BIB_ID
304965
Accession number
MA 1967.8
Creator
Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957.
Display Date
1919 May 27.
Credit line
Gift of Ray Nash, 1959-1960.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 21.3 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 from Cambridge University Press.
Written from Cambridge University Press.
Provenance
Gift of Ray Nash in 1959 and 1960.
Summary
Indicating that [Herbert] Winlock is in town and had informed him of Kent's poor health, for which he expresses great concern; describing "the most miserable winter that [he] can remember" and the "old rut of rushed and half-done work" that the Press has returned to; observing promise in Gordon Nobbs, assistant superintendant of the composing room; comparing their inferior equipment to that of Carl Rollins' at Montague Press and pointing out their weakened financial situation; emphasizing the inaccuracy of friend [Bryson] Burroughs' "glowing picture of life and work in Cambridge"; discussing developments on his plan to return to New York and set up a small press with [Hubert] Brown; indicating that he would like to be introduced to Paul Manship and possibly collaborate on a project.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (31.6 cm)
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