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Catalogue II of the Regional Oral History Office, 1980-1997

Title: Catalogue II of the Regional Oral History Office, 1980-1997

Poole , Cecil F. (b. 1914), Federal district and appellate judge. Civil Rights, Law, and the Federal Courts: The Life of Cecil Poole , 1914-1997, 1997, vii, 248 pp. Childhood and education; military service; private law practice in San Francisco; Assistant U.S. District Attorney, Northern District, California, 1951-1958; secretary, legal, to Governor Edmund G. Brown, 1958-1961; U.S. District Attorney, Northern District, 1961-1970; federal judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District, 1976-1979; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Judicial Circuit, 1979-1997; discusses sentencing guidelines, appellate procedures, challenges for an African-American lawyer and judge, Democratic politics, some significant appellate cases. Introduction by William Coblentz, longtime friend, and law firm partner, Coblentz, Cahen, McCabe & Breyer. Interviewed 1993 by Carole Hicke.

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Shaffer, Ellen, 1904-. Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1961.

Title: Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1961.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155899205 View

Barclay, Julius Preston, 1924-. Papers of Julius P. Barclay [manuscript], 1957-1976.

Title: Papers of Julius P. Barclay [manuscript], 1957-1976.

The "Personal File" of Julius P. Barclay as a rare book librarian and chief of the Department of Special Collections at Stanford University comprises the bulk of the collection. There are also a few letters concerning his hiring as curator of the Rare Books Department at the University of Virginia Library. Most of the correspondence is with fellow librarians and curators, book dealers or collectors, including Franklin Gilliam, Kenneth A. Lohf, Bill Matheson, Ward Ritchie, Ellen Shaffer, Madeleine Stern, and Marjorie Wynne. A few letters are concerned with his membership in various organizations. Several of the letters have annotations by Barclay identifiying the correspondents. The collection also contains one folder of research on David Laing.

ArchivalResource: 150 (ca.) items.

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Shaffer, Ellen, 1904-. Research materials for a thesis on some incidents in the life of Captain Don Fernando de Rivera y Moncada, 1954-1977 (bulk 1954-1957).

Title: Research materials for a thesis on some incidents in the life of Captain Don Fernando de Rivera y Moncada, 1954-1977 (bulk 1954-1957).

Contains research materials, including photostat copies from microfilm, typed transcriptions, and some translations, chiefly from a variety of sources in the collections of The Bancroft Library. Includes Shaffer's notes, drafts, and clippings related to her M.A. Thesis, presented to the Faculty of the Spanish Department, University of Southern California, in 1954. Also includes a small amount of correspondence from George P. Hammond, Director of The Bancroft Library, and the Rev. Maynard Geiger, OFM, of Mission Santa Barbara, who assisted Shaffer in her research.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.8 linear ft.)

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Earle, Genevieve B. (Genevieve Beaver), 1883-1956. The Emily Dickinson collection, 1931-1935.

Title: The Emily Dickinson collection, 1931-1935.

Papers pertaining to Emily Dickinson, collected by Mrs. William P. Earle. Includes: "Sketch", by Marguerite W. Truslow; "Some watchers of the skies", by Mrs. Earle; "Lavinia Dickinson", by Carolyn Wells; photostat of a letter from Emily Dickinson to Abiah Root (original at Mt. Holyoke College); letter from Edwin Markham to Charles W. Stoddard (referring to Dickinson as "queen of the quaint"); Earle's correspondence concerning Dickinsoniana and concerning the play Brittle heaven, by Vincent York and Frederick Pohl. Correspondents include Jane Dickinson, Ellen Shaffer, Frederick Pohl, Christopher Morley.

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

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Shaffer, Ellen, 1904-. Self-portrait of a bookwoman : oral history transcript / Ellen Shaffer ; with an introduction by William J. Monihan ; interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser in 1991. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1992.

Title: Self-portrait of a bookwoman : oral history transcript / Ellen Shaffer ; with an introduction by William J. Monihan ; interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser in 1991. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1992.

Shaffer recalls her career as a bookseller, librarian, and Director of the Silverado Museum. She speaks of other bookellers and collectors, including Edward Dawson, Mrs. E.L. Doheny, and Norman Strouse.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 1 v. (viii, 117 p., [1] folded leaf of plates) : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.Phonotapes: 9 cassette tapes.

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Shaffer, Ellen, 1904-. Ellen K. Shaffer papers, 1905-1993.

Title: Ellen K. Shaffer papers, 1905-1993.

The Ellen K. Shaffer papers portray a chronology of Shaffer's life from her early childhood in Leadville, Colorado; college years in California; employment with Dawson's Book Shop; service in the Women's Air Corps; librarian position at the Free Library of Philadelphia; teaching assignments; published works; and as curator of the Silverado Museum in St. Helena, California. Of particular note are her numerous, descriptive letters sent to her family and Dawson's staff while traveling and during her military service. The collection includes documents, certificates, correspondence, writings, and photographs of Shaffer, her family, high school classmates, colleagues, and friends.

ArchivalResource: 2 cartons, 1 oversize folder (2.6 linear feet)

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Homer D. Crotty papers and addenda, 1859-2011

Title: Homer D. Crotty papers and addenda 1859-2011

This collection consists primarily of the personal and professional papers of lawyer, philanthropist, and book collector Homer D. Crotty and his wife, Ida Hull Lloyd Crotty.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 22,236 items

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