Manuscripts
Correspondence & Miscellaneous
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous - Editorial cartoons
Manuscripts
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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Correspondence & Miscellaneous - January - June
Manuscripts
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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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
Manuscripts
Approximately 40 items. Several letters were related to a radio program, "Teen-Age Book Parade," with which Bassett was connected during the period when he was Book Review Editor of the L.A. Times. There is in the folder at least one book review Bassett wrote for broadcast purposes for "Teen-Age Book Parade." There is one letter from U.S. Rep. Sam Yorty.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
Manuscripts
Approximately 80 items. A number of pieces of correspondence show that Bassett continued his book reviewing for Broadcast Music Inc. Several items show that persons unacquainted, or only slightly acquainted with Bassett sought advice or job referrals from him. There are copies of letters addressed to Sen. Thomas Kuchel and Vice Pres. Nixon. Correspondence also shows that B. kept in touch with Navy friends and associates. On the occasion of a 1957 promotion, B. received congratulatory letters from public relations and business firms, including AT&SF Railroad and Ice Capades Intl., and media outlets including United Press Associations and the San Diego Union, and one Superior Court Judge, Stanley Mosk, and Caspar Weinberger (Calif. Assembly), etc. The remainder are various private and business communications. William P. Rogers letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
Manuscripts
Approx. 60 items. Folder includes 37 typed pages of a manuscript. Handwritten notation at top of page 1 appears to read, "Full text of 'War Bards'...", and a passport-style photo of Bassett. Also included are letters and memos from/to William Targ [Editor in Chief, G.P. Putnam Sons], David Halberstam [historian, author], Robert Erburu [Pres., Times Mirror], John Anson Ford [County Supervisor for 24 yrs.], greeting cards and one mildly risque drawing by cartoonist Ted Bloodhart.
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Submission correspondence
Manuscripts
Approx. 75 items: correspondence - submission letters and rejections - in 1986. Notable names: Lee Iacocca (business mogul columnist) ; William Pfaff (columnist) ; Anti-Defamation League.
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