Charles Reade: A Biography (Unpublished)

• Photocopied manuscript with edits, pp. 485 - 620, 1973
• Photocopied manuscript with edits, pp. 621 - 718, 1973
• Photocopied manuscript with edits, notes pp. 1 - 78, 1973
• Photocopied manuscript with edits, notes pp. 79 - 150 and bibliography, 1973
• Proposal for new draft, March 1992
• Draft of notes pages, Undated
• Miscellaneous notes, Undated
• Miscellaneous pages, Undated

Charles Reade: A Biography Research Files

• Correspondence, 1962-1992
• Correspondence, General Register Office, 1963-1969; 1973
• Paper by Clareson on Reade's Christie Johnstone, 1969 (copy from 1992)
• Photographs and visual materials, Undated
• Research files relating to Anthony Trollope, 1928-1988

Charles Reade: A Biography Research Files

• Undated files

Untitled Manuscript on Robert Heinlein, Undated

• Manuscript with edits, pp. 1 - 120, Undated
• Manuscript with edits, pp. 121 - 205, Undated
• Manuscript with edits, unnumbered pages, Undated
• Manuscript with edits, assorted pages and notes, Undated
• Photocopied manuscript with edits, pp. 1 - 120 (2 copies), Undated
• Photocopied manuscript with edits, pp. 121 - 205 (2 copies), Undated
• Photocopied manuscript with edits, unnumbered pages (2 copies), Undated

• 18th-Century research notes, Undated
• Gene Wolfe bibliography materials, 1980-1981
• Marcon X program, 1975
• Marcon XIX badge, 1984
• Marcon XX materials, 1985
• Marcon XXI program, 1986
• Ohioana Library Association materials, 1985-1988
• Personal photographs and mementos, 1994; 1999; Undated
• Publications, 1951; 1959-1961; 1964-1966; 1970-1975; 1984; 1991
• Science Fiction Oral History Association, 1982-1984
• Science Fiction Research Association, 1984
• Society for Utopian Studies, 1987-1990
• Syracuse University Library, 1970; Undated
• Unidentified bibliography, Undated
• Westercon XXXIX materials, 1986

Audio Cassettes

• Interviews and Panels:
  • Brian Aldiss on contemporary science fiction
  • Brian Aldiss on John Wyndham
  • Brian Aldiss, panel response to
  • Mike Ashley on John Wyndham
  • Isaac Asimov at MLA
  • David Bradley
  • David Brin, 5-16-1987
  • Thomas Clareson, 9-16-1975
  • John Clute, 5-14-1987
  • James Gunn, 7-16-1975
  • Harlan Ellison
  • George Hay, 5-26-1987
  • William Least Heat-Moon
  • Irene Shubek, 5-12-1987
  • Clifford Simak (2 cassettes), 10-1974
  • Clifford Simak (2 cassettes)
  • Clifford Simal and Howard DeVore
  • Lee Smith, 5-23-1985
  • Lee Smith (Communities in Conflict), 10-11-1988
  • Lee Smith (3 cassettes)
• Recordings from Conventions:
  • British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) at Birmingham, 1987
  • Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) at Raleigh (2 cassettes), 1987
  • Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) Author's Panel (7-1-1988)
    *Torcon 2 (with Robert Bloch, 2 cassettes)
  • Westercon
• Other Recordings:
  • "Leslie Wood's copy of old TV interviews"
  • "Leviathan"
  • "Salisbury Original"
  • "U Delaware"

CD of 5 Different Clareson Tapes, including:

• Unidentified lecture by Clareson (Tape 1-Side A-B)
• British Science Fiction [taped TV show?] (Tape 2-Side A-B)
• Interview on Public Radio Book Show (SUNY) with David Bradley (Tape 3-Side A)
• Interview Discussion with Harlan Ellison (Tape 4-Side A-B)
• Interview with Lee Smith (Tape 5-Side A)

Awards

• Pilgrim Award, to Clareson from the Science Fiction Research Association (plaque and framed certificate), 1977
• Eaton Award, to Clareson for Some Kind of Paradise: The Emergence of American Science Fiction, from the Eaton Science Fiction Conference, 1987
• Special Guest Award, to Clareson at Boskone XXIV, 1987
• "Thank-You," to Clareson from Thomas Oedipus Remington, 1989

Objects

• Drawing of alien landscape, in wooden frame, Undated
• Colored drawing of science fiction imagery, in wooden frame, Undated

• Barrett, C. L., 1961; 1974; Undated
• Blish, James, 1970-1976
• Browne, Ray, 1960; 1968-1974
• Cameron, Neil (BBC), 1987-1988
• Campbell Book Award (includes correspondence from Harry Harrison), 1972-1976
• Canada Council, 1973-1979
• Cogswell, Theodore, 1961; 1968-1974
• English, Diane (TV Laboratory), 1976-1978
• Extrapolation, 1975-1977; 1984
• Fraser, Brian, 1973-1975
• Huntington Library, 1975-1976; 1982
• Marcon XIX (1984), 1984
• Marcon XX (1985), 1984-1985
• Marcon XXI (1986) (includes a letter from Lois McMaster Bujold), 1985-1986
• Modern Language Association, 1986-1988
• St. Louis Science Center
• Schillinger, Walter R. (Screen Educator's Society), 1975
• Schlebin, Roger, 1976-1987
• Shields, Kathy (ParaCon), 1981
• Spahn, Milton, 1968-1973
• Tiptree, James, Jr., 1974-1976; Undated
• Train, Oswald, 1971-1986; Undated
• Underwood, Tim, 1988
• Wood, Susan, 1975-1979

• Pulp magazine and novel covers, various dates
• Pulp novel covers, various dates
• Magazine images, 1970s
• Award: Ohioana Citation (to Clareson from Ohioana Library Association), 1985

John Wyndham (1990) Research Files

• Notebook #1, Undated
• Notebooks #2 - 3, Undated
• Unnumbered notebooks, Undated
• Storied by Wyndham (photocopies), 1938; Undated

Charles Reade: A Biography (Unpublished)

• Photocopied manuscript with edits, pp. i - 117, 1973
• Photocopied manuscript with edits, pp. 118 - 231, 1973
• Photocopied manuscript with edits, pp. 232 - 358, 1973
• Photocopied manuscript with edits, pp. 359 - 484, 1973

• Cover and pre-publication proofs for Special Deliverance, by Clifford D. Simak (to be published February 1982)

• Presentations on Heinlein, by Clareson, Undated
• Stories by Heinlein (photocopies): B-S
• Stories by Heinlein (photocopies): The Door into Summer (1979)
• Stories by Heinlein (photocopy): "Tenderfoot in Space” (1958)
• Works by Heinlein (Clareson's copies, with notes) - Between Planets (Ballantine, 1951)
• Works by Heinlein (Clareson's copies, with notes) - Expanded Universe: The New Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (Ace, 1980)
• Works by Heinlein (Clareson's copies, with notes) - Glory Road (Berkeley, 1963)
• Works by Heinlein (Clareson's copies, with notes) - Methuselah's Children (Signet, 1958)

• Works by Heinlein (Clareson's copies, with notes) - The Past Through Tomorrow (Berkeley, 1967)
• Works by Heinlein (Clareson's copies, with notes) - The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (Berkeley, 1959)

• The Heritage of Heinlein manuscript, chapters 4-5(6), 2013
• The Heritage of Heinlein manuscript, chapter 6(7), 2013
• The Heritage of Heinlein manuscript, chapters 7(8) and concluding matter, 2013
• The Heritage of Heinlein manuscript - partial (photocopies)
• Notebook of Heinlein critical material, Undated
• Notebook on Heinlein's early life and various sources, Undated
• Notebooks on Heinlein's works, Undated
• Notes (loose) on Heinlein's works, Undated

• Articles and reference sources relating to Heinlein, 1973; 1976; 1980; 1984-1986; 1990-1992; Undated
• Articles by Heinlein (photocopies), 1941; 1980; 1986
• Background materials (photocopies) - Book Review Digest, 1947-1986
• Background materials (photocopies) - Curry, Elinor, 1926-1932; 1991-1992
• Background materials (photocopies) - Heinlein, Leslyn, 1932; 1947-1948; 1966; 1971; 1981; 1990-1992
• Background materials - Heinlein, Robert: Census records, 1910; 1991
• Background materials (photocopies) - Heinlein, Robert: Naval Academy records, 1925-1929; 1933; 1967; 1991
• Background materials (originals) - Heinlein, Robert: Philadelphia Navy Yard, 1942-1945
• Background materials (photocopies) - Heinlein, Robert: Philadelphia Navy Yard, 1942-1945
• Background materials - Heinlein, Virginia, 1948; 1991-1992
• Background materials - Interview with Heinlein (transcript), [1986]
• Background materials - Newspaper articles on Heinlein, 1949-1954; 1958-1960
• Background materials - Obituaries, 1988
• Correspondence (photocopies) - Boucher, Anthony, 1942-1944; 1957-1958; 1962
• Correspondence (photocopies) - De Camp, L. Sprague, 1933; 1941
• Correspondence - Heinlein, Robert, 1973-1976; 1988; Undated
• Correspondence (photocopies) - Heinlein, Robert and Leslyn to Jack Williamson, 1942-1953; 1966; 1976
• Correspondence - Reference requests, 1989-1992
• Correspondence - Sanders, Joe, 2002
• Handwritten notes by Clareson, Undated
• The Heritage of Heinlein manuscript, chapters 1-3, 2013

This collection includes correspondence to and from Clareson on his research, his science fiction journal editorship and related matters; manuscripts of some of Clareson's work, including a study of Robert Heinlein, as well as Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction: The Formative Period (1990) and an unpublished biography of Charles Reade; research files for Clareson's study of John Wyndham; audio cassettes of interviews, panels and other appearances by Clareson; slides used by Clareson in his classroom work; and some miscellaneous materials. Also included are several awards that Clareson won for his professional work.

Several additional boxes contain research materials used by Clareson in the writing of his work The Heritage of Heinlein: A Critical Reading of the Fiction. Clareson died before he could complete the work, and it was ultimately finished and published by Joe Sanders in 2014. The materials include the manuscript for the book, as well as some original correspondence from Robert A. Heinlein, and copies of some of Heinlein's novels with notes by Clareson.

The correspondence contains letters from Lois McMaster Bujold, Harry Harrison, and James Tiptree, Jr.

Understanding Contemporary Science Fiction: The Formative Period (1990)

• Manuscript with edits, pp. ii - 111, 1989
• Manuscript with edits, pp. 112 - 204, 1989
• Manuscript with edits, pp. 226 - 267 plus notes and index, 1989
• Manuscript with edits, pp. i - 72, [1989]
• Manuscript with edits, pp. 73 - 151, [1989]
• Manuscript with edits, pp. 152 - 220, [1989]
• Manuscript with edits, 221 - 246 plus notes and bibliography, [1989]
• Partial manuscript with edits, pp. 3 - 209 [pages missing], [1989]
• Partial manuscript with edits, pp. 210 - 246 plus notes, bibliography and index [pages missing], [1989]

John Wyndham (1990) Research Files

• Articles on Wyndham, 1964-1986
• Correspondence, 1951-1991