Ron Whitehead Collection

Repository: UCC Library Archives Service

Title	Ron Whitehead Collection
Archive Reference	IE/BL/SC/RW
Web Link to this Entry	https://iar.ie/archive/ron-whitehead-papers
Creation Dates	2004-2005
Extent Medium	14 items

Administrative History ↴

Whitehead is a Nobel nominated Beat poet, based in Louisville, Kentucky: http://www.tappingmyownphone.com/ Laurence Ferlinghetti is an American poet and painter, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in San Francisco, California: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti
Archival History ↴

IE BL/SC/RW is Ron Whitehead material held in UCC Library. The collection was acquired from Mr. Whitehead in 2005 by John FitzGerald, Librarian, UCC Library.
Immediate Source Acquisition ↴

Donation

Scope & Content: Ron Whitehead and Laurence Ferlinghetti, City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, San Francisco, California ↴

The collection holds mss letters mostly from Laurence Ferlinghetti, to Ron Whitehead, with illustrations.
Appraisal Destruction ↴

Permanent Retention
Arrangement ↴

The letters are described individually and by date-order.

Access Conditions	Available by request with the Special Collections & Archives, UCC Library. Request should be made at least one week (5 working days) in advance so that the material can be prepared. Next-day requests will not be possible. You can request material via the online request form at: https://libguides.ucc.ie/specialcollections/requestitems
Conditions Governing Reproduction	By application to the Archivist only.
Creation Dates	2004-2005
Extent Medium	14 items
Material Language Script	English
Finding Aids	Item description Archive Web Link →

There are no Allied Materials

Archivist Note	Emer Twomey
Rules/Conventions	ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description. 2nd ed. Ottawa: International Council on Archives, 2000.
Date of Descriptions	2010