Will Levington Comfort papers, 1910-1932

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Summary

Creators:
Comfort, Will Levington
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.
Extent:
2.5 linear feet (5 boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English.
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.

Background

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Jane Levington Comfort, 1953.
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Processed by UCLA Library Special Collections staff, September 1953.

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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).

Physical location:
Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

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Terms of access:

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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.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
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