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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
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

John Carter letter to Robert Gathorne-Hardy

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0985
Abstract

A brief typed letter written and signed by John Carter to Robert Gathorne-Hardy, dated February 13, 1968, in which Carter attempted to arrange a meeting.

Dates: 1968 February 13
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

John Carter papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0746
Abstract

Letters and other documents related to the British book collector John Carter.

Dates: 1959-1970
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Collection related to Stanley Morison's 60th birthday

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0989
Abstract

Collection of six items related to a dinner held at Brown's Hotel on May 6, 1949, to honor Stanley Morison on his 60th birthday. Includes the envelope lettered by Will Carter of Rampant Lions Press, sealed with a large stamped wax seal, bearing John Carter's name, which contained the other items.

Dates: 1949-1968
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Bruce Garland collection of Thomas Wise material

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0646
Abstract The Bruce Garland collection of Thomas Wise material comprises approximately 1.6 linear feet of material pertaining to English bibliographer, book collector, and forger Thomas J. Wise (1859-1937). Much of the collection's material was compiled by English bibliographer and book collector John Carter (1905-1975), who co-authored with Graham Pollard (1903-1976) An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets (1934), which effectively outed Wise as a...
Dates: 1897-2007, undated; Majority of material found within 1934-1975
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Kingship and christianity : typescript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0987
Abstract

John Carter's copy of a typescript of the unpublished paper read by Stanley Morison at Westcott House, Cambridge on May 5, 1956, titled Kingship and Christianity.

Dates: 1956 May 5
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Gettysburg address : corrected galley proof

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0988
Abstract

Corrected galley of an article in the Times Literary Supplement, which consists of four pages with ink notations in John Carter's hand. With two photocopies of the front page of the auction catalog from Parke-Bernet Galleries, April 27, 1949, titled Lincolns Gettysberg Address. The Unique and Final Holograph Manuscript Known as Bliss Copy.

Dates: 1949 April 27
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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