York University Libraries Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections

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

Arts Journal: The Unknown: writings by Ontario women (1975), includes Swan's short story "The Waterbed"

Toronto Telegram notes and draft: Geneva Park drug workshop

Posters (3 copies) - Queen of the Silver Blades

Articles and Clippings by Swan

Clippings on Children

Loose poems, some "Down and In" (aka "Self-Pity")

"Clichette fun ideas."

"If you allow me to speak" (essay? article?)

Unfit For Paradise: clippings and reviews, costs, negatives, proof sheets, photos

Early Perfect, aka "The Vertical Smile."

Perfect draft

Perfect, with notes

Queen: rough work, some Giant

Biggest Modern Woman in the World : copy with notes revised by Swan's editor at Lester & Orpen Dennys. P.1-100

Golden Girls: copy a, part one, with corrections etc.

Wives of Bath: grant applications

Wives of Bath: copy d, 295 pgs with notations

Wives of Bath: copy h, part two

Wives of Bath: copy j, part two

Wives of Bath: copy p, part two

Wives of Bath: copy r, part one "Stuff left to revise for Linda."

Wives of Bath: copy r, part two

Wives of Bath: copy t, part two

Wives of Bath: copy z, part one

Wives of Bath: mrev, folder three

Wives of Bath: mrev, folder four, "old dupes."

Wives of Bath: draft of chapter three with notes and revisions, labelled "Gowdy."

Wives of Bath: general research, from knives to spines, and more

Descant, vol. 9, nos. 1-2, 1978 (contains three theatrical pieces by Swan), and vol. 11, nos. 1-2, 1980 (Swan's "It's not all porn: A Treatise on Ethics")

W. Stephenson, "The Store that Timothy Built," 1969 (most likely Wives research for clothes of Mouse Bradford and others)

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Short story: "Norway: Undiscovered home of cross-country skiing".

Unfit: reviews, promotional material

Unfit: banking documents

Unfit: revisions

Unfit: press kit, and Margaret Dragu press info

Unfit: mail for CJ Dingle edition

Unfit: revisions of "Young and Gay"

BMW: research on women's period costume and etiquette

BMW: research on "Gigantic and Miniscule Actors on the Nineteenth-Century Stage"

BMW: notes on childhood part of novel

BMW: research on Seville, incl. oral histories

BMW: research on Barnum

BMW: editing

BMW: very rough draft

BMW: novel outline and excerpts

BMW: rough drafts

BMW: giants calendar

BMW: excerpts, research on early toilets and plumbing, Seville, farming, tobacco, gambling

BMW: research re: strongman Louis Cyr

GG: cottage info, Haliburton

GG: "new copy, part one"

GG: "pick-up in boat" rough notes

GG: part two

GG and BMW: financial correspondence, contracts, and publisher's statements

GG: "Shelly's file"

GG: rough draft with revisions

GG: research on boats

GG: draft con't

GG: flow charts, notes and research incl. swimming, music, business, film, religion, drugs, reptiles, plus select Havergal correspondence

GG: drafts

GG: "not quite as old" drafts with revisions

GG: research incl. Jesuit missionaries, nuclear destruction plus, Jan 87, part one notes, revisions"

GG: snake research (Norman Elder, partial source for Child)

GG: "extra copies of spring revisions

GG: part one

GG: "discards of spring 1986".

GG: swami research

GG: Scrapbook of poetry beginning Oct. 1971, incl. poems incl. in Golden Girls

GG: excerpts, some material dated June 1987

GG: excerpts

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

Articles by Swan on John Candy, Moses Znaimer, and The Clichettes

Journalism notes for Toronto Telegram on Mrs. Fenny

Canadian Poetry Research