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Diehl, William C.

Collection Creator:: Morehouse, Harold E., 1894-1973 Search this

Container:: Box 4, Folder 10

Type:: Archival materials; Text

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Collection Citation:: Harold E. Morehouse Flying Pioneers Biographies Collection, Acc. XXXX-0450, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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Arthur C. Clarke Collection of Sri Lanka

Creator:: Clarke, Arthur C., Sir (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008 Search this

Extent:: 95.02 Cubic feet (188 legal size boxes; 5 15 x 12 x 3 flat boxes; 1 16 x 20 x 3 flat box; 4 12 x 8 x 5 shoeboxes); 88.55 Linear feet

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials

Date:: 1932-2012; bulk 1950-2008

Summary:: Sir Arthur C. Clarke is one of the preeminent science-fiction writers of the 20th century.

Scope and Contents:: Contains personal and business correspondence, manuscripts of most of Clarke's fiction works in various draft states, short stories, articles, addresses, speeches, movie outlines, Apollo 11 broadcast material, datebooks & notebooks, reference materials, business cards of visitors & contacts, photos & slides. There is some material by people other than the creator such as manuscripts and film/TV scripts.

This collection also includes audio-visual material. Please contact the Media Archivist for access.

Arrangement:: Series were based on the creator's original arrangement of material.

Arranged into 7 Series:

Series 1: Correspondence

Series 2: Original Writing

2.1: "Clarkives"

2.2: Non-"Clarkives"

2.3: Articles, Short Stories

2.4: Lectures, Speeches

Series 3: Media & Publicity

Series 4: Awards & Tributes

Series 5: Manuscripts written by others relating to Clarke's Literary Works

Series 6: Miscellaneous

Series 7: Images

7.1: Photos

7.2: Slide Albums

Biographical / Historical:: Born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, England, Arthur Charles Clarke became obsessed with science fiction and astronomy at a young age. He was the eldest of four children born into a farming family, however he would become, with his brother Fred Clarke acting as a business associate, one of the leading names in science fiction.

During World War II Clarke served as a radar instructor and in his free time became one of the early members of the British Interplanetary Society. In 1945, Clarke made one of his earliest predictions (he called them "extrapolations") when he came up with the idea of communication satellites. He became known for this uncanny prescience which is seen in so much of his work.

In 1948 Clarke graduated from King's College, London with honors in math and physics. By 1951, Clarke had gained respect as both a fiction and non-fiction writer with Interplanetary Flight and Prelude to Space, respectively.

In 1956, Clarke emigrated to Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon, where he could indulge a new obsession - skin diving. He remained in Sri Lanka for the rest of his life, creating a diving company and funding many science education programs in the country.

Perhaps Clarke's most recognizable feat came when he was able to work with Stanley Kubrick over a course of 4 years in order to create the book and film 2001: A Space Odyssey which was loosely based on the earlier Clarke story "The Sentinel."

Clarke accomplished an amazing amount of writing, speaking tours, TV appearances and humanitarian work despite suffering from post-polio syndrome for decades. He won numerous awards, mostly for his science fiction but also for popularizing science. He was knighted in 1998. He died, age 90, March 19, 2008.

Provenance:: Arthur C. Clarke Trust, gift, 2014

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Topic:: Underwater archaeology -- 1960's Search this; nonfiction novels Search this; Interplanetary voyages Search this; Artificial satellites Search this; Manned space flight Search this; Apollo 11 Flight Search this; Astronautics Search this; Science fiction Search this

Citation:: Arthur C. Clarke Collection of Sri Lanka, Acc. 2015-0010, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:: NASM.2015.0010

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Correspondence

Collection Creator:: Clarke, Arthur C., Sir (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008 Search this

Container:: Box 1

Type:: Archival materials; Text

Date:: 1937-2009; bulk 1962-2005

Scope and Contents:: Contains personal and business correspondence. Occasionally includes speeches by Arthur C. Clarke, editor's notes on various novels, interview transcripts, photos sent by the letter writers (sometimes of Clarke,) newspaper clippings and pages from magazines.

Some correspondence was grouped separately, by correspondent, even though these correspondents also occur in the general correspondence.

In 1998, Arthur Clarke's correspondence with Lord Dunsany was published as a book.

Notable correspondents include: J.B.S. Haldane, Wernher von Braun, Ben Bova, Val Cleaver, Fred Clarke, Bill Temple, John W. Campbell, Horace Dall, Robert & Ginny Heinlein, Hugh Hefner, Felix Godwin, Patrick Moore, Willian Macquitty, Carl Sagan, Luis Alvarez, Stanley Kubrick, Esther Goddard, Nigel Calder, Issac Asimov, Michael Moorcock, Willy Ley, John Glenn, Ray Bradbury, Brian Aldiss, George Mueller, James Webb, Paul Garber, David Gerrold, Gregory Peck, Ivan Yefremov, David Lasser, Owen Gingrich, Gore Vidal, Douglas Trumbell, Sam Youd, Frederick Pohl, Fred Durant, Mike Wilson, Roger Caras, Robert K.G. Temple, Buckminster Fuller, Walter Cronkite, Fred Whipple, Harlan Ellison, Jack Williamson, Baird Searles, Uri Geller, Gene Rodenberry, Frank Herbert, Frank Rich, Alan Dean Foster, J. William Fulbright, William Hartmann, Gregory Benford, Frank Drake, Jerry Pournelle, Bill Moyers, Katherine MacLean, Neil McAleer, Gerard O'Neil, Yuri Artsutanov, Robert Forward, Larry Niven, Kurt Vonnegut, Marilyn Clarke, W.H. Pickering, Max Von Sydow, David Langford, Nigel Calder, Harry Miller, Fred Ordway, Satyajit Ray, Michael Crichton, Kenneth Anger, Spark Matsunaga, Gioia Marconi Braga, James Randi, Michael A. G. Michaud, Alexei Leonov, Steve Jobs, Peter Hyams, G. David Brin, Michael Collins, Kathryn Lindskoog, Gentry Lee, Stephen Baxter, Margaret Atwood, Richard Hoagland, Alistair Cooke, John Updike, Hayley Mills, George Zebrowski, Greg Bear, Martin Gardner, David S. Garnett, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Alexander Alexandrov, Steve Wozniak, Doris Lessing, Roddy McDowall, Steven Spielberg, Carrie Fisher, Ted Turner, Peter Cushing, Charles Pellegrino, Benoit Mandelbrot, Michael Snowden, Kim Stanley Robinson, Terry Pratchett, Mike Oldfield, Poul Anderson, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Glenn, Rupert Murdoch, Stephen J. Gould, Patrick Stewart, Newt Gringrich, Bill Gates, Tom Hanks, Ray Harryhausen, Piers Bizony, the Dalai Lama, Richard Dawkins, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Roger Ebert, George Soros, Paul Kurtz, Peter Jackson, William Shatner, Robert Truax, Brian May, Steve Allen, Eugene Shoemaker, Mark Kahn.

Some associations he corresponded with were: British Interplanetary Society, JPL, NASA, IBM, National Geographic Society, Boeing, Seti, Bell Labs, The Planetary Society, European Space Agency, National Air & Space Museum, War Control Planners, various astronauts, congressmen, publishers and publications, news outlets, charities and satellite companies.

Arrangement:: Original order by the creator was chronological by year, split into 2-3 months at a time, then alphabetically. Sometimes correspondence was in store-bought file folder with sections, sometimes in handmade "binders" but always the same arrangement. Archivist physically re-created this arrangement by using paper wrappers to represent each section. When the section was labeled by the creator, the archivist labeled the paper wrapper the same. If paper wrapper is blank then so was the original section tab.

There are some missing years in the correspondence. Misc. correspondence found loose in the collection was placed at the end of the series.

When appropriate, the processing archivist added a description beneath the file unit title.

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Collection Citation:: Arthur C. Clarke Collection of Sri Lanka, Acc. 2015-0010, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:: NASM.2015.0010, Series 1

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"Clarkives" Box No. WRT 01: Handwritten Manuscripts - Notes on A Meeting with Medusa; Notes on Astronautics; Val Cleaver's Handwritten Critique of Earthlight dated 7/1/54

Collection Creator:: Clarke, Arthur C., Sir (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008 Search this

Container:: Box 96, Folder 8

Type:: Archival materials; Text

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Collection Citation:: Arthur C. Clarke Collection of Sri Lanka, Acc. 2015-0010, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

See more items in:: Arthur C. Clarke Collection of Sri Lanka; Arthur C. Clarke Collection of Sri Lanka / Series 2: Original Writing / 2.1: "Clarkives"

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Type:: Blog posts; Smithsonian staff publications; Blog posts

Published Date:: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 19:33:05 +0000

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Sleep Restraint, Apollo 11

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Dimensions:: 3-D: 166.7 × 49.2 × 18.4cm (65 5/8 × 19 3/8 × 7 1/4 in.); Storage: 201.3 × 48.9 × 21.6cm (79 1/4 × 19 1/4 × 8 1/2 in.)

Type:: EQUIPMENT-Miscellaneous

Credit Line:: Transferred from NASA.

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Air and Space Live Chat: The Wright Brothers

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Story Time: "Three Friends' Alien Adventure"

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Understanding the Doppler Shift

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Howard Hughes and the World’s Fastest Land Plane

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The Spirit of Apollo - Apollo 8 50th Anniversary Celebration

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Restoring the Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver

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Hubble Space Telescope Team — 2020 Michael Collins Trophy Winner

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How GPS Works

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Ask an Expert: Robert Goddard and the "Hoopskirt" Rocket

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Diehl, William C.

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Arthur C. Clarke Collection of Sri Lanka

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Correspondence

"Clarkives" Box No. WRT 01: Handwritten Manuscripts - Notes on A Meeting with Medusa; Notes on Astronautics; Val Cleaver's Handwritten Critique of Earthlight dated 7/1/54

NASA Considers Commercial Reality TV Show That Aims to Send One Lucky Civilian to Space

Sleep Restraint, Apollo 11

Air and Space Live Chat: The Wright Brothers

Hidden Figures Mathematician Christine Darden: My Path

Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold: Planets in the Goldilocks Zone

Story Time: "Three Friends' Alien Adventure"

Understanding the Doppler Shift

Howard Hughes and the World’s Fastest Land Plane

The Spirit of Apollo - Apollo 8 50th Anniversary Celebration

Restoring the Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver

Hubble Space Telescope Team — 2020 Michael Collins Trophy Winner

How GPS Works

CDR Ray "Gator" Stromberger - My Path

Moving Large Objects at the National Air and Space Museum

Ask an Expert: Robert Goddard and the "Hoopskirt" Rocket

Flights of Fancy Story Time: Building Our Home Among the Stars

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