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Bernard DeVoto Letter
Item
Identifier: MSS-428
Dates:
1920 - 1955
Found in:
WSU Stewart Library Special Collections
Bernard DeVoto Photographs
Collection
Identifier: P-120
Overview
These photographs were copied from ones housed at the University of Utah. Permission to copy must come from the Marriott Library.
Dates:
Other: Date Not Yet Determined
Found in:
WSU Stewart Library Special Collections
Literary Utah Poster
Item
Identifier: MSS-385
Dates:
Other: Date Not Yet Determined
Found in:
WSU Stewart Library Special Collections
Chester Olsen Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-2
Overview
This collection contains personal correspondence and memorabilia particularly related to Bernard DeVoto. The correspondence is between Chester "Chet" Olsen and DeVoto's widow Avis. Most is concerned with the death of DeVoto and requesting that Olsen scatter his ash among a National Forest in Idaho. It includes items from the cremation including the body tag.
Dates:
Agent Relation: 1953 - 1969
Found in:
WSU Stewart Library Special Collections
Oral History Cassette Tapes
Collection
Identifier: MS-223
Overview
Joe McCune, Nick Williams and Reed Baily "Partial History of Early Days of Baseball"
Dates:
Other: Date Not Yet Determined
Found in:
WSU Stewart Library Special Collections
Rhoda DeWolf (later DeVoto) Photograph
Collection
Identifier: P-149
Overview
This is a cabinet card photograph of Rhoda DeWolf taken in 1891. She later divorced E. S. DeWolf and married Florian DeVoto. She was Bernard DeVoto’s mother.
Dates:
1891
Found in:
WSU Stewart Library Special Collections
The Chester "Chet" Olsen Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: P-3
Overview
Six photos taken on the day that Olsen scattered Bernard DeVoto's ashes in Idaho, April 6, 1956. The negatives for the photographs are in Folder 1 of the Collection
Dates:
1956 April 6
Found in:
WSU Stewart Library Special Collections
"The Easy Chair" Columns by Bernard DeVoto
Collection
Identifier: MS-309
Overview
A collection of Harper's Magazine featuring Bernard DeVoto's column.
Dates:
Other: Date Not Yet Determined
Found in:
WSU Stewart Library Special Collections
Val Holley Article
Item
Identifier: MSS-216
Scope and Contents
Menckeniana: A Quarterly Review, Spring 1993, No. 125. Article in it by Val
Holley, “Vexing Utah: Mencken, DeVoto, and the Mormons.” Val Holley was a former student
at Weber State College in the 1970s. This article was sent by Holley to Dr. Levi S. Petersen of
Weber State University, September 20, 1993. Included is a letter from Holley to Petersen.
Holley, “Vexing Utah: Mencken, DeVoto, and the Mormons.” Val Holley was a former student
at Weber State College in the 1970s. This article was sent by Holley to Dr. Levi S. Petersen of
Weber State University, September 20, 1993. Included is a letter from Holley to Petersen.
Dates:
1993
Found in:
WSU Stewart Library Special Collections