Ben Logan Papers, 1935-2011

Contents List

Container Title
M2010-162
Series: Writings
Books
Christmas Remembered
Box   1
Folder   1
“Looking for Christmas,” 1997
Box   1
Folder   2-3
Final manuscript page proofs
Empty Meadow (“Beyond Here There Be Tigers” working title)
Box   1
Folder   4-7
Work papers
Box   3
Folder   1
Novel
Box   1
Folder   8
Spring/ending
Box   1
Folder   9-33
Chapters 1-25
Box   1
Folder   34
Drafts
Box   1
Folder   35-38
Manuscript
Box   1
Folder   39-40
Final rough
Box   1
Folder   41
Possible addition
Box   1
Folder   42
Late chapters, drafts
Box   1
Folder   43
Final, Chapters 1-13
Box   2
Folder   1
Final, Chapters 14-27
Box   2
Folder   2-3
Revisions
Box   3
Folder   2-4
Proofs
Box   2
Folder   4
Publisher's proofs
Box   2
Folder   5
Reviews
Box   2
Folder   6
“Tiger” correspondence, 1979
Box   2
Folder   7
Empty Meadow letter and response, 1995
The Land Remembers
Box   2
Folder   8-9
Manuscript for typing
Box   2
Folder   10-11
Stat of final rough
Box   2
Folder   12-15
Publisher's edited manuscript (Viking)
Box   2
Folder   16-17
Stat
Box   2
Folder   18
1st submission, partial manuscript and outline, includes New Land section
Box   3
Folder   5-6
Galleys (author's set, master set)
Box   2
Folder   19
Afterword, 1985
Box   2
Folder   20
Foreword, 1999
Box   2
Folder   21
Afterword, 1999
Box   2
Folder   22-24
Proofs and corrections, 2006
Box   4
Folder   1
Proofs and corrections, 2006 (continued)
Box   4
Folder   2
Treatment
Box   4
Folder   3-4
Screenplay, annotated
Box   4
Folder   5-6
Play, written with Fred Ollerman, 1987
Box   4
Folder   7
Film, 1993-1994
Box   4
Folder   8
Music project, 1988
Box   4
Folder   9
Notes
Box   4
Folder   10
Annotated by reader
Box   4
Folder   11
Correspondence and writings, circa 2006
Box   4
Folder   12
Correspondence regarding 7th edition
Box   4
Folder   13
Workshop materials
Box   4
Folder   14-17
Reviews, etc.
Box   4
Folder   18
Book, letters, and miscellaneous, 1953-1996
Box   4
Folder   19
Companion book
Other published writings
Box   4
Folder   20
Accent, 1969
Box   4
Folder   21-22
Clippings, 1942-2001, 1975-1988
Box   4
Folder   23
Daily Cardinal, 1951
Box   4
Folder   24
Ford Farming, 1955-1959
Box   4
Folder   25
Ford scripts, undated
Box   4
Folder   26
Journalism II String book and Acceptance letters, 1941-1942
Box   4
Folder   27-29
NBC Scripts-United Methodist Communications
Box   4
Folder   30
United Methodist Communications and NABS
Unpublished novel
“Something Beyond the Sea”/“Irresistible Sorrow”
Box   11
Folder   1
“Irresistible Sorrow,” Chapters 1-21 [printed from disc]
Box   11
Folder   2
“An Irresistible Sorrow”
Box   11
Folder   3
“Irresistible Sorrow”
Box   11
Folder   4
“Something Beyond the Sea”
Box   11
Folder   5-6
“Something Beyond the Sea,” Chapters 1-5, 7-23
Box   11
Folder   7-8
“Something Beyond the Sea,” drafts
Box   11
Folder   9-11
“Something Beyond the Sea” and “An Irresistible Sorrow,” chapters and notes
Box   11
Folder   12
War roughs
Box   11
Folder   13
War loose pages
Box   11
Folder   14-15
A Novel, Part I-II, work papers (War)
Box   11
Folder   16
War novel up to Sicily
Box   11
Folder   17
War novel notes
Box   11
Folder   18
Africa
Box   11
Folder   19
Hospital
Box   11
Folder   20
Italy after Salerno
Box   11
Folder   21
North Africa
Box   11
Folder   22
Salerno
Box   11
Folder   23
Sicily
Box   11
Folder   24-25
Ending
Box   11
Folder   26
“War” chronology
War novel-structure and miscellaneous
Box   11
Folder   27
Related material
Box   11
Folder   28
Blowing Dust, literary journal, 1939-1941
Box   11
Folder   29
Essays and miscellaneous
Box   11
Folder   30
Maps, pamphlets, clippings
Box   11
Folder   31-32
Notes
Box   11
Folder   33
Short stories
Box   11
Folder   34
“War Remembered,” Howard Sherpe
Other writings
Box   5
Folder   1
“626”
Box   5
Folder   2
“An Act of God”
Box   5
Folder   3-4
“Aunt Susie”
Box   5
Folder   5
“Bits”
Box   9
Folder   1-2
“Bits” (continued)
Box   5
Folder   6
“Can Johnny Sing?” (Junior Choir filmstrip)
Box   5
Folder   7
“The Catacombs of Cappuccini”
Box   5
Folder   8
“Cat's Tail”
Box   5
Folder   9
“Charles Proteus Steinmetz”
Box   5
Folder   10
“Cheaper by the One at a Time”
Box   5
Folder   11
“Crisis Center” format/scripting
Box   5
Folder   12-13
“A Eulogy”
Box   5
Folder   14-16
“Existence Doubtful”
Box   5
Folder   17
“Franklin D. Roosevelt”
Box   5
Folder   18
“Gothic”
Box   5
Folder   19
“Gothic Tales” notes
Box   5
Folder   20
“The Great Dandelion War”
Box   5
Folder   21
“Growing Up With Television”
Box   5
Folder   22
“Hello Up There,” script, 1968
Box   5
Folder   23
“How Long Is a Year?”
Box   5
Folder   24
“I Can't Carry Me”
Box   5
Folder   25
“Ivan”
Box   5
Folder   26
“Jacaranda”
Box   5
Folder   27
“Jacaranda Tree”
Box   5
Folder   28
“The Junkyard”
Box   5
Folder   29
“Last Night of Leave”
Box   5
Folder   30
“Looking for Home”
Box   5
Folder   31
“Maura”
Box   5
Folder   32
“Messina: City of Disaster”
Box   5
Folder   33
“Mexican Posada”
Box   5
Folder   34
“Mexico Stories”
Box   5
Folder   35
“Night Call” radio show, 1968
Box   5
Folder   36
“No Church in August”
Box   5
Folder   37
“Not Like in the Movies”
Box   5
Folder   38
“Older Than God”
Box   5
Folder   39-42
“Precarious Vision”
Box   5
Folder   43
“Some People Are Never Strangers”
Box   9
Folder   3
“Smuggler,” 1950
Box   5
Folder   44
“Stranger”
Box   5
Folder   45
“Street Corner College”
Box   5
Folder   46
“Television: What It Can Do to Us; What We Can Do About It”
Box   5
Folder   47
“Tiger in the Valley”
Box   5
Folder   48
A Time of Change, play
Box   5
Folder   49
“Trapper Martin”
Box   5
Folder   50
“Travels of Down”
Box   5
Folder   51
“Twilight Valley”
Box   5
Folder   52
“Unforgettable Character,” 1963
Box   5
Folder   53
“Where Is Home”
Box   5
Folder   54
“Whisky Glass”
Box   5
Folder   55
“Winter/Fall”
Box   5
Folder   56
“Wonderful Wisconsin” historical coloring book
Box   5
Folder   57
“Year Older Than God (or Even Later)”
Box   5
Folder   58
“You Know How Folks Are”
Untitled writing
Box   5
Folder   64
Author's Workshop for Veterans play with Arnold Schulman
Box   5
Folder   65
Fiction
Box   5
Folder   66
Filmstrip scripts
Box   9
Folder   4
Miscellaneous
Box   6
Folder   1
Miscellaneous re-writing
Box   9
Folder   5
Need re-write
Box   6
Folder   2
New York Times review (by Logan)
Box   6
Folder   3-8
Notes
Box   6
Folder   9
Notes, notes to writers
Box   6
Folder   10
Poetry
Box   6
Folder   11
Story notes
Box   6
Folder   12
Syndicate
Box   6
Folder   13-17
Writing, general
Writing, subjects
Box   6
Folder   18
Commuting
Box   6
Folder   19
Corn
Box   6
Folder   20
Ecology
Box   6
Folder   21-22
Hillborn
Box   6
Folder   23-24
Historical
Box   6
Folder   25
Local articles
Box   6
Folder   26
Local history
Box   6
Folder   27
Nature
Box   6
Folder   28
Seeds
Box   6
Folder   29
Wisconsin Idea
Box   6
Folder   30
Wolves
Box   6
Folder   31-35
Writing
Others' work
Box   6
Folder   36
Tarilyn Boardman manuscript, 1991
Box   6
Folder   37
Louis Martinelli, 1983-1988
Series: Correspondence
Box   7
Folder   1
Rejects, 1949-1958
Box   7
Folder   2
Letters from Jacqueline, 1953
Box   7
Folder   3-5
Letters from readers, 1973-1994
Box   7
Folder   6-7
Business correspondence, 1974-1999
Box   7
Folder   8
Mail unanswered, 1984-1995
Box   7
Folder   9-15
Correspondence, 1961-2008
Box   7
Folder   16-17
Correspondence and notes, 1998-2007
Box   7
Folder   18-23
Correspondence, clippings and writing, 1980-2007
Box   7
Folder   24
Humorous clippings
Series: Activities
Presentations
Box   7
Folder   25
Future of Farming and Rural Life Forum, 2006
Box   7
Folder   26
Robert Gard Memorial, 1993
Box   7
Folder   27
Robert Gard Award, 2001
Presentations (notes)
Box   7
Folder   28-34
1976-2006
Box   8
Folder   1-3
1990-1996
Box   9
Folder   6
1970s-1982
Box   8
Folder   4
Questions from Elkhorn, Wisconsin, High School students, 1995
Box   8
Folder   5
Rural values class, 1993
Box   8
Folder   6
Values Seminar, 1990
Box   8
Folder   7
Writing classes, 1988-1995
Local activities
Box   8
Folder   8
Chippewa Valley Museum Conference, 1994-1996
Box   8
Folder   9-10
Crawford County, 1988-2002
Box   8
Folder   11-12
Crawford County Historical Society
Box   8
Folder   13
History
Box   8
Folder   14
Janus Co-op, 1997
Box   8
Folder   15
Kickapoo Valley, 1999
Box   9
Folder   7
Seneca Chief, 1935
Box   8
Folder   16
Seneca High School
Box   8
Folder   17
Seneca history
Box   8
Folder   18
Seneca sewage
Box   8
Folder   19
Special people, 1985-1986
Box   8
Folder   20
State Historical Society (William Jones), 1933-1993
Box   8
Folder   21
University of Wisconsin Agriculture College Film, 1989
Box   8
Folder   22
Vision Stewardship Network, circa 2000-2002
Box   8
Folder   23
Wisconsin historical material, circa 1973-1998
Box   8
Folder   24
Wisconsin Historical Society, 1990-1993
Series: Personal Papers
Box   8
Folder   25-26
Ben Logan biographical
Box   8
Folder   27
Correspondence, clippings, family papers, 1938-1983
Box   8
Folder   28
Datebook, 1945
Box   8
Folder   29
Genealogy
Box   8
Folder   30
“The Education of Arts: Interviews With Two Southwestern Wisconsin Arts, the Dancer Jane Farwell and the Writer Ben Logan,” 1987
Box   8
Folder   31
Journal, undated
Box   8
Folder   32-33
Personal papers, 1939-1987
Box   9
Folder   8-9
Logan, Sam, personal papers, 1994, undated
Box   9
Folder   34
Photos and drawings (copies)
Box   9
Folder   35
Résumé and photo
Box   9
Folder   36
University of Wisconsin diploma, 1942
Box   9
Folder   37
Wildlife 105B
Box   9
Folder   38
Wildlife Biology 118, 1941
Box   9
Folder   39
Writing awards, 1985-1987
Box   9
Folder   40
Yellowstone Elderhostel, 2002
Oversize Folder  
Ephemera
Series: Photographs
Box   10
Folder   1
Ben Logan
Box   10
Folder   2
Ben Logan at Seldom Seen
Oversize PH Folder  
Cast of Land Remembers play
Box   10
Folder   3
Cats
Box   10
Folder   4
Family, friends, farm
Box   10
Folder   5
Ford Farming
Box   10
Folder   6
From Archie Hamilton
Box   10
Folder   7
Mexico
Box   10
Folder   8
Threshing
Box   10
Folder   9
Watercolor from reader
Audio 1616A
Series: Audio Recordings
1616A/1-4
Wisconsin Public Radio University of the Air, Wisconsin Writers with Ben Logan, Lorrie Moore, Jacquelyn Mitchard, and Jane Hamilton, 1998
Physical Description: Cassette tapes