Manuscripts

SERUM SOB

Description: 4 items. 3 pieces of correspondence. One is a letter from B. to Scott Meredith, his literary agent, pitching a short story, and two are responses from Meredith. Finally there is a copy of the 15 pp. manuscript of the story, "Serum-SOB."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1969
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

Commander Prince - Publisher's agreement

Manuscripts

3 items. Note to B. from literary agent Scott Meredith, cover letter to Meredith from Peter Schwed of Simon & Schuster, and three copies of the publishing agreement for "Untitled novel about U.S. Navy in World War II."

mssLAT

Image not available

Newspapers - Orange County

Manuscripts

2 items: 4-pp. copied from a book, title not recorded, from chapter "Early newspapers in Santa Ana" ; 8-pp. copied from Legacy--the Orange County Story,"

mssLAT

Image not available

Ugly Year, Lonely Man - Correspondence

Manuscripts

Approx. 100 items. Individuals and entities corresponding with B. include Delacourt Press, Scott Meredith (Literary Agent), Rex Barley, MacMillan Company, Cowles Book Co., Doubleday & Company, etc. Also some Nixon material.

mssLAT

Image not available

Employees - Nelson, Robert D

Manuscripts

4 items: letter, 5/7/1976, "From the desk of...June Duff," addressed to "John," pitching an article or news release she had written; copy of press release, Amer. Marketing Assn., 5/1976, on Robert D. Nelson receiving the 1976 Marketer of the Year Award from the L.A. Chapter of the Amer. Marketing Assn.; official Biography from the Los Angeles Times for Nelson, 7/1976, Nelson was, at that time, exec. VP and GM of LAT, plus a VP of Times Mirror Co.; 9-pp. transcript of undated interview headed "L.A. Times -- Bob Nelson -- R#10."

mssLAT

Image not available

Commander Prince - Correspondence

Manuscripts

Approx. 100 items. Individuals and entities corresponding with Bassett included Simon & Schuster (Peter Schwed), Scott Meredith (Literary Agent), New American Library, etc. Also in folder are synopses of segments of the book, related planning documents and notes, newspaper clippings, royalty statements, etc.

mssLAT

Image not available

D

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: several letters exchanged between Bassett and Robert Donovan ; 2-pp. (yellow) of "Questions for Bob Donovan" ; 13-pp. of responses to previous questions, Donovan to Bassett, 9/1975 ; newspaper and magazine article copies about Donovan ; single-sheet "Biography from the Los Angeles Times" for Donovan, n.d. ; 24-pp. transcript of interview, by Bassett, of Donald Douglas, Sr., 1/8/1973 ; 14-pp. transcript of - "...taping with Waldo Drake," 4/26/1973, who started on Los Angeles Times in 1922 on the waterfront "beat" and later became a foreign correspondent ; 6-pp. transcript of "conversation with Mrs. Wilma Drake, former Administrative Asst. to Mr. Norman Chandler." Original correspondence between Donald Douglas and Bassett removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files.

mssLAT

SERUM SOB

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Commander Prince - Publisher's agreement

Newspapers - Orange County

Ugly Year, Lonely Man - Correspondence

Employees - Nelson, Robert D

Commander Prince - Correspondence

D