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Edward Du Bois Flint scrapbook album on "The Garden Patch", 1913-1921.
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Edward Du Bois Flint scrapbook album on "The Garden Patch", 1913-1921Garden patch
Creator/Contributor:
Flint, Edward Du Bois., creatorCreator/Contributor:
London, Jack, 1876-1916, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940Creator/Contributor:
Shearer, Ethel, binder.Abstract:
Custom made scrapbook (58 p.) containing a collection of newspaper clippings, book reviews, poems, correspondence and typed
notes mostly related to the publication and promotion of a book on vegetable gardening in California written by Edward Du
Bois Flint titled, "The Garden Patch." Correspondence includes notes from Jack London on his Glen Elen, Sonoma letterhead
(August 3,1914), Luther Burbank on his personal letterhead (January 18, 1913), and numerous others. One page of the volume
has an original four line poem, penned, signed, and dated on the page itself by Edwin Markham in April, 1921, titled "The
Praise of Poverty", with an additional two line verse underneath it about Flint that is initialed by Markham. Also includes
some materials unrelated to the book including clippings of newspaper articles that Flint wrote on other topics.
Date:
1913 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caFlint, Edward Du Bois
Flint, Edward Du Bois -- Correspondence
London, Jack -- 1876-1916 -- Correspondence
Burbank, Luther -- 1849-1926 -- Correspondence
Vegetable gardening -- Books and reading -- California
Vegetable gardening -- California -- Book reviews
Books -- Reviews
Note:
Edward Du Bois Flint scrapbook album on "The Garden Patch", 1913-1921, BANC MSS 2012/174, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
Scrapbooks.Poems.
Letterheads.
Clippings.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume ; 27 x 24 cm.
Language:
English