Manuscripts

Letters of Introduction

Description: Typescript including names, addresses, and letters of introduction for the journey. Includes two letters from Beaumont and Nancy Newhall; one letter from Charles Sheeler. 49 items.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1939-1941
Call number: mssWilsonjournal
Creator: Wilson, Charis (1914-2009)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased for the Huntington by the Library Collectors' Council from Rachel Harris, January 18, 2003.; Gift of Rachel Harris, August 2014.
Associated people: Armitage, Merle, (1893-1975.)

Charis Wilson journal, letters, and notes documenting the Whitman trip with Edward Weston

Manuscripts

This small collection includes Charis Wilson's typed journal for the eight-month trip she and Weston took during 1941 for the "Whitman" tour as well as supporting material including correspondence, the trip itinerary, notes, photographs, letters of introduction for Weston, newspaper clippings, brochures and miscellaneous ephemera, a negative list, and a list of illustrations for Leaves of Grass with Whitman quotations selected by Wilson. The journal typescript draft contains two black and white photographs. Also included is correspondence between Weston, Wilson, George Macy, and Merle Armitage regarding the Limited Editions Club project as well as letters Weston and Wilson received during the "Whitman" trip. Among the authors of letters of introduction for Weston are photographer and curator, Beaumont Newhall, and artist Charles Sheeler. The material was kept in the order in which it came to the Huntington Library. The original folders were also retained (if present). The Huntington Library also has Charis Wilson's journal (typescript) from her and Edward Weston's Guggenheim-funded trip throughout California and the West in 1937 to 1939, which resulted in the book California and the West. Call number: HM 51997

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Empty folder entitled "Typd Add Lists Used -------- Unused with some letters." Folder was empty when Library received it

Manuscripts

This small collection contains materials created and collected by Charis Wilson during the eight-month trip she took with her husband, photographer Edward Weston, in 1941 to take photographs to illustrate a Limited Edition Club edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. It includes Wilson's typed journal for the trip, as well as supporting material including correspondence, the trip itinerary, notes, photographs, letters of introduction for Weston, newspaper clippings, brochures and miscellaneous ephemera, a negative list, and a list of illustrations for Leaves of Grass with Whitman quotations selected by Wilson. The journal typescript draft contains two black-and-white photographs. Also included is correspondence between Weston, Wilson, George Macy, and Merle Armitage regarding the Limited Editions Club project as well as letters Weston and Wilson received during the "Whitman" trip. Among the authors of letters of introduction for Weston are photographer and curator Beaumont Newhall and artist Charles Sheeler.

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Charis Wilson's Journal and Supporting Material

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Correspondence, Notes, etc

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Wilson, Charis, 1914-2009. Journal Entries pp. 1-32

Manuscripts

Includes travel to Arizona & New Mexico. Includes letters of introduction from Ramsen Bird, President of American Colleges Assn.; Arthur E. Hohmann, L.A. Chief of Police; Leonard Reed, General Mgr., Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce; Henry A. Moe, Guggenheim Foundation; Philip Townsend Hanna, Automobile Club of Southern California; George Macy, President, Limited Editions Club. 14 items.

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Correspondence received by Edward Weston and Charis Wilson while on the road during the Whitman trip

Manuscripts

Correspondents include Mary McMeen (housesitter; 11 letters); Bea Prendergast (6 letters); George Zilliac (1 letter); "Zim" (1 letter). 23 items.

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Charis Wilson journal, letters, and notes documenting the Whitman trip with Edward Weston

Empty folder entitled "Typd Add Lists Used -------- Unused with some letters." Folder was empty when Library received it

Charis Wilson's Journal and Supporting Material

Correspondence, Notes, etc

Wilson, Charis, 1914-2009. Journal Entries pp. 1-32

Correspondence received by Edward Weston and Charis Wilson while on the road during the Whitman trip