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Hamlin Garland Papers: Collection Highlights from USC Libraries Special Collections
1media/Garland-Constance-Drawing copy.jpgmedia/Garland-Landing-Page-Header-Image-1080by600.jpg2018-07-19T14:44:38-07:00Curtis Fletcher3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673e3086728image_header2020-04-15T16:55:10-07:00Bo Doub59bddb0b27f7b3138b6b5c39e4cc435e9208ebadHamlin Garland (1860-1940) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who once held the title of “Dean of American Letters” and counted many of the prominent literary figures of his time as friends. Following Garland’s death in 1940, his personal library and papers came to the USC Libraries, forming the cornerstone of the Libraries’ American Literature Collection.
The Hamlin Garland papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks, photographs, and memorabilia, by and about the American realist writer. The collection holds close to 10,000 of Garland’s letters, which are now digitized and available for online public access via the USC Digital Library. Garland’s literary notebooks and manuscripts--with the author’s revisions--are also included, documenting the early working stages of Garland’s autobiographies and memoirs, fiction, plays, poetry, published articles, and lectures. The Garland papers also contain the typescripts, notebooks, interview transcripts, correspondence, and research material created by Garland for his biography of Ulysses S. Grant published in 1898. Lastly, the collection holds hundreds of the Garland family’s photographs and memorabilia dating as early as the 1850s.
Among the items featured in the display are letters and signed portraits to Garland from J. M. Barrie, George Bernard Shaw, Edith Wharton, and Walt Whitman. Also included are photographs documenting his 1898 travels through the Klondike region of northwestern Canada during the Alaska Gold Rush; drawings and prints by Constance Garland (Hamlin’s youngest daughter), who illustrated many of her father’s works and designed the bookplate that would be stamped inside each of the books in the Garland family’s extensive library; and materials related to two of the subjects that Garland researched and wrote about extensively: Ulysses S. Grant and psychical investigations (paranormal events and individuals claiming to be psychics).
Read on to learn more about the main themes of the exhibition.
Note: This exhibition was on display in Special Collections in 2018.
Contents of this path:
12018-07-19T15:19:56-07:00Curtis Fletcher3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673eA Son of the Middle Border14plain2019-12-17T12:17:12-08:00Bo Doub59bddb0b27f7b3138b6b5c39e4cc435e9208ebad
12018-07-20T18:56:22-07:00Curtis Fletcher3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673eHamlin Garland and USC8plain2018-08-06T23:56:16-07:00Katherine Kapsidelisf0de8f4961e8bda61d32118f6fd783a6aaf29ddd
12018-07-20T19:30:25-07:00Curtis Fletcher3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673eResearch for Garland’s Biography of Ulysses S. Grant10plain2018-08-03T22:55:49-07:00Bo Doub59bddb0b27f7b3138b6b5c39e4cc435e9208ebad
