Finding Aid for the Richard H. Dillon papers, 1957-
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Richard H. Dillon papers
Date (inclusive): 1957-
Collection number: 711
Creator:
Dillon, Richard H.
Extent:
137 boxes (68.5 linear ft.)
1 oversize box
Abstract: Richard Hugh Dillon (1924- ) wrote many articles and books on California. The collection consists of literary manuscripts,
correspondence with various publishers, magazine articles, books, speeches, reviews, research materials, royalty statements,
photographs, drafts, proofs, ephemera, personal material, and a manuscript by Roger Larson.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Richard H. Dillon papers (Collection 711). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Richard Hugh Dillon was born January 16, 1924 in Sausalito, California; AB (1948), AM (1949), and BLS (1950), UC Berkeley;
assistant librarian (1950-53) and librarian (1953-79), Sutro Library, San Francisco; author of many articles and books on
California, including:
California Trail Herd (1961),
The Legend of Grizzly Adams (1966),
Fool's Gold: The Biography of John Sutter (1967),
Humbugs and Heroes: a Gallery of California Pioneers (1970), and
Delta Country (1982).
Scope and Content
Collection consists mostly of literary manuscripts, including Dillon's editing of the reminiscences of Benjamin Butler Harris.
Also includes correspondence with Lawrence Clark Powell and various publishers. Includes magazine articles, books, speeches,
reviews, research materials, royalty statements, photographs, drafts, proofs, ephemera, personal material, and a manuscript
by Roger Larson.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Dillon, Richard H.--Archives.
Historians--California--Archival resources.
Librarians--California--Archival resources.
Genres and Forms of Material
Manuscripts for publication.
Box 2
Harris, Benjamin Butler.
The Gila Trail. Edited by Richard H. Dillon. Mill Valley, California.
December 11, 1957.
General Physical Description note: 290pp. 1 folder. Typescript with corrections in pencil by the editor.
Scope and Content Note
Title page bears previous title: Texas Argonauts, the Reminiscenses of Benjamin Butler Harris of Panola County, Texas and
divers California diggins.
Box 1
Harris, Benjamin Butler, 1824-1897.
The Gila Trail. Edited and annotated by Richard H. Dillon. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1960.
Physical Description: 55 sheets. 1 folder. Galley proofs with corrections by the editor in pencil.
Box 2
Harris, Benjamin Butler, 1824-1897.
The Gila Trail. [Edited by Richard H. Dillon] Mill Valley, California.
August 21, 1960.
Physical Description: 253pp. 1 folder. Typescript with holograph corrections in ink and pencil.
Scope and Content Note
Original date, December 31, 1957, had been crossed out and the date August 21, 1960 added. Presumably prepared for publishing
by the University of Oklahoma Press.
Box 1
Dillon, Richard Hugh.
Embarcadero. Mill Valley, California,
n.d.
Physical Description: 500pp. Revised typescript with corrections and publisher's directions for printer, in holograph, pencil.
Scope and Content Note
Foreword by William Hogan.
Box 1
Dillon, Richard Hugh.
Embarcadero. New York: Coward-McCann, Incorporated,
1959.
Physical Description: 107 sheets. 1 folder. First galley proof with holograph corrections and notations.
Dillon, Richard Hugh.
Embarcadero. New York: Coward-McCann, Incorporated,
n.d.
Physical Description: 78 sheets. 1 folder. Page proofs with holograph notations.
Box 2
Dillon, Richard Hugh. Correspondence with: Lawrence C. Powell, University of California, Los Angeles.
Scope and Content Note
Various publishing houses.
Box 2
Loveland, Cyrus C.
California Trail Herd, the 1850 Missouri-to-California Journal; edited and annotated by Richard H. Dillon. Mill Valley,
ca. Los Gatos, California: Talismen Press, 1961.
1960.
Physical Description: Manuscript and typescript (printer's copy).
Boxes 3-4
Dillon, Richard Hugh.
The Hatchet Men. Mill Valley, California,
ca.
1961.
Physical Description: Manuscripts, typescripts (printer's copy), galley proofs, notes, and correspondence.
Scope and Content Note
First published by New York: Coward-McCann. 1962.
Box 5
Dillon, Richard Hugh.
Shanghaiing Days. Mill Valley, California,
ca.
1960.
Physical Description: Manuscript, typescript (printer's copy), notes, and correspondence.
Scope and Content Note
New York: Coward-McCann, 1961.
Box 6
Dillon, Richard Hugh.
Bay Area Bookman. Mill Valley, California,
ca.
1961.
Physical Description: Manuscript and typescript (carbon).
Scope and Content Note
Published by the California Library Association, Berkeley, 1961. A revised and retitled 3rd edition of...Books and browsing
in San Francisco, first published in 1958.
Box 6
Dillon, Richard Hugh. Introduction to Samuel Hartlib's 1641 pamphlet,
A Description of the Famous Kingdom of Macria.... Mill Valley,
ca.
1961.
Physical Description: Typescript (carbon).
Scope and Content Note
Published by Wallace Kibbes, The Village Press, Corte Madera, California, 1961.
Box 6
Dillon, Richard Hugh. Correspondence.
Box 7
Dillon, Richard Hugh. Correspondence, A-L.
Box 8
Dillon, Richard Hugh. Correspondence, M-Z.
Box 9
Dillon, Richard Hugh. Miscellaneous manuscripts, arranged alphabetically.
Physical Description: 70 items.
Box 9
The A.B. Gray Report. [review].
Box 9
Adventures of Grizzly Adams.
Box 9
Alcatraz Letters of Lieutenant James B. McPherson.
Box 9
All Aboard for Australia!
Box 9
Alone Across the Pacific.
Box 9
Back Door to the Pinnacles.
Box 9
The Best Side Trip I Ever Took.
Box 9
Bound for Bashan.
Physical Description: (2 copies).
Box 9
Bully Hayes's First Shipwreck.
Box 9
Bully Hayes's Last Voyage.
Physical Description: (2 copies).
Box 9
Bully Waterman.
Physical Description: (2 copies).
Box 9
California's Crookedest Mountain.
Box 9
California's First Millionaire.
Box 9
California's Hawaiian Pioneer.
Box 9
California's Mystery Wine.
Box 9
California's Pirate-Rustler.
Box 9
Counted Among the Missing.
Box 9
Crusoes of Pitcairn's Island.
Box 9
A Devil of a Looking Miner.
Box 9
The Devil's Backbone [review].
Box 9
Drake's Bay and Whale Beach.
Box 9
Escape From Alcatraz [review].
Box 9
The Free China - Last of a Long Line.
Box 9
Frisco's Millionaire Filibusterer.
Box 9
Gold Bluffs and Fern Canyon.
Box 9
A Gull's-Eye View of San Diego.
Box 9
Hale Tharp's Noble Den.
Physical Description: (3 copies).
Box 9
Island Paradise - Family Style.
Box 9
Junks and Sampans in American Waters.
Box 9
M.L. [Meriwether Lewis], M[anuel] Lisa, and the Santa Fe Trial.
Physical Description: (2 copies).
Box 9
Meriwether Lewis's Servant.
Box 9
The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis.
Physical Description: (3 copies).
Box 9
19th century Wine Proverbs.
Box 9
San Francisco's Colossal Bore.
Box 9
San Francisco's Kanaka Pioneer.
Box 9
The Three Ages of Chinatown.
Box 9
Two Civil War Stragglers.
Box 9
Dillon, Richard Hugh. Miscellaneous manuscripts, untitled.
Physical Description: 5 items.
Box 9
Dillon, Richard Hugh. Miscellaneous notes, advertisements, etc.
Physical Description: 47 items.
Box 10
Dillon, Richard Hugh.
Dragoons and Seminoles. Original manuscript (first draft) of Journal only.
Box 10
Hunter, W. Journal.
Physical Description: Photocopy. 2 envelopes.
Scope and Content Note
This was the base for Dragoons and Seminoles, by Dillon.
Box 10
Dillon, Richard Hugh.
So Hard to Die.
Physical Description: Incomplete typescript.
Box 11
Dillon, Richard Hugh.
J. Ross Browne, Secret Agent in Old California. Norman, Oklahoma,
1965.
Physical Description: 64 leaves. Galleys.
Box 11
Correspondence.
Physical Description: 432 items.
Notes for
Meriwether Lewis
Box 12
Typescript and holograph. 350 items.
Box 13
Holograph and typescript. 350 items.
Box 14
Holograph and typescript. 360 items.
Box 15
Typescript and holograph. 200 items.
Box 14
Correspondence and miscellaneous notes.
Physical Description: Holograph and typescript.
Dillon, Richard Hugh.
Meriwether Lewis. New York
Box 15
1965.
Physical Description: Page Proofs. 350 leaves.
Box 16
1965.
Physical Description: Typescript. 495 leaves.
Box 17
1965.
Physical Description: 456 leaves. 2 versions.
Box 16
Correspondence.
Physical Description: 256 items.
Box 17
Two dust jackets for
Shanghaiing Days.
Box 17
Miscellaneous notes for
Shanghaiing Days.
Physical Description: 30 items.
Box 18
Rough draft of
J. Ross Browne, Secret Agent in Old California.
Physical Description: Typescript and holograph. 150 leaves.
Box 18
Dillon, Richard Hugh.
J. Ross Browne, Secret Agent in Old California. Norman, Oklahoma,
1965.
Physical Description: Typescript with holograph corrections. 376 leaves.
Box 18
Miscellaneous short papers.
Physical Description: Typescript and holograph. 10 items.
Box 19
Dillon, Richard Hugh.
J. Ross Browne, Secret Agent in Old California.
Physical Description: Typescript. 305 leaves.
Box 19
Correspondence and ephemera.
Physical Description: 38 items.
Box 19
Dillon, Richard Hugh.
J. Ross Browne, Secret Agent in Old California. Page proofs used to compile the index.
Physical Description: 209 leaves.
Box 20
Correspondence and miscellaneous notes.
ca.
Physical Description: 649 items.
Box 21
Dillon, Richard Hugh.
Grizzly Adams. New York,
1966.
Physical Description: 300 leaves. Page proofs.
Box 21
Rough drafts of portions of
Grizzly Adams.
Physical Description: 200 items.
Box 21
Correspondence.
Physical Description: 17 items.
Box 22
Tracing of the branding iron used by Meriwether Lewis.
Box 22
Correspondence.
Physical Description: 10 items.
Box 22
Rough drafts of articles and speeches and foreward to reprint edition of
Annals of San Francisco.
Physical Description: 300 items.
Box 23
Correspondence.
Physical Description: 350 items.
Box 24
Correspondence.
Physical Description: 350 items.
Box 24
Dillon, Richard.
The Fine Art of Abdicating Responsibility. n.p.,
1967.
Physical Description: 15 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections. 3 copies.
Box 25
Card file for Redwood Coast Place Names (never published).
Box 25
Card file--index to
J. Ross Browne, Secret Agent in Old California.
Box 25
2nd draft of
Builders of California Communities. (childrens' book).
Box 25
University of California, Extension Division, speech () on rare book and fine printing collecting.
1965
Physical Description: 2 copies.
Box 25
The Paper Curtain. Speech on censorship given to University of Southern California Library School Alumni Association at ALA , San Francisco.
1967
Physical Description: 2 copies.
Box 25
San Francisco à la carte. Article in
Library Journal,
June 15, 1967.
Physical Description: 2 copies.
Box 25
Corrections and editions for The Generous Miser (biography of James Lick).
Box 25
Meriwether Lewis-Santa Fe trade article which appeared in
Montana Magazine ().
1967
Box 25
The search for Meriwether Lewis. Speech given in Nashville,
1967.
Physical Description: 2 copies.
Box 25
Stephen Long's Great American Desert. Article in
Proceedings of American Philosophical Society.
Physical Description: Manuscript and galleys.
Box 25
Grizzly Adams: A memorable mountain man. Speech at University of California-Davis.
Physical Description: Photostat copy.
Box 26
Tape recording of Lecture on John Sutter, given at Humbolt State College, Arcata, California.
May 1967.
Box 26
Correspondence with writers and editors, etc.
Physical Description: 300 items.
Box 27
Fool's Gold. (biography of John Sutter). First and second drafts.
Box 27
Carbons or book reviews used in research for Stephen Long's Great American Desert.
Physical Description: Photostats. 24 items.
Box 28
Tape recording of talk to Utah State University, Logan. Conference on history and biography,
summer 1965.
Box 28
Fool's Gold. First, second, third, and fourth drafts.
Box 29
Miscellaneous Manuscripts (unsorted).
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 29
Ephemera (unsorted).
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 30
Manuscripts: A-F, G-O, P-Z.
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Box 31
Miscellaneous Correspondence ( and unsorted).
n.d.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Correspondence
Physical Description: 3 folders:
Box 32
CLR grant (unsorted).
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Correspondence
Physical Description: 2 folders:
Correspondence
Physical Description: 5 folders:
Box 34
Correspondence (unsorted).
Physical Description: 5 folders.
Box 35
Correspondence (unsorted).
Physical Description: 4 folders.
Box 36
Correspondence (unsorted).
Physical Description: 4 folders.
Box 37
Correspondence (unsorted) and 1 folder of manuscripts:
Burnt-Out Fires.
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Box 38
Manuscripts:
Burnt-Out Fires.
Physical Description: 4 folders.
Box 39
Manuscripts:
Burnt-Out Fires.
Physical Description: 4 folders.
Box 40
Manuscripts:
Burnt-Out Fires,
Sutter Illustrations,
Commoner in Mavajo Country.
Physical Description: 5 folders.
Box 41
Manuscripts:
Humbugs & Heroes.
Physical Description: 4 folders.
Box 42
Magazine Articles and Speeches (unsorted).
Physical Description: 7 folders.
Box 103
Announcements of speaking engagements and book jacket covers.
Box 43
Well's Fargo Detective.
Physical Description: Rough manuscript drafts (unsorted).
Box 44
Well's Fargo Detective.
Physical Description: Rough manuscript drafts (unsorted).
Box 45
Well's Fargo Detective.
Physical Description: Galley proofs.
Box 46
Well's Fargo Detective and
Fool's Gold (unsorted).
Physical Description: Miscellaneous manuscripts and galley proofs.
Boxes 47-48
Correspondence (unsorted).
Box 49
Correspondence and miscellaneous manuscripts (unsorted).
Box 50
Correspondence and ephemera (unsorted).
Box 51
Miscellaneous manuscripts (unsorted).
Box 52
Fool's Gold manuscripts (unsorted).
Boxes 53-54
Burnt-Out Fires manuscripts (unsorted).
Boxes 55-58
Miscellaneous manuscripts and correspondence (unsorted).
Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Rough Sorted as Follows:
Box 59, Folder 1
Introduction to catalog of Dr. Fitzhugh Book Collection.
Box 59, Folder 3
Drafts of articles, proposals and lectures. Most unindentified,
n.d.
Box 59, Folder 4
Drafts of book reviews.
Scope and Content Note
Also, miscellaneous correspondence, unsorted, various dates.
Box 60
Siskiyou Trail. Final draft, notes and correspondence. Rough sorted.
Boxes 61-62
Siskiyou Trail. Rough drafts, notes and source material. Rough sorted.
Box 63
Siskiyou Trail. Galley proofs and final typescript copy.
Box 64
Miscellaneous correspondence and manuscripts. Unsorted.
Box 65
Exploring the Mother Lode Country. Rough draft, notes and source material. Rough sorted. Also correspondence, drafts for articles, research material.
Box 66
Miscellaneous correspondence, ephemera and manuscripts, unsorted.
Box 67
Miscellaneous correspondence, ephemera and manuscripts of articles and book reviews, unsorted.
Images of Chinatown. Book Club of California
Box 68
Correspondence, manuscript, galley proofs, calligraphy.
Box 68
Correspondence, drafts of articles, unsorted.
Box 69
Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, ephemera, unsorted.
Boxes 70-71
Correspondence, manuscripts, ephemera, unsorted.
Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Rough Sorted as Follows:
Box 72, Folder 2
Articles by Richard Dillon re Sutro Library.
Box 72, Folder 3
Manuscript for
We Have Met the Enemy.
Box 72, Folder 4
Addenda for
We Have Met the Enemy.
Manuscripts for
We Have Met the Enemy
Box 74
We Have Met the Enemy. Master proofs.
Box 74
Correspondence, manuscripts, ephemera, unsorted.
Box 74
Correspondence, unsorted.
Box 74
Manuscript material, unsorted.
Box 74
Final revised draft,
We Have Met the Enemy.
Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Rough Sorted as Follows:
Box 75, Folder 1
Manuscripts for
We Have Met the Enemy, and correspondence with publishers.
Box 76
Correspondence, ephemera, unsorted.
Box 76
Correspondence, unsorted.
Boxes 76-78
Manuscript material for
We Have Met the Enemy.
Box 78
Correspondence, unsorted.
Box 79
Book Club of California correspondence and related material.
Box 80
Correspondence, unsorted.
Box 80
Book Club of California correspondence and related material.
Box 80
Clippings by or about Richard Hugh Dillon.
Box 81
Manuscript material for
The Siskiyou Trail: The Hudson's Bay Company Route to California by Richard Dillon. Unsorted.
Physical Description: 6 folders.
Box 82
Manuscript material for
The Siskiyou Trail: The Hudson's Bay Company Route to California by Richard Dillon. Unsorted.
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Box 82
Book Club of California. Minutes.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 82
Manuscript material--speeches and articles.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 83
Ephemera.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 83
Correspondence. (unsorted).
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Box 83
Correspondence. (unsorted).
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 84
Manuscript material for
Traces Of Time: California's Gold Rush Country by Richard Dillon.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 84
Manuscript material for
The Indian Wars Of America by Richard Dillon.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 84
Manuscript material--book reviews and research notes.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
General note
Addition, June 1982.
Box 84
Royalty statements, personal material, unsorted correspondence,
ca. 1953-72.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Additional Note
Addition, June 1982.
Correspondence
Additional Note
Addition, June 1982.
Box 85
1973.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 85
1974.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 85
1975.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 85
1977.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 85
1978.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 85
1979.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Correspondence.
Additional Note
Addition, June 1982.
Box 86
1980.
Physical Description: 4 folders.
Box 86
1981.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 87
Correspondence.
Additional Note
Addition, June 1982.
Box 87
1981.
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Box 87
1982.
Physical Description: 1 folders.
Box 87
Reviews, speeches, research material, notes.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Additional Note
Addition, June 1982.
Box 88
Reviews, speeches, research material, notes.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Additional Note
Addition, June 1982.
Box 88
Fool's Gold. reprint. Photo captions.
1981
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Additional Note
Addition, June 1982.
Box 88
Delta Country. Correspondence.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Additional Note
Addition, June 1982.
Box 88
Delta Country. Manuscript.
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Additional Note
Addition, June 1982.
Great Expectations.
Additional Note
Addition, June 1982.
Box 89
Original manuscript (first set proofs).
Physical Description: 8 envelopes.
Box 89
Proofs.
Physical Description: 9 envelopes.
Box 89
Final proofs.
Physical Description: 8 folders.
Box 89
Dustjacket, color photos.
Physical Description: 1 envelope.
Box 89
Beginning pages, proofs, color pages (proofs), final chapter, dustjacket.
Physical Description: 1 envelope.
Box 89
Dustjacket. Negative and velox piece.
Physical Description: 4 items.
Box 90
Great Expectations. Index.
Additional Note
Addition, June 1982.
Box 103
Printer's pasteup with photos for
Great Expectations: The Story of Benicia, California by Richard Dillon.
Additional Note
Addition, November 1984.
Box 91
Correspondence,
1952-1969.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Additional Note
Addition, November 1984.
Box 91
Correspondence,
1970-79.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Additional Note
Addition, November 1984.
Box 91
Correspondence,
1980-83.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Additional Note
Addition, November 1984.
Box 91
Correspondence,
1982-84.
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Additional Note
Addition, November 1984.
Box 92
Correspondence,
1982-84.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Additional Note
Addition, November 1984.
Manuscript material.
Additional Note
Addition, November 1984.
Box 92
Book reviews.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 92
Lake Isabella.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 92
Little Italy.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 92
Pine Flat(?).
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 92
San Francisco. Chapters 2-5.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Manuscript material.
Additional Note
Addition, November 1984.
Box 93
Traces of Time.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 93
Unsorted.
Physical Description: 6 folders.
Box 94
Manuscript material relating to Richard H. Dillon's
Iron men: California's Industrial Pioneers, Peter, James, and Michael Donahue. Point Richmond, California: Candela Press,
ca.
1984.
Additional Note
Addition, April 1985.
Box 94
Research material (photocopy) and notes.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 94
Manuscript. pp.i-xvi, 1-334. With retyped/deleted pages, index, and photograph captions.
Physical Description: Typescript, typescript(carbon) with corrections. 1 folder.
Box 94
Proofed galleys.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 94
Pasteup.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Richard H. Dillon.
Iron men: California's Industrial Pioneers, Peter, James, and Michael Donahue. Point Richmond, California: Candela Press, c.
1984.
Additional Note
Addition, April 1985.
Box 95
Page proofs.
Physical Description: 4 folders.
Box 95
Proof copies.
Physical Description: 2 items.
Box 96
Correspondence.
Unsorted.
ca. 1975-85.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Additional Note
Addition, April 1985.
Box 96
Correspondence. Unsorted.
1982.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Additional Note
Addition, January 1986.
Box 96
Manuscript--work unclear. Unsorted.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Additional Note
Addition, January 1986.
Box 97
Typescripts and manuscripts to unidentified work. Unsorted.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Additional Note
Addition, January 1986.
Box 97
Manuscript to unidentified work; Correspondence from 1982. Unsorted.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Additional Note
Addition, January 1986.
Box 97
Correspondence. Unsorted.
1982.
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Additional Note
Addition, January 1986.
Box 97
Correspondence. Typescripts--work unclear. Unsorted.
1982.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Additional Note
Addition, January 1986.
Box 98
Correspondence, typescripts--work unclear. Unsorted.
1982.
Physical Description: 8 folders.
Additional Note
Addition, January 1986.
Box 99
Richard H. Dillon.
Delta Country. Novato, California: Presidio Press, c.
1982.
Physical Description: 134pp. 2 folders, 1 complete set in each folder.
Additional Note
Addition, January 1986.
Box 99
Delta Country: galley from publisher.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Additional Note
Addition, January 1986.
Box 99
Delta Country: Drafts of Parts 1, 2, and 3.
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Additional Note
Addition, January 1986.
Box 99
Delta Country: Proofs.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Additional Note
Addition, January 1986.
Box 100
Correspondence. Unsorted.
1982-83.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Additional Note
Addition, January 1986.
Box 100
Proofs for
Delta Country (?).
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Additional Note
Addition, January 1986.
Box 100
Manuscripts to
Delta Country (?).
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Additional Note
Addition, January 1986.
Box 101
Galleys--
Delta Country (?).
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Additional Note
Addition, January 1986.
Box 101
Typescripts--
Delta Country (?).
Physical Description: 8 folders.
Additional Note
Addition, January 1986.
Box 101
Correspondence, Typescripts for
Delta Country.
1983.
Physical Description: 1 folder
Additional Note
Addition, January 1986.
Book Reviews and Correspondence
Box 117, Folder 5
(folder 1 of 6).
ca. 1975-97
Box 118, Folders 1-5
(folders 2-6 of 6).
ca. 1975-97
Box 103
Meriwether Lewis--design for dustjacket.
Additional Note
Unavailable.
Box 103
Great Expectations--pasteup with photographs.
Box 107, Folders 1-4
(Folders 2-5 of 5).
1979-89
Box 120, Folder 3
Christmas cards.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 120, Folder 4
ca. 1966-79.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 120, Folder 5
ca. 1992-99.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 120, Folders 6-7
ca. 1999-2000.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 122, Folders 14-15
ca. 1968-99.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 123, Folders 1-5
ca. 1968-98.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 122, Folder 9
Literature of San Francisco, Elderhostel course,
1987.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 103
Announcements of speaking engagements, book jacket covers.
Box 121, Folder 9
The Civil War: A View from the West,
1986-87.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 122, Folder 1
California Names on the Land,
1993.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 122, Folder 2
History of Modern San Francisco,
1985.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 122, Folder 3
Mexican California.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 122, Folder 4
History of California,
1979.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 122, Folder 5
History of Hawaii.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 122, Folder 6
Bestsellers: The Popular Book in America,
1966.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 122, Folder 7
Course proposals.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 122, Folder 8
Curriculum proposals,
1997-1998.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 122, Folder 11
Looking Back from 1900,
1990.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 122, Folder 12
History of San Francisco,
1984.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Manuscript by Roger Larson
Box 102, Folder 5
An Informal History of a Unique California Press.
Scope and Content Note
With letter, January 16, 1988.
Box 119, Folder 5
Unidentified pages, 502--?.
Box 120, Folder 2
Articles, speeches, book reviews.
Manuscripts and Correspondence
Manuscripts by Richard Dillon
Box 102, Folder 9
The Last Days of the California Missions.
Box 102, Folder 10
Maynard Dixon: From Coronado to Canon de Chelly.
Box 102, Folder 11
The Modoc War: A Campaign Without Counterpart.
Box 102, Folder 13
San Francisco's historic Embarcadero.
Box 103
Last Days of the California Missions--manuscript.
Box 105, Folder 5
San Francisco's Army of Occupation in 1906.
Box 105, Folder 7
Preface for Ferol Egan's
Fremont.
Box 105, Folder 10
The Three Faces of Chinatown.
Box 105, Folder 12
The Later Days of the California Missions.
Box 105, Folder 14
History of Modern San Francisco.
Box 105, Folder 15
Oliver Hazard Perry sketch for
Encyclopedia Americana.
Box 106, Folder 2
Introduction--Captain Woodes Rogers'... by Louis Osborne.
Box 106, Folder 4
Fall Color in California.
Box 106, Folder 6
Texas Argonauts--galleys.
Box 106, Folder 7
Texas Argonauts--page proofs.
Box 106, Folder 8
Treasure Island--first draft.
Box 117, Folder 2
Blackhawk Ranch,
1988.
Scope and Content Note
Unpublished, photocopy of typescript.
Box 121, Folders 1-2
Great Expectations--rough draft.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 121, Folder 3
Publishers' contracts.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 121, Folder 4
Articles by Richard H. Dillon.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 121, Folder 5
Book reviews by Richard H. Dillon.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 121, Folders 6-7
Articles by Richard H. Dillon for
American National Biography.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 121, Folder 8
Richard H. Dillon's critique of
Gold Fever by J.S. Holliday.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 122, Folder 10
Writing awards materials.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 122, Folder 13
Introduction to
A History of San Francisco by John Hittell ( reprint).
1999
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 124, Folder 2
Uncanny America.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 124, Folder 3
An Unnatural History of America--notes.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Box 124, Folder 4
Calendars.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
University of California, Berkeley
Box 124, Folder 1
London--lecture notes,
1970.
Additional Note
Addition, January 2002.
Boxes 125-134
Correspondence Circa. 1960-2006
Box 135, Folder 2
Richard Dillon Photographs
Box 135, Folder 3
Invoices, Royalties, Consultant Fees, and Honorariums
Box 135, Folder 4
Images of Chinatown Manuscript
Box 135, Folder 6
Book Reviews and Talks (folder 1 of 2)
Box 135, Folder 7
Book Reviews and Talks (folder 2 of 2)
Box 135, Folder 8
Ephemera about Richard Dillon
Box 135, Folder 9
Correspondence Circa. 1967-2003 (folder 1 of 4)
Box 135, Folder 10
Correspondence Circa. 1967-2003 (folder 2 of 4)
Box 135, Folder 11
Correspondence Circa. 1967-2003 (folder 3 of 4)
Box 135, Folder 12
Correspondence Circa. 1967-2003 (folder 4 of 4)
Boxes 136-138, Folder
Manuscripts of Book Reviews, Talks, Articles, and Books
