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Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918. Hubert Howe Bancroft letters, 1882-1918, to his family.

Title: Hubert Howe Bancroft letters, 1882-1918, to his family.

Primarily letters to his wife Matilda and his son Griffing, commenting on financial difficulties and the reorganization of The History Company after the 1886 fire, the sale of The Bancroft Library, the development of his farm and other property in San Diego and Griffing Bancroft's management of his business affairs there, his business and property investments in San Francisco, family matters, etc., and advising Griffing on his writing efforts. Included also are some letters written by his wife to him and to their children and a few inter-family letters written by the children; a few letters written to the Bancrofts including one by Porfirio Díaz; notes; clippings, etc.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (1.7 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86122421 View

Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918. Hubert Howe Bancroft family papers, circa 1835-1960.

Title: Hubert Howe Bancroft family papers, circa 1835-1960.

Contains letters from bookseller George H. Derby, concerning Hubert Howe Bancroft's proposed California business venture in 1854. Includes family correspondence, passports, genealogies, memoirs, and sons', Paul and Griffing's report cards from Yale, along with miscellaneous writings and documents, and letters from Matilda Bancroft concerning property matters. Also includes papers and clippings of Paul Bancroft concerning his role in San Francisco politics, and of Philip Bancroft relating to his political activities in the Republican Party, including minutes of the Republican County Committee of San Francisco, 1910-1912, and a telegram from Hiram W. Johnson, as well as his run for U.S. Senate in 1938. Additional clippings relate to the dedication of H.H. Bancroft's Valencia Street library and Spring Valley adobe as Calif. historical monuments in the 1960s. Scrapbook contains photographs of Hubert Howe Bancroft (portraits circa 1850-1912), his parents, sister, first and second wives, children, and grandchildren. Also includes family crest, genealogies, and clippings relating to various family members, including Paul and Griffing's political careers, the Bancroft Library, and H.H. Bancroft's literary endeavors. Several family homes and farms are pictured, most notable the Mt. Diablo Fruit Farm (Contra Costa Co., Calif.) and Helix Farms (Spring Valley, Calif.) Two scrapbooks containing newspaper clipping reviews of Hubert H. Bancroft's book, The Book of the Fair. Each clipping is annotated with the publication name, location and date published.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes, 1 volume, 2 oversize volumes (circa 2.25 linear feet)

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J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

Title: J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

J. B. Matthews (1894-1966) was a Methodist missionary, college professor, author, lecturer, and prominent conservative spokesman. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, statements, speeches, reprints, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, press releases, petitions, and other printed material, chiefly 1930-1969. The principal focus of the collection relates to the work and research of Matthews and his associates in the area of anti-communism, particularly in connection with Matthews' role as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1945), Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate (1953), and a consultant for John A. Clements Associates. Many of the organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and persons represented in the collection have various leftist, socialist, communist, radical, or pacifist (especially anti-Vietnam War) connections.Individuals represented in the files include Ralph Abernathy, Bella Abzug, Roy Cohn, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Harrington, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lash, Joseph McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Benjamin Mandel, Richard Nixon, Aristotle Onassis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Linus Pauling, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Louis Untermeyer.

ArchivalResource: 479 Linear Feet; 307,000 Items

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Bancroft, Griffing. Griffing Bancroft letter to his aunt, Mrs. Philip Bancroft : Los Angeles : typescript, signed, 1937 Feb. 22.

Title: Griffing Bancroft letter to his aunt, Mrs. Philip Bancroft : Los Angeles : typescript, signed, 1937 Feb. 22.

Enclosing school song of the Bancroft Junior High School, Los Angeles, named for Hubert Howe Bancroft.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf. 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25638417 View

William D. Workman collection 1957 Workman, William D. collection

Title: William D. Workman collection 1957 Workman, William D. collection

This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, a typescript, and a photograph related to William D. Workman's appearance on a television program about the integration of schools in the South, originally aired on September 29, 1957. Workman received 23 responses over the following days. Writers most frequently expressed their support of segregated schools, and many also commented on race relations and other political issues concerning the South.

ArchivalResource: 42 items

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Bancroft, Griffing. Griffing Bancroft diaries, mss., 1887-1895.

Title: Griffing Bancroft diaries, mss., 1887-1895.

Kept by the son of Hubert Howe Bancroft from the age of eight, recording life of the Bancroft family in San Diego and in San Francisco, on a farm in Contra Costa County, in Mexico, in the East and in Europe.

ArchivalResource: 9 v. ; 17 cm.v. 809, 1894-1895 : 1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 819:10)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27042021 View