Overview
Personal, professional, and family papers of Gloucester (Mass.) author, Jonathan Bayliss.
Dates
- Creation: 1937-2021
Creator
- Bayliss, Jonathan (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Special equipment or surrogate required; consult Houghton staff (series Digital and Audiovisual material).
The bulk of this collection is shelved offsite. Retrieval requires advance notice. Check with Houghton Public Services staff.
Extent
48.75 linear feet (46 boxes)16.153 Gigabytes (3 boxes)
Collection includes drafts of Bayliss's tetralogy, Gloucesterman, comprised of Gloucesterbook, Gloucestertide, Gloucestermas, and Prologos; The Gilgamesh Plays and other compositions; correspondence, diaries, family papers, and financial records; travel documents; and records from Gorton's of Gloucester and Kellogg Associates where Bayliss served in management roles and promoted the use of computers in business management.
Includes audiovisual and/or digital media: CDs, floppy disk, audiocassette, Zip disk.
For more detail on contents, see lists in curatorial file.
Biographical / Historical
Jonathan Bayliss (1926-2009) was an American novelist and playwright who lived and wrote in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Arrangement
Collection is minimally processed. Materials are loosely arranged in eight series: Correspondence, Compositions, Subject Files, Notes on Computer Punchcards, Biographical Material, Digital and Audiovisual Material, Business, and Travel Documents.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Special equipment or surrogate required; consult Houghton staff.
Physical Location
b, Harvard Depository
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2015M-146. Gift of Jonathan Bayliss Trust, 2016.
2018M-030. Gift of Jonathan Bayliss Trust, 2017.
2020M-45. Gift of the Jonathan Bayliss Trust, 2019.
2020M-47. Gift of the Geoffrey Bayliss Trust, 2019.
Separated Materials
Born-digital material has been separated: Am3093BD
Processing Information
Minimally processed by Melanie Wisner, 2017 March, Magdaline Lawhorn 2017 September, Katherine Gaburo 2024 January.
Processing Information
Collection was packed up on site by repository staff who maintained original order as much as possible; hence, the order of subject file "drawers" and computer punchcard "containers" was retained and is used in this listing.
Number 38 was inadvertently skipped during boxing.
Creator
- Bayliss, Jonathan (Person)
- Title
- Bayliss, Jonathan. Jonathan Bayliss papers, 1937-2021 (MS Am 3093): Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Melanie Wisner
- Date
- 03/27/2017
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou02800
Repository Details
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