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Illustrated Advertising Proofs collection, 1904-1923

1.5 Linear Feet
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A collection of early 20th-century advertising proofs submitted to the U.S. Patent Office, featuring the work of prominent cartoonists and illustrators.

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James Mark Baldwin Bookplate Collection, 1700-1900

0.5 linear feet
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The collection, containing nearly 800 bookplates, includes exemplars of American and English plates of the 18th through the early 20th century. The collection was formed by Dr Baldwin and his wife, Helen Hayes Baldwin. Of special interest is a plate done for Dr Baldwin by the English painter-etcher Charles William Sherborn. The collection contains proofs, prints with remarques on various sizes and types of paper, and correspondence relating to the designing and production of the plate.

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Richard Volney Chase papers, 1930-1984

37 linear feet
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Letters, manuscripts, notes, proofs, course materials, and printed matter. The letters are chiefly from his colleagues at Columbia University, other literary critics, a few publishers and, single letters from several American authors. There is a series of lengthy letters from Chase to his wife, Frances Marie Walker Chase, dated 1938 and 1949-1961; letters from his colleagues and friends to Mrs Chase, 1962-1967, mostly letters of condolence on Chase's death, and a few related to his publications. The manuscripts and proofs of his writings include typescripts on Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. Also included are notes on American and Englisgh literature, course materials for his Columbia courses, articles and reviews by him, articles, reprints and reviews by others, most of which are inscribed to Chase, and three dozen volumes of his own works, including foreign translations. In addition, there are 250 volumes from Chase's library, many with his annotations and marginalia. 1984 ADDITION: Letters from friends dealing with the contemporary literary world between 1948-1955. The main body of material is from Robert Willard Flint, a sometime poet and critic, who was a graduate student at Columbia in 1946 and later worked at the Harvard Library. 1986 ADDITION: Letters to Richard Chase from colleagues in the literary world, 1948-1971, with 2 letters to his wife after his death. 114 of these letters are from Robert Flint, 25 from Lionel Trilling, and 3 letters from Robert Penn Warren

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Ezra Pound papers, 1915-1959

1 linear feet
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Manuscripts and correspondence. The typescript of THE PISAN CANTOS contains almost all of the Cantos 74-80, and 84, and part of 83. There is a carbon of the corrected version of parts of Cantos 74, 76-77, and 79-80. Included are galley proofs of Cantos 74-84 and galley and page proofs of Canto 77, the latter for the "Rocky Mountain Review." The collection contains two typescripts for CANTOS ET POEMES CHOISIS. One typescript bears corrections and notations by Pound, the other by the translator René Laubiès. Included is correspondence with Benjamin De Casseres, Daniel Dodson, Peter Loving, Dudley Fitts, Ronald Duncan, Orrick Johns, and a Mr. Thring.

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Bird & Bull Press records, 1958-1983

1.21 linear feet
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Correspondence, manuscripts, lists, mock-up copies, proofs, etc. for several books on paper and paper-making, published by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press. Book titles include THE BIRD & BULL COMMONPLACE BOOK (1971), THE CLUB OF ODD VOLUMES (1973), A COLLECTION OF RECEIPTS IN COOKERY, PHYSICK AND SURGERY.. (1958), THE FORTSAS CATALOGUE (1970), OLD REAM WRAPPERS (1969), THE PAPER MAKER (1974), THE PASSIONATE PIRATE (1964), THE PHILOBIBLON CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA (1973), BIRD & BULL NO. 13 (1972), and A BABYLONIAN ANTHOLOGY.

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John Brown manuscripts, 1839-1943

11 linear feet
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Material gathered by Oswald Garrison Villard in the researches for his biography JOHN BROWN, 1800-1859: A BIOGRAPHY FIFTY YEARS AFTER. A large part of the materials is copies of correspondence both contemporary and of a later period, concerning John Brown and his associates, especially in the Kansas Territory and at the Harper's Ferry raid. Of the original letters in the collection, many are from descendants and family of John Brown and the men who accompanied him on his raid. There are clippings, pamphlets, proof sheets, and other printed matter. Photographs number 181 items.

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Sam Schaefler bookplate collection, 1580-1800

25 linear feet
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The collection consists of several sub-divisions, such as bookplates with a printed date (over 300 bookplates, 1587-1800), ecclesiastical bookplates of the 17th and 18th centuries, and a large group relating to Cambridge and Oxford Universities (mostly 18th century). Well represented are bookplates of libraries, starting with a German bookplate, ca. 1580. Among the library bookplates of some significance are large dated German bookplates of the Royal Library, Munich, the earliest being dated 1614, the bookplate of the medical library, Frankfort, 1676, representing the view of a 17th century library, and a large collection of early American library bookplates.

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C. J.Bulliet papers, 1899-1952

10 linear feet
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These papers contain the correspondence, photographs, press releases, programs and manuscripts of Clarence Joseph Bulliet (1883-1952) who was a prominent art and dramatic critic for the Indianapolis Star,Louisville Herald and Chicago Evening Press. The bulk of this collection is comprised of materials from the 1910s and early 1920s, when Bulliet was business manager for the touring company of Shakespearean actor Robert Bruce Mantell. Production photographs, press releases, production diaries and notes and drafts for Robert Mantell's Romance, the biography of Mantell written by Bulliet, are included in this collection. This collection also contains photographs and souvenir programs from other productions; drafts of Bulliet's literary works; printed materials and correspondence with Edward Albee, Julian Eltinge, Genevieve Hamper, Robert B. Mantell and Vera Zorina.
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Guglielmo Ferrero papers, 1871-1944, 1981, bulk 1890-1942

70 linear feet
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This collection contains correspondence, lectures, articles, manuscripts and printed material related to the life and work of Italian journalist, historian and novelist Guglielmo Ferrero.
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Paul Gallico papers, 1922-1969

39 linear feet
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These papers document the range of his literary career, beginning with his sports columns written for the DAILY NEWS in 1922 and continuing through THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE published in 1969. Included are drafts, typescripts, and proofs for all of his major writings, among them THE SNOW GOOSE, THOMASINA, MRS. 'ARRIS GOES TO PARIS, THE HURRICANE STORY, SCRUFFY, and THE SILENT MIAOW, as well as those for his hundreds of articles, essays, and stories, which have appeared in THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, COSMOPOLITAN, ESQUIRE, and other national magazines. In addition, his files contain his research notes, background material, photographs, and correspondence for each of his works

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