Hamlin Garland Papers: Collection Highlights from USC Libraries Special Collections

Hamlin Garland Correspondence

The Hamlin Garland papers include more than 8,500 letters written to Hamlin Garland by almost 3,000 correspondents. There are also almost 1,700 letters written by Garland to some 650 correspondents. Notable figures represented in Garland’s collection of letters include Willa Cather, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Frost, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, A. A. Milne, Theodore Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair, and Woodrow Wilson.

On display are letters and autographed portraits to Garland from J. M. Barrie, George Bernard Shaw, Edith Wharton, and Walt Whitman.

Thanks to generous support from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission, the USC Digital Library has recently finished digitizing all of Garland’s letters for online public access. View the whole collection of Hamlin Garland correspondence at the Digital Library.

Items pictured above:

(Image 1) Edith Wharton, letter, to Hamlin Garland, [no year] June 14.
View the entire letter at the Digital Library.

(Image 2) George Bernard Shaw, postcard, to Hamlin Garland, 1922 June 14.
View the entire postcard at the Digital Library.

(Image 3) James Matthew Barrie, letter, to Hamlin Garland, 1925 June 22.
View the entire letter at the Digital Library.

(Image 4) Walt Whitman, letter, to Hamlin Garland, 1889 January 12.
View the entire letter at the Digital Library.

(Image 5) Photographic portrait of George Bernard Shaw, inscribed by Bernard Shaw to Garland, circa 1890s.
View this item in the Hamlin Garland papers finding aid.

More from the exhibit:

Photographic portrait of James M. Barrie, inscribed by Barrie to Garland, undated.
View this item in the Hamlin Garland papers finding aid.

Walt Whitman - clipped portrait, signed, undated.
View this item in the Hamlin Garland papers finding aid.

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