Pt. I: Correspondence; MSS of novels, stories, poems, articles, plays, etc.; MS of incomplete autobiography; notebooks; genealogical and biographical data; personalia; bibliographies; scrapbooks; clippings. A few papers of his wife, Estelle (Loomis) Burgess also included.

Pt. II: 29 letters from Burgess to Oliver Onions, 1948-1951; obituary for Burgess written by Onions; a report on an interview with Onions and Berta Ruck by Prof. James J. Lynch; other related items.

Pt. III: On film only (2 reels) Miscellaneous Burgess items including his M.A. thesis for Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Gelett Burgess was born on Jan. 30, 1866, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1887 as a civil engineer. After serving a number of years as a draughtsman on survey work for the Southern Pacific Railway and as an instructor of topographical engineering at the University of California, he turned to writing.

Number of containers: 6 boxes, 6 cartons, 4 oversize folders (Pt I & II) Microfilm reel: 2 (Pt III)

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