Lute Pease papers

Mining and settlement in 1860s Nevada, prospecting and settlement in the Yukon Territory and Alaska 1897-1901, West Coast literary magazines in the early twentieth century, Pease family history.

Letter from James B. Pond to Lute Pease about Mark Twain's meeting with Pease, written Sep. 12, 1895 (HM 51785), a diary kept by Lute Pease in Alaska from Apr. 15 through June 24, 1899 (HM 51734), Lute Pease's letter to Helen (Hutton) Webster and others from Noatak River, Alaska, Dec. 3, 1901, describing life in Alaska and his tasks as a U. S. Commissioner (HM 51759), a 55-page diary-letter to Virginia (Pease) Hunt from Noatak River, Alaska Feb. 28, 1902 (HM 51746), a typewritten manuscript of To the Meadow Lark a poem by C. E. S. Wood with corrections in the author's hand, Feb. 1907 (HM 51828), In Old Bohemia. II. The `Overland' and the Overlanders, an essay by charles Warren Stoddard about The Overland Monthly (HM 51797), a letter from William Simon U'Ren to Pease, Mar. 9, 1908, commenting upon Oregon politics (HM 51805), a letter from Maynard Dixon to Pease, c. 1913, with an ink sketch on recto (HM 51583), a letter from C. E. S. Wood to Pease, May 17, 1917, commenting upon the moral dimension of the European war (HM 51833), a letter from C. E. S. Wood to Pease, Feb. 22, 1928, describing his Alaska experiences (HM 51835), a letter from the Huntington Library to Pease, Apr. 22, 1936, asking if he would donate copies of one or two published cartoons to a budding collection of political cartoons (HM 51637), and Lute Pease's notes about Mark Twain, Jack London, and other prominent figures, c. 1947 (HM 51732).