Personal, 1958-2016
- Dates:
- 1958-2016
- Extent:
- 2.69 Linear Feet (6 boxes)
- Scope and content:
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Incoming and outgoing correspondence with friends, family, and publishing contacts, including Joseph Cornell (12 items including inserts and envelopes, plus photocopies), Peter Eden, Paul Glass, Joseph Heller (6 items including envelopes, plus photocopies), Dan Wakefield, and Jann Wenner; and her father Sol Babitz, mother Mae Babitz, and sister Mirandi Babitz. A folder of get-well letters and faxes following her hospitalization in 1997 includes notes from Jackson Browne, Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, Don Henley, Annie Leibovitz, Steve Martin, Van Dyke Parks, and many others. Also includes several notebooks and datebooks, biographical and family materials, personal items, and audiovisual materials.
- Arrangement:
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Arranged by type of material.
Contents
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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SEALED. Box 19 is sealed until January 1, 2040, at family's request.
NOT AVAILABLE. Box 18 includes audiovisual materials that are unavailable until reformatted.
- Parent restrictions:
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Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Restrictions apply to:
Box 19: Brian G. Hutton correspondence and Eve Babitz 1969-1970 personal journal closed until January 1, 2040, at family's request.
- Parent terms of access:
- The literary copyright of materials by Eve Babitz is held by the Estate of Eve Babitz. Anyone wishing to quote from or publish any photographs or manuscript material by Eve Babitz must contact: Erica Spellman Silverman, Trident Media Group, LLC, 355 Lexington Ave, Floor 12, New York, NY 10017.
- Location of this collection:
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1151 Oxford RoadSan Marino, CA 91108, US
- Contact:
- (626) 405-2191