Hampshire Bookshop records, 1916-1971.

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Hampshire Bookshop records, 1916-1971.

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Contains correspondence from many of the authors the Bookshop sponsored in its lecture series and friends of the store: Martha Gilbert Bianchi, Grace Coolidge, Elizabeth A. Drew, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Alfred A. Knopf, Christopher Morley, Elizabeth Morrow and Hugh Walpole among others. There are photographs of the store and the authors it presented, ephemera, book and gift catalogs and a file of The Book scorpion, an irregular publication that it issued. There are scrapbooks containing newspaper and magazine clippings about the store and its advertisements. Also a file of magazine articles on the store. There is a bound manuscript entitled: After ten years : stray pages of recollections / compiled by the present staff of the Hampshire Bookshop, Northampton, Mass., 1926.

2 linear ft. (6 boxes) + 3 v. (loose-leaf) ; 30-61 cm. ; oversized folders.

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Morrow, Elizabeth, 1873-1955

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Coolidge, Grace Goodhue, 1879-1957

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Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941

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