Charles Augustus Keeler Papers mssKeeler
Gayle Richardson
The Huntington Library
May 2020
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San Marino, California 91108
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Finding aid last updated on October 17, 2022 by Melissa Haley.
Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Charles Augustus Keeler papers
Creator:
Keeler, Charles Augustus, 1871-1937
Identifier/Call Number: mssKeeler
Physical Description:
23.75 Linear Feet
(19 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1895-1944
Abstract: A collection of personal, business, and literary papers belonging to American poet and ornithologist Charles Augustus Keeler.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Charles Augustus Keeler papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The material was acquired from various sources and in multiple acquisitions: Gifts of Mrs. Charles A. Keeler, September 1944
and June 1946. Purchased from Mrs. Charles A. Keeler, December 1949. Purchased from Mrs. Merodine Keeler McIntyre, April 1950.
Biographical / Historical
Charles Augustus Keeler (1871-1937) was an American poet, ornithologist, and advocate for the arts and architecture. He was
born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and moved with his family to Berkeley, California in 1887. Keeler was the author of Bird notes
afield (1899) and many volumes of verse.
Scope and Contents
A collection of approximately 1,700 items from 1895 to 1944; it consists of personal, business, and literary papers, notebooks,
a scrapbook, and ephemera. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Gertrude Franklin Atherton, Mary Hunter Austin,
Francis F. Browne, Luther Burbank, John Burroughs, Gelett Burgess, Bliss Carman, John Vance Cheney, Ina Donna Coolbrith, Mary
Mapes Dodge, Mary Hallock Foote, Richard Watson Gilder, Herbert Hoover, Julia Ward Howe, James H. Hyslop, George Wharton James,
David Starr Jordan, Joseph LeConte, Jack London, Charles Fletcher Lummis, Edwin Markham, Bailey Millard, John Muir, Yoné Noguchi,
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Horace Elisha Scudder, Lucy Poate Stebbins, George Sterling, Charles Warren
Stoddard, Sun Yat-Sen, Bayard Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson.
Processing Information
Processed by Huntington Library Staff, circa 1955. In 2020, Gayle Richardson created the finding aid derived from a legacy
summary report. In 2022, Melissa Haley enhanced description of the presidential material present in the collection as part
of the American Presidential Papers Project.
General
Former call number: mssKeeler papers.
Arrangement
Arranged in the following series: 1. Correspondence; 2. Literary manuscripts; 3. Ephemera.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Ornithologists -- United States
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Ephemera -- United States -- 20th century
Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 20th century
Manuscripts -- United States -- 20th century
Poems -- United States -- 20th century
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948
Austin, Mary, 1868-1934
Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher), 1843-1913
Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926
Burroughs, John, 1837-1921
Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929
Cheney, John Vance, 1848-1922
Coolbrith, Ina D. (Ina Donna), 1841-1928
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Foote, Mary Hallock, 1847-1938
Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
Hyslop, James H. (James Hervey), 1854-1920
James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931
LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940
Millard, Bailey, 1859-1941
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980
Muir, John, 1838-1914
Noguchi, Yoné, 1875-1947
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902
Stebbins, Lucy Poate, 1886-1958
Sterling, George, 1869-1926
Stoddard, Charles Warren, 1843-1909
Sun, Yat-sen, 1866-1925
Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Box 5
P-S
Scope and Contents
Includes Theodore Roosevelt typescript letter signed to Charles Augustus Keeler, 1911 March 25.
Box 6
T-Z
Scope and Contents
Includes Woodrow Wilson letter signed to Charles Augustus Keeler, 1919 September 24.
Box 7
Charles Augustus Keeler: to A-Z
