Manuscripts
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) 1900- 1965. 1 letter (1957, December 24) to Paul Conrad, TLS (1 p.), Chicago
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Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) 1900- 1965. 1 letter (1960, April 20) to Paul Conrad, TLS (1 p.), Chicago
Manuscripts
CON 9174.
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Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965. 1 letter (1952, Nov. 20) to Christopher Isherwood, 1904-, N.S. (typewritten: 1 p.)
Manuscripts
The collection includes drafts of most of Isherwood's works, as well as book reviews, essays, interviews and travel narratives; the collection also includes extensive correspondence files containing letters from W. H. Auden, Don Bachardy, Truman Capote, E. M. Forster, John Lehmann, Stephen Spender, Edward Upward, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, and others. The correspondence files also contain the letters of Isherwood's parents, Frank Bradshaw-Isherwood and Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood, as well as diaries kept by Kathleen, containing references to the first World War. The correspondence files deal with the literary works of Isherwood and others, male homosexuality, Isherwood's interest in Hinduism, World War One and World War Two among other subjects. Also included are important series of poems and other literary manuscripts by Auden and Spender, audiovisual material, photographs and negatives, a scrapbook and ephemera. A box of Addenda was added to the collection in 2020, it contains manuscripts, photographs, printed material, and ephemera.
CI 2226.
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Stevenson, Adlai Ewing. 1 letter, February 11, 1942
Manuscripts
Professional and personal papers of Charles Nordhoff, including typescripts of Nordhoff's works, his incoming and outgoing correspondence dealing with writing and family matters, numerous photographs, and copies of magazines, journals and comic books in which articles or works by Nordhoff were published. Correspondents include James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff, former Secretary of the Interior Gifford Pinchot, Adlai Stevenson, A.P. Watt, Ellery Sedgwick, and others.
mssNordhoff
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Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1835-1914 to James De Barth Shorb
Manuscripts
The collection, which contains 10,844 items, consists of correspondence, letter books, manuscripts, speeches, diaries, account books, published articles, legal papers, financial statements and business records. The 10,528 pieces of correspondence are chiefly addressed to James De Barth Shorb, James M. Tiernan and Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb. The 17 letter books are related to the business and financial affairs of Shorb and Benjamin Davis Wilson. The 75 manuscripts consist of items chiefly written by Shorb and Wilson family members. The 224 items in the Business Papers include material related to Shorb's many companies including the San Gabriel Wine Company. The following subjects are covered in the Shorb collection: the Shorb, Wilson, and Patton families, David Jacks, Mariano Vallejo, Santa Catalina Island, the Mount Wilson Observatory, California government and politics, African Americans and the Chinese in California, agriculture, the citrus fruit industry, Indians of California, irrigation, lend tenure, mining, railroads, ranching, water rights, and the wine industry. The collection also documents the history and development of the following California cities: Alhambra, Elsinore, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Ramona, San Gabriel, San Marino, and Wilmington.
mssShorb papers
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Becker, Eve. 1 letter (2002, September 9) to Paul Conrad, TLS (1 p.), Chicago
Manuscripts
CON 11637.