Autograph quotation [manuscript], 1929.

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Autograph quotation [manuscript], 1929.

"What is called good luck is usually nothing but good work," is written on a correspondence card with the printed heading "Mr. Bok Philadelphia."

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University of Virginia. Library

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Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930

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Born in the Netherlands, Edward Bok came to the United States with his family at the age of six. He worked in publishing from the age of thirteen. He founded the Brooklyn magazine and 1886 he established the Bok Syndicate Press. Bok became editor of Ladies' home journal in 1889. In 1896 Bok married Mary Louise Curtis (1876-1970), the daughter of Ladies' home journal publisher, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (1850-1933). He worked as an editor at Curtis publishing for thirty years retiring at th...