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Collection
Identifier: 6094
Abstract
The collection consists of 4 manuscripts: a book of "receipts" for common ailments and common recipes; the manuscript has some pages inserted. A manuscript of questions and answers; the book is turned upside down to read the questions and the answers. It also has clippings pasted onto the flyleaf and the first pages. On the cover is stamped: B.M.E. Riddles &c. A letter and accompanying price listsent by William Pamplin, nursey and seedsman, to a client. And lastly, a group of 17 police...
Dates:
1819-1870
Collection
Identifier: 0390
Abstract
The collection comprises materials related to von Hofe's tenure as a librarian at USC as well as manuscripts, research notes, articles, and correspondence. Most materials are related to Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger as well as other German-speaking exiles.
Dates:
1904 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1990
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2547
Abstract
This collection includes two inscribed photos of actor John Barrymore, given to American talent agent Minna Wallis (1893-1986).
Dates:
1923; 1925
Collection
Identifier: 6031
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence between Tatjana M. Warren and German poets Helmut Maria Soik and Ernst Meister. The collection also contains some manuscripts of Meister's and Soik's works.
Dates:
1974 - 1991
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6029
Abstract
This small collection contains an authorization for the Secretary of State to transfer information to the President of the Republic of Costa Rica pertaining to an individual's citizenship, signed by James Buchanan on February 4, 1858; an autograph with note, "With best wishes of/Luther Burbank/Santa Rosa, CA April 12, 1923"; undated autographs of Charles Dickens and Thomas Edison; an autograph of Julia Ward Howe dated 1905; and a handwritten naval commission for one Thomas Lee signed by...
Dates:
1856-1905, undated
Collection
Identifier: 0177
Abstract
The Watts Writers’ Workshop was founded in 1965 by Budd Schulberg. This collection contains clippings about the workshop and works by Jimmie Sherman, one of the Workshop’s members.
Dates:
1966 - 1993
Collection
Identifier: 6255
Abstract
The Charles Harper Webb papers consist of drafts of poetry and prose, correspondence, publications featuring Webb's work, and ephemera from poetry events created and assembled by the American poet and professor, Charles Harper Webb (born 1948). The majority of the drafts in the collection relate to Webb's poems and short stories, along with drafts of unpublished novels and one published novel, The Wilderness Effect (1982, Chatto & Windus). Some of the...
Dates:
1970 - 2020
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2179
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of American film producer David Weisbart (1915-1967). Materials consist of screenplays, correspondence, stills, budgets, and general production materials relating to approximately 13 films produced by Weisbart; miscellaneous scripts and treatments pertaining to 56 unproduced films and television shows; synopses of approximately 30 projects (1950-1960); and extensive memos of correspondence from the story department at Twentieth Century-Fox (1950-1959)....
Dates:
1950 - 1967
Collection
Identifier: 6181
Abstract
Four manuscript books in German, created by Hilde Wendland for Stefanie Henders-Grunewald in 1920. Wendland hand-copied text from known poetry and fairy tales and hand-colored accompanying illustrations to create these manuscripts. Also included are two memorial works regarding brothers, Jacob Plaut and Moritz Plaut, two German-Jewish bankers.
Dates:
1901 - 1922
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0121
Abstract
Typescript of a detective novel, Kill Them You Can't, by John Wheble, completed 1940.
Dates:
1940 - 1940