Department of Special Collections and University Archives
McFarlin Library. University of Tulsa.  2933 E. 6th St.  Tulsa, OK.  74104-3123 (OKT - OkTU)

Eliot Bliss diaries

Collection 1995-001

Dates:  1959-1980.

Extent:  (5 boxes)

Level of Description:  Folder level.

Name of creator(s):  Eliot Bliss.

Date of creation:  Undetermined.

Scope and Content:  Consists of 19 volumes of daily diaries dating from January 1959 to December 1960, and January 1963 to August 1980.  Additional notes, correspondence, poems, photographs, and sales receipts are laid into many of the diaries, all of which have been noted in the inventory.

Administrative/Biographical History: 

Access and Copyright:

Language and Scripts:  English.

Finding aid/Inventory:  Finding aid is available online.

Provenance/Source of Acquisition:  Purchased from Bertram Rota in February 1995.

Date(s) of description:   Milissa Burkart, Mar 1995.
 

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Subject Headings 

 
Personal names
 

Corporate names

Places
 

Inventory

Jan-Dec 1964.  (Laid in: handwritten postcard signed from  J.K. to Bliss, 26 May 1963, with photograph of Gabrielle Ray on verso.)

Jan-Dec 1965.  (Laid in: typed letter signed from Bishop's Stortford Urban District Council to Bliss, 15 Jan 1965.)

Jan-Dec 1966.  (Laid in: Snapshot of the 2nd West India Regiment Officer's Mess, 1923 and photo-postcard of an unidentified man.)

Jan 1967-1 Jan 1968.

Jan 1968-1 Jan 1969.  (Laid in: handwritten letter signed from  J. Bruce Edward (Chiropodist) to Bliss, 18 Jul 1966; handwritten letter signed from  Jim to Bliss, 8 Nov 1966.)

Jan 1970-Dec 1970.  (Laid in:   handwritten draft poem fragment, "The Kiss," in 2 versions, 1p each.)

Jan 1971-Dec 1971.  (Laid in:  handwritten draft "Notes on My Diaries," 3p.

Jan 1973-Dec 1973.  (Laid in: Photograph of G[?] and her cat, Treasure, and a snapshot of 2 unidentified women.)

Jan-Dec 1978.  Handwritten  draft poem, "Insperation [sic]," written by Bliss's friend Sylvia, and found after Sylvia's death, 1p.