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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Charles Fletcher Lummis letter to Hattie Loomis Wile
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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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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
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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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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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Letter with autograph signature on Out West letterhead to Ora Oak, commenting on the situation between his brother Henry Oak and Hubert Howe Bancroft on the publication of the Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft and Henry Oak's assertations that Bancroft did not give him credit for actually writing several of the volumes (see: Literary Industries in a New Light. San Francisco : Bacon Printing Company, 1893). Lummis goes on to relate that he wishes to see more of brother's work and that he might consider contributing to Out West.
mssHM 19816
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Letter with autograph signature on Out West letterhead to Toby Dick, encouraging him to come to California to seek a professorship at a college or university.
mssHM 29250
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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