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Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2013-036
Abstract
Reports and administrative files from the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA), subject and research files, and personal papers (bulk, 1970-2000) from Attorney B.W. Grant Barnes. The collection includes extensive subject files pertaining to Barnes' research in international human rights laws; records documenting his work in the Individual Rights Section of the LACBA; and his personal writings, correspondence and other material documenting his involvement in numerous gay and lesbian...
Dates:
1913 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2000
Collection
Identifier: 0161
Abstract
The R. L. Barth papers consist of manuscripts, paste-ups, chapbooks, and file copies of small press poetry published by the Robert L. Barth Press from the time of its founding in 1981 until the press ceased in the early 2000s. The collection also includes Barth's correspondence with poets Turner Cassity, Dick Davis, John Finlay, Charles Gullans, X. J. Kennedy, Janet Lewis, Timothy Steele, and Wesley Trimpi. Notable among the correspondence is a file of letters from Barth to Timothy Steele,...
Dates:
1981 - 2022
Collection
Identifier: 0342
Abstract
Letters from Ambrose Bierce to a variety of correspondents, including Samuel Loveman, B.J.S. Cahill, and Burnette G. Haskell. The collection also includes copies of some of Bierce's contracts with Neale Publishing, and pamphlets advertising his "Collected Works."
Dates:
1893-1913, undated
Collection
Identifier: 0155
Abstract
The collection includes Charles Bukowski's (1920-1994) original poetry and short stories, along with drafts of Women, Factotum, Ham on Rye, Post Office, and Barfly; screenplays based on Bukowski's fiction; periodical appearances; tape recordings; and ephemera.
Dates:
1957-1994
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0538
Abstract
Collection consists of materials associated with the life and career of writer and diplomat Rosario Castellanos.
Dates:
1950s - 1974
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0591
Abstract
A collection of 14 letters from Rubén Darío to Julio Piquet spanning 1894 to 1914. Rubén Darío was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo. Julio Piquet was the director of the Argentine newspaper La Nación beginning in 1886. The collection also contains: a photograph of Darío's son, Rubén Darío Sánchez (1907-1948); a letter written on mourning stationery from Francisca...
Dates:
1894 - 1916
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Coll2014-065
Abstract
Photocopies and typescripts of poetry, chapbooks, correspondence, and envelope art collected by Trebor Healey, a published poet and award-winning fiction author. Healey was raised in Seattle, Washington, and spent the late 1980s and early 1990s in San Francisco. As of 2014 he resides in Los Angeles, California.
Dates:
1967-1972
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2013-030
Abstract
Correspondence, photographs, audiocassettes, manuscripts, professional papers, and other materials, 1921-2011, from lesbian speech pathologist and veteran, Esther Herbert, and her partner, Marvyl Doyle. The correspondence contains letters between Herbert and Doyle written between 1944 and 1996 with the bulk of the letters being exchanged during World War 2 while they were stationed separately in the Women's Army Corps. Also included is an extensive collection of photographs documenting their...
Dates:
1921 - 2011
Collection
Identifier: 0158
Abstract
Manuscripts of Hirschman's (b.1933) Requiem and Hunger; typescript translations of Russian writer Alexander Kohan; Bukowski ephemera.
Dates:
1962 - 1982
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0154
Abstract
Harriet Abott Howe was a life-long writer who published poetry and short essays in Los Angeles and San Francisco newspapers and magazines during the 1890s, but after that does not seem to have been entirely successful in publishing her work. She was also active in the Women's Club, the purpose of which was the education, elevation and protection of womankind. The Harriet Howe papers consist predominantly of typescripts of Howe's poetry, essays, and stories.
Dates:
1886-1948