Manuscripts

The Bivouac

Description: Correspondence and deeds pertaining to the donation of Otis's home The Bivouac to the City of Los Angeles. Also, bound volume of color and black-and-white images of the interior and exterior of the home.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1916 - 1918, 1938
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.

Photocopies - Otis, Harrison Gray to O. F. Brandt

Manuscripts

Letter and deeds regarding San Fernando Land and Water Company and the donation of The Bivouac. MAY NOT BE COPIED OR PUBLISHED.

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"The Bivouac Schedule of House and Contents" - Copy

Manuscripts

Photocopy of itemized list of the contents of The Bivouac in 1911. Made after the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building in October 1910. Also, a note to Gwendolyn Garland Babcock by the person who copied it.

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Otis Family - Boston

Manuscripts

Original print of Harrison G. Otis's eulogy of Alexander Hamilton; Harper's New Monthly Magazine, April 1854; correspondence related to the donation of the two items.

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Lawrence, Harrison Gray to Harrison Gray Otis

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Correspondence from Otis's nephew, including newspaper clippings and the announcement of the death of Otis's sister Sarah.

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Lawrence, James A. to Harrison Gray Otis

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Letter from James A. Lawrence, Otis's brother-in-law, announcing the death of Otis's nephew Harrison Gray Lawrence.

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Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: article copy, Among Ourselves, 4/1960, "Times, Mirror news libraries are key information centers"; 1-pp., copied from a history of LAT, the writer seems to be Harrison Gray Otis, because, in referring to the aftermath of the 1910 explosion and fire at LAT, the text reads, "I have been gradually collecting books...for a reference library, and...am keeping them at 'The Bivouac' [Otis's home on Wilshire Blvd.], (rather than) the temporary editorial rooms of The Times."; 3-pp. memo, 2/23/1954, "Defendant's pre-trial memorandum - The Times-Mirror Co. vs. U.S. of America"; 46-pp. spiral-bound report, "Editorial Library - User Survey," by Cecily J. Surace, 11/1980; 19-pp. report by graduate students in library / information science (Livia Di Mare/Glenn Johnson-Grau) on the Edit. Lib., 1992, recounting the history, services, resources, and research practices, and describing departments within the library; articles on the library from AO, 1927, 1976; info on LAT database's availability on Nexis; 11-pp. booklet, 12/1982, "Guide to the (LAT) Editorial Library"; article copy, CD-ROM Professional (mag), "Searching Los Angeles Times DIALOG OnDisc: The Times Editorial Library Experience," by Dorothy Ingebretsen and Steven Tice; plus assorted brief reports on aspects of the library.

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