Olive Percival Collection: Finding Aid mssHM 79260-79378

Finding aid prepared by Gina C Giang in 2013. In April 2022, Brooke M. Black updated the finding aid.

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Title: Olive Percival collection

Identifier/Call Number: mssHM 79260-79378

Physical Description: 8 Linear Feet (14 boxes)

Date (inclusive): 1741-1965

Date (bulk): 1899-1946

Abstract: This collection contains the papers of Olive Percival (1869-1945), a Southern California author, gardener, book and art collector, photographer, and activist, dating chiefly from 1899 to 1946 and consisting of manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, and ephemera. Some of the subjects represented in the collection are life in Los Angeles, Pasadena, the Arroyo Seco, and Chinatown; descriptions of travel; book and art collecting, and gardening.

Language of Material: English.

Access

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Publication Rights

The Huntington Library retains the literary rights to the material.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. Olive Percival Collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Provenance

The majority of this collection was a gift from Florence G. Moore Kreider from 1945-1946, the executrix of Olive Percival's estate.

Cataloger's Notes

1. Olive Percival's handwriting appears on material throughout the collection, so it was decided not to note each instance on the folder fronts.

2. Manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera relating to Anna Held Heinrich, Max Heinrich, and Ellen Terry were transferred from the Lynden Ellsworth Behymer Papers. These items originally belonged to Olive Percival when acquired by Dawson's.

Biographical Note

Olive May Graves Percival (1869-1945) was an American author, gardener, artist, poet, book collector, photographer, suffragist, designer, and toy and paper doll maker. She was born July 1, 1869, near Sheffield, Illinois, and moved to Los Angeles in 1887 with her mother, Helen Percival, and sisters, living initially in the Women's Christian Temperance Union building at Temple and Broadway and working as a sales clerk at Hamburger's Department Store. In 1891, she began her 38-year career in the insurance industry to support herself and her mother while engaging in her many interests, working initially for fire insurance agents McLellan and Golsh and then, from 1895 until her retirement in 1929, as a sub-agency clerk with the Home Insurance Company.

In the 1890s, Percival built a modest cottage along the Arroyo Seco in Los Angeles County, a dwelling without electricity, but with a wood stove and windmill, that she named "Down-hyl Claim." The home, which she filled with her collections of ten thousand books, hats, dolls, daguerreotypes, porcelain, silver, textiles, quilts, fans, bookplates, Lalique glass, and Asian art, became the site of frequent gatherings for artists, writers, bibliophiles, and gardeners. An avid gardener herself, who grew over 250 varieties of plants, Percival wrote The Children's Garden Book: Instructions, Plans and Stories: A Voice from a Gentle Age (published posthumously by the Huntington Library in 2005). She was especially fond of roses, a cherry red variety of which was patented as the Olive Percival Rose; this rose has been planted in the White House Garden.

An avid amateur photographer, Percival was particularly interested in documenting scenes of Southern California including San Pedro, Chinatown in Los Angeles, and her own garden, as well as her visits to Mexico in 1899. She used her own photographs to illustrate her book, Mexico City: An Idler's Notebook, as well as a series of articles by this name for the Los Angeles Times, in 1900-1901. She was a member of many clubs, including the Friday Morning Club, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the American Society of Colonial Families. Percival spoke out against the California Alien Land Law of 1913 and was also a member of the Japan Club in London and New York. She died in Pasadena on February 19, 1945.

Related Materials in the Huntington Library

Olive Percival Collection of Photographs (Call number: photCL 217)
Hildegarde Flanner papers (Call number: mssHM 49977-50166) (Includes recollections of Olive Percival, 1983, and correspondence with Percival, 1923-1944)
Friday Morning Club papers (Friday Morning Club Scrapbook Collection, Albums 38-40, 1903-1941, belonged to Olive Percival, who pasted in program notices and added comments on speakers)
Joseph C. Sasia letter to Olive Percival, 1919, August 16. (Call number: mssHM 16373)
Father Joseph O'Reilly letter to Olive Percival, 1919, August 19. (Call number: mssHM 16374)

Scope and Content

This collection contains the papers of Southern California author, gardener, book and art collector, photographer, and activist Olive Percival (1869-1945), dating chiefly from 1899 to 1946 and consisting of manuscripts (including biographical sketches, diaries, notebooks, poems, and short stories), correspondence, and ephemera.

Manuscripts

There are 376 pieces of manuscripts, the majority of which are by Olive Percival. The manuscripts comprise of biographical sketches, diaries, notebooks, poems, short stories, typescripts, and miscellaneous notes. The manuscripts are arranged alphabetically by author then title. Many of Olive Percival's unpublished short stories are set in Chinatown, Los Angeles.

Percival's notebooks, diaries, and sketchbooks are semi-cataloged and are arranged chronologically. The subjects covered in Percival's diaries and notebooks include life in Los Angeles, Pasadena, the Arroyo Seco, Chinatown; descriptions of travel in California and United States; museums and libraries; the Friday Morning Club (Los Angeles, Calif.); the collecting of books, bookplates, prints, hats, dolls, Japanese art, Chinese art, and Chinese porcelain; and gardening.

Notable people mentioned in Olive Percival's diaries are: Ruth St. Denis, Mrs. George M. Millard, Max Heinrich, Hildegarde Flanner, Grace Nicholson, Charles Fletcher Lummis, W. Irving Way, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jack London, and Wilbur Macey Stone.

Correspondence

There are 122 pieces of correspondence, the majority of which are by Ellen Dame Terry writing to Anna Held. It is arranged alphabetically then by date. Correspondence relating to Olive Percival mainly concerns letters from her friends and publisher. Notable authors include: Ellen Dame Terry, Anna Held, Anna Blake Mezquida, and Max Heinrich.

Ephemera

There are 341 pieces of ephemera. It is arranged by type and subject, and consists of an appointment book, bookmarks, bookplates, bulletins, empty envelopes, fliers, invoices, legal documents, military records, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, excerpts of periodicals, receipts, scrapbooks, tracts, and miscellaneous United States permits and a passport. The majority of the ephemera relates to Sheffield, Illinois, where Olive Percival was born.

Additional newspaper clippings were added in May 2017. The clippings primarily relate to the Nuestro Pueblo column for the Los Angeles Times from 1937 through 1939. These clippings are in Box 14.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in the following order: Manuscripts (Boxes 1-9); Correspondence (Box 10); and Ephemera (Boxes 11-13).

The manuscripts and correspondence are catalogued at item level, while the diaries, notebooks, and ephemera are semi-catalogued. Manuscripts are arranged alphabetically by author and title. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by author and ephemera is arranged alphabetically by type and subject.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Art, Chinese -- Collectors and collecting.

Art, Japanese -- Collectors and collecting.

Book collecting -- California -- Los Angeles

Bookplates -- Collectors and collecting.

Dolls -- Collectors and collecting.

Gardening -- California -- Los Angeles

Hats -- Collectors and collecting.

Libraries -- United States

Museums -- United States

Porcelain, Chinese -- Collectors and collecting.

Porcelain, Japanese -- Collectors and collecting.

Prints -- Collectors and collecting.

Women book collectors -- California -- Los Angeles

Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County, Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century

California -- Description and travel

California -- Social life and customs -- 20th century

Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century

Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century

Pasadena (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century

Pasadena (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century

San Diego (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century

United States -- Description and travel

Biographies (documents) -- United States.

Clippings (information artifacts) -- United States.

Diaries -- United States.

Excerpts -- United States.

Legal documents -- United States.

Letters (correspondence) -- United States.

Letters (correspondence) England.

Manuscripts -- United States.

Military records -- United States.

Notebooks -- United States.

Periodicals -- United States.

Poems -- United States.

Short stories -- United States.

Sketchbooks -- United States.

Typescripts -- United States

Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928

Manuscripts

Box 1

Manuscripts: Hubbard, Havrah – Percival, Olive

Hubbard, Havrah. "The Joyous Child: A Personality Sketch of Anna Held Heinrich:" [biographical sketch], MS. (typewritten: 23 p.); (1939, Oct.). Incomplete? HM 79260

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Hubbard, Havrah. "The Joyous Child: A Personality Sketch of Anna Held Heinrich:" [biographical sketch], MS. (typewritten: 110 p.), [approx. 1939]. Included: A letter by Charles Scribner's Sons, loose photographs, and a newspaper clipping. HM 79261

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

King, Fannie. "The Biography of Tante Heinrich:" [biographical sketch; draft], MS., [typewritten: 8 p.], (1934, Jan. 2). With handwritten notes by Olive Percival. HM 79262

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "A Daughter of The Tortoise:" [short story; draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 5 p.), [before 1946]. With author's autograph corrections. HM 79263

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "And The Sins of The Parent:" [short story; draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 8 p.), [before 1946]. With author's autograph corrections. HM 79264

[Percival, Olive 1869-1945]. "A Trivial Life:" [short story; draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 7 p.), [before 1946]. With author's autograph corrections. HM 79265

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "Better Deaf:" [short story; draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 10 p.); [before 1946]. With author's autograph corrections. HM 79266

[Percival, Olive 1869-1945]. "Deported:" [short story; two drafts], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 10 p.), [before 1946]. With author's autograph corrections. HM 79267

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945). "The Foolishness of Fools:" [short story; draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 6 p.), [before 1946]. With author's autograph corrections. HM 79268

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "The Girl of The Four Jade Bracelets:" [short story; draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 6 p.), [before 1946]. With author's autograph corrections. HM 79269

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. "Memories For the Congregational Church:" [manuscript; draft], carbon copy (A.MS.S., typewritten: 10 p.), (1929, Oct. 26), Los Angeles (Calif). Included: Copy. Note: Page 8 missing. HM 79270

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "Miss Wong's Stratagem:" [short story, draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 10 p.), [before 1946]. With author's autograph corrections. HM 79271

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "My first visit to San Diego and La Jolla:" [manuscript, draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 10 p.), (1912, May). With author's autograph notes. HM 79272

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "Of A Friendship:" [short story; draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 11 p.), [before 1946]. With author's autograph corrections. HM 79273

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "Once, In Old Chinatown:" [short stories; draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 87 p.), [after 1907]. Note: Original marked out title "The Green Balcony and Other Little Incidents of Old Chinatown." With author's autograph corrections. HM 79274

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "The Rhapsody of Kim Wah:" [short story; draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 4 p.); [before 1946]. Note: Original marked out title "The Same Old Story" With author's autograph corrections. HM 79275

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "The Story of Owyang:" [short story; two drafts], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 12 p.), [before 1946]. HM 79276

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "The Story of Red-Lily:" [short story; draft], carbon copy. (MS., typewritten: 6 p.), [before 1946]. With author's autograph corrections. HM 79277

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "The Three Felicities:" [short story, draft], carbon copy, (MS., typewritten: 7 p.), [before 1946]. HM 79278

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945], "When The Long Night Comes:" [short story; draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 15 p.), [before 1946]. Note: Page numbers are not consecutive. HM 79279

Box 2

Manuscripts: Allen, Hem. – Unknown Author

Allen, Hem. "Mary's Home:" [poem], A.MS.S. (2 p.), (1861, May 23). Included: Letter and transcript. HM 79280

Boyden, G.W. "Mrs. G.W. Boyden's Paper on Sheffield History: [excerpt], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 1 p.), (1913). HM 79281

Colman, G.W. "Two Sermons of the Rev. G.W. Colman:" [sermons], MS. (42 p.), [before 1922], (Ill). Included: Two loose clippings. With handwritten notes by Olive Percival. HM 79282

Day, Nathan M. "Infant School Song:" [poem], A.MS.S. (1 p.), (1851, Jan. 18), Linn County (Iowa). HM 79283

Day, Nathan M. "Time speed away:" [poem], A.MS.S. (1 p.), (1851, May 1), [Linn County, (Iowa)]. HM 79284

Day, Nathan M. "The Token:" [poem], A.MS.S. (1 p.), (1850, Mar. 30), Linn County, (Iowa). HM 79285

Day, Nathan M., Hannah Day, and ---- [Laning?]. "Now I'll not drink any more:" [poem], A.MS.S. (1 p.), (1851, Apr. 26), [Linn County, (Iowa)]. HM 79286

Heinrich, Max. "Legitimate 'Art In Vaudeville:" [article], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 4 p.), [undated]. HM 79287

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Mellus, Francis. "Diary of Francis Mellus:" [excerpts], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 3 p.), (1838-1847). With envelope and handwritten notes by Olive Percival. HM 79288

Peet, Jennie Spring. Biographical sketch of Rebecca Buffum Spring: [biographical sketch; typescript], MS. (typewritten: 2 p.), (1902), [Carmel, (Calif.)]. Included: Note by Olive Percival on Mrs. Peet. HM 79289

[Peet, Jennie Spring]. Untitled poem beginning, "For years high eloquence had wrought…" MS. [typewritten: 4 p.), (1902), Carmel, (Calif.) HM 79290

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "At Dusk:" [poem], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 1 p.), [before 1946]. HM 79291

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "At Eighteen:" [poem; draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten; 1 p.), [before 1946]. With author's autograph notes. HM 79292

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "Laughing Garden:" [poem; draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 1 p.), [before 1946]. With author's autograph notes. HM 79293

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "Life, My Life:" [poem; draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 1 p.), [before 1946]. With author's autograph corrections. HM 79294

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. "Los Angeles in Part 1847:" MS. (1 p.), [approx. 1915]. HM 79295

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Miscellaneous Notes, [before 1946]. HM 79296

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "Morning Comes – Night Comes:" [poem], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 1 p.), [before 1946]. HM 79297

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "My Third Visit to San Diego and La Jolla:" [manuscript; draft], MS., (typewritten: 3 p.), (1920, May 15-18). With author's autograph notes. HM 79298

[Percival, Olive, 1969-1945]. "The Old House:" [poem; draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten 1 p.), [before 1946]. With author's autograph corrections and notes. HM 79299

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "The Old Mirror:" [poem; draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 2 p.), [before 1946]. With author's autograph corrections. HM 79300

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "Readjustment:" [poem; draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 1 p.), [before 1946]. With author's autograph notes. HM 79301

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. "The Scheme Entire:" [poem], T.MS.S. (1 p.), [before 1946]. HM 79302

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "Seven willing-to-grow Plants:" MS. (typewritten: 1 p.), (1924, Feb. 7), Los Angeles (Calif.) HM 79303

[Percival, Olive, 1869-1945]. "To Remember:" [poem], carbon copy, (MS., typewritten: 1 p.), [before 1946]. HM 79304

Spring, Rebecca Buffum. "An Incident of the John Brown Raid:" A.MS.S. (8 p.), [before 1860]. With envelope. Including: Postscript (2 p.) HM 79305

Wheeler, Caroline Eliza. "Advice to a Lady lately married" and "Domestic Happiness:" [poem], A.MS. (2 p.), (1819). With handwritten notes by Olive Percival. HM 79306

Wheeler, Caroline Eliza. "Beauty:" [poem], A.MS.S. (1 p.), (1813, June 30). HM 79307

Wheeler, Caroline Eliza. "The Hour I love:" [poem], A.MS.S. (1 p.), (1813, July 4), Charlotte (Vt.) HM 79308

[Wheeler, Caroline Eliza]. "The Last Rose of Summer:" [poem], A.MS. (1 p.), [approx. 1813].

Note: Torn in half. With handwritten notes by Olive Percival. HM 79309

Wheeler, Caroline Eliza. "Love:" [poem], A.MS.S. (1 p.), (1812, June 30), Charlotte (Vt.) HM 79310

Wheeler, Caroline Eliza. "The Seasons:" [poem], A.MS.S. (1 p.), (1813, July 15), Charlotte (Vt.) HM 79311

Wheeler, Caroline Eliza. "---- vale of Avoca:" [poem], A.MS. (1 p.), [approx. 1813], [Charlotte, (Vt.)]. Damaged. HM 79312

----. "Dublin Bay:" [poem], MS. (2 p.), [before 1965]. HM 79313

Box 3

Bound Manuscripts

Graves, Clarissa. "This Album of Clarissa Graves:" [autograph album], A.MS.S. (65 p.), (1828- 1839). Note: Extremely fragile. HM 79314

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Aunt Abby and Others:" [bound typescript], MS.S. (typewritten: 494 p.), (1931), Los Angeles, (Calif.) With author's autograph corrections and notes. HM 79315

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. "The Children's Garden Book:" [bound typescript], MS.S. (typewritten: 267 p.), (1920), Los Angeles, (Calif.) With author's autograph corrections and notes. HM 79316

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. "Once, In Old Chinatown:" [short stories; draft], carbon copy (A.MS.S., typewritten: 87 p.), [after 1907]. Note: Original marked out title "The Green Balcony and Other Little Incidents of Old Chinatown." HM 79317

Box 4

Garden and Travel Diaries

Box 4, Folder 1

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Garden Diary: The Down-hyl Claim, the Arroyo Seco (1913- 1914).

Box 4, Folder 2

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Garden Diary: The Down-hyl Claim, the Arroyo Seco (1914- 1916).

Box 4, Folder 3

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Garden Diary: The Down-hyl Claim (1916-1922). Included: Included: Miscellaneous enclosures within volume.

Box 4, Folder 4

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Garden Diary: The Down-hyl Claim, the Arroyo Seco (1923).

Box 4, Folder 5

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Garden Diary (1924).

Box 4, Folder 6

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Garden Diary (1925).

Box 4, Folder 7

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Garden Diary: The Down-hyl Claim (1926).

Box 4, Folder 8

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Garden Diary: The Down-hyl Claim (1930-1931). Included: Miscellaneous enclosures within volume.

Box 4, Folder 9

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Travel Diary: Left Los Angeles for New York (1910). Included: Miscellaneous Enclosures within volume.

Box 4, Folder 10

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Travel Diary: Memoranda of My Eastern Journey (1903-1904).

Box 4, Folder 11

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Travel Diary: My First Visit to San Diego (1914-1915).

Box 4, Folder 12

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Travel Diary: Ten Days at the Panama Pacific Exposition, San Francisco (1915-1916).

Box 5

Personal Diaries

Box 5, Folder 1

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1889-1899).

Box 5, Folder 2

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1905-1907).

Box 5, Folder 3

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1907-1909).

Box 5, Folder 4

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1909-1911).

Box 5, Folder 5

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1911-1913).

Box 6

Personal Diaries

Box 6, Folder 1

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1913-1916).

Box 6, Folder 2

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1916-1919).

Box 6, Folder 3

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1919-1922).

Box 6, Folder 4

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1922-1923).

Box 6, Folder 5

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1924).

Box 6, Folder 6

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1925-1926).

Box 6, Folder 7

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1929).

Box 6, Folder 8

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1929-1930).

Box 6, Folder 9

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1930-1931).

Box 6, Folder 10

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1932).

Box 7

Personal Diaries

Box 7, Folder 1

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1933-1934).

Box 7, Folder 2

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1934-1935).

Box 7, Folder 3

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1935-1936).

Box 7, Folder 4

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1939).

Box 7, Folder 5

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1940).

Box 7, Folder 6

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1941).

Box 7, Folder 7

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1942).

Box 7, Folder 8

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Personal Diary (1943).

Box 8

Datebooks and Notebooks

Box 8, Folder 1

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Datebook (1914).

Box 8, Folder 2

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Notebook: Aids to Memory [before 1946].

Box 8, Folder 3

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Notebook: Art and Artists [before 1946].

Box 8, Folder 4

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Notebook: Birthday Book [before 1946]. Included: Newspaper clipping.

Box 8, Folder 5

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Notebook: Books Wanted (1902).

Box 8, Folder 6

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Notebook: First New England Pilgrimage [epitaphs] (1903- 1910). Included: Miscellaneous enclosures within volume.

Box 8, Folder 7

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Notebook: Like Leaves in Wintry Weather (Obituaries) [before 1946]. Included: Newspaper clippings.

Box 8, Folder 8

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Notebook: List of Books Read Aloud by Mother (1925-1928). With envelope.

Box 8, Folder 9

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Notebook: Memory Sketches (1918).

Box 8, Folder 10

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Notebook: New England, New York, the South, Chicago [before 1946].

Box 8, Folder 11

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Notebook: Orders (1911-1935).

Box 8, Folder 12

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Notebook: Purchases of Silver, etc. (1934-1935).

Box 8, Folder 13

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Notebook: These Promises Have I Made. These Things I Must Do (1911-1927).

Box 9

Notebooks and Sketchbooks

Box 9, Folder 1

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Notebook: Books: Fiction, Poetry, Essays [before 1946].

Box 9, Folder 2

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Notebook: Books: History, Travel, Art, Plays, Biography, Journals, Letters, Memoirs, Juveniles" [before 1946].

Box 9, Folder 3

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Notebook: Books: Miscellaneous Magazines [before 1946].

Box 9, Folder 4

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Notebook: Books: Old Books [before 1946].

Box 9, Folder 5

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Sketchbook: Mexico (1899). Included: Miscellaneous enclosures within volume.

Box 9, Folder 6

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945. Sketchbook: San Antonio Canon (1893).

Correspondence

Box 10

Atwater, Leverett – Traubel, Anne M.

Atwater, Leverett and Abigal 1 letter to Zina Hawley, A.L.S. (2 p.), (1820, Jan. 26), Lanesborough (Mass.). Included: Transcript. HM 79318

Bobbs-Merrill Company 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, L.S. (typewritten: 1 p.), (1912, Sep. 12), Indianapolis, (Ind.). With envelope. Signed by F.D. HM 79319

Bobbs-Merrill Company 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, L., (typewritten: 1 p.), (1912, Oct. 3), Indianapolis, (Ind.) HM 79320

Boyden, Sarah B. 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, A.L.S. (4 p.), (1929, Sep. 1), Sheffield (Ill.) With envelope. HM 79321

Boyden, Sarah B. 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, A.L.S. (4 p.), [1929, Dec.] HM 79322

Boyden, Sarah B. 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, A.L.S. (4 p.), [approx. 1929]. HM 79323

Boyden, Sarah B. 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, A.L.S., (4 p.), (1930, Jan.), Sheffield, (Ill.) With envelope. HM 79324

Bullock's Los Angeles. 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, L.S. (typewritten: 1 p.), (1941, Jan. 10), Los Angeles (Calif.). With envelope. Signed by Agnes Ferrell. HM 79325

Burgess, Ida J. 1 business card to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, A.N.S. (1 p.), [approx. 1910], New York (N.Y.) HM 79326

Cobb, Samuel 1 letter to Justus Rew, A.L.S. (2 p.), (1837, Sep. 3), Mantua, (Ohio). Included: Transcript. HM 79327

Duse, Eleonora, 1858-1924 1 note card to Ellen Dame Terry, 1847-1928, A.N.S. (2 p.), [before 1925]. With envelope in Olive Percival's handwriting. HM 79328

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

First Church of Christ in [M----?], Connecticut 1 letter to [Whom it may concern], A.L.S. (1 p.), (1817, Oct. 12), ---- (Conn.) HM 79329

Fuller, Loie, 1862-1928 1 letter to Ellen Dame Terry, 1847-1928, A.L.S. (2 p.), [before 1929], London (England). HM 79330

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

["Gems?"] 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, A.L.S. (16 p.), (1921, July 6), Philadelphia (Pa.). With envelope. HM 79331

["Gems?"] 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, L.S. (typewritten: 6 p.), (1921, July), Philadelphia, (Pa.) With envelope. Included: Two photographs. HM 79332

Harbor Press 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, L.S. (typewritten: 1 p.), (1934, Mar. 12), New York (N.Y.). Signed by [E.W.?] Wood. HM 79333

Hardee, J.P. 1 letter to William Byam, A.L.S. (2 p.), (1874, Nov. 10), ----? County (Fla.) HM 79334

Haugh, H. 1 letter to Eleazer Copeland, ([before 1815], Aug. 12), Charlotte (Vt.) HM 79335

Held, Anna 1877?-1918 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, A.L.S. (3 p.), (1925, June 30), London (England). HM 79336

Held, Anna, 1877?-1918 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, A.L.S. (2 p.), (1927, May 27). HM 79337

Held, Anna, 1877?-1918 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, L. (typewritten: 1 p.), (1937, Oct. 11), San Diego (Calif.) HM 79338

Held, Anna, 1877?-1918 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, L. (typewritten: 1 p.), (1937, Nov. 24), San Diego (Calif.). With envelope. HM 79339

Held, Anna, 1877?-1918 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, L., (typewritten: 1 p.), (1938, Feb. 25), San Diego (Calif.). With envelope. HM 79340

J.B. Lippincott Company 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, L., (typewritten: 1 p.), (1920, Aug. 20), Philadelphia (Pa.) HM 79341

[Kidd, J.?] 1 letter to "My Dear Girl," A.L.S. (3 p.), (1845, July 31), [Philadelphia, (P.A.)] HM 79342

Kirkland, Cordelia 1 letter to Jennie [Spring] Romney, A.L.S. (4 p.), (1918, Oct. 15). HM 79343

Kreider, [Florence] 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, A.MS.S. (4 p.), [before 1946], Los Angeles (Calif.) Transferred from Reference Book, Friday Morning Club of Los Angeles, 1924-1925, June 24, 1982. HM 79344

Lyons, H.M. 1 letter to B.J.D. Irwin, A.L.S. (1 p.), (1862, Dec. 6), Helena, (Ark.) HM 79345

Mezquida, Anna Blake, 1883-1965 1 poem to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, MS. (typewritten: 1 p.), (1937, Apr.), Oakland (Calif). With envelope. HM 79346

Moore, Libbie 1 letter to "My Dear Lizzie," A.L.S. (6 p.), (1877, Aug. 26), Columbia (Calif.) HM 79347

The Pacific Garden 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, L.S. (typewritten: 1 p.), (1914, Dec. 25), Los Angeles (Calif.). With envelope. Signed by P.D. Baruhart. HM 79348

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945 1 letter to "Doctor Bridge," carbon copy (L., typewritten: 2 p.), (1923, Dec. 27), Los Angeles (Calif.). HM 79349

Percival, Olive, 1869-1945 1 letter to "the Publisher," carbon copy (L., typewritten: 1 p.), [approx. 1920], Los Angeles (Calif.) HM 79350

The Sheffield Times 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, L.S. (typewritten: 1 p.), (1929, Nov. 12), Sheffield, (Ill.) HM 79351

Stone, Wilbur Macey 1 postcard to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, A.N. (1 p.), (1921, Nov.), Hudson (N.Y.) HM 79352

[Stone, Wilbur Macey] 1 invitation to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, L. (typewritten: 1 p.), (1923, Oct.), East Orange (N.J.) HM 79353

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to Anna Held, 1877?-1918, A.L.S. (2 p.), (1887, Jan. 15), London (England). With envelope. HM 79354

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to Anna Held, 1877?-1918, A.L.S. (1 p.), (1887, Mar.), Calais (France). With envelope. HM 79355

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to Anna Held, 1877?-1918, A.L.S. (2 p.), (1887, July), London (England). With envelope. HM 79356

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to Anna Held, 1877?-1918, A.L.S. (8 p.), (1887, Nov. 19), New York (N.Y.) HM 79357

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to Anna Held, 1877?-1918, A.L.S. (2 p.), [1887]. Papers. HM 79358

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter Anna Held, 1877?-1918, A.N. (2 p.), (1887), London (England). With envelope. Included: Clipping. HM 79359

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to Anna Held, 1877?-1918, A.L.S. (2 p.), (1891, June), London (England). With envelope. HM 79360

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to [Anna Held, 1877?-1918], A.L.S. (4 p.), (1892, June 30), London, (England). HM 79361

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to [Anna Held, 1877?-1918], A.L.S. (2 p.), ([1893], Aug.), London (England). HM 79362

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to [Anna Held, 1877?-1918], A.L.S. (2 p.), (1893, Dec. 22), [New York (N.Y.)] HM 79363

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to [Anna Held, 1877?-1918], A.L.S. (1 p.), (1896, May 20). HM 79364

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to [Anna Held, 1877?-1918], A.L.S. (8 p.), (1898, Jan.), [London, (England)]. HM 79365

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to [Anna Held, 1877?-1918], A.L. (1 p.), [before 1929]. HM 79366

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to [Anna Held, 1877?-1918], A.L.S. (2 p.), [before 1929]. HM 79367

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to [Anna Held, 1877?-1918], A.L.S. (2 p.), [before 1929]. HM 79368

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to [Anna Held, 1877?-1918], A.L.S. (4 p.), [before 1929]. HM 79369

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to [Anna Held, 1877?-1918], A.L.S. (2 p.), [before 1929], Kent (England). HM 79370

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 note card to [Anna Held, 1877?-1918], A.N. (3 p.), [before 1929]. HM 79371

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to Max Heinrich, A.L.S. [Photostat], (2 p.), ([1914], Mar. 30), Kent (England). HM 79372

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to Max Heinrich, A.L.S. [Photostat], (2 p.), ([1914], Apr. 26), Kent (England). With envelope. HM 79373

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to Max Heinrich, A.L.S. [Photostat], (2 p.), ([1915], Jan. 27), London (England). HM 79374

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 letter to Max Heinrich, A.L.S. [Photostat], (4 p.), (1925, Aug. 23). Included: Three copies. HM 79375

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928 1 note to Max Heinrich, A.N.S. on a photograph [Photostat], (1 p.), [before 1929]. Included: Copy. HM 79376

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

[Terry, Ellen Dame, 1847-1928] 1 letter to Max Heinrich, A.L. [Photostat], (2 p.), [before 1929]. Included: Copy of second page. HM 79377

General

Transferred from the Behymer Papers.

Traubel, Anne M. 1 letter to Olive Percival, 1869-1945, A.L.S. (2 p.) (1845, July), Camden (N.J.). With envelope. HM 79378

Ephemera

Box 11

Admit Cards – Fliers and Tracts

Box 11, Folder 1

Admit cards (1910). 3 items.

Box 11, Folder 2

Appointment Book of Olive Percival, 1869-1945, (1907). 1 item.

Box 11, Folder 3

Book by Charles Caldwell Dobie, 1881-1943, "Young China" and Henry Milner Rideout, 1877-1927, "The Seeds of Time." 1 item.

Box 11, Folder 4

Book by Essays Irish and American, "Recollections of Samuel Butler, [excerpt]" [1918]. 1 item.

Box 11, Folder 5

Book by Home Insurance Company, (1921, Jan. 1). 1 item.

Box 11, Folder 6

Bookmarks (1943). Included: Envelope with miscellaneous enclosures. 29 items.

Box 11, Folder 7

Bookplates. Note: Many bookplates are loose.

Box 11, Folder 8

Bulletins: Art Center of New York, (1924-1925). 2 items.

Box 11, Folder 9

Catalog: Paul J. Howard's California Flowerland, (1949). 1 item.

Box 11, Folder 10

Empty Envelopes (1887-1933). 10 items.

Box 11, Folder 11

Fliers and Tracts (1840-1915). 7 items.

Box 12

Legal Documents – Periodicals (218 items)

Box 12, Folder 1

Legal Documents: An Agreement between Stephen Goodwin and Mary and Samuel Foot, [agreement], (1741, Dec. 16). 1 item.

Box 12, Folder 2

Legal Documents: Commission of Hannah M. Byam as Guardian of the Estate of Emma M. Day minor, (1864, Jan. 19). 1 item.

Box 12, Folder 3

Legal Documents: John L Hallett to E.C. Byam: [deed], (1870, Mar. 28). 1 item.

Box 12, Folder 4

Legal Documents: Mortgage John Mitchell and Eliza Mitchell to [Nathan] M. Day: [mortgage], (1858, May 14). 1 item.

Box 12, Folder 5

Legal Documents: The State of Iowa to E.C. Byam: [certificate], (1865, Jan. 31). 1 item.

Box 12, Folder 6

Legal Documents: The State of Iowa to [Nathan M.] Day: [certificate], (186-?, May 16). 1 item.

Box 12, Folder 7

Legal Documents: William P. Van [Reu----] to Robert Powers: [deed], (1847, Oct. 1). 1 item.

Box 12, Folder 8

Legal Documents: United States. Internal Revenue Service to E.C. Byam: [licenses], (1865). 3 item.

Box 12, Folder 9

Legal Documents: United States. Internal Revenue Service to Byam and Seymour: [license], (1866, July 1). 1 item.

Box 12, Folder 10

Military Records: United States. Army. Dept. of Mississippi: Special Orders No. 154 [copy], (1862, June [8?]). 1 item.

Box 12, Folder 11

Military Records: United States. Army. Dept. of Mississippi to Major General S.R. Curtis. 1 item.

Box 12, Folder 12

Military Records: United States. Army. Dept. of Missouri: Special Orders No. 31, (1862, Oct. 27). 2 items.

Box 12, Folder 13

Military Records: United States. War Dept.: Special Orders No. 12, (1863, Jan. 9). 1 item.

Box 12, Folder 14

Miscellaneous Clippings: Abraham Lincoln. 2 items.

Box 12, Folder 15

Miscellaneous Clippings: Quits. 1 items.

Box 12, Folder 16

Miscellaneous Ephemera. 11 items.

Box 12, Folder 17

Miscellaneous Periodicals: Biography & Criticism [excerpts], (1914-1938). 7 items.

Box 12, Folder 18

Newspaper Clippings: Books, (1919-1934). 4 items.

Box 12, Folder 19

Newspaper Clippings: Colorado snowstorm, (1932). 2 items.

Box 12, Folder 20

Newspaper Clippings: Cornelia Otis Skinner, (1932-1941). 9 items.

Box 12, Folder 21

Newspaper Clippings: Marcus and Rebecca Spring, (1874-1909). 5 items.

Box 12, Folder 22

Newspaper Clippings: Max Heinrich and Havrah Hubbard, (1903-1938). 3 items.

Box 12, Folder 23

Newspaper Clippings: Miscellaneous, (1914-1944). 5 items.

Box 12, Folder 24

Newspaper Clippings: New York snowstorm, (1933-1935). 7 items.

Box 12, Folder 25

Newspaper Clippings: Religion (1938-1951). 3 items.

Box 12, Folder 26

Newspaper Clippings: Sheffield, Illinois, (1926). 3 items.

Box 12, Folder 27

Newspaper Clippings: Sheffield, Illinois, (1928). 6 items.

Box 12, Folder 28

Newspaper Clippings: Sheffield, Illinois, (1929-1932). 5 items.

Box 12, Folder 29

Newspaper Clippings: Sheffield, Illinois, (1934). 10 items.

Box 12, Folder 30

Newspaper Clippings: Sheffield, Illinois, (1935). 5 items.

Box 12, Folder 31

Newspaper Clippings: Sheffield, Illinois, (1936). 6 items.

Box 12, Folder 32

Newspaper Clippings: Sheffield, Illinois, (1937). 37 items.

Box 12, Folder 33

Newspaper Clippings: Sheffield, Illinois, (1938). 22 items.

Box 12, Folder 34

Newspaper Clippings: Sheffield, Illinois, (1939). 6 items.

Box 12, Folder 35

Newspaper Clippings: Sheffield, Illinois, [undated]. 5 items.

Box 12, Folder 36

Pamphlets: Miscellaneous, (1905-1910). 5 items.

Box 12, Folder 37

Periodical Clippings: Miscellaneous, (1916-1928). 20 items.

Box 12, Folder 38

Periodicals: The Bookman: Writers of Juvenile Fiction [excerpt], (1901). 1 item.

Box 12, Folder 39

Periodicals: The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: The Horse Market [excerpt], [1895]. 1 item.

Box 12, Folder 40

Periodicals: The Century Magazine: Alexis De Tocqueville and His Book on America [excerpt], [1898]. 1 item.

Box 12, Folder 41

Periodicals: The Century Magazine: At the Gate [excerpt], [1917]. 1 item.

Box 12, Folder 42

Periodicals: The Century Magazine: The Great St. Bernard [excerpt], (1913). 1 item.

Box 13

Periodicals – United States Passport (66 items)

Box 13, Folder 1

Periodicals: The Dial: Max Beerbohm [excerpt], (1921). Included: Newspaper clippings. 1 item

Box 13, Folder 2

Periodicals: [The Dial]: Max Beerbohm [excerpt], (1922).1 item.

Box 13, Folder 3

Periodicals: The Lady's Magazine, or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, (1800). 12 items.

Box 13, Folder 4

Periodicals: News-Letter of LXIVMOS, (1927-1928). 4 items.

Box 13, Folder 5

Periodicals: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record: George Arnold Hearn [excerpt], (1915). 1 item.

Box 13, Folder 6

Periodicals: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record: Presentation of the Portrait of Hon. Chauncey Mitchell…[excerpt], (1918). 1 item.

Box 13, Folder 7

Photographs (1871-1928). 11 items.

Box 13, Folder 8

Receipts and Invoices (1785-1864). 28 items.

Box 13, Folder 9

Scrapbook of James Rose (1859-1860). 1 item.

Box 13, Folder 10

Scrapbook of Olive Percival, 1869-1945, (1882). Included: Miscellaneous enclosures within volume.

Box 13, Folder 11

United States Custom House Memphis (Tenn.). Shipping permit [permit], [undated].

Box 13, Folder 12

United States. Office of the Provost Marshal General. Permits [permits], (1863, June). 3 items.

Box 13, Folder 13

United States Passport for Ernest Kidd Foster, (1909, Feb. 18). 1 item.

Box 14

Newspaper clippings

Box 14, Folder 1

Newspaper clippings: Nuestro Pueblo, Los Angeles Times, 1937

Box 14, Folder 2

Newspaper clippings: Nuestro Pueblo, Los Angeles Times, 1938

Box 14, Folder 3

Newspaper clippings: Nuestro Pueblo, Los Angeles Times, 1939

Box 14, Folder 4

Newspaper clippings: Private Lives, Los Angeles Times, 1938-1939

Box 14, Folder 5

Newspaper clippings: Miscellaneous, 1936-1939