Rare Books
A Julian Hawthorne collection
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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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Visual Materials
The collection consists of 809 portrait photographs in a variety of formats. It is a reference collection of individual and group portraits and contains portraits of both prominent and lesser-known Los Angelenos and Southern Californians from both the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection contains images created by a number of well-known California photographers.
photCL 400 volume 31
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Manuscripts
1 letter to Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour) Severance, 1820-1914.
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including diaries and scientific reports), documents and photographs related to the life and interests of geologist Bailey Willis. Subject matter includes: the work, travels and family of Bailey Willis; geology, especially earthquakes; scientists and scientific institutions. There are also early photographs of China (1903-04) and Argentina (1911-13). Persons represented by over twenty pieces in the collection include: Charles Peter Berkey, Eliot Blackwelder, Rollin Thomas Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Arthur Louis Day, Frederick Putnam Gulliver, Charles Willard Hayes, Stephen Joseph Kubel, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Albrecht Penck, Raphael Pumpelly, Rollin D. Salisbury, Charles Schuchert, George Otis Smith, George Willis Stose, Charles Richard Van Hise, Charles Doolittle Walcott, Bailey Willis, Cornelia Grinnell Willis, Margaret Delight Baker Willis, and Robert Simpson Woodward. Also present is a typscript letter signed from William H. Taft to Bailey Willis, 1908 December 12.
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Manuscripts
Roosevelt invites Hawthorne to dinner when he is in New York. Letter is written on mourning stationery. Item has been inserted into a paper mount.
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Manuscripts
The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, and one document related to Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family. The document is a bill for iron work signed by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The manuscripts by Julian Hawthorne include two essays, "Millennial Reflections" and "Walking," a novella "Millicent and Rosalind," and a short story "The Third of March." The correspondence includes letters to the Hawthorne sisters from Elizabeth Smiley Williams written from Havana, Cuba, in the 1830s, and letters from Julian Hawthorne to George Sidney Hellman. The family letters include those between Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, Una Hawthorne, and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne; the family letters also include Edith Garrigues Hawthorne, who was the second wife of Julian Hawthorne. The family letters discuss events such as births, marriages, and deaths as well as the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, George Parsons Lathrop, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman.
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