Guide to the George Sterling collection, 1909-1942 (inclusive), 1920-1926 (bulk) M0021

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Stanford University Libraries

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford, California, 94305-6064

Repository email: speccollref@stanford.edu

ï¿½ 1999

Title: George Sterling collection,

Identifier/Call Number: M0021

Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 1.0 Linear feet (ca. 150 items).

Date (bulk): Bulk, 1920-1926

Date (inclusive): 1909-1942

creator: Bender, Albert M. (Albert Maurice), 1866-1941

creator: Blaettler, Rudolph

creator: Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968.

Provenance

The majority of the Sterling papers came to Stanford as a gift of Rudolf Blaettler, collector. The Bynner-Sterling correspondence is a gift of Witter Bynner. (Oct 1960)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

George Sterling was born in Sag Harbor, N.Y. on December 1, 1869. He was educated on the East Coast and attended St. Charles College in Maryland. In 1896 he married Carrie Rand of Oakland, California, and from 1898 to 1908 he was private secretary to Frank C. Havens of that city.

Sterling's first volume of poems, “ Testimony of the Suns and Other Poems, was published in 1903. After that time, there were nine other volumes and a number of separate poems published. From 1908 to 1915, Sterling was one of the leaders of the artist colony at Carmel, California. He died on November 18, 1926, by his own hands.

Scope and Contents note

Scope and Content Note

The Sterling Papers date from 1909 to 1942 with the bulk of material falling between 1920 and 1926. Those dated 1946 are memorial items marking the twentieth anniversary of his death. The collection includes correspondence, literary typescripts and manuscripts, printed poems and songs, a galley proof, photographs and clippings. Some of the material is in photostat form from originals in the University of Pennsylvania Library. Correspondents include: Edwin Markham, Theodore Dreiser, Robinson and Una Jeffers and Witter Bynner.

General note

Materials withdrawn from the collection: Death mask is stored with Special Collections' framed pictures.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] George Sterling collection, M0021, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Provenance

Gift of Rudolph Blaettler, Witter Bynner, and Albert M. Bender.

Publication Rights

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.

Access Restrictions

None.

Box 1, Folder 1

CORRESPONDENCE OUT

1. to Mrs. Breeze 1909, Aug 29

2. Witter Bynner 1912, Jul 21 -

3. 1912, Aug 1 -

4. 1912, Aug 6 -

5. 1912, Aug 26 -

6. 1912, Sept 11 -

7. 1912, Sept 20 -

8. 1912, Sept 28 -

9. 1912, Oct 15 -

10. 1912, Oct 18 -

11. 1912, (? 26) -

12. Ave (?Sterling) 1912, Oct 26 -

13. Witter Bynner 1912, Oct 30 -

14. 1913, Jan 12 -

15. 1913, Oct 17 -

16. Albert (?Bender) 1913, Nov 24 -

Box 1, Folder 2

1. Theodore Dreiser, 1920, Feb 10 -

Physical Description: photostat.

2. 1920, Oct 26 -

3. 1922, Aug 24 -

4. 1923, May 16 -

5. Mrs. Margaret Cobb 1923, Jun 20 -

6. 1923, Jul 18 -

7. 1923, Aug 21 -

8. 1923, Sept 5 -

Physical Description: photostat & dup.

9. 1923, Dec 4 -

10. 1923, Dec 11 -

11. 1924, Feb 12 -

12. 1924, Apr 29 -

13. 1924, May 28 -

14. 1924, Jun 18 -

15. Theodore Dreiser, 1924, Jun 27 -

Physical Description: photostat.

16. Mrs. Margaret Cobb 1924, Jul 5 -

17. 1924, Sept 12 -

18. Theodore Dresier, 1924, Sept 14 -

Physical Description: photostat.

19. Mrs. Margaret Cobb 1924, Oct 6 -

20. 1924, Oct 31

Box 1, Folder 3

1. Mrs. Margaret Cobb 1925, Jan 21 -

2. 1925, Mar 9 -

3. Hal” 1925, Jun 5 - “

4. Margaret Cobb 1925, Jun 24 -

5. Hal” 1925, Jul 2 - “

6. Margaret Cobb 1925, Jul 14 -

General note

5 ltrs to Hal discurd missing 3/7/77

7. Margaret Cobb 1925, Jul 15 -

8. Hal” 1925, Jul 27 - “

9. 1925, Jul 28 -

10. Margaret Cobb 1925, Jul 29 -

11. 1925, Sept 8 -

12. 1925, Oct 26 -

13. Albert (Bender) 1925, Nov 30 -

14. Margaret Cobb 1926, Jan 22 -

15. Theodore Dreiser, 1926, Jan 24 -

Physical Description: photostat.

16. 1926, Feb 13 -

17. Margaret Cobb 1926, Feb 16 -

18. Theodore Dreiser, 1926, Feb 17 -

Physical Description: photostat.

Box 1, Folder 4

1. Theodore Dreiser, 1926, Mar 23 -

Physical Description: photostat.

2. Margaret Cobb, misdated 1926, Mar 29 - 1929.

3. Margaret Cobb 1926, Apr 9 -

4. 1926, Apr 18 -

5. 1926, May 6 -

6. Theodore Dreiser, 1926, May 24 -

Physical Description: photostat.

7. Margaret Cobb 1926, Jun 1 -

8. Theodore Dreiser, 1926, Jul 26 -

Physical Description: photostat.

9. Margaret Cobb 1926, Aug 9 -

10. 1926, Aug 10 -

11. 1926, Sept 27 -

12. Hal” - N.D. - “

Physical Description: 2 slips of paper & photostats.

Box 1, Folder 5

CORRESPONDENCE IN

1. Bynner, Witter - Brotherhood of Man” Aug 9,?, “

2. notes on Sterling's poems. Oct 31, 1960,

2a. Coolbrith, Ind n.d.

Physical Description: A.N.S.

3. Dreiser, Theodore - Oct 2, 1920.

4. Oct 8, 1920.

5. Oct 9, 1920.

6. Nov 6, 1920.

7. frag., unsigned. Dec 21, 1920.

8. Jul 15, 1924.

9. Jul 25, 1925.

10. Feb 7, 1926.

Box 1, Folder 5a

1. MONROE, HARRIET Mar. 18, 1916.

Box 1, Folder 6

1. Markham, Edwin - May 18, 1911.

2. Jun 1, 1911.

3. Aug 2, 1911.

4. Markham, Edwin - Aug 9, 1911.

5. Jan 7, 1917.

6. Feb 21, 1917.

7. Mar 14, 1917.

8. Jun 21, 1917.

9. Jul 25, 1917.

10. Aug 17, 1917.

11. Dec 11, 1919.

12. Apr 28, 1920.

13. Oct 29, 1920.

14. Jan 28, 1926.

15. by sec., Morgan. n.d.

16. Poems signed M. n.d.

17. Markham, Sept 29, 1926

Physical Description: A.L.S.

Box 1, Folder 7a

Coolbrit, Ira, A. N. S. n.d.

Box 1, Folder 7a

Marshall, Thomas R., T. N. S., Dec. 27, 1915

Box 1, Folder 7a

Sinclair, Upton B., A.N.S. & cover, Feb. 7, 1915

Box 1, Folder 7

1. Jeffers, Robinson - Jul 5, 1924.