Papers of Margaret Collier Graham, 1821-1934 (bulk 1876-1896).

Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954

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American educator, author and editor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : Greensboro, Vt., 25 July 1904, and Boston, 10 October 1904, to Harry Harkness Flagler, 1904 Oct. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270674901 American educator, essayist, and editor of the Atlantic Monthlyfrom 1899-1909. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Cambridge, Mass., to Edward Wagenknecht, 1936 Jan. 28 and 1938 Apr. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat...

Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928

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Charles F. Lummis (1859-1928) was born in Lynn, Massachusettts. He became an editor for the Los Angeles Times on February 1, 1884, working for Harrison Gray Otis. He promoted interest in the American Southwest with his photography and articles. Lummis helped found the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles and the School of American Research in Santa Fe. The items from librarian Mary Sarber concern her research of Mr. Lummis' writings. From the guide to the Charles F. Lummis Collection, S27...

Trumbull, Annie Eliot, 1857-1949

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Graham, Donald McIntyre.

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Smith, Gertrude, 1860-1917

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Gertrude Smith, nee Jane Nelson, was an American writer of fiction and of children's books. Smith had stories published in all the leading magazines of her time including HARPER'S BAZAR, and some have been collected in the volume THE ROUSING OF MRS. POTTER. ARABELLA AND ARAMINTA STORIES was first published in Boston by Copeland and Day in 1895. Smith was born in California; having spent her childhood years in the Middle West, she often wrote of the life of the prairies in her storie...

Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909

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Gilder authored the book, THE NEW DAY, A POEM IN SONGS AND SONNETS... (New York : Scribner, Armstrong and Company, 1876) in which this is tipped in. It contains the bookplate of Brainerd. From the description of Autograph letter signed to Ira Hutchinson Brainerd, [1876?] Dec. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398276 Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909), American poet and editor, served as editor-in-chief of Scribner's Monthly and its successor The Century Illustrated Monthly...

Heald, Franklin H.

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Willard, Charles Dwight, 1866-1914

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Charles D. Willard, newspaperman, author, and publicity director, was born in Illinois and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1883. He moved to California and worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles times and the Herald newspapers. In 1891 he became secretary of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and in 1894 Willard started the magazine, The land of sunshine (taken over soon afterward by Charles Fletcher Lummis). In 1897 he was made manager of the Los Angeles express newspaper. ...

Collier, Jane E.

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Wayne, Mary Collier

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Harraden, Beatrice, 1864-1936

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Beatrice Harraden was an English author and activist for women's suffrage. She attended Queen's College and Bedford College, earning degrees in mathematics and classics. She became a popular author of novels and short stories, and also wrote essays, plays, and children's books. Her fiction generally features strong female characters, reflecting her deep involvement with the women's suffrage movement. She founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903 in an effort to facilitate the activi...

Coolbrith, Ina D. (Ina Donna), 1842?-1928

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Kenney is a Mormon author and historian. From the guide to the Scott G. Kenney research materials, 1820-1984, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Ina Coolbrith was born as Josephine Donna Smith (niece of Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith) in Nauvoo, Illinois in 1841or 1842 (accounts differ). Following her father's death, which roughly coincided with the Mormons' expulsion from Illinois, Josephine's mother took her to St. Louis and married William Pickett. In 1850 the family ...

Foote, Mary Hallock, 1847-1938

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American writer and illustrator, one of the finest western local-color realists of the late 19th century. From the description of Letter, 1896 Nov. 28, Grass Valley, to Charles P. Scott. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122387683 American author and illustrator. From the description of Letter to Julia Finch, 1917 August 16. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 55531434 Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938) was an American novelist and short story writer....

Martin, John, 1865-1947

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American children's author born in Brooklyn, New York. Well-known for his magazine for children, John Martin's book. From the description of Papers, 1894-1947. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 26533290 ...

Graham, Margaret Collier, 1850-1910

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Margaret Collier Graham (1850-1910) was a California writer. She, her husband, Donald McIntyre Graham, and her sister, Jane E. Collier, moved to California after her husband fell ill with tuberculosis in 1876. After living a few months in Anaheim, they moved to Pasadena. Margaret wrote stories which were published in the Argonaut and the Californian, and in later years she published in the Atlantic monthly, Century magazine, and Land of sunshine. Her books include Stories of the foot-hills and T...

Collier, Lydia Ann.

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Raitt, Helen

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American author born March 28, 1905, wife of oceanographer Russell W. Raitt, founder of UCSD women's organization Oceanids. Raitt accompanied her husband on Capricorn Expedition in 1952-1953 and described her experience in her first book, Exploring the Deep Pacific. Her visit to Tonga led to a lifelong interest in the island and led her to found Tofua Press in San Diego in 1972. A series of radio broadcasts on the history of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography led to the publication with Bea...

McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949

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Journalist, writer of books for boys. From the description of S.S. McClure check to James Barnes, 1898 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53795304 American publisher. From the description of Letter to Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1892 October 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51846140 ...

Collier, William, 1845-1928.

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