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Charles Fletcher Lummis letter to Ora Oak
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Charles Fletcher Lummis letter to Ora Oak
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Letter with autograph signature on Los Angeles Public Library letterhead to Ora Oak, thanking him for the biography he donated to the library along with a personal copy for himself.
mssHM 19817
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Charles Fletcher Lummis letter to Mr. Morrison
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Letter with autograph signature on Out West letterhead to Mr. Morrison, bookseller ordering four items from his catalog #48. Lummis advises him that he is going to print a reading list in his magazine on the subjects of "Indians, California, Mexico, and the like" and is advising women's clubs to form libraries and will refer them to two or three booksellers, asking Mr. Morrison to send his catalogs to those that "bite."
mssHM 40684
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Charles Fletcher Lummis letter to Toby Dick
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Letter with autograph signature on Out West letterhead to Toby Dick, encouraging him to come to California to seek a professorship at a college or university.
mssHM 29250
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Charles Fletcher Lummis letter to Herman Henry Kerckhoff
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Letter with rubber stamp signature on Southwest Society, Archaeological Institute of America letterhead to Herman Henry Kerckhoff, approving his membership in the Southwest Society and giving some background on the scope of the collections and remarking on famous members including President Theodore Roosevelt and Henry E. Huntington. Included is a 6 page list of members and a "Out West" cover with canceled stamp postmarked in Los Angeles on October 25.
mssHM 19815
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Charles Fletcher Lummis letter to Ernest Dawson
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In this letter to Ernest Dawson, Charles Lummis writes that he understands that his book of songs, probably "Spanish songs of old California," published in 1923 is somewhat out of scope, but he his happy that Dawson can sell one now and then. He thanks Dawson for sending him a book that Lummis refers to as a "handsome piece of printing" with a "very bookman-like text." Lummis is glad that Dawson is publishing fine books and that it reflects well on Los Angeles. Lummis is most likely refering to W. Irving Way's "Migratory books, their haunts and habits," published in 1924.
mssHM 19818
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Charles Fletcher Lummis letters
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HM 82390 - Letter by Charles Fletcher Lummis to Georgina Jones (Mrs. John Percival Jones - 1916, March 26) on The Southwest Society letterhead. With a printed poem by Lummis entitled "A Toast to the Absent" inscribed to Mrs. John Percival Jones (1916, March 22).
mssHM 82390-82391