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Call No.: MC 505
Repository: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: Cynthia Rich
Title: Papers of Cynthia Rich and Barbara Macdonald, 1893-2004
Quantity: 14 1/2 file boxes, 5 folio+ folders, 17 photograph folders, 1 folio photograph folder, 3 slides
Abstract: Correspondence, photographs, writings, etc., of Barbara Macdonald, social worker, lesbian feminist activist, author, and Cynthia Rich, teacher, lesbian feminist activist, and author.

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BIOGRAPHY

Barbara Anne (Charles) Macdonald, social worker, lesbian feminist activist, and author, was born on September 11, 1913, to Emily Lister (Baker) Charles and Fred Henly Charles in Pomona, California. She grew up around the La Habra, California, area. At the age of fifteen, she left home permanently and began supporting herself as a domestic worker in Long Beach, California. In 1930 Macdonald married Elmo Davis; the marriage lasted five years. She attended Long Beach Junior College (1931-1932), Santa Ana Junior College (1932-1937) where she was almost expelled as a lesbian, and the University of California, Berkeley (1938-1940). She paid for her education by working as a stunt parachute jumper about which she was the subject of numerous articles in The Santa Ana Register, which called her "intrepid and daring." Macdonald married John Macdonald in 1941; the marriage was very brief.

After leaving the University of California, Berkeley, Macdonald worked at WPA Vallejo (Calif.) Housing Authority. From 1950 to 1953 she attended the University of Washington where she received a B.A. and an M.S.W. Upon graduation she moved to Wenatchee, Washington, and worked as a supervisor for Child Welfare Services. In 1957 she moved to Morgantown, West Virginia, and commuted to the University of Pennsylvania where she worked on a 3rd year certificate in psychiatric social work. Subsequently she worked as a clinical social worker in pediatrics at the University of Maryland and taught at the medical school. She lived in Baltimore from 1964 to 1967 and worked as a school social worker in the Baltimore public schools. During this time, she took up sailing and bought the sailboat "Mighty Mouse." In 1967 she moved to Connecticut where she worked as a consultant for the Bureau of Pupil Personnel and Special Education for the state of Connecticut. Macdonald and her companion Ethel Weeden, also a social worker, took a year's leave to travel the country in a Volkswagen bus. They followed that with a trip via freighter to Asia.

Macdonald retired in 1974 as a social worker. That same year, while living in Connecticut, she took a feminist writing workshop at Goddard-Cambridge Graduate School in Cambridge, Mass. The workshop was taught by Cynthia Rich, who later became Macdonald's domestic partner of 26 years. Over the next twenty-five years, Macdonald's work appeared frequently in lesbian and feminist publications such as Equal Times, Lesbian Ethics, Ms., New Directions, New Women's Times, Sinister Wisdom, and Sojourner. She received national recognition for her writings. In 1980, she covered the UN Mid-Decade Conference on Women in Copenhagen for Equal Times. In 1983, along with Rich, Macdonald co-authored Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism. The book, which appeared in two expanded editions (1991, 2001), combined her personal experiences of ageism with ground-breaking lesbian feminist theory, and was named by Ms. as one of 35 classics of the second wave of feminism. It also was widely anthologized for women's studies courses and was translated into Japanese in 1995. Macdonald was a frequent speaker at lesbian and feminist organizations, universities, and organizations of social workers nationally and internationally, including the UN Conference on Women at Huairou, China, in 1995. She was the keynote speaker at the National Lesbian Conference in Atlanta in 1991 and gave a plenary address at the National Women's Studies Conference in 1985. Her work was the inspiration for the First West Coast Conference of Old Lesbians in 1987. She served on its planning committee and gave the keynote address. Out of the conference came the creation of Old Lesbians Organizing for Change, a national organization seeking to end the ageism experienced by old women. Macdonald died June 15, 2000, of Alzheimer's disease.

Cynthia Rich, teacher, lesbian feminist activist, and author, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 12, 1933, the daughter of Helen (Jones) and Arnold Rice Rich. Her sister was Adrienne Rich. In 1952 she graduated from the Roland Park Country School in Baltimore, and then received her A.B. in English summa cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1956. During her junior year, she made Phi Beta Kappa, and in 1956 won first prize in the Mademoiselle fiction contest for her story, "My Sister's Marriage." She also received the Augustus Anson Whitney Fellowship from Harvard University (1957-1958). Rich received her A.M. in English (1958), and completed residence requirements and oral examinations for a Ph.D. in English from Harvard in 1960. Rich married Roy Glauber, a member of the physics department at Harvard in 1960. They had two children: Jeffrey (1963- ) and Valerie (1970- ). The couple separated in 1971; they divorced in 1975.

Rich taught expository writing, fiction, and poetry writing at Wellesley College (1962-1963), Cooper Community College (1965-1969), and Harvard University (1958-1961, 1969-1981) . She held the Briggs Copeland Lecturership in English and General Education at Harvard (1969-1970). In 1974 she taught a feminist writing workshop at Goddard Cambridge College, where she met Barbara Macdonald, who later became her domestic partner of 26 years. Rich helped establish the Harvard Writing Center in 1978 in which she remained involved for two years. In 1980, she covered the UN Mid-Decade Conference on Women in Copenhagen for Equal Times. From 1980 until 1981 she directed independent studies in writing for M.A. candidates at Goddard and consulted for the New York City Office of Educational Evaluation before joining Digital Equipment Company in Nashua, N.H., as a software editor. In 1983 Rich co-authored with Macdonald Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism, a ground-breaking examination of ageism from a feminist perspective. In 1989 she wrote Desert Years: Undreaming the American Dream, an eco-feminist account of living for six years in a trailer at Agua Caliente County Park on the Anza Borrego Desert. Desert Years was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 1990. From 1992 to 1994 Rich taught ESL at Mira Mesa Continuing Education. She wrote regularly for feminist publications such as Equal Times, New Women's Times, Sinister Wisdom, and Sojourner, and was a frequent contributing editor in the lesbian and feminist press.

Rich was a lifelong progressive political activist. She worked with Voice of Women--New England, (1961-1965); San Diego United Farm Workers Grape Boycott Committee (1982-1989); "Myth" California (1986-1992); Desert Waves affinity group at the Nevada Test Site and in San Diego (1987-1993); Women's Alliance for Peace in the Middle East (1988-1991); Martin Luther King Tribute Coalition (1989-1996); Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers (1989-1999); and Old Women's Project (founded in 2001 with Mannie Garza and Janice Keaffaber).

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The collection contains biographical and genealogical material, correspondence, notes, unpublished talks, writings, diaries, programs, scrapbooks, and photographs of Barbara Macdonald and Cynthia Rich. Folder headings were created by Macdonald or Rich; the archivist's headings are in square brackets. Audiovisual material received with the collection was removed and cataloged separately as the Cynthia Rich and Barbara Macdonald Audiotape collection, 1973-1990 (T-338).

The collection is arranged in four series:

• Series I. Barbara Macdonald
  • Subseries A. Charles Family
  • Subseries B. Biographical and Personal
  • Subseries C. Correspondence
  • Subseries D. Writings
  • Subseries E. Political Activism
  • Subseries F. Photographs
• Series II. Cynthia Rich
  • Subseries A. Biographical and Personal
  • Subseries B. Correspondence
  • Subseries C. Teaching and Employment
  • Subseries D. Writings
  • Subseries E. Political Activism
  • Subseries F. Photographs
• Series III. Barbara Macdonald and Cynthia Rich
• Series IV. Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers

Series I, Barbara Macdonald (#1.1-4.11, FD.1, F+D.1, PD.1-PD.5), contains geneaological material including her mother's teaching certificates and report cards; biographical material; address books; correspondence with family, friends, writers, and activists; photographs of family, friends, and Macdonald; college writings; writing and reading notes; unpublished talks and writings; the manuscript of "Beyond My Mother's House"; reviews; conference materials including fliers, programs, and a t-shirt from the West Coast Old Lesbian Conference in 1987.

Series II, Cynthia Rich (#4.12-9.17, F+D.2-5, PD.6-9, PD.1f), contains biographical material; childhood letters; diaries (which Rich called journals); college writings; teaching materials including syllabi, evaluations, exercises; writing and reading notes; correspondence with family, friends, writers, activists, and students; student writings; permissions to publish requests, press releases, notes, play adaption materials, programs, and correspondence related to Rich's "My Sister's Marriage"; reviews; unpublished writings and poems; manuscript for a work of fiction; and correspondence, minutes, fliers, direct action handbooks, programs, notes, clippings, and photographs related to Rich's political activism. Folder #5.16 is CLOSED UNTIL JANUARY 1, 2020. Folder #8.11 is CLOSED UNTIL JANUARY 1, 2066. There is related material at the Schlesinger Library; see 83-M240.

Series III, Barbara Macdonald and Cynthia Rich (#10.1-12.6, Box 13, PD.10-17), contains the manuscript "This Driving Force in Me: the Lesbian Lives of Barbara Macdonald and Cynthia Rich;" transcripts and originals of letters between Macdonald and Rich from 1975 to 1989; correspondence with friends, writers, and activists; a scrapbook of Macdonald's life compiled by Rich; a scrapbook of their 1995 trip to the NGO Forum on Women in Beijing; reviews and clippings regarding Look Me in the Eye ; fan mail; a photograph album including notes and their astrological charts; and photographs of the first West Coast Old Lesbian Conference. Box 13 is CLOSED UNTIL JANUARY 1, 2027.

Series IV, Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers (SCMW) (#12.7-16), may be the only existing collection in the United States. It contains board minutes, correspondence, leaflets, press releases, grant proposals, clippings, and fact sheets related to SCMW's activities and operation.

INVENTORY

• Series: I. BARBARA MACDONALD
  • A. CHARLES FAMILY
    • 1.1. [Family history: family trees, notes, correspondence, 1899-1942, n.d.]
    • F+D.1. [Family history: Emily Lister White teaching certificate, family tree, 1902-1903, n.d.]
    • 1.2-1.3. [Letters to Emily Lister (Baker) Charles, 1898-1945, n.d.]
    • 1.4. [Letters of recommendation for Emily Lister Baker, 1893-1926, n.d.]
    • 1.5. [Report cards and employment documentation for Emily Lister Baker, 1897-1925, n.d.]
  • B. BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL
    • 15.1. [Biographical: birth, baptism, and confirmation records; retirement records; passport, 1915-1990; includes PHOTOGRAPH.]
    • 15.2. [Biographical: marriage and divorce records, 1943-1946]
    • 1.6. [Biographical: questionnaires, diary entries, correspondence, 1957-2002, n.d.]
      Includes reference copies of photographs; originals in #PD.3.
    • 15.3. Care of Barbara [letters to friends and doctors, 2000]
    • 1.7. [Tributes after her death, 2000].
      See also #4.11.
    • 1.8. Notes re: memory loss, 1996.
    • 1.9-1.10. [Address books, n.d.]
    • 1.11-1.12. Barbara Macdonald: photocopies of photograph album with annotations,1913-1975.
      Includes reference copy of one photograph; original in #PD.3.
      See also #3.5-3.7.
  • C. CORRESPONDENCE
    • 2.1. [Letters to Macdonald from Fred Henly Charles and Emily Lister (Baker) Charles, 1930, 1973, n.d.]
    • 2.2. [Leonhardt, Betty (Charles) to Macdonald: letter, 1999]
    • 2.3. [Barr, Matilda S. (Baker) to Betty (Charles) Leonhardt: letter, 1926]
    • 2.4. Aviad, Michal re: film, Acting Our Age, 1984-1987
    • 2.5. [Bricker-Jenkins, Mary and Merril Mushroom, 1985-1988]
    • 2.6. Bunch Charlotte, 1995-1996
    • 2.7. Foster, Kathy [letters and clippings, 1994-1995]
    • 2.8. [Healey, Shevy: clippings, correspondence some re: starting an Old Lesbian Conference, 1984, 1996-2000, n.d.]
      See also #15.6.
    • 2.9. [Henry, Marjorie, 1961-1990, n.d.]
    • 2.10. Hoagland, Sarah Lucia, 1989-1994
    • 2.11. [Hughes, Donna: correspondence, letters of recommendation, writings, 1994-1996, n.d.]
    • 2.12. Kahn, Karen, 1993, 1995
    • 2.13. [MacPike, Loralee, 1995]
    • 2.14. [Meigs, Mary, 1987-1992]
      See also #15.7.
    • 2.15. Redman, Helen: [correspondence, fliers, invitation, 1995-1999, n.d.]
    • 2.16. [Yamada, Mitsu, 1985, 1994]
    • 2.17. [A-Z: Carol Anne Douglas,Renne Hanover,Gail M. Koplow,Ellie Siegel, et al.,1981, 1991-1996]
    • 2.18. Ageism in lesbian services [Marcy Adelman and Barbara Deming, et al.,1982-1984]
    • 2.19. [ Ms. : articles, letters to editor, clippings, 1990-1996]
    • 2.20. Response to film Silent Pioneers, [1983-1984]
  • D. WRITINGS
    • 2.21. Early work (college etc.), Santa Ana/University of Washington: [correspondence with publishers, rejection notices, notes, 1953-1954, n.d.]
    • 2.22. Early work (college etc.), Santa Ana/University of Washington: [1953 commencement program, First the Blade, 1936-1953]
    • 2.23-2.24. Early work (college etc.), Santa Ana/University of Washington: [writings, n.d.]
    • 3.1. Old writings (pre-1983) for Goddard workshop, [1974-1975]
    • 3.2. Old writings (pre-1983) B's writings, [n.d.]
    • 3.3. Autobiography, old writings, and history, [n.d.]
    • 3.4. Blood is Thicker: writings on family, [197?]
    • 3.5-3.6. Beyond My Mother's House: [ms., 1999]
    • 3.7. Beyond My Mother's House: [ms., n.d.]
    • FD.1. 'Freewriting,' [n.d.]
    • 3.8. Published work: [clippings, 1980-1996]
    • 3.9. Age: notes from books, [n.d.]
    • 3.10. Backup: [notes, clippings, re: violence against women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people, 1981-1991, n.d.]
    • 3.11. [Reading notes, n.d.]
    • 4.1. Workbook notes on Coleman, notes on talk not given, [n.d.]
    • 4.2. [The Crone Show: flier, reading notes, 2000]
    • 4.3. [Articles referring to B's work at National Lesbian Conference, August, 1991]
  • E. POLITICAL ACTIVISM
    • 4.4. Unpublished talks, 1983-1996
    • 4.5. Conference in Salt Lake City: [speeches, 1988]
    • 4.6. National Lesbian Conference post conference stuff and backup: [fliers, speeches, articles, 1984-1991, n.d.]
    • 4.7. [Old Lesbians Organizing for Change: correspondence, brochures, programs, newsletters, 1987-1998, n.d.]
      Includes reference copies of photographs; originals in #PD.4. See also #PD.2sl.
    • 4.8. Old Lesbian Organizing: [West Coast Old Lesbian Conference packet, 1987]
    • Mem.1. [West Coast Old Lesbian Conference: t-shirt, 1987]
    • 4.9. [Confronting Ageism: Facilitator's Handbook by Old Lesbians Organizing for Change, 1992]
    • 4.10. Old Women's Project: [speech, clippings, color photocopies of photos, 2001]
    • 4.11. Old Women's Project: [book party and tribute to Macdonald: speeches, program, October 12, 2001].
      Includes reference copies of photographs; originals in #PD.5.
  • F. PHOTOGRAPHS
    FILED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS.
    • PD.1. [Charles family, 1897, 1936, 1972, n.d.]
    • PD.2sl. Old Lesbians Planning First West Coast Conference, 1986. Includes Macdonald, Betty Shoemaker,Silvia Dobson, Shevy Healey, Kate Rosenblatt,Natalie Zarchin, Rich, Joyce Pierson. Three slides.
    • PD.3. Removed from #1.6, 1.12
    • PD.4. Removed from #4.7
    • PD.5. Removed from #4.11

• Series: II. CYNTHIA RICH
  • A. BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL
    • 4.12. [Biographical material: chronologies, resumes, introductions (from talks given), 1981-2000, n.d.]
    • 4.13. [Childhood letters and "My Last Will and Testament," 1943, 1951, n.d.]
    • 4.14. [Diaries, 1948]
    • 4.15. [Faisler, Margareta A.: memorial notice, clippings, 1990]
    • 4.16. Radcliffe College and Harvard: [correspondence, clippings, writings, 1954-1994, n.d.]
    • 4.17. Harvard: [letter to Rich, recommendations, teacher evaluations, 1958-1981]
    • 4.18. Employment CR: [correspondence, resume, 1990, 1994, n.d.]
    • 5.1. Digital Equipment Corporation: [correspondence, performance reviews, recommendations, 1981-1982, 1990]
    • F+D.2-F+D.3. [Digital: status reports, 1981-1982]
    • 5.2. San Diego Community College District - teaching ESL: [report card, course schedules, correspondence, student attendance and evaluations, syllabus, 1990-1994, n.d.]
    • 5.3. CR therapy (bioenergetic): [notes, 1986]
    • 5.4-5.5. [Diary], 4/14 - 6/2/1990
    • 5.6. [Diary], 1992-1993
    • 5.7-5.8. [Diary], 7-8/1994
    • 5.9-5.10. [Diary]: notebook using Natalie Goldberg technique of free writing, Aug. 1994.
    • 5.11. [Diary], 8/1994
    • 5.12-5.13. [Diary], 9/6 - 10/25/1994
    • 5.14. [Diary], 1994
    • 5.15. Rich - A.D.D.: [notes on Attention Deficit Disorder, n.d.]
    • 5.16. Kubie, Lawrence S.: correspondence, 1971.
      Access Restrictions: CLOSED UNTIL JANUARY 1, 2020.
  • B. CORRESPONDENCE
    • 5.17. [Rich, Helen: letters to, 1985, n.d.]
    • 5.18-5.20. [Rich, Adrienne: letters to, 1947]
    • 6.1-6.3. [Rich, Adrienne: letters to, 1948]
    • 6.4. [Rich, Adrienne: letter and childhood drawing to CR, 1976, n.d.]
    • 6.5. [Rich, Adrienne to Helen Rich: letter, card, 1948, n.d.]
    • 6.6. Clinton, Kate (lesbian feminist comic) and Trudy Wood, 1981
    • 6.7. Covina, Gina, and Laurel Galana (Holliday), 1974
    • 15.4. Dykes and Commies, 2001-2003, n.d.
    • 15.5. Ellenberger, Harriet, 2001-2003, n.d.
    • 15.6. [Healey, Shevy, and Ruth Silver, 1999-2003, n.d.]
      See also #2.8.
    • 15.7. [Meigs, Mary: correspondence, watercolor, and sketches, 1991-2003, n.d.
      Includes reference copy of photograph; original in #PD.7.
      See also #2.14.
    • 15.8. Morgan, Robin re: inclusion of Macdonald's "Politics of Aging" in Sisterhood is Powerful, 2000-2003, n.d.
    • 6.8. Smith, Barbara, 1975-1977
    • 15.9. Assorted correspondence, 1979-1999; includes PHOTOGRAPH.
    • 15.10-15.14. Assorted correspondence, 2000-2004, n.d.; includes PHOTOGRAPH.
      Includes reference copy of photograph; originals in #PD.7.
    • 6.9. Fan mail, 1989-1992
  • C. TEACHING AND EMPLOYMENT
    • 6.10. Goddard-Cambridge Graduate Program, [A Writing Workshop: brochure, course description, syllabus, n.d.]
    • 6.11. [Cooper Community Centre: course description, student writings, letter of recommendation, n.d.]
    • 6.12. Letters, notes, and [assignments] from ESL students: [1991-1994, n.d.]
      Includes reference copies of photographs; originals in #PD.7.
    • 6.13. Teaching folders: Joyce criticism courses: [notes, 1957-1958, 1961-1962, n.d.]
    • 6.14. Teaching folders: Writing Center: [syllabus, writings, 1979, n.d.]
    • 6.15. Teaching folders: Autobiography: [syllabi, notes, exercises, n.d.]
    • 6.16. Teaching folders: Exams and plagiarism: [notes, n.d.]
    • 6.17. Teaching folders: Fiction: [syllabus, notes, exercises, n.d.]
    • 7.1. Teaching folders: Mature style: [notes, class flier, syllabus, n.d.]
    • 7.2. Teaching folders: Notes for Lake Forest interview: [n.d.]
    • 7.3. Teaching folders: Style and device in fiction: [syllabus, notes, exercises, n.d.]
  • D. WRITINGS
    • 7.4. ["My Sister's Marriage:" letters for permission to publish, 1957-1974, n.d.]
    • 7.5. ["My Sister's Marriage:" copies, press releases, notes, 1954-1960, n.d.]
    • 7.6. ["My Sister's Marriage," Kay Holley adaption: letters to CR, fliers, 1986]
      Includes reference copies of photographs; originals in #PD.7.
    • 7.7. ["My Sister's Marriage," Carolyn Powell Henly adaption: correspondence, 1988-1993]
    • 7.8. ["My Sister's Marriage," Carolyn Powell Henly adaption: press releases, working script, reviews, 1991].
      Includes reference copies of photographs; originals in #PD.7.
    • 7.9. Desert Years: background info [notes, translations, flier, speeches, 1984-1986, n.d.]
    • 7.10-7.11. [Desert Years: correspondence with Spinsters Ink, fliers, Lambda Award nomination, 1988-1990, n.d.]
    • 7.12. Desert Years: reviews, 1990
    • 7.13. [Sinister Wisdom: correspondence (Julia Penelope, Sarah Lucia Hoagland), 1980, 1991]
    • 7.14. Published articles, 1968-1981
    • 7.15. Published articles, 1980s-1992, n.d.
    • 15.15. Published articles, 2004
    • 8.1. [Publishers: permissions to publish, letters to editors, rejections, 1981-1993]
    • 8.2. [Unpublished writings, 1986?-1987, n.d.]
    • 8.3. "The Writing of Serious Fiction: A Handbook for Beginners" (unpublished ms.): [sample chapters, Oxford Press letters, 1977]
    • 8.4. Fiction book working ms.: [notes, drafts, n.d.]
    • 8.5. Fiction book ms.: [notes, drafts, n.d.]
    • 8.6. Unpublished poems, 1965?-1982
    • 8.7. Talks, 2001
    • 15.16-15.17. Talks, 2002
    • 15.18. Talks, Denver, CO [Gay and Gray in the West 2nd Annual Conference, October 2003]
    • 15.19. Talks, 2003-2004
  • E. POLITICAL ACTIVISM
    • 8.8-8.10. Civil Disobedience at Nuclear Test Site, [includes Desert Wave Affinity Group, American Peace Test: minutes, correspondence, clippings, fliers, non-violent direct action handbooks and how-to-sheets, 1987-1992, n.d.]
      Includes reference copy of photograph; original in #PD.7.
    • F+D.4. [The Test Banner (newsletter), 1989]
    • 8.11. [Friends of Barbara Pinkston: correspondence, 1996]
      Access Restrictions: CLOSED UNTIL JANUARY 1, 2066.
    • 8.12. I am Your Sister conference program: [program, notes, 1990]
    • 8.13. Martin Luther King Tribute Coalition: [correspondence, notes, fliers, 1989-1992, n.d.]
    • 8.14. Martin Luther King Tribute Coalition: [clippings, 1989-1992, n.d.]
    • 8.15-8.16. Martin Luther King Tribute Coalition: [fliers, chronologies, updates, members/supporters mailings, 1989-1996, n.d.]
    • 9.1. Myth California: [correspondence from Nikki Craft, Ann Simonton, contact lists, and notes, 1986-1989, n.d.]
      See also F+D.5.
    • 9.2. Myth California: [Citizens for Media Responsibility information packet includes letter from Nikki Craft, 1986]
    • 9.3. Myth California: [fliers, chants, press releases includes Media Watch, 1983-1990, n.d.]
      Includes reference copies of photographs; originals in #PD.8.
      See also F+D.5.
    • 9.4. Myth California: [clippings, 1986-1992, n.d.]
    • 9.5. OLOC [Old Lesbians Organizing for Change] Seminar Leadership Conference Houston: [speeches], 10/15/1994
    • 9.6. ["Organizing for Social Change" Old Women's Project: speech and fliers, 2002]
    • F+D.5. [Posters, 1992, n.d.]
    • 9.7. [Randall, Margaret, deportation case: correspondence, clippings, 1987-1989]
    • 9.8. San Diego United Farm Workers Grape Boycott Committee: [fliers, boycott action kit, Food & Justice booklets, Cesar Chavez testimonial dinner packet, 1986-1989, n.d.]
    • 9.9. San Diego United Farm Workers Grape Boycott Committee: Alice Barnes: [correspondence, memorial booklet, clippings, 1982-1989, n.d.]
    • 9.10. [Senate Bill 603 off-road vehicles at Anza Borrego Park: correspondence, petition, 1989]
    • 9.11. Voice of Women--New England: [newsletters, minutes, Boston Draft Resistance group flier and statement of purpose, 1968-1969, n.d.]
    • 9.12. Women's Alliance: [fliers, press releases, fact sheets, clippings, notes, 1988-1991, n.d.; includes PHOTOGRAPH.]
    • 9.13-9.14. Women's Mobilization organized by Old Women's Project: [correspondence, clippings, fliers, mailing lists, CR speech, press kit, 2001]
      Includes reference copies of photographs; originals in #PD.9.
    • 9.15. Other political activism in San Diego: [correspondence, letters to editors, 1984-2000]
    • 9.16. Other political activism in San Diego: [clippings, fliers, 1986, 1991, n.d.]
  • F. PHOTOGRAPHS
    FILED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS.
    • PD.1f. Cynthia and Adrienne Rich, 1943
    • PD.6. Faculty photo, Wellesley College, 1962
    • PD.7. Removed from #6.12, 7.6, 7.8, 8.8, 15.7, 15.13
    • PD.8. Removed from #9.3
    • PD.9. Removed from #9.14

• Series: III. BARBARA MACDONALD AND CYNTHIA RICH
  • 15.20-15.27. "This Driving Force in Me: The Lesbian Lives of Barbara Macdonald and Cynthia Rich:" memoirs and correspondence (ms.), n.d.
  • 10.1-10.3. [Letters: Macdonald to Rich, 1975-1989, n.d.]
  • 10.4-10.6. [Letters: Rich to Macdonald, 1975-1989, n.d.]
  • 10.7-10.9. [Letters between Macdonald and Rich: unedited transcripts of #10.1-10.6, 1975-1989, n.d.]
  • 10.10. [Letter to Marge Henry and journal entry re: relationships, 1976, n.d.]
  • 11.1. [Redman, Helen: copies of Rich and Macdonald portraits painted by Redman, letters to Redman, 1997-1998]
  • Box 13. Correspondence with Jan Clausen, Margaret Cruikshank, Toni McNaron, Adrienne Rich, Rima Shore, and Persephone Press, n.d.
    Access Restrictions: CLOSED UNTIL JANUARY 1, 2027.
  • 11.2. [Friends and associates: correspondence, 1982-1993, n.d.]
  • 11.3-11.6 [Disassembled scrapbook: correspondence, clippings, fliers, 1973, 1982-2001, n.d.]
    Includes reference copies of photographs; originals in #PD.10.
  • 11.7-11.8. Beijing 1995 and Tokyo, [NGO Forum on Women: disassembled scrapbook includes correspondence, speeches, 1992-2000, n.d.]
    Includes reference copies of photographs; originals in #PD.10.
  • 11.9. [Look Me in the Eye: correspondence with Spinsters Ink, 1983-1993, n.d.]
  • 11.10. [Look Me in the Eye: reviews, clippings, 1983-2001, n.d.]
  • 11.11. [Look Me in the Eye: international editions, 1984, 1994]
  • 11.12. Fan mail: [Baba Copper, 1981-1983]
  • 11.13. Fan mail: [Renee Damon, 1983]
  • 11.14. Fan mail: [(Mary Scott) Scottie Daugherty, 1983-1984]
  • 11.15. Fan mail: [Laura Israel, 1984]
  • 11.16. Fan mail: [Barbara Rich, 1983]
  • 11.17. Fan mail: [May Sarton, 1982-1983]
  • 11.18. Fan mail: [Joy Starratt, 1985-1986]
  • 12.1. Fan mail: [K. Walker, 1986]
  • 12.2. Fan mail: [Susan Wood-Thompson, 1984]
  • 12.3-12.5. Fan mail: [Sherry Emory,Ann Gerike,Virginia R. Harris, Melanie Kaye/Katrowitz, Dorothy V. Leake, Elaine Mikels, Joan Nestle, Ann Stokes, et al., 1981-1991, n.d.]
  • 12.6. [Handwritten applications of Rich and Macdonald to attend program (?) in Esteli, Nicaragua, n.d.]
  • 15.28-15.32 [Disassembled photo album includes notes and astrological charts, 1974-2000.]
    Includes reference copies of photographs; originals in #PD.11-PD.17.
  • PD.10. Photographs from #11.6, 11.8
  • PD.11-PD.12. Removed from #15.28
  • PD.13-PD.14. Removed from #15.29
  • PD.15. Removed from #15.30
  • PD.16. Removed from #15.31
  • PD.17. Removed from #15.32

• Series: IV. SUPPORT COMMITTEE FOR MAQUILADORA WORKERS
  • 12.7-12.9. [Board materials, 1995-1999, n.d.]
  • 12.10-12.11. Documents: [leaflets, correspondence, press releases, mission statement, pledge cards, grant proposals, 1995-1998, n.d.]
  • 12.12. [Grant proposal draft, n.d.]
  • 12.13. Grace Hong support work: [letters, press releases, fliers, 1996-1997, n.d.]
  • 12.14. Wage campaign: [notes, clippings, wage statistics, fliers, 1994-1996]
  • 12.15. [Publicity: brochures, fact sheets, fliers, newsletters, 1989-1998]
  • 12.16. [Clippings, 1993-1998, n.d.]

Additional catalog entries

SEPARATION RECORD

Donor: Cynthia Rich

Accession numbers: 2002-M31, 2002-M68, 2003-M17

Processed by: Deborah A. Richards

The following items have been removed from the collection:

• Engle, Paul, editor. Prize Stories 1957. The O'Henry Awards. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Donated to the Schlesinger Library book sale.
• Macdonald, Barbara with Cynthia Rich. Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging, and Ageism. San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1983. Donated to the Schlesinger Library book sale.
• Macdonald, Barbara with Cynthia Rich. Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging, and Ageism. Minneapolis, MN: Spinsters Inc., 1991. Transferred to the Schlesinger Library book collection.
• Macdonald, Barbara with Cynthia Rich. Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging, and Ageism. Denver, CO: Spinsters Ink Books, 2001. Transferred to the Schlesinger Library book collection.
• Murphy, Marilyn. Are You Girls Traveling Alone? Adventures in Lesbianic Logic. Los Angeles: Clothespin Fever Press, 1991. Donated to the Schlesinger Library book sale.
• Rich, Cynthia. Desert Years: Undreaming the American Dream. San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1989. Returned to author.
• Zahava, Irene, ed. My Father's Daughter. Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1990. Donated to the Schlesinger Library book sale.
• Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature By Women, vol. 9, nos. 2 & 3. Returned to author.
• Lesbian Ethics, vol. 1, no. 1. Donated to the Schlesinger Library book sale.
• Sinister Wisdom: A Journal of Words and Pictures for the Lesbian Imagination in All Women, 13, Spring 1990. Donated to the Schlesinger Library book sale.
• Sinister Wisdom: A Journal of Words and Pictures for the Lesbian Imagination in All Women, 15, Fall 1980. Donated to the Schlesinger Library book sale.
• Trivia: A Journal of Ideas, Spring 1983. Donated to the Schlesinger Library book sale.
• Women's Studies Quarterly, vol. XVII, nos. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 1989. Donated to the Schlesinger Library book sale.
• Women's Studies Quarterly, vol. XXV, nos. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 1997. Donated to the Schlesinger Library book sale.