Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
In tribute to Theodore Dreiser
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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
Collection of correspondence, papers, and ephemera related to the life and professional work of Dr. Edward Anthony Spitzka and his father Dr. Edward Charles Spitzka. The chief subjects covered are: neurology, criminology, psychiatry and behavioral psychology and brain morphology.
mssSpitzka1
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Manuscripts
The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts and newspaper clippings relating to Theodore Dreiser and his friends and associates. The majority of the correspondence is between Dreiser and his intimate friend and secretary, Elizabeth Kearney Coakley. The collection's manuscripts consist of writings by Dreiser, his wife (Helen Patges Dreiser), Elizabeth Kearney Coakley, and Thelma Cudlipp. Subjects addressed within the manuscripts include Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Sherwood Anderson and the death of Theodore Dreiser. All newspaper clippings in the collection relate to Dreiser and his circle of friends. Issues addressed within the collection as a whole include Dreiser's writing and the writing of other authors of the period, politics (especially communism), and the attempts made by Dreiser to market his talent, and his novels, to film studios and producers
mssHM 36236-36335