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Warde, Frederic, 1894-1939. Papers, 1915-1938.

Title: Papers, 1915-1938.

Personal papers including: correspondence; book designs with many original drawings; notebooks; some financial records; photographs and negatives; printing specimens and clippings. The material focuses on Ward's work as a designer. Correspondents include but are not limited to: May Lamberton Becker, W.I. Burch; Cass Canfield; Edward Capps; Thomas Nast Fairbanks; Thomas Maitland Cleland; W.A. Dwiggins; Crosby Gaige; Fernand Giauque; Willi Harweth; Dard Hunter;Philip Hofer; Daniel Jacomet; John de Monins Johnson; Mitchell Kennerley; William Albion Kittredge; Paul Koch; Jan van Krimpen; Helman Lehmann-Haupt; Leroy Lathem; George Macy; Giovanni(Hans) Mardersteig; Frederick Melcher; Frances Meynell; Charles Rufus Morey, Stanley Morison, Bruce Rogers, Rudolph Ruzicka, TheodoreLeslie Shear, John C. Squire, Paul Standard, Daniel Berkeley Updike and Beatrice Warde. There is also correspondence with several firms, including but not limited to Ganymed Press (Berlin), Lorilleux & Cie. (France), Monotype Corporation and the Lanston Monotype Corporation.

ArchivalResource: 13 boxes (14 linear ft.)albums 9.bookplates 3.clippings ca. 15.Christmas cards ca. 18.photographs ca. 68.negatives ca. 128.notebooks 4.menus 4.printing specimens ca. 200.page proofs ca. 8.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122455406 View

Morison Room papers, 1907-1973

Title: Morison Room papers 1907-1973

ArchivalResource: circa 9 cubic metres

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb12-ms.morison View

Grolier Club Library. Beatrice Warde collection, 1919-1970 (bulk 1950-1970).

Title: Beatrice Warde collection, 1919-1970 (bulk 1950-1970).

Three publications by Beatrice Warde, five calligraphic Christmas letters, and two broadsides issued in her honor by the Advertising Agencies Service Company and the Type Directors Club of New York on the occasion of her visits to New York City in 1950 and 1953. The 1950 tribute includes a signed copy of the wood-engraved portrait by Bernard Brussel-Smith. The collection also includes: one letter to her from Edward M. Gottschall on the subject of "Thought-unit composition" and a copy of a letter to her from Sir Cyril Burt on the same topic. There are also obituary notices, an undated portrait photograph, and a reprint of her "This is a printing office" in the form of a broadside, as well as a few miscellaneous items. Frederic Warde is represented by copies of his typewritten genealogy of the Warde family and his discharge paper from the Air Service Flying School, dated 1919.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.photograph 1 16 x 20 cm.wood engraving 1 11 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122516195 View

Lisl Steiner photographic negatives of Typophiles lectures, 1965-1968

Title: Lisl Steiner photographic negatives of Typophiles lectures 1965-1968

Lisl Steiner is an Austrian photojournalist. The Typophiles is a not-for-profit educational association that encourages the appreciation and production of fine typography and bookmaking through lectures, meetings, and other endeavors. The collection consists of negatives of photographs taken by Lisl Steiner at meetings of the Typophiles between 1965 and 1968

ArchivalResource: .25 linear foot (1 box)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/6205 View

Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Watson Kent, [1932] July 29.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Watson Kent, [1932] July 29.

A short letter indicating his having sent "our apologies to Mrs. Woodhouse" and enclosing her reply; insisting that he go to Nether Lypiatt; indicating his departure for Rye. Autograph notes continue letter, discussing Emery Walker's improved health, the N.Y. Stock Market being "up," and a pleasant evening on the Thames with a group of men called "The Galley Club," including a single female member, Beatrice Warde.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 20.4 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/705918009 View

The life of Edmund Kean : from published and original sources, extra-illustrated

Title: The life of Edmund Kean : from published and original sources ,extra-illustrated,

Original drawings, autograph letters, playbills, and portraits inserted into FrederickWilliam Hawkins, (London: Tinsley Brothers,1869). The life of Edmund Kean

ArchivalResource: 14 v.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01540/catalog View

Howell, Alfred Corey, d. 1961,. Alfred Corey Howell collection of papers relating to Frederic Warde, 1924-1954.

Title: Alfred Corey Howell collection of papers relating to Frederic Warde, 1924-1954.

Correspondence of Alfred C. Howell with friends and colleagues of Frederic Warde. Collection includes typescript of substantial excerpts from Warde's letters to Isabella Grandin arranged topically and a bibliographyof books designed by Warde which Howell prepared with the assistance of Massey Trotter of the New York Public Library. Correspondents include but are not limited to: Beatrice Lamberton Becker; Herman Cohen; Alfred C. Cohn; P.J. Conkwright; Emily C. Connor; Geoffrey Cumberledge; Ralph Duenewald; Betty Dumaine; Philip Duschnes; Charles Ede; George Elderkin; CrosbyGaige; Isabella Grandin; Ruth Shepard Grannis; Anne Lyon Haight; William A. Jackson; Giovanni Mardersteig; John de Monins Johnson; Henry Watson Kent; William A. Kittredge; L.M. Knepple; George Leslie McKay; David McFarlane; George Macy; C.R. Morey; Stanley Morison; Donald Oenslager; Carl Pforzheimer; Carl Purlington Rollins; Rudolph Ruzicka; Datus Smith; Paul Standard; Clarence Stratton; Grace Stuart; Massey Trotter; Daniel Berkeley Updike; Henry Z. Walck and Alexander Woollcott. Also: photograph of. Stone marking the burial of Warde's ashes which was designed by Bruce Rogers.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.2 linear ft.)photographs 12 ; 13 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122516178 View

Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. Autograph letter signed : Danbury, to Henry Watson Kent, 1940 Aug. 16.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Danbury, to Henry Watson Kent, 1940 Aug. 16.

Discussing ongoing projects, including the Hesperides "Odyssey," "The Wind in the Willows," Shakespeare's poems, Carl Pforzheimer's catalogue, and his "chief concern at present ... the Hunter College inscription"; mentioning letters from Johnson at Oxford and Beatrice Warde, "both in good spirits"; enclosing a proof "for the Shakespeare"; asking if he heard that "an aunt of Frederic Warde's has turned up, in Wisconsin and claims the estate? That is, if there is any left."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 20.2 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706822671 View

Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, 1873-1997, (bulk 1920-1990)

Title: Nicolas Slonimsky Collection 1873-1997 (bulk 1920-1990)

Collection contains materials collected by Slonimsky throughout his lifetime that document his life and work as musicologist, composer, conductor, lecturer and author. Included are personal biographical materials; Slonimsky's writings (drafts, typescripts, reprints, etc.) of newspaper, periodical, journal, and magazine articles, record liner notes, radio broadcasts, and talks, published and unpublished; music composed by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed; concert programs; correspondence, among many others, with Henry Cowell, Alexandre Gretchaninoff, Roy Harris, Charles Ives, and Edgar Varèse; biographical materials on composers and performers mosly generated when Slonimsky was editing Baker's and The international cyclopedia; music collected by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed and multi-composer collections; among the manuscripts are many short holographic works and fragments; scrapbooks; and iconographical material, such as family photographs an those of composers and musicians from the former Soviet Union, as well as little known musicians from the United States and elsewhere.

ArchivalResource: circa 118,600 items; 354 boxes; 500 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002011 View

Typophiles, Inc. (New York, N.Y.). Typophiles, Inc. records, 1908-2004.

Title: Typophiles, Inc. records, 1908-2004.

The Typophiles is a not-for-profit educational association that encourages the appreciation and production of fine typography and bookmaking through lectures, meetings, and the production of fine examples of the printing arts. The collection consists of the papers of Dr. Robert L. Leslie and the records he generated as a member and officer of the Typophiles. Included are Dr. Leslie's personal and professional papers, as well as records from his businesses, The Composing Room, the Gallery 303, and the Heritage of the Graphic Arts lecture series. The records reflect the book arts during what may be considered the golden age of fine printing. Significant individuals represented in the collection include Frederick W. Goudy, Warren Chappell, Bruce Rogers, Paul A. Bennett, Beatrice Warde, David Godine, Raymond Gid, Fernand Baudin, Roderick Stinehour, W.A. Dwiggins, Giovanni Mardersteig, and Hermann Zapf.

ArchivalResource: 62.31 linear feet (143 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/720047182 View

Warde, Beatrice, 1900-1969. Autograph letter signed : [New York], to F.B. Adams, Jr., 1969 Jan. 8.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [New York], to F.B. Adams, Jr., 1969 Jan. 8.

Concerning a visit to the Morgan Library, and sending a snapshot portrait of Stanley Morison, which accompanies this letter.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (16mo) & with envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270659511 View

Sherry Mangan papers, 1923-1961.

Title: Sherry Mangan papers, 1923-1961.

Correspondence and compositions of journalist and poet Sherry Mangan as well as materials concerning The Fourth International and and magazines. Time, Life, Fortune

ArchivalResource: 32 boxes (16 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00493/catalog View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource:

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01543/catalog View

Parkes, Kineton, 1865-1938. [Beatrice Warde ephemera].

Title: [Beatrice Warde ephemera]. 1962-1970.

ArchivalResource: 29 items : ill. ; 14-33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/72700103 View

Typophiles, Inc. (New York, N.Y.). Typophiles, Inc. records, 1914-1996.

Title: Typophiles, Inc. records, 1914-1996.

The Typophiles, Inc. records (1940s-1996) document the various functions of the organization including luncheons, membership, publications and travels of the Junketeers.$bThe collection also documents the life of long-time president, Robert L. Leslie (1914 - 1986) including his personal papers, correspondence and other materials of his wife, Dr. Sarah K. Greenberg, Leslie's typographic business, The Composing Room, Inc., the exhibits of Gallery 303 and the Heritage of the Graphic Arts lecture series. The collection includes art work, awards, bills, blueprints, book orders, books, brochures, calligraphy examples, cards, catalogs, certificates (framed and unframed), chap books, check ledgers, correspondence, event schedules, expenses, flyers, galley proofs, hand-printed items, invitations and response cards, keepsakes, manuscripts, meeting minutes, memorabilia, monographs, photographs, slides and negative film, plaques, posters, printed matter, receipts, resumes, roosters, scrapbooks, travel materials, and typographic reference materials. Of particular note is a folder of correspondence to Sarah Greenberg from Catherine Deaver Lealtad, a U.N. worker who describes her experiences visiting areas in France and Germany at the close of WWII, and later in China during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 65.25 linear feet (134 containers)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122465586 View

COCKERELL PAPERS. Vol. CXXXVI (ff. 207). Walk-Wat.includes:ff. 1-67 Sir Emery Walker, engraver and typographer: Correspondence with S. C. Cockerell: 1890-1926: Partly printed and typewritten.ff. 68-155b Dorothy Walker, daughter of Sir Emery Walke...

Title: COCKERELL PAPERS. Vol. CXXXVI (ff. 207). Walk-Wat.includes:ff. 1-67 Sir Emery Walker, engraver and typographer: Correspondence with S. C. Cockerell: 1890-1926: Partly printed and typewritten.ff. 68-155b Dorothy Walker, daughter of Sir Emery Walke... Unspecified

ArchivalResource: 1 item

http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?srt=rank&ct=search&mode=Basic&indx=1&vl(freeText0)=040-002002375&fn=search&vid=IAMS_VU2 View

Women's National Book Association. Women's National Book Association records, 1917-1989.

Title: Women's National Book Association records, 1917-1989.

Correspondence, memoranda, publications and financial records.

ArchivalResource: 50 linear ft. (ca. 43,450 items in 102 boxes, 14 bound volumes, & 1 flat package).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/303022653 View

Cleverdon mss. II, 1926-1988

Title: Cleverdon mss. II 1926-1988

The Cleverdon mss. II, 1926-1988, consists of the papers of bookseller, publisher, and BBC producer and director, Douglas Cleverdon, 1903-1987.

ArchivalResource: ca. 22,000 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAA9464 View

Women's National Book Association Records, 1917-2013.

Title: Women's National Book Association Records 1917-2013.

The Women’s National Book Association Papers document the history and work of the Women’s National Book Association from their founding in 1917 until today. The organization is active in promoting women in the book industry through awards and programs to increase women’s participation in the profession and the role of women in publishing and other book-related fields.

ArchivalResource: 51 linear ft. (118 boxes)

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079627 View

Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. Autograph letter signed : New Fairfield, to Henry Watson Kent, 1937 Feb. 9.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New Fairfield, to Henry Watson Kent, 1937 Feb. 9.

Accepting an invitation to dinner and mentioning that Mrs. [Beatrice] Warde and her mother just spent the weekend with them.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 18.2 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706714981 View

Grolier Club. Library. Records of the librarians, 1897-1970.

Title: Records of the librarians, 1897-1970.

Correspondence, notices, and some reports of librarians Richard Hoe Lawrence, Henry Watson Kent (1900-1905), Ruth Shepard Granniss (1905-1944), George Leslie McKay (1944-1958), Alexander Davidson (1958-1960), J. Terry Bender (1961-1964), Gabriel Austin (1964-1969), and Harvey Simmonds (1969-1970). In addition to correspondence, there are orders and invoices relating to books and bookbinding ordered for the Club for the period. Records for some groups of years appear incomplete. Between 1906 and 1916, Ruth Granniss sent out handwritten correspondence using a carbon-like paper to obtain copies; some of these are now difficult to read. The Granniss files of correspondents' letters include a few of her holograph originals. Individual correspondents include but are not limited to correspondence to and from: Elmer Adler, Frank Altschul, C.R. Ashbee, Samuel Putnam Avery, Henrietta Bartlett, Melbert B. Cary, George Watson Cole, Edith Diehl, Marian Dodd (Womens' University Club), Porter Garnett (Laboratory Press), Walter Gilliss, W.W. Greg, Louis Haber, Byrne Hackett, Sherman P. Haight, Lathrop Harper, Philip Hofer, Robert Jaffray, Geoffrey Keynes, Bella Landauer, Flora Livingston, Luther Livingston, Amy Lowell, Leonard L. Mackall, Ronald B. McKerrow, Howard Mansfield, Stanley Morison, Edward A. Parsons, Joseph Pennell, A.W. Pollard, Fanny Ratchford, Carl Purlington Rollins, Walter Kilburn Root, William Edwin Rudge, Margaret B. Stillwell, Edward L. Stone, Daniel Berkeley Updike, Beatrice Warde, Frederic Warde, and Lawrence C. Wroth. Book dealers and binders include but are not limited to: B.F. Stevens & Brown, G.E. Stechert & Co., Charles P. Lauriat, Atelier Bindery, French Binders (Doubleday & Co.), MacDonald James, MacDonald & Maier, and the Stikeman firm. The Alexander Davidson records contain material about the Morgan Gunst Fund for the Grolier Club and the Bender records include reports by Carolyn Horton on the physical rehabilitation of the Grolier Library during the years 1960-1962. Also: guestbooks for the period 1930-1955; entries often indicate purpose of users' research.

ArchivalResource: 34 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79458531 View

Warde, Beatrice, 1900-1969. Dear Paul Bennett : [yours, Paul Beaujon].

Title: Dear Paul Bennett : [yours, Paul Beaujon]. [195-?]

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (unpaged), bound : photos ; 19 x 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/406353272 View

Colt Press. Colt Press records, 1920-1973.

Title: Colt Press records, 1920-1973.

Business records and correspondence of the Colt Press of San Francisco, California. Includes duplicate invoices; checks and bank statements; ledgers; income and sales tax returns; legal contracts and agreements. Correspondence between Jane Grabhorn and writers John Steinbeck, Valenti Angelo, William Saroyan, Robinson Jeffers, and others.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122565909 View

Bennett, Paul, 1897-1966,. Papers relating to Frederic Warde, 1921-1966.

Title: Papers relating to Frederic Warde, 1921-1966.

Notes of interviews conducted by Paul Bennett between 1963 and 1966 relating to Frederic Warde. Interviewees include: Robert Dothard, Ralph Duenewald, Anne Lyon Haight, Sherman P. Haight, James Hendrickson, Melvin Loos, Stanley Morison, Beatrice Warde, and Henry Z. Walck. There are notes from his visits to the Will Ransom Collection at the Newberry Library, the Library of Congress, and the Henry E. Huntington Library. Also: photocopies of correspondence in the Will Ransom Collection at the Newberry Library with Crosby Gaige, P.J. Conkwright, Alfred C. Howell, Henry Watson Kent, William A. Kittredge, Will Ransom, and Rudolph Ruzicka; copies of letters in the Library of Congress from Warde to Thomas Maitland Cleland; correspondence with Paul Tomlinson, manager of the Princeton University Press; and copies of letters from Beatrice Warde at the Huntington Library. The collection also includes Bennett's notes on Warde material at the offices of the Limited Editions Club and in the collection of Sherman P. and Anne Lyon Haight, as well as general correspondence and notes relating to the Warde project.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.8 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122530624 View

Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Watson Kent, ca. 1934-1945.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Watson Kent, ca. 1934-1945.

Indicating that he and Villiers are currently researching ships and considering departing July 3 for Finland; expecting to be back in England in late August and indicating that letters addressed to 43 Fetter Lane "will always be forwarded"; mentioning dinner with [Stanley?] Morison and Mrs. Warde.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 19.4 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/707400186 View

Hayes, James,. [Exhibit cards], [between 1950 and 1952?].

Title: [Exhibit cards], [between 1950 and 1952?].

Three exhibit cards, probably from 1950-1952, in black calligraphic script by Percy C. Allen of the Monotype Corporation.

ArchivalResource: 3 items ; 50 x 90 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45047340 View

League of Vermont Writers. League of Vermont Writers papers, 1928-1942.

Title: League of Vermont Writers papers, 1928-1942.

Correspondence addressed to Dorothy Charlotte Walter in her capacity as Secretary of the League including many prominent authors. Most of the letters were written in 1934.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36065004 View

David, Ismar. Ismar David papers, 1938-1996 (inclusive), 1952-1990 (bulk).

Title: Ismar David papers, 1938-1996 (inclusive), 1952-1990 (bulk).

The papers consist of personal and business correspondence; photographs; clippings; sketches, drawings, and mechanicals; photo-engraved printing blocks; metal type; two- and three-dimensional samples and printed pieces, including a large number of book jackets and covers; three-dimensional architectural models; and photographic documentation of work created for corporate clients. David's correspondence files hold letters from friends such as Rollo Silver, Paul Standard, Jeanyee Wong, and Lili Wronker, and corporate clients that include a wide variety of publishers, synagogues, and cemeteries companies. A selection of books which include designs by Ismar David accompanied the papers; they have been cataloged separately.

ArchivalResource: 132 linear ft. (88 boxes) + 13 rolled drawings + 26 broadside folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/435687927 View

Typophiles, Inc. records, 1908-2004

Title: Typophiles, Inc. records 1908-2004

The Typophiles is a not-for-profit educational association that encourages the appreciation and production of fine typography and bookmaking through lectures, meetings, and the production of fine examples of the printing arts. The collection consists of the papers of Dr. Robert L. Leslie and the records he generated as a member and officer of the Typophiles. Included are Dr. Leslie's personal and professional papers, as well as records from his businesses, The Composing Room, the Gallery 303, and the Heritage of the Graphic Arts lecture series. The records reflect the book arts during what may be considered the golden age of fine printing. Significant individuals represented in the collection include Frederick W. Goudy, Warren Chappell, Bruce Rogers, Paul A. Bennett, Beatrice Warde, David Godine, Raymond Gid, Fernand Baudin, Roderick Stinehour, W.A. Dwiggins, Giovanni Mardersteig, and Hermann Zapf.

ArchivalResource: 62.31 linear feet; 143 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3628 View