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In my youth : from the posthumous papers of Robert Dudley
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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
Collection includes several typescript volumes created by Robert G. Carter: "Letters from the battlefront" (typescripts of letters, 1860 to 1865), "Wearing of the Cadet Grey, or Memories of West Point Days", and "Four Brothers in Blue" (record of the Army of the Potomac, 1860 to 1865); volumes include some added photographs, clippings, and maps. Also present are two Carter family photo albums, loose clippings, ephemera, and a copy of Robert G. Carter's publication, The Old Sergeant's Story: Winning the West from the Indians and Bad Men in 1870 to 1876.
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Rare Books
"This is the first English translation of this book. Maxim Gorki, the most famous of living Russian authors, has had a varied and adventurous career. Each section of these reminiscences is a phase in Gorki's life. Many of the descriptive passages are remarkably fine and vivid, and Gorki has made no concessions to a squeamishness which would shirk the unpleasant facts of life. All the vigour and directness of Gorki's style, all his acute perception and realistic powers have gone to the making of this extraordinary autobiography, and to the portrayal of the many characters, fantastic, pitiful, humorous, which crowd its pages"--dust jacket.
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of 634 items, from 1843 to 1906; it includes manuscripts, letters, documents, receipts and newspaper clippings related to the life and business activities of William Heath Davis. Subject matter includes shipping and commerce in California before and after the Gold Rush; business firms in San Francisco and Honolulu; and land titles, with particular emphasis on Rancho San Leandro. The collection also includes manuscripts and source materials relating to Davis's memoirs. Additionally, there are items related to California and San Francisco history; various California pioneers; mining; shipping; land titles commerce; and the social manners and customs of early California residents.
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Manuscripts
A collection which consists of approximately 5,450 items and covers the years 1865 to 1985; the collection contains correspondence covering a variety of topics including scholarly research, speaking engagements, writing assignments, trustee and university business, and responses to Cleland's publications. Correspondents in the collection include, among others: George A. Brakeley, Arthur G. Coons, Glenn S. Dumke, Max Farrand, Harold Holmes Helm, MacMillan Company, H. W. O'Melveny, Princeton University Press, Andrew F. Rolle, Eleanor W. Towles, and Louis B. Wright. The writings comprise drafts and notes for books, book reviews, and lectures on California and the Southwest including, among other titles: "The Cattle on a Thousand Hills" (second edition), "From Wilderness to Empire," "California in Our Time," "A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee," and "This Reckless Breed of Men." The research files include material on the fur trade, California, Mexico, and the controversial social insurance schemes proposed by the Retirement Life Payment Association during the Great Depression. The source material about Mexico covers geography, economics, social life, and indigenous peoples from the Spanish conquest until the early twentieth century, including data files and interview reports gathered for the Doheny Foundation. The ephemera consists mainly of biographical material about Cleland, six photographs, various clippings on the Southwest, and offprints or printed material by Cleland and his peers. The research notes are handwritten and typed on one half sheets sorted into folders by topic on the history of the West and for "The Cattle on a Thousand Hills" material. Note cards have biographical citations for research materials. There is a cassette tape and phonograph record of a radio interview with Robert Glass Cleland for the "Meet the Author" program and a phonograph record of a speech by James Blaisdell.
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Box contains a series of letters to Craig's wife, Gertrude Craig, written during his term of duty during World War I; the box also contains autobiographical material Craig had expected to include in a late book. In addition, there is a bound typescript of "English Religious Drama of the Middle Ages," chapters 5-8 only.
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Manuscripts
A collection of manuscripts, poems, and correspondence related to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The manuscripts include the lectures "Literature of the Middle Ages" and "Each day is a branch of the tree of life...;" the poems include "Autumnal Nightfall," "A Song of Savoy," and "Woods in Winter." The correspondence deals with Longfellow's poems and publishing, and some letters are in response to requests for his autograph. Correspondents include, among others, Francis Fauvel-Gouraud, Ferdinand Freiligrath, George Washington Greene, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, James Riley Osgood, Theophilus Parsons, Thomas Buchanan Read, William Winter, and Robert C. Winthrop.
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