Manuscripts

George Sterling collection

Description: A collection of approximately 70 poems and sonnets and three letters written by George Sterling. The poems and sonnets are typewritten and autograph, many are signed and some are incomplete. The poems and sonnets deal with, among other subjects, World War I, love, revenge, change, Carmel, California, and Jack London. One of the poems, "The northern star, the northern wind..." was found on the floor beside Sterling's deathbed and was possibly his last poem. The letters are written to Ambrose Bierce and Edwin Markham.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1901-1926
Call number: mssSterlingg
Creator: Sterling, George (1869-1926)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: purchased from American Art Association, Conant sale, Lot 25, November 1923.; gift of Mrs. Denis S. Dimond, May 1930.; purchased from Jackson Berger, April 1932.; gift of Albert Bender, January 1936.; gift of Harwood A. White, February 1948.; gift of Marshall M. Levis, December 1955.; provenance unknown, in library, Dawson's Book Shop, January 1967.; purchased from July 1973.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Bierce, Ambrose, (1842-1914?); Markham, Edwin, (1852-1940.)
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George Sterling collection

Manuscripts

A collection of approximately 70 poems and sonnets and three letters written by George Sterling. The poems and sonnets are typewritten and autograph, many are signed and some are incomplete. The poems and sonnets deal with, among other subjects, World War I, love, revenge, change, Carmel, California, and Jack London. One of the poems, "The northern star, the northern wind..." was found on the floor beside Sterling's deathbed and was possibly his last poem. The letters are written to Ambrose Bierce and Edwin Markham.

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George Sterling papers

Manuscripts

This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs and watercolors pertaining to the life and work of George Sterling. Contents include 544 pieces of correspondence; 116 manuscripts; 3 photographs; and 2 watercolors. Much of the correspondence in the collection is between Sterling and other American writers and poets, who discuss their own work and the work of other individuals. Almost all of the correspondence in the collection by Sterling is addressed to his friend, and fellow author, Jack London (1876-1916). The collection contains manuscripts written by Sterling as well as manuscripts by Ambrose Bierce and others. Most of the collection's manuscripts are poems, although the section also contains epigrams, diaries, vocabulary aids and prose. The photographs within the collection are of Sterling and his friends and associates, and all of the collection's watercolors were painted by Sterling. Subjects addressed within the collection include Ambrose Bierce, American poetry (1915-1925), Prohibition (with frequent mention in H. L. Mencken's letters), and European description and travel (chiefly in the early letters of Herman George Scheffauer). Correspondents and authors include: William Rose Ben√©t, Ambrose Bierce, Witter Bynner, Margaret Smith Cobb, Sidney Bert Cooksley, Ina Donna Coolbrith, Countee Cullen, Benjamin De Casseres, May S. Greenwood, James Hopper, Rolfe Humphries, Robinson Jeffers, Leslie Nelson Jennings, Sinclair Lewis, Vachel Lindsey, Charmian London, Jack London, Samuel Loveman, William Somerset Maugham, Henry Louis Mencken, Leo Bergin Mihan, John Gneisenau Neihardt, Joseph O'Carroll, John Myers O'Hara, Louis Alexander Robertson, Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Herman George Scheffauer, George Ansel Sterling, Charles Hanson Towne, Grace Wallace, Herbert George Wells, Edward Lucas White, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Gaylord Wilshire, and Audrey Wurdemann.Persons represented by five or more pieces: Bynner, Witter: 5 pieces, 1913-24 Cobb, Margaret Smith: 34 pieces, 1923-26 Coolbrith, Ina Donna: 26 pieces, 1907-26 De Casseres, Benjamin: 8 pieces, 1926 Greenwood, May Snowdrop: 65 poems 1917-26 Hopper, James: 5 pieces, 1926-28 Humphries, Rolfe: 6 pieces, 1924-25 Jeffers, Robinson: 12 pieces, 1924-26 Jennings, Leslie Nelson: 45 pieces, 1917-22 London, Jack: 18 pieces, 1902-16 Loveman, Samuel: 19 pieces, 1915-26 Mencken, Henry Louis: 63 pieces, 1916-26 Neihardt, John Gneisenau: 50 pieces, 1912-25 Sterling, George: Poems: 43 to Miscellaneous persons: 5 To London: 72 (1910-16) Mihan, Leo Bergin: 5 pieces, 1924-26 O'Carroll, Joseph: 9 pieces, 1923-26 O'Hara, John Myers: 5 pieces, 1911-16 Robertson, Louis Alexander: 7 pieces, 1904-08 Scheffaeur, Herman George: 57 pieces, 1904-21 White, Edward Lucas: 5 pieces, 1925 Wilcox, Ella (Wheeler): 5 pieces, 1914-15 Some notable items include: Benet, William Rose. 1921, Nov. 17. About Sterling's verse. Coolbrith, Ina. 1907, Feb. To Blanche Partington. He is the best boy in the world as well as one of its few great poets... Jeffers, Robinson. 12 letters, mostly about poetry. 1924-26 Lindsey, Vachel. 1913, June 1. Long letter on his own career and poetry. London, Jack. 1916, Mar. 7. Critique of severl short stories by Sterling. London, Jack. 1908, Feb. 10. And I speculate and speculate, trying to make you out, trying to lay hands on the inner side of you... Mencken, Henry L. 63 letters, containing numerous references to Prohibition O'Hara, John Myers. 1911, May 7. Letter of praise and criticism. Osbourne, Lloyd. 1895, Oct. 24. Advising Sterling against a proposed adventure to Samoa. Scheffauer, Herman George. 1904, June 19. Description of visit to St. Louis fair. Scheffauer, Herman George. 1904, Sep. 8. Description of trip through Scotland and England Scheffauer, Herman George. 1904, Dec. 20. Letter of 52 pages, octavo, describing trip through Germany and France. His letters are of above average interest. Sterling, George. Letters to Jack London. 1910-1916. Sterling, George. Notebook containing vocabulary aid. c.1915. Sterling, George. 1919, Apr. 9. To W. S. B. Braithwaite. Draft of a letter of protest over the misprinting of his poems.

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Sterling (GS 520-571, 610)

Manuscripts

This box includes both manuscripts and correspondence such as: Sterling, George to Jack London, 1915 February-1916 Diary (2 pieces) Epigrams (1 piece) Miscellaneous manuscripts (7 pieces) Poems (37 pieces) Poems (typescripts, signed) (9 pieces) Vocabulary aids (2 pieces)

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Charles Bolivar Sterling papers

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Sundry autobiographical and daily notes that Sterling jotted (on the back of muster rolls and returns), in August and September 1847, whiling away time onboard of the Preble. Three manuscripts (HM 66241, HM 66244, and HM 66245) describe the minutia of the life onboard of the Preble (including an account of a duel). The remaining two are devoted to the recollections of the author's childhood, chiefly the time he spent at his uncle's plantation in Sterlington, his school years at Lafayette Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and his travels through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Kentucky. One of the autobiographical manuscripts (HM 66243) is a collection of anecdotes and reminiscences, including a story of two Irishmen whom his uncle had hired to dig a ditch; a short story titled "The First Night of Marriage, or the Happy Return: A Domestic Narrative," and "Early recollections" about his life in Louisiana, (including accounts of the plantations slaves), and the school. The second miscellany (HM 66242) contains Sterling's attempts at humorous prose, presumably autobiographical: short stories "A Ghostly Night," "That Boy Jo and the Art of Catfiring [sic]: Sportsmanlike Habit," two Irish anecdotes "Keeping the Pledge" and "It's all the Priest's Fault," and a letter to "Dear Samuel" dated "Sept. 14, 1847" and subtitled "Melancholy recollections."

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Sti-W; Ephemera/Photographs

Manuscripts

This box includes: Stillman, J. M., N.D. (1 piece to George Sterling) Tabbs, John B., 1903 (1 piece to George Sterling) Teasdale, Sara, 1914 (1 piece to George Sterling) Taggard, Genevieve, 1924 (4 pieces to George Sterling) Towne, Charles Hanson, 1925 (1 piece to George Sterling) W., J. F., N.D. (1 piece to George Sterling) Van Doran, Mark, 1926 (2 pieces to George Sterling) Wallace, Grace, Poems (5 pieces) Williams, B. W., The Seats of the Mighty(1 piece) Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1914 (5 pieces to George Sterling) Welch, Marie De La, 1926 (1 piece to George Sterling) Wells, H. G., 1904 (1 piece to George Sterling) Wheelock, John Hall, 1914 (3 pieces to George Sterling) White, Edward L., 19 (4 pieces to George Sterling) Wilshire, Gaylord, 1926 (1 piece to George Sterling) Wilson, H. L., 1916 (1 piece to George Sterling) Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1925 (2 pieces to George Sterling) Wright, Willard, 1919 (3 pieces to George Sterling) Wurdemann, Audrey, Poems (2 pieces) Wurdemann, Meek's Ranch, manuscript (2 pieces) Wurdemann, Revenge, manuscript (1 piece)

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The collected poems of George Mackay Brown

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George Mackay Brown is recognized as one of Scotland's great 20th-century lyric poets. His work is integral to the flowering of Scottish literature during the last fifty years. Admired by many fellow poets, including Seamus Heaney and Douglas Dunn, his poems are deeply individual and unmistakable in their setting: 'the small green world' of the Orkney Islands where he lived for most of his life, with its elemental forces of sea and sky and Norse and Icelandic ancestry, is brought to life. Here, his poetry is collected in one volume, making available again many poems that are otherwise out of print.

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