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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. 65 items. Includes an invitation to the inauguration of Nixon-Agnew in January 1969, an accusatory letter from a reader who is canceling their subscription for various reasons, including "We think Mr. (Paul) Conrad is a sick man," and a 1969 employee ID card for Bassett. Prominent persons in correspondence with Bassett: McGeorge Bundy, Robert Novak (journalist), and Caspar Weinberger.
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Approx. 65 items. Includes an invitation to the inauguration of Nixon-Agnew in January 1969, an accusatory letter from a reader who is canceling their subscription for various reasons, including "We think Mr. (Paul) Conrad is a sick man," and a 1969 employee ID card for Bassett. Prominent persons in correspondence with Bassett: McGeorge Bundy, Robert Novak (journalist), and Caspar Weinberger. Split into two folders.
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Approx. 30 items. Letters. Subject include: coverage of Pomona Valley; Conference on the Nat'l. Economy, Washington, DC; exchange of letters with Ronald Wise of Sierra Club; "a subscriber... for many years" cancels his subscription. after being offended by an Oliphant cartoon, which prompts him to write of "the sick humor" of a "narrow-minded idiot" using "gutter-like attacks on the parochial schools..."; series of letters from Clore Warne to Otis Chandler, Nick Williams and William Thomas with suggestions for improving the newspaper are neat, literate and object to certain aspects of advertising; letter from Caspar Weinberger; etc. Caspar Weinberger letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject Files.
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Approx. 100 items. Correspondence includes a wide variety of material from handwritten personal notes to formal business letters. Also a message from Thompson Cigar Co. regarding a price increase, a complaint about the "left wing slant" of cartoonist Paul Conrad, a note from Caspar Weinberger, a 19 pp. list headed "Pacific War Correspondents - Upchuckers," telegrams, inter-office correspondence, LAT reprints and other news clippings. There is a smaller folder filed inside this one with materials related to the 24-day tour of Latin America made by Nick Williams and James Bassett (May-June 1965).
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Approximately 80 items. A number of pieces of correspondence show that Bassett continued his book reviewing for Broadcast Music Inc. Several items show that persons unacquainted, or only slightly acquainted with Bassett sought advice or job referrals from him. There are copies of letters addressed to Sen. Thomas Kuchel and Vice Pres. Nixon. Correspondence also shows that B. kept in touch with Navy friends and associates. On the occasion of a 1957 promotion, B. received congratulatory letters from public relations and business firms, including AT&SF Railroad and Ice Capades Intl., and media outlets including United Press Associations and the San Diego Union, and one Superior Court Judge, Stanley Mosk, and Caspar Weinberger (Calif. Assembly), etc. The remainder are various private and business communications. William P. Rogers letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files.
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Approx. 70 items: notes, memos, letters, clips on a variety of subjects. Includes: 10-pp. copied from The New Yorker, "Letter from Los Angeles," by Joan Didion ; letter from Police Chief Ed Davis to Otis Chandler, canceling his subscription and offering the opinion that "the soul of your paper is sick" ; letter from ex-gov. Edmund G. Brown (7/31/1981) ; letter to Thomas from Harry Scott, President of Bohemian Club, San Francisco (7/2/1987) ; 17-pp. "Los Angeles Times strategies for the Seventies" ; discussion of the Dallas Times Herald ; Robert Hilburn's thoughts on LAT pop music coverage (4/2/1979) ; more. Split into two folders.
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