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Leon Wilson papers, approximately 1871-1980.
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Leon Wilson papers, approximately 1871-1980Creator/Contributor:
Wilson, Leon, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Wilson, Harry Leon, 1867-1939, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Cooke, Helen MacGowan, 1895-1945, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Wilson, Charis, 1914-2009, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Gaston, Kay Baker, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Josselyn, Lewis, 1883-1964, photographer.Abstract:
Collection comprises correspondence (1924-1980; correspondents include Leon Wilson's parents, his sister Charis Wilson, Zilpha
Riley, Kay Gaston, and others); a file documenting Leon Wilson's prosecution and imprisonment for draft evasion (1943-1946),
photographs (including Harry Leon Wilson (including portraits of him as a child and as a young man), Grace MacGowan Cooke,
Alice MacGowan, "Mabel & Dixie," the Wilsons' Carmel home, Paine Denson, Mrs. W.C. Gibson and her daughter, and others; some
signed by photographer Lewis Josselyn); manuscripts (including "Portrait of the artist in revolution" (1937), "Grace MacGowan
Cooke" by Fred Bechtel (from Carmel Pine Cone, June 30, 1944), "I'll see you in Aurora" (1947), "Lovey and the snappers" (undated),
"The MacGowan girls" by Kay Baker Gaston (published in California History, summer 1980), and an undated play script of H.L.
Wilson's "Ruggles of Red Gap"), and publications (tear sheets of H.L. Wilson pieces, a copy of Mountain Life & Work, Summer
1943, containing "The White Spirituals" by Leon Wilson, and copies of Bancroftiana no. 57 (January 1974) and California History
magazine).
Date:
1871 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States
Authors, American -- California -- 20th century
Authors, American
Conscientious objectors
Homes
California
California -- Carmel
United States
Wilson, Leon -- Archives
Cooke, Grace MacGowan -- 1863-1944
MacGowan, Alice -- 1858-1947
Wilson, Harry Leon -- 1867-1939
Cooke, Grace MacGowan -- 1863-1944 -- Portraits
MacGowan, Alice -- 1858-1947 -- Portraits
Wilson, Harry Leon -- 1867-1939 -- Portraits
Wilson, Harry Leon -- 1867-1939 -- Homes and haunts -- California -- Carmel -- Pictorial works
Denson, Paine -- 1882-1955 -- Portraits
Cooke, Grace MacGowan -- 1863-1944
Wilson, Harry Leon -- 1867-1939
Wilson, Leon
Note:
Purchase from Leslie Potenzo; 2014.
Related collection: Harry Leon Wilson papers (BANC MSS 71/17 c).
Harry Leon Wilson, Jr. (May 9, 1913-November 11, 1997), known as Leon Wilson, was the son of Harry Leon Wilson (1867-1939)
and Helen MacGowan Cooke (1895-1945). He was the brother of Charis Wilson Weston (1914-2009). On March 17, 1943, Wilson was
arrested by the FBI and jailed in Fayetteville, Tennessee for failing to appear for induction into the military. His petition
of conscientious objector status was denied and he spent 9 months in the Federal Prison Camp at McNeil Island, Washington.
He was paroled on July 13, 1944.
Leon Wilson papers, BANC MSS 2014/222, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
Manuscripts for publication.Archives.
Photographs.
Pictorial works.
Portraits.
Photographs.
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Language:
English