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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Will Levington Comfort papers
Creator:
Comfort, Will Levington
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0254
Physical Description:
2.5 linear feet
(5 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1910-1932
Abstract: Will Levington Comfort (1878-1932) was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He was a newspaperman (1890s), a war correspondent and
author. He also issued two periodicals chiefly concerned with spiritualism. The collection consists of correspondence, notes,
printed material and drafts of his novels, including a draft of a novel by his daughter, Jane Levington Comfort.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item], Will Levington Comfort Papers (Collection 254). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Jane Levington Comfort, 1953.
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Processed by UCLA Library Special Collections staff, September 1953.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9942328983606533
Comfort was born on January 17, 1878 in Kalamazoo, Michigan; served in the cavalry in the Spanish-American War; newspaperman
in Cincinnati in the 1890s; war correspondent in the Philippines for the
Detroit Journal, and in Japan and Russia for the
Pittsburgh Dispatch in 1904; published books include:
Routledge Rides Alone (1910),
Fate Knocks at the Door (1912),
Red Fleece (1915),
The Autobiographical Midstream: a Chronicle at Halfway (1914), and
Apache (1931); from South Pasadena, California he issued two periodicals,
The Glass Hive and
Reconstruction Letters, which were chiefly concerned with spiritualism; he died on November 2, 1932.
Collection consists of correspondence, notes, printed material and drafts of his novels, including a draft of a novel by his
daughter, Jane Levington Comfort. Includes his novel
Apache (1931), the story of Mangas Coloradas, Apache chief, and fifty issues of his periodical
The Glass Hive.
Arranged in the following series:
- Correspondence, notes, clippings and pictures (Box 1).
- Glass Hive and Reconstruction Letters (Box 2).
- Drafts of novels by Comfort, with notes on how Apache came to be written (Boxes 3-5).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Manuscripts for publication
Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932. Apache.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Archives.
Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932--Archives.