Letters, Boston : to Charles Jacobi, London, 1922 July 21-1925 April 13.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Letters, Boston : to Charles Jacobi, London, 1922 July 21-1925 April 13.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/369161127

In a long, 4 p. letter dated 1922, Updike writes to Jacobi about Jacobi's reasons for leaving his job as printer at the Chiswick Press and discusses personal values; in the second letter, dated 1925, Updike responds to Jacobi's thanks for a copy of Printing Types - "It was a terrible job, and when I look at it I always feel it was done by somebody else."

2 items in folder ; 26 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7388927

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wh2rhn (person)

Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941) was a book designer and printer in New England. He was born an only child in an old and well-connected New England family, but his father's death in 1877 prevented Updike from pursuing higher education. Updike's Episcopalian background greatly influenced both his character and his later work as a printer, and his intellectual and cultural character was molded by his mother, an antiquary and scholar of French and English literature. Updike's first book-related j...

Chiswick Press

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fj6bs3 (corporateBody)

The founder of Chiswick Press was Charles Whittingham (1767-1840). Upon completion of his printing apprenticeship in Coventry, Whittingham set up his own press in London in 1795, a short-lived Tory journal The Tomahawk. He eventually settled in the Thameside suburb of Chiswick, giving the name of the town to the book publishing division of Charles Whittingham and Co. Whittingham's nephew, Charles Whittingham the younger, joined his uncle as a partner in the firm. The fir...

Jacobi, Charles Thomas, 1853-1933

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64t81q6 (person)