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Edna and Dorothy Deakin Correspondence
GC 1378
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Title: Edna and Dorothy Deakin Correspondence
Dates: 1942-1948
Collection Number: GC 1378
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Extent: (Boxes: 1 letter)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, California 90007-4057
Abstract: Correspondence by Edna and Dorothy Deakin, who were the daughters of artist Edwin Deakin.
Language of Material: English
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Edna and Dorothy Deakin Correspondence. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
County
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence by Edna and Dorothy Deakin, who were the daughters of artist Edwin Deakin. Letters and notecards by both sisters
to Mr. Lockhart Darling, on December 30, 1942; and from December 26, 1944 through October 22, 1945. The remainder correspondence
from November 11, 1945 through March, 1948 were written by the surviving sister, Dorothy Deakin to Mr. Darling. Also one
photograph copy print of Edwin Deakin, his wife and two daughters. 1942-1948, undated. According to the donor, Lockhart
Darling was a wealthy Central Valley farmer from Fowler, California, who aided the Deakin sisters with financial support to
support the Deakin California mission paintings by keeping them intact rather than sold off piecemeal.
California missions
Deakin, Edwin, 1838-1923