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Robinson Jeffers Tor House roof shingle
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Robinson Jeffers family photograph collection
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A collection of photographs of American poet Robinson Jeffers, his family and friends, and his home he called Tor House, in Carmel, California. The bulk of the images date from approximately 1919 to 1940 and are chiefly black-and-white prints, 8 x 10 inches and smaller, of Jeffers, his wife, Una, their twin sons Donnan and Garth, and a few friends: George Sterling, C.E.S. Wood, and Blanche Matthias. The photographs belonged to Matthias, and are mostly personal, informal images taken at or around Tor House, the distinctive stone house Jeffers built on an open stretch of coast. Other items in the collection are: four color snapshots of Jeffers' grandchildren, the latest dated 1969; two copies of sketched portraits of Jeffers by M. A. Werboff; and a keepsake folder about Tor House from the series "Homes of California Authors" (Book Club of California, 1967), with an essay by Theodore M. Lilienthal.
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Robinson Jeffers family photograph collection
Visual Materials
A collection of photographs of American poet Robinson Jeffers, his family and friends, and his home he called Tor House, in Carmel, California. The bulk of the images date from approximately 1919 to 1940 and are chiefly black-and-white prints, 8 x 10 inches and smaller, of Jeffers, his wife, Una, their twin sons Donnan and Garth, and a few friends: George Sterling, C.E.S. Wood, and Blanche Matthias. The photographs belonged to Matthias, and are mostly personal, informal images taken at or around Tor House, the distinctive stone house Jeffers built on an open stretch of coast. Other items in the collection are: four color snapshots of Jeffers' grandchildren, the latest dated 1969; two copies of sketched portraits of Jeffers by M. A. Werboff; and a keepsake folder about Tor House from the series "Homes of California Authors" (Book Club of California, 1967), with an essay by Theodore M. Lilienthal.
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Daniel B. Robinson letter to Mary Ann Robinson
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These manuscripts are a series of letters from Daniel Robinson to his sister Mary and brother James. In HM 19765 (1847, November 14), a letter to his sister, Daniel Robinson writes of his travels and contacts in the middle United States. HM 19766, dated 1849, March 12, also to Mary, Daniel writes he has delayed responding to her last letter due to a lack of interesting things to say. His main wish is to gain his fortune, and plans to accompany a group bound for the gold mines of California, and plans to leave Illinois in a week's time. He promises he will travel safely, and will write from time to time. The last letter to Mary in this sequence is dated 1850, October 31 (HM 19767), and Daniel has reached California, and has purchased "a lot of cattle" with several friends from Illinois. He would describe his journey if he had time, but plans to return to Illinois in the following spring. The final four letters are from Daniel to James, his brother. HM 19768 is dated 1849, April 12, and was written in St. Joseph, Missouri, where Daniel plans to stay for a month. The letter describes Daniel's trek to California, across overflowing rivers and many rough roads. The next letter (HM 19769) is dated May 3, and Daniel has left St. Joseph. His party had to wait two days for their chance to cross a river, as there were four hundred teams waiting for their turn. He saw several familiar Illinois faces in St. Joseph. On May 28, Daniel writes again to James (HM 19770). Their cattle broke free from their corral and scattered; they managed to recover some, but several were lost. Daniel learns that over four thousand teams have passed this way, bound for California. The final letter in this series is HM 19771, and is written from Sacramento City, California, dated 1849, October 3. Daniel reports the final leg of their journey was rather unpleasant, due to poor weather coupled with exhaustion. He says "there seems to be no extent to the amount of gold in California, and common laborers can get from two to three hundred dollars per month." His team has sold their wagons and cattle for mules and and mining equipment. He has heard many tales of gold, and expects to make his fortune soon. Of his journey to California, Daniel writes "I can safely say it is one of the most disagreeable trips a man can make." Included are three newspaper clippings from Illinois newspapers reprinting letters of Illinois travelers bound for California, two undated photos of Daniel Robinson, and a handwritten note addressed to "Mr. Tighe" and signed "Ruth Van Tuyl" regarding the photos and letters of Daniel Robinson.
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Poet's Privilege - Solstice and Other Poems by Robinson Jeffers
Manuscripts
A collection of approximately 30,000 items which consists of letters, manuscripts, documents, diaries, sketches, photographs, printed material, and scrapbooks related to the lives and work of Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Sara Bard Field Wood. The collection includes material about William Maxwell Wood (1809-1880), C.E.S. Wood's father; papers from C. E. S. Wood's army career, including materials from West Point, Alaska, and the Indian campaigns in the Pacific Northwest; C. E. S. Wood's activities in the development of eastern Oregon (note: there are no papers belonging to Wood's law office); Sara Bard Field's reports on the McNamara case, her life in San Francisco and her associations with journalists, labor leaders, Soviet sympathizers, pacifists, and artists; materials related to Sara Bard Field's work for woman suffrage and women's rights; and C. E. S. Wood and Sara Bard Field Wood's cultural circle, including letters from other writers, critics, publishers, social reformers, artists, sculptors, theatrical figures and musicians. Persons represented in the collection include politicians, journalists, cultural leaders, artists, suffragists, authors, and musicians: Charles Altschul, Roger Nash Baldwin, Alva Belmont, Albert M. Bender, William Rose Beňt, Henriette de S. Blanding, Alfred Brennan, Maurice Browne, George De Forest Brush, Beniamino Bufano, Witter Bynner, Bennett Cerf, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Clarence Darrow, Kenneth Durant, Max Eastman, Gilson Gardner, Inez Haynes Gillmore, William Hanley, Walter Morris Hart, Childe Hassam, Nan Wood Honeyman, O.O. Howard, Robinson Jeffers, Willard Maas, Alexander Meiklejohn, Eugene Meyer, Josephine Miles, Harriet Monroe, Richard L. Neuberger, Frederick O'Brien, Mrs. Fremont Older, Fremont Older, Lemuel Parton, Alice Paul, Lute Pease, Louis Freeland Post, John Cowper Powys, Llewelyn Powys, Alexander Phimister Proctor, John W. Redington, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Muriel Rukeyser, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Theodore Spiering, Lincoln Steffens, Walter Steilberg, Doris Stevens, Genevieve Taggard, Mark Van Doren, Mabel Vernon, Langdon Warner, Olin Levi Warner, Julian Alden Weir, Marie de L. Welch, George P. West, Frances G. Wickes, Ella Winter, Emma Wold, Erskine Wood, Art Young, and Ella Young.
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