Manuscripts
Correspondence & Miscellaneous
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C - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Approx. 75 items. Letters (friendly and adversarial), memos, newspaper clippings. Included are letters from Williams to the American Press Institute, the New York Times (Turner Catledge), Los Angeles County Young Republicans, Pitzer College (Mary Ann Callan), Mrs. Otis ("Missy") Chandler, columnist Paul Coates, Dr. Clifford B. Cherry (wrote to object to reporting of his wife's suicide) etc. Subjects include Times' reportage, the new movie ratings system (1968), the Clean Air Council, etc.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous - Editorial cartoons
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8 items: letter, 9/19/1967, to Bassett from Walter Annenberg (publisher, ambassador) praising editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad ; 4/29/1969, Bassett to Douglas T. Moore, responding to complaint about a specific Conrad cartoon ; letter, 5/17/1969, to Bassett from Douglas T. Moore, critical of Conrad and LAT and attached handwritten letter, 4/21/1969, from Moore to Franklin Murphy (Chair, TM Board) ; letter, 6/2/1970, from Bassett to Allen Mansfield (Pacific Western Securities), responding to Mansfield's criticism of Conrad cartoons and attached letter from Mansfield to Frank Haven, Managing Editor, LAT, attached are two Conrad cartoons about Nixon.
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Water - Miscellaneous
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Approx. 50 items - letters, newsletters, clippings, a press release and one article tear sheet. Notable names and items include: Harold Kennedy (County Counsel) ; letters on salt water conversion ; materials labeled "Fallbrook Water" (1956) that reflect "feud" between LAT and Claremont Men's College history prof. W. Henry Cooke, including his article in Pacific Historical Review (2/1956), "The controversy over water rights in the Santa Marguerita River" (pp. 1 - 28 ; Arthur Breed (CA Senate) ; reprint from Congressional Record, 8/2/1955 ; Soil Conservation Society of America ; CA Atty. Gen. Edmund G. Brown ; complete issues of District News - Imperial Irrigation District, 3/1967 - 4/1967 ; Gov. Goodwin J. Knight ; more.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
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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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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
Manuscripts
"Approx. 70 items. Includes list of 1971 articles by B. (same list in folder titled "1971 Articles." The folder includes a report to Bill Thomas from B. titled "Japan Really Won the War," and an article on the British justice system pulled from Catholic Digest of Jan. 1972. Among the prominent persons Bassett corresponded with are a Adm. B.A. Clarey, U.S. Navy, Gov. Edmund G. Brown, August Sebastiani and Sam J. Sebastiani [of Sebastiani Vineyards], U.S. Rep. Bob Wilson, Robert S. Elegant [journalist & author], Herbert Klein [Nixon Dir. of Comm.], Roger Howell [of Bowdoin College], etc. "
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K - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Approx. 50 items. Includes letters from Sen. Estes Kefauver and US Court of Appeals Judge Irving Kaufman. Subjects overall include: foreign policy coverage; an interesting letter about Richard Nixon from Edwin Knopf of Pacific Palisades who writes (1961), "Nixon simply doesn't like people....(his has) a smile without mirth and eyes that have no kindness." memo on Times book coverage; assassination of JFK and aftermath; a segment of Congressional Record (4/1968); etc.
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