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An examination of 10 leading personalities of WWI, ten years after the armistice, including Joffre, Foch, Petain, Lundendorff, Pershing, and others.
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Approx. 15 items, grouped in two bundles, one dating from 1953, the other from 1959 : 1953 group consists mainly of letters to and replies from W.S. Ruby, Real Estate Manager of Chandis Securities (after merger with Southwest Land Co.) related to Vermejo Club / Vermejo Ranch property ; 3-pp. letter, 10/28/1959, from W.S. Ruby to W.D. Grisso of the University of Oklahoma, which reads in part, "W.J. Gorley of Fort Worth purchased the Vermejo property from Southwest Land Co. over ten years ago and that much of the file pertaining to the property has long since been destroyed" ; 3-pp. "Vermejo Club members" list, undated, but it predates Harry Chandler's 1944 death (also predates actor Douglas Fairbanks' 1939 death). Some prominent names from the list: Capt. William Banning, Harry Chandler, Col. Ira Copley, Cecil B. de Mille, Douglas Fairbanks, Harvey Firestone, Will H. Hays, Herbert Hoover, Glenn L. Martin, Andrew Mellon, Claus Spreckles and Adolf Zukor. Another item in the 1959 group is a letter addressed to Harry Chandler fifteen years after his death.
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Based on original sources, this book tells the full story of the life and times of the eminent American philosopher, pragmatist, education reformer, and man of letters, John Dewey. During his lifetime (1859-1952), he was regarded by poll after poll as one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His philosophy, Pragmatism, has been the distinctive American philosophy during the last fifty years. His work on education is famous worldwide and is still influential today. Dewey rejected old-fashioned schooling and believed in multiculturalism and independent thinking. His University of Chicago Laboratory School (founded in 1896), still thrives today and is a model for schools all over the world. "The Education of John Dewey" shows the unity of Deweys life and work. Jay Martin recounts Dewey's childhood years, family history, religious influences, and influential friendships, and reassesses his legacy. The book highlights the importance of the women in Deweys life, especially his mother, wife and daughters, but also others, including the reformer Jane Addams and the novelist Anzia Yezierska.
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Diary kept by Henry Gramesly while he prospected in Colorado from May to July 1880, and resuming with his return trip from July to August 1881. The diary opens with Gramesly traveling by rail through the Kenosha Pass in Colorado and his arrival in Leadville. Shortly after his arrival 6,000 miners went on strike demanding higher wages. Gramesly tracks the strike, which continued throughout the month of June until it was broken by militiamen sent by Governor Frederick Pitkin. Gramesly writes of men being shot, the introduction of martial law, and "great excitement" in the city. He reflects several times that the setting and situation "puts me in mind of the Army." At the same time as the strike, high winds drove a major forest fire through the area. "Damn the country...the forests are on fire in every direction," Gramesly wrote, continuing it was so "smoky [I] can't really see the mountains." At this time a circus also came to town, which Gramesly notes in passing. In the midst of all these happenings, Gramesly went on prospecting, and on July 5 some of his companions discovered gold and staked a claim not far from their camp, called Gramesly's Camp. The diary ends on July 10, 1880, and picks up again in June 1881, when Gramesly returned to Colorado from Illinois. He writes of setting up a tunnel company with his five companions, and that he was given 10,400 shares, with a total value of $104,000. The tunnel was built near Eagle Point, and Gramesly mentions the Cave, Tray, and Waterloo Lodes, among others. He continued prospecting and hiking in the area, and records hunting sheep on La Plata and the view from Eagle Point. He also records his sighting of the Great Comet of 1881 and mentions in passing that "the President [James A. Garfield] is dying." The back of the diary contains a list of letters Gramesly sent, some miscellaneous accounting notes, and additional diary entries from early May 1880. In the diary Gramesly refers to his father as WSG, his brother as CG, and his fiancee Harriet as Hat.
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The collection consists mainly of correspondence from the period 1910-1914, beginning when Oddie initiated his campaign for governor, and ending when he was about to terminate his administration. This correspondence is arranged in 19 boxes, in alphabetical order by author, of which boxes 1-11 contain correspondence directed to Oddie, and boxes 12-19 contain copies of Oddie's own correspondence to others. There are, in addition, 6 boxes and 4 rolls of Nevada State papers, almost entirely copies of legislative bills for the year 1873, and a small number of documents from other years.Subjects include: mining, politics, and government in Nevada (including divorce laws), women's rights, the financial panic of 1907, the Progressive party, and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. Materials created by US presidents include Theodore Roosevelt telegram to Tasker L. Oddie, 1911 March 15, and typescript copy of Theodore Roosevelt letter to Mr. Smith, 1911 January 31 (box 9); and William H. Taft typescript letter to Tasker L. Oddie, written and signed by his secretary Charles D. Hilles, 1911 June 7 (box 10). Persons represented by ten or more pieces: Adamson, L 18 pieces Amigo, Henry J 17 pieces Bray, W 14 pieces Brown, Hugh H 15 pieces Buchanan, J A 20 pieces Campbell, J 14 pieces Cookson, H H 55 pieces Howell, Eugene 43 pieces Jackson, Austin 113 pieces Johnson, Stephen 98 pieces Kinghorn, Frank J 19 pieces Landquist, J W 20 pieces Lindsay, James G 33 pieces McElroy, S T 16 pieces Miller, Thomas Woodnutt 18 pieces Moore, Sidney R 12 pieces Norcross, Charles A 11 pieces North, Miles E 16 pieces Oddie, Clarence 38 pieces Oddie, Tasker Lowndes 8 boxes pieces Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company. 21 pieces Pulver, C S 17 pieces Siebert, Fred J 35 pieces Skuse, John C 29 pieces Smith, Dix W 20 pieces Spencer, L B 24 pieces Stubbs, Joseph Edward 14 pieces Turrell, William H 15 pieces Wingfield, George 18 pieces
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This collection contains the papers of British-American writer Christopher Isherwood, chiefly dating from the 1920s to the 1980s. This part of the collection consists of scripts, literary manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, ephemera, audio-visual material, and Isherwood's library, the archive is an exceptionally rich resource for research on Isherwood, as well as W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender and others. Subjects documented in the collection include homosexuality and gay rights, pacifism, and Vedanta. The Christopher Isherwood Papers were cataloged over a span of 10 years and multiple acquisitions, resulting in a collection organized by accretion, with each new acquisition added on in sequence at the end of the collection, rather than interspersed with similar or related materials. Therefore, each separate acquisition must be searched in order to locate all of the relevant manuscripts or correspondence by a particular author. Similarly, the collection was cataloged by multiple catalogers, so styles, levels of detail and format vary throughout the collection and finding aid. Scripts (Boxes 1-9) The majority of scripts are by Isherwood, and there are quite a few collaborative efforts, e.g., Below the Equator and Jacob's Hands with Aldous Huxley; and Frankenstein, A Meeting By the River and other titles with Don Bachardy. There are also drafts of the early Auden-Isherwood collaborations The Dog Beneath the Skin and The Enemies of a Bishop. Literary Manuscripts (Boxes 10-84) The archive includes manuscripts for most of Isherwood's works. The largest exception is the manuscripts for The Berlin Stories, which are not present. High points include multiple drafts for A Single Man, The World in the Evening, Down There On a Visit, Christopher and His Kind, A Meeting By the River, The Memorial, and My Guru and His Disciple. Isherwood's "Writing Notebook" (CI 1158) is very rich, containing long series of notes on the writing of The World in the Evening and Down There On a Visit. For example, he spent seven years working and re- working The World in the Evening, a process that included many conversations about the novel with his friends Dodie Smith and Alec Beesley. The "Writing Notebook" includes accounts of those conversations, in addition to notes reflecting his own thoughts about writing the novel. An extensive series of notes for lecture that Isherwood presented at universities in southern California contains highly important information on Isherwood's views on literature, Vedanta, and his own place in 20th-century letters. Isherwood and W.H. Auden enjoyed a deep, life-long friendship and, beginning in their youth, they exchanged thoughts about literature and their reactions to one another's writings. Isherwood exerted a profound effect on Auden's poems, suggesting alterations on many occasions. Because of Isherwood and Auden's close literary interaction, Auden gave many poems to Isherwood. These verses, some unpublished, are in the Isherwood Papers, along with an extraordinary notebook containing drafts of early Auden poetry (some unpublished). Of special note is the journal that Isherwood and Auden kept jointly on their trip to Asia in 1938, later published as Diary of a Trip to Asia. Correspondence (Boxes 10-84) The collection is rich in letters to Isherwood, most notably from W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender. The Auden letters are superb and, together with poetry manuscripts, form a body of original material that is equaled only by the manuscripts held in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. The letters from Stephen Spender are excellent and form a long body of communication about literary and editorial matters, both his own and Isherwood's. Spender sold Isherwood's letters to the Bancroft Library, so the two halves of the correspondence are housed in northern and southern California. A superb series of letters from E.M. Forster bespeaks the closeness of his friendship with Isherwood, as well as his position as mentor to the younger writer, who greatly admired the older writer. In addition to literary and social matters, Forster's letters include descriptions of the effects of bombing on England during World War Two. Most notably, several letters address Forster's request that Isherwood oversee publication of Maurice after Forster's death. Correspondence from other major literary figures includes letters by Truman Capote, Somerset Maugham, J.D. Salinger, Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams. An extensive series of letters from dance impresario Lincoln Kirstein fully and wittily document his time in the military, stationed in Germany during World War Two. The longest set of letters by Isherwood is the series to his mother Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood, which are long and filled with important information about his activities and his thoughts. These letters have been published: Colletta, Lisa, ed., Kathleen and Christopher: Christopher Isherwood's Letters to His Mother (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005). Apart from this series, Part I of the collection contains relatively few letters by Isherwood. Diaries (Box 85) This box of five volumes includes trips to Greece (1933) and South America (1947-1948), a volume of ideas for stories, and daily diaries (1935-1938 and 1979). Please note: this box of diaries does not have any restrictions of access or use. Addenda (Boxes 86-90) The Addenda material came to the Library in 2000 and was cataloged over the next several years. It consists, mainly, of literary correspondence, interviews and manuscripts by W.H. Auden, Don Bachardy, Ray Bradbury, Christopher Isherwood, Ken Maley, Stephen Spender, and Edward Upward. The Isherwood manuscripts include drafts of Christopher and His Kind, Down There on a Visit and The World in the Evening. Photographs (Boxes 91-114) There are about 1,800 photographs in Part I of the collection, chiefly depicting Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy. The majority of the photographs are the work of professional photographers and therefore under copyright, so researchers wishing to publish or make use of them must seek the appropriate permission. Ephemera (Boxes 115-122) Among the ephemera are flyers and publicity for the Auden-Isherwood collaborations, for productions of Cabaret, and for stagings of adaptations of Isherwood's novels. There are also Isherwood's datebooks and address books, published interviews, clippings by and about Isherwood, about his writings, and about others, and miscellaneous printed material. There is also important material that documents homosexuality and the gay rights movement. Audiovisual Material (Boxes 123-135) The audiovisual material contains 3, 5 and 7" magnetic tapes, audiocassettes, VHS and Betamax tapes and three films. The magnetic tapes include Christopher Isherwood conferences, interviews, lectures and speeches; also included, among others, are Don Bachardy, Swami Prabhavananda, Dylan Thomas, and Edward Upward. Many of the tapes also have CD preservation copies and these are noted in the finding aid The audiocassettes include dramatizations of Christopher Isherwood's works, interviews and lectures, as well as a few other authors, including Edward Upward. A limited number of audiocassettes have CD preservation copies and these are noted in the finding aid. The VHS, Betamax tapes and films include interviews with Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy on the BBC and Dick Cavett television show, as well as an interview by Ariana Huffington; the tapes have DVD preservation copies and these are noted in the finding aid. The three films are still in process and are not available. Sealed Diaries and Scholar's Papers (Boxes 136-138) The eight daily diary volumes (1939-1970) are sealed until Jan. 1, 2030. The scholar's material includes essays, correspondence and photocopies; the material is sealed until 30 years after the date of each item.
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