F0113 - Susan Swan fonds

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Call Number: 1995-030/001
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Manuscript drafts


(1)Notebooks, including Can Lit class notes1970-1973
(2)Notebooks, "May: novel rewrite 1 (Biggest Mod. Woman)"; "July: novel rewrite 2; "August: novel rewrite 3; "Fall: novel rewrite 4"; "Business of Novel"1980
(3)Notebooks, "Spring rewrite", "Budget"1981
(4)Notebooks, Feb, April, July, "Aug: final Annie revisions"1982
(5)Notebooks, May 4, May 21, Aug 20, Oct 25 (Last of the Golden Girls)1983
(6)Notebooks, 1984: "Rewrites: second notebook", "winter notebook: 84-85"1984-1985


Call Number: 1995-030/002
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(1)Notebooks, "winter/spring", "spring", "summer", "fall"1985
(2)Notebooks, "Binder 1-novel: starts March 27", "Binder 2-novel: July/August", "Novel-3: Aug-Nov"1986
(3)Notebooks, "Spring notes on novel", "Oct 20th", "Nov"1986
(4)Notebook1987
(5)Notebooks, "Nov: workbook", random notebook1987
(6)Notebooks, "Jan 10" "Jan-Feb 10", "Feb 29- May 20", "Aug 12", "Oct 8"1988
(7)Notebooks, "Oct 8-Nov 11", "Nov 11", "Dec 88".1988


Call Number: 1995-030/003
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(1)Notebooks, "April"1989
(2)Notebooks, Biggest Modern Woman
(3)Notebooks, Biggest Modern Woman
(4)Notebooks, Biggest Modern Woman
(5)Notebooks, Golden Girls
(6)Notebooks, Golden Girls
(7)Notebooks, ideas, scribblings, etc.


Call Number: 1995-030/004
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Personal files


(1)Correspondence, early 1960's, Havergal (girls) College: Christmas, and Valentine's
(2)Havergal con't: letters from friends (primarily girls), family
(3)Havergal con't: letters from boys
(4)Havergal con't: letters from mother
(5)Havergal: phone messages, sermons, ski membership, school work, "society page" clipping Includes 3 photographs : b&w.

Teaching files


(6)Academic: material for course taught in multidisciplinary studies at York University
(7)Academic: Creative writing program, York University
(8)Academic: "writing the essay"
(9)Academic: "Eating your words", a project for secondary school students
(10)"Eating your words" cont'd
(11)Academic: Teaching proposals, and letters of response re: teaching creative writing
(12)Academic: "Kafka handout" (poems and stories re: insects).
(13)Academic: Grammar and composition info


Call Number: 1995-030/005
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Printed Material and Manuscript Drafts


(1)Royal Family Scrapbook of newspaper clippings
(2)Articles by Swan for "The McGill Scene", late 1960's
(3)Toronto Telegram "exclusive" on modern teachers
(4)Articles by Swan for The Toronto Telegram
(5)Article on journalist Frank Tumpane, following his death. Also notes from Tumpane to Swan
(6)The Globe and Mail, section 2, "War's over".May 8th, 1945
(7)Back issues of Time, Life, Macleans, etc, dealing with social events of 1960's (Kennedy, student unrest, etc.)


Call Number: 1995-030/006
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(1)Short Story: "The Tallest Man in the World"
(2)Research: Tallest Man
(3)Tallest Man: comments, revisions
(4)Tallest Man: Revisions, working copies
(5)Tallest Man: notes, clippings, revisions
(6)Tallest Man, "Saint Kim", "The Man Doll"
(7)Tallest Man: notes
(8)Tallest Man: revisions
(9)Saint Kim: revisions
(10)"A Guest on the Property"
(11)Saint Kim, The Man Doll, "Jackie the Ripper", Dubarry, "Bill and Jane" (Tallest Man)
(12)Saint Kim, revisions, notes
(13)Man Doll Sheets from Press Porcepic8 August 1988
(14)"Canadian Men": research, rough drafts


Call Number: 1995-030/007
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(1)"Queen of the Silver Blades": programs, notes, plus photos: 12 b&w, 1
(2)"Momz Radio"
(3)Script: "The Collaberators: Good-bye Bareasss Beach"
(4)Articles on collaborative performance art with Louise Garfield
(5)Article, info on "The Clichettess"

Manuscript drafts


(6)Manuscript with notes and revisions for play version of Biggest Modern Woman
(7)Notes and revisions of play version of Biggest Modern Woman
(8)"Flow charts" of action of play version of Biggest Modern Woman
(9)Notes on play version of Biggest Modern Woman
(10)Notes and revisions on play vers. cont'd
(11)Unpublished spy novel, plus notes, revisions, notebooks
(12)"The Sixties"


Call Number: 1995-030/008
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(1)Published short stories: "The Men", "The Life and Times of Theresa Turkey". Plus list of unpublished stories
(2)Short stories: "The Waterbed Syndrome", "The Pick-up".
(3)Short story: "Norway: Undiscovered home of cross-country skiing".
(4)Short stories: "And they lived happily ever after", "No middle ground", "The eclipse of a golden girl"
(5)"Unfit for Paradise": Christopher Dingle edition, receipts, financial info[ca. 1981]
(6)Unfit: receipts, purchase orders, etc.
(7)Unfit: reviews, promotional material
(8)Unfit: notes, play proposal, promo beget, correspondence
(9)Unfit: banking documents
(10)Unfit: working copies, revisions
(11)Unfit: copies
(12)Unfit: revisions
(13)Unfit: revisions


Call Number: 1995-030/009
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(1)Unfit: publicity arrangements
(2)Unfit: press kit, and Margaret Dragu press info
(3)Unfit: promotion, business diary, correspondence, bills, promotion list
(4)Unfit: mail for CJ Dingle edition
(5)Unfit: rough drafts
(6)Unfit: rough drafts with revisions and notes
(7)Unfit: rough notes, research
(8)Unfit: revisions of "Young and Gay"
(9)Unfit: National Library of Canada info and correspondence
(10)Unfit: rough drafts with revisions and notes
(11)Unfit: rough drafts with revisions and notes
(12)Unfit: reviews
(13)Unfit: research
(14)Unfit: promo info, cover proofs


Call Number: 1995-030/010
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(1)Biggest Modern Woman: fourth draft
(2)BMW: reviews
(3)BMW: research on women's period costume and etiquette BAD PAPER
(4)BMW: research on "Gigantic and Miniscule Actors on the Nineteenth-Century Stage" BAD PAPER
(5)BMW: rough draft with revisions
(6)BMW: research on Halifax and Maritimes
(7)BMW: notes on novel, part three, and research
(8)BMW: notes on childhood part of novel
(9)BMW: research on period tonics and remedies
(10)BMW: research and correspondence on Anna's potential medical condition
(11)BMW: research on Seville, incl. oral histories


Call Number: 1995-030/011
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(1)BMW: correspondence for novel
(2)BMW: research on Barnum
(3)BMW: editing
(4)BMW: 1 b&w photo of Guillermo's "Giantess"
(5)BMW: "New part 4"August 1982 BAD PAPER
(6)BMW: third draft of novel
(7)BMW: notes on "final rewrite"
(8)BMW: very rough draft SOME BAD PAPER
(9)BMW: epilogue research and medical notes
(10)BMW: research including maps of the U.K., Swan genealogy, farming, tonics, Seville


Call Number: 1995-030/012
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(1)BMW: research incl. England, diabetes
(2)BMW: notes, research
(3)BMW: rewrite, part one1982
(4)BMW: second draft
(5)BMW: research incl. 1 colour photo of Annie's tombstone, info on Trinity Church, St. Paul's Chapel", and a copy of "The World's Tallest Couple: The Love Giants".
(6)BMW: research on period setting (Dickens excerpts).
(7)BMW: research on "freaks", Ohio, letters, questions, themes, sub-themes, central metaphors, novel outline, clippings on Bates festival with correspondence and mention of Swan family attendance


Call Number: 1995-030/013
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Biggest Modern Woman


(1)BMW: novel outline and excerpts
(2)BMW: rough drafts
(3)BMW: first draft duplicates
(4)BMW: giants calendar
(5)BMW: research incl. black and white postcard of Anna's tombstone, and "Giant: The Pictorial History of the Human Colossus"
(6)BMW: part 4 revisionsSeptember 1982 ***LOTS OF POST-IT NOTES ATTACHED TO FOLDER***
(7)BMW: "scholarly articles" on BMW, and student seminar
(8)BMW: fourth draft corrections
(9)BMW: research "Giant Anna", a children's play by Donna E. Smyth
(10)BMW: rough drafts
(11)BMW: rough draft ***MAJOR POST-IT NOTES ON EVERY PAGE***


Call Number: 1995-030/014
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(1)BMW: rough drafts
(2)BMW: duplicates of Aug 1982 inserts
(3)BMW: rewrite discards Dec. 80-81
(4)BMW: rewrites


Call Number: 1995-030/015
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(1)BMW: manuscript
(2)BMW: excerpts, research on early toilets and plumbing, Seville, farming, tobacco, gambling
(3)BMW: research re: strongman Louis Cyr
(4)BMW: notes, research on Seville
(5)BMW: research incl. Barnum, military costume, circuses
(6)BMW: research re: early England
(7)BMW: rewrite ***WITH POST-ITS***


Call Number: 1995-030/016
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The Last of The Golden Girls


(1)The Last of The Golden Girls: new draft, 1984, plus map of Georgian Bay
(2)GG: cottage info, Haliburton
(3)GG: "new copy, part one"April 1989
(4)GG: "notes for Saturday" incl. research on insects, blondes, nuclear bombs, karma, reptiles, beauty
(5)GG: sailing race details with map
(6)GG: research incl. hallucinogens, pianos
(7)GG: "pick-up in boat" rough notes
(8)GG: "notes for Sunday" incl. research and notes on underwater survival, nuclear destruction
(9)GG: early duplicates of part one with notes
(10)GG: incomplete manuscript: The Last of The Golden Girls
(11)GG: incomplete con't
(12)GG: gov't grant info


Call Number: 1995-030/017
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(1)GG: early notes
(2)GG: "very very old dupes of novel and not quite so old"
(3)GG: "ze novel part two, new section, 1986"
(4)GG: rough draft
(5)GG: "1988 revised draft, Sept", part one
(6)GG: part two


Call Number: 1995-030/018
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(1)GG and BMW: promotion of novel, correspondence with literary agents, resume
(2)GG and BMW: financial correspondence, contracts, and publisher's statements
(3)GG: rough drafts with revisions, Aug 8, Aug 13, Aug 24, and Sept 10 19871987
(4)GG: early beginnings
(5)GG: notes from March 1989, research, correspondence re: BMW film rights
(6)GG: revisions, fall 1988
(7)GG: yachting research
(8)GG: revised copies1987


Call Number: 1995-030/019
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(1)GG: research incl. the rich and blondes
(2)GG: research on the rich
(3)GG: "Shelly's file"
(4)GG: research on the rich
(5)GG: "old Friday night" with revisions10 September 1987
(6)GG: research on business tycoons
(7)GG: research incl. blondes, sex appeal, Jane Fonda, soft porn
(8)GG: rough draft with revisions, part one
(9)GG: part two
(10)GG: rough draft with revisions


Call Number: 1995-030/020
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(1)GG: rough draft with revisions
(2)GG: uncorrected draft, part one
(3)GG: draft with revisions, part one
(4)GG: schoolbook of Latin poetry (see opening poem of novel)
(5)GG: research incl. cottaging, period film making, boating
(6)GG: research on boats
(7)GG: rough draft, part one
(8)GG: research on business tycoons (Conrad Black), dhotis, and notes
(9)GG: rough draft with revisions, part two
(10)GG: "more flushed out version of island", excerpts with notes
(11)GG: drawings of underwater dome, flow charts of action of various scenes


Call Number: 1995-030/021
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(1)GG: revised copy went to typistSeptember 1987
(2)GG: rev. copy con't
(3)GG: draft with notes
(4)GG: draft con't
(5)GG: "old draft part two"
(6)GG: "dupes spring 1987"
(7)GG: "not quite as old dupes", excerpts with revisions
(8)GG: "excerpts from old drafts"


Call Number: 1995-030/022
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(1)GG: flow charts, notes and research incl. swimming, music, business, film, religion, drugs, reptiles, plus select Havergal correspondence ***BAD PAPER***
(2)GG: "diary background"
(3)GG: "old flat rock notes"
(4)GG: "old plot outlines"
(5)GG: "notes on novel end"
(6)GG: "extra copies part two", drafts
(7)GG: drafts
(8)GG: "not quite as old" drafts with revisions
(9)GG: research on Georgian Bay, excerpts with revisions
(10)GG: research incl. Jesuit missionaries, nuclear destruction plus, Jan 87, part one notes, revisions"
(11)GG: snake research (Norman Elder, partial source for Child)
(12)GG: excerptsJune 1987
(13)GG: research incl. Mohawks, industry, yaks, swimming, toy soldiers, Margot Kidder
(14)GG: "notes on entrepreneurs"


Call Number: 1995-030/023
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(1)GG: "extra copies of spring revisions 1988"1988
(2)GG: excerpts from part two with revisions
(3)GG: excerpts from part two,13 August 1987
(4)GG: draftNovember 1987
(5)GG: excerpts from part two
(6)GG: part one10 September 1987
(7)GG: draft, part twoJune 1987


Call Number: 1995-030/024
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(1)GG: research, copies of Friday and Saturday's paper for part two ***BAD PAPER**
(2)GG: research, yachting, racing
(3)GG: The "horsebook" which Dinger's is based upon
(4)GG: The "erotic" childhood stories which Digger's are based on, as well as select inspirational correspondence from Havergal College
(5)GG: "extra copy, part one" with ***POST-IT NOTES***
(6)GG: "discards of spring 1986".
(7)GG: "part one, complete Sept 1988, extra copy".
(8)GG: swami research


Call Number: 1995-030/025
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(1)GG: Scrapbook of poetry beginning Oct. 1971, incl. poems incl. in Golden Girls
(2)GG: research on boat race, blood brothers, '50's morality
(3)GG: "ze novel, part one, new section, 1985"
(4)GG: "copy of novel, Sept, 1988" with revisions
(5)GG: second half
(6)GG: part two
(7)GG: "extra copies, part two?"


Call Number: 1995-030/026
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(1)GG: excerpts, some material dated June 1987
(2)GG: excerpts
(3)GG: part two with revisions
(4)GG: novel, part one with portions of part two dated November, 1987
(5)GG: excerpts9 October 1987
(6)GG: part two, transcription of tapes


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(1)GG: Contract for sale of Golden Girls, some select reviews and correspondence re: publication, 3 colour photos for cover ideas Includes 3 photographs : col.
(2)GG: notes on excerpt
(3)GG: bound "ripped out copy"
(4)GG: bound revised copy
(5)GG: part two, revised plus notes
(6)GG: "Duplicates from revisions for Katherine", with revision notes
(7)GG: "ze novel, part one, spring 1987", an "uncorrected draft". Sections of part two included
(8)GG: "the wrong size of type, but it's in part two, twenty pages"March 1987
(9)GG: "duplicates for part one revision, spring 1987"
(10)GG: "part two- corrected and uncorrected drafts for Ann", with notes. ****POST-IT NOTES TOO***


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Sound recordings, printed, graphic (posters and photographs) and other materials


(1)3 b&w photos of Swan with cornrows, and one page that looks like an excerpt from "The Wives of Bath"
(2)Internal memo from Coach House press re: upcoming Spring List14 August 1990
(3)Academic info and policies re: York university
(4)"Forms of Enclosure", University of Windsor art show: program, reviews, background info and twenty-three colour slides
(5)Canada Council grant correspondence (Biggest Modern Woman).
(6)Canada Council grant correspondence (The Wives of Bath).
(7)Articles by Swan on John Candy, Moses Znaimer, and The Clichettes
(8)Journalism research and drafts for the Toronto Telegram re: the Thorncliffe apts
(9)Journalism notes for Toronto Telegram on Mrs. Fenny


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(1)Newspaper clippings re: literary events, review of Biggest Modern Woman, and interesting article on Swan
(2)2 photos of Margaret Dragu, five of Swan on bicycle taken for Toronto Telegram article run July 31, 1969, 3 "art" photos (one of Swan), one proof sheet of publicity photos of Swan (probably or Biggest Modern Woman), all black and white
(3)Letter to ed., Macleans, and accompanying rebuttal with correspondence, reviews by Swan, posters for Canadian Poetry Annual
(4)"prose etiquette" (probably from "Eating your words).
(5)Business letter writing
(6)Two black and white proof sheets of Swan (early to mid eighties)
(7)Resume (1976), article re: Queen of the Silver Blades, psychology info re: signification et al, "Eating your words" ***BAD CARBON PAPER**,
(8)Musings on Canadian poetry, research, correspondence[ca. 1974]
(9)Canadian Poetry Research
(10)Notes on "Hollywood North" screenplay, page of creative writing
(11)"Girl Art": notebook research and correspondence from interdisciplinary studies, incl. tape of Ann Magnsun's performance art piece. ***BAD PAPER***
(12)Academic: Notes for 1988 English class, Larry Streicher's thesis material, info on conceptual art
(13)Arts publications: Vane (8.1), Dance in Canada (Spring 1976), Im(pul)se (1973), Existere (8.3, 8.). Pamphlets from Detroit Institute of Arts (Swan/Garfield collaboration). Posters: video art at the National Gallery,AGO experimental film
(14)York Calendar: Humanities and Social Science, 1989-90
(15)"Journalism bag of tricks: a day in the life of, lead story, human interest, colour story, editorial"
(16)Arts Journal: The Unknown:writings by Ontario women (1975), includes Swan's short story "The Waterbed"
(17)Reviews of performance art with Garfield, and clippings on Dragu


Call Number: 1995-030/030
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(1)Toronto Telegram notes and draft: Geneva Park drug workshop
(2)Toronto Telegram draft: "Spiral: Man-time, time man"
(3)"Whitten's History of the World"
(4)Art Publications: Im(pul)se (4.1), image nation, asparagus (1973), An Even Dozen Poem (1974), Background to literary readings 2 (1973), Linda (1974), primal elegis (1974), background to literary readings (1973), porcepic, Invisible wods (1974), 2 o'clock rap (volume 2)
(5)Art Publications: The orange bear reader, runes (1970), (f.)lip (1987), cafe terminus, scene changes, file (autumn 1975), artcle from Telegram on CHUM and CKFH


Call Number: 1995-030/031
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(1)Posters (3 copies) - Unfit For Paradise[after 1981] Oversize
(2)Newspapers & Circus ads1851-1934 Oversize
(3)Le Passee Vivant de Montreal / The Living Past of Montreal1964 Oversize
(4)Posters (3 copies) - Queen of the Silver Blades[198-?] Oversize
(5)Photographs of Susan Swan. - 3 photographs : b&w ; 11 x 14 cm. Oversize



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