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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: George Sterling papers
Identifier/Call Number: M0021
Physical Description:
1 Linear Feet
(3 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1909-1942
Date (bulk): 1920-1926
Abstract: George Sterling (1869–1926) was an American writer, poet and playwright based in the San Francisco, California Bay Area.
Language of Material:
English
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
The majority of the Sterling papers came to Stanford as a gift of Rudolf Blaettler, collector. The Bynner-Sterling correspondence
is a gift of Witter Bynner. (Oct 1960)
American poet and playwright George Sterling was born in Sag Harbor, N.Y. on December 1, 1869. He was educated on the East
Coast and attended St. Charles College in Maryland. In 1896 he married Carrie Rand of Oakland, California, and from 1898 to
1908 he was private secretary to Frank C. Havens of that city.
Sterling's first volume of poems,
Testimony of the Suns and Other Poems, was published in 1903. After that time, there were nine other volumes and a number of separate poems published. From 1908
to 1915, Sterling was one of the leaders of the artist colony at Carmel, California. He died on November 18, 1926, by his
own hands.
The Sterling Papers date from 1909 to 1942 with the bulk of material falling between 1920 and 1926. Those dated 1946 are memorial
items marking the twentieth anniversary of his death. The collection includes correspondence, literary typescripts and manuscripts,
printed poems and songs, a galley proof, photographs and clippings. Some of the material is in photostat form from originals
in the University of Pennsylvania Library. Correspondents include: Edwin Markham, Theodore Dreiser, Robinson and Una Jeffers
and Witter Bynner.
[Identification of item] George Sterling collection, M0021, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Rudolph Blaettler, Witter Bynner, and Albert M. Bender.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
American literature -- 20th century
Authors, American.