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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
Correspondence between James Bassett and Otis Chandler. One of the items of correspondence is a thank you card in response to Bassett's sympathy after Norman Chandler died. Also included are letters sent to Mrs. Bassett, after her husband's death and letters regarding James Bassett and the planning for Los Angeles Times centennial and a possible book on the subject.
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Approximately 30 items. Includes typed and handwritten correspondence, some business-related, some personal. Some letters and telegrams related to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in 1952. Letters from Bassett to the editors of the S.F. Chronicle and Sacramento Bee. Many congratulatory letters from around the country regarding Bassett's writing for the Times. Estes Kefauver letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files.
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Approx. 15 items: variety of tear sheets & clips of LAT articles by and about Bassett; brief from The Eight Ball, 9/1958, on Bassett's vacation, scorpion bites and state of health; from 1978, LAT obit on Bassett, Among Ourselves obit on Bassett, Jim Bishop obit / tribute column on Bassett
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3 letters from John F. Kennedy (U.S. Senate) to Bassett. In one letter, Kennedy asks for B.'s advice "in your [Bassett's] capacity as a Democratic leader." [?]
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Correspondence, including from Harry Chandler, regarding labor unions in Hollywood. File of L. D. Hotchkiss and R. W. Trueblood.
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Title page, table of contents, dedication, and acknowledgments for James Bassett's "The Life and Times of Los Angeles."
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