Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
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 120 items. Business and personal [some handwritten] correspondence. Among the correspondents are Clark Kerr, Stanley Mosk, Thomas Kuchel, Also included are several letters from Ted Rogers [of Ted Rogers Associates (NYC)] that are critical of Nixon, newspaper clippings, a 4-page Confidential memo, on brown, legal sized paper, from B. to Nick Williams on political coverage [dated 12/19/61] and a brief article titled "Politics: Bassett's Glossary," from Newsweek of 1/15/1962.
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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. 75 items. Memos, letters, handwritten notes, clippings. Subjects include: identifying criminal suspects by racial description in LAT; "the general idea of an association of newspapers for the purpose of acquiring original material directly"; Hillinger story on Hutterites and discussion that followed; correspondence between Williams and Sam Hurst, Dean of Architecture, USC; letters from Hairway, a company claiming to be able to reverse male-pattern baldness; (3/10/'70) relations between LAPD and the "Negro community"; Armand Hammer and Occidental Petroleum; correspondence with W. Averell Harriman; correspondence between Williams (and others) and J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI; letter from Oveta Culp Hobby letter; etc. Oveta Culp Hobby letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject Files.
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15 items. Letters, memos, handwritten notes. Subjects include: material related to a subpoena calling for W. to appear to testify in United States of America vs. The Times Mirror Co.; United Jewish Appeal Campaign; race relations; Universal Press Syndicate; invitation for W. to serve as a member of the Advisory Council of the Communication Foundation of the University of Texas System; exchange of letters between William Thomas and Sanford Unger, who was preparing a book on the Pentagon Papers case; letter from UN Secretary U Thant; etc. U Thant letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject file.
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Approx. 30 items. Letters. Subject include: coverage of Pomona Valley; Conference on the Nat'l. Economy, Washington, DC; exchange of letters with Ronald Wise of Sierra Club; "a subscriber... for many years" cancels his subscription. after being offended by an Oliphant cartoon, which prompts him to write of "the sick humor" of a "narrow-minded idiot" using "gutter-like attacks on the parochial schools..."; series of letters from Clore Warne to Otis Chandler, Nick Williams and William Thomas with suggestions for improving the newspaper are neat, literate and object to certain aspects of advertising; letter from Caspar Weinberger; etc. Caspar Weinberger letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject Files.
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Approx. 30 items. Letters, memos, a bibliography of RAND Corp. publications. Subjects include: editorial cartoons; an incident in which LAT columnist Art Ryon, allegedly drunk, spoke to the annual meeting of the Agricultural Council of Calif. at the El Mirador Hotel, Palm Springs; Richard Reston's personal impressions of working the Moscow Bureau in letter to Williams; cancer drugs; community seminar-racial understanding; exchange of letters with Assemblyman Leo Ryan; members of Rigby family take exception to reportage on plane crash that killed one family member and injured others, and after which a 15 year-old boy struggled through snowstorm to bring help; etc. Nelson Rockefeller letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject Files.
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