P. J. Capelotti Papers (Mss. Gr. 45)

This collection is arranged in four series. The first series, Personal Papers, contains Capelotti's family records and personal correspondence. The second series contains manuscripts of articles, essays, and four unpublished books, The Panacea Papers (1979), The Desert (1980), Coming of Age on the Third Planet (1981), and A Riff in Empire (1982). The third series contains Capelotti's notes and notebooks, and the final series, Correspondence, contains Capelotti's correspondence with novelist Norman Mailer, oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl, U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), Mailer researcher J. Michael Lennon, and hiker/explorer Eric Ryback, among others.

The papers were given as a restricted gift to the University of Rhode Island by Mr. Capelotti.

In November 2000 Dr. Capelloti sent draft copies and research materials for the book, The Svalbard Archipelago: American Military and Political Geographies of Spitsbergen and Other Norwegian Polar Territories, 1941-1950, edited and with an introduction by P.J. Capelotti, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., c2000. There is a copy of the book in Dinstinctive Collections Rare Books (call number G778 S83 2000). The materials were processed and added to the original collection in March 2001.