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San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
1 letter to James Seymour Severance, 1842-1936.
mssSeverance
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Visual Materials
Views of Parker's Lincoln automobile shortly after it ran into the fence in front of his house on Lemoyne Street; views of a baby in a stroller (presumably Jamie); one view of an unidentified woman.
photCL MLP 4115
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Manuscripts
A.N.S., 1p. Note: formerly enclosed in Boran, Jamie. Open Bukowski: Henry Charles Bukowski: His Life Seen Through his Writings for the Los Angeles Free Press 1974-1975, catalogued separately as RB 602623 in the Rare Books department.
BUK 2165
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Manuscripts
(1 p.). A.N.S. on a card, with envelope and printed material. Subject: Costa Poetry Award.
MN 2891
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Manuscripts
The collection is comprised primarily of the manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera of Paul Theroux. His works are often semi-autobiographical and are based on his experiences living and traveling around the world. He is noted for his rich, sometimes ironic, description of people and places. The material comprises almost his entire career as a writer and includes multiple drafts of various works from working notebooks to printed galleys. The collection includes novels (1967-2016), short story collections (1972-2014), non-fiction and travel books (1972-2016), and shorter works including reviews, articles, short stories, plays, and lectures (1960-2015); the collection also includes Theroux's working and travel notebooks (1968-2014). The collection also contains professional papers and business correspondence (1963-2015), with publishers, agents, other authors and reader's letters; included in this material are letters from, among others, Eve Auchincloss, Peter De Vries, Margaret Drabble, Nadine Gordimer, Graham Greene, Blanche C. Gregory, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., Houghton Mifflin Company, V.S. Naipaul, Jonathan Raban, Oliver Sacks, Muriel Spark, Stephen Spender, William Styron, and Auberon Waugh. There is also a smaller amount of family material and personal correspondence (1939-2015), with family and friends; this correspondence includes Eugene Theroux, Alexander Theroux, Peter Theroux, Marcel Theroux, Louis Theroux, Anne Theroux, and various other family members. The ephemera consists of photographs, printed material and magazines (1941-1915).
mssTheroux