Charles E. Goodspeed correspondence and manuscript, 1946.

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Charles E. Goodspeed correspondence and manuscript, 1946.

The collection contains two letters and a manuscript page. Willard Cogswell writes to Goodspeed, 3 October 1946, about the value of books and his pleasure in seeing his name in Goodspeed's Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Museum of the Salem East India Marine Society. Goodspeed replies, 14 October 1946, sending one typed and handwritten manuscript page from his work that has Cogswell's name on it.

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Cogswell, Willard Goodrich, 1881-1955

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Goodspeed, Charles E. (Charles Eliot), 1867-1950

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Charles E. Goodspeed was the founder of several bookstores in Boston and a dealer in rare books and manuscripts. Most of his writings were bibliographical, compiling A treasury of fishing stories and Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Museum of the Salem East India Marine Society, or, The gathering of a virtuoso's collection, both published in 1946. His autobiography, Yankee bookseller, published in 1937, gives a full picture of booksellers, collectors, and authors of his time. From the des...