LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 02/25/1971 - HFSID 73598

LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL
The UCLA and University of Arizona librarian writes to colleague about his upcoming book and his particular choices of California authors, signs name in blue ink
Autograph letter signed: 'Larry" in blue ink. 2 pages, 6x9½. February 25, 1971. In full: "Dear Connie - We are in Tucson till summer. I'm teaching librarians at the U. of A. & working on the new series. Am writing this in flight over to LA, taking corrected page proofs to Ritchie. The Calif. Bk. here in April. I'll fly back to Tucson tomorrow. My address till Jun is "School of Library Science/University of Arizona/ Tucson, Az.. 85721" Ward is mailing a beautiful book, approx. 400 pages. Pictures. Map! Readings Lists!! Now for yr. questions, I decided to include Ed Carle in the new SW series, so I'll come to him in due course. I did not include Waugh's "The Loved One", other than with a paragraph in the Huxley chapter. Waugh's is a clever jeu d'esprit, but not a "Calif. Classic" as I set the standards for the 31 I did choose. What standards? LCP's! Purely personal. Sorry, I can't give you the new list now, as it is not final. Will probably run to 36 in all. Dodie, E. Ferguson, H. Long, J. Gregg are written, Krutch is in the scripts. Etc. Etc. Many thanks for yr. devoted interest, dear Connie". 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. Left edge frayed. Toned. Corners rounded. Light surface creases. Otherwise, fine condition.