"The House That Sam Built, " at San Marino's venerable Huntington Library, includes 35 splendid examples of Maloof's furniture.

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"We won't ever know for sure who wrote it, " says Sue Hodson, curator of literary manuscripts at the Huntington Library.

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Main image courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens.

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There are three other handwritten versions by Moore, all of which reside in institutions--the New York Historical Society, the Huntington Library in Los Angeles and the Strong Museum in Rochester, N.

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When he was 12, a godmother introduced him to some of the cultural wonders of Southern California, like the Getty Museum, the Huntington Library and the jewelry and set designer Tony Duquette.

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