Manuscripts
Hildegarde Flanner Papers
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Olive Percival correspondence
Manuscripts
The collection consists of manuscripts by Hildegarde Flanner (11 poems, 1923-24), recollections of Olive Percival (1983), correspondence with Olive Percival (120 letters, 1923-1944) and letters to poet Ethel Hamilton Hinkle (52 letters, 1923-1953). The letters contain occasional references to Hildegarde Flanner's sister, the author and journalist Janet Flanner, as well as to Harriet Monroe and other literary figures.
HM 50020-50067
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Manuscripts; Olive Percival correspondence
Manuscripts
The collection consists of manuscripts by Hildegarde Flanner (11 poems, 1923-24), recollections of Olive Percival (1983), correspondence with Olive Percival (120 letters, 1923-1944) and letters to poet Ethel Hamilton Hinkle (52 letters, 1923-1953). The letters contain occasional references to Hildegarde Flanner's sister, the author and journalist Janet Flanner, as well as to Harriet Monroe and other literary figures.
HM 49977-50019
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Letters to Ethel (Hamilton) Hinkle
Manuscripts
The collection consists of manuscripts by Hildegarde Flanner (11 poems, 1923-24), recollections of Olive Percival (1983), correspondence with Olive Percival (120 letters, 1923-1944) and letters to poet Ethel Hamilton Hinkle (52 letters, 1923-1953). The letters contain occasional references to Hildegarde Flanner's sister, the author and journalist Janet Flanner, as well as to Harriet Monroe and other literary figures.
HM 50114-50166
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Olive Percival correspondence
Manuscripts
The collection consists of manuscripts by Hildegarde Flanner (11 poems, 1923-24), recollections of Olive Percival (1983), correspondence with Olive Percival (120 letters, 1923-1944) and letters to poet Ethel Hamilton Hinkle (52 letters, 1923-1953). The letters contain occasional references to Hildegarde Flanner's sister, the author and journalist Janet Flanner, as well as to Harriet Monroe and other literary figures.
HM 50068-50113
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Olive Percival collection
Manuscripts
This collection contains the papers of Southern California author, gardener, book and art collector, photographer, and activist Olive Percival (1869-1945), dating chiefly from 1899 to 1946 and consisting of manuscripts (including biographical sketches, diaries, notebooks, poems, and short stories), correspondence, and ephemera. Manuscripts There are 376 pieces of manuscripts, the majority of which are by Olive Percival. The manuscripts comprise of biographical sketches, diaries, notebooks, poems, short stories, typescripts, and miscellaneous notes. The manuscripts are arranged alphabetically by author then title. Many of Olive Percival's unpublished short stories are set in Chinatown, Los Angeles. Percival's notebooks, diaries, and sketchbooks are semi-cataloged and are arranged chronologically. The subjects covered in Percival's diaries and notebooks include life in Los Angeles, Pasadena, the Arroyo Seco, Chinatown; descriptions of travel in California and United States; museums and libraries; the Friday Morning Club (Los Angeles, Calif.); the collecting of books, bookplates, prints, hats, dolls, Japanese art, Chinese art, and Chinese porcelain; and gardening. Notable people mentioned in Olive Percival's diaries are: Ruth St. Denis, Mrs. George M. Millard, Max Heinrich, Hildegarde Flanner, Grace Nicholson, Charles Fletcher Lummis, W. Irving Way, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jack London, and Wilbur Macey Stone. Correspondence There are 122 pieces of correspondence, the majority of which are by Ellen Dame Terry writing to Anna Held. It is arranged alphabetically then by date. Correspondence relating to Olive Percival mainly concerns letters from her friends and publisher. Notable authors include: Ellen Dame Terry, Anna Held, Anna Blake Mezquida, and Max Heinrich. Ephemera There are 341 pieces of ephemera. It is arranged by type and subject, and consists of an appointment book, bookmarks, bookplates, bulletins, empty envelopes, fliers, invoices, legal documents, military records, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, excerpts of periodicals, receipts, scrapbooks, tracts, and miscellaneous United States permits and a passport. The majority of the ephemera relates to Sheffield, Illinois, where Olive Percival was born. Additional newspaper clippings were added in May 2017. The clippings primarily relate to the Nuestro Pueblo column for the Los Angeles Times from 1937 through 1939. These clippings are in Box 14.
mssHM 79260-79378
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Neeta Marquis papers
Manuscripts
The collection is chiefly comprised of personal and business correspondence of author Neeta Marquis; there is also correspondence between her parents while her father was in the Union Army during the American Civil War as well as his early letters from California. There are also photographs, ephemera, newspaper clippings, printed items related to literary societies, poems, manuscripts, notes, and scrapbooks and datebooks belonging to Neeta Marquis. The majority of the collection documents Neeta Marquis' literary career, but other subjects that can be found are the American Civil War; Lincoln's assassination; gold miners in California and early California history and American western-themed stories by Marquis and other authors. Correspondents represented in the collection include several notable individuals and authors: Louis Adamic, Hartley Burr Alexander, Reginald Barker, Earl Derr Biggers, Don Blanding, Bliss Carman, Stephen Chalmers, Robert Glass Cleland, Upton Close, Sam T. Clover, Thomas Y. Crowell, Homer Croy, Robert H. Davis, Estelle Doheny, John Foster Dulles, John Chipman Farrar, Hildegarde Flanner, Hermann Hagedorn, W.D. Hoffman, Margaret Hosmer, Rupert Hughes, Joseph Henry Jackson, George Wharton James, Will James, Helen Keller, Charles Fletcher Lummis, John Russell McCarthy, John Steven McGroarty, Seumas MacManus, Carey McWilliams, H.L. Mencken, Bailey Millard, Anne Shannon Monroe, Dorothea Moore, Ted Olson, Dorothy Parker, Lawrence Clark Powell, Eleanor Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Hazel Snell Schreiber, Norma Shearer, Upton Sinclair, Charles A. Siringo, Pauline Stiles, Harriet Williams Russell Strong, Jim Tully, Sir Hugh Walpole, and Louise Ward Watkins. Additional correspondents include American Literary Association, Automobile Club of Southern California, Book Club of California, California Federation of Women's Clubs, California Temperance Federation, Arthur H. Clark Company, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, Los Angeles Times, Macmillan Company, Poetry Society of America, Saturday Evening Post, and Thomas Y. Crowell, Publishers.
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