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Description: The collection consists of the literary and personal papers of American novelist, essayist and political activist Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1943), best known for her portrayals of life in California and New Mexico. It includes correspondence and literary manuscripts by both Austin and numerous other authors, editors and friends, as well as ephemera and photographs. Literary manuscripts include Austin's personal journals, short stories, poems, essays, and numerous drafts of novels. The correspondence deals with Austin's personal life and business dealings as well as her activities with Indian rights and the water right controversies in California's Owens Valley and in the Southwest. There are also materials related to Austin's interests in folklore and religion in New Mexico and the Southwest. The more than 1,200 photographs in the collection date from 1869 to the 1920s and include personal and family photographs of Mary Austin, her friends, relatives, homes, and various topics related to her interests.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1845-1950.
Call number: mssAU
Creator: Austin, Mary (1868-1934)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Estate of Mary Hunter Austin, 1951.; Gift of Charlotte Kellogg, May 9, 1951.; Gift of Bertha B. Wardell, August 23, 1954.; Purchased from Glen Dawson, January 6, 1956.; Purchased from J. E. Reynolds, January 26, 1958.; Purchased from Argonaut Book Shop, December 1960.; Purchased from Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, March 28, 1968.; Purchased from Dawson's Book Shop, June 30, 1969.; K. W. Rendell, August 18, 1970.; Joseph the Provider, July 5, 1977.; Randall House, February 23, 1989.
Associated people: Adamic, Louis, (1899-1951.); Adams, Andy, (1859-1935.); Applegate, Frank G. (1881-1931.); Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, (1857-1948.); Bender, Albert M. (1866-1941.); Benét, William Rose, (1886-1950.); Brooks, Van Wyck, (1886-1963.); Bynner, Witter, (1881-1968.); Campa, Arthur L. (1905-1978.); Canby, Henry Seidel, (1878-1961.); Canby, Marion Ponsonby Gause. (1873-1947.); Cather, Willa, (1841-1928.); Coolbrith, Ina D. (1888-1935.); Cutting, Bronson M., (1867-1957.); Densmore, Frances, (1896-1974.); Farrar, John Chipman, (1874-1963.); Frost, Robert, (1860-1940.); Garland, Hamlin, (1848-1927.); Grierson, Francis, (1864-1956.); Hodge, Frederick Webb, (1840-1926.); Holt, Henry, (1874-1964.); Hoover, Herbert, (1874-1944.); Hoover, Lou Henry, (1889-1968.); Hurst, Fannie, (1887-1962.); Jeffers, Robinson, (1879-1958.); Kellogg, Paul Underwood, (1901-1963.); La Farge, Oliver, (1888?-1960.); Levien, Sonya, (1885-1951.); Lewis, Sinclair, (1889-1974.); Lippmann, Walter, (1876-1916.); London, Charmian. (1874-1925.); London, Jack, (1879-1962.); Lowell, Amy, (1859-1928.); Luhan, Mabel Dodge, (1865-1958.); Lummis, Charles Fletcher, (1905-1980.); MacDougal, Daniel Trembly, (1880-1956.); McWilliams, Carey, (1864-1944.); Mencken, H. L. (1885-1972.); Park, Robert Ezra, (1886-1957.); Pound, Ezra, (1858-1919.); Rivera, Diego, (1860-1946.); Roosevelt, Theodore, (1878-1968.); Seton, Ernest Thompson, (1869-1926.); Simpson, William Haskell. (1890-1956.); Sinclair, Upton, (1876-); Sterling, George, (1885-1977.); Toor, Frances, (1885-1950.); Tracy, Henry Chester, (1894-1972.); Untermeyer, Louis, (1904-2000.); Van Doren, Carl,; Van Doren, Mark,; Walker, Ryan.; Wolf, Mary Hunter,; Nation.; National Folk Festival (1934 : St. Louis, Mo.); World Celebrities.
Associated organizations: New Republic.; Houghton Mifflin Company.; Yale University Press.; Bobbs-Merrill Company.; Century Company.; Forum.
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The collection consists of the literary and personal papers of American novelist, essayist and political activist Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1943), best known for her portrayals of life in California and New Mexico. It includes correspondence and literary manuscripts by both Austin and numerous other authors, editors and friends, as well as ephemera and photographs. Literary manuscripts include Austin's personal journals, short stories, poems, essays, and numerous drafts of novels. The correspondence deals with Austin's personal life and business dealings as well as her activities with Indian rights and the water right controversies in California's Owens Valley and in the Southwest. There are also materials related to Austin's interests in folklore and religion in New Mexico and the Southwest. The more than 1,200 photographs in the collection date from 1869 to the 1920s and include personal and family photographs of Mary Austin, her friends, relatives, homes, and various topics related to her interests.
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The collection consists of the literary and personal papers of American novelist, essayist and political activist Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1943), best known for her portrayals of life in California and New Mexico. It includes correspondence and literary manuscripts by both Austin and numerous other authors, editors and friends, as well as ephemera and photographs. Literary manuscripts include Austin's personal journals, short stories, poems, essays, and numerous drafts of novels. The correspondence deals with Austin's personal life and business dealings as well as her activities with Indian rights and the water right controversies in California's Owens Valley and in the Southwest. There are also materials related to Austin's interests in folklore and religion in New Mexico and the Southwest. The more than 1,200 photographs in the collection date from 1869 to the 1920s and include personal and family photographs of Mary Austin, her friends, relatives, homes, and various topics related to her interests.
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The collection consists of the literary and personal papers of American novelist, essayist and political activist Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1943), best known for her portrayals of life in California and New Mexico. It includes correspondence and literary manuscripts by both Austin and numerous other authors, editors and friends, as well as ephemera and photographs. Literary manuscripts include Austin's personal journals, short stories, poems, essays, and numerous drafts of novels. The correspondence deals with Austin's personal life and business dealings as well as her activities with Indian rights and the water right controversies in California's Owens Valley and in the Southwest. There are also materials related to Austin's interests in folklore and religion in New Mexico and the Southwest. The more than 1,200 photographs in the collection date from 1869 to the 1920s and include personal and family photographs of Mary Austin, her friends, relatives, homes, and various topics related to her interests.
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Carlinville, Ill. Views of town, buildings and family homes of Graham and Dugger families, Austin's relatives, 1880s
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The collection consists of the literary and personal papers of American novelist, essayist and political activist Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1943), best known for her portrayals of life in California and New Mexico. It includes correspondence and literary manuscripts by both Austin and numerous other authors, editors and friends, as well as ephemera and photographs. Literary manuscripts include Austin's personal journals, short stories, poems, essays, and numerous drafts of novels. The correspondence deals with Austin's personal life and business dealings as well as her activities with Indian rights and the water right controversies in California's Owens Valley and in the Southwest. There are also materials related to Austin's interests in folklore and religion in New Mexico and the Southwest. The more than 1,200 photographs in the collection date from 1869 to the 1920s and include personal and family photographs of Mary Austin, her friends, relatives, homes, and various topics related to her interests.
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Various members of the Graham and Dugger families, Austin's relatives in Carlinville, Illinois. Includes records of family births, deaths, marriages and wills, 1880s. Ruth Austin, daughter of Mary Austin, appears in images 38-40
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The collection consists of the literary and personal papers of American novelist, essayist and political activist Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1943), best known for her portrayals of life in California and New Mexico. It includes correspondence and literary manuscripts by both Austin and numerous other authors, editors and friends, as well as ephemera and photographs. Literary manuscripts include Austin's personal journals, short stories, poems, essays, and numerous drafts of novels. The correspondence deals with Austin's personal life and business dealings as well as her activities with Indian rights and the water right controversies in California's Owens Valley and in the Southwest. There are also materials related to Austin's interests in folklore and religion in New Mexico and the Southwest. The more than 1,200 photographs in the collection date from 1869 to the 1920s and include personal and family photographs of Mary Austin, her friends, relatives, homes, and various topics related to her interests.
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Mary Austin with family and friends, some in her various homes—Carlinville, Ill.; Independence, Ca.; New York; and Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1869-1923. Portraits include George Sterling, Jack London, Stafford Wallace Austin (Mary's husband), and James Hopper
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The collection consists of the literary and personal papers of American novelist, essayist and political activist Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1943), best known for her portrayals of life in California and New Mexico. It includes correspondence and literary manuscripts by both Austin and numerous other authors, editors and friends, as well as ephemera and photographs. Literary manuscripts include Austin's personal journals, short stories, poems, essays, and numerous drafts of novels. The correspondence deals with Austin's personal life and business dealings as well as her activities with Indian rights and the water right controversies in California's Owens Valley and in the Southwest. There are also materials related to Austin's interests in folklore and religion in New Mexico and the Southwest. The more than 1,200 photographs in the collection date from 1869 to the 1920s and include personal and family photographs of Mary Austin, her friends, relatives, homes, and various topics related to her interests.
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Carlinville, Ill. Views of town, buildings and family homes of Graham and Dugger families, Austin's relatives, 1880s

Various members of the Graham and Dugger families, Austin's relatives in Carlinville, Illinois. Includes records of family births, deaths, marriages and wills, 1880s. Ruth Austin, daughter of Mary Austin, appears in images 38-40

Mary Austin with family and friends, some in her various homes—Carlinville, Ill.; Independence, Ca.; New York; and Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1869-1923. Portraits include George Sterling, Jack London, Stafford Wallace Austin (Mary's husband), and James Hopper