Description
Mainly correspondence; manuscripts of his stories, articles and movie scenarios; clippings; some personal accounts; and notebooks.
Included also are some papers of his wife, Mary Roberts Coolidge, consisting of correspondence, manuscripts of articles, memoranda
books, clippings and reference materials pertaining mainly to her teaching career and women's suffrage.
Background
Dane Coolidge was born in Natick, Massachusetts, on March 24, 1873. He was brought up in Riverside, California, and received
his higher education at Stanford and Harvard Universities. From 1895 to 1900 he was a field collector of mammals, birds and
reptiles in Nevada, Arizona and Southern California for a number of institutions, including Stanford University, the British
Museum, U. S. National Zoological Park, and the U. S. National Museum in Italy and France. On July 30, 1906, he married Nary
Roberts, and the couple eventually made their home in Berkeley, California. In 1910, his first novel, Hidden Water, was published, and this was followed by a long succession of novels and some non-fiction, with California and Southwest locales.
He and his wife collaborated on two books, The Navajo Indians (1930) and The Last of the Seris (1939). In addition, Coolidge contributed short stories and illustrated articles to several magazines, including Youth's Companion, Sunset, Redbook, Harper's and Country Life in America. Mr. Coolidge died in 1940; Mrs. Coolidge, in 1945.
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