York University Libraries' Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections

2013-041/012(07)
File
2011

File includes a letter from the Ontario Arts Council informing Swan of her grant for this project, which was renamed The Western Light.

"Canadian Men": research, rough drafts

1995-030/006(14)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Clichette fun ideas."

1996-014/003(07)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts

2017-010/012(01)
File
2005-2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File also includes e-mail exchanged with one of Swan's students, Emiko Hsuen, pertaining to Swan's questions about Japanese culture for this story, e-mail regarding research about the Chelsea Hotel, a copy of a paper entitled "Thomas Wolfe's German girlfriend: some further thoughts on Thea Voelcker" by Lawrence D. Stokes, and Thomas Wolfe Society publications entitled "Thomas Wolfe's friendship with Henry Volkening: the documents" and "The proceedings and membership list of the Thomas Wolfe Society: the twenty-seventh annual meeting, Portland, Maine, May 27-29, 2005".

"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts

2017-010/011(03)
File
2005-2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of annotated drafts of this story by Swan from 2005 to 2006. Later drafts are entitled "A Haunting at the Hotel Chelsea".

"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts

2017-010/011(05)
File
2005-2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of annotated drafts of this story by Swan from 2005 to 2006. Later drafts are entitled "A Haunting at the Hotel Chelsea".

"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts

2017-010/012(02)
File
May-June 2010

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts

2017-010/011(04)
File
2005-2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of annotated drafts of this story by Swan from 2005 to 2006. Later drafts are entitled "A Haunting at the Hotel Chelsea".

"Eating your words" cont'd

1995-030/004(10)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Flow charts" of action of play version of Biggest Modern Woman

1995-030/007(08)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Forms of Enclosure", University of Windsor art show: program, reviews, background info and twenty-three colour slides

1995-030/028(04)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Girl Art": notebook research and correspondence from interdisciplinary studies, incl. tape of Ann Magnuson's performance art piece.

1995-030/029(11)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Journalism bag of tricks: a day in the life of, lead story, human interest, colour story, editorial"

1995-030/029(15)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Loose Poems."

1996-014/002(06)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Loose Poems."

1996-014/002(07)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Mind Over Media" Symposium, Havergal College

2003-028/002(34)
File
1994

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Mind Over Media" Symposium, Havergal College

2003-028/002(35)
File
1994

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"My Secret Life As a Mother" for dropped threads, drafts

2003-028/003(25)
File
2002

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"My Secret Life As a Mother" for dropped threads, drafts

2003-028/003(26)
File
2002

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Nobody calls them servants any more" and "The interim man" : manuscripts

2013-041/015(07)
File
[200-]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Paulie Lives!" : annotated manuscripts

2013-041/017(05)
File
2004-2005

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File includes resource material pertaining to Havergal College.

"Paulie Lives!" : manuscripts

2013-041/016(05)
File
1993, 2004-2005

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Paulie Lives!" : manuscripts

2013-041/017(03)
File
1994, 2005-2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Paulie Lives!" : manuscripts

2013-041/017(01)
File
1993-1994, 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Paulie Lives!" : manuscripts

2013-041/017(04)
File
1994, 2005-2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Paulie Lives!" : manuscripts

2013-041/018(01)
File
2004-2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Paulie Lives!" : manuscripts

2013-041/017(02)
File
1993-1994, 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Perfect" Scripts, with notes

1996-014/002(09)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Queen of the Silver Blades and other performance odes, complaints and panegyrics." An early draft of "Perfect Perfect Perfect: A Writer's notebook on Obsession," a proposed but never published collection of Swan's writings

1996-014/004(01)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Queen of the Silver Blades": programs, notes, plus photos

1995-030/007(01)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Room 829: a ghost story at the Hotel Chelsea" : manuscripts

2013-041/018(06)
File
Oct. 2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Stupid Boys are Good to Relax With" : TV pilot script and pitch pages

2013-041/018(11)
File
2004

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Stupid Boys are Good to Relax With" : TV pilot script and pitch pages

2013-041/018(11)
File
2004

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"The Dead Celebrities Club" : Walrus submission : March 18, 2013

2017-010/015(02)
File
21 Mar. 2013

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of two draft annotated excerpts from The Dead Celebrities Club, prepared for submission to The Walrus magazine.

"The Dead Celebrities Club" : draft partial manuscripts

2017-010/014(10)
File
Jan.-Feb. 2013

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"The Dead Celebrities Club" : draft partial manuscripts : November 1, 2011

2017-010/014(09)
File
1 Nov. 2011

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"The Hockey Killer" : annotated manuscripts

2013-041/013(08)
File
4, 6 Jan. 2010

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"The Man Who Loved Books"

2013-041/014(05)
File
[ca. 1995]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"The Sixties"

1995-030/007(12)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Unfit for Paradise": Christopher Dingle edition, receipts, financial info

1995-030/008(05)
File
[ca. 1981]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"What Casanova Told Me" : pitch pages

2013-041/019(04)
File
2005

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"What Casanova Told Me" : pitch pages

2013-041/019(04)
File
2005

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"What Casanova Told Me" : plot synopsis, statement and email

2013-041/019(05)
File
2004

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"What Casanova Told Me" : plot synopsis, statement and email

2013-041/019(05)
File
2004

Part of Susan Swan fonds

1. Native Canadians 2. Frye

2008-006/006(08)
File
1990-1996

Part of Susan Swan fonds

2 audio reels and four audio cassette tapes of Wives labelled "side one only. It begins...ch.32," "July 18, 1990," "Aug. 4, 1990," and two "Aug. 5, 1990."

1996-014/020(02)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

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

1995-030/029(02)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

2010 e-mails & work on story

2017-010/009(04)
File
2004-2005, 2009-2010

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of Swan's e-mail, including e-mail pertaining to efforts to sell The Hockey Killer, letters, greeting cards and drafts of her story "Death at the Hotel Chelsea". Also included in the file is e-mail exchanged between Swan and Catherine Gildiner in 2004-2005, student feedback forms about Swan's creative writing teaching at Humber College, and a photograph of Swan taken in Toronto (Oct. 2009).

3 b&w photos of Swan with cornrows, and one page that looks like an excerpt from "The Wives of Bath"