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Six letters to an apprentice

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Description: Six letters written to Ernest Kroll in reponse to his letters asking for advice on how one learns to write.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1994.
Call number: 647750
Provenance: Gift of Jennifer Lorson, August 2019.
Dimensions: 22 cm
Associated people: Kroll, Ernest,; Berger, Sidney E.,; Kilgour, Carolyn,; Cohen, Elizabeth; Yerkes, Larry,
Associated organizations: Thaumatrope Press,

Charles Lummis letters

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Sixteen of the seventeen letters are addressed to Charles Lummis. The authors include: Anthropologist Adolph Bandelier (written from Bolivia), writer Ella Higginson, historian and author J. Franklin Jameson (asking Lummis to write an article on Mexico), Lummis' second wife Eva, Henrietta Lungren (wife of Southwest artist Fernand Lungren), surgeon, ethnographer, and linguist Washington Matthews (about his book Navajo legends), author Grace Ellery Channing Stetson (and wife of artist Charles Stetson), Wells Fargo & Company president John J. Valentine (regarding U.S. politics), and stage actress Louise Wakelee Elliott. There is one letter by Charles Lummis to his wife Eve. This letter was written in 1896 while he was in Mexico.

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Mirror-News

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Approx. 15 items - letters and memos. Notable names and items include: letter, 12/2/1958, to Bassett from J.J. Mullen, Asst. Man. Editor, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, asking advice "to strengthen the internal organization of our city room" ; letter, 12/4/1958, in answer to previous letter - Bassett gives info on how Mirror-News handles certain situations ; correspondence with J. Edward Murray ; letter, 12/8/1949, to Bassett from Edmund G. Brown (San Francisco District Attorney) ; correspondence with Virgil Pinkley ; letter, 8/1/1951, in which U.S. Navy Captain E.J. Drew invites Bassett to a three day orientation program to include a one day trip aboard a carrier ; more.

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Special letters from readers

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Approx. 30 items: letters from readers, some sending recipes or requesting recipes, some just praising the Food Section . Among the more amusing letters (possibly one reason Hoke's staff saved them) are those asking "Marian Manners" how to get rid of bugs. One letter asks for a menu to feed 100 "important people connected with business." The writer, "Mrs. Hohm," explains that "they will arrive... drink for about two hours," then "it is very necessary that they are completely overwhelmed with my food."

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Harry Chandler letter to Eddie Mannix

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Harry Chandler letter written to Eddie Mannix of MGM Studios asking him to meet for a luncheon of "considerable civic importance," taking place on February 18, 1941, at the Board of Directors Room in the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, "about which your advice and cooperation is needed." Eddie Mannix was known as a "fixer" who covered for Hollywood stars' indiscretions to protect the reputation of the film studio. Written on Los Angeles Times letterhead and signed by Harry Chandler.

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Incoming correspondence

Manuscripts

114 letters including further letters from Evelyn Berckman in Pennsylvania and topics including a talk to the Huguenot Society of London (later published); articles in The Connoisseur and Country Life; the rejection of Esdaile's novel "The Pooles" by OUP, and many letters asking for professional advice on sculpture and sculptors.

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The phrase-dropper's handbook : 243 (or maybe it's 312) field-tested ways to get in, get out, or get on top of any conversation. A convenient guide for the modestly well-informed. A manual for appearing to be educated, sophisticated, or merely interesting as you are coping with conversational overkill, monologue, or monopoly

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A guide to conversational one-upmanship, providing a wealth of somewhat tongue-in-cheek advice on how to appear well-informed, well-read, well-traveled, etc. without actually being so.

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