Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton papers, circa 1917-1966

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Summary

Creators:
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948
Abstract:
Correspondence includes letters from publishers and friends. Contracts and accounts; manuscripts of various novels and stories; copies of stories published in magazines and papers; clippings. Correspondents include Mary R. Beard, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Max Eastman, Fannie Hurst, Joseph Henry Jackson, Otto H. Kahn, Sinclair Lewis, Carey McWilliams, Thomas Mann, Upton Sinclair, Dorothy Thompson, Ida Tarbell, Carl Van Vechten, Rebecca West, and John Steinbeck.
Extent:
Number of containers: 16 boxes, 3 cartons, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder Linear feet: 10.4
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

The papers of Gertrude Atherton were a gift to The Bancroft Library, June 26, 1953, from her daughter, Mrs. Muriel Atherton Russell. Mrs. Atherton's early papers were destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake and fire, 1906; some are in the Library of Congress. This group, which mostly covers the period from 1920 to her death in 1948, includes correspondence, manuscripts of novels and stories, accounts with publishers and newspaper clippings concerning her writings.The collection also includes some additional manuscripts and correspondence donated to the Bancroft Library in 1975.

There are very few copies of Mrs. Atherton's letters since she rarely used a typewriter. The letters to her are arranged alphabetically. The following list contains the names of all her correspondents. Cards have been placed in the Manuscripts Catalog for those judged most important. However, no cards have been made for the large groups of publisher's letters.

Letters written by Mrs. Atherton acquired from several sources, have been placed in boxes 14-15.

Physical location:
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Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Location of this collection:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
Contact:
510-642-6481
bancref-library@berkeley.edu
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