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Author/Creator:De Quille, Dan, 1829-1898.
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Title:Dan De Quille papers, [circa 1860]-[circa 1956] (bulk 1885-1898).
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Physical Description:1.0 linear foot (4 boxes)
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Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
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Notes:In English.
Purchased from the William Reese Company on the William Robertson Coe Fund No. 3, 2010.
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Organization:Organized into four series: I. Correspondence, circa 1860-1953. II. Writings, 1876-circa 1956. III. Photographs, circa 1885-circa 1930. IV. Other Papers, 1875-1898.
- Access and use:This material is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical note:William Wright (1829-1898), also known by the pen name Dan De Quille, was an American author, journalist, and humorist. In 1857, Wright prospected for gold in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and in the Mono Lake region of California. In 1859, he moved to the silver mining town of Virginia City, Nevada. In 1862, Wright began writing for the Daily Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City and adopted the pen name Dan De Quille. He remained on the staff of the newspaper for over thirty years and wrote extensively about the people, events, and mining operations in the region.
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Summary:This collection consists chiefly of papers created and collected by Dan De Quille that document a portion of his writing career in Virginia City, Nevada, circa 1860-1898, as well as a small quantity of material accumulated by his family from 1936 to circa 1956. The papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, and ephemera, as well as newspaper clippings collected by De Quille.
The correspondence encompasses letters from editors and publishers to De Quille about his writing, as well as a small quantity of letters written by De Quille to his daughter Mell Wright Evans and his sister Louisa G. Wright Stevens. There is also a small group of correspondence, dated 1936, about De Quille between his granddaughter Irma Evans Morris and Nevada historian Effie Mona Mack.
Writings by De Quille include a notebook with outlines, drafts, and notes for stories and articles. Other writings include draft manuscripts for articles about Virginia City and California, as well as about Peru, and tales based in the Middle East.
Photographs include portraits of De Quille and views of his gravesite. Ephemera in the collection includes scrapbook sheets with illustrations that De Quille clipped from magazines and newspapers that he gave to his granddaughter.
- Format:Archives or Manuscripts
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Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
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Cite as:Dan De Quille Papers. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Subjects:De Quille, Dan, 1829-1898.
De Quille, Dan, 1829-1898--Pictorial works.
Evans, Mell Wright, 1855-1906.
Mack, Effie Mona.
Morris, Irma Evans.
Stevens, Louisa G. Wright, b. 1843.
Authors, American--1885-1898--Archives.
Frontier and pioneer life--California.
Frontier and pioneer life--Nevada.
Frontier and pioneer life--Sierra Nevada Region (Calif. and Nev.)
Journalists.
Mines and mineral resources--Nevada.
Newspaper editors.
Silver mines and mining--Nevada.
California--Description and travel.
Comstock Lode (Nev.)
Nevada.
Peru.
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Virginia City (Nev.)
West (U.S.)--Social life and customs.
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Genre/Form:Photographic prints.
Scrapbooks.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9923113