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Box 8

 Container

Contains 35 Results:

Detlefsen, Elinor (2 of 2), 1976-1988

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains an inseparable mix of personal and professional correspondence, as many of French's professional contacts were also her friends; most letters relate to French's research and publications on early American bookbinding. Files are arranged alphabetically by individual's last name or title of institution. Files include both letters to and from French. Correspondence has been kept together with any enclosures, which include rubbings of bindings, drafts and publications, and...
Dates: 1976-1988

Bliss, Carey S., 1939-1975

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Bliss was the Curator of Rare Books at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Includes a letter from the Director John E. Pomfret, and a letter from Assistant Curator of Rare Books Roland Baughman.

Dates: 1939-1975

Boston Athenaeum, 1968-1980

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains an inseparable mix of personal and professional correspondence, as many of French's professional contacts were also her friends; most letters relate to French's research and publications on early American bookbinding. Files are arranged alphabetically by individual's last name or title of institution. Files include both letters to and from French. Correspondence has been kept together with any enclosures, which include rubbings of bindings, drafts and publications, and...
Dates: 1968-1980

Boston Masonic Library, 1965-1972

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains an inseparable mix of personal and professional correspondence, as many of French's professional contacts were also her friends; most letters relate to French's research and publications on early American bookbinding. Files are arranged alphabetically by individual's last name or title of institution. Files include both letters to and from French. Correspondence has been kept together with any enclosures, which include rubbings of bindings, drafts and publications, and...
Dates: 1965-1972

Bowdoin College, 1966-1968

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains an inseparable mix of personal and professional correspondence, as many of French's professional contacts were also her friends; most letters relate to French's research and publications on early American bookbinding. Files are arranged alphabetically by individual's last name or title of institution. Files include both letters to and from French. Correspondence has been kept together with any enclosures, which include rubbings of bindings, drafts and publications, and...
Dates: 1966-1968

Bowker (R.R. Bowker Company), 1967-1968, 1975-1976

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

R.R. Bowker Company is a New York based publishing company. Letters from 1975 to 1976 are from The Typophiles, Inc.

Dates: 1967-1968, 1975-1976

British Museum (Howard M. Nixon), 1959, 1965, 1969

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Nixon was the Assistant Keeper, Deputy Keeper, and then Head of Rare Book Collections in the Department of Printed Books at the British Museum. Correspondence is regarding Scottish bookbinders.

Dates: 1959, 1965, 1969

Chalmers, John, 1968-1984

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Chalmers was the Librarian for Rare Books at the Washington Cathedral library in D.C. Folder includes letters by his successor, John L. Folts Jr. Chalmers later worked at the Library of Congress and then the University of Texas.

Dates: 1968-1984

Clements (William L. Clements Library), 1937-1967

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

The Clements Library is at the Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Dates: 1937-1967

Curran, Mary Doyle, 1979-1984

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Includes clippings of Curran's obituary, and poems from Curran to French. Curran was an English professor at Wellesley College and U. Mass Boston.

Dates: 1979-1984