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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 Out West letterhead to Ora Oak, commenting on the situation between his brother Henry Oak and Hubert Howe Bancroft on the publication of the Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft and Henry Oak's assertations that Bancroft did not give him credit for actually writing several of the volumes (see: Literary Industries in a New Light. San Francisco : Bacon Printing Company, 1893). Lummis goes on to relate that he wishes to see more of brother's work and that he might consider contributing to Out West.
mssHM 19816
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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 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 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 Hattie Loomis Wile
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In this letter, Lummis thanks Wile for a letter she wrote him in which she said his book (and stories) were helpful to her life. Typed on Los Angeles Public Library Board of Directors letterhead.
mssHM 83175
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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