Robert Hawley correspondence : Kensington, Calif., 1970-2011.

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Robert Hawley correspondence : Kensington, Calif., 1970-2011.

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Contains handwritten and typescript correspondence to an antiquarian bookseller and poetry publisher in California and his wife. Includes letters and publications from Archibald Hanna, the curator of the Western Americana collection at Yale University concerning book collecting, publishing activities of Oyez Press, and personal regards. Some correspondence from Hanna is on letterhead stationery of The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University Library. Also includes a copy of the booklet, "Every Man His Own Biographer" (inscribed to Hawley), and a published article, "Scholars as Enemies of Books", both written by Hanna. Also includes typescript notes and postcards rom Dick [i.e. Richard H.] Dillon and one greeting card from the Rodriguez [?] family traveling in Central America.

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Hanna, Archibald, 1916-2010

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Oyez (Firm)

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Hawley, Robert, 1929-

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Robert Hawley and Stevens van Strum started the Oyez Press in Berkeley, California, 1964. Robert Hawley was born in 1929 in Stockbridge, Wisconsin. He was a student at Black Mountain College in 1956, shortly before that institution closed its doors. By 1957, Hawley was working as a bookseller specializing in Western Americana at the Holmes Book Company, in Berkeley, California. Through Oyez Press, Robert Hawley and Stevens van Str...

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, in New Haven, Connecticut, is Yale University’s principal repository of literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books. Designed by Gordon Bunshaft of the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the Beinecke Library opened in October 1963. It was the gift of three Yale alumni—Edwin J. Beinecke, 1907; Frederick W. Beinecke, 1909S; Walter Beinecke, 1910—and their families, who intended it as “a symbol of the loyalty and devotion of three bro...

Campo, Allan

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Hawley, Dorothy

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Dillon, Richard H.

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Richard Hugh Dillon was born Jan. 16, 1924 in Sausalito, CA; AB (1948), AM (1949), and BLS (1950), UC Berkeley; asst. librarian (1950-53) and librarian (1953-79), Sutro Library, San Francisco; author of many articles and books on California, including: California trail herd (1961), The legend of Grizzly Adams (1966), Fool's gold : the biography of John Sutter (1967), Humbugs and heroes : a gallery of California pioneers (1970), and Delta country (1982). From the description of Papers...