To PHT - Japan/Abiko residency, Laurel Sicks, 1998
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The collection, arranged in 7 series, documents Phyllis Hoge Thompson’s (PHT) personal life and professional career.
Biographical/Family includes material such as resumes, autobiographical writings, dreams, goals, and some photographs. Other materials document family history and genealogy.
Correspondence – Personal and Professional illuminates contacts, relationships, and communication to and from PHT. This series is generally filed chronologically, with personal and professional letters interfiled.
Professional Career begins with PHT’s time in Hawaii where she began the Poetry Workshop in the Schools program and received the Hawai’i Award for Literature in 1996. Though incomplete, literary contracts, correspondence, and records of sales are included, as are applications for residencies and fellowships, and project proposals
Writings consists primarily of manuscripts (holographic and typescript) and working drafts of PHT’s poetry and prose for both published and non-published works. Several unpublished manuscripts relate to PHT's China experiences. Money is the theme of several others. "Peggy Pond Church Poems," a manuscript (unpublished) with introductory information by Kathleen Church and a short essay by PHT is contained in this series, as are newspaper columns, introductions, and words to musical compositions written by PHT, and an audio CD of PHT reading her poems.
Publications Containing PHT Writings - Mostly poetry, but also interviews and prose from 1959-2015.
Quakers - The Quaker community was central to PHT’s life and spiritual well-being. PHT was actively involved with committees, meetings, and in codifying beliefs and guidelines. Material contained here is both universal to Quakerism and specific to New Mexico and to a lesser extent, Hawaii.
Mogollon (N.M.) - Materials relate to PHT’s research for The Painted Clock: A Memoir of a New Mexico Ghost Town Bride. Original correspondence and documents relate to Portland Southwest Mining Co., Organ (NM); H. A. Hoover, Esq. (Mogollon, NM); Girard Consolidated Mining and Milling Co. (T. F. Cooney, V.P., Consulting Engineer, Las Cruces, NM); Mogollon Mines Company; Oaks Company operating in the Cooney Mining District, Mogollon Mountains, NM. Contemporary correspondence relates to National Register designation.
Biographical/Family includes material such as resumes, autobiographical writings, dreams, goals, and some photographs. Other materials document family history and genealogy.
Correspondence – Personal and Professional illuminates contacts, relationships, and communication to and from PHT. This series is generally filed chronologically, with personal and professional letters interfiled.
Professional Career begins with PHT’s time in Hawaii where she began the Poetry Workshop in the Schools program and received the Hawai’i Award for Literature in 1996. Though incomplete, literary contracts, correspondence, and records of sales are included, as are applications for residencies and fellowships, and project proposals
Writings consists primarily of manuscripts (holographic and typescript) and working drafts of PHT’s poetry and prose for both published and non-published works. Several unpublished manuscripts relate to PHT's China experiences. Money is the theme of several others. "Peggy Pond Church Poems," a manuscript (unpublished) with introductory information by Kathleen Church and a short essay by PHT is contained in this series, as are newspaper columns, introductions, and words to musical compositions written by PHT, and an audio CD of PHT reading her poems.
Publications Containing PHT Writings - Mostly poetry, but also interviews and prose from 1959-2015.
Quakers - The Quaker community was central to PHT’s life and spiritual well-being. PHT was actively involved with committees, meetings, and in codifying beliefs and guidelines. Material contained here is both universal to Quakerism and specific to New Mexico and to a lesser extent, Hawaii.
Mogollon (N.M.) - Materials relate to PHT’s research for The Painted Clock: A Memoir of a New Mexico Ghost Town Bride. Original correspondence and documents relate to Portland Southwest Mining Co., Organ (NM); H. A. Hoover, Esq. (Mogollon, NM); Girard Consolidated Mining and Milling Co. (T. F. Cooney, V.P., Consulting Engineer, Las Cruces, NM); Mogollon Mines Company; Oaks Company operating in the Cooney Mining District, Mogollon Mountains, NM. Contemporary correspondence relates to National Register designation.
Dates
- 1998
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
English
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 5 boxes (5 cu. ft.) plus 1 oversized folder
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451