Papers, 1910-1932.

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Papers, 1910-1932.

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Includes Comfort's correspondence, notes, drafts of his novels, and printed items. Manuscripts include typescripts (with extensive holograph corrections and additions) of: his first novel, Routledge rides; the novel, Fate knocks at the door; Red fleece (an autobiographical work); and the novels Midstream, and Apache (one of the first novels about the southwest). Other typescripts include: The book of divided hearts, From these beginnings (an unpublished fragment), and an untitled and unpublished typescript (apparently complete). From South Pasadena, California, Comfort issued 2 periodicals: The glass hive, and Reconstruction letters, (both were chiefly concerned with spiritualism). Major correspondents are John Haynes Holmes and Rudolph Wurlitzer.

5 document boxes (2.5 linear feet)

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 6864717

University of California, Los Angeles

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Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932

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Comfort was a southern California novelist, who ended his career as the messiah of a Hollywood cult. From the description of Papers, 1910-1932. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 155180744 American writer. From the description of Letter, 1928 May 19, South Pasadena, Calif., to Perry Walton. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184907503 U.S. novelist and newspaperman. From the description of Correspondence, 1920-1...

Wurlitzer, Rudolph

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Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964

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American clergyman and reformer. From the description of The voice of God is calling : autograph poem signed, 1930 Nov. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269557327 John Haynes Homes (1879-1964) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised near Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1902 and Harvard Divinity School in 1904. He received honorary doctorates from Benares Hindu University, Rollins College, and Meadville Theological School. He served as...