BIB_ID
304955
Accession number
MA 1967.7
Creator
Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957.
Display Date
1918 Oct. 3.
Credit line
Gift of Ray Nash, 1959-1960.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 20.4 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed and revised typed and autograph copies of letters to Henry Watson Kent. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written on letterhead from Cambridge University Press.
Written on letterhead from Cambridge University Press.
Provenance
Gift of Ray Nash in 1959 and 1960.
Summary
Discussing the unpleasant atmosphere at Cambridge and his financial constraints; describing a potential joint venture with Hubert Brown back in New York, possibly setting up the press in Connecticut; discussing [Henry] Morley's book on Bernard Palissy; describing a lunch with William Osler, Jenkinson and Sayle, during which he determined he may be able to acquire a fount of Clarendon Press Fell types, but waivers between it and a fount of French type; acknowledging receipt of Miss Granniss' letter and pondering the odd pricing practices of the British.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (31.6 cm)
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