Manuscripts

1884

Description: The collection consists of letters from Dorothea Moore to her first husband, Charles Fletcher Lummis. They describe the life of a woman in medical college in the 1880s and bring out a little-known period in the life of Charles Fletcher Lummis.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1883-1884.
Call number: HM 40140-40187
Creator: Moore, Dorothea (1860?-1942)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Ronald Woodlin, August 1974.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

1883

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters from Dorothea Moore to her first husband, Charles Fletcher Lummis. They describe the life of a woman in medical college in the 1880s and bring out a little-known period in the life of Charles Fletcher Lummis.

HM 40104-40139

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Dorothea Moore letters

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mssMoored

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Charles F. Lummis : a brief biography

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Biography of Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859-1928), prominent journalist, poet, photographer, and activist of the American west and founder of the Southwest Museum. The biography begins with Lummis' childhood in Massachusetts, where he was rigorously educated by his father following his mother's early death. It then traces his attendance of Harvard, his 1885 transcontinental walk from Cincinnati to Los Angeles (as recorded in Lummis' book A tramp across the continent, 1891), his work as city editor of the Los Angeles Times, his 1886 coverage of General George Crook's participation in the Apache Wars, Lummis' paralysis and temporary blindness, his life with the Pueblo Indians in New Mexico, and his founding of the Southwest Museum. References are also made to Lummis' relationships with his first wife Dr. Dorothea Rhodes, Theodore Roosevelt and Boies Penrose at Harvard, Harrison Gray Otis, Leonard Wood, Adolph F. Bandelier, Henry Herbert Knibbs, and members of his "Lion's Den" literary circle. Carbon copy of typewritten manuscript with handwritten notes.

mssHM 72915

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Diary: William Moore (1884). 1 item

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This collection contains the following series: manuscripts, correspondence, legal documents, ephemera, and oversize. The manuscripts include Moore's daily diaries as well as his field books. The diaries contain short entries reflecting his business activities. The field books contain sketches and calculations of his various surveying projects. The small series of correspondence includes letters from friends written to Moore and his wife. The correspondence also includes one letter from Moore to his wife about his discovery of gold during a mining expedition in 1878. The legal documents include contracts, deeds, indentures, leases, and promissory notes. The two oversize ledgers include notes and drawings of Moore's various surveying projects.

mssMoore, William papers

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Resolutions made upon the occasion of the death of Charles Fletcher Lummis

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A resolution for the Society to give honor and recognition to the life and death of Charles Fletcher Lummis.

mssHM 19819

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Diaries, 1884-1891 and Field Books, 1857-1861

Manuscripts

mssMoore, William papers

1884

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