Manuscripts
Charles Fletcher Lummis letters
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William Fowler Hopson - Edward Robeson Taylor; Ephemera
Manuscripts
The collection consists of 148 items and includes letters concerning the work of Charles Fletcher Lummis as Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library. A significant portion of this collection is correspondence written to Lummis concerning his requests for autographs from various authors and other famous individuals; these autographs were displayed under glass in a special exhibit at the Los Angeles Public Library. The collection also contains a small amount of ephemera including notes, autograph cards, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and a printed advertisement.
mssHM 44807-44933
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Ednah Robinson Aiken - Alex Harmer
Manuscripts
The collection consists of 148 items and includes letters concerning the work of Charles Fletcher Lummis as Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library. A significant portion of this collection is correspondence written to Lummis concerning his requests for autographs from various authors and other famous individuals; these autographs were displayed under glass in a special exhibit at the Los Angeles Public Library. The collection also contains a small amount of ephemera including notes, autograph cards, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and a printed advertisement.
mssHM 44807-44933
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Charles Fletcher Lummis letter to Hattie Loomis Wile
Manuscripts
In this letter, Lummis thanks Wile for a letter she wrote him in which she said his book (and stories) were helpful to her life. Typed on Los Angeles Public Library Board of Directors letterhead.
mssHM 83175
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Charles Fletcher Lummis letter to Ora Oak
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Letter with autograph signature on Los Angeles Public Library letterhead to Ora Oak, thanking him for the biography he donated to the library along with a personal copy for himself.
mssHM 19817
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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 letters
Manuscripts
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