Manuscripts

Charles Fletcher letters to James Gordon Bennett

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Description: HM 4004 is a letter addressed to Mr. Bennett, editor of the New York Herald, imploring that the enclosed letter addressing the Oregon Question be published in the Herald. This letter is signed by Charles Fletcher. HM 4005 is the enclosed letter mentioned in HM 4004, and is signed "An American Citizen," and discusses a potential British claim to the Oregon Territory. Both letters are dated 1846, January 26. These manuscripts may be related to HM 4001-4003.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1846, January 26.
Call number: mssHM 4004-4005
Creator: Fletcher, Charles(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from George D. Smith, no date.

James Gordon Bennett letters

Manuscripts

These three letters, written by an unknown author to newspaper editor James Gordon Bennett, address the Oregon Question. HM 4001 is dated 1846, January 17, and is signed "The Ghost of Morgan." HM 4002 is dated 1846, January 25, and is signed "Pericles." HM 4003, the longest letter at four pages, is dated 1846, January 26, and is signed "Oregon."

mssHM 4001-4003

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Charles Fletcher Lummis letters

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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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Anonymous letter concerning the Oregon Question

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This manuscript discusses the Oregon Question. It is signed "Peace", and is intended to be published in the New York Herald. Undated and unaddressed.

mssHM 2276

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Charles Fletcher Lummis letter to Mr. Morrison

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Letter with autograph signature on Out West letterhead to Mr. Morrison, bookseller ordering four items from his catalog #48. Lummis advises him that he is going to print a reading list in his magazine on the subjects of "Indians, California, Mexico, and the like" and is advising women's clubs to form libraries and will refer them to two or three booksellers, asking Mr. Morrison to send his catalogs to those that "bite."

mssHM 40684

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Charles Fletcher Lummis letter to Ernest Dawson

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In this letter to Ernest Dawson, Charles Lummis writes that he understands that his book of songs, probably "Spanish songs of old California," published in 1923 is somewhat out of scope, but he his happy that Dawson can sell one now and then. He thanks Dawson for sending him a book that Lummis refers to as a "handsome piece of printing" with a "very bookman-like text." Lummis is glad that Dawson is publishing fine books and that it reflects well on Los Angeles. Lummis is most likely refering to W. Irving Way's "Migratory books, their haunts and habits," published in 1924.

mssHM 19818

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Charles Fletcher Lummis letter to Clara Sanborn Howes

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Lummis offers his condolences for the fire that caused damage to the house of Clara Howes, and of a few personal details. Signed "Chas F. Lummis." On letterhead of The Land of Sunshine Illustrated Monthly.

mssHM 19814

Charles Fletcher letters to James Gordon Bennett

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