Chauncey Brewster Tinker papers 1898-1963

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Chauncey Brewster Tinker papers 1898-1963

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Collection contains correspondence, writings, personal papers,financial records, photographs, subject files, clippings, printed material, and other papers by or relating to Chauncey Brewster Tinker. Correspondence consists primarily of letters to Tinker, including letters from Leonard Bacon, Charles Montgomery Hathaway, Jr., Sinclair Lewis, A. Edward Newton, Thornton Wilder, and the Yale University Library, along with several third-party letters, and a few copies and drafts of letters by Tinker. Writings include holographs, printed versions, and clippings of writings by Tinker and others, including Leonard Bacon, Stephen Vincent Benét, and Lewis M. Knapp. Personal papers consist of genealogical papers and other personal items, including an original engraved printing plate for one of Tinker's bookplates, along with several prints, and a copper printing plate for calling cards or stationary. Financial records contain primarily bills for book purchases. Photographs include photographs of Tinker, A. Edward Newton and others. Other papers include subject files, clippings and printed materials related to Tinker, his research and his interests in literature, book collecting, and other subjects, including eight boxes of catalog cards describing his rare book and manuscript collection.

Total Boxes: 26; Other Storage Formats: 9 broadsides; Linear Feet: 11.45

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349823

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Hathaway, Charles Montgomery, Jr.

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Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975

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Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), novelist and playwright. From the description of Thornton Wilder collection, 1918-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82555916 From the description of Thornton Wilder collection, 1918-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702165470 Thornton Wilder was an American playwright, novelist, and essayist. From the description of Thornton Wilder collection of papers, 1926-1975 bulk (1926-1967). (New York Public Library). WorldCat rec...

Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943

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Stephen Vincent Beńet was born July 22, 1898, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, into a military family. His father had a wide appreciation for literature, and Beńet's siblings, William Rose and Laura, also becmae writers. Beńet attended Yale University where he published two collections of poetry, Five Men and Pompey (1915), The Drug-Shop (1917). His studies were interrupted by a year of civilian military service; he worked as a cipher-clerk in the same department as James Thurber. He graduated fro...

Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954

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American poet. From the description of Quotation n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56906054 From the guide to the Leonard Bacon letter, 1930, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Pulitzer Prize winning poet (1941); resident of Peace Dale, Rhode Island. From the description of Collection, 1887-1946. (University of Rhode Island Library, Kingston). WorldCat record id: 41939671 Biographical ...

Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951

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Sinclair Lewis (b. Feb. 7, 1885, Sauk Centre, MN–d. January 10, 1951, Rome, Italy) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. ...

Knapp, Lewis M. (Lewis Mansfield)

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Educator, Colorado College, 1934-76; author. From the description of Papers. 1894-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 11601494 Lewis Mansfield Knapp (b. 1894) was a college professor and Chair of the English Department at Colorado College in Denver, Colorado. Knapp conducted research on 18th century English literary figures and authored "Tobias Smollett, Doctor of Men and Letters" in 1949. From the description of Papers, 1763-1975 (bulk 1927-1975) (University of...

Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, 1876-1963

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Epithet: of Yale University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000834.0x00011e A full biographical statement is provided in the register for the Chauncey Brewster Tinker Papers (GEN MSS 354) . From the guide to the Chauncey Brewster Tinker letters and manuscripts, 1900-1963, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) Chauncey Brewster Tinker, teacher, scholar and collector. Tinker was a membe...

Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940

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A. Edward Newton was an authority on book collecting during the first half of the 20th century. His correspondence with Alfred Blake Trott, president of Daniels & Fisher Company of Denver, Colo. from 1929-1944, details book collecting as well as travels, and reflects on the political and economic climate of the time in Europe and the United States. Newton also sent Trott copies of articles, most published in the Atlantic monthly between 1922 and 1938. Some articles were privately printed by ...

Hathaway, Charles Montgomery Jr.

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Charles Montgomery Hathaway, Jr., was born in Deposit, N.Y., in 1874. After earning degrees from Yale, he taught English at various colleges, including the U.S. Naval Academy. He was Consul in the Dominican Republic in 1911, and then became Consul in Cork, Ireland, in 1917. He remained principally in Dublin, Ireland, until 1927, when he was transferred to Munich and served there until his retirement in 1939. He then returned to the U.S., living in Santa Barbara, Calif., until his death in 1954. ...

Yale University.

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