Gelett Burgess papers, circa 1873-1951.

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Gelett Burgess papers, circa 1873-1951.

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Part I: Correspondence; manuscripts of novels, stories, poems, articles, plays, etc.; manuscript of incomplete autobiography; notebooks; genealogical and biographical data; personalia; bibliographies; scrapbooks; clippings. A few papers of his wife, Estelle (Loomis) Burgess also included. Part II: 29 letters from Burgess to Oliver Onions, 1948-1951; obituary for Burgess written by Onions; a report on an interview with Onions and Berta Ruck by Prof. James J. Lynch; other related items. Part III: On film only (2 reels) Miscellaneous Burgess items including his M.A. thesis for Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Parts I-II : 6 cartons, 7 boxes, 1 portfolio, 1 volume, 2 oversize volumes, 2 oversize folders (12 linear feet)Part III : 2 microfilm reels : negative (Rich. 557:5) and positive.

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Onions, Oliver, 1873-1961

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Author. From the description of Papers, 1905-1911. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 28084787 The British writer George Oliver Onions was born November 13, 1872, in Bradford, England; he died April 9, 1961. After studying art at the National Arts Training Schools (now the Royal Academy) in London, and then in Paris, Onions began his career as a commercial artist. Onions legally changed his name to George Oliver in 1918, but continued to publish ghost sto...

Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978

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Lynch, James J.

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Burgess, Estelle Loomis.

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Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951

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American author and humorist Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) was educated as an engineer and worked briefly for a railroad. He taught topographical drawing between 1891 and 1894 at the University of California, Berkeley until he lost his position after deliberately toppling a campus statue he found to be an eyesore. Burgess founded the Lark, a humour magazine based in San Francisco, published from 1895 to 1897. Burgess created nonsense rhymes and cartoons such as "The Purple Cow: Reflections on a Myt...