SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Eight boxes of correspondence and memos from the Peoples Temple

SAN  FRANCISCO  (AP)  --  Eight boxes of correspondence and memos
from the Peoples Temple commune at Jonestown, Guyana,  where  913
people died in a mass suicide 10 years ago, have become available
for scholarly   review.    Among  the  documents  are  dozens  of
scribbled notes from members suggesting methods of taking revenge
on people who defected from the group,  proposals  that  included
selling them  poisoned Christmas candy.  The records, unsealed by
a  court-appointed  receiver  and  deposited  recently   at   the
California  Historical  Society  in  San  Francisco,  reveal  the
bizarre mental states of members of the Peoples  Temple.    In  a
group of  letters to the Rev.  Jim Jones, leader of the religious
cult and mastermind of the suicide on Nov. 18, 1978, some members
vowed to kill themselves and their children on command.    Jones'
aides  wrote  memos to him on how sleep deprivation and Vitamin B
complex deficiency are useful tools in  brainwashing.    After  a
"suicide  drill"  at  the  jungle settlement, one member wrote to
Jones: "Sex, drugs, nor wine could  take  what  took  place  this
evening.   I  am  so  grateful  to have had the opportunity to go
through the process of dying.  Just sitting there looking at  the
line  of  people, young and old alike, eager to get it over with.
I thought of how nice it would be."  Most members of the  commune
swallowed  grape  drink laced with potassium cyanide a short time
after Rep.  Leo Ryan, a San Francisco Examiner photographer,  two
NBC  reporters and a temple defector were killed by supporters of
Jones in a hail of gunfire at the commune's air  strip.    Poison
was squirted  down  the  throats  of children.  The new documents
also reveal that Jones' wife, Marceline,  challenged  him  during
the summer  of  1978.   When talk of mass suicide became a temple
obsession, she  pleaded  with  him  in  a  letter  to  spare  the
children.   One  woman said she would kill herself if Jones, whom
she called "Father," wanted it.  But she  added  that  she  still
wanted to "write some short stories, even poetry