Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 40 items. Memos, letters, clippings. Subjects include: exchange of letters between Williams and Herbert Klein, (Nixon) White House Communications Director, both prior to and following Williams retirement; unhappy letter from KHJ-TV; Birch-type attitudes in Southland; etc., etc.
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Approx. 30 items. Letters, memos, bios, etc. Includes: correspondence between Williams and Robert Rowen, Pres., Pasadena Art Museum; letter to Harry Rowan, Pres., RAND Corp.; coverage of education in California; "the coffee situation in Editorial (1/9/1969); letter from Rep. Edward Roybal on the "auto smog conspiracy; exchange of letters with L.G.G. Ramsey, Editor, The Connoisseur, London, England; material on Joseph Roos, Exec. Dir., Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles; correspondence with William Reason, Editor (in-house newsletter), RTD; etc.
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Approx. 65 items. Letters, memos, news clippings. Subjects include: exchange of letters with a Porterville, CA., physician, James Williams, Jr., who complains, "For the past year...your news characteristics of reporting have changed, leaning definitely...to the left." Williams implies that W. might be a communist dupe. W. replies, "My intentions are to see that the news is printed as factually as...possible."; exchange of letters on Editor & Publisher questionnaire, "...New Directions in Journalism"; exchange of letters with John Wayne related to the film, "The Alamo," Americanism, and other topics; the ups and downs of the Space program ; letter typical of early 1960s from Lee Wright (Canoga Park, 1964) complaining of LAT's shift from conservatism and canceling his subscription; ads taken by opponents of Vietnam war; exchange of letters with James Brady, editor of WWD, in which B. complains that Joyce Haber (LAT) has plagiarized from Women's Wear Daily, W. responds; LAT cookbook; popularity of various LAT segments, including advertising; phosphates in laundry detergent; letter from A. L. Wirin and response; etc. A. L. Wirin correspondence removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject Files.
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Approx. 30 items. Subject include: an exchange of letters with the publisher's office at Scientific American; exchange of letters with editor Cecil Grahame of Food Service Magazine; a letter to Roger Freeman of The Hoover Institution in which Williams describes his own politics as "slightly right of the current center (1969); exchange of letters with John Freeman, British ambassador to the US; several newspaper clippings on the appointment of Freeman to assist Pres. Nixon on economic affairs; exchange of letters between Williams and John Anson Ford; "Personal and Confidential" letter from F. Daniel Frost of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher law firm on the tax reform law; angry letter from the Gen. Mgr. of the Florida Citrus Commission protesting material that appeared in LAT story (West Magazine) making reference to frozen orange juice concentrate produced in Florida. There is a clipping of the story in question.
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Approx. 25 items. Subjects include: 1967 letter from Williams to McCall's editor nominating Dorothy Chandler for McCall's Women of Achievement list; letter from Williams to Wm. McLean, Chair of Texas State Board of Insurance (apparently an out-of-touch personal friend); exchange of letters between Williams and Raymond McKelvey of Occidental College PoliSci Dept.; sociable notes sent to academics and journalists around the nation; questionnaire on rules regarding the use of advance business information; response to "angry subscriber" in which Williams defends cartoons of Conrad and Interlandi; etc.
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Approx. 45 items. Subjects include: W.'s letter to Mayor Yorty thanking him for meeting with LAT group; extended exchange of letters in 1965 between. W. and A.S. Young, a reader who phoned the paper to comment on a story and had an anonymous staffer made an extremely rude, racist remark to him; a later exchange (1968) when Young was writing for the Los Angeles Sentinel (a Black-owned and operated newspaper); exchange with Leonard Warner about "additional lines" in an LAT story that was picked up and run by the Wash. Post, added w/o the writer's okay--a "no-no" in journalism; material related to Alexander Zinchuck, a high-ranking official of the Soviet Embassy in Wash., DC, 1967; various correspondence on the Middle East situation; exchange of letters with the Fair Housing Council of the San Fernando Valley; the 52-pp. "A-Student" supplement (1969); a letter to W. from Andrew Young, Exec. VP of the Southern Christian Leadership Council; exchange of letters with Charles E. Young, UC Chancellor, 1971; etc.
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