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1. Ambrose Bierce Correspondence.

General Physical Description note: ···· 8 Typescript letters (copies).

2. Correspondence--Bierce, George Sterling, Mencken and others by various writers, including James Wheaton James.

General Physical Description note: ···· 7 letters.

3. Bierce letters to C.B. Carrington, Eleanor Vore Sickler.

General Physical Description note: ···· over 100 carbon typescript copies.

4. Photographs of and concerning Bierce.

General Physical Description note: ···· 21 items, (including, in many cases, negatives).

Abstract:

···· Includes the very rare photograph (with negative) of Bierce at the desk of his mountain retreat at Angwin's near Calistoga, California.

5. McWilliams Correspondence.

General Physical Description note: ···· More than 200 letters (Autographed letters signed and typewritten letters signed) from over 115 correspondents to McWilliams and in most cases with carbon copies of McWilliams letters.

Scope and Contents note

Including:

A.W. Bender
Benjamin De Casseres
Adolphe de Castro Danziger
C. Hartley Grattan
Jerome A. Hart
Walter Jerrold
David Starr Jordan
Robert Morss Lovett
H.L. Mencken
37 letters from H.L. Mencken to McWilliams, 1925-1935.
Frank Monaghan
Walter Heale
Fremont Older
Ethen Talbot Scheffauer
Eleanor Vore Sicker
Vincent Starrett
A.J.A. Symonds, etc.

6. Miscellaneous.

Photostat copy of Bierce's will dated January 5, 1909.
Business card of H.H. Day, Bierce's father-in-law.
Pencil drawing of Bierce.

7. Notes from magazine and books and other sources regarding Bierce and his family.

General Physical Description note: ···· 117 leaves, typed.

9. Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? Letter to Mrs. H.D. Cowden. Washington, D.C., January 17, 1910.

General Physical Description note: ···· With envelope. 4 pp. (also typescript).

10. Letter to Mrs. H.D. Cowden. Washington, D.C., July 6, 1909.

General Physical Description note: ···· 2pp. Holograph.

Scope and Contents note

···· Accompanying this is an envelope addressed to Mrs. Cowden by Bierce, but dated November 22, 1911.

General note

···· Gift of Mrs. Bradforth A. Booth, December 1968.

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