Manuscripts

Autobiography: Fun, Fights, and Fiesta in Old Los Angeles

Description: Two drafts and final typescript.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1893-1951.
Call number: mssStimson
Creator: Stimson, Marshall (1876-1951)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Marshall Stimson, November 1953.; Gift of Gordon Stimson, June 22, 1971.; Gift of Gordon Stimson, November 16, 1971.; Gift of Gordon Stimson, April 24, 1972.; Gift of Gordon Stimson, June 15, 1973.; Gift of Mrs. Thompson Webb, Jr., June 22, 1989.

Autobiography drafts

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including 25 diaries and notebooks), documents (including 5 account books), photographs, and 9 scrapbooks related to the life and activities of Marshall Stimson. The collection includes radio addresses of Marshall Stimson and the manuscript of his published autobiography titled Fun, fights, and fiesta in old Los Angeles. There are materials related to California and national politics, including Hiram Johnson and the Progressive Party "Bull Moose" Convention of 1912. There are also materials related to Homer Lea, the League of Nations, and World War II. The collection also contains the diaries of Mary Gordon Stimson, wife of Marshall Stimson.

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Correspondence

Manuscripts

Includes 6 letters from the Bull Moose Convention, 1912, but otherwise is chiefly dated from the 1940s and 1950s.

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Subject files

Manuscripts

This box includes materials related to the League of Nations, President Wilson, etc.; miscellaneous; Memory Snapshots: Prizefighters to Presidents (1885-1936); politics in California: Taft and Hughes election; and radio addresses, magazine articles, etc.

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Subject files

Manuscripts

This box includes manuscripts by Stimson, materials related to the Talent Will Case, 1912-1915; war papers: correspondence, radio addresses, etc., pertaining to World War II; the William Allen White Committee; and Wendell Wilkie (1944).

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Marshall Stimson papers

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including 25 diaries and notebooks), documents (including 5 account books), photographs, and 9 scrapbooks related to the life and activities of Marshall Stimson. The collection includes radio addresses of Marshall Stimson and the manuscript of his published autobiography titled Fun, Fights, and Fiesta in Old Los Angeles. There are materials related to California and national politics, including Hiram Johnson and the Progressive Party "Bull Moose" Convention of 1912. There are also materials related to Homer Lea, the League of Nations, and World War II. The collection also contains the diaries of Mary Gordon Stimson, wife of Marshall Stimson.

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