Manuscripts

Letters

Description: A collection of manuscripts and letters related to Helen Hunt Jackson. The autograph manuscripts include 21 poems and three prose works entitled: "Bits of Travel at Home," "One Woman and Sunshine," a draft of an article on Jeanne C. Smith Carr and the founding of Carmelita, her home in Pasadena, California, and "The Story of Clotilde Danarosch." The largest part of the correspondence is made up of Helen Hunt Jackson's letters to William Hayes Ward, the editor of the New York Independent. Also included are seventeen letters to Ray Palmer and his wife Ann Maria Waud Palmer; thirteen letters to Mary Elizabeth Fowler, the first government schoolteacher at Soboba in the San Jacinto Valley; four letters to Henry Chandler Bowen, the editor and proprietor of the Independent; four letters to Mrs. D. J. Whipple who ran a boarding house in San Diego and later Los Angeles; two letters to Richard Egan, a Los Angeles County supervisor; and two letters by William Sharpless Jackson and Charles C. Painter.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1874-1887

Manuscripts, letters

Manuscripts

A collection of manuscripts and letters related to Helen Hunt Jackson. The autograph manuscripts include 21 poems and three prose works entitled: "Bits of Travel at Home," "One Woman and Sunshine," a draft of an article on Jeanne C. Smith Carr and the founding of Carmelita, her home in Pasadena, California, and "The Story of Clotilde Danarosch." The largest part of the correspondence is made up of Helen Hunt Jackson's letters to William Hayes Ward, the editor of the New York Independent. Also included are seventeen letters to Ray Palmer and his wife Ann Maria Waud Palmer; thirteen letters to Mary Elizabeth Fowler, the first government schoolteacher at Soboba in the San Jacinto Valley; four letters to Henry Chandler Bowen, the editor and proprietor of the Independent; four letters to Mrs. D. J. Whipple who ran a boarding house in San Diego and later Los Angeles; two letters to Richard Egan, a Los Angeles County supervisor; and two letters by William Sharpless Jackson and Charles C. Painter.

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Helen Hunt Jackson collection of manuscripts and letters

Manuscripts

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Helen Hunt Jackson

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Portrait of Helen Hunt Jackson.

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# of photos: 1 photo Description: Rancho Camulos, part of the San Francisco Rancho, granted to Antonio del Valle in 1841. This adobe was built in 1852, and played a part of the novel "Ramona" by Helen Hunt Jackson. Still occupied.

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Ramona screenplay drafts

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Two drafts of Lamar Trotti's screenplay for Ramona, based on the novel by Helen Hunt Jackson. The film was produced in 1936 by Twentieth Century Fox.

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William Holman Hunt letters

Manuscripts

A collection of letters, most of which were written to William Holman Hunt. It includes letters from, among others, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Edward Lear, Sir John Everett Millais, Edward Poynter, and William Blake Richmond. The collection also includes manuscripts and ephemera.

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