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There are some records in box 14 as well.

Scope and Contents: The collection contains over 900 long-playing records, audiocassette and compact disc recordings of musical theater, vocal, and orchestral music from throughout the world, collected by Charles Mikolaycak. The collection also contains a group of printed books, film stills from American and Hungarian films, performance programs, photographs, posters and clippings relating to music, theater and film. There is an exceptionally large set of recordings of Sergei Prokofiev's ...

Scope and Contents: The collection contains over 900 long-playing records, audiocassette and compact disc recordings of musical theater, vocal, and orchestral music from throughout the world, collected by Charles Mikolaycak. The collection also contains a group of printed books, film stills from American and Hungarian films, performance programs, photographs, posters and clippings relating to music, theater and film. There is an exceptionally large set of recordings of Sergei Prokofiev's ...

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Literary Hub website, “Life Advice from the Late Robert M. Pirsig: A Little Wisdom from the Iconic Author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” by Emily Temple. 4 pages of quotes from ZMM and Lila.

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Literary Hub website, “The Most Rejected Books of All Time,” by Emily Temple. 4 pages of a longer article. Includes Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance as having been rejected 121 times before being accepted by William Morrow & Co. Quote by James Jim Landis.

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Subjects, Objects, Data and Values, written by Robert Pirsig, originally presented in Brussels at the Einstein Meets Magritte conference May 29-June 3, 1995, then published in 2000 by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Four copies of the typeset article. Correspondence about royalties on this article from Janklow & Nesbit.

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“Zen and the Art of Making Great Products -- Apple University’s Thoughts Between Classes,” sent to Wendy Pirsig after death of Robert Pirsig by Joel Podolny, Dean of Apple University. Accompanying note says a room was named for Pirsig. Apple Computer.

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Uneven Traffic Loads Call For Flexible Sewage Works, written by Robert Pirsig, Engineering News-Record. No byline, but collected by Pirsig among other writings.

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Page of St. Paul Pioneer Press with article “Ore Industry Research Asked,” by the Associated Press. Robert says he did not work for the AP (did write for United Press) and does not recognize any articles on the page. Nancy Pirsig was a copy editor at the Pioneer Press at about this time, but in 2014 he cannot remember why this page was saved..

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Minneapolis Star, “End of Whynot trip not dream deferred,” by Blair Charnley and Zeke Wigglesworth, former reporters for the paper, about their voyage Minneapolis-built trimaran sailboat ended in Florida after dream trip around the world was aborted. Story helped provide impetus or angle for Robert Pirsig’s article about sailing and depression (eventually published in Esquire as “Cruising Blues and their Cure.”)

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Doctor Schnabel, written by Robert Pirsig, copyright Paul S. Amidon and Associates, Minneapolis, an educational project of the Iowa Hospital Association. No byline but later identified by Robert Pirsig as author. Children’s story about a doctor working to save people during the Black Death, and modern hospitals today. 22 pages scanned and reprinted by Pirsig c. 2000. He said his own large nose made him identify with the beaked appearance of the masked doctor of the 1300s.

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In Praise of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Tim Crusius, in Western Speech Communication, autographed by Crusius. Robert Pirsig met Crusius at the Modern Language Convention in 1981.PA-OK

Scope and Contents: “Zen and the Art...:The Identity of the Erlkonig,” by Thomas J. Steele. 6 pages. Signed by Steele “With gratitude and admiration” on the original, and a note in ballpoint pen added by Pirsig on the copy. Note explains that article was published in Ariel Magazine, a Canadian literary magazine. Steele eventually writes Guidebook to ZMM with Ron Di Santo. In letter, PIrsig discusses his error in the book of saying that the word Phaedrus means wolf in Greek. He also writes that “the nucleus of...

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Article and photos about drug effects on spiders making webs. Saved in a folder labeled, “Lila Pix.”

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Article and photos about William James Sidis, including article in Yankee Magazine that led to Robert Pirsig writing about Sidis in his book Lila.

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Writings about yoga and Buddhism and Hinduism by friend of Robert Pirsig, David White, professor at Macalester College. Beverly White. About 300 typed pages.

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German article/book review about Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, published by S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt: “Zum Lesen Empfohlen,: by Norddeutscher Rundfunk. 9 typewritten pages.

Content Description: Collection includes photographs, slides (photographs), transparencies, glass plate negatives, books, manuscripts, correspondence, DVDs, CDs, videotapes, audiotapes, digital media, posters, drawings and other artwork, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance drafts and related papers, Lila drafts and related papers, school papers, and ephemera.Collection also includes material by Wendy Kimball Pirsig (the author's second wife, also an author) and family papers, including of his...

Content Description: Collection includes photographs, slides (photographs), transparencies, glass plate negatives, books, manuscripts, correspondence, DVDs, CDs, videotapes, audiotapes, digital media, posters, drawings and other artwork, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance drafts and related papers, Lila drafts and related papers, school papers, and ephemera.Collection also includes material by Wendy Kimball Pirsig (the author's second wife, also an author) and family papers, including of his...

Scope and Contents: Artistotle With An English Translation: The “Art” of Rhetoric, by John Henry Freeze, published by Harvard University Press. Owed, signed and heavily annotated by Robert Pirsig, who wrote about Aristotle in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. In 2016 Pirsig said he studied this volume while at the University of Chicago and taking Richard McKeon’s course, although this book was not assigned by McKeon. Kept on living room bookshelf as reference throughout the last decades of Pirsig’s...

Scope and Contents: The collection contains over 900 long-playing records, audiocassette and compact disc recordings of musical theater, vocal, and orchestral music from throughout the world, collected by Charles Mikolaycak. The collection also contains a group of printed books, film stills from American and Hungarian films, performance programs, photographs, posters and clippings relating to music, theater and film. There is an exceptionally large set of recordings of Sergei Prokofiev's ...

Scope and Contents: The collection contains over 900 long-playing records, audiocassette and compact disc recordings of musical theater, vocal, and orchestral music from throughout the world, collected by Charles Mikolaycak. The collection also contains a group of printed books, film stills from American and Hungarian films, performance programs, photographs, posters and clippings relating to music, theater and film. There is an exceptionally large set of recordings of Sergei Prokofiev's ...

Scope and Contents: The collection contains over 900 long-playing records, audiocassette and compact disc recordings of musical theater, vocal, and orchestral music from throughout the world, collected by Charles Mikolaycak. The collection also contains a group of printed books, film stills from American and Hungarian films, performance programs, photographs, posters and clippings relating to music, theater and film. There is an exceptionally large set of recordings of Sergei Prokofiev's ...

Scope and Contents: The collection contains over 900 long-playing records, audiocassette and compact disc recordings of musical theater, vocal, and orchestral music from throughout the world, collected by Charles Mikolaycak. The collection also contains a group of printed books, film stills from American and Hungarian films, performance programs, photographs, posters and clippings relating to music, theater and film. There is an exceptionally large set of recordings of Sergei Prokofiev's ...

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Audio cassette of Lila, written by Robert Pirsig, abridgment recorded by Will Patton.