Box 10

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Wolfe was the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine and the Joseph Garland Librarian of the Boston Medical Library, as well as the Corresponding Secretary of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts (of which French was the first woman to be elected an Honorary Member).

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Correspondence with various people regarding research into the 18th century bookseller and stationer William Woodhouse.

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Wroth was a historian and the author of The Colonial Printer. Correspondence is regarding French's request for recommendation to the Radcliffe Institute of Independent Study.

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...

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Original folder lacks title, contains miscellaneous correspondence related to French's research on bookbinders with various correspondents.

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This series includes portrait photographs (most professionally done from French's later years, one appears to be from a graduation (possibly Mount Holyoke, 1929) and two are from high school, circa 1925), travel photographs, family photographs (some of which do not include French), and candid photographs of French lecturing and working in the Book Arts Lab at Wellesley College.