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Charles Lummis letters
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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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Charles Fletcher Lummis letters
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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 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 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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Collection of material pertaining to Charles Fletcher Lummis and Robert J. H. DeLoach
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A collection of material related to the writer Charles Fletcher Lummis; the bulk of the items in the collection were written to or inscribed to Robert J. H. DeLoach. The material includes one typewritten letter, autograph notes, printed ephemera, and three published volumes. The published volumes reflect some of Lummis' varied interests, especially his affinity for the history and cultures of the Southwest; two of the volumes are inscribed by Lummis to DeLoach and one to Purd B. Wright. The printed ephemera includes a printed fundraising appeal for his preservation-minded organization, The Landmarks Club.
mssHM 83798
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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