Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
[A collection of pamphlets, scrapbooks, and periodical articles
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Includes scrapbook of correspondence and clippings, and personal account books.
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Manuscripts
A collection of 266 items which consists of personal and professional papers of George Wharton James; the collection includes correspondence, lectures, sermons, articles, 2 scrapbooks, photographs, and ephemera (1871-1921). The manuscripts cover such topics as the Grand Canyon, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Native Americans, American literature and humor, religion, overseas travels, and biographical pieces on Jesse Benton Fřmont, William Ewart Gladstone, Lilla Leighton Lindley, William McKinley, Queen Victoria, and others. The correspondence includes letters and other material relating to the Robert Browning Centenary and letters from applicants for summer school at Echo Mountain, near Pasadena, California. The Addenda consists of letters and poems sent to James; the poems were probably intended for publication in Land of sunshine or Out west magazine and included are pieces by, among others, Thomas Bracken, Frona Eunice Wait, and Helen Hunt Jackson. The ephemera includes programs, lecture announcements, clippings and other printed material.
mssJamesgw
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Manuscripts
Includes material on Jessie Benton Frémont, William Ewart Gladstone, Lilla Leighton Lindley, William McKinley, Queen Victoria, Ellen Gould White, and Frances Willard; also miscellaneous notes and writing.
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Manuscripts
Includes scrapbook of correspondence and clippings entitled: "Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Arizona" (1891-1894), correspondence regarding the Grand Canyon (1892-1893), articles and notes (1891-1913).
mssJamesgw
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Manuscripts
A collection of 266 items which consists of personal and professional papers of George Wharton James; the collection includes correspondence, lectures, sermons, articles, 2 scrapbooks, photographs, and ephemera (1871-1921). The manuscripts cover such topics as the Grand Canyon, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Native Americans, American literature and humor, religion, overseas travels, and biographical pieces on Jesse Benton Fřmont, William Ewart Gladstone, Lilla Leighton Lindley, William McKinley, Queen Victoria, and others. The correspondence includes letters and other material relating to the Robert Browning Centenary and letters from applicants for summer school at Echo Mountain, near Pasadena, California. The Addenda consists of letters and poems sent to James; the poems were probably intended for publication in Land of sunshine or Out west magazine and included are pieces by, among others, Thomas Bracken, Frona Eunice Wait, and Helen Hunt Jackson. The ephemera includes programs, lecture announcements, clippings and other printed material.
mssJamesgw
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Manuscripts
This letter, to an unknown addressee, is written on James' stationery, from Pasadena, California, June 5, 1920. It is a short note stating that he has been ill and is better and traveling to Salt Lake City "for a month of Mormon life." Included with the letter is an offprint of the article entitled "Charles F. Lummis: A Unique Literary Personage of Modern America," written by James (1912).
mssHM 82396