Title:
Julia Cooley Altrocchi papers, 1848-1972 (bulk 1935-1965)
Creator/Contributor:
Altrocchi, Julia Cooley, 1893-1972, creator
Creator/Contributor:
Lampson, Robin, 1900-1978, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Darling, Esther Birdsall, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Mitchell, Ruth Comfort, 1882-1954, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Hawthorne, Hildegarde, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Wells, Evelyn, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Altrocchi, Rudolph, 1882-1953
Creator/Contributor:
Online Archive of California
Creator/Contributor:
California Writers' Club
Creator/Contributor:
Ina Coolbrith Circle
Abstract:
The Julia Cooley Altrocchi papers provide researchers with insight into early-mid 20th century literary life in the San Francisco
Bay Area and Cooley Altrocchi's development as a writer. Highlights of the papers include unpublished original manuscripts,
poetry, lectures, notes, as well as numerous clippings, diaries and scrapbooks that chronicle Cooley Altrocchi's life and
career. The collection also contains correspondence with individuals such as Gertrude Atherton, Langston Hughes, Esther B.
Darling, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Evelyn Wells and Albert Bender, among others. Included as well are materials and writings by
and about Rudolph Altrocchi, photographs, research material, broadsides, artwork, publications and artifacts.
Date:
1935 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Altrocchi, Julia Cooley -- 1893-1972 -- Archives
Women poets, American -- California
Women authors, American -- California
Diaries -- Women authors
California -- History
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History
West (U.S.) -- History
Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Collection processed at folder level in 2012.
Collection numbers BANC MSS 70/94 c, BANC MSS 73/146 c were consolidated into BANC MSS C-H 115 during the course of processing.
Finding aid available in the library and online.
Julia Cooley Altrocchi papers, BANC MSS C-H 115, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Julia Cooley Altrocchi (1893-1972) was an author and poet. A resident of Berkeley, California from 1928 until her death, Cooley
Altrocchi was born in Seymour, Connecticut and raised in Chicago, Illinois. The daughter of Harlan Cooley and Nellie Wooster
Cooley, Cooley Altrocchi attended University High School at the University of Chicago and graduated from Vassar College in
1914. She married Rudolph Altrocchi in 1920. The couple moved to the San Francisco Bay Area upon the latter's appointment
as Professor and Chair of the Italian Department at the University of California, Berkeley; after holding positions at Columbia
University, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, the University of Chicago and Brown University. Cooley Altrocchi
published her first book of poetry, Poems of a Child, at the age of 11, and published a number of other monographs, many of
which delved into the history of California and its people. Notable among these was Snow Covered Wagons (1936), a story-in-verse
about the Donner Party expedition. Other works included Wolves Against the Moon (1940), The Old California Trail (1945), Black
Boat (1945) The Spectacular San Franciscans (1949) and Girl with Ocelot and Other Poems (1964). Her writings also appeared
in various literary journals and anthologies. Cooley Altrocchi was active in Bay Area literary circles, and served as President
of the California Writers Club from 1941 to 1943. She was also an honorary member of the Ina Coolbrith Circle, the San Francisco
Browning Society and the Poets of the Pacific, and a member of the National Poetry Society of America and National League
of PEN Women, among other organizations.
In English.
Type:
Manuscripts for publication.
Galley proofs (Printing)
Poems-California-20th century.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Diaries.
Physical Description:
print
13 cartons, 5 oversize boxes, 3 cardfile boxes, 7 volumes, 2 oversize folders (16.8 linear feet)
Language:
English
Origin:
California
Copyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.