The Joseph Campbell Collection

Joseph Campbell's lengthy association with Pacifica included frequent lectures and conferences for the Institute in the last two decades of his life. Campbell taught at Sarah Lawrence College for 38 years. His scholarship integrated various fields: literature, anthropology, mythology, and art history. His numerous publications included The Hero With a Thousand Faces, the four-volume Masks of God, The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, and the Historical Atlas of World Mythology. In addition, he edited six volumes of selections from the Eranos Yearbooks, published by the Bollingen Foundation, and four volumes of the posthumous works of the Indologist Heinrich Zimmer.

Joseph Campbell's Book Collection consists of nearly 3,000 volumes in fields of anthroplogy, literature, the arts, philosophy, religion, and mythology. Some are rare and many are inscribed with Campbell's marginalia.

A catalog of his book collection is available here.

Joseph Campbell's Study, Honolulu.

Manuscripts, Papers and other Unpublished Materials 
The Collection also includes audio tapes of lectures, video tapes, manuscripts, research papers, photographs, and memorabilia, which have been turned over to the Library by the Joseph Campbell Foundation. Copies of some of these, including papers, can be sent by mail; others must be used in the Library. These can be used as resources for the study of mythology and cultural history, as well as of Joseph Campbell and the development of his thought. For more information contact the Special Collections Librarian.

 
Joseph Campbell's Bookplate,
designed by Angela Gregory ca. 1928.