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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Elwyn Irving Hoffman papers
Creator:
Hoffman, Elwyn Irving
Identifier/Call Number: mssHoffman
Physical Description:
4.68 Linear Feet
(4 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1895-1948
Abstract: Papers belonging to California writer Elwyn Irving Hoffman.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item]. Elwyn Irving Hoffman papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Marion Stuart, February 1951.
Elwyn Irving Hoffman (approximately 1870-approximately 1949) was a California writer, poet and journalist.
The collection consists of some literary papers and correspondence of Elwyn Irving Hoffman. Of note in the collection are
letters from Jack and Charmian London and related materials which include fifty photographs of the voyage of "The Snark,"
the Londons, and their ranch at Glen Ellen. Other correspondents represented in the collection include: Mary Hunter Austin,
Temple Bailey, Maynard Dixon, Lyndon Dodge, Dudley Kinsell, Charles Fletcher Lummis, Joaquin Miller, and Israel Zangwill.
There are also some notebooks kept by Hoffman and sheet music.
Processed by Huntington Library staff. In 2021, Brooke M. Black created a finding aid.
Organized in the following manner: Jack London related material; Other correspondence; Notebooks, publications, letters regarding
pension, photographs, and sheet music.
Former call number: mssHoffman papers.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Women authors, American -- California -- Correspondence
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 19th century
Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 20th century
Notebooks -- United States -- 19th century
Notebooks -- United States -- 20th century
Photographs -- United States -- 19th century
Photographs -- United States -- 20th century
Sheet music -- United States -- 19th century
Sheet music -- United States -- 20th century
Austin, Mary, 1868-1934
Bailey, Temple, 1869-1953
Dixon, Maynard, 1875-1946
Dodge, Lyndon
Kinsell, Dudley
Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913
Zangwill, Israel, 1864-1926
Snark (Ship) -- Photographs