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Guide to the John Russel Hastings Papers, 1909-1942
BANC MSS C-B 454
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Collection Title: John Russel Hastings Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1909-1942
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 454
Creator:
Hastings, John Russel, 1878-1972
Extent:
Number of container: 1 carton
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Primarily letters from William R. Hearst and other members of his staff, and copies or drafts of Hastings' replies. Hastings
was editor of the New York Journal, 1906-26, and supervising editor of several newspapers in the Hearst Service, 1926-42.
Included also are Mss. of two of his plays and letters from actors and producers relating to his efforts to have them performed;
clippings; and biographical information.
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], John Russel Hastings Papers, BANC MSS C-B 454, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
John R. Hastings was supervising editor of the Hearst newspapers from 1926 until his death in 1942. He began his long newspaper
career, after graduation from high school, on the
Los Angeles Express, going from there to the
San Francisco Chronicle, the
San Francisco Examiner, the
New York Press and Evening Telegram, the
New York Daily News, the
New York Globe the
New York Times, and the
New York Journal, for which he served as managing editor from 1906 to 1926.
These papers, which were given to the Bancroft Library in June 1950 by his widow, relate primarily to his association with
the Hearst newspaper organization. Included are letters from William Randolph Hearst and other members of his staff, 1909-1942, and copies or drafts of Hastings replies; letters relating his efforts to have
his plays produced, 1910-1912; copies of his plays; clippings; and biographical information about him assembled by his wife.
Letters written by Hastings are arranged chronologically; letters to him, alphabetically be name of correspondent with a miscellany
of single letters at the beginning of the file. Letters from play producers and actors relating to his playwriting follow
the rest of the correspondence. All of the material is housed in one carton. A list of the more important correspondents follows.
Photographs have been transferred to the Pictorial Collection.
Photographs have been transferred to the Pictorial collections of The Bancroft Library.