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Preliminary Guide to the Harry McGuire Collection
SBHC Mss 54  
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Description
Correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and publications edited by McGuire, who spent his later years in Santa Barbara. Includes materials relating to the Music Academy and Santa Barbara Council of Arts. Also, Hogarth prints (18c), British engravings and handbills (mainly 19c), and caricatures, cartoons, and drawings (mainly for his magazine Ringmaster). Large related book collection, mainly 19th and 20th century American and British literature, including first editions of Hamlin Garland, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Morley, and H. G. Wells, which have been cataloged separately.
Background
See Jay Monaghan article in Soundings, Jan. 1979 (source for most of the following information):
Extent
12 linear feet (13 document boxes, 9 oversize boxes, 3 records cartons, and 1 map cabinet file).
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.
Availability
None. Majority of materials stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval.