Finding Aid for the Will Levington Comfort Papers, 1910-1932
Processed by Manuscripts Division staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
© 1999
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Finding Aid for the Will Levington Comfort Papers, 1910-1932
Collection number: 254
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
Contact Information
- Manuscripts Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
- Processed by:
- Manuscripts Division staff, September 1953
- Encoded by:
- Caroline Cubé
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh FIala, June 2002
© 1999 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Will Levington Comfort Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1910-1932
Collection number: 254
Creator: Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932
Extent:
5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
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.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of 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,
Department of 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.
Additional Physical Form Available
A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Jane Levington Comfort, 1953.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Will Levington Comfort Papers (Collection 254). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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 four issues of his periodical
The Glass Hive.
Organization and Arrangement
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).
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932--Archives.
Authors, American--20th century--Archival resources.
Manuscripts for publication.
Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932--Apache.
Container List
Box 1
Correspondence, notes, clippings, and pictures.
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.
Boxes 3, 5
Drafts of novels by Will Levington Comfort.
Box 4
Drafts of novels by Will Levington Comfort.
Note
Includes: Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932.
Apache. New York: Bantam Books no.922 [c. 1952]. 202pp.
