William Whittingham Lyman memoirs : typescript

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William Whittingham Lyman memoirs : typescript

ca. 1969

A series of reminiscences relating to various topics: the Lyman family and other families settling in Napa Valley and the Lyman ranch; his wife, poet Helen Hoyt; his student days at the University of California, class of 1906; his teaching career at the University and at Los Angeles City College; friendships with authors and other well known people, including Ella Young, Jesse Stuart, Robinson Jeffers, Witter Bynner, Sara Bard Field and C.E.S. Wood, Vernon Patterson, David Greenhood, A. E. (George William Russell), Clark Ashton Smith and others.

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eng, Latn

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Russell, George William, 1867-1935

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George William Russell was born on April 10, 1867 in Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland to Thomas and Marianne (Armstrong) Russell. The family moved to Dublin in 1878, and Russell attended Dr. Power’s School in Harrington Street and night classes at the Metropolitan School of Art, before entering Rathmines School, which he left in 1884. He would later recall experiencing visions and trances during his youth, experiences which would cement his life-long interest in the supernatural. Those visions als...