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. 60 items: clippings, handwritten and typed notes and other material, including a large number of notes on small pieces of paper. Notable items include: 50-pp. of a handwritten journal Bassett wrote at Bowdoin College in 1933 (pp.1 mentions the death of Calvin Coolidge). Split into two folders.
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Approx. 12 items: article copies, typed and handwritten notes. Notable items include: one faded photo of young man (prob. Bassett) and young woman on a boat ; multi-page copy of article, New York Times Magazine, 1/4/1959, "Nine tests for the Presidential hopeful."
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Approx. 25 items: notes, clippings and other material. Notable items include: 6-pp. booklet, "What The Times stands for," 1969 ; multi-page satiric booklet, "The People's Choice, or, Mix your own candidate" by Andre Dugo ; newspaper and magazine article copies on various subjects - Mormonism, the First Amendment, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's thoughts on American hedonism, etc. ; notes, both typed and handwritten.
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1 item: 81-pp. manuscript - "Rude Awakening," synopsis of a novel by James Bassett.
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454-pp. manuscript (pp. 420 - 874, Part II titled "Two Stars), early draft of Harm's Way, by James Bassett, ca. 1961. Split into two folders.
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Approx. 40 items, letters, press releases, speech transcripts and other material related to Richard Nixon. Notable names and items include: 18-pp. "Script No. 9...'Richard Nixon," touts a book titled "Richard Nixon - a Political and Personal Portrait ; Bassett correspondence with Republican National Committee, Nixon and others ; 17-pp. "Remarks of Honorable Richard M. Nixon, Vice President...before the American Society of Newspaper Editors...Statler Hotel, Washington, DC...(4/18/1959)" ; Bassett - Herbert Klein (Nixon Press Sec.) correspondence ; "Release from Office of the Vice President," a bio for Herbert G. Klein, 5/20/1959 ; more. Split into two folders.
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