Alexander Irvine Papers: Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by Nicholas S. Hall, March 24, 2009.

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Overview of the Collection

Title: Alexander Irvine Papers

Dates (inclusive): 1863-1986

Bulk dates: 1906-1941

Collection Number: mssIrvine papers

Creator: Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941.

Extent: 290 items in 4 boxes and 4 oversize folders

Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscripts Department

1151 Oxford Road

San Marino, California 91108

Phone: (626) 405-2129

Email: reference@huntington.org

URL: http://www.huntington.org

Abstract: This collection contains the papers of Irish-American author, lecturer, and Congregationalist minister Alexander Irvine (1863-1941), and consists mostly of Irvine’s manuscripts, chiefly dating from 1906-1941.

Language: English.

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Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. Alexander Irvine Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Provenance

Gift of Anna Giarretto, Alexander Irvine, Northbrook, Ill, and Robert Irvine, Glenview, Ill. January 20, 1997.

Biographical Note

Author, lecturer, and Congregationalist minister Alexander Irvine (1863-1941) was born in Antrim, Ireland, in 1863, the son of Anna (née Gilmore) and Jamie Irvine, she a Roman Catholic and he an illiterate Protestant shoemaker. He grew up working in his father’s cobbling business which Jamie Irvine ran out of his small home. The ninth out of twelve children, Irvine’s mother gave him little formal education as he had to supplement his father’s income by selling newspapers instead of attending school. The young Irvine had a religious awakening while working as a scarecrow in a potato field, where he became overawed by the beauty of a sunset and became convinced of a personal connection with a higher power.

Lured by their promises of an education which had for so long eluded him, Irvine entered the British Navy and served in the Mediterranean Sea. Irvine’s acumen for learning and his time serving in the navy had garnered him education enough to matriculate at Oxford during a furlough. Also while on leave, Irvine wed Ellen Mary Skeets in 1886. After two years at Oxford, Irvine determined to pursue missionary work on the other side of the Atlantic shortly, however, and he deserted his post for the United States with his wife and two new sons, William and Gordon, in tow. Shortly after he had landed in New York and proselytized among the poor and homeless in Manhattan’s Bowery district, Irvine’s first wife left him and returned to the United Kingdom where she gave birth to their third child in 1891.

After four years preaching on the Lower East Side, Irvine suffered a nervous breakdown and moved his family to Omaha, Nebraska. There he married Clara Maude Hazen, the daughter of a prominent Iowa politician. His wife gave birth to an additional four children: Robert, Anna, Maurice (known as “Swanee”), and Jack. Irvine felt constrained in Omaha, however, and he took a position as the religious director for the New Haven YMCA in 1898 hoping to delve back into missionary work with the poor. He enrolled at the Yale Divinity School while preaching at the Second Congregation Church of nearby Fair Haven and was ordained at Yale University in tandem with his work with local labor movements and the Socialist Party. His published writings about his life made him famous. By 1906, he had become friends with other well-known Socialists (such as the writer Jack London) and departed New Haven to see for himself the conditions of working people across America. The following year Irvine relocated back to New York City where he began preaching his brand of socialist Christianity at the Church of the Ascension in Manhattan.

By 1910, Irvine’s political entanglements had made him controversial, and he left the Church of the Ascension to pursue a speaking and writing career from a farm in Peekskill. The success of his autobiography From the Bottom Up: The Life Story of Alexander Irvine the same year made such a move tenable. Irvine moved to Los Angeles in 1911 to manage the mayoral campaign of Socialist candidate Job Harriman. In California, Irvine produced his most famous book, My Lady of the Chimney Corner (1913), a story based on his Irish peasant roots. Irvine adapted his literary themes to the vaudeville stage the same year with “The Rector of St. Jude’s.” He spent the balance of his life writing freelance for publications on either side of the Atlantic. Irvine was found dead in his bed at his home in Hollywood, California, on March 15, 1941.

Scope and Content

The collection consists mostly of Irvine’s manuscripts, arranged alphabetically by title. The entirety of the first and the beginning of the second box consist of manuscript drafts - both typescript and autograph - of chapters from the author’s larger works. The rest of the second box consists of manuscript drafts of sermons which Irvine gave after the turn of the century, most of them from his 1909-1910 tenure at the Church of the Ascension in New York City. The third upright box consists entirely of Irvine’s manuscript essays, many of which appeared in publication. Most of these manuscripts are undated but it appears the bulk of these papers come the Irvine’s final thirty years. The collection’s final upright box contains the rest of Irvine’s manuscripts. It also contains twenty-four folders of Irvine’s correspondence, three folders of news clippings, six folders of ephemera, and one folder of photos.

There are several items in oversize. Two large scrapbooks, each housed individually, contain a great deal of ephemera, photographs, and correspondence which Irvine himself organized. Other items in oversize include a small scrapbook containing mainly photos and news clippings from 1922 to 1938, and a large, thin packet containing four editions of The Psychological Review of Reviews from the early 1920s. There are also two oversize manuscripts: one a fragment from the draft of a script, and the other an undated essay titled “The Cost of Something for Nothing.”

Subjects in the collection include: John Brown; California; Eugene Debs; Carter Glass; Grand Army of the Republic; Hitler Youth; John L. Lewis; Abraham Lincoln; Jack London; Mexican Revolution; New York City; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Upton Sinclair; socialism; tuberculosis; Mark Twain; World War I; World War II; vaudeville; vigilantes; and Yale University.

Indexing: Subjects

Brown, John, 1800-1859

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “John Brown’s Chapter:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item. Box 2 (22).

California

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “A California Pilgrim’s Progress:” [2 typescript drafts] [undated]. 2 items. Box 3 (5).
Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “I Cover the Vigilantes of California:” [typescript essay] [ca. 1934]. 1 item. Box 3 (16).
Subject in [Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941]. “My Home in Hollywood:” [autograph draft] [undated]. 1 item. Box 3 (35).
Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Terrorism in California:” [typescript essay] [ca. 1934]. 1 item. Box 3 (33).
Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Violence and Lawlessness in Imperial Valley, California:” [typescript essay] (1934, May 8) 1 item. Box 3 (35).

Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Lincoln and Debs:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item. Box 2 (23).

Glass, Carter, 1858-1946

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. 1 letter [undated] to Carter Glass, 1858-1946.1 item. Box 4 (23).

Grand Army of the Republic

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Solidarity: A Word to the Grand Army Men. Decoration Day, 1910:” [typescript sermon] (1910). 1 item. Box 2 (35).

Hitler Youth

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “The German Youth Movement:” [1 typescript and 1 autograph draft] (ca. 1920s). 2 items. Box 3 (11).

Lewis, John Llewellyn, 1880-1969

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. 1 autograph letter [undated] to John Llewellyn Lewis, 1880-1969. 1 item. Box 4 (26).

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Lincoln and Debs:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item. Box 2 (23).
Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Lincoln and Labor:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item. Box 2 (24).

London, Jack, 1876-1916

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. 1 letter [undated] to Jack London, 1876-1916. Two copies. 2 items. Box 4 (27)

Mexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Are We in League with Tyranny in Mexico?:” [typescript sermon ] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item. Box 2 (9).

New York (N.Y.)

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “New York: A Holy City:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item. Box 2 (30).

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Mr. Roosevelt’s Attack on Socialism:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item. Box 2 (26).

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. 1 letter [undated] to Upton Sinclair, 1878-1968. 1 item. Box 4 (29).

Socialism

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Changing the Social Order:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item. Box 2 (11).
Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Equal Pay for Equal Work:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item. Box 3 (14).
Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Mr. Roosevelt’s Attack on Socialism:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item. Box 2 (26).

Tuberculosis

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Instructional Tuberculosis Exhibit:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item. Box 2 (17).

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Mark Twain on Turtles:” [typescript essay] [undated]. 1item. Box 3 (21).

Vaudeville

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Rector of St. Jude’s. [one-act play] (1913). 1 item. Box 1 (23).
Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Rector of St. Jude’s . [untitled draft of a three-act play: parts typescript and autograph] [undated]. Meant to be an expansion of the original play. 1 item. Box 1 (24).
Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “The Vaudeville Audience:” [typescript essay] [undated]. 1item. Box 3 (37).

Vigilantes--California

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “I Cover the Vigilantes of California:” [typescript essay] [ca. 1934]. 1 item. Box 3 (16).
Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Terrorism in California:” [typescript essay] [ca. 1934]. 1 item. Box 3 (33).
Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Violence and Lawlessness in Imperial Valley, California:” [typescript essay] (1934, May 8) 1 item. Box 3 (35).

World War, 1914-1918

Subject in Scrapbook (1919-1929). In Oversize.

World War, 1939-1945

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Armageddon 1941:” [incomplete autograph essay] [ca.1941]. 1 item. Box 3 (2).
Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “The Crisis of 1941: A Meditation:” [autograph essay] [ca. 1941]. 1 item. Box 3 (10).
Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “God’s Stake in this War: [2 autograph essays] [1941, Jan. 19]. 2 items. Box 3 (13).

Yale University

Subject in Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941.1 letter (1937, July 17) to the Corporation of Yale University, New Haven, CT. 1item. Box 4 (22).

Arrangement

Arranged by document type and then alphabetically author and by title, followed by oversize.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Huntington Library's Online Catalog.

Subjects

Brown, John, 1800-1859.

Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926.

Glass, Carter, 1858-1946.

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 -- Archives.

Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.

London, Jack, 1876-1916.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Grand Army of the Republic.

Hitler-Jugend.

Yale University.

Clergy -- California.

Clergy -- New York (State)

Congregationalists -- United States.

Socialism -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.

Tuberculosis.

Vaudeville -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.

Vigilantes -- California.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1939-1945.

California -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.

Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920.

Forms/Genres

Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 20th century.

Manuscripts -- United States -- 20th century.

Scrapbooks -- United States -- 20th century.

Sermons -- United States -- 20th century.

Manuscripts essays, Correspondence, and Ephemera

Box 1

Manuscript chapter drafts

Folder 1

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Boswell’s Autobiography. [autograph draft of “Chapter I. A Young Man of Fortune”] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 2

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Coming of the Lamp. [2 typescript drafts of “Introduction: At the Bottom of the World” - one is incomplete] [ca. 1930]. Also includes an additional draft of the Table of Contents. 3 items.

Folder 3

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Coming of the Lamp. [2 typescript drafts of “Chapter I. The Coming of the Lamp.”] [ca. 1930] . 2 items.

Folder 4

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Coming of the Lamp. [typescript draft of “Chapter II. The Miracle”] [ca. 1930]. 1 item.

Folder 5

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Coming of the Lamp. [3 typescript drafts of “Scarecrow’s Miracle” - one is incomplete] [ca. 1930]. A version of this essay appears as “Chapter II. The Miracle” in The Coming of the Lamp. 3 items.

Folder 6

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Coming of the Lamp. [typescript draft of “Quare [sic] People” - last page is autograph] [ca. 1930]. Appears as Chapter III in The Coming of the Lamp. 1 item.

Folder 7

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Coming of the Lamp. [2 typescript drafts of “A Corner in Larks”] [ca. 1930]. A version of this essay appears as Chapter IV in The Coming of the Lamp. 2 items.

Folder 8

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Coming of the Lamp. [2 typescript drafts of “Peter and the Man Who Played God” - one is an incomplete fragment.] [ca. 1930]. Appears as “Chapter V. Peter” in The Coming of the Lamp. 2 items.

Folder 9

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Coming of the Lamp. [typescript essay of “The Bog Queen’s Flitting”] A version of this essay appears as Chapter VI of The Coming of the Lamp. [ca. 1930]. 1 item.

Folder 10

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Coming of the Lamp. [typescript draft of “Ourselves”] [ca. 1930]. Appears as Chapter IX in The Coming of the Lamp. 1 item.

Folder 11

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Coming of the Lamp. [typescript draft of “The Family Album.”] [ca. 1930]. Identical to “Chapter IX. Ourselves” in The Coming of the Lamp. 1 item.

Folder 12

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith . [autograph draft of an early chapter] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 13

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith . [typescript drafts of “Chapter XIII. The Power of Simplicity in Literature” and “Chapter XIV. The Good- Natured Man.”] [undated]. 2 items.

Folder 14

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith . [typescript drafts of “Chapter XV. The Troubadour in Tears” and “Chapter XVI. Shoemaker’s Holidays.”] [undated]. 2 items.

Folder 15

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith . [typescript draft of “Chapter XI. The Islington Exile”] [undated]. Also contains 8 typescript and 1 autograph fragments. 10 items.

Folder 16

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Little Pilgrims of the Dawn . [typescript drafts of “Chapter I. The Call of the Country,” “Chapter II. The Little Pilgrim’s First Tragedy,” and “Chapter III. The Squirrel’s Court Martial.”] [undated]. 3 items.

Folder 17

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Little Pilgrims of the Dawn . [typescript drafts of “Chapter IV. Getting Ahead of Ikey” and “Chapter VI. Honi - Soit qui Mal-y-pense.”] [undated]. 2 items.

Folder 18

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Little Pilgrims of the Dawn . [typescript drafts of “Chapter V. In the School of the Woods.”] [undated]. 2 items.

Folder 19

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Little Pilgrims of the Dawn . [typescript drafts of “Chapter VII. His Familiarity with God,” and “Chapter VIII. A Godmother’s Visit.”] [undated]. 2 items.

Folder 20

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Little Pilgrims of the Dawn . [typescript drafts of “Chapter IX. Our Country Neighbors,” and “Chapter X. How the Whip-Poor-Will Was Fooled .”] [undated]. 2 items.

Folder 21

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. My Lady of the Chimney Corner - Continuity [typescript draft] (1935, Mar. 6). Stage adaptation of the book. Also contains an autograph draft fragment. 2 items.

Folder 22

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. My Lady of the Chimney Corner - Synopsis [autograph manuscript] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 23

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Peter Pym. [transcript drafts of “Chapter I. A Rebel in the Making” and “Chapter XVI. In their Hour of Victory.”] [undated]. 2 items.

Folder 24

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Rector of St. Jude’s. [one-act play] (1913). 1 item.

Folder 25

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Rector of St. Jude’s . [untitled draft of a three-act play: parts typescript and autograph] [undated]. Meant to be an expansion of the original play. 1 item.

Box 2

Manuscript chapter drafts (cont.) & Sermons

Folder 1

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Second Vicar of World Field . [typescript drafts of “Chapter II. A Children’s Inferno” and “Chapter III. Dreams”] Also contains an additional copy of the first page of Chapter II. (ca. 1930s). 3 items.

Folder 2

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Second Vicar of World Field . [1 typescript draft of “Chapter IV. People of the Abyss,” and 2 typescript drafts each for “Chapter V. Prophets without Honor,” and “Chapter VI. An Easter Vision.”] The folder also contains an envelope addressed to Alexander Irvine from McFadden Publications. 6 items.

Folder 3

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Second Vicar of World Field . [2 typescript drafts of “Chapter VIII. Lights and Shadows on the Bowery”- some parts autograph.] (ca. 1930s). 2 items.

Folder 4

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Second Vicar of World Field . [typescript drafts of “Chapter XI. Seeing the Invisible” and “Chapter XII. Tragedy.”] (ca. 1930s). 2 items.

Folder 5

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. The Second Vicar of World Field . [typescript drafts of “Chapter XIII. A Salutation to the Dawn” and “Chapter XIV. Disillusionment” - parts autograph.] (ca. 1930s). 2 items.

Folder 6

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Unidentified manuscript. [typescript drafts of “Chapter IV. The Inside of a Cup and Platter” and “Chapter VII. Jesus and the ‘Lower Classes.’”] [undated]. 2 items.

Folder 7

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Unidentified manuscript. [typescript draft of “Chap. XIV: Getting ‘A Half Nelson on God.”] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 8

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Ancient and Modern Tools:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 9

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Are We in League with Tyranny in Mexico?:” [typescript sermon ] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 10

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “The Business Man in Politics:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 11

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Changing the Social Order:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 12

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “The Cock to Aesulapius:” [typescript sermon [ca. 1909- 1910]. 1 item.

Folder 13

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Dear Friends:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 14

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Equal Pay for Equal Work:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 15

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Exit McClellan - Enter Gaynor:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 16

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “God and Mammon: A Farewell Address:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 17

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Instructional Tuberculosis Exhibit:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 18

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “International War Exhibit:” [typescript sermon] (1909). 1 item.

Folder 19

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Is it a Choice between Croker and Carnegie?:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 20

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Jesus and Battleships:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909- 1910]. 1 item.

Folder 21

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Jesus and the Modern Slave Child:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 22

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “John Brown’s Chapter:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909- 1910]. 1 item.

Folder 23

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Lincoln and Debs:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 24

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Lincoln and Labor:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909- 1910]. 1 item.

Folder 25

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “A Modern Prophet of the Poor:” [typescript sermon] [[ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 26

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Mr. Roosevelt’s Attack on Socialism:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 27

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “The Murder of Mary Farmer:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 28

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “A New Conscience in Education:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 29

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “The New Conscience in Industry:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 30

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “New York: A Holy City:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909- 1910]. 1 item.

Folder 31

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Our Strike against God:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909- 1910]. 1 item.

Folder 32

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “A Plea for Scientific Burial: An Easter Sermon:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 33

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Shelley the Revolutionist:” [typescript sermon] (1908). 1 item.

Folder 34

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “A Shopkeeper’s Last Advertisement:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 35

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Solidarity: A Word to the Grand Army Men. Decoration Day, 1910:” [typescript sermon] (1910). 1 item.

Folder 36

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Woman and the Bourgeois Mind:” [typescript sermon] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 37

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Untitled sermon beginning “After Mr. Carnegie has told us …” [incomplete typescript] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 38

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Untitled sermon beginning “As a tramp…” [incomplete typescript] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 39

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Untitled sermon beginning “But the coroners…” [incomplete typescript] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 40

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Untitled sermon beginning “For instance, you will find…” [incomplete typescript] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 41

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Untitled sermon beginning “In his life…” [incomplete typescript] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 42

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Untitled sermon beginning “Millions of men…” [incomplete typescript] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 43

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Untitled sermon beginning “nobody takes Jesus…” [incomplete typescript] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Folder 44

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Untitled sermon beginning “To the ignorant…” [incomplete typescript] [ca. 1909-1910]. 1 item.

Box 3

Manuscript essays

Folder 1

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “The Arch of Victory:” [poem - possibly incomplete] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 2

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Armageddon 1941:” [incomplete autograph essay] [ca.1941]. 1 item.

Folder 3

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Anna’s Wishing Chair:” [typescript essay] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 4

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Autobiographical manuscript [3 incomplete typescripts] [undated]. 3 items.

Folder 5

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Blood Being Thicker than Water:” [typescript manuscript] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 6

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “A California Pilgrim’s Progress:” [2 typescript drafts] [undated]. 2 items.

Folder 7

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Captain Scott’s Legacy to England:” [typescript essay] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 8

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “A Causerie in Shadowland:” [typescript essay] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 9

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “A Celtic Pilgrim’s Progress:” [autograph essay] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 10

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “The Choice of a Wife:” [typescript essay] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 11

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “The Cost of Something for Nothing:” [typescript essay] [undated]. 1 item. In oversize.

Folder 12

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “The Crisis of 1941: A Meditation:” [autograph essay] [ca. 1941]. 1 item.

Folder 13

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “The German Youth Movement:” [1 typescript and 1 autograph draft] (ca. 1920s). 2 items.

Folder 14

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “The Glamour of London Auctions:” [autograph essay] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 15

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “God’s Stake in this War: [2 autograph essays] [1941, Jan. 19]. 2 items.

Folder 16

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Going! Going! Gone!:” [incomplete autograph draft] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 17

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “A Great Ulster Man:” [typescript essay] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 18

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “I Cover the Vigilantes of California:” [typescript essay] [ca. 1934]. 1 item.

Folder 19

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Incomplete essay re: classism at Yale [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 20

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Incomplete essay re: the evils of industrial capitalism. [autograph] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 21

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “J.M. Barrie: A Radio Talk:” [2 typescript drafts] [undated]. 2 items.

Folder 22

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Judith: The Most Glamorous Queen of the Ages:” [1 typescript, 2 autograph drafts, and 1 autograph draft fragment] [undated]. 3 items.

Folder 23

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Larry Lannigan and the Leprauchan [sic.]:” [typescript manuscript] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 24

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Lives that have Kindled Mine:” [incomplete autograph draft] [ca. 1941]. 1 item.

Folder 25

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Mark Twain on Turtles:” [typescript essay] [undated]. 1item.

Folder 26

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Millet Comes to Pogue’s Entry:” [typescript essay] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 27

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Miscellaneous manuscript fragments [undated]. 3 items.

Folder 28

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Miscellaneous notes [undated]. 2 items.

Folder 29

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Miscellaneous poems [undated]. 6 items.

Folder 30

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “The Most Dastardly Phase:” [incomplete autograph draft] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 31

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “My Adventures in Psychic Phenomena:” [typescript essay] [undated]. 1item.

Folder 32

[Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941]. “My Home in Hollywood:” [autograph draft] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 33

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Ordeal by Prayer:” [incomplete typescript essay - parts are autograph] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 34

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “A Poor Hand of Cards:” [typescript essay] [undated]. 1item.

Folder 35

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Psalm of Armageddon:” [autograph draft] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 36

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Psalm of Kathleen N. Hoolahan:” [incomplete typescript essay] [undated]. 1item.

Folder 37

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Psalm of London:” [incomplete autograph draft] (late 1930s). 1 item.

Folder 38

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Psalm of the Long Voyage:” [typescript essay] [undated]. 1 item.

Box 4

Manuscripts essays (cont.), Correspondence, and Ephemera

Folder 1

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “The Retort Courteous:” [typescript essay] [undated]. 1item.

Folder 2

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “The Social Pariahs:” [typescript fragment] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 3

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Terrorism in California:” [typescript essay] [ca. 1934]. 1 item.

Folder 4

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Tom Mooney and Jim Ralph: A Dialogue in Limbo:” [autograph draft] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 5

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Untitled essay re: The Mayo Clinic [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 6

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Untitled essay re: Santa Monica Politics [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 7

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Unidentified play. A discussion between Life, Love, Philosophy, and Impulse [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 8

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. Unidentified play re: Alexander Irvine [undated] 1 item. In oversize.

Folder 9

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “Violence and Lawlessness in Imperial Valley, California:” [typescript essay] (1934, May 8). 1 item.

Folder 10

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “The Way to God:” [typescript essay] [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 11

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. “The Vaudeville Audience:” [typescript essay] [undated]. 1item.

Folder 12

Beamish, Eva. 3 letters (1940) to “Alec.” 3 items.

Folder 13

Beamish, Eva. 3 letters (1934, Sept. 16) to Swanee [Maurice Irvine]. 1 item.

Folder 14

Bird, George L. 1 letter (1916, Dec. 12) to “Alec.” 1 item.

Folder 15

“Bob.” 1 letter [undated] to Swanee [Maurice Irvine] and Didi. 1 item.

Folder 16

Donaldson, Tom, Jr. 1 letter (1938, Dec. 26) to Alexander Irvine, 1863-1941. 1 item.

Folder 17

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. 2 letters (1931-1939) to Virginia Irvine. 2 items.

Folder 18

Horbal, Audy. 1 letter (1934, Oct. 1) to “Sir.” 1 item.

Folder 19

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. 1 letter [undated] to Harry Bridges. Two copies. 2 items.

Folder 20

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. 11 letters [undated] to Anna Irvine Buck. 11 items.

Folder 21

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941.1 letter (1937, July 17) to the Corporation of Yale University, New Haven, CT. 1item.

Folder 22

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. 1 letter [undated] to Carter Glass, 1858-1946.1 item.

Folder 23

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. 1 letter [undated] to “Judge.” 1 item.

Folder 24

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. 1 autograph letter [undated] to John Llewellyn Lewis, 1880-1969. 1 item.

Folder 25

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. 1 letter [undated] to Jack London, 1876-1916. Two copies. 2 items.

Folder 26

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. 1 letter [undated] to Maurice [Irvine]. 1 item.

Folder 27

Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941. 1 letter [undated] to Upton Sinclair, 1878-1968. 1 item.

Folder 28

Irvine, Daniel. 1 letter [undated] to Alexander Irvine, 1863-1941. 1 item.

Folder 29

The Macaulay Company. 1 letter (1954, Mar. 20) to Virginia Irvine. 1 item.

Folder 30

Miller, Orlando Edgar. 1 letter [undated] to “Friends.” 1 item.

Folder 31

Rose, Anne. 1 letter (1929, Jan. 12) to Anna Irvine Buck. 1 item.

Folder 32

Walton, Sydney. 1 letter (1947, June 2) to Anna Irvine Buck. 1 item.

Folder 33

Walton, Sydney. 2 letters (1938-1939) to Alexander Irvine, 1863-1941. 2 items.

Folder 34

-----. 1 letter [undated] to Anna Irvine Buck. 1 item.

Folder 35

-----. 1 letter fragment [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 36

Ephemera: Horoscope [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 37

Ephemera: Invitation to the dedication of “The Chimney Corner,” Pogue’s Entry, Antrim. [undated]. 2 items.

Folder 38

Ephemera: Irvine’s published work in pamphlet/article form [undated]. 8 items.

Folder 39

Ephemera: Miscellaneous pamphlets (1914-ca. 1940s). 4 items.

Folder 40

Ephemera: Note cards [undated]. 18 items.

Folder 41

Ephemera: Sketch [undated]. 1 item.

Folder 42

Newspaper Clippings re: Irvine’s descendents and legacy (1967-1986). 7 items.

Folder 43

Newspaper Clippings re: Irvine’s descendents and legacy (1978-1981). 7 items.

Folder 44

Newspaper Clippings re: Opening of the Chimney Corner Museum (1934). 15 items

Folder 45

Newspaper Clippings re: Religion (1932-1934). 4 items

Folder 46

Photographs. [undated]. 7 items.

Oversize

Folder 1

Scrap/sketchbook (1863-1908). 1 item.

Folder 2

Scrapbook (1919-1929). 1 item.

Folder 3

Scrapbook (1922-1938). 1 item.

Folder 4

The Psychological Review of Reviews (1923-1924) 4 items.