Guide to the Clarence Urmy Collection, 1900-1923

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Guide to the Clarence Urmy Collection, 1900-1923



California State Library

Sacramento, California

Contact Information:

  • California History Room
  • California State Library
  • Library and Courts Building II
  • 900 N. Street, Room 200
  • P.O. Box 942837
  • Sacramento, California 94237-0001
  • Phone: (916) 654-0176
  • Fax: (916) 654-8777
  • Email: cslcal@library.ca.gov
  • URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/
Processed by:
The California State Library staff
Encoded by:
Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1999 California State Library. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: Clarence Urmy Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1900-1923
Box Number: 456-469
Creator: Urmy, Clarence Thomas, 1858-1923
Extent: 14 boxes
Repository: California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language: English.

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Clarence Urmy Collection, California State Library.

Access Points

Urmy, Clarence Thomas, 1858-1923
Theater--California--San Jose
Poets, American--California

Contents

The collection includes theatrical and musical announcements and programs and Urmy=s reviews for the period for 1910 through 1922 for works performed at San Jose=s Victory Theatre; also letters on personal and literary concerns for the period from 1900 through 1923.

Biography

Clarence Urmy was a California poet born in San Francisco, July 10, 1858. He was educated at Napa College, and lived for most of his life in San Jose. He published three books of verse and used the pseudonym Feliz Jose. He was the drama cric for the San Jose Mercury and a teacher at San Jose Normal School. He was also the organist at Trinity Episcopal Church in San Jose. Urmy died June 2, 1923.

Correspondents

  • A. C. McClurg & Co.
  • Acworth, Ruth Beard
  • Almy, C. M. [?]
  • Anthony, Sister
  • Applegate, Jean
  • Applegate, Leon
  • "Arch"
  • Arthur P. Schmidt Co.
  • Atlantic Monthly (Boston, Mass.: 1857)
  • Bachrodt, Walter L.
  • Balch, George
  • Balch, Madam
  • Barber, Mary D.
  • Barnhart, Harry
  • Beach, Mary M.
  • Beckman, Gertrude
  • Benet, William Rose, 1886-1950
  • Blake, Wesley C.
  • Book Club of California
  • Booker, A.
  • Boston Music Company
  • Bray, Nita B.
  • Brown, Edward
  • Bull, Jerome C.
  • Butler, Lori
  • Butterworth, Sydney H.
  • California Outlook, The
  • Carmen, Bliss, 1861-1929
  • Carson, Charles
  • Chaffin, Lucien G.
  • Challen, Victor Bruce
  • Christian Herald, The
  • Churchill, Edward A.
  • Clarke, Robert Coningsby
  • Clayton, [Ester}
  • [Coign], Sidney
  • Collister, E. [?]
  • Cooke, [Parker Francis]
  • Coolbrith, Ina D. (Ina Donna), 1842?-1928
  • Crissey, Paul
  • Cross, Evelyn F.
  • Curtis Publishing Company
  • D. Appleton & Co.
  • Davies, Acton
  • Davis, Chas.
  • DeKoven, Reginald, 1859-1920
  • Dennis, C. M.
  • "Dick"
  • Dickinson, Perry Y.
  • Dougherty, W. J.
  • Douglas, George
  • Doxey, William
  • Eastman, W.
  • Eaton, C. B.
  • Evans, David
  • Fast, F. R.
  • [Fickins], E. L.
  • Field, Charles
  • Fischer, Carl
  • [Fisher], M. M.
  • Foote, Eleanor E.
  • Franklin, Viola Price, 1855-
  • Fuller, Harvey E. (Mrs.)
  • G. & C. Merriam Company
  • Gardner, D. Charles (Rev.)
  • Gleason, Katherine
  • Goodrich, J. W.
  • Hall, Lizzie
  • Hamilton, Matthew
  • Harriman, Karl Edwin
  • "Harry"
  • Hausmann, Rosalie L.
  • Haywood, Frederick
  • Henry Holt & Co.
  • Holland, John J.
  • Holly F. M.
  • Holmes, Mary B.
  • Hopkins, Fred M.
  • Humphrey, Lucy H.
  • Hutchings, Charles L.
  • International Who's Who
  • [Jarboe], "Aunt" Mary
  • Johnson, R. N.
  • Jones, J. B. (Mrs.)
  • Kant, Louise
  • Kelley, Myrtle
  • Kemp, W. W.
  • Kerby, Frederick M.
  • Keyston, Garton Donald
  • Laciar, S. L.
  • Lehmaier, Louis
  • Lewis, Douglas
  • Little, E. P.
  • McDermott, Leila France, 1854-
  • McDougal
  • McLaughlin, Margaret S.
  • MacMillan Company
  • MacNalty, Ernest J.
  • McRoskey, Racine
  • Mann, Dorothea Lawrance
  • Marie, Cecile (Sister)
  • Mariney, Charles Amleyn
  • [Marklian ...?], A. C.
  • Marshman, Donald
  • Mighels, Ella Sterling, 1853-1934
  • Monahan, D. M.
  • Muden, G
  • Music Trades Co.
  • Neve, Frederick W.
  • Nichols, William F. (William Ford), 1849-1924
  • Nicholson, D. V.
  • Noble, Eugene A.
  • Nye, Edgar S.
  • Ogilive, Clarence E[arle]
  • Olinder, Gane
  • Parker, C. F. (Mrs.)
  • Paterson, Mary B.
  • Patterson, Alma M.
  • Paul Elder and Company
  • Perry, Roberta
  • Phillip, Charles
  • Porter, Anna
  • Price, Caroline
  • Purdy, Helen Throop
  • Randall, Edgar
  • Randolph, E.
  • "Raymond"
  • Rinaldo
  • Robertson, A. M.
  • Saiken, C.
  • Saint Luke's Rectory
  • Sanford, R. Willis.
  • Scholfield, Caroline A.
  • Schulze, A. (Miss)
  • Seares, Mabel Urmy
  • Seele, Fred M.
  • Simson, Claud H.
  • Smart Set, The
  • Sperry, Austin Willard
  • Sprague, H. M.
  • Sprague, Sarah
  • Stoddard, Edward
  • Sutherland, Howard Vigne
  • Thomas, Emma C.
  • Thomas, Henry, 1886-
  • Thomas, Harriette
  • Thomas, Paul
  • Thompson, Ruth
  • Thomson, Ralph
  • Titherington, R. H.
  • Turrill, Charles B. (Charles Beebe), 1854-1927
  • Unpopular Review, The
  • Urmy, Mabel
  • Urmy, William H.
  • Wagner, (Mr. & Mrs.) Chas.
  • Wagner, Harris
  • Wagner, Madge Morris, 1862-1924
  • Wakefield, Anne Whitney
  • Ward, Luther (Jr.)
  • Warren, F. D.
  • [Werlein], Halsey
  • Wilkinson, Marguerite
  • Willard, Lee
  • Williams, A. Dallas
  • Wilson, Susan
  • [Winter?], Lillian
  • Yolland, John L.
  • York, Francis L.
  • Youth's Companion

Material Transferred from the Collection

Photographs

  • Four photographs removed to picture collection.

Scrapbook

  • Two theater programs.
  • One musical oratorio program.

Box 456

Business papers, certificates, checks, clippings, ephemera, notes and drafts.

Box 457

Poetry, periodicals, photos, postal cards and covers

Box 458

Address books, autograph book, datebooks, and notebooks

Box 459

Incoming correspondence A-F

Box 460

Incoming correspondence G-N

Box 461

Incoming correspondence O-Y & unidentified, no date

Box 462

Outgoing correspondence 1901-1933 & no date

Box 463

Announcements, programs, and reviews ca. 1910

Box 464

Announcements, programs, and reviews Jan. 1911-June 1914

Box 465

Announcements, programs, and reviews July 1914-December 1917

Box 466

Announcements, programs, and reviews Jan. 1918-June 1922

Box 467

Announcements, programs, and reviews 1922-

Box 468

Announcements, programs, and reviews (plays to come)

Box 469

Announcements, programs, and reviews (plays to come)