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Guide to the Sadakichi Hartmann Papers
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Description
Sadakichi Hartmann (1867-1944) was a writer, poet, dramatist, and critic during the early 20th century. Hartmann was an important
figure in early modernism and had a diverse social circle that included Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, and John Barrymore. This
collection includes Hartmann's published works, unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, pastels, paintings,
and diaries.
Background
"The clapboard shanty known as "Catclaw Siding" is gone now, torn down many years ago, but in the summer of 1954 it stood
on the desert flats of Morongo Indian Reservation, paint mostly worn away, wind rushing through its broken windowpanes. I
was then a newspaper reporter, pursuing a story, and I badly wanted into the shack to see what secrets it contained. Ten years
before it had been the last home of Sadakichi Hartmann (1867-1944), an almost forgotten American literary figure from the
Mauve Decade. I studied the shack, carefully jotting down descriptive notes for my story. Then I walked away from it and knocked
on the door of a nearby adobe house. The door was opened by a hauntingly beautiful woman with coal-black hair framing an olive-hued
face.
Extent
84.0 linear feet
(108 document boxes, multiple containers)
Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the University of California, Riverside Libraries, Special Collections & Archives. All
requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections
& Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California as the owner of the
physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by
the researcher.