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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Lady Agnes happy to hear Mr. Engert and family to be stationed in Chile. Sir John is at Harvard lecturing and Lady Agnes is busy with her own social activities.
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Oedipa Maas, a confused child of the sixties, stumbles upon what may or may not be a centuries-old conspiracy, after being named executrix of her wealthy, eccentric former lover's estate. Is she seeing glimpses of a real but previously hidden reality, is she descending into paranioa and madness, or is she part of a practical joke? She has no way of knowing, and neither do we.
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She was left a wealthy widow from her husband's death in WWI. She has used her money to support a hospital for deformed children. She also takes in other children during the war. She also includes excerpts of her sons' letters about their war experiences.
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Produced as 'The Guardians'. Contains two prologues and epilogues. Was not performed until after the author's death due to censorship issues surrounding the character Lady Nightshade.
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This collection contains the papers of English art historian Katharine Ada Esdaile (1881-1950), with the bulk of the materials relating to her research and writings on British monumental sculpture, sculptors, and church monuments from the medieval period to 19th century. Material types include personal writings, diaries, correspondence, business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials. Notably the collection includes more than 600 chiefly pre-World War II visitor booklets and pamphlets produced locally by British churches and approximately 3500 photographs taken or collected by Esdaile of sculpture, often funerary monuments in English churches, ranging from large churches like Westminster Abbey to small rural parishes. This collection provides a resource for viewpoints on monumental sculpture in the early 20th century (for instance as represented in book reviews by Esdaile) and for information about Esdaile's experience as a woman art historian in the early 20th century. Given the broadness of Esdaile's scope, from medieval to 19th century British monumental sculpture, the collection is less useful for specific information about monuments or sculptors. In addition, many of Esdaile's attributions in her notes appear to have been based primarily on her own instincts and do not have citations. Many of Esdaile's notes are handwritten on small scraps of paper or are fragments, sometimes making the information difficult to parse. The collection is chiefly Esdaile's files, but the dates on some items (such as post-1950 booklets) indicate the collection was added to and used after her death, presumably by her son Edmund Esdaile, who also made notes on items in the collection and appears to have done the preliminary organization of the papers after Esdaile's death.
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Publisher: Second Coming Press (San Francisco, Calif.) Related Content: "Bukowski is no guru of poetry." ; "Bukowski" ; "Buk" ; "Six inches" ; "long after midnight" ; "love poem to Marina" ; "Dear Buk" ; "July 22, 1973 ; Hello Jack-" ; "poem to a man in jail" ; "layover" ; "The worst thing you can say to him is I love you" ; "the knifer" ; "Two poets" ; "Postmarked in Long Beach" ; "Notes on a dirty old man (An introduction to Charles Bukowski" ; "To think I fell in love with a male chauvinist" ; "What Bukowski has really done/is doing to U.S. poetry" ; "beerbottle" ; "don't come around but if you do..." ; "He beats his women" (essays, short stories, letters, poems) Note: Special Bukowski issue, with poems and essays about Bukowski, as well as some of his poems, letters, and short stories. "(1973)" written in ms. in upper right corner of cover p. [1]. Laid in: printed green letter on Second Coming Press letterhead dated 5/14/74, listing available publications, with availability dates added in ms. Related Content Author: Steve Richmond ; Neeli Cherkovski ; Jerry Kamstra ; Charles Bukowski ; Jack Micheline, 1929-1998 ; Harold Norse ; Gerald Locklin ; Gerald Melling ; Linda King ; Hugh Fox, 1932-2011
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