Finding Aid for the Will Levington Comfort Papers LSC.0254

Finding aid prepared by UCLA Library Special Collections staff, September 1953; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
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Contributing Institution: 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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Preferred Citation

[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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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9942328983606533 

Biography

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.

Scope and Content

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.

Organization and Arrangement

Arranged in the following series:
  1. Correspondence, notes, clippings and pictures (Box 1).
  2. Glass Hive and Reconstruction Letters (Box 2).
  3. 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.

box 3, 5

Drafts of novels by Will Levington Comfort.

box 1

Correspondence, notes, clippings, and pictures.

General note

Includes:
  • Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932. The Will Levington Letters: The Mystic Road. Los Angeles, Comfort Book Room, 1920-1921. 2 vol.
  • Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932. The Glowworm. In: Lippincott's Monthly Magazine for May 1910, pp. 513-589.
box 2

Glass Hive and Reconstruction Letters.

box 4

Drafts of novels by Will Levington Comfort.

General note

Includes: Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932. Apache. New York: Bantam Books no.922 [c. 1952]. 202pp.