Marshall McLuhan : [correspondence]
- OTUFM 10-H-1-134
- File
- 1976
Part of John Beckwith fonds
Marshall McLuhan : [correspondence]
Part of John Beckwith fonds
This fonds is divided into 11 series reflecting the filing system used by Nevitt during his career, and based on subject divisions. The series are: ‘Subject Files’, ‘Early Manuscripts’, ‘Northern Electric Company’, ‘Discoveries International Symposium’, ‘Management by PreVision’, ‘Published Articles and Papers’, ‘Captain Gulliver’s Interplanetary Travels’, ‘ABC’, ‘Correspondence’, ‘Who Was Marshall McLuhan’, and ‘Printed Materials’.
The first series ‘Subject Files’, consists of 57 files containing a variety of textual records including correspondence, notes, printed materials, clippings, manuscripts, typescripts, photographs, ephemera, and overhead transparencies, and a small amount of audio recordings in various formats. The records are grouped together in individual files based on subject matter divisions reflecting specific creative and academic projects that Nevitt worked on alone and in conjunction with McLuhan, and topics of interest to Nevitt. The series also contains a file of collected photographs and a file titled ‘Ephemera and Mixed Media’, which contains a small collection of audio records.
The second series ‘Early Manuscripts’ consists of typescripts, and drafts of various academic manuscripts and papers written by Nevitt. The records in this series were created between 1945 – 1965.
The third series ‘Northern Electric Company’ includes notes, seminar material, and clippings compiled by Nevitt during his time with the Northern Electric Company between 1961 and 1962. The series includes material from various seminars organized by the American Management Association and attended by Nevitt.
The fourth series ‘Discoveries International Symposium’ includes correspondence, notes, ephemera, and symposium and conference materials related to Nevitt’s participation in Discoveries International Symposiums held in 1977 and 1978.
The fifth series, ‘Management by PreVision’ includes notes, clippings, drafts, correspondence, and other textual records related to Nevitt’s book project ‘Management by PreVision’.
The sixth series ‘Published Articles and Papers’, includes a collection of chronologically arranged articles and manuscripts written and published by Nevitt and others between 1951-1994, and related correspondence.
The seventh series ‘Captain Gulliver’s Interplanetary Travels’, includes correspondence, clippings, notes, contracts, manuscripts, and other textual records related to Nevitt’s science fiction book project of the same name.
The eighth series ‘ABC of Prophecy’ includes clippings, notes, manuscripts, and other textual records related to Nevitt’s book project of the same name.
The ninth series ‘Correspondence’ includes a collection of chronologically arranged correspondence related to Nevitt and generated between 1966 – 1993.
The tenth series ‘Who Was Marshall McLuhan’ includes correspondence, notes, clippings, and other textual records related to the book of the same name that was co-authored by Nevitt and Maurice McLuhan.
The eleventh series ‘Printed Materials’, includes monographs, periodicals, and published journal articles generated between 1953 – 1994 by Nevitt, Marshall McLuhan and other writers working on topics of interest to Nevitt.
This fonds includes textual material relating to the following books and publications:
Telecommunication Equipment for Power Systems Developments and Application in Sweden (book, 1953)
Causality in the Electronic World (book, 1972)
Take Today: The Executive as Dropout (book, 1972)
Encyclopedia of the Future Under the Direction of the Hudson Institute (article, 1973)
Managing Change by Anticipating its Effects on People (article, 1973)
New Media (book, 1973)
Development and Underdevelopment in the Electric Age (article, 1974)
The Responsive Chord (book, 1974)
ABC of Prophecy (book, 1980)
Archivist as Comprehensivist (article, 1981)
The Communication Ecology (book, 1982)
The Future of Media (book, 1982)
Keeping Ahead of Economic Panic (book, 1985)
Captain Gulliver’s Interplanetary Travels (book, 1986)
Who Was Marshal McLuhan (book, 1993)
From MBO to MBP (article)
Management by PreVision (article)
Nevitt, Barrington
Contains the personal and professional records of Robert Arnold Russel. This includes photographs of Russel and his family, information regarding his early life including schooling and university, family tree information and identifying documents such as baptism records and passports. The collection contains a comprehensive collection of Russel’s diaries and daytimers spanning from 1949 to his death in 2011. Professional records include materials pertaining to his early career in theatre, film and broadcasting, during the course of which he resided in France, England and Montreal. His career as an information professional and futurist is recorded extensively including his penning of the term “intersex” and “cybersex” in 1967 and his interview with Marshall McLuhan in 1962. As a futurist, Russel’s operated several businesses, most specifically, Orba Information (also called Orbafilm and Orba Inc), which operated between 1967 and 1993, which is archived in great detail, a smaller amount of information on later businesses including Rapid Response Inc., Toronto, Institute for Research on Public Policy and The Consortium for National Development is also available. Collection also contains drafts, proposals, budgets and storyboards surrounding Russel’s personal creative writing, including The Spark, a proposed television program and I am Haida, a proposed CD-ROM and game on Haida culture, and novels – The Petrans and Clone.
Contains series:
Series 1: Personal Papers
Series 2: Theatre
Series 3: Career as a futurist and information professional
Series 4: Writing
Series 5: Audio and video cassettes
Russel, Robert Arnold
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
The McLuhan DEW-Line Newsletter. New York: Human Development Corporation. vol. 1, 2, and 3. 20 issues, 1968-1970.
Explorations, Excerpts from The Varsity Graduate, 1964-68
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Explorations. Varsity Graduate, vol. 11-vol. 13. & Explorations. University of Toronto Graduate, vol. 1, 1964-1968.
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
McLuhan, Marshall. "Art as Anti-Environment." Art News Annual, no. 31, 1966, pp. 55-57.
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
McLuhan, Marshall. Teenagers and Touchability. 18 March 1960, and Supplement to McLuhan Work Paper on the New Media. 26 February 1960. Typescript, 8 pages.
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
McLuhan, Marshall. Why the TV Child Cannot See Ahead: Unconscious Bias of the Visual Mode--a Note on the Meaning of Mosaic. 1963. Typescript, 8 pages.
Course outline: Extensions of man: an approach to Marshall McLuhan
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
University of British Columbia Department of University Extension. Syllabus for Extensions of Man: An Approach to Marshall McLuhan. 27 January 1965. 1 page.
McLuhan, M. T. S. Eliot. For the CBC Critically Speaking program
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
McLuhan, Marshall. T. S. Eliot. 7 January 1965. Typescript, 5 pages.
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
McLuhan, Marshall. Media Log II. 1959. Typescript, 12 pages.
Wanted to purchase: Marshall McLuhan items. Innis Herald
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Robert Hittel, Inc. Wanted to Purchase Marshall McLuhan Items. Innis Herald, vol. 12, no. 1, 1978, p. 9.
Festival of the Contemporary Arts 1964
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
University of British Columbia. Festival of the Contemporary Arts 1964. 29 January- 7 February 1964.
Background to Illiteracy Supplement to English and Communication Seminar
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Background to Illiteracy, Supplement to English and Communication Seminar. 1 page.
Advertisement for Understanding media: the extensions of man, with critics quotations
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Advertisement for Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan. Paperback, McGraw-Hill, 1965.
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
McLuhan, Marshall. Laws of the Media. 1978. Typescript, 2 pages.
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
McLuhan, Marshall. Media Log. 1959. Typescript, 15 pages.
Advertisement for the New College School in New York Times
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Advertisement for The New School College. New York Times, 26 March 1967, p. 152.
Advertisement for Patterns of Literary criticism
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
University of Toronto Press. New Publications, Spring and Summer 1966, pp. 19-20.
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Advertisement for the Autumn 1988 issue of The Antigonish Review, no. 74-75.
Variations on a Theme by Marshall McLuhan
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Kasemets, Udo. Foreword. Canavangard: Music of the 1960s and After, edited by Kasemets. BMI Canada, 1967, pp. 3-15.
Understanding media: the extensions of man
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964.
Through the vanishing point: space in poetry and painting
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
McLuhan, Marshall, and Harley Parker. Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting. Harper & Row, 1968.
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
McLuhan, Marshall. Culture Is Our Business. McGraw-Hill, 1970.
The social impact of cybernetics
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Dechert, Charles R., editor. The Social Impact of Cybernetics. The University of Notre Dame Press, 1966.
Understanding media: the extensions of man
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964.
The guaranteed income: next step in economic evolution?
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Theobald, Robert, editor. The Guaranteed Income: Next Step in Economic Evolution? Doubleday, 1966.
McLuhan hot & cool: a critical symposium
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Stearn, Gerald Emanuel, editor. McLuhan Hot & Cool: A Critical Symposium. The Dial Press, 1967.
The major English Romantic poets. A symposium in reappraisal
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Thorpe, Clarence D., Carlos Baker and Bennett Weaver, editors. The Major English Romantic Poets: A Symposium in Reappraisal. Southern Illinois University Press, 1957.
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
"Explorations." edited by Marshall McLuhan, University of Toronto Graduate, v. 1, no. 1, 1967, pp. 65-96.
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
McLuhan, Marshall. "The University and the City." In Explorations 27, edited by Marshall McLuhan, University of Toronto Graduate, v. 3, no. 2, 1970, pp. 75-80.
Commission on the government of the University of Toronto: University of Toronto Library
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
University of Toronto. Commission on University Government. Co-chaired by L. Lynch and G. Webster, Friday, February 28, 1969, 2 pm session, pp. 9-27.
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Laban, Day. "Marshall McLuhan." Catholic Trustee, vol. 7, no. 4, 1967, pp. 23-25.
Masks and Roles and the Corporate Image
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
McLuhan, Marshall. "Masks and Roles and the Corporate Image." Varsity Graduate, vol. 11, no. 2, 1964, pp. 61-64.
Marshall McLuhan: resurrecting the media messiah
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Everett-Green, Robert. "Marshall McLuhan: Resurrecting the Media Messiah." The Globe and Mail [Toronto, Ont.], 22 July 1995, pp. C1-C2.
McLuhan’s new text assumes a low profile to make it saleable
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Lind, Loren. "McLuhan’s New Text Assumes a Low Profile to Make it Saleable." The Globe and Mail [Toronto, Ont.], 23 September 1977, p. 4.
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Driedger, Sharon Doyle. "Beyond McLuhan." Maclean's, 10 July 1995, p. 44.
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Rynor, Michah. "Sirens of the Sixties." University of Toronto Magazine, vol. 28, no. 1, 1999, p. 38.
Excerpt ‘Understanding Me.’ McLuhan’s ‘silent partner.’
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Wolfe, Tom. "McLuhan's 'Silent Partner'." Excerpt from Understanding Me, edited by Stephanie McLuhan and David Staines, The Globe and Mail [Toronto, Ont.], 27 September 2003, pp. R1, R9.
What Howie Meeker and Atwood have in common
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Taylor, Kate. "What Howie Meeker and Atwood Have in Common." The Globe and Mail [Toronto, Ont.], 18 November 2005, p. A3.
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Dempsey, Lotta. "Schools Foreseen As Museums." The Toronto Daily Star, 1959.
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Slopen, Beverley. "Growth industry." The Toronto Star, 9 July 1994, p. G11.
The new world of Marshall McLuhan
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Thomas, Alan M. "The New World of Marshall McLuhan." Varsity Graduate, vol. 8, 1959, pp. 16-18, 56, 58.
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Marchand, Philip. "Rebooting McLuhan." The Toronto Star, 4 April 1998, pp. M1, M20.
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Durocher, Eric. "McLuhan’s Way to the Truth." the Catholic Register, 30 September 2007, p. 13.
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Braithwaite, Dennis. "Symbol of Crisis." The Globe and Mail [Toronto, Ont,], 9 May 1966, p. 17.
[Book Review] Marshall McLuhan, the analogical critic
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Buitenhuis, Peter. "Marshall McLuhan, the Analogical Critic." Review of The interior Language: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, 1943-1962, edited by Eugene McNamara, The Globe and Mail [Toronto, Ont.], 14 February 1970, p. A15.
[Book Review] The meaning in the message: McLuhan’s letters amplify his ideas about modern media
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
D'Evelyn, Thomas. "The Meaning in the Message: McLuhan’s Letters Amplify His Ideas about Modern Media." Review of Letters of Marshall McLuhan, edited by Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, and William Toye, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 April 1988, pp. 19-20.
[Book Reivew] Terms of endearment. Book review of Understanding media: the extensions of man
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Lapham, Lewis H. "Terms of Endearment." Review of Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, by Marshall McLuhan, Harper's, vol. 289, no. 1732, 1994, pp. 7-9.
McLuhan honoured at St. Mike’s
Part of Marshall McLuhan Collection
Hrabluk, Lisa. "McLuhan Honoured at St. Mike’s." The Mike [Toronto, Ont.], 28 November 1990, p. 3.