Research

• The Owen Barfield Society

  The Society was inaugurated in 2007 and its annual meetings are held under the auspices of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. www.barfieldsociety.org
  Click here for the full Bibliography of published works.

• Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

  Holds most of the papers from Barfield's study.
  The collection includes literary manuscripts, working notes, appointment diaries, extensive correspondence with friends, colleagues and students, correspondence with his publishers, family photographs, and publications. There are also some papers of close family members and friends.
  Owen Barfield Archive (opened in 2010)

• The Marion E. Wade Center of Wheaton College, Illinois, USA

  Contains books and articles by and about Barfield, including first editions; dissertations; periodicals; some audio-visual media; letters, manuscripts, and archives.
  http://www.wheaton.edu/wadecenter/Authors/Owen-Barfield
  Owen Barfield Letters
  Owen Barfield Manuscripts
  Owen Barfield Library
  Owen Barfield photos: The collection contains approximately 150 images of Barfield, along with some family members, dating from his childhood in the early 1900s through to the 1980s.

• Azusa Pacific University

  Special Collections Library, CA, USA.
  Owen Barfield Family Collection (due to open 2013).
  

• University of Toronto

  E. J. Pratt Library of Victoria College Library, Canada:
  Owen Barfield / S. T. Coleridge Collection
  Includes the manuscript of Barfield's edition of Coleridge's Lectures 1818-1819 On the History of Philosophy
  http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/special/index.htm

• University of North Carolina

  Special Collections Library:
  Owen Barfield / C.S. Lewis Estate Collection
  Approximately 300 letters by Barfield dealing with C.S. Lewis's literary matters, dated circa 1970 - 1980

Other links for Barfieldian and Consciousness Studies

Here is a selection - to include your place of teaching, please contact us.

• The Center for Action and Contemplation, Albuquerque, NM, USA
• California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, USA
• The Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, CA, USA
• Rudolf Steiner College, Sacramento, CA, USA
• The Nature Institute, Ghent, NY, USA
• Brazilian Institute of Philosophy and Science Ramón Llull,
  So Paulo, BRAZIL
• Sydney Rudolf Steiner College, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
• The Rudolf Steiner University College, Oslo, NORWAY
• Alanus University, Bonn, GERMANY
• Institute of British Studies at the University of Leipzig, GERMANY
• Temenos Academy, London, ENGLAND
• New View Magazine, London, ENGLAND
• Associative Economics, Kent, ENGLAND
• Schumacher College, Devon, ENGLAND
• The Field Centre, Gloucestershire, ENGLAND

About the Literary Estate

Our aims are:

• To promote the writings and intellectual legacy of Arthur Owen Barfield
• To support scholarly research and studies in Barfield's ideas and works
• To improve access to the archives of Barfield papers:
• 'Owen Barfield Papers' - Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (opened 2010)
• 'Owen Barfield / GB Tennyson Letters' - Wade Center, Wheaton College, IL USA (received 2008)
• 'Owen Barfield Family Papers' – Azusa Pacific University Library, CA USA (due to open 2013)
• 'Owen Barfield / C.S. Lewis Estate Collection' - University of North Carolina Library, USA (opened 2011).

Trustee: Owen A. Barfield, grandson (appointed 2006).

• Walter Hooper (retired 2006),
• Georg Tennyson (deceased 2007),
• Thomas Kranidas (retired 2008),
• Shirley Sugerman (retired 2008).

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