Correspondence, 1897-1990, undated

Series I. comprises incoming and outgoing correspondence of and related to Thomas James Wise and his forgeries. The series is arranged into two subseries. Subseries I.A. consists of mostly Wise's outgoing correspondence; incoming letters are noted. Correspondents include booksellers and collectors such as Arthur Swann and Paul Lemperly, as well as author Edmund Gosse. Subseries I.B. comprises correspondence pertaining to Wise and the Wise-Forman forgeries; topics concern collections and sales of Wiseian forgeries, such as the Maurice Pariser Collection, acquisitions of specific items, such as John Carter's copy of the Reading Sonnets , and research inquiries. Correspondents include Wiseian scholars and bibliographers John Carter, Graham Pollard, and William B. Todd, as well as contemporaries of Wise, such as J. Alexander Symington and William Robertson Nicoll.