Manuscripts

George Wharton James letter to unknown addressee and offprint of article

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Description: This letter, to an unknown addressee, is written on James' stationery, from Pasadena, California, June 5, 1920. It is a short note stating that he has been ill and is better and traveling to Salt Lake City "for a month of Mormon life." Included with the letter is an offprint of the article entitled "Charles F. Lummis: A Unique Literary Personage of Modern America," written by James (1912).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1912-1920.
Call number: mssHM 82396
Creator: James, George Wharton (1858-1923)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Donated by Dennis Harbach in honor of Susan & Dennis Harbach, April 2015.

George Wharton James letter to John F. Grabau

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Letter by George Wharton James to bookbinder John F. Grabau regarding Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass.

mssHM 54961

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Ninetta Eames letter to George Wharton James

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Letter written at the Madrone Lodge, Glen Ellen to "My dear friend" [George Wharton James]. Eames relates that she is enclosing a card from her adopted daughter Lynette Payne McMurray and that he would be pleased with the contents. She is at the Madrona and is feeling better. Charmian and Jack [London] are settled in the lodge with servants and belongings. Jack looks fine to her, but Charmian looks stressed trying to keep pace with Jack. She mentions that George Sterling and his wife are to go on a duck hunt up the Sacramento for a month or longer. She notes with some consternation that while they were there at the Lodge for a week while she was gone, Sterling arrived drunk and stayed that way the whole time, upsetting the household. Ninetta says that she loves the peace of this retreat and will spend time in the lodge breaking in a new cook among other things. In midwinter she expects to attend to some business in Los Angeles, but extends and invitation to her friend to come for a visit. The Cummings and Gells still live with them and speak of him frequently. She mentions that the summer people are gone, but October is cherished. She writes: "Now that the rain has washed the earth & foliage, I go forth rejoicingly, every pulse in me attune to the widespread beauty of the world. I wish you could see all the colors in the vineyards, and the mass of golden leaf drapery on the ground under the maples."

mssHM 30953

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George Wharton James papers

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A collection of 266 items which consists of personal and professional papers of George Wharton James; the collection includes correspondence, lectures, sermons, articles, 2 scrapbooks, and photographs (1871-1921). The manuscripts cover such topics as the Grand Canyon, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Native Americans, American literature and humor, religion, overseas travels, and biographical pieces on Jesse Benton Frémont, William Ewart Gladstone, Lilla Leighton Lindley, William McKinley, Queen Victoria, and others. The correspondence includes letters and other material relating to the Robert Browning Centenary and letters from applicants for summer school at Echo Mountain, near Pasadena, California. The Addenda consists of letters and poems sent to James; the poems were probably intended for publication in Land of sunshine or Out west magazine and included are pieces by, among others, Thomas Bracken, Frona Eunice Wait, and Helen Hunt Jackson. The ephemera includes programs, lecture announcements, clippings and other printed material.

mssJamesgw

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James, George Wharton, 1858-1923. 1 letter (1917, Dec. 15) to Mrs. F. C. Furness. 1 item

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The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, printed material and ephemera all related to astronomer Francis Gladheim Pease, his astronomy work, and the telescopes he designed. There are 13 letters by George Ellery Hale as well as a copy of an offprint of "Building the 200-Inch Telescope" by Hale (originally published in Harper's Magazine, November 1929). There is an offprint of "The Spectra of Four of the Temporary Stars" written by Pease and Walter S. Adams (published in Contributions from the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory No. 87 in 1914). The correspondence includes several prominent individuals including: Giorgio Abetti, Walter S. Adams, John A. Anderson, Andrew Carnegie (typed copy), Edward H. Davis, Elmer Grey, George Ellery Hale, Fred E. Harvey, Herbert E. Ives, Thornwell Jacobs, George Wharton James, Helen Keller (photocopy of letter), Albert A. Michelson, Robert A. Millikan, James R. Page, F. E. Wright, and the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company. There is also one letter addressed to Thomas Edison. The manuscripts include several items by F. G. Pease including a "Figuring Book" which contains his work on various telescopes and contains blueprints and a manuscript entitled "Notes on a 25-Foot Reflector."

mssPease addenda

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Letter from George Washington to unknown addressee

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Letter signed. In hand of Richard Kidder Meade. Letter regarding Colonel Stephen Moylan's appointment to succeed Comte Pulaski in command of the Cavalry, possibly written to a commanding officer of Blaud's, Sheldon's or Baylor's Light Dragoons, Valley Forge. (1 page)

HM 5520

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Stereographs of Indians of the Southwest, California, and other views by George Wharton James and G. L. Rose

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429 stereographs by photographers George Wharton James and G. L. Rose of the American Southwest with images of Native Americans, including Cahuilla Indians, and scenes in California, New Mexico, and Arizona. Views of Hopi and Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico (many scenes at Acoma Pueblo); portraits of Hualapai Indians and school children in Arizona; canyons and landscape of the Southwest, including the Grand Canyon and Petrified Forest. Notable in the collection are G. W. James's photographs of the Cahuilla Indian woman "Ramona" speaking into his phonograph, and other Cahuilla scenes published in his book "Through Ramona's Country." Other views in Southern California include the Plaza Church, Los Angeles; Mount Lowe railway and Alpine Tavern; San Juan Capistrano Mission; agriculture and farming in Riverside County, including fruit packing for the "Hemet Fruit Association"; Flores Adobe, South Pasadena; many views of Yosemite and horse and coach travelers; Mariposa Grove; camping wagons; hotel in Sonora, California. G. W. James appears in a few views; as does Horatio N. Rust and William W. Bass, trail builder in Grand Canyon.

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