LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 01/06/1973 - HFSID 73616
Price: $220.00
LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL
The leading American librarian and author details his article topics
for that year's Westways magazine publications, signs name in black
ink
Autograph letter signed: 'Larry" in black ink. 1 pages, 8½x11.
Tucson, Arizona. January 6, 1973. In full: "Dear Connie - many thanks
for letter & Jack Smith clipping. Here is the Westways schedule: Feb. Mary
Austen, March. Ross Santee, April. E.M. Rhodes, May. C.F. Lummis, June. Summary
essay, July. Vacation, August. Vacation. Sept. plus, hopefully a new series on
SW personalities not necessarily literary. I do hope between us we can persuade
Mrs. M. to turn over the Jeffers. I'll fly out & get the books in my big
empty suitcase. Tell her!". Lawrence Clark Powell (1906-2001) was
an American librarian, literary critic, bibliographer and author of more than
one-hundred books. Powell studied at Occidental College, later earning his
doctorate from the University of Burgundy in Dijon and his Certificate of
Librarianship from UC Berkley in 1937. He gained his literary reputation as
the University Librarian at the UCLA Library and head librarian at the Williams
Andrews Clark Memorial Library from 1944 to 1961, after which he was named the
first dean of the School of Library Service at UCLA (later the Graduate
School of Education and Information Studies). After retiring in 1966, Powell
moved to Tucson where he worked as Professor in Residence for nearly two
decades at the University of Arizona and played an instrumental role in the
growth of their Graduate School of Library Science. A Lawrence Clark Powell
Memorial Lectures is held in Tucson annually in his honor, and the Fay and
Lawrence Clark Powell Endowment for Southwest Research continues to support
Powell's interest in the geography of the southwest United States. His works
include Books: West Southwest: Essays on Writers, Their Books, and Their
Land (1957), The Southwest of the bookman (1974), An
Orange Grove Boyhood: Growing Up in Southern California, 1910-1928
(1988), and Eucalyptus Fair: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel
(1992). Normal mailing folds. Toned. Corners rounded. Light surface creases.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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