Compositions, 1937-1939.

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Compositions, 1937-1939.

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Manuscript, drafts, and galley proofs of "Goodspeed's memoirs, Bookseller" (published 1937); manuscript of his "Angling in America" (published 1939); Catalogues (on cards) of the libraries of Frank Brewster Bemis and Harold Murdock. Also includes illustrations used in "Yankee Bookseller."

12 boxes (6 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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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...

Bemis, Frank Brewer, 1861-1935

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Murdock, Harold, 1862-1934

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