LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 02/19/1970 - HFSID 73574
Sale Price $250.00
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LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL
The leading American librarian and author writes to a friend,
discussing the death of a mutual friend and updating her on current projects,
signs name in black ink
Autograph letter signed: 'Larry" in black ink. 2 pages, 8½x11.
Original envelope included. Malibu, California. February 19, 1970. In
full: "Dear Connie - Dear Connie - It was thoughtful of you to send me
the sad news of Margaret's death. I somehow always believed she was
indestructible. It is good that she did not linger. Yes, there should be a
proper memorial. I'll write to the new editor of the California
Librarian, Don Kunitz at Davis (one of my graduates) and suggest that he
round up some tributes. I love her dearly, as you did, & many many others.
She was, as you say, an old pro right to the end. Retirement has been good. We
have been to Europe every year, which has meant that I have had to drop my old
Browning society schedule. I just can't bind myself abroad to anything regular.
I am well along on my next book, "California Classics Reread", appearing monthly
in Westways the past 2 years. 25 Chapters written, 8 to go. Ritchie will
publish the book a year from now, It runs from Dana to Huxley - only authors no
longer living. I couldn't risk offending any of my contemporaries by not
including them! I hope you are thriving. Please remember me to any of the
Browning-ites you may see. Margaret said she was going to leave her Quimper
china to Fay. I wonder if she ever put it in her will! Warm remembrances, dear
Connie, as ever". Post script: "Ritchie is publishing a $3.00
paperback of the 1958 Malibu book I did with W.W. Robenson. A photo-reprint, but
not in color". 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. Top edges frayed and slightly torn. Toned. Corners rounded. Light
surface creases. Otherwise, fine condition.
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