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- Chandler, Raymond, 1888 - 1959. Letter to Wilbur [Jordan] Smith. London, March 19, 1958. 1 leaf. Typescript, signed Raymond Chandler.
Lawrence Clark Powell and then Wilbur Smith wrote to Chandler about obtaining his manuscripts. Chandler at first thought there were none of any interest. Smith persisted and eventually all manuscripts were then sent to UCLA. In this letter Chandler maintains his idea that his manuscripts are probably not of use to the Library or any one else: "I can't possibly understand why it should be of any more interest to you than my laundry list." He describes his method of typing "triple space, on narrow sheets, ... in order not to become too prolix." He did send the manuscript, but, alas, not the laundry list.
Lawrence Durrell, Lawrence Clark Powell, Henry Miller
- James, David [for Westways]: Lawrence Clark Powell, Henry Miller, and Lawrence Durrell at the University Research Library (now Young Research Library). [Black and white photograph, scanned copy]. January 1972. In: Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906 - . Papers, 1914 - . Collection 229 Box 236 f.1
This was a meeting of the three authors for Henry Miller's 80th birthday, which was actually in 1971, celebrated in the Library and with an exhibit in the Department by Brooke Whiting.
- Vosper, Robert. Letter to Publisher, Egyptian Gazette. [Los Angeles], June 7, 1948. 1 leaf. Typescript (carbon), unsigned [photo copy, reduced].
This shows how early the library had begun to collect works by Lawrence Durrell.
- Bradford Booth & the Sadleir Collection: Three Dedicatory Essays. Ed. For Ninetenth-century Fiction by G. B. Tennyson. Los Angeles : The Friends of the UCLA Library, University of California, Los Angeles, 1973. "Reprinted by the Friends of the UCLA Library from Nineteenth-century Fiction, v.27 no.4, March 1973." Contents: Tennyson, G. B. The Bradford A. Booth memorial. --Booth, Bradford A. In search of Sadleir. --Stevenson, Lionel. The rationale of Victorian fiction.
- Hatayama, Lilace. "Edouard Roditi: Author, Poet, Critic, Translator." In: UCLA Librarian. v. 36 no. 3 (1983 Nov), 75.
- Luckenbill, Dan. "C. P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933), His Work and His Influence." In: UCLA Librarian. v.29 no.4 (1976 April), 15 - 17.
- Powell, Lawrence Clark. "Henry Miller at Eighty." In: Westways v.64 no.4 (1972 April), 26 - 29, 58 - 60.
- Roditi, Edouard, interviewee. Inventions and imitations oral history transcript: tradition and the advanced guard in the work of Edouard Roditi / Edouard Roditi; interviewed by Richard Candida Smith, [1985]. [Los Angeles]: Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, c1986.
Roditi was asked why he gave his papers to UCLA in the 1950s. His answer supported Powell's long ago idea that it would be a source of pleasure to collect modern writers and literary papers in a young institution. Roditi had met Powell in 1945 when working on his book on Oscar Wilde. Roditi "felt that Yale, Harvard already had too much in the way of papers; they'd be lost in the amount that they have there. This [UCLA] was an expanding campus, an expanding library ... . And so I started donating here, and I don't regret it." He continued to give papers and publications, with correspondence and various visits to campus and to the Dept., until his death in 1992.
- The Sadleir Collection. Addresses delivered by Frederick B. Adams, Jr. and David A. Randall at the dedication ceremonies, University of California at Los Angeles Library, November 13, 1952 ; foreword by Michael Sadleir. Los Angeles: Friends of the UCLA Library, 1953. Cover title: Revelations of two celebrated book-snatchers, or, What Victoria read. "The cover design in the style of a yellow-back was drawn by H. Richard Archer" -- Colophon.
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Aldous Huxley at UCLA. A catalogue of the manuscripts in the Aldous Huxley collection, with the texts of three unpublished letters. Edited with an introd. by George Wickes. Los Angeles: University of California Library, 1964.
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Lawrence Durrell: A Checklist. Compiled by Robert A. Potter and Brooke Whiting. Los Angeles, 1961. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press.
"Issued on the occasion of the presentation of Lawrence Clark Powell's Durrell collection to the UCLA Library in honor of his successor as university librarian, Robert Vosper, and of an exhibit at the library of materials selected from the collection."
- Whiting, Brooke. "Professor Ewing Gives Collection of D. H. Lawrence." In: UCLA Librarian v.19 no.8 (1966 August), 78.
This was among the first of gifts given by Majl Ewing, professor of English. At his death, the family contributed part of the value of his remaining collecton.
- Apostol, Jane. Olive Percival, Los Angeles author and bibliophile; with brief descriptions of the Olive Percival Collections at the Denison Library by Judy Harvey Sahak, the Huntington Library by Jane Apostol, Special Collections UCLA by Dan Luckenbill. Los Angeles: Dept. of Special Collections, University Research Library, University of California, 1992. Occasional papers / UCLA, University Research Library, Department of Special Collections; 7.
- The Boys in the Black Mask: An Exhibit in the UCLA Library; January 6 - February 10, 1961. Los Angeles: University of California Library, 1961. Introd. By Wilbur Smith.
- Fun & Games: 400 years of Children's Books from UCLA's Special Collections: An Exhibit Prepared for the XXVII California International Antiquarian Book Fair, February 4-6, 1994. Los Angeles: Dept. of Special Collections, University Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994. "Compiled by James Davis and Andrea Immel."
- Hertel, Robert R. "Remembering Childhood." In: Library Journal v.78 no.1 (1953 January 1), 23 - 31. This was also reprinted separately.
- Smith, Wilbur Jordan. UCLA's Trove of Rare Children's Books. [Los Angeles: Library, Department of Special Collections, University of California, 1976]. Reprinted from Wilson Library Bulletin v.50 no.2 (1975 October), 149 - 153
Smith noted that Percival emphasized English books of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, an emphasis continued by UCLA. But even Smith, away from the University at this time, didn't write about the greater use of juveniles by feminist and women's studies scholars; however, Smith had been collecting books by women writers and thus building for these new studies his entire career in the Department.
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