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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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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
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. 55 items. Folder includes congratulatory letters upon the occasion of Bassett's January 1970 promotion to Associate Editor of the Times, several transcripts of articles by a writer named Jack Mahon, various other professional and personal correspondence. Walter Annenberg letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files. Split into two folders.
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Approx. 40 items: letters, memos, telegrams and related material. Notable names and items include: James Bassett ; J. Edward Murray ; Glenn Dumke (Chancellor, California State Colleges) ; Walter Annenberg (Pres., Triangle Publications) ; Milton Senn (Anti-Defamation League...) ; more.
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Includes items related to death of Rudyard Kipling in 1936, assorted memos, telegrams and business correspondence related to Bassett's work at the Times in the period 1936 through 1949. [75+ items]
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Approx. 75 items. Includes a wide variety of business and personal correspondence. Prominent persons in correspondence with Williams: Joseph Alsop (journalist), Walter Annenberg (businessman & philanthropist), Elizabeth Arden, and others. Elizabeth Arden letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject Files.
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Approx. 100 items. Business and personal correspondence related to Bassett's novel, "Harm's Way." Correspondents include: Times-Mirror Syndicate, Rex Barley (literary agent), Macmillan Co.(A.L. Hart, Jr.), New American Library, McGraw-Hill Book Co., World Publishing (William Targ), Prentice-Hall Inc., Library Journal, Aerojet-General (George Pelletier, Pub. Rel.), Sen. Barry Goldwater, Chuck Bailey (Look magazine), Caspar Weinberger, etc. Copies of legal and financial documents related to the novel, many congratulatory notes from newspaper people nationwide, newspaper clippings (ads & commentary), and other ephemera.
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