Guide to the Upton Sinclair collection

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Guide to the Upton Sinclair collection, ca. 1930s

Collection number: Mss 113

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara

Processed by:: Special Collections staff; latest revision A. Bui
Date Completed:: May 9, 2013
Encoded by:: A. Demeter

Descriptive Summary

Title: Upton Sinclair collection

Dates: ca. 1930s

Collection number: Mss 113

Collection Size: 0.2 linear feet (1 half-sized document box)

Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Abstract: Clippings, leaflets, broadsides, envelopes, political pamphlets, 1934 issues of Upton Sinclair's Epic News (Los Angeles campaign newspaper), and ephemera of the American novelist and activist.

Physical location: Del Sur.

Languages: English

Access Restrictions

None.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred Citation

Upton Sinclair collection. Mss 113. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

Undetermined.

Scope and Content of Collection

Clippings, leaflets, broadsides, envelopes, political pamphlets, 1934 issues of Upton Sinclair's Epic News (Los Angeles campaign newspaper), and ephemera of the American novelist and activist Upton B. Sinclair, Jr. (1878-1968). Materials related mainly to his bid for the governorship of California.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.

End Poverty League.

Elections -- California.

Related Material

In Special Collections:

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).

Copies of books by Sinclair can be found by searching the UCSB Library catalog.

Box 1: 1

Book review - Clipping from The Saturday Review of Literature (7 May 1932) - review of American Outpost: A Book of Reminiscences (1932)

Box 1: 2

Correspondence - Robert B. Sweet, 1933

Box 1: 3

Envelopes - Nine envelopes addressed to Peter A. Scott

Additional Note

See Special PS 3537 I85 Z543 1930.

Box 1: 4

Price lists and order blanks - Eight price lists, six order blanks

Box 1: 5

The Sinclair Foundation - Leaflet, "The Sinclair Foundation," announcement of the establishment of the Sinclair Foundation

Box 1: 6

Upton Sinclair's Epic News (preservation copies) - Weekly newspaper, issues (all Monday) 1934: 13 August-5 November

Election

Box 1: 7

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"

Box 1: 8

Sinclair and Democratic Party - Leaflets, letters, and other materials endorsing/supporting Sinclair and the Democratic Party

Box 1: 9

Opponents to Democratic Party - Leaflets distributed by Communist Party, Republican Party

Box 1: 10

Propositions - Pamphlet on Propositions 3 and 14, newspaper clipping on Proposition 21

Box 1: 11

Miscellaneous - Sample ballot, announcements

Box 1: 12

I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked - Clippings from Sinclair's newspaper serial: installments 12, 14, 19, 20-42

Box 1: 13

Miscellaneous