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    Abbott-Dreiser

    Manuscripts

    A collection of 952 items from 1877 to 1958, which consists of correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, photographs, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the life and career of Anna Strunsky Walling and her husband, William English Walling. The majority of the collection is correspondence between Anna Strunsky Walling and her family, friends and colleagues. The collection also contains portions of Walling's personal diary, manuscript poems and prose pieces authored by Walling and others, and several photographs and newspaper clippings relating to familial concerns and political matters. Some of the material in the collection originally belonged to William English Walling, including some of his personal and professional correspondence and writing. Most of the collection relates to the Wallings' personal and professional concerns, including their interest in politics (especially socialism) and political activism. Correspondents include: Leonard Dalton Abbott, Melville Best Anderson, Leslie Edgar Bliss, Eugene Victor Debs, Theodore Dreiser, Max Eastman, Katherina Evseroff-Maryson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Bernhard Groethuysen, Henry Edwards Huntington, Helen Keller, Cameron Haight King, Charmian London, Jack London, Joan London, Ray Nash, Thomas Reveille, Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, Charles Edward Russell, Upton Sinclair, Rose Pastor Stokes, Irving Stone, William Howard Taft, Rosamond English Walling Tirana, Georgia Walling, Rosalind English Walling, William English Walling, Willoughby Walling, Gaylord Wilshire and Woodrow Wilson.

    mssAW

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    Theodore Roosevelt, New York, letter to Walter J. Ballard, Los Angeles :

    Manuscripts

    Roosevelt thanks Ballard for his letter. Written on letterhead for The Outlook magazine, Office of Theodore Roosevelt. Includes addressed envelope.

    mssHM 13401

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    Clifford L. Barrett papers

    Manuscripts

    The collection is comprised of letters, manuscripts, and photographs pertaining to Clifford Leslie Barrett and his field of interest. The majority of the letters are addressed to Barrett (he is only the author of three) and were written by fellow philosophers and academics. Issues addressed within the collection include the life and work of Clifford Leslie Barrett and 20th century American and British philosophy. Correspondents include Brand Blanchard, Archibald Allan Bowman, Mary Whiton Calkins, John Dewey, Theodore Dreiser, William Ernest Hocking, Reinhold Freidrich Alfred Hoernlé, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller, and Radoslav Andrea Tsanoff.

    mssBarrett

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    Theodore D. Judah papers

    Manuscripts

    Documents, from 1859 to 1877, and notebook, from 1854 and 1862, belonging to Theodore D. Judah, concerning the financing and construction of the California Eastern Extension Railroad. Also included is a pencil map by Judah plotting the route of the railroad, and a printed volume of First Annual of the Territorial Pioneers of California, 1877, with clippings and calling cards pasted inside. The notebook contains costs of iron and locomotives, an expense account, sketch maps and elevations, notes and observations on trips across the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1862. It also includes distances, elevations, and temperatures measured on an 1854 trip across the Sierras taken with Collis P. Huntington and others.

    mssHM 55637-55655

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    Theodore D. Judah papers

    Manuscripts

    Documents, from 1859 to 1877, and notebook, from 1854 and 1862, belonging to Theodore D. Judah, concerning the financing and construction of the California Eastern Extension Railroad. Also included is a pencil map by Judah plotting the route of the railroad, and a printed volume of First Annual of the Territorial Pioneers of California, 1877, with clippings and calling cards pasted inside. The notebook contains costs of iron and locomotives, an expense account, sketch maps and elevations, notes and observations on trips across the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1862. It also includes distances, elevations, and temperatures measured on an 1854 trip across the Sierras taken with Collis P. Huntington and others.

    mssHM 55637-55655