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. 12 items: several examples of Interlandi cartoons, several irate letters from readers, and several responses to these readers by then-Editor Nick B. Williams.
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Approx. 12 items from Senator Goldwater to Nick Williams. Subjects include editorials in the Los Angeles Times and congressional hearings. Correspondence removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject Files.
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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. 20 items. "Letters to the editor" from a wide array of sources, but mostly from angry readers or the mentally unbalanced. Attached to most of them are comments by Nick Williams and/or Bassett. Also included are some clippings from the editorial pages of LAT. William Durant letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files.
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Letter from Jack Dempsey requesting a copy of Bruce Russell's cartoon of Joseph Scott and L. D. Hotchkiss' reply. Original Dempsey letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Hotchkiss files. File of L. D. Hotchkiss.
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Approx. 150 items. Folder includes letters from Bassett to many persons who contributed information or aided him in locating information related to the writing of his book on the history of the Times. Among his correspondents: Bill Stout, Rep. Alphonzo Bell, Nick Williams, Justice Earl Warren (ret.), (Sen.) William Knowland, Frank Capra, John Goldman, Leonard Wibberly, Otis Chandler, Tom Snyder (KNBC), Jonathan Kirsch, Edmund G. Brown, Warren Christopher, Richard Nixon, Herb Klein, etc. Split into two folders. Original Stephen Longstreet letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files.
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