P. L. Travers Personal Documents /repositories/7/archival_objects/250370 1 box 1965-1992 circa 1946-1994 September 16 Scope and Contents

Notes by P. L. Travers on fairy tales, myth, and other subjects.

Notes on writing for children /repositories/7/archival_objects/251096 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes written on an envelope /repositories/7/archival_objects/251097 1 folder undated 2 8 Copy of a hymn ("Praise to the Lord") /repositories/7/archival_objects/251098 1 folder undated 2 8 Two newspaper clippings: "In Search of the Inner Soul" and "Ballet's Comet" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251099 1 folder 1988 June 11 2 8 "Numbers" by Hester Lord /repositories/7/archival_objects/251100 1 folder undated 2 8 "Translation from Aratos" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251101 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes: "Laurens" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251102 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes written over a letter from Richard Austin to P. L. Travers /repositories/7/archival_objects/251103 1 folder undated 2 8 Prayer with quotation from George Herbert /repositories/7/archival_objects/251104 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on biography /repositories/7/archival_objects/251105 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes: "All good things are ours..." /repositories/7/archival_objects/251106 1 folder undated 2 8 Newspaper clipping and note: "Books that shouldn't be thrown to a Caesar" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251107 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on saints and martyrs /repositories/7/archival_objects/251108 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on "Mystical Dimensions of Islam" by Annemarie Schimmel /repositories/7/archival_objects/251109 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes typed on index cards /repositories/7/archival_objects/251110 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on Zen /repositories/7/archival_objects/251111 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes written on a letter from Phyllis Keeney to Marion Winne /repositories/7/archival_objects/251112 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on Sleeping Beauty /repositories/7/archival_objects/251113 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes: "Roman Jakobson's afterward to Norman Guterman's translation of Afansev's collection of Russian Fairy Tales (Pantheon.)" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251114 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes: "Gustav Schwab Gods and Heroes of ancient Greece. These notes are from the introduction by Werner Jaeger." /repositories/7/archival_objects/251115 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes: "S.B. all three graces in one. The Triple Goddess." /repositories/7/archival_objects/251116 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on Indian tribes /repositories/7/archival_objects/251117 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on Sleeping Beauty /repositories/7/archival_objects/251118 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on fairy tales /repositories/7/archival_objects/251119 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes: "Tricks of Women, Paul Fennimore Cooper. Albanian Tales." /repositories/7/archival_objects/251120 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on fairy tales /repositories/7/archival_objects/251121 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on fairy tales and Gaelic culture /repositories/7/archival_objects/251122 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes: "Superstitions Meanings Folk Customs" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251123 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes: "The Folklore of the Fairy Tale, Macleod Yearsley" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251124 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on roses /repositories/7/archival_objects/251125 1 folder undated 2 8 Drafts of a "Postscript" on Sleeping Beauty /repositories/7/archival_objects/251126 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on Wise Women /repositories/7/archival_objects/251127 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes written on "First Zen Institute of America" Envelope /repositories/7/archival_objects/251128 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes: "W. W. Thirteen Spindle" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251129 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes: "Jeremiah Curtin, Myths and Folklore of Ireland" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251130 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on Odin /repositories/7/archival_objects/251131 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on Prince and Princess /repositories/7/archival_objects/251132 1 folder undated 2 8 Drafts of "About the Sleeping Beauty" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251133 1 folder 1965 2 8 Notes on Orpheus /repositories/7/archival_objects/251134 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on Sleeping Beauty /repositories/7/archival_objects/251135 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on fairy tales /repositories/7/archival_objects/251136 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes: "Myth, Saga, Legend, Folk Tale, Fairy Tale" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251137 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on rituals /repositories/7/archival_objects/251138 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on myth /repositories/7/archival_objects/251139 1 folder undated 2 8 Excerpts from "Discourses on Vegetable Roots, Hung-Yung-ming, 1596" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251140 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes: "Tricks of Women, Paul Fennimore Cooper. Albanian Tales." /repositories/7/archival_objects/251141 1 folder undated 2 8 Postcards of Sababurg, "the original Sleeping Beauty castle" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251142 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on Sleeping Beauty /repositories/7/archival_objects/251143 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on A. E. /repositories/7/archival_objects/251144 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on Sleeping Beauty /repositories/7/archival_objects/251145 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes: "The sun must rise in the West..." /repositories/7/archival_objects/251146 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes: "Sister goddesses of ancient Ireland" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251147 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on the Juniper Tree /repositories/7/archival_objects/251148 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on legend /repositories/7/archival_objects/251149 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on fairy tales /repositories/7/archival_objects/251150 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes: "What is it to die?" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251151 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on Venus /repositories/7/archival_objects/251152 1 folder undated 2 8 Address and schedule notes /repositories/7/archival_objects/251153 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on sleeping beauty /repositories/7/archival_objects/251154 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes: "Epics, myths and legends of India. P. Thomas" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251155 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on fairy tales /repositories/7/archival_objects/251156 1 folder undated 2 8 "Dornroschen by Fritz Ernst" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251157 1 folder undated 2 8 "F. T. Myth and Folklore" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251158 1 folder undated 2 8 Notes on dragons /repositories/7/archival_objects/251159 1 folder undated 2 9 Notes on dreams /repositories/7/archival_objects/251160 1 folder undated 2 9 "5 Points for New Life" Pamphlet /repositories/7/archival_objects/251161 1 folder undated 2 9 Image of dove /repositories/7/archival_objects/251162 1 folder undated 2 9 Four-leaf clover with note /repositories/7/archival_objects/251163 1 folder undated 2 9 Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi /repositories/7/archival_objects/251164 1 folder undated 2 9 Clipping from "The Listener": "The Full Circle: W. R. Rodgers on the hunting of the hare" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251165 1 folder 1962 June 7 2 9 Script of "Kafka, Rilke, and Rumpelstiltskin" by Idris Parry with letter /repositories/7/archival_objects/251166 1 folder 1965 November 24 2 9 "The Relation Between Therapy and Learning: An Ecological Concept of Nature and Knowledge" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251167 1 folder undated 2 9 Funeral program for Joanna Mary Haggarty /repositories/7/archival_objects/251168 1 folder 1994 September 16 2 9 "Children's Literature" by Clifton Fadiman, Encyclopaedia Britannica entry with inscription /repositories/7/archival_objects/251169 1 folder 1971 2 9 Clipping from "The Observer" about the Cherry Tree Trust and Advertisement for L. M. Boston books /repositories/7/archival_objects/251170 1 folder 1972 January 2 undated 2 9 Pencil sketch of Theodore Roosevelt(?) and newspaper clipping of Barbara Moriarty (sister of P. L. Travers) meeting King George VI /repositories/7/archival_objects/251171 1 folder circa 1946 2 9 Flyer for Christmas service featuring P. L. Travers reading /repositories/7/archival_objects/251172 1 folder undated 2 9 Transcription from "Chinese Fairy Tales, Told in English by Herbert A. Giles" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251173 1 folder undated 2 9 Partial draft: "Craft Stories" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251174 1 folder undated 2 9 Notes: "Ludwig Uhland 1787-1862. On the Thor Myth." /repositories/7/archival_objects/251175 1 folder undated 2 9 Partial draft: "When the teachers die, the temples rise..." /repositories/7/archival_objects/251176 1 folder undated 2 9 Notes on Fosterage /repositories/7/archival_objects/251177 1 folder undated 2 9 Excerpt "From the Introduction to Hara" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251178 1 folder undated 2 9 Notes on "J. Campbell Masks of God, Primitive Mythology" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251179 1 folder undated 2 9 Notes on Nietzsche and myth /repositories/7/archival_objects/251180 1 folder undated 2 9 Partial draft of a lecture on myth /repositories/7/archival_objects/251181 1 folder undated 2 9 Notes on myth and creation /repositories/7/archival_objects/251182 1 folder undated 2 9 Newspaper clipping: "Face to Faith" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251183 1 folder undated 2 9 Personal anecdote: "The Other and the Others" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251184 1 folder undated 2 9 "The Phoenix Project Introductory Letter" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251185 1 folder undated 2 10 Funeral program for Dorothea Matthews Dooling /repositories/7/archival_objects/251186 1 folder 1991 November 22 2 10 Personal anecdote about consciousness /repositories/7/archival_objects/251187 1 folder undated 2 10 Letter from Kevin S. Hile to P. L. Travers regarding a biographical sketch /repositories/7/archival_objects/251188 1 folder undated 2 10 Letter from James Hamilton to P. L. Travers regarding Gertrude Hermes /repositories/7/archival_objects/251189 1 folder 1986 November 13 2 10 Letter from Julian Bach to P. L. Travers regarding a publication /repositories/7/archival_objects/251190 1 folder 1980 February 4 2 10 Letter from M. C. Mathieu to P. L. Travers regarding puppet plays /repositories/7/archival_objects/251191 1 folder 1991 November 19 2 10 Letter from Dorothy Simmons to P. L. Travers /repositories/7/archival_objects/251192 1 folder 1972 August 31 2 10 Address for T. G. McKinstry /repositories/7/archival_objects/251193 1 folder undated 2 10 Notes on "Understanding" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251194 1 folder undated 2 10 Card from Mr. Basil Helal /repositories/7/archival_objects/251195 1 folder undated 2 10 Notes on Brothers Grimm books and fairy tales /repositories/7/archival_objects/251196 1 folder undated 2 10 Notes: "How can we learn to know ourselves?..." /repositories/7/archival_objects/251197 1 folder undated 2 10 Notes: "Worlds without end." /repositories/7/archival_objects/251198 1 folder undated 2 10 Notes "L[aurens] van de[r] Post in A story like the Wind" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251199 1 folder undated 2 10 Prayer /repositories/7/archival_objects/251200 1 folder undated 2 10 Notes on fear /repositories/7/archival_objects/251201 1 folder 1966 June 8 2 10 "Written for Robert O'Driscoll to include in his Toronto Synopsis" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251202 1 folder undated 2 10 Excerpt from "Gustave le Bon, French visitor to Kathmandu, in Nepal, 1884" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251203 1 folder undated 2 10 Excerpt from "A Dictionary of Egyptian Civilization" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251204 1 folder undated 2 10 Notes on the hero /repositories/7/archival_objects/251205 1 folder undated 2 10 Notes on Babylon /repositories/7/archival_objects/251206 1 folder undated 2 10 Notes on Shiva /repositories/7/archival_objects/251207 1 folder undated 2 10 Notes on Eleusis /repositories/7/archival_objects/251208 1 folder undated 2 10 Notes: "Potter" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251209 1 folder undated 2 10 Excerpt from "The New England Primer" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251210 1 folder undated 2 10 Program from The Solemnity of Saint John the Divine Dedication Festival /repositories/7/archival_objects/251211 1 folder 1975 December 28 2 10 Draft of preface for "Friend Monkey" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251212 1 folder undated 2 10 Letter from Colin Dunston to P. L. Travers regarding her sister's death /repositories/7/archival_objects/251213 1 folder 1987 May 20 2 10 Letter from C J Watkinson to Lord Goodman regarding remodeling of P. L. Travers' house /repositories/7/archival_objects/251214 1 folder 1992 October 12 2 10 "Madame de Salzmann's words at the death of Padede [P.D.?] Ouspensky" /repositories/7/archival_objects/251215 1 folder undated 2 10