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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Jaime de Angulo papers
Creator:
Angulo, Jaime de
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0160
Physical Description:
1.5 linear feet
(3 boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1890-1982
Abstract: Jaime de Angulo (1887-1950) was born in Paris, France. He studied medicine in the U.S. at Cooper Union Medical School and
Johns Hopkins. His interests turned to anthropology and linguistics. He wrote two novels, children's stories, poetry and a
book about his first linguistic field trip to the Achomawi Indian tribe,
Indians in Overalls (1950). The collection consists of manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, articles, and books by de Angulo as well
as correspondence, photographs and ephemera.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mrs. Jaime de Angulo, 1959.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
994622023606533
[Identification of item], Jaime de Angulo Papers (Collection 160). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processed by UCLA Library Special Collections staff, November 1959, revised by Lilace Hatayama, August 1981.
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Born January 29, 1887 in Paris, France, of Spanish expatriate parents; came to U.S., 1905; studied medicine at Cooper Union
Medical School, and in 1908 transferred to Johns Hopkins; conducted research at Stanford University, where his interests turned
to anthropology and linguistics, and he studied Pit River (Achomawi) Indians of Northern California; wrote two novels,
Don Bartolomeo (1922) and
The Reata (late 1920s), as well as some children's stories and poetry; also wrote a book about his first linguistic field trip to the
Achomawi Indian tribe,
Indians in Overalls (1950); hired in 1927 by the Committee on Research in Native American Languages to study the languages of Northern California;
corresponded with Ezra Pound, 1948-50; was diagnosed with cancer in 1948 and died October 1950.
Collection consists of manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, articles, and books by de Angulo. Includes correspondence
with Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, and de Angulo's publisher, Blaise Cendrars. Also contains photographs and ephemera.
Arranged in the following series:
- Books and typescripts.
- Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs.
- Manuscripts and Giordano biography.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Indians of North America -- Folklore -- Archives.
Achomawi Indians -- California -- Research.
Online resources.
Cendrars, Blaise, 1887-1961--Correspondence.
Moore, Marianne -- Correspondence
Cendrars, Blaise
Pound, Ezra -- Correspondence
Angulo, Jaime de--Archives.