The Ross Parmenter - David Farmer Correspondence, 1971-(1972-1976)-1996

COLLECTION GUIDE

Prepared by Phil MacLeod, February 2000.

This collection comprises a total of 41 letters (5 of which have a total of 10 attachments) by Ross Parmenter, a noted anthropologist and writer, and David Farmer who worked at the University of Texas, Humanities Research Center and later served as the Head of Special Collections of the University of Houston's Anderson Memorial Library and Director of Southern Methodist University's DeGolyer Library. Some of the letters deal with the publication of Parmenter's Lawrence in Oaxaca and Farmer's critical edition of D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love. The correspondence also contains 9 Christmas cards from Parmenter to Farmer.

Folder 1 -- Correspondence, 1971

1. TLS 1 August, 1971, Oaxaca, Mexico, Ross Parmenter to David Farmer

Attachment 1: Article, "Mexico, Why Not" by Luis Quintanilla; rewritten by D.H. Lawrence
2. TL [between 2 August and 12 August 1971] Draft of Letter from David Farmer to Ross Parmenter
3. TL 12 August 1971, Austin, Texas, David Farmer to Ross Parmenter
4. TLS 23 September, 1971, Oaxaca, Mexico, Ross Parmenter to David Farmer

Folder 2 -- Correspondence, 1972

5. TL 19 January, 1972, Austin, Texas, David Farmer to Ross Parmenter
6. TLS 8 February, 1972, New York, N.Y., Ross Parmenter to David Farmer
7. TLS 8 March, 1972, Oaxaca, Mexico, Ross Parmenter to David Farmer
8. TL 12 March, 1972, [Austin, Texas?], David Farmer to Ross Parmenter
9. TLS 30 March, 1972, Oaxaca, Mexico, Ross Parmenter to David Farmer
10. TLS 30 March, 1972, Oaxaca, Mexico, Ross Parmenter to David Farmer
11. TL 12 April, 1972, [Austin, Texas?], David Farmer to Ross Parmenter
12. TL 13 November, 1972, [Austin, Texas?], David Farmer to Ross Parmenter
13. TLS 2 December, 1972, New York, N.Y., Ross Parmenter to David Farmer
14. TL 7 December 1972, [Austin, Texas?], David Farmer to Ross Parmenter
15. ADS [13 December, 1972?], New York, N.Y., Ross Parmenter to David Farmer
16. TLS 29 December, 1972, New York, N.Y., Ross Parmenter to David Farmer

Folder 3 -- Correspondence, 1973

17. TL 3 January, 1973, [Austin, Texas?], David Farmer to Ross Parmenter
18. TLS 15 June, 1973, Oaxaca, Mexico, Ross Parmenter to David Farmer

Attachment 1: Photo of the Lawrences in Oaxaca market

Attachment 2: Copy of Sketch of Frieda Lawrence by George Schreiber>BR>

Attachment 3: Copy of Portrait of John Middleton Murry by Dorothy Brett
19. TL 26 June, 1973, [Austin, Texas?], David Farmer to Ross Parmenter
20. TLS 25 July, 1973, Oaxaca, Mexico, Ross Parmenter to David Farmer
21. TL 3 August, 1973, [Austin, Texas?], David Farmer to Ross Parmenter
22. TLS 16 December, 1973, New York, N.Y., Ross Parmenter to David Farmer
23. TL 19 December, 1973, [Austin, Texas?], David Farmer to Ross Parmenter

Folder 4 -- Correspondence, 1974

24. TL 8 January, 1974, [Austin, Texas?], David Farmer to Ross Parmenter
25. TLS 14 January, 1974, New York, N.Y., Ross Parmenter to David Farmer
26. TLS 4 February, 1974, New York, N.Y., Ross Parmenter to David Farmer
27. TLS 2 June, 1974, Oaxaca, Mexico, Ross Parmenter to David Farmer

Attachment 1: Copy of TLS 22 May, 1974, Austin, Texas, Lysander Kemp to Ross Parmenter
28. Copy of TLS 13 June, 1974, Austin, Texas, David Farmer to Ross Parmenter
29. TLS 3 July 1974, Oaxaca, Mexico, Ross Parmenter to David Farmer

Attachment 1: Photocopy ALS 21 January, 1925, [Oaxaca, Mexico?], Frieda Lawrence to her mother (in German)

Attachment 2: Photocopy of English translation of ALS, 21 January 1925, [Oaxaca, Mexico?], Frieda Lawrence to her mother

Attachment 3: Photocopy ALS, 19 February 1925, Oaxaca, Mexico, Frieda Lawrence to her mother (in German)

Attachment 4: Photocopy of English translation of ALS, 19 February, 1925, Oaxaca, Mexico, Frieda Lawrence to her mother
30. TL, 15 July, 1974, Austin, Texas, David Farmer to Ross Parmenter
31. TL, 15 July, 1974, Austin, Texas, David Farmer to John Kirkpatrick

Folder 5 -- Correspondence, 1975-1976

32. TLS, 7 December, 1975, New York, N.Y.
33. TL, 11 December, 1975, [Austin, Texas?], David Farmer to Ross Parmenter
34. TLS, 27 January, 1976, New York, N.Y., Ross Parmenter to David Farmer
35. TL, 20 February, 1976, [Austin, Texas?], David Farmer to Ross Parmenter
36. TLS, 1 August, 1976, Oaxaca, Mexico, Ross Parmenter to David Farmer

Attachment 1: Copy of TLS, 7 July, 1976, Santa Barbara, California, John Martin to Ross Parmenter
37. TLS, 30 November, 1976, Oaxaca, Mexico, Ross Parmenter to David Farmer

Folder 6 -- Correspondence, 1987-1995

38. TL, 2 January, 1987, Dallas, Texas, David Farmer to Ross Parmenter
39. TLS, 4 January, 1989, New York, N.Y., Ross Parmenter to David Farmer
40. TLS, 10 January, 1990, New York, N.Y., Ross Parmenter to David Farmer
41. TLS, 30 December, 1995, New York, N.Y., Ross Parmenter to David Farmer

Folder 7

42-50. Nine Christmas cards from Ross Parmenter to David Farmer (1971, 1972, 1973, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1995, 1996)

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