Box 9
Container
Contains 5 Results:
Manuscript: homemade notebook of William Lighton's writings, 1879-1880
File — Box: 9, Folder: 1
Identifier: MC 779 2 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates:
1879-1880
Manuscript: "Ottumwa, Iowa. Journal of a Boy" (autobiographical material, written at age 13), 1880
File — Box: 9, Folder: 2
Identifier: MC 779 2 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates:
1880
Manuscript: "The Life and Experiences of Jim Holmes". Written by Lighton at age 14 and "Dedicated to my Mother.", 1880
File — Box: 9, Folder: 3
Identifier: MC 779 2 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates:
1880
Three notebooks of story ideas (including notes for Shadow of the Great Rock), clippings, some records of stories submitted
File — Box: 9, Folder: 4
Identifier: MC 779 2 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates:
1828-1987
Notebook containing poetry of William Lighton and 2 pages by Suzanne Lighton, 1923
File — Box: 9, Folder: 5
Identifier: MC 779 2 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates:
1923