LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 02/28/1972 - HFSID 73609

LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL
The leading American librarian and author updates friend on recent happenings, signs name in blue ink
Autograph letter signed: 'Larry" in blue ink. 2 pages, 5½x8½. Written on University of Arizona letterhead. Original envelope included. Tucson, Arizona. February 28, 1972. In full: "Dear Connie - A saga indeed! I am glad you persisted. Many thanks for yr. wonderful letter about Willa Cather - a great footnote to her canon. We are Arizonians in winder & spring, Maliboobs in summer & fall. We bought a charming condominium apt. her in the Catalina foothills. Powell Street later! We keep our home in Malibu for the hot months. I am teaching a seminar here in the spring semester in the new library school. Keeping my voice & hand in! Work goes forward on the SW classics. The Calif. Bk. sells well, Ward tells me, thanks to friends like you. Keep in touch, amiga!". 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.