Toulmin Estate papers

This collection consists of records concerning the planning and distribution of the estate of Alice Larkin Toulmin (1879-1963), owner of the Larkin House in Monterey, California. Records include correspondence, manuscripts, ephemera, and diaries.

The bulk of the correspondence and documents concern the planning and distribution of Alice Larkin Toulmin's Estate by executor Margaret Holladay, the law firm O'Melveny and Myers, and the Larkin House Advisory Committee. Other correspondence includes a small number of early correspondence by Alice Larkin Toulmin, Henry W. Toulmin, Alfred O. Larkin, and Mary Ball Larkin Chappell. In addition, photos of the Larkin, Toulmin, Molera, and Childs families are also included.

There are a total of 66 bound diaries of Alice Larkin Toulmin in the collection, dating from 1900 to 1962.