to seek medical care in a hospital and died at home in Druid Heights at the age of 87. Gidlow was cremated and her ashes were mixed with rice and buried beneath an apple tree in Druid Heights. Parts of Druid Heights have subsequently fallen into ruin, but Gidlow's home remained intact as recently as 2012. Legacy Gidlow's estate donated her extensive personal papers to the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco in 1991. The collection consists of 16 boxes (13 linear feet) of correspondence, journals, literary manuscripts, legal records, photographs and other materials documenting Gidlow's life, work and relationships. The papers are organized into nine series: Correspondence, Subject Files, Manuscripts, Published Works, Journals and Yearbooks, Audio-Visual and Photographs, Ephemera, Oversize Materials, and Original Documents. The collection is fully processed and available to researchers. Selected works On a Grey Thread (1923) California Valley with Girls (1932) From Alba Hill (1933) Wild Swan Singing (1954) Letters from Limbo (1956) Moods of Eros (1970) Makings for Meditation: Parapoems Reverent and Irreverent (1973) Wise Man's Gold (1974) Ask No Man Pardon: The Philosophic Significance of Being Lesbian (1975) Sapphic Songs: Seventeen to Seventy (1976) Sapphic Songs: Eighteen to Eighty, the Love Poetry of Elsa Gidlow (1982) Elsa, I Come with My Songs: The Autobiography of Elsa Gidlow (1986) References Further reading Gidlow, Elsa (1979). "Footprints in the Sands of the Sacred". Frontiers. University of Nebraska Press. 4 (3), 47–51. Harvey, Andrew (1997). The Esesential Gay Mystics. HarperCollins. . Kennedy, Kathleen; Ullman, Sharon Rena. (2003). Sexual Borderlands: Constructing an American Sexual Past. Ohio State University Press. . Samek, Toni; Lang, Moyra; Roberto, K.R. (2010). She Was a Booklegger: Remembering Celeste West. Library Juice Press. . Watts, Alan (1972). In My Own Way: An Autobiography, 1915–1965. New World Library. . External links Guide to the Elsa Gidlow Papers, 1898–1986 (bulk dates 1920–1986) in the archives of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. 1898 births 1986 deaths Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area Lesbian feminists People from Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Writers from Kingston upon Hull People from Fairfax, California American women's rights activists English LGBT writers American LGBT poets Canadian lesbian writers American women poets 20th-century Canadian poets Canadian women poets Writers from Montreal Canadian LGBT poets 20th-century Canadian women writers 20th-century American poets Activists from California 20th-century American women writers 20th-century LGBT people British emigrants to Canada Canadian emigrants to the United States American lesbian