Finding Aid for the Jaime de Angulo Papers, ca. 1890-1982
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UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Finding Aid for the Jaime de Angulo Papers, ca. 1890-1982
Collection number: 160
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
Contact Information
- Manuscripts Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
- Processed by:
- Manuscripts Division staff, November 1959
- Revised by:
- Lilace Hatayama, August 1981
- Encoded by:
- Caroline Cubé
- Text converted and initial container list EAD tagging by:
- Apex Data Services
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, May 2002
© 2002 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Jaime de Angulo Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1890-1982
Collection number: 160
Creator: Angulo, Jaime de
Extent:
3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Jaime de Angulo (1887-1950) was born in Paris, France. He studied medicine in the U.S. at Cooper Union Medical School and
Johns Hopkins. His interests turned to anthropology and linguistics. He wrote two novels, children's stories, poetry and a
book about his first linguistic field trip to the Achomawi Indian tribe,
Indians in Overalls (1950). The collection consists of manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, articles, and books by de Angulo as well
as correspondence, photographs and ephemera.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
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Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
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copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
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- Box 951575
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mrs. Jaime de Angulo, 1959.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Jaime de Angulo Papers (Collection 160). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Biography
Born January 29, 1887 in Paris, France, of Spanish expatriate parents; came to U.S., 1905; studied medicine at Cooper Union
Medical School, and in 1908 transferred to Johns Hopkins; conducted research at Stanford University, where his interests turned
to anthropology and linguistics, and he studied Pit River (Achomawi) Indians of Northern California; wrote two novels,
Don Bartolomeo (1922) and
The Reata (late 1920s), as well as some children's stories and poetry; also wrote a book about his first linguistic field trip to the
Achomawi Indian tribe,
Indians in Overalls (1950); hired in 1927 by the Committee on Research in Native American Languages to study the languages of Northern California;
corresponded with Ezra Pound, 1948-50; was diagnosed with cancer in 1948 and died October 1950.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, articles, and books by de Angulo. Includes correspondence
with Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, and de Angulo's publisher, Blaise Cendrars. Also contains photographs and ephemera.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Books and typescripts.
- Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs.
- Manuscripts and Giordano biography.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Angulo, Jaime de--Archives.
Cendrars, Blaise, 1887-1961--Correspondence.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Correspondence.
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972--Correspondence.
Achomawi Indians--California--Research.
Indians of North America--Folklore--Archival resources.
Online resources.
Container List
Books from de Angulo's Library
Box 1, Folder 1
Daudet, Alphonse.
Port-Tarascon. Paris, Ernest Flammarion, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 1
Daudet, Alphonse.
Tartarin de Tarascon. Paris, C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1890.
Box 1, Folder 2
What is Language? By Jaime de Angulo. Berkeley, n.d.
Physical Description: 458 leaves, typescript.
Box 1, Folder 3
What is Language? n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 111 leaves, typescript (carbon).
Box 1, Folder 4
The Fury of Loon-Woman. An Episode in the Creation of the World According to the Pit River Indians of Northeastern California. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 32 leaves, typescript (carbon). With illustrations.
Box 1, Folder 5
The Deer-Headed Decoy. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 7 leaves, typescript (carbon). With illustrations.
Box 1, Folder 6
The Tale. The Gilak Steals Hawk's wife. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 9 leaves, typescript, printed material, holograph. With illustrations.
Box 2, Folder 1
The Hangover Cook-Book. n.p.,
ca.1941.
Physical Description: 60 leaves, holograph and typescript (carbon).
Box 2, Folder 2
The Androgynes. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 38 leaves, typescript. Includes 2 sketches.
Box 2, Folder 3
Ranch of Sorrows. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 8 leaves, typescript.
Box 2, Folder 4
The Achumawi, a Primitive Tribe of California. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 117 leaves, typescript with holograph revisions.
Scope and Content Note
Includes map showing geographical location of the Achumawi-Atsugewi tribe and its neighbors.
Box 2, Folder 5
The Witch. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 170 leaves, typescript, typescript (carbon).
Scope and Content Note
Includes 16 drawings.
Box 2, Folder 6
Songs of Myself. Best. v.p., v.d.
Physical Description: 22 leaves. Holograph, typescript, typescript (carbon).
Box 2, Folder 7
Songs of Myself. 2nd choice. v.p., v.d.
Physical Description: 18 leaves. Holograph, typescript, typescript (carbon).
Box 2, Folder 8
Songs of the Hillside. v.p., v.d.
Physical Description: 13 leaves, typescript, typescript (carbon).
Box 2, Folder 9
Songs of the Hillside. 2nd choice. v.p., v.d.
Physical Description: 26 leaves. Holograph, typescript, typescript (carbon).
Box 2, Folder 10
Songs of the Shaman. 1st choice. v.p., v.d.
Physical Description: 23 leaves. Holograph, typescript.
Box 2, Folder 11
Songs of the Shaman. 2nd choice. v.p., v.d.
Physical Description: 9 leaves. Holograph, typescript.
Box 2, Folder 16
Translations of poems by Jaime de Angulo. v.p., v.d.
Physical Description: 52 leaves. Holograph typescript, typescript (carbon).
Box 2, Folder 17
Fray Luis and the Devil. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 102 leaves, typescript, typescript (carbon).
Box 2, Folder 18
Fray Luis Comes West to Worst the Devil. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 92 leaves, typescript, typescript (carbon).
Box 2, Folder 18
Fray Luis. Part 1. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 81 leaves, typescript.
Box 3, Folder 1
Don Bartolomeo. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 52 leaves, typescript (carbon).
Box 3, Folder 2
Indian Tales. Early version. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 87 leaves, typescript.
Box 3, Folder 3
Indian Tales for a Little Boy and Girl--my own copy. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 262 leaves, typescript, typescript (carbon).
Scope and Content Note
With illustrations. Final version, 1st part.
Box 3, Folder 4
Indian Tales n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 108 leaves, typescript, typescript (carbon).
Scope and Content Note
Incomplete versions and extra pages.
Box 3, Folder 5
Indian Tales, n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: ca. 150 leaves. Holograph, typescript, typescript (carbon).
Scope and Content Note
With illustrations. Notes, text, extra pages.
Box 3, Folder 6
Indian Tales n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: ca. 150 leaves. Holograph, typescript, typescript (carbon).
Scope and Content Note
With illustrations. Notes, text, extra pages.
Box 3, Folder 7
Indian Tales, n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: ca. 150 leaves. Holograph, typescript, typescript (carbon).
Scope and Content Note
With illustrations. Notes, text, extra pages.
Box 3, Folder 8
Giordano, Fedora.
Jaime de Angulo. Roma, Luciano Lucarini Editore, 1982.
Note
Gift of the author, October 1982.
Box 2, Folder 12
Letters from Dorothy Pound. v.p., v.d.
Physical Description: 24 items (24 leaves) Holograph, typescript.
Box 2, Folder 13
Letters from various persons. v.p., v.d.
Physical Description: 11 items (17 leaves).
Scope and Content Note
Includes 2 letters from Blaise Cendrars.
Box 2, Folder 14
Letters from Marianne Moore. Brooklyn, New York and Ellsworth, Maine, 1950-1951.
Physical Description: 7 items (7 leaves) Holograph, typescript.
Box 2, Folder 15
Letters from Ezra Pound. v.p., v.d.
Physical Description: 15 items (6 letters, 3 fragments, 4 poems, 2 ephemera). Holograph, typescript, typescript (carbon).
Box 2, Folder 19
Photographs.
Physical Description: 21 items.
