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Title: Sarah Bixby Smith correspondence
Date (inclusive): 1871-1935
Collection number: 223
Creator:
Bixby Smith, Sarah, 1871-1935.
Extent:
2 boxes (1.0 linear ft.)
Abstract: Sarah Hathaway Bixby Smith (1871-1935) was a writer and activist. Her works include:
A Little Girl of Old California (ca.1920),
My Sage-brush Garden (1924),
Adobe Days (1925),
Pasear; a second book of California verse (1926),
Wind Upon my Face (1930),
Milestones in Los Angeles: being a brief narrative of Los Angeles through five decades (ca. 1933) and
The Bending Tree (1933). She was significantly involved in women's groups such as the Friday Morning Club and the American Association of
University Women. The collection consists primarily of correspondence and also includes announcements, invitations, photographs,
and family keepsakes.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of the Smith Family.
Processed by Chris Marino in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Megan Hahn Fraser,
July 2011.
[Identification of item], Sarah Bixby Smith correspondence (Collection Number 223). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Sarah Hathaway Bixby Smith was born to Lewellyn Bixby and Mary Hathaway Bixby in August 1871, in San Justo Ranch near San
Juan Bautista, California. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College in 1894 and was an advocate for women's
independence and higher education. She was married twice, first to Arthur Maxson Smith in 1896, and then in 1916 to Paul Jordan
Smith, whom she later divorced. From both marriages combined she had five children: Maxson, Bradford, Rodger, Janet, and Lewellyn.
Her works include:
A Little Girl of Old California (ca.1920),
My Sage-brush Garden (1924),
Adobe Days (1925),
Pasear; a second book of California verse (1926),
Wind Upon my Face (1930),
Milestones in Los Angeles: being a brief narrative of Los Angeles through five decades (ca. 1933) and
The Bending Tree (1933). She was the vice president of the America Association of University Women, as well as the president of the Friday
Morning Club. She was also a trustee of Scripps College and a member of the Claremont School Board. In the early 1930s she
was a delegate to the Pacific Relations Conference in Shanghai. She died in 1935 at the age of 64. At the time of her death
she was in the process of writing another book on the history of southern California.
Collection consists primarily of correspondence in the form of letters, telegrams, and postcards related to writer Sarah Bixby
Smith and her family. The collection also includes announcements, invitations, photographs, and family keepsakes.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Bixby Smith, Sarah, 1871-1935--Correspondence.
Women authors, American--Archival resources.
Correspondence.
- Smith, Sarah Bixby. A little girl of old California. Los Angeles, 1920.
- Smith, Sarah Bixby. Milestones in Los Angeles: being a brief narrative of Los Angeles through five decades. 1933.
- Smith, Sarah Bixby. Poems selected for Americanization classes. Los Angeles: Los Angeles City School, 1929.