Finding Aid for the Jaime de Angulo Papers LSC.0160

Finding aid prepared by UCLA Library Special Collections staff, November 1959, revised by Lilace Hatayama, August 1981; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Jaime de Angulo papers
Creator: Angulo, Jaime de
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0160
Physical Description: 1.5 linear feet (3 boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1890-1982
Abstract: Jaime de Angulo (1887-1950) was born in Paris, France. He studied medicine in the U.S. at Cooper Union Medical School and Johns Hopkins. His interests turned to anthropology and linguistics. He wrote two novels, children's stories, poetry and a book about his first linguistic field trip to the Achomawi Indian tribe, Indians in Overalls (1950). The collection consists of manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, articles, and books by de Angulo as well as correspondence, photographs and ephemera.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.

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Provenance/Source of Acquisition

Gift of Mrs. Jaime de Angulo, 1959.

UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 994622023606533 

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Jaime de Angulo Papers (Collection 160). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

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Biography

Born January 29, 1887 in Paris, France, of Spanish expatriate parents; came to U.S., 1905; studied medicine at Cooper Union Medical School, and in 1908 transferred to Johns Hopkins; conducted research at Stanford University, where his interests turned to anthropology and linguistics, and he studied Pit River (Achomawi) Indians of Northern California; wrote two novels, Don Bartolomeo (1922) and The Reata (late 1920s), as well as some children's stories and poetry; also wrote a book about his first linguistic field trip to the Achomawi Indian tribe, Indians in Overalls (1950); hired in 1927 by the Committee on Research in Native American Languages to study the languages of Northern California; corresponded with Ezra Pound, 1948-50; was diagnosed with cancer in 1948 and died October 1950.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, articles, and books by de Angulo. Includes correspondence with Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, and de Angulo's publisher, Blaise Cendrars. Also contains photographs and ephemera.

Organization and Arrangement

Arranged in the following series:
  1. Books and typescripts.
  2. Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs.
  3. Manuscripts and Giordano biography.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Indians of North America -- Folklore -- Archives.
Achomawi Indians -- California -- Research.
Online resources.
Cendrars, Blaise, 1887-1961--Correspondence.
Moore, Marianne -- Correspondence
Cendrars, Blaise
Pound, Ezra -- Correspondence
Angulo, Jaime de--Archives.

 

Books from de Angulo's Library

box 1, folder 1

Daudet, Alphonse. Port-Tarascon. Paris, Ernest Flammarion, n.d.

box 1, folder 1

Daudet, Alphonse. Tartarin de Tarascon. Paris, C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, . 1890

box 1, folder 2

What is Language? By Jaime de Angulo. Berkeley, n.d.

General Physical Description note: 458 leaves, typescript.
box 1, folder 3

What is Language? n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: 111 leaves, typescript (carbon).
box 1, folder 4

The Fury of Loon-Woman. An Episode in the Creation of the World According to the Pit River Indians of Northeastern California. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: 32 leaves, typescript (carbon). With illustrations.
box 1, folder 5

The Deer-Headed Decoy. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: 7 leaves, typescript (carbon). With illustrations.
box 1, folder 6

The Tale. The Gilak Steals Hawk's wife. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: 9 leaves, typescript, printed material, holograph. With illustrations.
box 2, folder 1

The Hangover Cook-Book. n.p., ca.. 1941

General Physical Description note: 60 leaves, holograph and typescript (carbon).
box 2, folder 2

The Androgynes. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: 38 leaves, typescript. Includes 2 sketches.
box 2, folder 3

Ranch of Sorrows. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: 8 leaves, typescript.
box 2, folder 4

The Achumawi, a Primitive Tribe of California. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: 117 leaves, typescript with holograph revisions.

Scope and Contents note

Includes map showing geographical location of the Achumawi-Atsugewi tribe and its neighbors.
box 2, folder 5

The Witch. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: 170 leaves, typescript, typescript (carbon).

Scope and Contents note

Includes 16 drawings.
box 2, folder 6

Songs of Myself. Best. v.p., v.d.

General Physical Description note: 22 leaves. Holograph, typescript, typescript (carbon).
box 2, folder 7

Songs of Myself. 2nd choice. v.p., v.d.

General Physical Description note: 18 leaves. Holograph, typescript, typescript (carbon).
box 2, folder 8

Songs of the Hillside. v.p., v.d.

General Physical Description note: 13 leaves, typescript, typescript (carbon).
box 2, folder 9

Songs of the Hillside. 2nd choice. v.p., v.d.

General Physical Description note: 26 leaves. Holograph, typescript, typescript (carbon).
box 2, folder 10

Songs of the Shaman. 1st choice. v.p., v.d.

General Physical Description note: 23 leaves. Holograph, typescript.
box 2, folder 11

Songs of the Shaman. 2nd choice. v.p., v.d.

General Physical Description note: 9 leaves. Holograph, typescript.
box 2, folder 16

Translations of poems by Jaime de Angulo. v.p., v.d.

General Physical Description note: 52 leaves. Holograph typescript, typescript (carbon).
box 2, folder 17

Fray Luis and the Devil. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: 102 leaves, typescript, typescript (carbon).
box 2, folder 18

Fray Luis Comes West to Worst the Devil. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: 92 leaves, typescript, typescript (carbon).
box 2, folder 18

Fray Luis. Part 1. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: 81 leaves, typescript.
box 3, folder 1

Don Bartolomeo. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: 52 leaves, typescript (carbon).
box 3, folder 2

Indian Tales. Early version. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: 87 leaves, typescript.
box 3, folder 3

Indian Tales for a Little Boy and Girl--my own copy. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: 262 leaves, typescript, typescript (carbon).

Scope and Contents note

With illustrations. Final version, 1st part.
box 3, folder 4

Indian Tales n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: 108 leaves, typescript, typescript (carbon).

Scope and Contents note

Incomplete versions and extra pages.
box 3, folder 5

Indian Tales, n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: ca. 150 leaves. Holograph, typescript, typescript (carbon).

Scope and Contents note

With illustrations. Notes, text, extra pages.
box 3, folder 6

Indian Tales n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: ca. 150 leaves. Holograph, typescript, typescript (carbon).

Scope and Contents note

With illustrations. Notes, text, extra pages.
box 3, folder 7

Indian Tales, n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: ca. 150 leaves. Holograph, typescript, typescript (carbon).

Scope and Contents note

With illustrations. Notes, text, extra pages.
box 3, folder 8

Giordano, Fedora. Jaime de Angulo. Roma, Luciano Lucarini Editore, 1982.

General note

Gift of the author, October 1982.
 

Letters and Photographs

box 2, folder 12

Letters from Dorothy Pound. v.p., v.d.

General Physical Description note: 24 items (24 leaves) Holograph, typescript.
box 2, folder 13

Letters from various persons. v.p., v.d.

General Physical Description note: 11 items (17 leaves).

Scope and Contents note

Includes 2 letters from Blaise Cendrars.
box 2, folder 14

Letters from Marianne Moore. Brooklyn, New York and Ellsworth, Maine, . 1950-1951

General Physical Description note: 7 items (7 leaves) Holograph, typescript.
box 2, folder 15

Letters from Ezra Pound. v.p., v.d.

General Physical Description note: 15 items (6 letters, 3 fragments, 4 poems, 2 ephemera). Holograph, typescript, typescript (carbon).
box 2, folder 19

Photographs.

General Physical Description note: 21 items.