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Upton Sinclair correspondence

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Description: The collection consists of correspondence written between Upton Sinclair and his friend and colleague, Thomas Hastie Bell (1867-1942). As both men were writers and political activists by profession, much of their correspondence deals with the intersection between literature and politics. Specific subjects addressed within their correspondence include twentieth-century American literature, communism in the Soviet Union, labor unions and the labor movement in the United States, socialism in the United States, the Spanish Civil War, and twentieth-century politics and government in the United States. Individuals discussed within the collection include Alexander Berkman, Frank Harris, Rudolph Rocker, Leon Trotsky, and Oscar Wilde
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1923-1942.
Call number: mssHM 37562-37616
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Upton Sinclair

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Includes letters to The American Mercury, Bessie Kimmelman, and Henry Louis Mencken; also includes a letter addressed to Upton Sinclair and Pryns Hopkins.

mssHM 37562-37616, 41995-42118, 42277-42350

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Correspondence from H. H. Sinclair

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Recipients include: Bennett, Ralph; Brown, Frank L. (President, Palmer Oil Co.); Bumgarner, Mr. & Mrs. J.A. (in Nevis, CA); Crocker National Bank (San Francisco); Denman, A.C. (of Redlands); Dicey, E.C.; Doan, A.C. (Transfer Agent, Great Western Power Company); Duke, Minnie W.; Ellis, George B. (Hartford Fire Insurance Co.); Freymuth Co. (L.H. Freymuth Co.); Gillis, R.C.; Great Western Power Company, New York, NY; Gregg, Wellington (Crocker National Bank); Hawley, Edwin (Pres., Great Western Power); Hobron, Thomas W.; Jayne, F.P. ; Johnson, Milbank; McCrillis, John; Marshall, John Murray; Naphtaly, S.L.; Robbins, Edward F.; Sinclair, H.H. Mrs. (in New Jersey); Stimson, G. Lawrence ; Stimson, George W.; G. Lawrence Stimson Co.; Stratton, H.C. (secretary, Palmer Oil Co.); Tompkins, F.M. (treasurer, Western Power Co.); Torrance, J.S.; United Mines Co.; United States Geological Survey; United States Department of Agriculture; Wilson, H.P. (sec., Great Western Power Co.).

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Correspondence to H. H. Sinclair

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Correspondents include: Bennett, Ralph (consulting engineer); Burritt, Elizabeth S. (Berkeley, CA); Cone, W.S. (United States, Department of the Interior, Reclamation Service); Cox & Stevens, New York, NY (yacht sales & charters); Duke, Minnie W.; Dupuy, E.J. (Executive Secretary-International Engineering Congress, 1915); Ellis, George B. (Union Home Telephone & Telegraph Corporation); Fleming, Clarence S. ; Franklin, Blake (Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. of California); Gent, Charles Robert (Union Power Camp, San Bernardino County); Gielow & Orr (yacht brokers) ; Harris, Ford W. (consulting engineer, Los Angeles); Hendrie, G.W. (W.C. Hendrie Rubber Co., Torrance, CA); Hendrie, W.C. (W.C. Hendrie Rubber Co., Torrance, CA); Hobron, Thomas (San Francisco); Holbrook, H.M. ; Huntington Land & Improvement Company, Pacific Electric Building; International Electrical Congress, San Francisco; International Engineering Congress, 1915 (San Francisco, CA); Kato, Frank (writing from his home in Japan); Kaufman, Milton; Montgomery, Charles (Martin & Montgomery, Lawyers, Los Angeles, CA); Rizer, H. ?. (United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, Washington, DC); Rugg, J.M. (Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank, Los Angeles, CA); Scharff, E. Jr. (Union Home Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, Los Angeles); Sterling, E.C. (Torrance, Marshall & Company, Los Angeles, CA); Torrance, Marshall & Company, Los Angeles, Ca; Western Union Telegraph Company; Wright, C.L. (First National Bank of Long Beach).

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Letter book of William Upton

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The first half of the volume deals with Upton's work in the construction of a dry dock at Sevastopol in the Crimea, including its funding, design, progress, and the constant supplying of materials. The second half of the volume details his life as an engineer and refugee during the Crimean War and his efforts to find further employment and full reimbursement for his loss of property at the outbreak of the war. Upton talks in detail about how his neighbors in Sevastopol had to flee their villas at the approach of troops, and the looting of his property. There are copies of letters by Upton begging for a new job after the war. He wrote several notable people including Lord Raglan and even Emperor Napoleon. The volume also includes a proposal to beautify, improve and develop the banks of the River Thames which Upton sent to the editor of the Illustrated London news in 1856. A letter to Upton (1855, May 7) and a draft of another letter were found In the front cover of the volume. About half of the volume is made up of blank pages; Upton only wrote in the first half of the volume.

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Correspondence from H. H. Sinclair

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Recipients include: Bankers Trust Company, New York City; Bartow, R.C. (Tournament of Roses Association); Bennett, John E. (attorney); Bidwell, A.R. (c/o Great Western Power Company); Bohemian Club, San Francisco; Britton, John A. (Pacific Gas and Electric Company); Brown Walker Simmons Company; Brown, Frank. L. (Palmer Union Oil Company); Bumgarner, J.A.; Burck, Lawrence B.; Burger Van & Storage Company; Chapin, Roy D. (president, Hudson Motor Car Co.); Clarke, E.P. (Riverside, CA); Cone, William S. ; Craig, Volney H. (Whittier Extension Company); Crawford, H.M. (Sacramento, California); Crocker National Bank (San Francisco); Dicey, E.C.; Dupuy, E.J. (International Engineering Congress, San Francisco); Ellis, George B. (Home Telephone & Telegraph Company); Finkle, F.C. (Los Angeles, CA); Francis, E.D. ; Francis, Edmund C. (Vancouver, B.C.); Garbutt, F.A. ; Gielow & Orr; Hall, H.S. (Giant, Contra Costa County, CA); Hanscom, P.T. (San Francisco); Hedges, W.V.; Hellman, Isais; Heron, R.F. (La Tuna Packing Company); Hobron, T.W. (San Francisco); Hornung, J.H. (Great Western Power Company); Hotchkin & Company; Judkins, R.D. (First National Bank, Long Beach, CA); Kauffman, Milton (Los Angeles); Lardner, Henry A. (c/o G.G. White & Co.); Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank; McIlhenny, John A. (United States Civil Service Commission); McKee, H.S. (National Bank of California); McKnight, Francis Herron; McNally, W.A. (Messrs.) Pasadena, CA.; Midway Royal Petroleum Co.; Miller, A.B. (Fontana Company, Rialto, CA); National Bank of California, Los Angeles; Olney, Jack (San Francisco, CA); Palmer Union Oil Company; Pasadena, City of (City Clerk); Sinclair, H.H.; Smith, F.M. (Bohemian Club, San Francisco); Spaulding, William H. (Great Western Power Company); Stevens, J. Franklin - Philadelphia, PA; Torrance, Marshall & Co. - Los Angeles, CA ; Touhy, W.P. (Lerida, Spain); United States - Government Printing Office, Washington, DC; United States - Secretary of the Interior, Washington, DC; United States Geological Survey, Washington, DC; Van Wagenen, Dan; Willcox, O.B.; Williams, Silas; Wright, C.L. (Asst. Cashier, First National Bank - Long Beach, CA).

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Upton Sinclair (1934). 13 items

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The collection contains 10,454 semi-cataloged items andis housed in 72 boxes and 3 oversize folders. The collection documents Loren Miller's four decades of fighting for equality and civil rights and his legal work against racial real estate covenants and discrimination in housing. It contains material related to his work with several organizations including the NAACP, National Urban League and the ACLU. The collection also contains material related to Loren Miller's personal life and family as well as his journalism career and ownership of the California eagle. The collection also contains many items related to Langston Hughes including letters written between Miller and Hughes and copies of some of Hughes' writings. The collection contains the following types of material: correspondence, telegrams, postcards, manuscripts, speeches, newspaper and magazine clippings, publications including full magazines, briefs and other legal documents, brochures, meeting minutes, reports and photographs as well as research notes for and drafts of Miller's book The petitioners: The story of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Negro.

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