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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Collection Dramatique: Extracts etc Relating to the Lives of John Bannister and Elizabeth Harper Bannister
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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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Rare Books
63131
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Manuscripts
This collection contains 1 folder of 41 items collected about Evelyn Waugh by Prof. Paul Hardacre. There are 26 newspaper and magazine clippings which date between 1966 and 1999 about Waugh. There are, also, 6 letters from 1971-1999, between Prof. Paul Hardacre and Dr. Paul Doyle, the editor of the Waugh Newsletter. This collection also has an offprint of the biography of Waugh done by Dr. Doyle for Dictionary of Literary Biography; and a copy of a booklet put out by Penguin books in 1951 containing articles about books being published that year
mssHM 64594
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The collection is made up of 59 ephemera items related to John Muir including pamphlets, brochures, newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, programs, poetry, and copies of Muir's writings and sketches. The material was collected by J. Marshall Watkins while he was researching John Muir. Authors include Ed Ainsworth, William Frederic Badé, Francis M. Fultz, Herbert W. Gleason, Bailey Millard, John Muir, and J. Marshall Watkins. Other subjects include Muir's conservation work in California including his involvement with the Hetch Hetchy Valley, Kings Canyon National Park, and Yosemite National Park. There is one pamphlet entitled "Redwood Mountain," published by the John Muir Association as well as a leaflet printed by the California Conservation Council regarding the life of John Muir. Many of the brochures are for events related to John Muir such as "John Muir Day" in San Francisco in 1939, a dedication of a Muir memorial park in Wisconsin, and a lecture entitled "John Muir Trails." Also included are offprints and flyers concerning the proposed John Muir-Kings Canyon National Park, and nine color reproductions of scenes in Yosemite National Park.
mssHM 66491
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The collection is made up of 59 ephemera items related to John Muir including pamphlets, brochures, newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, programs, poetry, and copies of Muir's writings and sketches. The material was collected by J. Marshall Watkins while he was researching John Muir. Authors include Ed Ainsworth, William Frederic Badé, Francis M. Fultz, Herbert W. Gleason, Bailey Millard, John Muir, and J. Marshall Watkins. Other subjects include Muir's conservation work in California including his involvement with the Hetch Hetchy Valley, Kings Canyon National Park, and Yosemite National Park. There is one pamphlet entitled "Redwood Mountain," published by the John Muir Association as well as a leaflet printed by the California Conservation Council regarding the life of John Muir. Many of the brochures are for events related to John Muir such as "John Muir Day" in San Francisco in 1939, a dedication of a Muir memorial park in Wisconsin, and a lecture entitled "John Muir Trails." Also included are offprints and flyers concerning the proposed John Muir-Kings Canyon National Park, and nine color reproductions of scenes in Yosemite National Park.
mssHM 66491
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Three of the letters (Aug. 11, 1849, Nov. 30, 1849, and Sept. 13, 1850) are from John W. Schriber to his wife, Eliza L. Rogers Schriber. They discuss his ocean voyage to California, his efforts in the gold mines, and the economic conditions of Northern California. Another letter by Schriber, written from Panama (Aug. 11, 1849) is addressed to John Clendenen in New York. The fifth letter (Feb. 26, 1851), from James Perry to Eliza L. Rogers Schriber, discusses the circumstances regarding John W. Schriber's death and the state of Schriber's affairs
mssHM 60700-60704
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mssHM 12214