Guide to the Clarence Urmy Papers M0020
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Series 1. Letters to Urmy from editors and publishers 114201 1897-1922
1. William Doxey to Urmy 114323 1897, Jan 13
2. C [Urmy] to "Mabel" [Mrs. Seares] 114321 1897, Jan 17
3. C [Urmy] to "Mabel" [Mrs. Seares] enclosed agreement between W.Doxey (publisher) and Urmy 114319
4. Horace Annesley Vachell 114317 1899, Nov 29
5. Robert Coningsley Clarke to "Dear Sir" [Urmy] 114315 1900, May 8
6. Alfred Lindsay to Urmy enclosed list of poems 114313 1905, Oct 20
7. Alfred Lindsay to Urmy 114311 1905, Nov 8
8. Alfred Lindsay to Urmy 114309 1905, Dec 4
9. Alfred Lindsay to Urmy 114307 1905, Dec 9
10. Alfred Lindsay to Urmy 114305 1905, Dec 18
11. Alfred Lindsay to Urmy 114303 1906, Feb 10
12. Alfred Lindsay to Urmy 114301 1906, May 16
13. Alfred Lindsay to Urmy 114299 1906, May 16
14. Marian Phelps to Urmy 114297 1906, Mar 24
16. Alfred Holman to Urmy 114293 1907, Jan 21
17. Sheperd Knapp to Urmy 114291 1908, July 16
19. A.M. Robertson to Urmy 114287 1912, May 10
20. C.Alexander to Urmy 114285 1916, Apr 2
21. Marguerita Wilkenson to Urmy 114283 1917, Apr 28
22. Marguerita Wilkenson to Urmy 114281 1917, May 10
23. Urmy to M. Wilkenson 114279 [1917, May 12]
24. M. Wilkenson to Urmy 114277 1917, May 17
25. Will B. Turney to Mabel Seares 114275 1923, Jun 24
26. C.M. Dennis to Mabel Urmy Seares 114273 1923, Jun 27
27. Claud H. Simson to? 114271 1924, Jun 24
28. A.W. Noel Porter to Mabel Urmy Seares 114269 1924, Sep 25
29. Delancy Lewis to Mabel Urmy Seares 114267 1925, Sept 22
30. Edward O'Day to Percival Urmy 114265 1926, Aug 31
31. F.P. Brown to Newton Barry enclosed letter to H.Roy Kelley to Mrs. Seares 114263 1926, Sept 20
32. [J.Milshen] to H.Roy Kelley 114261 1927, Dec 23
33. [J.Milshen] to H.Roy Kelley 114259 1928, Jan 16
34. Garton D. Keyston to Percival Urmy 114257 1928, Oct 4
letter on the back to Mrs. M.U. Seares 114253 1930, Jan 18
36. Francis Wm. Reid to Mrs. Mabel Seares 114251 1930, Jan 23
37. Francis Wm. Reid to Mrs. Mabel Seares 114249 1930, Jan 27
38. Garton D. Keyston to Mabel Seares 114247 1930, Mar 8
39. Garton D. Keyston to Mabel Seares 114245 1930, Jun 10
40. Francis W. Reid to "friend" [Mabel Seares] 114243 1930, Nov 24
41. Ina L. Cook to Mabel Seares 114241 1931, Jan 9
42. Ina L. Cook to Mrs. John R. Jarboe Kathryn Jarboe Bull, J.C.Bull, Esq. 114239 1931, Jan 18
43. Francis W. Reid to Mrs. Mabel Seares 114237 1931, Apr 2
44. Garton D. Keyston to Mabel Seares 114235 1931, Jun 4
47. Helen Miller Lehman to Mabel Seares 114229 1933, Jan 23
48. Helen Miller Lehman to Mabel Seares 114227 1933, Jan 28
49. Helen Miller Lehman to Mabel Seares 114225 1933, Jan 30
50. Helen Miller Lehman to Mabel Seares 114223
51. Francis W. Reid to Mabel Seares postcard with poem "Clarence Urmy" 114221 1933, Feb 5
57. CTU [Urmy] to Mr. Holman 114209 Jan 14
58. C [Urmy] to "Mabel" [Mrs. Seares] 114207
59. [B. Kulen] to Mrs. Seares 114205 Dec 7
Series 2. Manuscripts 114175
Vol. 1 Apr. holograph notebook 114199 1878-Oct 1880
Vol. 2 Nov. holograph notebook 114197 1880-Dec 1895
Vol. 3 Feb. holograph notebook 114195 1896-May 1901
Vol. 4 Jul. holograph notebook 114193 1901-Jan 1904
Vol. 5 holograph notebook 114191 1904-4
Vol. 6 holograph notebook 114189 1906
Vol 7 holograph notebook 114187 1910-13
Wild Willow book of verse original manuscript 114185
Under the Toyon Tree book of verse original manuscript 114183
assorted manuscript verse 114181 dated
assorted manuscript verse (and some lists of his poems in the back) 114179 undated
assorted prose 114177
printed verse 114173
"Peace" - prize winning poem in the San Francisco Chronicle contest (and letters praising it, and one from M.H. deYoung) 114171
printed prose 114169
music and drama criticism 114167
biographical (including diploma from Napa College and exerps from a diary, programs from muscial performance 114165
concerning California (about Bret Hart, R.H. Stoddard and Clinton Scollard) 114163
Biography of Urmy by Mabel Urmy Seares (prepared about 1935-6, but she couldn't revise it because of illness) 114159
Scrapbook of autographs (and list of contents prepared by Urmy's brother Percival Urmy) 114157
Series 4. Ina Coolbrith letters, poems etc. 114143
3. poem by Urmy 114151
4. clippings 114149
5. "Ina Coolbrith and Clarence Urmy" by Mabel Seares 114147
6. "Ina Coolbrith" Laura Bell Everett 114145
Series 5. Other material
Urmy's copies of "Common Prayer," and "The Hymnal" 1892
Urmy's copy of the Bible 1865
Daguerreotype of Clarence Urmy as a child
Small poetry publications: "By the Guadaloupe," with photograph by Newton Barry; "At a Wayside Shrine," with decorations by Janet Tobin; and "A Wreath of California Laurel," inscribed to Ralph and Marion... 1910, with photographs by Frederick W. Martin and A.C. Vroman
"The Lyric Land of California," by Mabel Urmy Seares, illustrated by the verse of Clarence Urmy, with two etchings by Benjamin C. Brown. Laid in is a manuscript poem, "To my brother...," and a newsclipping of a book review for this piece, 1914
Two collections of published poems by Urmy. 1. "The Day that I was Born," 1924, with a drawing by Loren Barton and 10 uncredited early San Francisco area photographs, one of which is of El Retiro, Saratoga, Clarence Urmy's summer home. 2. "Songs of the Spirit," 1922
Two copies (different bindings) of "A California Troubadour," 1912. One signed by Urmy, and one inscribed to Ralph and Marion from Mabel, 1912. Folder 8. "A Vintage of Verse," 1897, inscribed to Marion Freer Saxe, from R.B.U., April, 1897