Finding Aid for the Sarah Bixby Smith Correspondence LSC.0223
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Title: Sarah Bixby Smith correspondence
Creator:
Bixby Smith, Sarah
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0223
Physical Description:
1.0 Linear Feet
(2 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1871-1935
Abstract: Sarah Hathaway Bixby Smith (1871-1935) was a writer and activist. Her works include:
A Little Girl of Old California (ca.1920),
My Sage-brush Garden (1924),
Adobe Days (1925),
Pasear; a second book of California verse (1926),
Wind Upon my Face (1930),
Milestones in Los Angeles: being a brief narrative of Los Angeles through five decades (ca. 1933) and
The Bending Tree (1933). She was significantly involved in women's groups such as the Friday Morning Club and the American Association of
University Women. The collection consists primarily of correspondence and also includes announcements, invitations, photographs,
and family keepsakes.
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[Identification of item], Sarah Bixby Smith correspondence (Collection Number 223). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of the Smith Family.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9942303823606533
Sarah Hathaway Bixby Smith was born to Lewellyn Bixby and Mary Hathaway Bixby in August 1871, in San Justo Ranch near San
Juan Bautista, California. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College in 1894 and was an advocate for women's
independence and higher education. She was married twice, first to Arthur Maxson Smith in 1896, and then in 1916 to Paul Jordan
Smith, whom she later divorced. From both marriages combined she had five children: Maxson, Bradford, Rodger, Janet, and Lewellyn.
Her works include:
A Little Girl of Old California (ca.1920),
My Sage-brush Garden (1924),
Adobe Days (1925),
Pasear; a second book of California verse (1926),
Wind Upon my Face (1930),
Milestones in Los Angeles: being a brief narrative of Los Angeles through five decades (ca. 1933) and
The Bending Tree (1933). She was the vice president of the America Association of University Women, as well as the president of the Friday
Morning Club. She was also a trustee of Scripps College and a member of the Claremont School Board. In the early 1930s she
was a delegate to the Pacific Relations Conference in Shanghai. She died in 1935 at the age of 64. At the time of her death
she was in the process of writing another book on the history of southern California.
Collection consists primarily of correspondence in the form of letters, telegrams, and postcards related to writer Sarah Bixby
Smith and her family. The collection also includes announcements, invitations, photographs, and family keepsakes.
- Smith, Sarah Bixby. A little girl of old California. Los Angeles, 1920.
- Smith, Sarah Bixby. Milestones in Los Angeles: being a brief narrative of Los Angeles through five decades. 1933.
- Smith, Sarah Bixby. Poems selected for Americanization classes. Los Angeles: Los Angeles City School, 1929.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Correspondence.
Women authors, American -- Archives.
Bixby Smith, Sarah, 1871-1935--Correspondence.
box 1, folder 1
box 1, folder 2
Correspondence from Lewellyn Bixby to Sarah Bixby Smith 1876-1894.
box 1, folder 3
box 1, folder 4
box 1, folder 5
box 1, folder 6
Correspondence from friends and family concerning the death of Sarah's mother and father 1882-1896.
box 1, folder 7
box 1, folder 8
box 1, folder 9
box 1, folder 10
box 2, folder 1
box 2, folder 2
box 2, folder 3
box 2, folder 4
box 2, folder 5
Correspondence from Paul Smith to Sarah Bixby Smith ca. 1934.
box 2, folder 6
box 2, folder 7
box 2, folder 8