Manuscripts

Helen Abbott correspondence with M. Lee Miller ; manuscripts and printed material

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Description: The material in this collection includes: letters and cards from Helen Abbott to M. Lee Miller (HM 83539-83555); a copy of a 1942 letter from M. Lee Miller to Bart Abbott (HM 83556); a manuscript entitled "Addenda" written by M. Lee Miller (HM 83557) and a printed "In Memoriam: Joan London Miller (HM 83558). The letters are personal and detail health struggles and family issues; there is some discussion of socialist issues, Jack London, Joan London and Helen Abbott's on-going battle with the "male dominated groupies" involved with Jack London's legacy. The letters and cards are autograph and computer generated, some with envelopes.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1996-1998.
Call number: mssHM 83539-83558
Creator: Abbott, Helen (1913-2008)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. M. Lee Miller, October 21, 1998.

Bart Abbott and M. Lee Miller photographs and negatives

Manuscripts

Two undated black and white photographic prints. One photograph is identified as being Bart Abbott, M. Lee Miller, and brother as children, taken in approximately 1925. The other photograph is a studio portrait of Bart Abbott and M. Lee Miller, taken in approximately 1945. Also enclosed are two black and white negatives of the photographs. The photographic prints and negatives were made from original photographs which were supplied by M. Lee Miller; the original photographs were returned to her in 1995.

mssHM 83787

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Myron Abbott diaries

Manuscripts

Two volumes containing Myron Abbott's daily diary record from 1880-1886. Abbott includes accounts of his daily activities and family life, and of his work as a miller, farmer, and dam builder in southeastern Nevada. He also includes references to Joseph and Wilmer Earl, Dudley Leavitt, and Stephen and Edward Bunker. Also included in volume II is a 'Family Registry of Stephen and Abigail Abbott' (parents of Myron Abbott). Bound.

mssHM 73033-73034

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Correspondence and literary manuscripts, Miller, Joan London: Correspondence (A-Cro)

Manuscripts

The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera pertaining to the life and work of Joan London. Since much of London's work focused on her father, many items in the collection specifically relate to the life and writings of Jack London. The collection contains correspondence between Joan and individuals who knew, or were interested in, her father, the notes and drafts used by London in writing her father's biography, and several copies of letters written by Jack London himself. Joan was also interested in the life of her paternal grandfather, William Henry Chaney, and the collection contains both manuscripts and notes relating to him. Joan London's unpublished work, Visiting rights only, is one of several manuscripts in the collection, and it specifically addresses Joan's feelings towards her father and her thoughts on her childhood within a single-parent family.

MI 773-846, 959-964

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My life with Jack London's grandson : memoir

Manuscripts

Memoir by M. Lee Miller entitled "My Life with Jack London's Grandon." Accompanied by approximately 30 newspaper clippings regarding Joan London and Jack London.

mssMillerm

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Correspondence and literary manuscripts, Miller, Joan London: Manuscripts (Poems-W)

Manuscripts

MI 745-772

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Correspondence and literary manuscripts, Miller, Joan London: Manuscripts (Biography-H)

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MI 681-694

Helen Abbott correspondence with M. Lee Miller ; manuscripts and printed material

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