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Guide to the Robert E. Bason Collection of Christopher Morley
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Description
The materials described in the container list are part of a much larger collection of printed materials which have been cataloged individually and can be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB University Libraries online catalog.
Background
Christopher Darlington Morley was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania on May 5, 1890, the son of the noted mathematician Frank Morley and his wife Lilian, a musician. Morley's family moved to Baltimore in 1900, but he returned to attend Haverford College from 1906 to 1910. He spent the following three years studying at Oxford University in England as a Rhodes scholar. While there, his first book of poems, The Eighth Sin (1912), was published by a prominent English bookseller. Returning to the United States, where he would eventually settle in New York, Morley worked as an editor and columnist, while finding success as a novelist. He married Helen Booth Fairchild in 1914, and they would have four children together. His first novel, Parnassus on Wheels, was published in 1917. His most popular novel, Kitty Foyle, was published in 1939 and the next year was made into a movie with Ginger Rogers. For the length of his career, Christopher Morley was very popular in literary, academic, theatrical, and publishing circles, and his nearly thirty-year service on the editorial board of the popular Book-Of-The-Month Club allowed him to exert a tremendous influence on the reading habits of America at large. After suffering a series of severe strokes, Morley died in March 1957.
Extent
.08 linear feet (2 document boxes)
Restrictions
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.
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