Henry H. Evans Journals, Daybooks, and Correspondence
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the personal diaries, datebooks, and correspondence of Henry H. Evans, the founder of the Peregrine Press. Journals included here date from approximately 1970 until 1974. Datebooks and correspondence date from the 1960s until approximately 1974.
The items included in this collection were given to the Clark Library by Evans with the stipulation that, because of their personal content, they be restricted to research for 25 years after his death. Other correspondence and the papers of Evans' Peregrine Press which were not restricted to research at the time of their donation are cataloged separately (see finding aid here).
Dates
- Creation: about 1950-1974
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open to researchers.
Conditions Governing Use
The Clark Library owns the property rights to its collections but does not hold the copyright to these materials and therefore cannot grant or deny permission to use them. Researchers are responsible for determining the copyright status of any materials they may wish to use, investigating the owner of the copyright, and obtaining permission for their intended publication or other use. In all cases, you must cite the Clark Library as the source with the following credit line: The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Biographical Note
Henry Herman Evans was born in Superior, WI, in 1918; alumnus of the Univ. of California, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco State College, and the Univ. of Arizona; opened the Porpoise Book Shop in 1942 in Tucson, AZ, and relocated it to San Francisco, CA, in 1944; in 1949 he bought a hand press and began printing books of poetry and later began producing block prints of his own; many of his linocuts were botanical prints and still lifes, and he produced prints of over 600 subjects.
Evans died in 1990.
Extent
2.09 Linear feet (5 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
This collection stored offsite at the SRLF. Please contact Clark Library staff at least 2 weeks in advance to consult this collection.
Collection History
This collection was donated over time, between 1964 and 1974, by Henry H. Evans. These items were given to the Clark Library with the stipulation that they be restricted to research for 25 years after the Evans' death. Evans died in 1990, and the Clark Library opened these materials to researchers in 2024.
Processing History
Physically processed and described in September 2024 by Rebecca Fenning Marschall.
- Title
- Henry H. Evans Journals, Daybooks, and Correspondence
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid by Rebecca Fenning Marschall
- Date
- 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository