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Marshall Stimson Papers: Finding Aid
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Correspondence

Box 1

Correspondence 1912-1950s

Physical Description: 314 items

Includes 6 letters from the Bull Moose Convention, 1912, but otherwise is chiefly dated from the 1940s and 1950s.
 

Autobiography drafts

Box 4

Autobiography: Fun, Fights, and Fiesta in Old Los Angeles

Physical Description: 3 items
Gift of Gordon Stimson, the Stimson's son, April 20, 1972.

Two drafts and final typescript.
 

Diaries and Notebooks

Box 5

Diaries and Notebooks. 1926-1950

Physical Description: 25 items
 

Subject files and scrapbooks

Box 2

Subject files

This box includes materials related to the League of Nations, President Wilson, etc.; miscellaneous; Memory Snapshots: Prizefighters to Presidents (1885-1936); politics in California: Taft and Hughes election; and radio addresses, magazine articles, etc.
Box 3

Subject files

This box includes manuscripts by Stimson, materials related to the Talent Will Case, 1912-1915; war papers: correspondence, radio addresses, etc., pertaining to World War II; the William Allen White Committee; and Wendell Wilkie (1944).
Rope case

Scrapbook including files on General Homer Lea: biographical papers, addresses, clippings, correspondence, photographs, etc.

 

Scrapbooks (containing chiefly political interest, material on Hiram W. Johnson, etc.)

Gift of Gordon Stimson, the Stimsons' son, April 20, 1972.
Volume 1

Scrapbook: 1893-1908

Volume 2

Scrapbook: 1907-1911

Volume 3

Scrapbook: 1911-1926

Volume 3a

Scrapbook: 1918-1919

Volume 4

Scrapbook: 1927-1936

Volume 5

Scrapbook: 1936-1939

Volume 6

Scrapbook: 1939-1945

Volume 7

Scrapbook: 1948-1957

 

Financial and real estate

Gift of Gordon Stimson, the Stimsons' son, June 10, 1973.
Ledger 1

Trustee ledger. 1921-1934

Ledger 2

Transfer Clients ledger. 1927-1932

Ledger 3

Clients and trust ledger. 1929-1940

Ledger 4

Trust account and client's ledger/ 1940-1947

Ledger 5

Mortgage ledger and real estate. Approximately 1928-1947

Box 6

Check stub books. 1903-1908

Physical Description: 17 items
Box 7

Check stub books. 1916-1929

Physical Description: 21 items
Box 8

Check stub books. 1929-1940

Physical Description: 19 items
Box 9

Check stub books (1941-1951); Miscellaneous household account books (1913-1944). 1913-1951

Physical Description: 30 items
Box 10

Miscellaneous deeds, notes, agreements. 1915-1941

Physical Description: 3 items
 

Diaries of Mary Stimson

Box 11

Diaries of Mary (Gordon) Stimson (1892-1904), with transcription; ephemera

Physical Description: 26 items
Gift of Mrs. Thompson Webb Jr., the Stimsons' daughter, June 22, 1989.