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Resolutions made upon the occasion of the death of Charles Fletcher Lummis

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    Charles Fletcher Lummis letters

    Manuscripts

    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

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    Charles Fletcher Lummis letters

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of 148 items and includes letters concerning the work of Charles Fletcher Lummis as Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library. A significant portion of this collection is correspondence written to Lummis concerning his requests for autographs from various authors and other famous individuals; these autographs were displayed under glass in a special exhibit at the Los Angeles Public Library. The collection also contains a small amount of ephemera including notes, autograph cards, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and a printed advertisement.

    mssHM 44807-44933

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    Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928

    Manuscripts

    34 letters to Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour) Severance, 1820-1914. Includes a letter by Charles Fletcher Lummis to Charles W. Chase, 1909, Aug. 10.

    mssSeverance papers

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    Collection of material pertaining to Charles Fletcher Lummis and Robert J. H. DeLoach

    Manuscripts

    A collection of material related to the writer Charles Fletcher Lummis; the bulk of the items in the collection were written to or inscribed to Robert J. H. DeLoach. The material includes one typewritten letter, autograph notes, printed ephemera, and three published volumes. The published volumes reflect some of Lummis' varied interests, especially his affinity for the history and cultures of the Southwest; two of the volumes are inscribed by Lummis to DeLoach and one to Purd B. Wright. The printed ephemera includes a printed fundraising appeal for his preservation-minded organization, The Landmarks Club.

    mssHM 83798

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    Charles Fletcher Lummis letter to Ora Oak

    Manuscripts

    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 handmade holiday cards

    Visual Materials

    Two handmade photographic holiday card booklets for 1911 and 1924, as well as four additional greeting card postcards, from Charles Fletcher Lummis, dated 1921, 1926, and 1927, with handwritten inscriptions by Lummis and captioned photographs of Lummis, his family, and his home, El Alisal, in Los Angeles, California. The earliest card, a bound 1911 New Year booklet, inscribed to Clara and Robert Burdette, contains 18 cyanotypes including multiple images of Lummis's children, especially his son Jordan Lummis (known as Quimu), and El Alisal, as well as reproductions of portraits of Lummis as a boy and young man and a reproduction of a drawing of Francisco Amate. A similar bound holiday booklet, inscribed to "Ellarine" Ironside (Jeanne Ironside) in 1924 contains 6 photographs (4 cyanotypes and 2 photomechanical reprints). Four single cards, all with photomechanical reprints, are inscribed to Ellarine, depicting the following subjects: portrait of Lummis, ca. 1921; Lummis Caracol Tower at the Southwest Museum, 1926; portrait of Lummis, 1927; and Lummis in New Mexico with singer Tsianina and Santiago Naranjo of the Santa Clara Pueblo, undated (ca. 1926).

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