Manuscripts

Yoné Noguchi papers

Description: The collection contains manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and miscellaneous items. All the manuscripts in the collection are works authored by Noguchi, the vast majority of which are drafts of poems. Also included is a piece Noguchi wrote memorializing the Japanese writer, Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904). The photographs in the collection are of Noguchi and most date from 1903. All of the letters in the collection are from Noguchi to his friend and fellow writer, Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1904). The letters chiefly address aspects of Noguchi's writing and modern poetry in general.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1897-1904
Call number: mssHM 37864-37958
Creator: Noguchi, Yoné (1875-1947)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1923.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher. Previously, the collection had a restriction that the letters from Noguchi to Charles Warren Stoddard could not be be photocopied without the permission of Isamu Noguchi; this restriction has been removed as of January, 2025.
Associated people: Stoddard, Charles Warren, (1843-1909.)
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Yoné Noguchi papers

Manuscripts

The collection contains manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and miscellaneous items. All the manuscripts in the collection are works authored by Noguchi, the vast majority of which are drafts of poems. Also included is a piece Noguchi wrote memorializing the Japanese writer, Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904). The photographs in the collection are of Noguchi and most date from 1903. All of the letters in the collection are from Noguchi to his friend and fellow writer, Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1904). The letters chiefly address aspects of Noguchi's writing and modern poetry in general.

mssHM 37864-37958

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Visual Materials

Hearn, Lafcadio. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan. Vols 1, 2, Boston, 1894 Hearn, Lafcadio. Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life. Boston, 1896 Hearn, Lafcadio. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. Boston, 1904 Hearn, Lafcadio. Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation. New York, 1905 Hearn, Lafcadio. In Ghostly Japan. Boston, 1905 Hearn, Lafcadio. Shadowings. Boston, 1905 Hearn, Lafcadio. Some Chinese Ghosts. Boston, 1906 Gould's Blue Book for the City of St. Louis. Vol IX, 1891

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Aldous Huxley oral history papers

Manuscripts

This collection contains audio cassette interviews and transcripts of interviews conducted by David K. Dunaway with twenty-six people who knew or came into contact with English writer Aldous Huxley and his family. The collection was created by Dunaway for his book Aldous Huxley Recollection (1995) and comprises a total of 31 interview transcripts and 36 audio tapes. A majority of the interviewees are people who knew Huxley while he lived in California and, for the most part, cover his life after 1937. There is some material on his early life but it amounts to a very small part of the overall collection. The following individuals are represented in the papers: Don Bachardy (b. 1934); Sidney Field (1905-1988); Juliette Huxley (b. 1896); Mark Trevenen Huxley; Christopher Isherwood (b. 1904); Mary Loos; Burgess Meredith (b. 1908); Lawrence Clark Powell (b. 1906). Topics discussed in the collection include: the Bates method of othopics, hallucinogenic drugs, LSD, marijuana, mescaline, and pacifism. Persons discussed in the collection include: W.H. Auden, Don Bachardy, Vanessa Bell, H. Abigail Bok, Charlie Chaplin, George Dewey Cukor, Sidney Field, Greta Garbo, George Gershwin, Rose de Haulleville, Gerald Heard, Edwin Powell Hubble, Julian Huxley, Juliette Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, D.H. Lawrence, Frieda von Richthofen Lawrence, Mary Loos, Burgess Merdith, Naomi Mitchison, Lawrence Clark Powell, Siegfried Sassoon, Bernard Shaw, Lytton Strachey, Igor Stravinsky, Virginia Woolf, and Jake Zeitlin.

mssHM 56777-56907

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Aldous Huxley oral history papers

Manuscripts

mssHM 56877-56907

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Samuel Loveman papers

Manuscripts

The collection contains manuscripts, correspondence and photographs that pertain to Loveman's friend and colleague, George Sterling (1869-1926). All of the manuscripts and letters in the collection were authored by Sterling and all of the letters were addressed to Samuel Loveman. The collection's photographs are all of George Sterling, and the majority of them date from 1913. Many letters discuss American writers and writing. Individuals discussed specifically within the collection include Ambrose Bierce, Nora May French, James Hopper, and Henry Anderson Lafler

mssHM 46222-46267

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Minute book

Manuscripts

The minute book covers the Lemon Men's Club meetings from December 1904 to October 1909. In the minutes, all aspects of growing lemons are discussed including prices and costs, diseases and how to fight them, and shipping and storage.

mssHM 68189

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