Finding Aid for the Lady Agnes Anne Adams Papers, 1914-1954
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Arts and Humanities --Literature--Fiction
Arts and Humanities--Journalism
Social Sciences--Area and Interdisciplinary Studies --Women's Studies
Finding Aid for the Lady Agnes Anne Adams Papers, 1914-1954
Collection number: 1361
UCLA Library Special Collections
UCLA Library Special Collections staff
Los Angeles, CA
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- UCLA Library Special Collections
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- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Lady Agnes Anne Adams Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1914-1954
Collection number: 1361
Creator:
Adams, Lady (Agnes Anne), 1869-1942
Extent: 4 boxes (2.0 linear ft.)
1 oversize box
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Lady Adams (1869-1942) was born Agnes Anne Cook in Scotland. She wrote popular articles for newspapers and magazines. The
collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera related to Lady Adams's life and writings.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Maven Thorpe, 1979.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Lady Agnes Anne Adams Papers (Collection 1361). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
462140
Biography
Lady Adams was born Agnes Anne Cook in Scotland in 1869; married John Adams in Glasgow, 1893; his academic career took him
to the University of London, University of California at Berkeley, and UCLA and also on travels to New Zealand, Australia,
and South Africa; Lady Adams wrote popular articles for newspapers and magazines; widowed, 1934; died in Los Angeles, 1942;
posthumous selection and bibliography of writings published as
Tea-Time (1942).
Scope and Content
Collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera related to the life and writings of Lady Adams.
Includes material concerning her friend, Maven Thorpe.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Manuscripts (Boxes 1-2).
- Notes, fragments, clippings, speeches, photographs, ephemera (Box 3).
- Correspondence (Box 4).
- Posters and watercolor of New Zealand (Box 5).
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Adams, Lady (Agnes Anne), 1869-1942--Archives.
Thorpe, Maven.
Women journalists--Archival resources.
Boxes 1-2
Manuscripts by Lady Adams
Note
Note: Titles of manuscripts are in alphabetical order.
Box 1, Folder 1
Adventures Round Rattlesnakes. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 5 leaves with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf (2pp.) of notes.
Box 1, Folder 2
Ah, Promise. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 5 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 3
Aktin. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 4
Aliens Must Register. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 5 leaves. Typescript with holograph notes.
Scope and Content Note
With 5 variant copies.
Box 1, Folder 5
Ambiguous to Foreigners. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 variant copy.
Box 1, Folder 6
The American Dollar, Through an Englishwoman's Eyes. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 23 leaves with additional pages laid in. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 4 clippings.
Box 1, Folder 7
Animals' Cemetery. Cambridge, Massachusetts, undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves. With 1 clipping.
Box 1, Folder 8
Are We a Reticent Nation? n.p., undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections. Pages are numbered 49, 51, 52.
Box 1, Folder 9
The Art of Table Conversation. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 26 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections. Sewn with cotton cord in upper left corner.
Box 1, Folder 10
At Tea Time in the Nursery. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 1, Folder 11
Beethoven, Schubert, and Sullivan. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 23 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 1, Folder 12
Black Edward. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 variant copy, letter of rejection from the
Cape Times, and a leaf of holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 13
Black Edward on Religion and the Movies. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript with corrections.
Box 1, Folder 14
Bogeys. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 15
Boys and Books in Los Angeles. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 5 leaves. With 2pp. inserted. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 1, Folder 16
A Car in a Restaurant. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 5 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 17
The Case for Day-Dreaming. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 13 leaves. Typescript with manuscript corrections.
Scope and Content Note
Sir John Adams's name and address are on the title page.
Box 1, Folder 18
Change. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript.
Box 1, Folder 19
The Co-ed's Ideal Man. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript with holograph notes.
Scope and Content Note
With a variant copy (4 leaves) and 2 leaves of holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 20
The Collecting Germ. Los Angeles, 1935.
Physical Description: 6 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With a variant copy and 2 leaves of holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 21
Comforts for Kit. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 9 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 22
The Cop and the Bobby. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With rejection slip from an editor attached.
Box 1, Folder 23
Cues at the Pot Boilers. Los Angeles, January 1926.
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
With letter of transmittal from Mrs. Fred Stoddard, Glendale, to Mrs. J.M. Slemons, Los Angeles, July 26, 1942.
Box 1, Folder 24
Delta Kappa Gamma Interests. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 25
Dickens--Boston. 1842-1926.
Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With another typescript copy.
Box 1, Folder 26
The Differences Are... n.p., undated
Physical Description: 5 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 1, Folder 27
The Donkey's Well. Adapted from the German of Rudolph Baumbach. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 5 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 28
Drooling. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 1, Folder 29
The Eclipse of the Lecturer. n.p., 1930.
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
With a carbon copy. Published in the
London Times, February 23, 1930.
Box 1, Folder 30
Editors and Business Men. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 31
Embalming in America. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 1, Folder 32
Eternal Feminine in California. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 letter of regrets from the
Sunday London Times, and 2 leaves of holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 33
Every Day Drama in Los Angeles. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript. With 1 variant copy.
Scope and Content Note
Both are incomplete.
Box 1, Folder 34
Expensive Education. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 9 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 variant copy, 3 leaves of holograph notes, and 1 card from the
Herald.
Box 1, Folder 35
The Farmers' Market. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 1, Folder 36
Father and Son. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript.
Box 1, Folder 37
Feminine Interests in the Dominions. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 22 numbered leaves with additional pages laid in. Sewn with cotton cord in upper left corner.
Box 1, Folder 38
The First Christmas Cards. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves. With holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 3 clippings and 1 leaf of holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 39
Foot and Mouth Disease in California. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 8 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 variant copy and 1 leaf of holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 40
Foyles' for Books. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript with holograph notes.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 41
Free Lance Work in England. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 26 numbered leaves with additional pages laid in. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With clipping and 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 42
The Freight of the Mayflower. n.p., 1923.
Physical Description: 13 numbered leaves with additional pages laid in. Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
With author's note that this was read at the 303rd celebration of the signing of the Mayflower compact, Century Club Building,
San Francisco.
Box 1, Folder 43
The Future Farmers of America. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 9 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 44
Going Down. n.p., 1929
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
With a carbon copy. Published in the
Times Leader, June 25, 1929.
Box 1, Folder 45
Gossip from California. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 7 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections. 1 leaf of holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 46
The Green-Eyed Monster. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 9 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 47
Haydn in England. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 2 leaves holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 48
Hollywood--1915--1938. Los Angeles, 1938(?).
Physical Description: 6 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 3 leaves holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 49
How to Answer the Telephone in Los Angeles. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 50
Interesting Old Age. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 6 leaves. Typescript with manuscript corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With note by Majl Ewing (?) on title page.
Box 1, Folder 51
An Italian Physician in Edinburgh. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 8 leaves. Typescript (carbon).
Scope and Content Note
With another copy.
Box 1, Folder 52
Jonathan and Jonathane. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript.
Box 1, Folder 53
A 'Knott Garden'. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 7 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 54
Lend Me Your Ears. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 7 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 55
Letter from Hollywood. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 1, Folder 56
Li'l Dawg Dingoah. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 9 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 2 leaves.holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 57
Literary Lights of London. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 47 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
There are 25 numbered leaves and additional pages laid in.
Box 1, Folder 58
Long-Tailed Birds. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With letter of regrets from the
New Zealand Herald.
Box 1, Folder 59
The Married Daughter Goes Home for a Visit. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Signed with the initials A.A.A. on both the title page and at the end of the article.
Scope and Content Note
With 2 variant copies and 1 leaf of holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 60
The Ministering Angel Legend. [London], May 8, 1933.
Physical Description: 15 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With a mimeograph copy, 8 leaves. An address given to the graduating class of Bishop Johnson College of Nursing at their commencement
exercises, St. Paul's Cathedral.
Box 1, Folder 61
Mirandy. Los Angeles, 1938.
Physical Description: 5 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With a clipping of the article which appeared in
Cornhill Magazine.
Box 1, Folder 62
Missing Act. n.p., 1928.
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript (carbon). Incomplete.
Scope and Content Note
Part of a manuscript for posthumous publication(?).
Box 1, Folder 63
More Every Day Drama in Los Angeles. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 1, Folder 64
Mostly about Movie Magnates. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 6 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 variant copy, 6 leaves and 1 leaf of holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 65
Musical Proverbs. Los Angeles,
ca. 1939.
Physical Description: 5 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With a letter of regrets from
The Music Teacher &
Piano Student, London, and 2 leaves of holograph notes.
Box 1, Folder 66
My Godson. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 1
Nightmare. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 2
Noon News. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 9 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 3
Nos Vacances en France et La Différence Entre le Lycée Français et the American High School. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 10 leaves, 9 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 2, Folder 4
Noted Here and There. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript.
Box 2, Folder 5
Odd Size. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 variant copy and 1 leaf of holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 6
On a Certain Knack in Asking Questions. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 2, Folder 7
On Boners. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 7 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 8
Other People's Treats. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 2 leaves holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 9
Our Shadows. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 5 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 variant copy and 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 10
Our Thomas Again. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 6 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 11
Overheard at Dresden. Hampstead, undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 2, Folder 12
Paris to Nantes in a Month. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 13
The Paying Guest, and the Jewed Hostess. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 14
Plantation Poet. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript (carbon).
Box 2, Folder 15
Points of View. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections, initialed A.A.A. at the end of the article.
Scope and Content Note
With another copy and 1 leaf of holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 16
Pop Goes the Weasel. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 7 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With a note suggesting another title, The dollar through an Englishwoman's eyes.
Box 2, Folder 17
Practical Room. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 5 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections and 1 leaf of holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 18
Precepts for Italian Children, Written in 1547. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With another copy and 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 19
The Psychic Sense. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 6 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 20
The Psychology of Boredom. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 5 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 2, Folder 21
Pudding Number Three Hundred and Sixty Five. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 6 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 22
Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and Mrs. Grundy. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 18 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 2, Folder 23
Radiance. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 5 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 2, Folder 24
Reply to Mary Borden. n.p.,
ca. 1928.
Physical Description: 5 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
This is a response to English Mustard for the American Woman by Mary Borden which appeared in
Harper's Magazine, July 14, 1928. 2 clippings are included.
Box 2, Folder 25
Retranchement. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Holograph.
Box 2, Folder 26
The Romance of Black Edward. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript with corrections.
Box 2, Folder 27
Savants at Play. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 8 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections. Signed at the end of the article.
Box 2, Folder 28
Scotland - 1894. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 11 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 29
Seen and Heard in Los Angeles. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 2, Folder 30
Sermon Topics in Los Angeles. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 variant copy and 2 leaves of holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 31
Seven Against Sylvia. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 5 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 32
Ship Models. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
With another copy, 3 leaves, typescript (carbon).
Box 2, Folder 33
Sir J.M. Barrie, the Puck of Stageland. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 21 numbered pages, with additional pages laid in. Sewn with cotton cord in the upper left corner.
Scope and Content Note
With 9 clippings, brochure issued by the Women's Christian Temperance Union, New Zealand, and 2 leaves of holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 34
The Sirens. Adapted from
The Odyssey, by Lady Adams. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 35
Some Stories from the Other Side. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 9 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 36
S.O.S. from Boarding School. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 37
Special Formula. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 6 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 2 leaves ephemera and 2 leaves holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 38
Stand and Stare. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 39
Standardized America. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 8 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 40
Stopping Off at New Orleans. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 2, Folder 41
A Suggestion. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
With 2 leaves holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 42
That Knuckle-End of England. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 variant copy, letter of regrets from the
New Zealand Herald, and 1 p. holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 43
That's Not Cricket. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript.
Box 2, Folder 44
They Asked Us to Dine. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 5 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 45
Things Heard and Seen. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 5 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 46
Things Seen and Heard. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 2, Folder 47
Thomas. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 48
Three Pianos. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 49
To Be Continued. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 50
Tramps in America. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 51
Twelve Stories. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 10 leaves. Typescript.
Box 2, Folder 52
Two Californian Educationists. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 7 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With card from
The Auckland Star and 1 leaf of holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 53
Uncontrolled. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
With another copy.
Box 2, Folder 54
Unfinished Dramas in Life. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript (carbon).
Box 2, Folder 55
An Unrehearsed Ending. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 56
[Untitled]. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 10 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes. Beginning, Their wedding had been a nine days' wonder...
Box 2, Folder 57
War Souvenirs. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript.
Box 2, Folder 58
The Waur Game. Late August 1914. Somewhere in Scotland. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript.
Box 2, Folder 59
Weddings While You Wait. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 2, Folder 60
Which Sir Walter? Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 7 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 61
Words Wanted. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 62
The Wordsworths in Scotland. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 6 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 63
Young American Love. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 18 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 4 leaves holograph notes. Sewn with cotton string in upper left corner.
Box 2, Folder 64
The Younger the Richer. Los Angeles, undated
Physical Description: 6 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
With 1 leaf holograph notes.
Box 2, Folder 65
[Suggestions for
Punch]. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 55 items. Holograph and typescript.
Box 3
Notes, Fragments, Clippings, Speeches, Photographs, Ephemera
Box 3, Folder 1
Notes, fragments.
Physical Description: 27 items.
Box 3, Folder 2
Poems for children collected by Lady Adams.
Physical Description: 8 items, 4 clippings.
Scope and Content Note
With a note by Majl Ewing regarding Lady Adams's intention to collect children's poems and set them to music.
Box 3, Folder 3
Untitled speech. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 6 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
Beginning, I regret that I am not going to be able to talk to you in French today...
Box 3, Folder 4
Untitled story. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 8 leaves, folded (15pp.). Holograph.
Scope and Content Note
Beginning, People had always said it would happen --...
Box 3, Folder 5
Regarding J.M. Barrie. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 2 leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
Beginning, You remember the story in 'A Window in Thrums,'...
Box 3, Folder 6
Untitled story. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 4 leaves, folded (10pp.). Holograph.
Scope and Content Note
Beginning, I am condemned to death...
Box 3, Folder 7
Untitled speech. n.p., undated
Physical Description: 3 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
Regarding Percy Grainger.
Box 3, Folder 8
Clippings and other ephemera collected by Lady Adams.
Physical Description: 7 items.
Scope and Content Note
Includes a menu from the Stanley Hotel, Murree.
Box 3, Folder 9
Articles by and about Lady Adams.
Physical Description: 28 clippings and 8 loose pages from a scrapbook.
Box 3, Folder 10
Photographs.
Physical Description: 21 items.
Scope and Content Note
Includes photograph of a portrait of Sir John Adams and several photographs of Lady Adams.
Box 3, Folder 11
Clippings regarding the death of Lady Adams and related material.
Physical Description: 5 items.
Scope and Content Note
Includes articles regarding a memorial volume,
Tea-Time, composed of Lady Adams's articles compiled by her friends, and a memorial booklet,
Lady Adams by W. Bertrand Stevens.
Box 3, Folder 12
Notes by Majl Ewing.
ca.1942(?).
Physical Description: 4 leaves. Holograph.
Scope and Content Note
Notes for the memorial volume,
Tea-Time.
Box 3, Folder 13
Material related to the production of
Tea-Time,
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror, 1942-1945.
Physical Description: 17 items.
Scope and Content Note
Includes page proofs, a prospectus, typescript and holograph notes, and a copy of the book.
Box 3, Folder 14
Cahier de Daisy Cook, Appartenant à Littérature. [Villa] Richemont, Genève, Swisse, [
ca.1885-86].
Physical Description:
ca. 75pp. Holograph.
Box 3, Folder 15
Bulletin of the Garden Club of America. vol.48 no.6 (November 1960).
Physical Description: 2 items. 2 copies.
Scope and Content Note
With article on Beatrix Farrand on p. 26.
Box 3, Folder 16
Reef Point Gardens Bulletin. Bar-Harbor, Maine. vol.1 no.1-16 (August 1946-June 1956).
Physical Description: 16 items.
Box 4, Folder 1
Adams, Agnes Anne (Cook). Letters to Mrs. Spencer (Frances) Thorpe, 1934-1936.
Physical Description: 5 items.
Box 4, Folder 2
Adams, Agnes Anne (Cook). Invitation for Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Thorpe. undated
Physical Description: 1 item. Printed card with holograph message.
Box 4, Folder 3
Anderson, Maggie. Letter to Lady Agnes Adams. undated
Physical Description: 1 item. (Incomplete). Torn and mended with packing tape.
Box 4, Folder 4
Barnett, P.A. and Annie. Letters to John and Agnes Adams. 1915.
Physical Description: 3 items.
Box 4, Folder 5
Bliss, Mildred. Letters to Mrs. Spencer Thorpe. 1941-1945.
Physical Description: 3 items.
Box 4, Folder 6
Cook, R. Haldane. Letters to Majl Ewing. 1942.
Physical Description: 2 items.
Scope and Content Note
With a pencil sketch and photograph enclosed.
Box 4, Folder 7
Cockerell, Theo. D.A. Letters to Lady Adams. 1940.
Physical Description: 3 items.
Box 4, Folder 8
Cornhill Magazine, London. Letter to Lady Adams, 1935.
Physical Description: 1 item. Signed Gorell.
Box 4, Folder 9
Dobbin. Letters to Lady Adams, 1915.
Physical Description: 2 items.
Box 4, Folder 10
Fortnightly Review, London. Letter to Lady Adams, 1930.
Physical Description: 1 item. Signed H.H.L. Dickson.
Box 4, Folders 11-24
Farrand, Beatrix. Letters to Mrs. Spencer Thorpe.
Box 4, Folder 11
1940-1941.
Physical Description: 8 items.
Box 4, Folder 12
1942-1943.
Physical Description: 8 items.
Box 4, Folder 13
1944.
Physical Description: 14 items.
Box 4, Folder 14
1945.
Physical Description: 8 items.
Box 4, Folder 15
1946.
Physical Description: 11 items.
Box 4, Folder 16
1947.
Physical Description: 13 items.
Box 4, Folder 17
1948.
Physical Description: 19 items.
Box 4, Folder 18
1949.
Physical Description: 12 items.
Box 4, Folder 19
1950.
Physical Description: 9 items.
Box 4, Folder 20
1951-1952.
Physical Description: 9 items.
Box 4, Folder 21
1953-1954.
Physical Description: 11 items.
Box 4, Folder 22
1955-1956.
Physical Description: 9 items.
Box 4, Folder 23
1957.
Physical Description: 6 items.
Box 4, Folder 24
Letters and cards, undated
Physical Description: 11 items.
Scope and Content Note
Includes 3 envelopes.
Box 4, Folder 25
Ephemera regarding Beatrix Farrand.
Physical Description: 4 items.
Scope and Content Note
Contents: 3 postcards of Reef Point, Beatrix Farrand's home in Bar Harbor, Maine, and a note regarding Beatrix Farrand's training
in landscape design.
Box 4, Folder 26
Freeman, Allen and Katherine. Letter to Dr. and Mrs. [John] Adams. undated
Physical Description: 2 items.
Box 4, Folder 27
Grand Central Terminal, New York. Letter to Mrs. Spencer Thorpe, 1954.
Physical Description: 1 item. Signed E.G. Fischer.
Box 4, Folder 28
Howells, Mildred. Letter to Lady Adams, 1934.
Physical Description: 1 item.
Box 4, Folder 29
Knopf (Alfred A.) Incorporated, New York. Letter to Lady Adams, 1940.
Physical Description: 1 item.
Box 4, Folder 30
Moore, Ernest Carroll and Dorothea. 1936, 1942, undated
Physical Description: 4 items.
Box 4, Folder 31
Osgood, Charles G. Letter to Lady Adams, 1935.
Physical Description: 1 item.
Box 4, Folder 32
Rackham, Edyth. Letter to Lady Adams, undated
Physical Description: 1 item.
Box 4, Folder 33
Scott, Jessie. Letter to Lady Adams, 1939.
Physical Description: 1 item.
Box 4, Folder 34
Stone, William Standish. Letter to Lady Adams, 1940.
Physical Description: 1 item.
Scope and Content Note
With prospectus for
Teri Taro From Bora Bora by William Standish Stone enclosed.
Box 4, Folder 35
Stover, Isabelle. Letter to Mrs. Spencer Thorpe, 1952, 1957.
Physical Description: 3 items.
Box 4, Folder 36
Unidentified.
Physical Description: 2 items.
Box 4, Folder 37
Valley Club of Montecito, Santa Barbara. Letters to Mrs. Spencer Thorpe, 1945, 1951.
Physical Description: 2 items.
Oversize Box 5
Announcements for the John Adams Lecture, UCLA, for the years 1938-1939, 1940-1941.
Physical Description: 2 items.
Oversize Box 5
Whakarewarewa [?], New Zealand. 1899.
Physical Description: 1 item. 29 × 22.5 cm. Watercolor. Signed ASB.