Manuscripts

Donald A. Sears correspondence

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Description: A group of thirty-five letters, mainly letters from various authors to Donald A. Sears, and several letters from Sears to various authors, regarding the Book of the Month Club, the Book of the Month Club Writing Fellowship Program, and other literary matters. Correspondents include Ray Bradbury, Ralph Ellison, May Sarton, Karl Jay Shapiro, William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, and others.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1966-1970.
Call number: mssHM 59436-59470
Creator: Sears, Donald A(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Donald A. Sears, 1993.
Associated people: Bradbury, Ray, (1920-2012.); Ellison, Ralph. (1912-1995.); Sarton, May, (1913-2000.); Shapiro, Karl, (1925-2006.)

Monograph typescripts of Sears Jayne

Manuscripts

The first volume (HM 78270) is a monograph entitled "The poetry of Robert Parry;" the second volume (HM 78271) is a monograph entitled "Shakespeare's Phoenix and Jonson." Both of these volumes were written by Sears Jayne and never published (but bound in 1991 by a binder in Massachusetts). These are photocopies of typescripts of the text.

mssHM 78270-78271

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Donald M. Nelson papers

Manuscripts

Personal and professional papers of Donald Marr Nelson. Included are papers and records of Sears, Roebuck, and Company, Spiegel, Inc., the War Production Board, and addresses, lectures, remarks, speeches, radio addresses, etc. by Donald M. Nelson. Also included is a manuscript of Nelson's book Arsenal of Democracy.

mssNelson

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mssNelson

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Donald C. Dickinson correspondence with Kent Haruf

Manuscripts

The correspondence in this collection deals mainly with a bibliography of the works of Kent Haruf which Donald Dickinson was researching and preparing for publication; it was left unfinished with the death of Kent Haruf in 2014. The correspondence includes 9 letters by Donald Dickinson (mostly retained copies, 2005-2014), 11 letters by Kent Haruf (2005-2014), 1 letter and card between Donald Dickinson and Catherine Haruf (2015), letters from Jean Dickinson and Amy Rule (2007-2015), and 1 draft of a letter from Donald Dickinson to Sue Hodson (2015). The material also includes autograph notes and lists about Kent Haruf and his works and printed ephemera.

mssHM 83288-83314

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Correspondence, Notes, etc

Manuscripts

This small collection contains materials created and collected by Charis Wilson during the eight-month trip she took with her husband, photographer Edward Weston, in 1941 to take photographs to illustrate a Limited Edition Club edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. It includes Wilson's typed journal for the trip, as well as supporting material including correspondence, the trip itinerary, notes, photographs, letters of introduction for Weston, newspaper clippings, brochures and miscellaneous ephemera, a negative list, and a list of illustrations for Leaves of Grass with Whitman quotations selected by Wilson. The journal typescript draft contains two black-and-white photographs. Also included is correspondence between Weston, Wilson, George Macy, and Merle Armitage regarding the Limited Editions Club project as well as letters Weston and Wilson received during the "Whitman" trip. Among the authors of letters of introduction for Weston are photographer and curator Beaumont Newhall and artist Charles Sheeler.

mssWilsonjournal

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Donald R. Wright Papers

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This collection contains the papers of lawyer and California State Supreme Court judge Donald R. Wright. The collection's highlights include several letters from American jurists of the highest order, as well as a large group of invective-laden telegrams and letters Wright received in 1972 in regards to the California Supreme Court's decision to end capital punishment in the state. Most of the correspondence relates in some way to the California Supreme Court, most commonly letters and telegrams of congratulation on his appointment to the post of Chief Justice in April 1970. Notable participants include: Edmund G. Brown; Warren Burger; California Supreme Court; Alan Cranston; Los Angeles County Superior Court; Ronald Reagan; Joseph Wapner; Earl Warren. The collection also includes certificates, official appointments, meeting minutes, and speeches. Subjects in the collections include: American Bar Association; Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka; California Bar Association; California Judicial Council; California Supreme Court; capital punishment; Conference of Circuit Chiefs; William O. Douglas; Elections in California; Al Gore; Harvard Law School; Hastings College of Law; judicial reform; Charles Manson; McGeorge School of Law; municipal courts in California; National Center for State Court; Richard Nixon; Pasadena Unified School District; Presidential inaugurations; press conferences; Ronald Reagan; Salvation Army; Twilight Club (Pasadena, Calif.); United Nations; United States Supreme Court; and Earl Warren.

mssHM 71551-71636

Donald A. Sears correspondence

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