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John Carter correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0035
Abstract
Two autograph letters, three typescript letters, and one autograph postcard written to John Carter from several correspondents, including P.M. Handover, Harry G. Carter, James M. Mosely, and Percy Muir, dating from August 6, 1962, to January 24, 1963. One of the typescript letters bears ink corrections, while another offers corrections for an article set to appear in The Library. The third typescript letter from P.M. Handover welcomes Carter back to "the...
Dates:
1962 August 6-1963 January 24
John Carter papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0746
Abstract
Letters and other documents related to the British book collector John Carter.
Dates:
1959-1970
John Frederick Lewis papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0129
Abstract
The papers of prominent Philadelphia lawyer and philanthropist John Frederick Lewis (1860–1932) span the dates 1882 to 1932 and include letterbooks, correspondence, advertising brochures, legal documents, and ephemera. The papers primarily document the legal business of Lewis through his work at the firm Lewis, Adler & Laws, but also reflect social and domestic affairs of John Lewis and his wife, Anne Baker Lewis, as well as cultural interests, through development of personal collections...
Dates:
1882-1932; Majority of material found within 1909-1928
Letters from William Buell Sprague
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0551
Abstract
Sent by American clergyman, biographer, and autograph collector William Buell Sprague between 1836 and 1874, these letters document both Sprague's writing of Annals of the American Pulpit and his efforts at collecting autographs.
Dates:
1834-1874
L. A. G. Strong letters to Mary Turner and Tom Turner
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0659
Abstract
The L. A. G. Strong letters to Mary Turner and Tom Turner contains 41 letters written by British author L. A. G. (Leonard Alfred George) Strong (1896-1959) to his friend, bibliophile Tom Turner (1870-1949), as well as 150 autograph letters addressed to Mary Turner (born circa 1924), Tom Turner's daughter. The letters to Mary Turner document an affair she seems to have had with Strong.
Dates:
1934-1958; Majority of material found within 1938-1947