LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 09/13/1973 - HFSID 73575

LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL
The UCLA and University of Arizona librarian discusses his antipathy for some of his colleagues in letter to friend, signs name in blue ink
Autograph letter signed: 'Larry" in blue ink. 5½x3¼ blank postcard. Postmarked September 13, 1973 in Los Angeles, California. Addressed to Constance Spencer of San Francisco, California. In full: "Dear Connie - We are in Malibu for Sept., then back to Tucson. Glad you like the Knopf & sent one to Sally C. and thanks for the Xerox. Alcots is a crazy wop. The SFPL staggers through a succession of disasters. I couldn't read Starr's book - a chic relish of old dishes. There should be a moratorium on historical-sociological books on California. The stomach redigesting itself. Am doing a Westways piece on Gertrude Stein for the Feb. issue - her 100th birthday. Fun!". 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. Slightly stained throughout. Otherwise, fine condition.