Guide to the Upton Sinclair collection
Guide to the Upton Sinclair collection, ca. 1930s
Collection number: Mss 113
Department of Special CollectionsDavidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff; latest revision A. Bui
- Date Completed:
- May 9, 2013
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
Scope and Content of Collection
- One printed card by American Typewriter Shorthand, using a Sinclair letter as an example for conversion to shorthand, ca. 1930. (SC 278).
- One anti-Sinclair flyer in the shape of a dollar-bill, with slogans such as "One SincLiar Dollar," "Good only in California or Russia," and "A Vote for Sincliar will put California on the bum and the bums on California," printed in response to the Sinclair for Governor campaign on the Democratic ticket, 1934. (SC 831).
- One note (TNS) from American author Upton Sinclair to Dr. Sweet, re receiving Sweet's prior note. Los Angeles, 4 February 1933. Laid in Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1906). (SC 569).
Book review - Clipping from The Saturday Review of Literature (7 May 1932) - review of American Outpost: A Book of Reminiscences (1932)
Correspondence - Robert B. Sweet, 1933
Envelopes - Nine envelopes addressed to Peter A. Scott
Additional Note
Price lists and order blanks - Eight price lists, six order blanks
The Sinclair Foundation - Leaflet, "The Sinclair Foundation," announcement of the establishment of the Sinclair Foundation
Upton Sinclair's Epic News (preservation copies) - Weekly newspaper, issues (all Monday) 1934: 13 August-5 November
Election
End Poverty League, Incorporated - Booklets published by End Poverty League, Incorporated, written by Upton Sinclair - "The Lie Factory Starts," "I, Governor of California and How I Ended Poverty," "Epic Answers: How to End Poverty in California," "Immediate Epic: The Final Statement of the Plan"
Sinclair and Democratic Party - Leaflets, letters, and other materials endorsing/supporting Sinclair and the Democratic Party
Opponents to Democratic Party - Leaflets distributed by Communist Party, Republican Party
Propositions - Pamphlet on Propositions 3 and 14, newspaper clipping on Proposition 21
Miscellaneous - Sample ballot, announcements
I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked - Clippings from Sinclair's newspaper serial: installments 12, 14, 19, 20-42
Miscellaneous