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Robert Sward fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1966-1985.

Reference:

R11815-0-9-E, LMS-0044

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Sound recordings, Art, Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3672869

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Robert Sward fonds
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Fonds includes:

1 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1966-1985.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

12 m of textual records and other material.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Fonds consists of personal and professional correspondence; journals, notebooks, posters, photographs, audio cassettes, maps, manuscripts and typescripts of poems, fiction, reviews, including "The Jurassic Shales", "Twelve Poems", "Half a Life's History: Poems New and Selected", "The Toronto Islands" and "Four Incarnations: New and Selected Poems, 1957-1991"; and the Soft Press archive from 1970 to 1978.

Provenance:

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Sward, Robert, 1933-

Biography/Administrative history:

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Sward, Robert, 1933- : Poet, editor, writer and teacher, Robert Sward was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1933. He attended the University of Illinois (B.A., 1956) and the University of Iowa (M.A., 1958), and subsequently did postgraduate work at Middlebury College in Vermont and the University of Bristol in England. Sward was poet-in-residence and taught English at various universities in the United States. Following his move to Victoria, British Columbia in 1969, he became poet-in-residence at the University of Victoria and taught creative writing there until 1973. Sward founded The Soft Press in 1970 and published 21 titles, mainly West Coast poetry, until he sold the press in 1977. He was editor-in-chief of Hancock House Publishers from 1976 to 1979. Sward moved to Toronto, in 1979, where he worked on a freelance basis, writing articles and reviews, teaching, editing and broadcasting. In 1985, Sward left Toronto for Santa Cruz, California where he now teaches at Monterey Peninsula College and continues to write and publish poetry, articles and reviews.

Finding aid:

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Textual records; photographs; posters; audio cassettes (Paper) Finding aids available for accessions 1978-01 LMS and 1983-19 LMS. Various boxlists that pertain to accession 1988-04 can be found in the Robert Sward author files. Finding aids available in main reference room. (90: Open)

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General note:

Within accession 1978-01: Box 43 includes 4 pieces of unidentified artwork. The works of art have been removed from their frames. The frames are included in this box.

Within finding aid for 1978-01: Boxes 44 and 45 include any items from boxes 1 through to 42 that have been identified with (FB) in the left margin - contains textual items as well as artwork.

Container note(s):

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1 A : 1991-12
1 B : 1991-12
2 A : 1991-12
2 B : 1991-12
2 C : 1991-12
10 : 1978-01
1 : 1983-19
2 : 1983-19
3 : 1983-19
4 : 1983-19
5 : 1983-19
6 : 1983-19
7 : 1983-19
8 : 1983-19
9 : 1983-19
10 : 1983-19
11 : 1983-19
1 : 1994-07
2 : 1994-07
3 : 1994-07
4 : 1994-07
5 : 1994-07
1 : 1978-01
2 : 1978-01
3 : 1978-01
4 : 1978-01
5 : 1978-01
6 : 1978-01
7 : 1978-01
8 : 1978-01
9 : 1978-01
11 : 1978-01
12 : 1978-01
13 : 1978-01
14 : 1978-01
15 : 1978-01
16 : 1978-01
17 : 1978-01
18 : 1978-01
19 : 1978-01
20 : 1978-01
21 : 1978-01
22 : 1978-01
23 : 1978-01
24 : 1978-01
25 : 1978-01
26 : 1978-01
27 : 1978-01
28 : 1978-01
29 : 1978-01
30 : 1978-01
31 : 1978-01
32 : 1978-01
33 : 1978-01
34 : 1978-01
35 : 1978-01
36 : 1978-01
37 : 1978-01
38 : 1978-01
39 : 1978-01
40 : 1978-01
41 : 1978-01
42 : 1978-01
43 : 1978-01
44 : 1978-01
45 : 1978-01
1 A : 1988-04
1 B : 1988-04
1 C : 1988-04
2 A : 1988-04
2 B : 1988-04
2 C : 1988-04
3 A : 1988-04
3 B : 1988-04
4 : 1988-04
5 A : 1988-04
5 B : 1988-04
6 A : 1988-04
6 B : 1988-04
7 A : 1988-04
7 B : 1988-04
7 C : 1988-04
7 D : 1988-04
8 A : 1988-04
8 B : 1988-04
9 : 1988-04
10 : 1988-04
11 : 1988-04
CASS 29 : 1978-01
CASS 30 : 1978-01
CASS 561 : 1978-01
CASS 562 : 1978-01
CASS 563 : 1978-01
CASS 564 : 1978-01
CASS 565 A : 1978-01
CASS 565 B : 1978-01
CASS 566 : 1978-01
CASS 567 : 1978-01
CASS 568 : 1978-01
CASS 569 : 1978-01
CASS 570 : 1978-01
CASS 883 : 1983-19
T-3 1 : 1978-01
T-5 1 : 1978-01
T-5 28 : 1978-01
T-7 3 : 1978-01
T-7 4 : 1978-01
T-7 5 : 1978-01
T-7 6 : 1978-01
T-7 7 : 1978-01
T-7 8 : 1978-01
T-7 183 : 1988-04
CASS 571 : 1991-12
CASS 572 : 1991-12
CASS 573 : 1991-12
CASS 574 : 1991-12
CASS 575 : 1991-12
CASS 576 : 1994-07
CASS 577 : 1994-07
CASS 578 : 1994-07
CASS 579 : 1994-07
CASS 580 : 1994-07
CASS 581 : 1994-07
CASS 582 : 1994-07
CASS 583 : 1994-07
CASS 584 : 1994-07
CASS 585 : 1994-07
CASS 586 : 1994-07
CASS 587 : 1994-07
CASS 588 A : 1994-07
CASS 588 B : 1994-07
CASS 590 : 1994-07
CASS 895 : 1988-04
CASS 896 : 1988-04
CASS 897 : 1988-04

Source:

Private

Former archival reference no.:

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LMS-0044

Other accession no.:

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1983-19 LMS
1978-01 LMS
1988-04 LMS
1991-12 LMS
1994-07 LMS
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Conditions of access:

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Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

LMS container [LMS-0044 1991-12]

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

1 A--1 B;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

2 A--2 C;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

LMS container [LMS-0044 1978-01] 10

[Consultation 10 Closed]

LMS container [LMS-0044 1983-19] 1--11

[Consultation 90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0044 1994-07] 1--5

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

LMS container [LMS-0044 1978-01]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1--9;

[Consultation 90 Open]

11--45;

[Consultation 90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0044 1988-04]

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

4;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

9--11;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

1 A--1 C;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

2 A--2 C;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

3 A--3 B;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

5 A--5 B;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

6 A--6 B;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

7 A--7 D;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

8 A--8 B;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Sound recordings

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

LMS container [LMS-0044]

[Consultation 90 Open]

CASS 29--CASS 30;

[Consultation 90 Open]

CASS 561--CASS 564;

[Consultation 90 Open]

CASS 565 A--CASS 565 B;

[Consultation 90 Open]

CASS 566--CASS 570;

[Consultation 90 Open]

CASS 883;

[Consultation 90 Open]

T-3 1;

[Consultation 90 Open]

T-5 1;

[Consultation 90 Open]

T-5 28;

[Consultation 90 Open]

T-7 183;

[Consultation 90 Open]

T-7 3--T-7 8;

[Consultation 90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0044]

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

CASS 571--CASS 587;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

CASS 588 A--CASS 588 B;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

CASS 590;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

CASS 895--CASS 897;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]

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