Collection of material about Bret Harte, 1850-1935.

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Collection of material about Bret Harte, 1850-1935.

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Collection consists of extracts of writings by Harte from periodicals, newspaper clippings by and about Harte, original photographs of Harte, two books, dealer catalogs, related correspondence with Morse, and a collection of clippings relating to the Pony Express, 1904-35. Includes George Sterling's book, Art and life (1920), and Harte's copy of Ermete Pierotti's, Nomenclature des rues, impasses, passages ... de Paris (1878).

12 boxes (6 linear ft.)1 oversize box.

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7436238

University of California, Los Angeles

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Harte, Bret, 1836-1902

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Author and journalist. From the description of Papers of Bret Harte [manuscript] 1859-1901. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647940411 Harte served as editor of the Overland Monthly, 1868-1870. From the description of ALS, 1869 April 17 : San Francisco, to Mrs. Emily Gould, Rome. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 16700642 From the description of ALS, 1868 July 5 : San Francisco, to [Emily Gould]. (Copley Press, J S Copl...

Morse, Willard S. (Willard Samuel), 1856-1935

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Morse was born on June 12, 1856 in Ware, MA; at age 15 he began an apprenticeship in a machine shop in Taunton; moved to the West, where he first worked as a clerk in the Denver post office, and then in the office of the Consolidated Virginia mine at Virginia City, NV; later became a mining executive in the West and Mexico; moved to New York City in 1906, where he was made a director and member of the executive committee of the American Smelter Securities Co., Chilean Exploration Co., and Braden...