Stewart Hall Holbrook papers, 1904-1965.

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Stewart Hall Holbrook papers, 1904-1965.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39971668

The Stewart Hall Holbrook papers document aspects of the long and varied career of the popular writer, historian and painter who spent much of his life in the Pacific Northwest. The collection contains correspondence, a diary (with entries from 1904 to 1964), ephemera, manuscripts (drafts in various stages of completion, as well as galley proofs for The Columbia River and Mr. Otis), notebooks, publications (including individual issues of detective and pulp fiction magazines containing stories by Holbrook), scrapbooks and a sound recording (of a 1959 speech given for the Lincoln High School's Parent Teacher's Association in Seattle, Washington). Correspondents include Samuel Hopkins Adams, Lucius Beebe, Lewis Gannett, Nard Jones and H.L. Mencken. Also included is material from organizations with which Holbrook was associated, including the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Keep Washington Green and the Oregon Freelance Writers Club.

35.26 cubic feet (60 boxes, 1 folder)7 microfilm reels.

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