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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The collection is chiefly comprised of personal and business correspondence of author Neeta Marquis; there is also correspondence between her parents while her father was in the Union Army during the American Civil War as well as his early letters from California. There are also photographs, ephemera, newspaper clippings, printed items related to literary societies, poems, manuscripts, notes, and scrapbooks and datebooks belonging to Neeta Marquis. The majority of the collection documents Neeta Marquis' literary career, but other subjects that can be found are the American Civil War; Lincoln's assassination; gold miners in California and early California history and American western-themed stories by Marquis and other authors. Correspondents represented in the collection include several notable individuals and authors: Louis Adamic, Hartley Burr Alexander, Reginald Barker, Earl Derr Biggers, Don Blanding, Bliss Carman, Stephen Chalmers, Robert Glass Cleland, Upton Close, Sam T. Clover, Thomas Y. Crowell, Homer Croy, Robert H. Davis, Estelle Doheny, John Foster Dulles, John Chipman Farrar, Hildegarde Flanner, Hermann Hagedorn, W.D. Hoffman, Margaret Hosmer, Rupert Hughes, Joseph Henry Jackson, George Wharton James, Will James, Helen Keller, Charles Fletcher Lummis, John Russell McCarthy, John Steven McGroarty, Seumas MacManus, Carey McWilliams, H.L. Mencken, Bailey Millard, Anne Shannon Monroe, Dorothea Moore, Ted Olson, Dorothy Parker, Lawrence Clark Powell, Eleanor Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Hazel Snell Schreiber, Norma Shearer, Upton Sinclair, Charles A. Siringo, Pauline Stiles, Harriet Williams Russell Strong, Jim Tully, Sir Hugh Walpole, and Louise Ward Watkins. Additional correspondents include American Literary Association, Automobile Club of Southern California, Book Club of California, California Federation of Women's Clubs, California Temperance Federation, Arthur H. Clark Company, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, Los Angeles Times, Macmillan Company, Poetry Society of America, Saturday Evening Post, and Thomas Y. Crowell, Publishers.
mssMarquis
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Manuscripts
The collection is chiefly comprised of personal and business correspondence of author Neeta Marquis; there is also correspondence between her parents while her father was in the Union Army during the American Civil War as well as his early letters from California. There are also photographs, ephemera, newspaper clippings, printed items related to literary societies, poems, manuscripts, notes, and scrapbooks and datebooks belonging to Neeta Marquis. The majority of the collection documents Neeta Marquis' literary career, but other subjects that can be found are the American Civil War; Lincoln's assassination; gold miners in California and early California history and American western-themed stories by Marquis and other authors. Correspondents represented in the collection include several notable individuals and authors: Louis Adamic, Hartley Burr Alexander, Reginald Barker, Earl Derr Biggers, Don Blanding, Bliss Carman, Stephen Chalmers, Robert Glass Cleland, Upton Close, Sam T. Clover, Thomas Y. Crowell, Homer Croy, Robert H. Davis, Estelle Doheny, John Foster Dulles, John Chipman Farrar, Hildegarde Flanner, Hermann Hagedorn, W.D. Hoffman, Margaret Hosmer, Rupert Hughes, Joseph Henry Jackson, George Wharton James, Will James, Helen Keller, Charles Fletcher Lummis, John Russell McCarthy, John Steven McGroarty, Seumas MacManus, Carey McWilliams, H.L. Mencken, Bailey Millard, Anne Shannon Monroe, Dorothea Moore, Ted Olson, Dorothy Parker, Lawrence Clark Powell, Eleanor Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Hazel Snell Schreiber, Norma Shearer, Upton Sinclair, Charles A. Siringo, Pauline Stiles, Harriet Williams Russell Strong, Jim Tully, Sir Hugh Walpole, and Louise Ward Watkins. Additional correspondents include American Literary Association, Automobile Club of Southern California, Book Club of California, California Federation of Women's Clubs, California Temperance Federation, Arthur H. Clark Company, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, Los Angeles Times, Macmillan Company, Poetry Society of America, Saturday Evening Post, and Thomas Y. Crowell, Publishers.
mssMarquis papers