Manuscripts

John Daniel Cooke correspondence

Description: The collection contains correspondence between John Daniel Cooke and several American and English authors and artists. Most of the correspondence concerns Cooke's attempts to find speakers for the University of Southern California's Phi Beta Kappa and Epsilon Phi lectures. Some of the correspondence also focuses on the connections between literature and film as Cooke taught a class on screenwriting and was actively interested in the field. Correspondents include Van Wyck Brooks, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Jessie Conrad, Homer Croy, Lloyd Cassel Douglas, Hamlin Garland, Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, Maurice Leonard Jacks, Aldous Huxley, Edgar Fogel Magnin, Conrad Nagel, John Boynton Priestly, George Winfield Scott, Milton Sills, Upton Sinclair, Hugh Walpole and Darryl Francis Zanuck.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1927-1941
Call number: mssHM 39572-39624
Creator: Cooke, John D(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. John Daniel Cooke, March 1973.
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.
Associated people: Brooks, Van Wyck, (1886-1963,); Cobb, Irvin S. (1876-1944,); Conrad, Jessie, (1883-1965,); Croy, Homer, (1877-1951,); Douglas, Lloyd C. (1860-1940,); Garland, Hamlin, (1860-1955,); Jacks, L. P. (1894-1964,); Jacks, M. L. (1894-1963,); Huxley, Aldous, (1890-1984,); Magnin, Edgar F. (1897-1970,); Nagel, Conrad, (1894-1984,); Priestley, J. B. (1875-1944); Scott, George Winfield, (1882-1930,); Sills, Milton, (1878-1968,); Sinclair, Upton, (1884-1941,); Walpole, Hugh, (1902-1979,); Zanuck, Darryl Francis,
Associated organization: University of Southern California,
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John Daniel Cooke correspondence

Manuscripts

The collection contains correspondence between John Daniel Cooke and several American and English authors and artists. Most of the correspondence concerns Cooke's attempts to find speakers for the University of Southern California's Phi Beta Kappa and Epsilon Phi lectures. Some of the correspondence also focuses on the connections between literature and film as Cooke taught a class on screenwriting and was actively interested in the field. Correspondents include Van Wyck Brooks, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Jessie Conrad, Homer Croy, Lloyd Cassel Douglas, Hamlin Garland, Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, Maurice Leonard Jacks, Aldous Huxley, Edgar Fogel Magnin, Conrad Nagel, John Boynton Priestly, George Winfield Scott, Milton Sills, Upton Sinclair, Hugh Walpole and Darryl Francis Zanuck.

mssHM 39572-39624

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John Percy letter to Edward William Cooke

Manuscripts

The letter from John Percy to Edward William Cooke regards a Royal Academy exhibition, Cooke's travels, art, and Percy's wife's health.

mssHM 83090

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Henry David Cooke papers

Manuscripts

A collection containing 169 items; mssHM 47644-47748: Personal and professional correspondence of Henry D. Cooke. Included are the correspondence, deeds, bonds, agreements, contracts, accounts, and other financial and business records. The correspondence with Laura S. Humphreys Cooke and John Sherman constitute two larger groups of letters. Other correspondents include James Gillespie Blaine, Salmon Portland Chase, Jay Cooke, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Julia Dent Grant. The letters cover Cooke's travels in Panama and Chile, life in California (including news of the gold discovery), his political activities, business interests, and family matters. Also included are: a political cartoon entitled "The exhausted receiver," by J.P. Davis and S. Peer, Cyrus West Field's proposal on "the establishment of a submarine telegraph communication between the West coast of America and the eastern shores of Russia, China, etc." addressed to Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, and a contract and specifications for an organ for St. John Episcopal Church in Georgetown (1870) commissioned by Cooke to Henry Erben. The ephemera contains visiting cards, invitations, receipts, tax forms, stock certificates, etc. There is also the 1956 correspondence of his grandson Henry Dave Cook with Leslie Edgar Bliss, the Librarian of the Huntington Library, regarding possible acquisition of Henry D. Cooke's papers.MssHM 83873: This diary belonging to Henry D. Cooke, documents his trip to Europe in the spring and summer of 1864, including a fundraising effort to finance the public debt of the United States. In 1937, Cooke's granddaughter, Eleanor Cooke Pearson, took the same diary to describe a trip from San Pedro, California to Europe. Includes transcriptions of the diary. MssHM 83874: This printed form signed by President Ulysses S. Grant, appoints Henry D. Cooke as Governor of District of Columbia in 1871. Printed form filled in; with seal.

mssCooke

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Family correspondence and other correspondence

Manuscripts

This box contains family correspondence for 1971, as well as other correspondence (Folder 4). The other correspondence consists of a small group of letters purchased from Dawson's Book Shop in April 1953, has been added to the Louise Ward Watkins Papers. They contain the following letters to Louise Ward Watkins: Ballin, Hugo (1932, July 14) Blanding, Don [c. 1933?] Bond, Carrie Jacobs (1933) 2 letters Buff, Conrad and Mary (1932, July 20) Carr, Harry (1931-1935) 3 letters Durant, William James (1933, February 7) Forester, Arnold (1932, Oct. 26) Foley, James William ([c. 1933] Apr. 12) Gann, Dolly Curtis (1931, Nov. 23) Hyland, Adela Rogers [c. 1933] Johnson, Frank Tenney (1933, Nov. 5) Matthison, Edith Wynne (1931, Nov. 5) McGroarty, John Steven (1933-1939) 10 letters with 11 replies from Louise Ward Watkins Nagel, Conrad (1932, Aug. 4) McIntosh, Burr William (1938) 3 letters MacLean, R.D. (1939, Aug. 8) Norris, Kathleen (1938, June 28) Stevens, Etheman [c. 1933] Warde, Frederick (1929-1933) 5 letters Yaw, Ellen Beach (1932) 2 letters with 1 reply letter from Louise Ward Watkins

mssWatkins papers

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Correspondence: John Aiken

Manuscripts

Personal and professional papers of Conrad Aiken. The collection includes his correspondence, (chiefly letters addressed to him), dealing with his business and literary affairs, manuscripts of his works, with some photographs and ephemera.

mssAIK 1-4904

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John Kendall correspondence and papers

Manuscripts

Two folio notebooks containing copies of the correspondence and papers of John Kendall. The materials were apparently collected in preparation for a biography of John Kendall

mssHM 64532-64533

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