Box 1
Contains 13 Results:
Correspondence and accounting of publisher and bookseller William J. Campbell of Philadelphia, 1912-1919
Correspondence is predominantly with a John S. Jenks Jr. to whose family Campbell had debt.
Correspondence of Louise Clark of Bryn Mawr regarding book binding tools, 1920-1926
Photocopies of letters, likely used for French's research into bookbinding.
Publications and clippings regarding bookbinding, 1937-1981
Original label reads: "PW clippings, bookbinding exhibitions in the 1930s, EA Thompson, articles on Edith Diehl, Peter Frank."
French's course notes while a student at Columbia University's Library Service master's program, 1938-1939
This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).
Reviews of Bookbinding in America: Three Essays (published 1941, featuring French's "Early American Bookbinding by Hand" essay), 1938-1941
This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).
Documents and correspondence regarding French's Guggenheim Fellowship application, 1939-1960
This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).
Research materials and correspondence regarding 18th century American bookbinding, 1939-1989
Includes a photocopy of Indenture by Frederick August Mayo, a 1939 newspaper article on bookbinding, notes on bindings, a letter from a bookseller, photocopies of rubbings/bookbindings, and notes for a Philadelphia binding study.
Research materials and correspondence regarding Robert Aitken, 1942, 1961 and undated
This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).
Wellesley News clipping "Students to Print, Bind by Hand in Library's New Book Arts Lab", 1944
This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).
Research materials, photos and rubbings, and related correspondence regarding Andrew Barclay, 1944-1983
This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).