Descriptive Summary
Access
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Biography
Collection Description
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Dr. Andrew F. Rolle Letter Collection
Dates: 1969-1986
Collection number: 066
Collector:
Andrew F. Rolle
Collection Size:
4 items (one pamphlet binder)
Repository:
Loyola Marymount University. Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90045-2659
Abstract: The collection consists of one document folder containing three letters from Franciscan priests concerning, for example, their
research on California history written to Dr. Andrew F. Rolle and one letter written in response to them by Dr. Rolle.
Physical location: Section H, Aisle 67, Row A, Bay 6, Shelf 6
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Access
Collection is open to research under the terms of use of the Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount
University.
Publication Rights
Materials in the Department of Archives and Special Collections may be subject to copyright. Unless explicitly stated otherwise,
Loyola Marymount University does not claim ownership of the copyright of any materials in its collections. The user or publisher
must secure permission to publish from the copyright owner. Loyola Marymount University does not assume any responsibility
for infringement of copyright or of publication rights held by the original author or artists or his/her heirs, assigns, or
executors.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Dr. Andrew F. Rolle Letter Collection, 066, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William
H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University.
Acquisition Information
Donation of Dr. Andrew F. Rolle, 2003. Accession number: 2003.71
Biography
Source: Huntington Library biography of Dr. Andrew F. Rolle from the Andrew F. Rolle Papers
California and Western American historian Andrew F. Rolle graduated from Occidental College in 1943. He served as a military
intelligence officer in Europe and as American Vice Consul in Genoa, Italy, from 1945 to 1948. He earned a PhD in history
from UCLA in 1953 and taught at Occidental College from 1953 to 1988. Rolle studied psychoanalysis at the Southern California
Psychoanalytic Institute in 1976 and specialized in psychohistory. His published works include California: A History (1963),
The Italian-Americans: Troubled Roots (1980), and John Charles Fremont: Character as Destiny (1991).
Collection Description
The collection consists of one document folder containing three letters from Franciscan priests concerning their research
on California history written to Dr. Andrew F. Rolle and one letter written in response to them by Dr. Rolle. Father Francis
F. Guest, O.F.M., authored two of the letters and one details his position on the forced conversion of Native Americans in
the Mission period of California history. This view, Father Guest maintains, should be included in the revised version of
Dr. Rolle's history of California. There is a carbon copy of the response from Dr. Rolle and his sympathetic view of Father
Guest's position.
The contents of the collection are:
1. Handwritten letter to Dr. Rolle from Reverend Maynard Geiger, O.F.M., November 29, 1969
2. Typewritten letter to Father Francis F. Guest, O.F.M., from Dr. Rolle, January 8, 1985
3. Typewritten letter to Dr. Rolle from Father Francis F. Guest, O.F.M., (4 pages) January 17, 1985
4. Typewritten letter to Dr. Rolle from Father Francis F. Guest, O.F.M., June 24, 1986
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Rolle, Andrew F.
Guest, Francis F., O.F.M.
Missions -- California -- History
Indians of North America -- Missions -- California -- History