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LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 10/09/1979 - HFSID 73594

The leading American librarian and author writes to a friend about his most recent projects, signs name in black ink Autograph letter signed: 'Larry" in black ink. 4 pages, 5½x8½. Written on University of Arizona letterhead. Original envelope included. Tucson, Arizona.…"

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LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL
The leading American librarian and author writes to a friend about his most recent projects, signs name in black ink
Autograph letter signed: 'Larry" in black ink. 4 pages, 5½x8½. Written on University of Arizona letterhead. Original envelope included. Tucson, Arizona. October 9, 1979. In full: "Dear Connie - Fay and I never knew about Margaret's coral. We have never stopped being grateful for the Quimper she willed us. It was all here in Tucson, thus escaping the destruction vented on the Malibu home & remaining contents in the fire of a year ago. We won't rebuild. The SW Booktrails has long been o.p. - & Home Wallace defunct. It is not a scarce bk. however. It went through two editions. The New Capra book, my 2nd novel, "The River Between", will be out next month. "The Blue Train" is doing nicely in paperback - & also in French translation (Bucket -Chantel, Paris, 1978, "Le Train bleu") Jack Palance has renewed his option, so perhaps will see the film made. A French director wants it if Palance relinquishes his option. Northland will publish "Where Water Flows", my bk. on AZ reivers, with aerial photos, next spring. Beyond that, who knows? A bk. on M.B. rivers, a 3rd novel. We were in Santa Fe for opera - & are just back from Grand Canyon - otherwise, sweating out a hot summer. I read Kevin Starr's new one in print & wrote a [illegible] blurb. A monster of a book which should have local impact like that of April 1906. How are you, my dear? What has our friend done about her Jeffers? Hope to see you one of these moons. Fay joins in fond remembrances, as ever". 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. Slightly toned. Corners rounded. Light surface creases. Otherwise, fine condition.

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