Ruth Comfort Mitchell Collection, ca. 1879-1961 (bulk 1930s-1940s)

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Ruth Comfort Mitchell Collection, ca. 1879-1961 (bulk 1930s-1940s)

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The collection contains correspondence, typescripts of articles and speeches, research files, photographs, and ephemera of American author Ruth Comfort Mitchell. Correspondents include William C. Morrow, Robert W. Service, and Wendell Wilkie. Much of the collection relates to Mitchell's research and writing on the migrant question of the late 1930s, after the publication of The Grapes of Wrath, as seen from the perspective of the area farmers and ranchers. The collection also contains a number of books, including some by Ruth Comfort Mitchell, which have been cataloged separately and which may be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog.

1 linear foot (2 document boxes and 1 thin oversize box)

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8171937

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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Mitchell, Ruth Comfort, 1882-1954

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Ruth Comfort Mitchell was born on July 21, 1882 in San Francisco. She spent a good deal of time in Los Gatos, California, where her parents owned a summer home. It was here that her first poem was published in the local newspaper, when she was 14 years old. After she married Sanborn Young in 1914, the couple moved to New York City. Within two years, she had a play opening on Broadway and a published volume of poems, to be followed soon after by her first novel. The Youngs soon returned to Los Ga...

Young, Sanborn.

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