LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 04/24/1972 - HFSID 73597
Price: $160.00
LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL
The accomplish American university librarian and author thanks friend
for the magazine article clippings, and informs her how to reach the UCLA
Special Collections manager, signs name in black ink
Autograph note signed: 'Larry" in black ink. 5½x3¼
personalized postcard postmarked April 6, 1972 in Tucson, Arizona. Addressed to
Constance Spencer of San Francisco, California. In full: "Dear Connie
- Yes, Please tear out the Austen on Sterling pages & send. I believe the
material is also in her "Earth Horizon". Thanks for the H.M. clipping. Write to
Mr. Brooke Whiting, Special Collections, Research Library, UCLA. Cheerio!".
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). Toned. Corners rounded. Light
surface creases. Smeared ink postage stamps throughout. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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