William Stafford: An Annotated Bibliography, by James W. Pirie & our own Special Collections staff, is the authoritative bibliography of Stafford's writings. It coincides with the centennial celebration of Stafford's birth in 2014.

William Stafford (1914-1993) was one of the most prolific and important American poets of the last half of the twentieth century. Among his many awards, Stafford served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, and received the National Book Award in 1963 for his poetry collection Traveling through the Dark. During his lifetime, Stafford wrote over sixty books of poetry that still resonate with a wide range of readers. Stafford's perspectives on peace, the environment, and education serve as some of the most articulate dialogues by a modern American writer.

James W. Pirie (1913-2002) was the author of Books for Junior College Libraries: A Selected List of Approximately 19,700 Titles (1969) and Typology of Institutions of Higher Education (1974). As the well-respected Director of Aubrey R. Watzek Library at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, from 1966 to 1982, Pirie worked closely with his friend and colleague William Stafford to maintain an accurate bibliographic record of Staffords numerous publications. Following James Piries death in 2002, the Lewis & Clark College Special Collections staff expanded and updated Pirie's bibliography for this volume, the only comprehensive bibliography of William Stafford's writings.

In celebration of this anniversary, LC Special Collections unveils a new set of digital collections, documenting the women's suffrage movement in Oregon.

Highlights include a complete set of Susan B. Anthony's suffrage newspaper, The Revolution; books by Abigail Scott Duniway; and Susan B. Anthony's journals documenting her trips to Oregon. The collections were curated by Jean Ward, Lewis & Clark faculty emeritus with the support of Special Collections staff and student workers.

We invite you to explore these collections and accompanying text here: A Guide to Digital Resources for the Study of Women in Oregon

Learn more about Oregon archives and history at the 3rd annual Oregon Archives Crawl, Saturday, October 6th from 10 am to 3 pm. The theme of this year's crawl will be the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in Oregon, and our very own Jeremy Skinner will be on hand to showcase Lewis & Clark's materials related to women's history.

You can start the crawl from any of the following locations: City of Portland Archives and Records Center (1800 SW 6th Ave., Suite 550), Multnomah County Library (801 SW 10th Ave.), Oregon Historical Society Research Library (1200 SW Park Ave.), Portland State University Library (Millar Library 180, 1875 SW Park Ave.)

Archives and organizations that will have tables/exhibits at the four downtown locations will include:

• Architectural Heritage Center
• Association of Personal Historians
• Hellenic-American Cultural Center
• Lewis and Clark College Watzek Library
• Metro Records and Information Management Program
• Multnomah County Records Management and Archives
• Northwest History Network, including Century of Action and the Oregon Labor Oral History Program
• Oregon Encyclopedia
• Oregon Health & Science University Archives
• Oregon Black Pioneers
• Oregon Cultural Trust
• Oregon Jewish Museum
• Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center
• Oregon Public Broadcasting
• Oregon State Archives
• Oregon State Library
• Oregon State University Archives
• Pacific University Library
• Portland Art Museum Library
• Portland Police Historical Society
• University of Oregon (Portland)
• Washington County Heritage Online
• Washington County Museum
• Western Oregon University
• Willamette University Archives

A free after-party will be held in Al’s Den at McMenamin’s Crystal Hotel from 3:30 to 6 pm.

Join us for a dialogue of poets Tess Gallagher and Alice Derry, Thursday September 27 at 3:30 pm in Council Chamber.

Derry and Gallagher will read their poetry at The Old Church in downtown Portland, the evening of September 28. For more information about these accomplished poets, their dialogue, and their poetry reading, please visit the Mountain Writers website.

Sponsored by Mountain Writers Series.

Paul Merchant, William Stafford Archivist and Special Collections Associate, will retire this month after 14 years of service to the Lewis & Clark community. Paul has served the College as a teacher, writer, and archivist, as well as a mentor and friend to many.

Paul was born in Wales and studied at Cambridge, the Shakespeare Institute, and the University of Athens. Paul taught for many years at the University of Warwick and the University of Tennessee, before moving to Portland with his wife Grace and his son Luke. In Portland Paul worked with IRCO (Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization), Breitenbush Press, Mountain Writers, and in the mid 1990s he became the archivist for the Estate of William Stafford. When the Stafford Archives were donated to Lewis & Clark in 2008, Paul continued to work as the Stafford Archivist at the Watzek Library Special Collections, and as an instructor for the Lewis & Clark English Department and the Northwest Writing Institute. As a member of the Special Collections staff, Paul has had a vital role as an author, editor, bibliographer, and exhibit curator. These projects have included work on William Stafford, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, western exploration, modern literature, Oregon poetry, pacifism, utopian studies, Charles Dickens, and early publications of classical literature. In 2010 Paul gifted his own Charles Dickens collection to the College, and in 2011 he gifted his extensive collection of rare British literature and classics.

As a creative writer and literary scholar, Paul is the editor and translator of Modern Poetry In Translation 4 (1968), which included the first selection of Greek poet Yannis Ritsos published in England. He is also the translator of Eleni Vakalo’s Genealogy (1971), Ritsos’ Monochords (2007), and Constantine P. Cavafy’s Twelve Poems (2010). His collection of poems Bone from a Stag’s Heart was a 1988 British Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His fourth collection of poems, Some Business of Affinity (2006), was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award. Paul also co-edited with Vince Wixon The Answers Are Inside the Mountains, Meditations on the Writing Life, and Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation for the University of Michigan Press.

Paul’s last day with us will be August 31. Please join with us in thanking him for his outstanding service and wishing him and his family all the very best.

Curated by Associated Professor of English, Rishona Zimring and 2012 graduate, Casey Newbegin, this exhibit explores artistic responses to rapid change in the period before WWII. On display at Watzek Library, through May 2013.

Whether melancholy or effervescent, the artistic responses to the conditions of rapid change in the period before WWII are arresting in their vitality and verve, and they were everywhere. We have chosen to feature and contextualize two somewhat lesser-known visual artists in order to underscore just how compelling and vivacious the art of everyday life in the early 20th century could be. Our two featured visual artists are E. McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954) and Gwen Raverat (1885-1957), both of whom worked in England, where the impact of new technologies and the consequent transformation of the landscape—both urban and rural—created a fertile friction when they met up with a long tradition of pastoral poetry and art and Romantic longings for a pre-industrial Golden Age. You will not find the art of Kauffer and Raverat drawing crowds in the grandest museums. Rather, you are likely to find it familiar because it has graced a book cover, illustrated a children’s book, or advertised an airline. Your eye will be arrested because both artists worked in or were inspired by the medium of the woodcut, with its boldness of line, its encouragement of geometric patterning, its tactility and sensuality. Both artists worked as illustrators and designers, finding opportunities to make art for London Underground posters, bus company advertisements, book jackets, set and costume designs for theatrical productions, and volumes of poetry and fairy tales. Their art is not just for museums, galleries, and isolated contemplation. It is for, and of, the everyday aesthetic experience, and embellishment, of modernity.

This exhibit resulted from a Faculty-Student Collaboration Grant administered by the Office of the Associate Dean with financial support from the President’s Strategic Initiative Fund. Faculty member Rishona Zimring, Associate Professor of English, worked with senior English major Casey Newbegin, Lewis & Clark Class of 2012, in close collaboration with Watzek Library’s Special Collections, especially Paul Merchant and Jeremy Skinner.

In her junior year, Casey enrolled in Zimring’s English 333, Major Figures: Joyce and Woolf, where she studied major novels by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. Her final paper for that class examined father-daughter relationships, and she began to develop a strong interest in learning more about Woolf’s life and that of her husband, Leonard. Casey applied for and was a co-winner of the English Department’s Dixon Award, which funds research and travel for junior English majors in the summer before their senior year. Casey spent the spring of her junior year studying abroad in the Czech Republic, and used the money from the Dixon Award to fund a longer stay abroad which included an early summer expedition to the University of Sussex in England, which houses papers of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Casey not only researched unpublished materials in the archives; she also had the opportunity to develop her expertise in the visual culture of modernism, and especially Bloomsbury, by visiting museums and heritage sites in Sussex such as Monk’s House, the home of the Woolfs, and Charleston, the home of Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell.

Upon returning to LC, Casey met with Zimring to discuss collaboration on modernist materials in Special Collections, where Casey was honing her skills as an archivist through her work-study job. Zimring had been working more closely with Special Collections in recent years to develop connections between her classes on modernism and the library’s acquisition and preservation of modernist archival materials, such as important journal issues, examples of book and magazine design and illustration, and rare books from the period of the early 20th century. Casey’s archival experience at Special Collections, her interest and expertise in British modernism, and her sharp and imaginative sense of design made her an ideal partner for the exhibit’s development and realization. Meanwhile, Zimring’s ongoing research and publication in the field of British modernism kept her intensely engaged as a scholar as well as a teacher in the materials and backgrounds for the project. Zimring and Casey worked together throughout the spring semester of Casey’s senior year to research backgrounds for the exhibit and select engaging quotations. In the summer after she graduated, Casey and Zimring worked especially closely with Special Collections to create explanatory text and design the layout for the exhibit. Watzek Library generously funded Casey’s additional work during the summer.

Visit the Heritage Room to browse the recently acquired Karl Marlantes Collection, spanning from 1968-2011, and including typescript drafts of Matterhorn, Marlantes's Vietnam journals, and more.

Karl Marlantes was born in Seaside, Oregon in 1945. After attending high school in Seaside, Marlantes was awarded a National Merit Scholarship. He attended Yale University, where he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. Rather than studying at Oxford, Marlantes enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, and served as a lieutenant during the Vietnam War, earning the Navy Cross, two Navy Commendations for Valor, two Purple Hearts, and ten Air Medals. After returning from the War, Marlantes began writing about his experience.

His first novel, Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, was published in a small edition of 1,000 copies in 2009 by El Leon Literary Arts of Berkeley, California. With an official publication date of May 1, advanced readers copies were mailed out early in the year. Staffers at Barnes & Noble were impressed with the novel, and submitted it to a first-novel contest, which led a number of New York publishers to express interest in obtaining the rights to the book. Eventually, Grove Atlantic Press made a deal with El Leon and copies already printed but not yet distributed were issued as galleys for a El León/Grove joint revised publication, which was issued in 2010.

Matterhorn was Amazon's Book of the Month for March 2010, and debuted on the New York Times bestseller list in April 2010. It won the 2011 William E. Colby Award, was ranked #7 for Fiction in Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year (2010), and was one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year (2010). It was also an ALA Notable Book (2010), won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (2011), and won the Indies Choice Book Award (Adult Debut, 2011).

This collection includes multiple complete typescript drafts of the book Matterhorn, manuscripts of recently (2011) published non-fiction work entitled What It Is Like To Go To War, about modern veteran life upon return to the civilian world, copies of correspondence with publishers, foreign language editions of each title, and copies of various editions of both published books. The archive includes Marlantes Vietnam journals, Officer Reports, Battle Maps, and other related materials The materials in this collection range from 1968-2010.

For more information about this collection, please contact Doug Erickson, Head of Special Collections/Archivist, dme@lclark.edu

The relationship between LC and the family of College Archivist, Doug Erickson, dates back to the first graduating class in 1873. This weekend Erickson and his family will celebrate their latest family member’s graduation from Lewis & Clark. Doug’s son Nick Erickson, who will graduate on Sunday, is the great-great-great-grandson of Cora Jean Irvine Stewart, a member of the first graduating class in 1873. Doug’s wife, Stacy Johnson Erickson—who graduated with her M.A.T. from Lewis & Clark in 1998—is Cora’s great-great-granddaughter.
The Source caught up with Doug to find out more about his family’s legacy.

On Tuesday, February 21 from 3:30 to 5 pm in the Watzek Classroom, we will be hosting an event to highlight the past year's student work in Special Collections. Four students will present. Each student will give a ten minute overview of their work followed by a moderated Q&A discussion with the audience.

Tentative list of the presenters and their topics:

Garrett Chavis: The Correspondence of Richard Hugo and William Stafford

Casey Newbegin: Literary Criticism of William Stafford or Modernism/Vorticism and the Bloomsbury group

Ella Antell: Documenting William Stafford through Audio and Video

Zach Selley: The International Whaling Commission Papers

Celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens with us on Tuesday, February 7 at 3 pm in the Watzek Library classroom! The celebration begins with introductions from the Dickens exhibit curators, and continues with readings and birthday cake in Smith Hall.

The exhibit focuses on A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Moonstone, and Dan Simmons’s Drood. Other cases explore the topics of illustration, serial publication, the two American reading tours by Dickens, and issues of copyright in nineteenth century England and America. Exhibit text by English faculty members Pauls Toutonghi and Andrea Hibbard, junior Dana Bronson, and Watzek staff member Paul Merchant. Design by Jeremy Skinner. To schedule a personal tour, contact merchant@lclark.edu.

The second part of the celebration will be a reading of excerpts from Dickens in Smith Hall starting at 4:30 pm. Appetizers, cake, and beverages will be provided.