Manuscripts

Roberta Nixon photographs and letter regarding Grace Burke Hubble

Image not available

Description: This group of items, which belonged to Roberta Nixon, includes 6 photographs and 1 letter. The photographs include: 1 photograph of young Grace Hubble, 1901; 1 photograph of Edwin and Grace Hubble, and Betty Baldwin in Arizona, 1937; 1 photograph of an unidentified man and possibly Ida Crotty, 1969; and 3 photographs of Roberta Nixon, 1977-2019. In the thank you letter from Ida Crotty to Roberta Nixon dated 1980 March 29, Crotty reveals Nixon was the only person with Grace Hubble when she passed away in 1980.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1901-2019.
Call number: mssHM 83864-83870
Creator: Nixon, Roberta(Opens in new tab)
Provenance

Grace Burke Hubble correspondence

Manuscripts

This small collection consists primarily of letters from Grace Burke Hubble to Ida Crotty. Grace writes about her travels throughout Europe, Edwin Powell Hubble's lectures, social life and daily activities such as fishing. There are quite a few letters where Grace writes from Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), Maryland, in the 1940s. In 1944, she describes obtaining a clearance from the Rocket Laboratory to ships firing anti-aircraft guns. There is a letter dated August 4, 1949, after Hubble's heart attack in Colorado, where Grace thanks Ida for sending him French editions of Vogue, which he enjoys very much while recuperating. The folder of miscellaneous items contains The Foothill Guide of the California Institute for Cancer Research membership list, notes, invoices, and a Report of the Library Committee.

mssHubble

Image not available

Grace Burke Hubble correspondence

Manuscripts

mssHubble

Image not available

Grace Burke Hubble and Ida Crotty notes

Manuscripts

These are notes compiled by Grace Hubble, Ida Crotty, and others, were attempts at telepathic communication. A person would take an object such as a piece of jewelry, a photograph, or a pebble, and describe what they felt about that item. For example, on the evening of July 28, 1959, the third object selected were two fishing rods in an aluminum case. A woman named Maria ----- describes "Somebody holding something between the hands, an Indian sitting on the ground, -something stretched between two hands. An owl, -I see its big eyes, big beak." These notes span from 1959 through 1967.

mssHubbleNotes

Passport photograph of Grace Burke Hubble and Edwin Powell Hubble

Manuscripts

Passport photograph of Grace Burke Hubble and Edwin Powell Hubble. Note in the hand of Grace Burke Hubble on verso: "Passport picture, 1934. EPH and G.H."

mssHUB 1048 (4)

Image not available

Photographs of Grace (Burke) Hubble: (HUB 1048-1069)

Manuscripts

The papers of Edwin P. Hubble include manuscripts and reprints of his articles, papers, public lectures, addresses, etc., scientific documentation for his papers, logbooks of photographic plates taken by Hubble at Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, diaries and biographical memoirs of his wife Grace Burke Hubble, professional, personal, and social correspondence, photographs, medals and awards, a scrapbook assembled by Grace Hubble, newspaper clippings, etc.

mssHUB 1-1098

Group photograph of Aldous Huxley, Maria Nys Huxley, Edwin Powell Hubble, Grace Burke Hubble, Christopher Isherwood and John Emerson

Manuscripts

Aldous Leonard Huxley, Maria (Nys) Huxley, Edwin Powell Hubble, Grace (Burke) Hubble, Christopher Isherwood, and John Emerson. They are standing in an informal group outside. Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "G.H., Edwin, Christopher Isherwood, Aldous, Maria, & John Emerson". Left to right in photograph: Grace Burke Hubble, Edwin Powell Hubble, Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley, Maria Huxley, John Emerson (with hat).

mssHUB 1071

Roberta Nixon photographs and letter regarding Grace Burke Hubble

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Grace Burke Hubble correspondence

Grace Burke Hubble correspondence

Grace Burke Hubble and Ida Crotty notes

Passport photograph of Grace Burke Hubble and Edwin Powell Hubble

Photographs of Grace (Burke) Hubble: (HUB 1048-1069)

Group photograph of Aldous Huxley, Maria Nys Huxley, Edwin Powell Hubble, Grace Burke Hubble, Christopher Isherwood and John Emerson