The lovers of the suddenly lost"; "Love story"; "Words"; "Tuscany"; "Losing my hair".

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Folder D31-2: One notebook (Five Star brand, black cover). , 2006 General

Contents: "My Actual Family".

Subseries: Notebooks, undated (prior to 2006). Physical Description: 11 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder D25-2: One notebook (Herlitz brand, red cover)., undated General

Contents: "The bird man".

Folder D25-3: One notebook (Pen-Tab brand, tan cover)., undated General

Contents: "To my father"; "My brother running"; "When Paul flew away"; "Small towns are passing"; "Their way"; "Retarded children play baseball"; "The other father"; "The ideal father"; "The longing of the father"; "The perfect father".

Folder D25-4: One notebook (College Comp brand, tan cover)., undated General

Contents: "A traveler's advisory"; "Remembering aprons"; "Trying to find her teeth"; "Breath"; "Ghosts".

Folder D25-5: One notebook (Pens Unltd. brand, yellow cover)., undated General

Contents: "Hair on television"; "Old trees".

Folder D25-6: One notebook (Basic brand, green cover)., undated General

Contents: "Fire".

Folder D25-7: One notebook (Kleen Edge brand, blue cover)., undated

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General

Contents: "Talking about time"; "Speaking of time"; "The sound the dog made".

Folder D26-1: One notebook (Colby-Sawyer brand, tan cover)., undated General

Contents: "The house John built onto"; "My brother running"; "Breath"; "The man with the radios"; "Trying to find her teeth"; "The letter".

Folder D26-2: One notebook (National brand, blue cover)., undated General

Not annotated.

Folder D26-3: One notebook (Harvard Sq. brand, green cover)., undated General

Contents: "Mute"; "Big car"; "After the ice"; "Remembering aprons"; "The wish"; "The Portuguese dictionary"; "The minister's death"; "My brother running".

Folder D26-4: One notebook (no cover)., undated General

Not annotated.

Folder D26-5: One notebook (no cover)., undated General

Not annotated.

Subseries Notebooks, 2008-2009. Physical Description: 6 folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder D28-4: One notebook (Staples brand, black cover)., Late 2007 - early 2008 General

Contents: "The unfastening"; "Morning in America"; "For my wife".

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General

Contents: "The lover"; "The happy ending".

Folder D28-6: One notebook (Staples brand, red cover), 2009? General

Not annotated.

Folder D28-7: One notebook (Staples brand, red cover)., 2009? General

Not annotated.

Folder D29-3: One notebook (Apego brand, green cover)., early 2008 General

Contents: "The kangaroo [mice]"; "Shame"; "November 22, 1963"; "First snowfall"; "For my wife".

Folder D29-4: One notebook (Basic brand, green cover)., early 2008 General

Contents: "November 22, 1963".

Folder D30-4: One notebook (Apego brand, blue cover). , 2008 General

Contents: "Lovers of the Lost".

Folder D30-5: One notebook (Staples brand, black cover)., 2009 General

Contents: "The Time Zone of the Poem".

Folder D30-6: One notebook (Staples brand, orange cover). , 2008-2009 General

Contents: "The Reunion"; "The Fun of Running Back and Forth".

Folder D30-7: One notebook (Staples brand, blue cover)., 2009 General

Contents: "The Story of Richard"; "My Brother's Paper Route".

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Folder D31-1: One notebook (Staples brand, light blue cover). , 2009 General

Contents: "Maine in Four Seasons".

Subseries: Notebooks, 2010. Physical Description: (in process)

Subseries: Notebooks, undated (prior to March 2011). Title/Description Instances Folder D31-3: One notebook (Colby-Sawyer brand, red cover). , no date General

Contents: "Seeing Cooch"; "Where I Live"; "What It Is"; "Ghosts".

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Series E: Manuscript Materials, 1950s - present. Physical Description: 14 Linear Feet. Accruals: Accruals

Accruals expected for this series.

Scope and Contents

Drafts of McNair's early cartoons, poems, and short stories. Also correspondence, galleys, promotional materials and reviews for major book and editing projects.

Conditions Governing Access: Conditions Governing Access

Materials are restricted. Access requires prior permission from Wesley McNair. Contact Special Collections for more information.

Subseries: Cartoons – 7th and 8th grades, 1953 - 1955. Physical Description: 3 Items.

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Related information

"The cartoon gave me a way to explore two things that became important to my poems, namely, humor and the popular culture."

Subseries: Later cartoons, 1960s - 1990s. Physical Description: 4 Folders.

Subseries: First poems in free verse, 1958 - 1959. Physical Description: 2 Folders. Related information

McNair was reading Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the Beat poets, John Dos Passos, e. e. cummings and T.S. Eliot at this time. "I was doing in these poems what young writers do, trying out a variety of writing styles, not yet ready to assimilate them into a style of my own."

Subseries: Later poems, essays and short stories, mid 1960s -- 2006 and undated. Physical Description: 91 Folders. Arrangement

Loose items arranged alphabetically by title. Each title is in a separate folder, which may contain different versions of the text.

Title/Description Instances Folder E2-1: The abandonment, first published 1989. General

Contents: "The abandonment" (poem).

Folder E2-2: Advice for beginning poets., first published 2003. General

Content: "Advice for beginning poets" (essay).

Folder E2-3: As if the voices in the background when my mother calls., first published 2006. General

Content: "As if the voices in the background when my mother call" (poem).

Folder E2-4: Big dog, little dog., first published 1998. General

Content: "Big dog, little dog" (poem).

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Contents: "The bird man"(poem).

Folder E2-6: Boothed., first published 2003. General

Contents: "Boothed" (essay).

Folder E2-7: The boy carrying the flag., first published 2006. General

Content: "The boy carrying the flag" (poem).

Folder E2-8: Brothers., mid - late 1960s. General

Contents: Brothers (short story, unpublished).

Folder E2-9: The carpenter's leg., Undated (before 2006). General

Contents: "The carpenter's leg" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E2-10: Cars., Undated (before 2006). General

Contents: "Cars" (chapbook, unpublished).

Folder E2-11: Cattails., late 1960s. General

Contents: "Cattails" (short story, unpublished).

Folder E2-12: Charles by accident., first published 2002. General

Contents: "Charles by accident" (poem).

Folder E2-13: The chore., Undated (before 2006). General

Contents: "The chore" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E2-14: Christa McAuliffe and the small - town dream of America., ca. 1987.

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General

Contents: "Christa McAuliffe and the small - town dream of America" (essay, unpublished).

Folder E2-15: Christa McAuliffe in print: A troubling retrospective., ca. 1987. General

Contents: "Christa McAuliffe in print: A troubling retrospective" (essay, unpublished).

Folder E3-1: The client., Undated (before 2006). General

Contents: "The client" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E3-2: Coming for Brad Newcomb., first published 1993. General

Contents: "Coming for Brad Newcomb" (poem).

Folder E3-3: Craft and technique: Four poets., first published 1997. General

Contents: "Craft and technique: Four poets" (essay).

Folder E3-4: [The crossing]., late 1960s. General

Contents: "[The crossing]" (short story, unpublished).

Folder E3-5: Currants., mid-late 1960s. General

Contents: "Currants" (short story, unpublished).

Folder E3-6: Disavowal., first published 1998. General

Contents: "Disavowal" (poem).

Folder E3-7: Discovering Emily Dickinson., first published 2000. General

Contents: "Discovering Emily Dickinson" (essay).

Folder E3-8: The discovery., first published 1995. - Page 46- Finding Aid to the Wesley McNair Papers MCNAIR.1

General

Contents: "The discovery" (poem).

Folder E3-9: Door., mid-late 1960s. General

Contents: "Door" (short story, unpublished).

Folder E3-10: Driving to dark country., first published 2000. General

Contents: "Driving to dark country" (poem).

Folder E3-11: The egg ball., Undated. General

Contents: "The egg ball" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E3-12: Elegy, or eight reflections by the poet on the transience of hair., 1960s - 1970s. General

Contents: "Elegy, or eight reflections by the poet on the transience of hair" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E3-13: Elegy for a college., 2003. General

Contents: "Elegy for a college" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E3-14: Father, daughter., 1960s - 1970s. General

Contents: "Father, daughter" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E3-15: First class in night school., first published 1998. General

Contents: "First class in night school" (poem).

Folder E3-16: Flying on Monhegan Island., first published 1992. General

Contents: "Flying on Monhegan Island" (poem).

Folder E3-17: The forest and the trees., first published 2003.

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Contents: "The forest and the trees" (essay).

Folder E3-18: Francis bound., first published 1993. General

Contents: "Francis bound" (poem).

Folder E3-19: Francis, Frost and the vocation of poetry., Undated (before 2006). General

Contents: "Francis, Frost and the vocation of poetry" (essay, unpublished).

Folder E3-20: The future., first published 1998. General

Contents: "The future" (poem).

Folder E4-1: Glass night., first published 1994. General

Contents: "Glass night" (poem).

Folder E4-2: A goal in life., 1965. General

Contents: "A goal in life" (short story, unpublished).

Folder E4-3: Goodbye to the old life., first published 2001. General

Contents: "Goodbye to the old life" (poem).

Folder E4-4: A government of two., first published 1998. General

Contents: "A government of two" (essay).

Folder E4-5: Happy birthday., 1987. General

Contents: "Happy birthday" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E4-6: Heads., mid 1990s.

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Contents: "Heads" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E4-7: Her shyness., Undated (before 2006). General

Contents: "Her shyness" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E4-8: His stepfather's house., Undated (before 2006). General

Contents: "His stepfather's house" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E4-9: History of George B. Yeaton., first published 1996. General

Contents: "History of George B. Yeaton" (poem).

Folder E4-10: Home., first published 2002. General

Contents: "Home" (poem).

Folder E4-11: The house., mid - late 1960s. General

Contents: "The house" (short story, unpublished).

Folder E4-12: House at night while turning., 1960s - 1970s. General

Contents: "House at night while turning" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E4-12: House in spring., first published 1991. General

Contents: "House in spring" (poem).

Folder E4-12: The houses., mid 1990s. General

Contents: "The houses" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E4-12: In my son's room late at night., 1960s - 1970s.

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Contents: "In my son's room late at night" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E4-13: Indirect entry: Notes on poems in progress., ca. 2003. General

Contents: "Indirect entry: Notes on poems in progress" (essay, unpublished).

Folder E4-14: The invention of the present., first published 2002. General

Contents: "The invention of the present" (poem).

Folder E4-15: The invitation., early 1990s. General

Contents: "The invitation" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E4-16: It., first published 2003. General

Contents: "It" (poem).

Folder E5-1: Late nights, waiting for the child., 1969. General

Contents: "Late nights, waiting for the child" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E5-2: Leaving the country house to the landlord, five years later., first published 1970. General

Contents: "Leaving the country house to the landlord, five years later" (poem).

Folder E5-3: The license photo., first published 2004. General

Contents: "The license photo" (poem).

Folder E5-4: The life., first published 2006.

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Contents: "The life" (poem).

Folder E5-5: Love handles., first published 1994. General

Contents: "Love handles" (poem).

Folder E5-6: Love poem., first published 2006. General

Contents: "Love poem" (poem).

Folder E5-7: The lover., first published 1994. General

Contents: "The lover" (poem).

Folder E5-8: The man with the radios., first published 1987. General

Contents: "The man with the radios" (poem).

Folder E5-9: The match., first published 1997. General

Contents: "The match" (poem).

Folder E5-10: Maxine's tunnel., Undated (before 2006). General

Contents: "Maxine's tunnel" (short story, unpublished).

Folder E5-11: The memory of my brother., Undated (before 2006). General

Contents: "The memory of my brother" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E5-12: Merle walks the dog., 1987. General

Contents: "Merle walks the dog" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E5-13: The message., first published 1996.

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Contents: "The message" (poem).

Folder E5-14: Ministers., mid 1990s. General

Contents: "Ministers" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E5-15: Mistakes about heaven., first published 2006. General

Contents: "Mistakes about heaven" (poem).

Folder E5-16: Mother's place., first published 1993. General

Contents: "Mother's place" (poem).

Folder E5-17: My finite eyes., first published 2000. General

Contents: "My finite eyes" (poem).

Folder E5-18: Notes on poets, poets teaching and poetry., first published 1999. General

Contents: "Notes on poets, poets teaching and poetry" (essay).

Folder E5-19: Old cadillacs., first published 1995. General

Contents:" Old cadillacs" (poem).

Folder E5-20: Old gyms., mid 1990s. General

Contents: "Old gyms" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E5-21: On discovering I am late for commencement exercises., 1960s - 1970s. General

Contents: "On discovering I am late for commencement exercises" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E5-22: The one who will save you., first published 1993.

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Contents: "The one who will save you" (poem).

Folder E5-23: Pigeons., mid - late 1960s. General

Contents: "Pigeons" (short story, unpublished).

Folder E5-24: Places in the dark., first published 2001. General

Contents: "Places in the dark" (essay).

Folder E5-25: Planet of the eye., ca. 2003. General

Contents: "Planet of the eye" (essay, unpublished).

Folder E5-26: Poem., mid 1990s. General

Contents: "Poem" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E5-27: Poem for my feet., first published 1994. General

Contents: "Poem for my feet" (poem).

Folder E5-28: Reading poems at the grange meeting in what must be heaven., first published 1992. General

Contents: "Reading poems at the grange meeting in what must be heaven" (poem).

Folder E5-29: The restorer., mid 1990s. General

Contents: "The restorer" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E5-30: The retarded children play baseball., first published 1996. General

Contents: "The retarded children play baseball" (poem).

Folder E5-31: The secret., first published 1993.

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Contents: "The secret" (poem).

Folder E5-32: Seeing Mercer, Maine., first published 1992. General

Contents: "Seeing Mercer, Maine" (poem).

Folder E5-33: Shaking hands., first published 1998. General

Contents: "Shaking hands" (poem).

Folder E5-34: Shovels., first published 2002. General

Contents: "Shovels" (poem).

Folder E5-35: Sleep., first published 2000. General

Contents: "Sleep" (poem).

Folder E5-36: Snowplow on Perham Street., first published 1992. General

Contents: "Snowplow on Perham Street" (poem).

Folder E5-37: Speech., first published 2002. General

Contents: "Speech" (poem).

Folder E5-38: Standard size., mid - late 1960s. General

Contents: "Standard size" (short story, unpublished).

Folder E5-39: A story of the wolf., late 1960s. General

Contents: "A story of the wolf" (short story, unpublished).

Folder E5-40: String., first published 1989.

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Contents: "String" (poem).

Folder E5-41: Sue Reed in Nova Scotia., early 1990s. General

Contents: "Sue Reed in Nova Scotia" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E5-42: Sue Reed walking., first published 1988. General

Contents: "Sue Reed walking" (poem).

Folder E5-43: The surprising Chester Greenwood earmuff parade., Undated (before 2006). General

Contents: "The surprising Chester Greenwood earmuff parade" (short story, unpublished).

Folder E5-44: Talk about time., mid 1990s. General

Contents: "Talk about time" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E5-45: Teaching, I enter a new year., Undated (before 2006). General

Contents: "Teaching, I enter a new year" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E5-46: The things my brother did., early 1990s. General

Contents: "The things my brother did" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E5-47: To my son, dancing., 1968. General

Contents: "To my son, dancing" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E5-48: The triumph of Robert Francis., first published 1996.

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Contents: "The triumph of Robert Francis" (essay).

Folder E5-49: The trouble with hunts., first published 1995. General

Contents: "The trouble with hunts" (poem).

Folder E5-50: Trying to find her teeth., first published 1990. General

Contents: "Trying to find her teeth" (poem).

Folder E5-51: Vietnam poem., 1960s - 1970s. General

Contents: "Vietnam poem" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E5-52: The visit., first published 1989. General

Contents: "The visit" (poem).

Folder E5-53: The voice., mid 1990s. General

Contents: "The voice" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E5-54: Walking in dark town., first published 1992. General

Contents: "Walking in dark town" (poem).

Folder E5-55: Watching cousin Willy and other old family slides., 1960s - 1970s. General

Contents: "Watching cousin Willy and other old family slides" (poem, unpublished).

Folder E5-56: When Paul flew away., first published 1985. General

Contents: "When Paul flew away" (poem).

Folder E5-57: When the trees came for her., first published 1992.

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Contents: "When the trees came for her" (poem)

Folder E5-58: Where are the Quelches., first published 1989. General

Contents: "Where are the Quelches" (poem).

Folder E5-59: Wolf., late 1960s. General

Contents: "Wolf" (short story, unpublished).

Folder E5-60: Woody and the Chester Greenwood earmuff parade., Undated (before 2006). General

Contents: "Woody and the Chester Greenwood earmuff parade" (short story, unpublished).

Folder E5-61: Young man going uphill with a bird., first published 1993. General

Contents: "Young man going uphill with a bird" (poem).

Subseries: Faces of Americans in 1853, 1970s - 1983. Physical Description: 11 Folders. Scope and Contents

Drafts, galleys, correspondence, promotional materials and reviews related to McNair's first volume of poetry (University of Missouri, c1983).

Subseries: The Town of No, mid 1980s - 1990. Physical Description: 8 Folders. Scope and Contents

Drafts, galleys, correspondence, promotional materials and reviews related to McNair's second volume of poetry (David R Godine, c1989). Included are drafts of a play titled "The Town of No" and letters from The Poets Theatre (1990).

Subseries: The Works of Robert Frost, 1988 - 1991 and undated. Physical Description: 8 Folders.

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Scope and Contents

Book excerpts, scripts, correspondence, promotional and other materials related to Robert Frost television program produced by NHPTV to air on PBS 1990-1991.

Subseries: 12 Journeys in Maine, 1992 - 1993. Physical Description: 2 Folders. Scope and Contents

Signatures, proofs, correspondence, promotional materials and reviews related to McNair's third volume of poetry (Coyote Love Press, c1992), with prints by Marjorie Moore.

Subseries: My Brother Running, ca.1986 - 1994. Physical Description: 13 Folders. Scope and Contents

Personal records, drafts, galleys, correspondence, promotional materials and reviews related to McNair's fourth volume of poetry (David R Godine, c1993).

Subseries: The Quotable Moose, 1993 - 1994 and undated. Physical Description: 7 Folders. Scope and Contents

Excerpt drafts, galleys, correspondence, contracts, promotional materials and reviews related to McNair's first anthology (University of New England Press, c1994). Contains poetry, fiction and essays by various contributors.

Subseries: The Dissonant Heart, 1995 and undated. Physical Description: 1 Folder. Scope and Contents

Exhibition documents and reviews for McNair's fifth volume of poetry (Coyote Love Press, c1995), with photocollages by Dozier Bell.

Subseries: The Town of No & My Brother Running, ca.1997 - 1999 and undated. Physical Description: 3 Folders. Scope and Contents

Galleys, signatures, promotional materials and reviews related to McNair's sixth volume of poetry (David R Godine, c1997).

Subseries: Talking in the Dark, 1998 - 1999 and undated. Physical Description: 5 Folders.

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Drafts, galleys, promotional materials and reviews related to McNair's seventh volume of poetry (David R Godine, c1998).

Subseries: Mapping the Heart, 1999 - 2002. Physical Description: 8 Folders. Scope and Contents

Drafts, galleys, and contract related to McNair's first volume of essays (David R Godine, c2001; Carnegie Mellon University Press, c2003).

Subseries: Fire, late 1990s - 2002. Physical Description: 15 Folders. Scope and Contents

Drafts, galleys, correspondence, promotional materials and reviews related to McNair's eighth volume of poetry (David R Godine, c2002). Includes prospectus and proofs for limited edition with Malcolm Cochran.

Subseries: The Maine Poets, 2003 - 2006 and undated. Physical Description: 13 Folders. Scope and Contents

Project correspondence, notes and other materials, drafts, galleys, correspondence, promotional materials and reviews for McNair's second anthology (Down East Books, c2003). Includes galley for 2006 softcover edition.

Subseries: A Place on Water, 2003 - 2004. Physical Description: 8 Folders. Scope and Contents

Project correspondence, drafts, galleys and reviews related to McNair's second volume of essays (Tilbury House, c2004), a collaborative work with Robert Kimber and Bill Roorbach.

Subseries: Contemporary Maine Fiction, 2004 - 2005 and undated. Physical Description: 6 Folders. Scope and Contents

Correspondence, galley and promotional material related to McNair's third anthology (Down East Books, c2005).

Subseries: The Ghosts of You and Me, 2004 - 2006. Physical Description: 15 Folders.

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Drafts, galleys, and correspondence related to McNair's ninth volume of poetry (David R Godine, c2006).

Subseries: "Stan Spoors and the Hornpipe of the Heart", 2006 - 2007. Physical Description: 10 Folders. Scope and Contents

Project correspondence, notes and other items, and drafts related to essay by McNair, contributed to A Healing Touch (edited by Richard Russo, Down East Books, c2008). Includes illustration materials.

Subseries: A Place Called Maine, ca.2008 Physical Description: (in process) Scope and Contents

Drafts, galleys, promotional materials and reviews related to McNair's fourth anthology(Down East Books, c2008). Working title was First Person Maine.

Subseries: Lovers of the Lost, ca.2010. Physical Description: (in process) Scope and Contents

Drafts, galleys, promotional materials and reviews related to McNair's tenth volume of poetry (David R Godine, c2010).

Subseries: Maine in Four Seasons, ca.2010. Physical Description: (in process) Scope and Contents

Drafts, galleys, promotional materials and reviews related to McNair's fifth anthology (Down East Books, c2010).

Subseries: The Words I Chose, ca.2008-2010. Physical Description: (in process) Scope and Contents

Drafts, galleys, promotional materials and reviews related to McNair's memoir (David R Godine, forthcoming).

Subseries: The Lost Child, 2013 - 2014.

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Physical Description: 4 Linear Feet. Scope and Contents

Letters, cards and other mailings between McNair family members.

Conditions Governing Access: Conditions Governing Access

Materials are restricted. Access requires prior permission from Wesley McNair. Contact Special Collections for more information.

Accruals: Accruals

Accruals expected for this series.

Related information

Relevant family information: Parents: Ruth (McNair) Joly, mother; Wilbur McNair, father; Paul Joly, stepfather. Wife: Diane (Reed) McNair, married 24 December 1962. Children: David (stepson), born 1959; Joel (stepson), born 1960; Sean, born 1965; Shanna, born 1969. Siblings: Paul McNair, brother; John McNair, brother (deceased 1986); Patricia (Patty) McNair, half-sister; Allen McNair, Donald McNair, Roger McNair, half-brothers; Karen Novak, stepsister.

Subseries: 1962 - 1974. Physical Description: 5 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder F1-1: 1962 - 1964.

Folder F1-2: 1965, June 30-July 28.

Folder F1-3: 1965, July 29-August.

Folder F1-4: 1966 - 1967.

Folder F1-5: 1968 - 1974.

Subseries: 1975 - 1996. Physical Description: 5 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder F2-1: 1975 - 1978.

Folder F2-2: January 31, 1979 - September 5, 1980.

Folder F2-3: March 28, 1981 - September 4, 1986.

Folder F2-4: January 2, 1987 - September 25, 1988.

Folder F2-5: 1990 - 1996.

Subseries: 1997.

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Physical Description: 6 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder F3-1: 1997, January 7-30.

Folder F3-2: 1997, February 3-25.

Folder F3-3: 1997, March 4-April 30.

Folder F3-4: 1997, May-June.

Folder F3-5: 1997, July-August.

Folder F3-6: 1997, September-December.

Subseries: 1998 - 1999. Physical Description: 8 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder F4-1: 1998, January-February.

Folder F4-2: 1998, March-April.

Folder F4-3: 1998, May-June.

Folder F4-4: 1998, July-November.

Folder F4-5: 1998, December.

Folder F4-6: 1999, January-March.

Folder F4-7: 1999, April-June.

Folder F4-8: 1999, July-December and Undated.

Subseries: 2000 - 2003. Physical Description: 9 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder F5-1: 2000, January-March.

Folder F5-2: 2000, April.

Folder F5-3: 2000, May-December and Undated.

Folder F5-4: 2001, January-August.

Folder F5-5: 2001, September-December.

Folder F5-6: 2002, January-May.

Folder F5-7: 2002, June-December and Undated.

Folder F5-8: 2003.

Folder F5-9: 1995 - 2003, "The Foley Star."

Subseries: 2004 - 2005. - Page 62- Finding Aid to the Wesley McNair Papers MCNAIR.1

Physical Description: 5 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder F6-1: 2004, January-March.

Folder F6-2: 2004, April-December.

Folder F6-3: 2005, January-May.

Folder F6-4: 2005, June-August.

Folder F6-5: 2005, September-December and Undated.

Subseries: Undated (received at Colby March 2006). Physical Description: 3 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder F7-1: Birthday/Father's Day Cards, Undated.

Folder F7-2: Anniversary/Other Cards, Undated.

Folder F7-3: Undated.

Subseries: 2006. Physical Description: 7 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder F8-1: 2006, January-February.

Folder F8-2: 2006, March.

Folder F8-3: 2006, April-May.

Folder F8-4: 2006, June.

Folder F8-5: 2006, July-September.

Folder F8-6: 2006, October-November.

Folder F8-7: 2006, December.

Subseries: 2007. Physical Description: 6 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder F9-1: 2007, January-March.

Folder F9-2: 2007, April-May.

Folder F9-3: 2007, June-August.

Folder F9-4: 2007, September-October.

Folder F9-5: 2007, November.

Folder F9-6: 2007, December and Undated.

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Subseries: 2008. Physical Description: 5 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder F10-1: 2008, January-February.

Folder F10-2: 2008, March-April.

Folder F10-3: 2008, May-July.

Folder F10-4: 2008, August-September.

Folder F10-5: 2008, October-December.

Subseries: 2009. Physical Description: 5 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder F11-1: 2009, January-February.

Folder F11-2: 2009, March-May.

Folder F11-3: 2009, June-July.

Folder F11-4: 2009, August-October.

Folder F11-5: 2009, November-December.

Subseries: 2010. Physical Description: 5 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder F12-1: 2010, January-February.

Folder F12-2: 2010, March-May.

Folder F12-3: 2010, June-July.

Folder F12-4: 2010, August-October.

Folder F12-5: 2010, November-December.

Subseries: 2011. Title/Description Instances Folder F13-1: 2011, January-March.

Folder F13-2: 2011, April-May.

Folder F13-3: 2011, May-August.

Folder F13-4: 2011, August-December.

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Series G: Correspondence - Donald Hall, 1970 - present. Physical Description: 5 Linear Feet. Accruals: Accruals

Accruals expected for this series.

Scope and Contents

Letters, cards and faxes between McNair and his long-time colleague Donald Hall, showing progression in each poet's style and elucidating the philosophical and practical (e.g., publishing) issues involved with writing poetry.

Conditions Governing Access: Conditions Governing Access

Materials are restricted. Access requires prior permission from Wesley McNair. Contact Special Collections for more information.

Subseries: 1976 - 1986. Physical Description: 13 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder G1-1: 1976 - 1979.

Folder G1-2: 1980, January-July.

Folder G1-3: 1980, August-December.

Folder G1-4: 1981.

Folder G1-5: 1982.

Folder G1-6: 1983.

Folder G1-7: 1984, January-May.

Folder G1-8: 1984, June-December.

Folder G1-9: 1985, January-July.

Folder G1-10: 1985, August-December.

Folder G1-11: 1986, January-April.

Folder G1-12: 1986, May-September.

Folder G1-13: 1986, October-December.

Subseries: 1987 - 1990.

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Physical Description: 9 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder G2-1: 1987, January-June.

Folder G2-2: 1987, July-December.

Folder G2-3: 1988, January-May.

Folder G2-4: 1988, July-December.

Folder G2-5: 1989, January-April.

Folder G2-6: 1989, May-July.

Folder G2-7: 1989, August-December.

Folder G2-8: 1990, January-April.

Folder G2-9: 1990, May-December.

Subseries: 1991 - 1993. Physical Description: 8 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder G3-1: 1991, January-May.

Folder G3-2: 1991, June-September.

Folder G3-3: 1991, October-December.

Folder G3-4: 1992, January-May.

Folder G3-5: 1992, June-August.

Folder G3-6: 1992, September-December.

Folder G3-7: 1993, January-May.

Folder G3-8: 1993, June-December.

Subseries: 1994 - 1996. Physical Description: 7 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder G4-1: 1994, January-June.

Folder G4-2: 1994, July-December.

Folder G4-3: 1995, January-June.

Folder G4-4: 1995, July-December.

Folder G4-5: 1996, January-March.

Folder G4-6: 1996, April-July.

Folder G4-7: 1996, August-December.

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Subseries: 1997 - 1999. Physical Description: 7 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder G5-1: 1997, January-June.

Folder G5-2: 1997, July-December.

Folder G5-3: 1998, January-February.

Folder G5-4: 1998, March-September.

Folder G5-5: 1998, October-December.

Folder G5-6: 1999, January-June.

Folder G5-7: 1999, July-December.

Subseries: 2000 - 2002. Physical Description: 9 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder G6-1: 2000, January-March.

Folder G6-2: 2000, April-October.

Folder G6-3: 2000, November-December.

Folder G6-4: 2001, January.

Folder G6-5: 2001, February-April.

Folder G6-6: 2001, May-August.

Folder G6-7: 2001, September-December.

Folder G6-8: 2002, January-March.

Folder G6-9: 2002, April-June.

Subseries: 2002 - 2004. Physical Description: 11 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder G7-1: 2002, July-October.

Folder G7-2: 2002, November- December.

Folder G7-3: 2003, January-May.

Folder G7-4: 2003, June-July.

Folder G7-5: 2003, August-September.

Folder G7-6: 2003, October-December.

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Folder G7-8: 2004, March-May.

Folder G7-9: 2004, June-July.

Folder G7-10: 2004, August-September.

Folder G7-11: 2004, October-December.

Subseries: 2005. Physical Description: 3 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder G8-1: 2005, January-February.

Folder G8-2: 2005, March-May.

Folder G8-3: 2005, September-December.

Subseries: 2006 - 2007. Physical Description: 4 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder G9-1: 2006, January-April.

Folder G9-2: 2006, May-December.

Folder G9-3: 2007, January-May.

Folder G9-4: 2007, June-December.

Subseries: 2008. Physical Description: 3 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder G10-1: 2008, January-March.

Folder G10-2: 2008, April-June.

Folder G10-3: 2008, July-December.

Subseries: 2009. Physical Description: 3 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder G11-1: 2009, January-March.

Folder G11-2: 2009, April-September.

Folder G11-3: 2009, October-December.

Subseries: 2010.

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Physical Description: 4 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder G12-1: 2010, January-March.

Folder G12-2: 2010, April-July.

Folder G12-3: 2010, August-September.

Folder G12-4: 2010, October-December.

Subseries: 2011. Title/Description Instances Folder G13-1: 2011, January-March.

Folder G13-2: 2011, April-September.

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Series H: Correspondence - General, 1970 - present. Physical Description: 80 Linear Feet. Accruals: Accruals

Accruals expected for this series.

Scope and Contents

Letters, postcards, emails, clippings and other material sent to or received from McNair, documenting the daily lives of modern day poets and other individuals. Key correspondents: Bob Begiebing (writer); Dozier Bell (artist); Malcolm Cochran (artist); Peter Harris (poet); Susan Kennedy (writer); Bob Kimber (writer); Jan Owen (artist); Cathie Pelletier (writer); Mike Pride (writer); Bill Roorbach (writer); Phil Schultz (poet); Betty Twitchell (teacher).

Conditions Governing Access: Conditions Governing Access

Materials are restricted. Access requires prior permission from Wesley McNair. Contact Special Collections for more information.

Subseries: Folios. Title/Description Instances Folder F1H1-1: 2010.

Subseries: 1960s - 1970s. Physical Description: 2 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder H1-1: 1960s.

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Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H1-2: 1970s. Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Subseries: 1980 - 1984. Physical Description: 7 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder H1-3: 1980s.

Folder H1-4: 1981.

Folder H1-5: 1982. Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H1-6: 1983. Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H2-1: 1984, January-April. Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H2-2: 1984, May-September. Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H2-3: 1984, October-December. Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Subseries: 1985 - 1989. Physical Description: 19 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder H3-1: 1985, January-June. Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H3-2: 1985, July-December.

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Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H4-1: 1986, January-April. Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H4-2: 1986, May-August. Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H4-3: 1986, September-December. Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H5-1: 1987, January-April. Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H5-2: 1987, May-September. Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H5-3: 1987, October-December. Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H6-1: 1988, January-March. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H6-2: 1988, April-May. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

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Folder H6-3: 1988, June-August. Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H7-1: 1988, September-October. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H7-2: 1988, November-December. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H8-1: 1989, January-March. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H8-2: 1989, April-June. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H8-3: 1989, July-September. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H9-1: 1989, October. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H9-2: 1989, November. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H9-3: 1989, December and undated. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Subseries: 1990 - 1991. Physical Description: 22 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder H10-1: 1990, January. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H10-2: 1990, February.

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Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H10-3: 1990, March. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H10-4: 1990, April. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H11-1: 1990, May. Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H11-2: 1990, June. Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H11-3: 1990, July-September. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H12-1: 1990, October. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H13-1: 1991, January. Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H13-2: 1991, February. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H13-3: 1991, March. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H13-4: 1991, April. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H14-1: 1991, May.

Folder H14-2: 1991, June. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H14-3: 1991, July. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H14-4: 1991, August. Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H14-5: 1991, September. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H15-1: 1991, October. - Page 73- Finding Aid to the Wesley McNair Papers MCNAIR.1

Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H15-2: 1991, November. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H15-3: 1991, December and undated. Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Robert Begiebing

Subseries: 1992 - 1993. Physical Description: 19 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder H16-1: 1992, January. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H16-2: 1992, February.

Folder H16-3: 1992, March. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H16-4: 1992, April.

Folder H17-1: 1992, May. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H17-2: 1992, June. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H17-3: 1992, July.

Folder H17-4: 1992, August. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H18-1: 1992, September. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H18-2: 1992, October. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H18-3: 1992, November.

Folder H19-1: 1992, December and undated.

Folder H20-1: 1993, January. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H20-2: 1993, February. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

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Folder H21-1: 1993, March. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H21-3: 1993, April. Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H22-1: 1993, May. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H22-2: 1993, June. Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H22-3: 1993, July. Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H22-4: 1993, August. Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H23-1: 1993, September. Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H23-2: 1993, October. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H23-3: 1993, November. Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H24-1: 1993, December. Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride

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Subseries: 1994 - 1995. Physical Description: 29 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder H25-1: 1994, January. Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H25-2: 1994, February. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H25-3: 1994, March. Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H26-1: 1994, April. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H26-2: 1994, May. Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H26-3: 1994, June. Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H27-1: 1994, July. Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H27-2: 1994, August. Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H27-3: 1994, September. Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H28-1: 1994, October.

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Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H28-2: 1994, November. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H29-1: 1994, December and undated. Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H30-1: 1995, January. Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H30-2: 1995, February. Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H30-3: 1995, March. Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H31-1: 1995, April. Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H31-2: 1995, May. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H32-1: 1995, June. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H32-2: 1995, July. Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H32-3: 1995, August. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H33-1: 1995, September. - Page 77- Finding Aid to the Wesley McNair Papers MCNAIR.1

Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H33-2: 1995, October. Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H34-1: 1995, November. Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H34-2: 1995, December. Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing

Subseries: 1996. Physical Description: 27 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder H35-1: 1996, January (1/2). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H35-2: 1996, January (2/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H36-1: 1996, February (1/2). Creator: Mike Pride

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Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H37-1: 1996, March (1/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H37-2: 1996, March (2/3). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H37-3: 1996, March (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H38-1: 1996, April (1/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Phil Shultz

Folder H38-2: 1996, April (2/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H38-3: 1996, April (3/3).

Folder H39-1: 1996, May (1/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H39-2: 1996, May (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H39-3: 1996, May (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H40-1: 1996, June. Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell

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Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H40-3: 1996, August.

Folder H41-1: 1996, September. Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H41-2: 1996, October (1/2). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H41-3: 1996, October (2/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H42-1: 1996, November (1/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H42-2: 1996, November (2/3). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H42-3: 1996, November (3/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H43-1: 1996, December (1/3). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H43-2: 1996, December (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H43-3: 1996, December (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H43-4: 1996, undated.

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Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H43-5: 1996, restricted. Creator: Dozier Bell

Subseries: 1997. Physical Description: 36 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder H44-1: 1997, January (1/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H44-2: 1997, January (2/2). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H45-1: 1997, February (1/2). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H45-2: 1997, February (2/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H46-1: 1997, March (1/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H46-2: 1997, March (2/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H47-1: 1997, April (1/2). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H47-2: 1997, April (2/2). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H48-1: 1997, May (1/3). Creator: Robert Kimber

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Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H48-2: 1997, May (2/3). Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H48-3: 1997, May (3/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H49-1: 1997, June (1/3). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H49-2: 1997, June (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H49-3: 1997, June (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H50-1: 1997, July (1/2). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H50-2: 1997, July (2/2). Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H51-1: 1997, August (1/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H51-2: 1997, August (2/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H51-3: 1997, August (3/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H52-1: 1997, September (1/3). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H52-2: 1997, September (2/3). Creator: Dozier Bell

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Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H52-3: 1997, September (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H53-1: 1997, October (1/5). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H53-2: 1997, October (2/5). Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H53-3: 1997, October (3/5). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H54-1: 1997, October (4/5).

Folder H54-2: 1997, October (5/5). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H55-1: 1997, November (1/4). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H55-2: 1997, November (2/4). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H56-1: 1997, November (3/4) Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H56-2: 1997, November (4/4). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H57-1: 1997, December (1/3). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H57-2: 1997, December (2/3). Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H58-1: 1997, December (3/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Robert Kimber

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Folder H58-2: 1997, undated. Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H58-3: 1997, restricted. Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing

Subseries: 1998. Physical Description: 36 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder H59-1: 1998, January (1/3). Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H59-2: 1998, January (2/3). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H59-3: 1998, January (3/3). Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H60-1: 1998, February (1/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H60-2: 1998, February (2/3). Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H60-3: 1998, February (3/3). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H61-1: 1998, March (1/3). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H61-2: 1998, March (2/3).

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Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H61-3: 1998, March (3/3). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H62-1: 1998, April (1/2). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H62-2: 1998, April (2/2). Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H63-1: 1998, May (1/2). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H63-2: 1998, May (2/2). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H64-1: 1998, June (1/3). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H64-2: 1998, June (2/3). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H64-3: 1998, June (3/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H65-1: 1998, July (1/2). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H65-2: 1998, July (2/2). - Page 85- Finding Aid to the Wesley McNair Papers MCNAIR.1

Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H66-1: 1998, August (1/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H66-2: 1998, August (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H66-3: 1998, August (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H67-1: 1998, September (1/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H67-2: 1998, September (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H67-3: 1998, September (3/3). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H68-1: 1998, October (1/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H68-2: 1998, October (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H68-3: 1998, October (3/3). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H69-1: 1998, November (1/3). - Page 86- Finding Aid to the Wesley McNair Papers MCNAIR.1

Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H69-2: 1998, November (2/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H70-1: 1998, November (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H70-2: 1998, December (1/4). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H71-1: 1998, December (2/4). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H71-2: 1998, December (3/4). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H72-1: 1998, December (4/4). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H72-2: 1998, undated.

Folder H72-3: 1998, restricted.

Subseries: 1999. Physical Description: 36 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder H73-1: 1999, January (1/4). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Malcolm Cochran

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Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H73-2: 1999, January (2/4). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H74-1: 1999, January (3/4). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H74-2: 1999, January (4/4). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H75-1: 1999, February (1/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H75-2: 1999, February (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H75-3: 1999, February (3/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H76-1: 1999, March (1/3). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H76-2: 1999, March (2/3). Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H76-3: 1999, March (3/3).

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Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H77-1: 1999, April (1/3). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H77-2: 1999, April (2/3). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H77-3: 1999, April (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H78-1: 1999, May (1/2). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H78-2: 1999, May (2/2). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H79-1: 1999, June (1/4). Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H79-2: 1999, June (2/4). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H80-1: 1999, June (3/4). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Dozier Bell

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Folder H80-2: 1999, June (4/4).

Folder H81-1: 1999, July (1/3). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H81-2: 1999, July (2/3). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H82-1: 1999, July (3/3). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H82-2: 1999, August (1/2). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H82-3: 1999, August (2/2). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H83-1: 1999, September (1/2). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H83-2: 1999, September (2/2). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H84-1: 1999, October (1/3).

Folder H84-2: 1999, October (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H84-3: 1999, October (3/3). Creator: Dozier Bell

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Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H85-1: 1999, November (1/3). Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H85-2: 1999, November (2/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H85-3: 1999, November (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H86-1: 1999, December (1/3). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H86-2: 1999, December (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H87-1: 1999, December (3/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H87-2: 1999, undated.

Subseries: 2000. Physical Description: 28 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder H88-1: 2000, January (1/2).

Folder H88-2: 2000, January (2/2). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H89-1: 2000, February (1/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H89-2: 2000, February (2/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H89-3: 2000, February (3/3).

Folder H90-1: 2000, March (1/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran

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Folder H90-2: 2000, March (2/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H90-3: 2000, March (3/3). Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H91-1: 2000, April (1/2). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H91-2: 2000, April (2/2). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H91-3: 2000, May (1/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H92-1: 2000, May (2/2). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H92-2: 2000, June. Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H93-1: 2000, July (1/2). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H93-2: 2000, July (2/2). Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H93-3: 2000, August (1/3). Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H94-1: 2000, August (2/3).

Folder H94-2: 2000, August (3/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H95-1: 2000, September (1/3).

Folder H95-2: 2000, September (2/3). Creator: Peter Harris

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Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H95-3: 2000, September (3/3). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H96-1: 2000, October (1/2).

Folder H96-2: 2000, October (2/2).

Folder H97-1: 2000, November (1/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H97-2: 2000, November (2/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H97-3: 2000, November (3/3).

Folder H98-1: 2000, December (1/2). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H98-2: 2000, December (2/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Subseries: 2001. Physical Description: 33 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder H99-1: 2001, January (1/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H99-2: 2001, January (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H99-3: 2001, January (3/3). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H100-1: 2001, February (1/3). Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H100-2: 2001, February (2/3). - Page 93- Finding Aid to the Wesley McNair Papers MCNAIR.1

Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H100-3: 2001, February (3/3). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H101-1: 2001, March (1/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H101-2: 2001, March (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H101-3: 2001, March (3/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H102-1: 2001, April (1/2). Creator: Susan Kenney

Folder H102-2: 2001, April (2/2). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H102-3: 2001, May (1/2). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H103-1: 2001, May (2/2). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H103-2: 2001, June (1/2). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H103-3: 2001, June (2/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H104-1: 2001, July (1/2).

Folder H104-2: 2001, July (2/2). - Page 94- Finding Aid to the Wesley McNair Papers MCNAIR.1

Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H104-3: 2001, August (1/3). Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H105-1: 2001, August (2/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H105-2: 2001, August (3/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H106-1: 2001, September (1/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H106-2: 2001, September (2/3). Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H106-3: 2001, September (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H107-1: 2001, October (1/3). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H107-2: 2001, October (2/3). Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H107-3: 2001, October (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H108-1: 2001, November (1/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H108-2: 2001, November (2/3). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H108-3: 2001, November (3/3).

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Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H109-1: 2001, December (1/4). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H109-2: 2001, December (2/4). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H110-1: 2001, December (3/4). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H110-2: 2001, December (4/4). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Subseries: 2002. Physical Description: 39 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder H111-1: 2002, January (1/3). Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H111-2: 2002, January (2/3).

Folder H111-3: 2002, January (3/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H112-1: 2002, February (1/3).

Folder H112-2: 2002, February (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H112-3: 2002, February (3/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H113-1: 2002, March (1/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H113-2: 2002, March (2/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran

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Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H113-3: 2002, March (3/3). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H114-1: 2002, April (1/3). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H114-2: 2002, April (2/3).

Folder H114-3: 2002, April (3/3). Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H115-1: 2002, May (1/3).

Folder H115-2: 2002, May (2/3).

Folder H115-3: 2002, May (3/3). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H116-1: 2002, June (1/3).

Folder H116-2: 2002, June (2/3). Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H116-3: 2002, June (3/3). Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H117-1: 2002, July (1/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H117-2: 2002, July (2/3). Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H117-3: 2002, July (3/3). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Susan Kenney

Folder H118-1: 2002, August (1/3).

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Folder H118-2: 2002, August (2/3). Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H118-3: 2002, August (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H119-1: 2002, September (1/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H119-2: 2002, September (2/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H119-3: 2002, September (3/3). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H120-1: 2002, October (1/4). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H120-2: 2002, October (2/4). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H121-1: 2002, October (3/4). Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H121-2: 2002, October (4/4). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H122-1: 2002, November (1/3). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Cathie Pelletier

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Folder H122-2: 2002, November (2/3). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H122-3: 2002, November (3/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H123-1: 2002, December (1/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H123-2: 2002, December (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H123-3: 2002, December (3/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H124-1: 2002, undated. Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H124-2: 2002, restricted. Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Subseries: 2003. Physical Description: 29 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder H125-1: 2003, January (1/2). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H125-2: 2003, January (2/2). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H126-1: 2003, February (1/2). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Robert Kimber

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Folder H126-2: 2003, February (2/2). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H127-1: 2003, March (1/2). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H127-2: 2003, March (2/2). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H128-1: 2003, April (1/2). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H128-2: 2003, April (2/2). Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H129-1: 2003, May (1/2). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H129-2: 2003, May (2/2). Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H130-1: 2003, June (1/3). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H130-2: 2003, June (2/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H130-3: 2003, June (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H131-1: 2003, July (1/2).

Folder H131-2: 2003, July (2/2). Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H132-1: 2003, August (1/2). Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H132-2: 2003, August (2/2). Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H133-1: 2003, September (1/3).

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Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H133-2: 2003, September (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Susan Kenney

Folder H133-3: 2003, September (3/3). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H134-1: 2003, October (1/2). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H134-2: 2003, October (2/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H135-1: 2003, November (1/3). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H135-2: 2003, November (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H136-1: 2003, November (3/3). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H136-2: 2003, December (1/2). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride

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Folder H137-1: 2003, December (1/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H137-2: 2003, undated.

Folder H137-3: 2003, restricted.

Subseries: 2004. Physical Description: 28 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder H138-1: 2004, January (1/3). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H138-2: 2004, January (2/3). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H139-1: 2004, January (3/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H139-2: 2004, February (1/3). Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H140-1: 2004, February (2/3). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H140-2: 2004, February (3/3). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H141-1: 2004, March (1/2). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing

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Folder H141-2: 2004, March (2/2). Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H142-1: 2004, April (1/2). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H142-2: 2004, April (2/2). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H143-1: 2004, May (1/3). Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H143-2: 2004, May (2/3). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H144-1: 2004, May (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H144-2: 2004, June (1/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H145-1: 2004, June 2004 (2/2). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H145-2: 2004, July. Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H146-1: 2004, August (1/2). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H146-2: 2004, August (2/2). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach

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Folder H147-1: 2004, September (1/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H147-2: 2004, September (2/2). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H148-1: 2004, October (1/2). Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H148-2: 2004, October (2/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H149-1: 2004, November (1/2). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H149-2: 2004, November (2/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H150-1: 2004, December (1/2). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H150-2: 2004, December (2/2). Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H151-1: 2004, undated.

Folder H151-2: 2004, restricted. Creator: Peter Harris

Subseries: 2005. Physical Description: 50 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder H152-1: 2005, January (1/2).

Folder H152-2: 2005, January (2/2). Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H153-1: 2005, February (1/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier

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Folder H153-2: 2005, February (2/3). Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H153-3: 2005, February (3/3). Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H154-1: 2005, Bellagio (1/3). Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H154-2: 2005, Bellagio (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H154-3: 2005, Bellagio (3/3).

Folder H155-1: 2005, March (1/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H155-2: 2005, March (2/3). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H155-3: 2005, March (3/3). Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H156-1: 2005, April (1/2). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

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Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H156-2: 2005, April (2/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H157-1: 2005, May (1/5). Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H157-2: 2005, May (2/5). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H157-3: 2005, May (3/5). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H157-4: 2005, May (4/5). Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H157-5: 2005, May (5/5). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H158-1: 2005, June (1/4). Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H158-2: 2005, June (2/4). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H158-3: 2005, June (3/4). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Susan Kenney

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Folder H158-4: 2005, June (4/4). Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H159-1: 2005, July (1/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H159-2: 2005, July (2/3). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H159-3: 2005, July (3/3). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Susan Kenney

Folder H160-1: 2005, August (1/5). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H160-2: 2005, August (2/5). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H160-3: 2005, August (3/5). Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H160-4: 2005, August (4/5). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H160-5: 2005, August (5/5). Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H161-1: 2005, September (1/6).

Folder H161-2: 2005, September (2/6). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H161-3: 2005, September (3/6). Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Cathie Pelletier

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Folder H162-1: 2005, September (4/6). Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H162-2: 2005, September (5/6). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Susan Kenney

Folder H162-3: 2005, September (6/6). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Susan Kenney

Folder H163-1: 2005, October (1/7). Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H163-2: 2005, October (2/7). Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H163-3: 2005, October (3/7). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H164-1: 2005, October (4/7). Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H164-2: 2005, October (5/7). Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H165-1: 2005, October (6/7). Creator: Robert Kimber

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Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H165-2: 2005, October (7/7). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H166-1: 2005, November (1/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H166-2: 2005, November (2/2). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Jan Owen Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H167-1: 2005, December (1/2). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H167-2: 2005, December (2/2). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H168-1: 2005, undated.

Folder H168-2: 2005, restricted.

Folder H168-3: 2005, Special Collections file.

Subseries: 2006. Physical Description: 58 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder H169-1: 2006, January (1/3). Creator: Betty Twitchell

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Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H169-2: 2006, January (2/3). Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H169-3: 2006, January (3/3). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H170-1: 2006, February (1/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H170-2: 2006, February (2/3). Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H170-3: 2006, February (3/3). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H171-1: 2006, March (1/4). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H171-2: 2006, March (2/4). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Jan Owen

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Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H172-1: 2006, March (3/4). Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H172-2: 2006, March (4/4). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Healy, James Augustine, 1830-1900 (Roman Catholic Bishop)

Folder H173-1: 2006, April (1/5). Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H173-2: 2006, April (2/5). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H174-1: 2006, April (3/5). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H174-2: 2006, April (4/5). Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H174-3: 2006, April (5/5). Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H175-1: 2006, May (1/4).

Folder H175-2: 2006, May (2/4).

Folder H175-3: 2006, May (3/4).

Folder H176-1: 2006, May (4/4).

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Folder H176-3: 2006, June (2/4).

Folder H177-1: 2006, June (3/4).

Folder H177-2: 2006, June (4/4).

Folder H178-1: 2006, July (1/4).

Folder H178-2: 2006, July (2/4).

Folder H178-3: 2006, July (3/4).

Folder H179-1: 2006, July (4/4).

Folder H179-2: 2006, August (1/5).

Folder H179-3: 2006, August (2/5).

Folder H180-1: 2006, August (3/5).

Folder H180-2: 2006, August (4/5).

Folder H180-3: 2006, August (5/5).

Folder H181-1: 2006, September (1/4).

Folder H181-2: 2006, September (2/4).

Folder H181-3: 2006, September (3/4).

Folder H182-1: 2006, September (4/4).

Folder H182-2: 2006, October (1/6).

Folder H183-1: 2006, October (2/6).

Folder H183-2: 2006, October (3/6).

Folder H183-3: 2006, October (4/6).

Folder H184-1: 2006, October (5/6).

Folder H184-2: 2006, October (6/6).

Folder H185-1: 2006, November (1/6).

Folder H185-2: 2006, November (2/6).

Folder H185-3: 2006, November (3/6).

Folder H186-1: 2006, November (4/6).

Folder H186-2: 2006, November (5/6).

Folder H186-3: 2006, November (6/6).

Folder H187-1: 2006, December (1/6).

Folder H187-2: 2006, December (2/6).

Folder H187-3: 2006, December (3/6).

Folder H188-1: 2006, December (4/6).

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Folder H188-2: 2006, December (5/6).

Folder H188-3: 2006, December (6/6).

Folder H189-1: 2006, undated.

Folder H189-2: 2006, restricted (1/2).

Folder H189-3: 2006, restricted (2/2).

Folder H189-4: 2006, Special Collections file.

Subseries: 2007. Physical Description: 41 Folders.

Title/Description Instances Folder H190-1: 2007, January (1/4). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H190-2: 2007, January (2/4). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H190-3: 2007, January (3/4). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H191-1: 2007, January (4/4). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H191-2: 2007, February (1/3).

Folder H191-3: 2007, February (2/3). Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H192-1: 2007, February (3/3). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H192-2: 2007, March (1/3). Creator: Cathie Pelletier

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Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H192-3: 2007, March (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H193-1: 2007, March (3/3). Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H193-2: 2007, April (1/4). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H193-3: 2007, April (2/4). Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H194-1: 2007, April (3/4). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H194-2: 2007, April (4/4). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H194-3: 2007, May (1/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H195-1: 2007, May (2/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H195-2: 2007, May (3/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Kimber

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Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H195-3: 2007, June (1/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H196-1: 2007, June (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H196-2: 2007, June (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H196-3: 2007, July (1/3). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H196-4: 2007, July (2/3).

Folder H197-1: 2007, July (3/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H197-2: 2007, August (1/2). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H197-3: 2007, August (2/2). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H198-1: 2007, September (1/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H198-2: 2007, September (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride

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Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H198-3: 2007, September (3/3). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H199-1: 2007, October (1/3). Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H199-2: 2007, October (2/3). Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H199-3: 2007, October (3/3). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H200-1: 2007, November (1/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H200-2: 2007, November (2/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H200-3: 2007, November (3/3). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H201-1: 2007, December (1/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H201-2: 2007, December (2/3).

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Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H201-3: 2007, December (3/3). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H202-1: 2007, undated.

Folder H202-2: 2007, restricted (1/2).

Folder H202-3: 2007, restricted (2/2).

Folder H202-4: 2007, Special Collections file.

Subseries: 2008. Physical Description: (in process)

Title/Description Instances Folder H203-1: 2008, January (1/3). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H203-2: 2008, January (2/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H203-3: 2008, January (3/3). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Peter Harris

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Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H204-1: 2008, February (1/2). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H204-2: 2008, February (2/2). Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H204-3: 2008, March (1/3). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H205-1: 2008, March (2/3). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Mike Pride

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Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H206-1: 2008, April (1/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H206-2: 2008, April (2/3). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H207-1: 2008, April (3/3). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H207-2: 2008, May (1/2). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Peter Harris Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H208-1: 2008, May (2/2). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H208-2: 2008, June (1/2). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H208-3: 2008, June (2/2).

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Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H209-1: 2008, July (1/2). Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H209-2: 2008, July (2/2). Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H209-3: 2008, August (1/2). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H210-1: 2008, August (2/2). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H210-2: 2008, September (1/2). Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H210-3: 2008, September (2/2). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Phil Shultz

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Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H211-1: 2008, October (1/2). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H211-2: 2008, October (2/2). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H212-1: 2008, November (1/3). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H212-2: 2008, November (2/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Phil Shultz

Folder H213-1: 2008, November (3/3). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H213-2: 2008, December (1/3). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Phil Shultz

Folder H214-1: 2008, December (2/3). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen

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Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H214-2: 2008, December (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H214-3: 2008, undated.

Folder H214-4: 2008, restricted.

Folder H214-5: 2008, Special Collections file.

Subseries: 2009. Physical Description: (in process)

Title/Description Instances Folder H215-1: 2009, January (1/3). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H215-2: 2009, January (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H215-3: 2009, January (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H216-1: 2009, February (1/3). Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H216-2: 2009, February (2/3). Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H217-1: 2009, February (3/3).

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Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H217-2: 2009, March (1/3). Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H218-1: 2009, March (2/3). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H218-2: 2009, March (3/3). Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H219-1: 2009, April (1/4). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Dozier Bell

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Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H219-3: 2009, April (3/4). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H220-1: 2009, April (4/4). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H220-2: 2009, May (1/4). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H220-3: 2009, May (2/4). Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H221-1: 2009, May (3/4). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H221-2: 2009, May (4/4). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H222-1: 2009, June (1/3). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H222-2: 2009, June (2/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H222-3: 2009, June (3/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H223-1: 2009, July (1/3). Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Jan Owen

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Folder H223-2: 2009, July (2/3). Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H224-1: 2009, July (3/3). Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H224-2: 2009, August (1/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H225-1: 2009, August (2/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H225-2: 2009, September (1/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H225-3: 2009, September (2/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H226-1: 2009, September (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H226-2: 2009, October (1/4). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H226-3: 2009, October (2/4). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride

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Folder H227-1: 2009, October (3/4). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H227-2: 2009, October (4/4). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H227-3: 2009, November (1/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H228-1: 2009, November (2/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H228-2: 2009, November (3/3).

Folder H228-3: 2009, December (1/3). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H229-1: 2009, December (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H229-2: 2009, December (3/3). Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H229-3: 2009, undated (1/2).

Folder H230-1: 2009, undated (2/2).

Folder H230-2: 2009, restricted.

Subseries: 2010. Physical Description: (in process)

Title/Description Instances Folder H231-1: 2010, January (1/4).

Folder H231-2: 2010, January (2/4). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride

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Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Phil Shultz

Folder H232-1: 2010, January (4/4). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H232-2: 2010, February (1/4). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H232-3: 2010, February (2/4). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H233-1: 2010, February (3/4). Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H233-2: 2010, February (4/4). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H234-1: 2010, March (1/5). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H234-2: 2010, March (2/5).

Folder H234-3: 2010, March (3/5). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H235-1: 2010, March (4/5). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Phil Shultz

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Folder H235-2: 2010, March (5/5). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H235-3: 2010, April (1/5). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H236-1: 2010, April (2/5). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H236-2: 2010, April (3/5). Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H236-3: 2010, April (4/5). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Phil Shultz

Folder H237-1: 2010, April (5/5). Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H237-2: 2010, May (1/4). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H237-3: 2010, May (2/4). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H238-1: 2010, May (3/4). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Jan Owen

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Creator: Phil Shultz

Folder H238-2: 2010, May (4/4). Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H238-3: 2010, June (1/3). Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H239-1: 2010, June (2/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H239-2: 2010, June (3/3). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H239-3: 2010, July (1/2). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H240-1: 2010, July (2/2). Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H240-2: 2010, August (1/2). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H240-3: 2010, August (2/2). Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H241-1: 2010, September (1/3).

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Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H241-2: 2010, September (2/3). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach

Folder H241-3: 2010, September (3/3). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H242-1: 2010, October (1/4). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H242-2: 2010, October (2/4). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H242-3: 2010, October (3/4). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H243-1: 2010, October (4/4). Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H243-2: 2010, November (1/4). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H244-1: 2010, November (2/4). Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H244-2: 2010, November (3/4). Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride

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Folder H244-3: 2010, November (4/4). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H245-1: 2010, December (1/4). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H245-2: 2010, December (2/4). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H245-3: 2010, December (3/4). Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H246-1: 2010, December (4/4). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Phil Shultz

Folder H246-2: 2010, undated.

Folder H246-3: 2010, restricted.

Folder H247-1: 2010, Special Collections file (1/2).

Folder H247-2: 2010, Special Collections file (2/2).

Subseries: 2011. Physical Description: (in process)

Title/Description Instances Folder H248-1: 2011, January (1/3). Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H248-2: 2011, January (2/3). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Malcolm Cochran

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Folder H249-1: 2011, January (3/3). Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H249-2: 2011, February (1/3). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H250-1: 2011, February (2/3). Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H250-2: 2011, February (3/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H251-1: 2011, March (1/2). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H251-2: 2011, March (2/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Betty Twitchell

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Folder H252-1: 2011, April (1/3). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H252-2: 2011, April (2/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H253-1: 2011, April (3/3). Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H253-2: 2011, May (1/2). Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H254-1: 2011, May (2/2). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H254-2: 2011, June (1/3). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H255-1: 2011, June (2/3). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: William Roorbach

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Folder H255-2: 2011, June (3/3). Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H256-1: 2011, July (1/1). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H256-2: 2011, August (1/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H257-1: 2011, August (2/2). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H257-2: 2011, September (1/2). Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Dozier Bell

Folder H258-1: 2011, September (2/2). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H258-2: 2011, October (1/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H259-1: 2011, October (2/3). Creator: Dozier Bell Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H259-2: 2011, October (3/3).

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Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H260-1: 2011, November (1/2). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H260-2: 2011, November (2/2). Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H261-1: 2011, December (1/2). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Jan Owen Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H261-2: 2011, December (2/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Phil Shultz Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H262-1: 2011, Poet Laureate Nomination (1/2). Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Peter Harris Creator: Jan Owen

Folder H262-2: 2011, Poet Laureate Nomination (2/2). Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H263-1: 2011, Special Collections File (1/2). Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H263-2: 2011, Special Collections File (2/2). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran

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Subseries: 2012. Title/Description Instances Folder H263-1: 2012, January (1/2). Creator: Joshua Bodwell Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Peter Harris

Folder H263-2: 2012, January (2/2). Creator: Joshua Bodwell Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Gibson Fay-LeBlanc Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H264-1: 2012, February (1/3). Creator: Joshua Bodwell Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Gibson Fay-LeBlanc

Folder H264-2: 2012, February (2/3). Creator: Joshua Bodwell Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H264-3: 2012, February (3/3). Creator: Joshua Bodwell Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H265-1: 2012, March (1/3). Creator: Thomas Smith Creator: Joshua Bodwell Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Robert Begiebing

Folder H265-2: 2012, March (2/3). Creator: Joshua Bodwell

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Creator: Gibson Fay-LeBlanc Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H266-1: 2012, March (3/3). Creator: Joshua Bodwell Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Betty Twitchell Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H266-2: 2012, April (1/3). Creator: Joshua Bodwell Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Betty Twitchell

Folder H267-1: 2012, April (2/3). Creator: Joshua Bodwell Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H267-2: 2012, April (3/3). Creator: Joshua Bodwell Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H268-1: 2012, May (1/3). Creator: Joshua Bodwell Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Susan Kenney Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Malcolm Cochran

Folder H268-2: 2012, May (2/3). Creator: Robert Kimber Creator: Joshua Bodwell Creator: Mike Pride Creator: William Roorbach

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Folder H269-1: 2012, May (3/3). Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Joshua Bodwell Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Cathie Pelletier

Folder H269-2: 2012, June (1/3). Creator: Mike Pride Creator: Robert Begiebing Creator: Malcolm Cochran Creator: Joshua Bodwell Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: William Roorbach Creator: Robert Kimber

Folder H269-3: 2012, June (2/3). Creator: Joshua Bodwell Creator: Cathie Pelletier Creator: Mike Pride

Folder H270-1: 2012, July (1/2).

Folder H270-2: 2012, July (2/2).

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Series I: College / Teaching / Other Professional Materials, 1960 - present. Physical Description: 16 Linear Feet. Accruals: Accruals

Accruals expected for this series.

Related information

Career milestones: 1963: Keene State College (B.A., English). 1963-1964: Hillsboro-Deering High School, NH (English teacher for grades 11 and 12). 1964-1968: New London Central High School, NH (English teacher for grades 10 and 11). 1968: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf School of English (M.A.). 1968-1987: Colby-Sawyer College, NH (English instructor, assistant professor, associate professor). 1975: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf School of English (M. Litt.). Spring 1978: Marietta College, OH (NEA Poet-in-Residence). 1977-1978: Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile (Senior Fulbright professor). Spring 1979: University of Chile and other Chilean universities, Santiago, Chile et.al. (American Specialist in American Studies). 1984: Dartmouth College, NH (visiting associate professor). 1987-2004: University of Maine, Farmington (associate professor, then full

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Scope and Contents

College-related materials, employment applications and correspondence, curricula vitae, contracts, notes, syllabi, class evaluations, workshop handouts and other items documenting McNair's college education and teaching career, also teaching activities after his UMF retirement in 2004.

Conditions Governing Access: Conditions Governing Access

Materials are restricted. Access requires prior permission from Wesley McNair. Contact Special Collections for more information.

Subseries: Keene Teachers College, 1960 - 1963. Physical Description: 7 Folders. Scope and Contents

College writings, student satirical publications, materials related to spring 1963 Concord NH protest march and yearbook. McNair received a B.A.(English) degree from Keene Teachers College (now Keene State College) in 1963.

Subseries: New London High School / Middlebury College, 1965 - 1968. Physical Description: 2 Folders. Scope and Contents

Materials from McNair's English teaching position at New London Central School (New London NH, grades 10 and 11, 1964 - 1968) and Middlebury College materials leading to Bread Loaf School of English M.A. degree in 1968.

Subseries: Colby Junior College / Middlebury College, 1968 - 1976. Physical Description: 14 Folders. Scope and Contents

McNair's teaching materials at Colby Junior College for Women (now Colby-Sawyer College. Also Middlebury College materials leading to Bread Loaf School of English M.Litt. degree in 1975.

Subseries: Catholic University of Chile, 1977 - 1980. Physical Description: 6 Folders.

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Scope and Contents

McNair's teaching materials at the Catholic University of Chile as senior Fulbright professor of American literature and civilization, 1977-1978. Also masters program proposal materials adted 1979-1980.

Subseries: Colby-Sawyer College / Dartmouth College, late 1970s - 1986 and undated. Physical Description: 18 Folders. Scope and Contents

McNair's correspondence, lecture notes and other course materials as assistant professor, then associate professor, at Colby-Sawyer College. Also English course notes and other materials while visiting associate professor at Dartmouth College (1984) and Guggenheim Foundation application materials leading to 1986 award.

Subseries: University of Maine at Farmington, 1987 - 2004. Physical Description: 13 Folders. Scope and Contents

McNair's UMF teaching materials 1987 to his retirement in 2004. Also materials related to adjunct teaching positions at University of Southern Maine, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Stonecoast MFA Program, and Colby College as well as symposia and workshops at poetry festivals, Maine Writers and Publishers retreats, Maine Humanities Council events, and elsewhere.

Subseries: Professor emeritus / post-retirement workshops, 2005 - present. Physical Description: (9 folders processed to date) Scope and Contents

Documentation of McNair's post-retirement teaching activities at UMF and elsewhere.

Subseries: Maine Poet Laureate, 2011 - present.

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Series J: First Appearances, 1970 - present. Physical Description: 6 Linear Feet. Accruals: Accruals

Accruals expected for this series.

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Scope and Contents

McNair's poems and essays, and related articles, as they first appeared in serial publications.

Title/Description Instances Leaving the Country House to the Landlord (Poetry Northwest, Vol. X, No. 4), 1970

Fire in Enfield (Hearse, No. 16), 1971

Don Greenwood's Picture in an Insurance Magazine (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XI, No. 4), 1971

Thinking About Carnevale's Wife (Hanging Loose, No. 17), 1972

Memory of Kuhre (Prairie Schooner, Vol. 46, No. 3), 1972

Review of Barry Faulkner: Sketches of an Artist's Life (Historical , Vol. XXIX, No. 1), 1974

Going Back to Fifth Grade (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XV, No. 4), 1975

The Faces of Americans in 1853 (Prairie Schooner, Vol. 49, No. 4), 1976

Rufus Porter (Discover America: Poems, Vol. II), 1976

The Little Louey Comic (Poetry Now, Vol. III, Nos. 4-6), 1976

Rufus Porter, Itinerant Muralist and Inventor (Green House, Vol. 1, No. 3), 1977

For My Father (Green House, Vol. II, No. 1), 1978

Memory of North Sutton (The Boston Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5), 1979

The Man (The Boston Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5), 1979

Country People (The Boston Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5), 1979

The Poetic License (Poetry, Vol. CXXXVI, No. 5), 1980

Hair on Television (Poetry, Vol. CXXXVIII, No. 3), 1981

The Fat Enter Heaven (Poetry, Vol. CXXXVIII, No. 3), 1981

Trees That Pass Us in Our Cars (The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 248, No. 3), 1981

The Longing of the Feet (The Iowa Review, Vol. 13, Nos. 3-4), 1982

The Thin Man (Harvard Magazine, Vol. 84, No. 4), 1982

Old Trees (Ploughshares, Vol. 8, Nos. 2-3), 1982

The Fat People of the Old Days (Ploughshares, Vol. 8, Nos. 2-3), 1982

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Calling Harold (Ploughshares, Vol. 8, Nos. 2-3), 1982

New Hampshire Literature: A Sampler (Vermont History, Vol. 50, No. 3), 1982

Mina Bell's Cows (The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 251, No. 2), 1983

Small Towns are Passing (Poetry, Vol. CXLI, No. 5), 1983

Wesley McNair: Poet (New Hampshire Times, Vol. 13, No. 39), 1984

The Last Time Shorty Towers Fetched the Cows (The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 253, No. 4), 1984

Poems for the Back Pockets of America (Concord Monitor), 1984-04-27

Bringing Poetry's Images Back to People (Valley News), 1984-05-14

My Brother Inside the Revolving Doors (Three Rivers Poetry Journal, No. 23-24), 1984

Mute (Poetry, Vol. CXLIV, No. 1), 1984

Big Cars (Poetry, Vol. CXLIV, No. 1), 1984

Remembering Aprons (Poetry, Vol. CXLIV, No. 3), 1984

The Faith Healer (Poetry, Vol. CXLIV, No. 3), 1984

The Portuguese Dictionary (Poetry, Vol. CXLIV, No. 3), 1984

When Paul Flew Away (Ironwood, No. 25), 1985

Rural Inspirations (Concord Monitor), 1986-05-29

The Man With the Radios (Poetry, Vol. CLI, No. 1-2), 1987

Seeing Cooch (The Kenyon Review, Vol. IX, No. 3), 1987

What It Is (The Kenyon Review, Vol. IX, No. 3), 1987

The Name (The Kenyon Review, Vol. IX, No. 3), 1987

The Visit (Harvard Magazine, Vol. 90, No. 3), 1988

Sue Reed Walking (The Cream City Review, Vol. 12, No. 2), 1988

The Shooting (Yankee, Vol. 52, No. 4), 1988

The Abandonment (The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 262, No. 4), 1988

The Revival (Poetry, Vol. CLII, No. 5), 1988

Killing the Animals (New England Review, Vol. 11, No. 1), 1988

Ghosts (The Kenyon Review, Vol. X, No. 3), 1988

The Hand (The Kenyon Review, Vol. X, No. 3), 1988

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Wesley McNair, An Interview With a New Hampshire Poet (The Andover Star, Vol. II, No. 6), 1989

Trying To Find Her Teeth (Poetry, Vol. CLVII, No. 1), 1990

House in Spring (The Rivers Poetry Journal, No. 37-38), 1991

Let There Be Explosions: An Ideal Bookstore (Backpacking With Bunyan), 1991-06

First Class in Night School (The Boston Review, Vol. XVI, No. 6), 1991

When the Trees Came for Her (The Sewanee Review, Vol. C, No. 3), 1992

Making Things Clean (The Sewanee Review, Vol. C, No. 3), 1992

A Conversation with Wesley McNair (New Hampshire College Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1), 1992

The One Who Will Save You (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4), 1992-1993

The Secret (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4), 1992-1993

Francis Bound (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4), 1992-1993

Coming For Brad Newcomb (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4), 1992-1993

The Living (The Black Fly Review, No. 14), 1993

Mother's Place (Red Brick Review, No. 2), 1993

The Bird Man (The Southern Review, Vol. 29, No. 4), 1993

Young Man Going Uphill with a Bird (Willow Springs, No. 33), 1993

The Lover (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XXXV, No. 1), 1994

Glass Night (Yankee, Vol. 58, No. 3), 1994

Love Handles (New England Review, Vol. 16, No. 3), 1994

Poem for my Feet (New England Review, Vol. 16, No. 3), 1994

Review of Robert Francis' "Late Fire Late Snow" (Green Mountains Review, Vol. 11, No. 2), 1994-1995

Thinking the Sentence (Untidy Candles), 1995

The Trouble with Hunts (New Hampshire College Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1), 1995

The Discovery (The River Review, No. 1), 1995

Old Cadillacs (Green Mountains Review, Vol. VIII, No. 2), 1995

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An Interview with Wes McNair (Green Mountains Review, Vol. VIII, No. 2), 1995

The Triumph of Robert Francis (Harvard Review, No. 11), 1996

Four Poets in New Hampshire (The Sewanee Review, Vol. CIV, No. 1), 1996

History by George B. Yeaton (The Gettysburg Review, Vol. 9, No. 1), 1996

The Message (The Ohio Review, No. 55), 1996

The Retarded Children Play Baseball (Sport Literate, Vol. 1, No. 3), 1996

Why We Need Poetry (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1), 1996

The Puppy (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1), 1996

Love Handles (The Continuum Review, Vol. 1, No. 1), 1997

As They Are (Victory Park, Vol. 1, No. 1), 1997

Speaking of Time (The Sewanee Review, Vol. CV, No. 2), 1997

Fine (The Sewanee Review, Vol. CV, No. 4), 1997

Losses (The Sewanee Review, Vol. CV, No. 4), 1997

The Match (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 2), 1997

Old Guys (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3), 1997

Craft and Technique: Four Poets (Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXVI, No. 4), 1997

Talking about Vermont: Hayden Carruth's Poetic Voice (Green Mountains Review, Vol. XI, No. 1), 1998

Clothes (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3), 1998

The Future (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3), 1998

Waving Goodbye (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 4), 1998

The Tiger in the House: An Interview with Wesley McNair (River Review, No. 4), 1998

The Characters of Dirty Jokes (Mid American Review, Vol. XIX, No. 1), 1998

A Government of Two (The Iowa Review, Vol. 28, No. 1), 1998

The Book of A (Poetry International, No. 11), 1998

The Cabbie (Prairie Schooner, Vol. 72, No. 4), 1998

Blame (Prairie Schooner, Vol. 72, No. 4), 1998

The Wish (Prairie Schooner, Vol. 72, No. 4), 1998

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On Poets, Poets Teaching, And Poetry: Notes From a Journal (Ploughshares, Vol. 24, No. 4), 1999

The Weight (Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1), 1999

Speaking of Time (The Maine Scholar, Vol. 12), 1999

Placing Myself (The Sewanee Review, Vol. CVII, No. 3), 1999

Advice for Young Poets and Introductions (Chelsea, No. 67), 1999

The Forest and the Trees (Maine Times, Vol. 32, No. 33), 2000

The Place Where It Happens (New Hampshire College Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1), 2000

Discovering Emily Dickinson (The Sewanee Review, Vol. CVIII, No. 1), 2000

Massive (Poetry, Vol. CLXXXVI, No. 5), 2000

Driving North in Winter (The Kenyon Review, Vol. XXII, No. 3), 2000

Sleep (Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. 18, No. 1 & 2), 2000

Driving to Dark Country (Reflections, Fall), 2000

My Finite Eyes (The Chrysalis Reader, Vol. 7), 2000

A Poet's Progress (Maine Times, Vol. 33, No. 36), 2001

The Rules of the New Car (Ploughshares, Vol. 27, Nos. 2-3), 2001

History of Talking on the Phone (Ploughshares, Vol. 27, Nos. 2-3), 2001

Advice for Beginning Poets (Maine In Print, Vol. XIV, No. 14), 2001

Places in the Dark (The Sewanee Review, Vol. CIX, No. 1), 2001

Charlie By Accident (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XLI, No. 4), 2001

Goodbye to the Old Life (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XLII, No. 1), 2001

What Became (Poetry, Vol. CLXXXVIII, No. 6), 2001

Not Catching On (The Sewanee Review, Vol. CIX, No. 4), 2001

My Mother Falling Asleep (The Southern Review, Vol. 37, No. 4), 2001

Town Limits (The Kenyon Review, Vol. XXIV, No. 1), 2001

Watch (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XLII, No. 4), 2002

My Stepfather's Hands (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XLII, No. 4), 2002

How I Became a Poet (Poetry Northwest, Vol. XLII, No. 4), 2002

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Speech (Slate), 2002-03-26

When My Mother called About the Fire (Strong Medicine: Margie, Vol. 1), 2002

Voiceless (Strong Medicine: Margie, Vol. 1), 2002

An Executive Afterlife (Mid-American Review, Vol. XXII, No. 2), 2002

Smoking (Mid-American Review, Vol. XXII, No. 2), 2002

The Good-Boy Suit (The Sewanee Review, Vol. CX, No. 2), 2002

Introduction (Crosscut, Vol. 11), 2003

It (Connecticut Review, Vol. XXV, No. 2), 2003

To the Dog-Sitter (Connecticut Review, Vol. XXV, No. 2), 2003

Where I Live (Rivendell, Vol. 1, No. 2), 2003

Introduction (Colby Quarterly, Vol. XXXIX, No. 1), 2003

Michael Longley's Journey to the Real World in "The Weather in Japan" (Colby, Quarterly, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3), 2003

Questions at One O'Clock (Slate), 2003-06-24

The 1950's (Agni, No. 57 & online), 2003

If You Had Come (Agni, No. 57 & online), 2003

On Drury Pond: A Poet's Journal (The Sewanee Review, Vol. CXI, No. 3), 2003

Pondside (Eternal Wellness, No. 10), 2003

Hymn to the Comb-Over (Strong Medicine: Margie, Vol. 3), 2004

Cheese (Strong Medicine: Margie, Vol. 3), 2004

The License Photo (Mid-American Review, Vol. XXV, No. 1), 2004

My Mother Enters Heaven (The Sewanee Review, Vol. XCII, No. 3), 2004

My Father Going Away (Slate), 2004-06-22

As If the Voices in the Background When My Mother Calls (Slate), 2004-11-09

As Long as We Remember Him, He Will Never Die (Agni, No. 59 and online), 2004

Fight (Mid-American Review, Vol. XXVI, No. 1), 2005

Draw Me (Mid-American Review, Vol. XXVI, No. 1), 2005

The Sound the Dog Made (Mid-American Review, Vol. XXVI, No. 1), 2005

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The Boy Carrying the Flag (The Iowa Review, Vol. 35, No. 2), 2005

The Boy Carrying the Flag (The Iowa Review, Vol. 35, No. 2), 2005

My Town (Green Mountains Review, Vol. XVIII, No. 2), 2005

Love Poem (Green Mountains Review, Vol. XVIII, No. 2), 2005

The End (Agni Poetry Online), 2005

That Nothing (The Iowa Review, Vol. 36, No. 2), 2006

The Side (Pleiades, Vol. 26, No. 1), 2006

Seeds (Pleiades, Vol. 26, No. 1), 2006

The Life (New England Watershed Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4), 2006

The Man He Turned Into (New England Watershed Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4), 2006

Some of the Unknown Dead (Agni Poetry Online), 2006

As I Am (Chautaqua Literary Journal, Iss. 3), 2006

10 Questions With Poet Wesley McNair (Maine in Print, Spring), 2007

A Poetry Immersion (Down East), 2012-08

Old Guys (Puckerbrush Review, Spring/Summer), 2012

Finding the Way (The Sewanee Review, Vol. 120, No. 3), 2012-07-2012-09

Interviewed by Linda Davies (Green Mountain Review, Vol. 25), 2012

The License Photo (Poem) (It's a Deal, Vol. 18), 2012

The Button (Agni, No. 76), 2012

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Series K: Audio/visual Materials, 1989 - present. Physical Description: 3 Linear Feet. Accruals: Accruals

Accruals expected for this series.

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Scope and Contents

Audio/visual materials documenting McNair's public readings and interviews at various events and venues.

Title/Description Instances The NH Writers' Project Sampler (CD), 1988

Untitled Maxell CD-R with notes to Wes From Diane (CD), 2001

The Sunken Garden Poetry Wesley McNair - Broadcast Programs (CD), 2002

A Night of Poetry and Music (DVD), 2002

The Writer's Almanac: Week of December 27, 2004 (CD), 2004-12-27

The Writer's Almanac: Week of January 17, 2005 (CD), 2005-01-17

The Writer's Almanac: Week of August 15, 2005 (CD), 2005-08-15

The Writer's Almanac: Week of August 22, 2005 (CD), 2005-08-22

The Writer's Almanac: Week of October 3, 2005 (CD), 2005-10-03

MPBN: #2118: Wesley McNair (DVD) (2), 2006

ASLE Off Year Symposium: Maine's Place in the Environmental I (CD), 2006

Maine Writer's Speak *Conversations with Charlotte Albright* (DVD), 2006

Wesley McNair 1:01:00 (DVD)

Wesley McNair at the Library of Congress (DVD)

"Wes Text" (CD)

"Wes-2" (CD)

#1 Wesley McNair Poetry 11-15-84 (Audio Casette), 1984-11-15

Donald Hall_Short Letter (Audio Casette), 1989

Philip Carlsen: Four Journeys in Maine (Audio Casette), 1989

Wesley McNair WBEZ aired 3/21/89 (Audio Casette), 1989-03-21

Phil Carlsen - 3 Pieces (Audio Casette), 1990

Frost/McNair Program of 8-18-91 WEVO (Audio Casette), 1991-08-18

Wes McNair on WEVO 8/19/91 WEVO Frost Farm Reading (Audio Casette), 1991-08-19

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WEVO Broadcast on Wes McNair at the Frost Farm (Audio Casette), 1991

Wesley McNair UNHM 7/23/93 (Audio Casette), 1993

Perspectives 11/11/94 Wes McNair, NH Public Radio (Audio Casette), 1994-11-11

Wesley McNair reads "My Brother Running" Portland Museum (Audio Casette), 1995

Jo-anne Caruth/Wesley McNair Reading Aug. 1, 1996 (Audio Casette), 1996-08-01

Wesley McNair Reading Aug. 1, 1996, tape 2 (Audio Casette), 1996-08-01

Wesley McNair Lecture (Audio Casette), 1996

Carlsen: Night Thougts (Audio Casette), 1996

Carlsen Night Thoughts: The Poems of William Butler Yeats (Audio Casette), 1996

The Writer's Almanac Week of Aug. 18, 1997 (Audio Casette), 1997-08-18

Wes McNair on WERV "My Brother Running" 10/26/98 (Audio Casette), 1998-10-26

The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor (Audio Casette), 2002

Wesley McNair Poetry Reading, Maine Humanities Council (Audio Casette), 2002

"Maine Things Considered" dub, Maine Public Radio (Audio Casette), 2002

The Front Porch, Wes McNair, NH Public Radio (Audio Casette), 2004

Billy Collins + 2 Writer's Almanac of Wesley (Audio Casette)

WOKQ Robert Frost only (Audio Casette)

Wes #3 (Audio Casette)

End of show and a couple tunes from Laurie Anderson (Audio Casette)

W.M./Reading in the Wren Room - Dartmouth College (Audio Casette)

W.m./Reading in the Wren Room - Dartmouth College (Audio Casette)

Wes McNair (Audio Casette)

McNair - This side, Vogts - flipside (Audio Casette)

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Maxwell UR w/ sticky note "2" (Audio Casette)

Maxwell UR w/ sticky note "4" (Audio Casette)

Maxwell UR w/ sticky note "31" (Audio Casette)

Maxwell XL w/ sticky note "30" (Audio Casette)

TDK w/ sticky note "3" (Audio Casette)

TDK w/ sticky note "33" (Audio Casette)

Scotch BX w/ sticky note "5" (Audio Casette)

Malcolm Cochran Three Kinetic Works (VHS), 1987

Malcolm Cochran Five Kinetic Works (VHS), 1987

The Works of Robert Frost, N.H. Public Television Productions (VHS), 1989

Malcolm Cochran, The Difference Between Religion and a Relationship (VHS), 1993

NH Crossroads: 12/16/94 Show #1408 (VHS), 1994

Newport NH: The Art of Community (VHS), 1997

Maine Poets Reading their own works, Wesley McNair (VHS), 1999

Wes McNair 4/14/99 (Original) (VHS), 1999-04-14

Copy - W. McNair 4/14/99 (VHS), 1999-04-14

Wesley McNair at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival (VHS), 2002

The First Medal - Aug. 12, 2004 (VHS), 2004-08-12

NH Crossroads - McNair, TV (VHS)

McNair Kumin N.H. Crossroads Channel 11 (VHS)

Copy - UMF Com. Orch. Student Soloists + 4 Rds. in ME (VHS)

Books and the World (VHS)

Chronicle - Boston TV/McNair (VHS)

"Chronicle" (VHS)

Robert Frost: Versed in Country Things, NH Public TV Productions (VHS)

Books and the World, McNair (VHS)

Books and the World/Cable Video Show (VHS)

Poetry Reading/Wesley McNair/University of Maine (VHS)

WCSH/"Lunch Break"/WM...Robinson (VHS)

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Robert Frost in the Country of Milk and Sugar (in Maxwell case) (VHS)

Robert Frost in the Country of Milk and Sugar (in Scotch case) (VHS)

copy - UMF Com. Orch. Student Soloists + 4 Rds. in ME (VHS)

Robert Frost in the Country of Milk and Sugar (in Polaroid case) (VHS)

WM/"Chronicle" Boston TV + Half-hour Special re: Hale Award, etc. (VHS)

WCSH TV/"Lunch Break"/ E.A. WM on Robinson (VHS)

TDK silver case w/ sticky note "23" (VHS)

TDK black case w/ sticky note "11" (VHS)

TDK black case w/ sticky note "10" (VHS)

Gold JVC case w/ "29" (VHS)

Blue Sony case w/ sticky note "dub made @ media services 5.3.06" (VHS), 2006-03-06

Memorex black and pink case w/ sticky note "8" (VHS)

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