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Fil Lewitt (Brown 1963) literary papers (MS.2015.021)

Brown University Library

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Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Academic Credentials, 1963-2015

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Diploma - B.A. degree from Brown University
1963
Box 1, Folder 1 Diploma - Master of Arts from San Francisco State College
1968
Box 1, Folder 1 Certificate - Community College Instructor Credential from California Community Colleges
1975
Box 1, Folder 1 Diploma - Doctor of Philosophy from Indiana University of Pennsylvania
1985
Box 1, Folder 1 Transcription - Indiana University of Pennsylvania
1985
Box 1, Folder 1 Certificate - Summer School in English Theatre, Literature and Culture of the Twentieth Century from University of London, Committee for Extra-Mural Studies.
1987
Box 1, Folder 1 Certificate - Corso di Lingua Italiana per Stranieri from Interlingua, Venice, Italy
1988
Box 1, Folder 1 Certificate - Teaching of English Language as a Foreign Language to Adults from University of Cambridge, Local Examinations Syndicate
1989
Box 1, Folder 1 Curriculum Vitae and Publications
2015 September

Series 2. Articles - published, 1979-1995

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 2 "l (a": e.e. cummings' use of the printers art
1979
Box 1, Folder 2 The Bearshit School of Poetry
Contents Note: Printed from the Journal of Kyoto Seika University, No. 3.
1992
Box 1, Folder 2 Escaping the Composition Killer: Teacher as Cheshire Cat
Contents Note: Published in The Language Teacher (ISSN: 0289-7938) published by The Japan Association of Language Teachers, Vol. XI, No.5, May 1987.
1987
Box 1, Folder 2 Gary Snyder & the Vow
Contents Note: Published in Kyoto Review No. 23, Spring 1990. 2 copies.
Spring 1990
Box 1, Folder 2 How to Cook a Tasty Essay: The Secret of Real Rewriting
Contents Note: Published in English Teaching Forum, January 1990.
1990
Box 1, Folder 2 Means of Meaning- a Why and a How of Teaching Content
Contents Note: Published in The Language Teacher (ISSN: 0289-7938) published by The Japan Association of Language Teachers, Vol. IXX, No.11, November 1995. Attached to this article is a letter by Lewitt to Lyneve Rappell, editor of The Language Teacher, requesting that his response to Tonia McKay's critique of his article be published without revision.
1995
Box 1, Folder 2 Sincerest Form: Writing Poetry in Another Language
Contents Note: Published in The Language Teacher (ISSN: 0289-7938) published by The Japan Association of Language Teachers, Vol. XVI, No.7, July 1992.
1992
Box 1, Folder 2 Wordless Words & the Evolution of Poetry
Contents Note: Published in Kyoto Journal, No. 29, 1995. 2 copies.
1995

Series 3. Diaries, 1965-2004

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 1A - Kyoto
Contents Note: This diary includes entries for three events. 1) 25 October 1991 - Gary Snyder. 2) 7 November 1992 - Dr. John C. Lilly 3) 11 October 1994 - Ram Dass. Also includes a letter from Gary Snyder dated 1994 August 11 regarding his visit to Kyoto.
1990-1994
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 1B - England
1985 Summer
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 2 - Nashua, New Hampshire and Ko Samet, Thailand
1985 September, 1986 March
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 3 - Italy
1986 Summer
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 4 - Thailand, Miami, Mexico
1987 March, 1988 March
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 5 - England, Paris, Vienna
1987 Summer
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 6 - Italy
1988 July, 1988 August
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 7 - Thailand
1988 December, 1989 March
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 8 - Paris, London
1989 Summer
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 9 - Thailand, Alpine Europe
1990 Summer
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 10 - Thailand
1991 March
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 11- America: Half-Century Pilgrimage
1991 August, 1991 September
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 12 - America: Half-Century Pilgrimage
1991 August, 1991 September
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 13 - Thailand
1992
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 14 - United States
1992 Summer
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 15 - Thailand: Sweet Sweet Cold, Thai Sweets
1992 December, 1993 March
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 16 - Thailand: Sweet Sweet Cold, Thai Sweets Too
1993 March, 1993 April
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 17 - United States, England
1993 Summer
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 18 - Thailand: Railei
1993 December, 1994 March
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 19A - United States: Arizona, New Mexico
1994 August, 1994 September
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 19A - Thailand: Railei (Sabbatical)
1994 March, 1994 and 1995 Winter, 1996 Winter
Box 1, Folder 3 Book 20 - United States
1995 April, 1995 July
Box 1, Folder 4 Book 21 - Paris (Sabbatical)
1995 Summer
Box 1, Folder 4 Book 22 - Paris (Sabbatical)
1995 August, 1995 September
Box 1, Folder 4 Book 23 - Paris, Frankfurt (Sabbatical)
1995 September, 1995 October
Box 1, Folder 4 Book 24 - Rome, Egypt, Nile, Venezia (Sabbatical)
1995 October, 1995 November
Box 1, Folder 4 Book 25 - Italy: Ferrara, Thailand: Railei (Sabbatical)
1995 November, 1996 January
Box 1, Folder 4 Book 27 - United States
1996 Winter, 1997 Spring
Box 1, Folder 4 Book 28 - British Columbia, Hawaii: Waikiki
1997 Summer
Box 1, Folder 4 Book 29 - Thailand
1977 December, 1998 March
Box 1, Folder 4 Book 30 - France
1998 Summer
Box 1, Folder 4 Book 31 - Paris, Puerto Vallarta
1999 August, 1999 September
Box 1, Folder 4 Book 32 - Thailand: Railei
1999
Box 1, Folder 4 Book 33 - Grizzly Fil: Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, Glacier
2000 August, 2000 September
Box 1, Folder 4 Book 34 - Thailand: Railei
2001 Winter
Box 1, Folder 4 Book 35 - "Around the World Again"
2001 Summer
Box 1, Folder 4 Book 36 - Thailand: Railei
2002
Box 1, Folder 4 Book 37 - California, Oregon
2002 Summer
Box 1, Folder 4 Book (unnumbered) - United States: Around the West
2003 Summer
Box 1, Folder 4 Book (unnumbered) - United States
2004 Summer
Box 1, Folder 5 Diary
1986-1989
Box 1, Folder 6 Talking in Two Worlds
Contents Note: Folder includes: 3-ring binder which is a combination of a poetry notebook and a diary titled "Talking in Two Worlds" (1965-1966); a letter from Gabriel A. Najera (1980); a postcard and letter from Paul Reps (1980).
1965-1980

Series 4. Dissertation

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 7 Opening the Map: Essays in Modern Poetry
Contents Note: A copy of Lewitt's Ph.D. dissertation for Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1984.
1984

Series 5. Essays, 1981-1994

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 8 Kook Eyes in the Spiritual Supermarket
Contents Note: Review by Lewitt of Among Buddhas in Japan by Morgan Gibson (Fredonia, NY : White Pine Press, 1988).
1988
Box 1, Folder 8 Rum Dum Becomes You
Contents Note: An essay on a talk by Ram Dass that Lewitt attended in 1994.
1994 October 11
Box 1, Folder 8 Out of Love's Element: A Project on Shakespeare's Dark Lady Sonnets
Contents Note: Essay written for the Shakespeare Seminar taught by Dr. Ford Swigart at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
1981 August

Series 6. Novel, 1994-1995
See also Series 10. Literary papers and photographs - electronic copies for additional novels by Fil Lewitt.

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 9 Tight, Notebooks 1-2
Contents Note: Manuscript draft of novel.
1994-1995
Box 1, Folder 10 Tight, Notebooks 3-5
Contents Note: Manuscript draft of novel.
1994-1995

Series 7. Poetry - published, 1990-1996
See also Series 10. Literary papers and photographs - electronic copies for additional poetry by Fil Lewitt.

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 11 A Japanese Lesson
Contents Note: Published in Prairie Schooner, Vol. 70, No. 2, Summer 1996.
1996 Summer
Box 1, Folder 11 Sonnets from Siam
Contents Note: Published in Kyoto Journal No. 24, 1993.
1993
Box 1, Folder 11 Sweet Sweet Cold: Sonnets from Siam
1993

Series 8. Poetry compilations - manuscript, 1962-1992
Many of these compilations of poetry also include original drawings. See also Series 10. Literary papers and photographs - electronic copies for additional poetry by Fil Lewitt.

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 12 Gizmo
1992
Box 1, Folder 13 Hi Hai High
1972-1973
Box 1, Folder 14 Long Way Round to Paradise
1988-1991
Book 1, Folder 15 A Modern Pilgrim: The Big Circle
1976-1979
Box 1, Folder 16 A Modern Pilgrim: This Time Round
1974-1976
Box 1, Folder 17 Mountain House
Contents Note: Small bound volume from which all but the first 18 pages have been ripped out. It arrived in that condition at Brown University in 2015.
1974
Box 1, Folder 18 Moving Still
1972-1973
Box 1, Folder 19 Pilgrims Trip
1970-1972
Box 1, Folder 20 P.J. Lewitt's Book
1964-1965
Box 1, Folder 21 A Potted Palm: Palms from New Orleans
1974
Box 1, Folder 22 Weathering
1981-1988
Box 1, Folder 23 Where the Hula Came From
1978-1981
Box 1, Folder 6 Talking in Two Worlds
Contents Note: Folder includes: 3-ring binder which is a combination of a poetry notebook and a diary titled "Talking in Two Worlds" (1965-1966); a letter from Gabriel A. Najera (1980); a postcard and letter from Paul Reps (1980).
1965-1966, 1980
Box 1, Folder 24 Untitled - 3-ring notebook
Contents Note: Handwritten poems from a small 3-ring binder arranged chronologically like a diary.
1966-1969
Box 1, Folder 25 Untitled - spiral bound school notebook
Contents Note: Poems arranged chronologically in a spiral bound school notebook of lined pages with 11 loose pages torn from a similar type of spiral bound notebook. On the cover of the notebook is written: "P.J. Lewitt, 25 Keene St., Providence, English 101-102. One loose page of un-lined paper has poems dated 1981.
1962-1964, 1981
Box 1, Folder 26 Untitled - sketch pad
Contents Note: Small spiral bound sketch pad from France. Five (5) poems or parts of poems and 16 sketches drawn by Lewitt with a blue ball-point pen of scenes in Paris (April 1966), Copenhagen (May 1966), and Mendocino , California (1965, August 1966; June 1967; September 1967).
1965-1967
Box 1, Folder 27 Untitled - Regarding Wave book of poetry by Gary Snyder
Contents Note: Poems and drawings written by Fil Lewitt during 1972 on the pages of a published book of poetry called Regarding Wave by Gary Snyder (New Directions Publishing Corp. : New York, 1970).
1970, 1972
Box 1, Folder 28 Untitled - Japanese notebook
Contents Note: Japanese notebook of unlined paper with handwritten poems by Fil Lewitt and a few memoranda and shopping lists.
1979-1981

Series 9. Poetry compilations - typescript, 1958-2001
See also Series 10. Literary papers and photographs - electronic copies for additional poetry by Fil Lewitt.

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 29 The Daisy Cycle
1962
Box 1, Folder 30 Early Work
1965, undated
Box 1, Folder 31 A Modern Pilgrim: Canyon Wren's Zen Rag The Tassajara Journal
Box 1, Folder 32 A Modern Pilgrim: Escape from the Monastery
Box 1, Folder 33 A Modern Pilgrim: Report from the Land of WA
1977-1980
Box 1, Folder 34 Moving Still
1972-1973, 2006
Box 1, Folder 35 Rocky Mountain Pilgrimage
1976, undated
Box 2, Folder 1 Sonnets for People
1961-1966
Box 2, Folder 2 Songs and Elegies : early poems of P.J. Lewitt
1958-1965
Box 2, Folder 3 Sunday at the Zoo and Other Poems of Political Protest
1962-1967
Box 2, Folder 4 Tomomi Maeda
2001-2007
Box 2, Folder 5 Untitled - loose pages
Contents Note: A group of poems on loose pages of various types that did not have a title and do not appear to be in a particular order.
1958-1985
Box 2, Folder 6 Where the Hula Came From
1966-1978

Series 10. Literary papers and photographs - electronic copies, 1941-2016
DVD disk containing his literary works and photographs of his life and family (2 copies). The items listed in this series are the titles of the folders on the disk as Lewitt organized them. The disk contains drafts and final versions of his books and poetry; the computer applications he was using to create and publish his books; photographs and designs for the buildings he has lived in and built in California, Japan, and Thailand; photographs of him throughout his life and travels, his family, and his wife Tomomi Maeda; and poetry and prose by other writers that he admires. Access to these materials is available upon request through the Special Collections department at the John Hay Library, Brown University.

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 8 Lewitt's books
2008-2016
Box 2, Folder 8 apps 2015
2015
Box 2, Folder 8 CreateSpace and Kindle KDP
2015
Box 2, Folder 8 designs and buildings and interiors Lewitt
1992-2016
Box 2, Folder 8 Fil's Writings
1991-2015
Box 2, Folder 8 Photos Lewitt
2001-2015
Box 2, Folder 8 Poems by other writers
2002-2015
Box 2, Folder 8 Prose by other writers
2005-2015
Box 2, Folder 8 RBC pro pix copy
2012
Box 2, Folder 8 various pix for DVD
1941-2015