Typescripts, scrapbooks, photographs, and miscellany of the writer Ella Costillo Bennett, her son, Ray Bennett, a screen actor and writer; and her daughter, Mary L. Bennett. Materials of Mary Bennett consist of photographs of family members and pets, correspondence concerning her collections of family archival materials, an illustrated scrapbook (1907-1908), and clippings and ephemera concerning support of Socialist political activist Michael Hannon (1966). Materials of Ella Bennett consist mainly of typescripts of poems and plays, together with a folder with clippings pasted in about the Tom Mooney trial, and pages from a scrapbook. Typescripts by Ray Bennett are mostly fiction, with one screenplay (Hollywood cowboy) and one essay on acting. Of these typescripts, three are in bound notebooks and are based on personal experiences in Calif.; Beds 13 and 15, Ward 300; Adonis lives again; and The shelter of the cloth. The notebooks include some photos and miscellany pasted or tipped in. Other materials of Ray Bennett include newspaper clippings, photographs, and miscellany. The collection contains handwritten annotations by Mary L. Bennett throughout. Includes a typescript (9 p.) of an article, The graveyard of Dolores Mission, by Ella Costillo Bennett; and a typed report by Fay Bennett, Thecondition of farm workers in 1961, written for the Board of Directors of the National Sharecroppers Fund, Inc., of which Fay Bennett served as Executive Secretary.
