Accession number
PML 197709
Creator
Stone, Wilbur Macey.
Published
19th and 20th centuries (bulk 1920-1940)
Credit line
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1970.
Notes
Correspondents include Mary Ann Dicte, Evanston, Ill., 1930; Josephine S. Heydrick, Pequot Library, Southport, Conn., 1914; Albert C. Bates, Hartford, Conn., 1914 and 1920; Charles F. Heartman, New York, 1916, 1922, 1932, 1934, 1935, etc.; W.H. Holman, Pequot Library, Southport, Conn., 1925; Barend Beek, 1929; George P. Winship, Harvard Library, 1927; Charles E. Tuttle, Rutland, Vt., 1933 and 1934; Katherine Peabody Loring, Pride's Crossing, Mass., 1920; Millicent Sowerby, the Rosenbach Company, 1940, etc.
Description
1 album ; 31 cm
Provenance
From the Wilbur Macey Stone and Gillett Good Griffin collections.
Summary
Letters responding to Stone's queries regarding copies of the New England primer, many from Charles Heartman, some with carbon copies of Stone's letters, chiefly from the nineteen teens and twenties; offprints or fragments from the Bookman (1896), the Colonial Society of Massachusetts (1934), the Sunday School Times (1882), individual listings of primers for sale, many from the 1890s, many annotated with prices; plus photostats of pages from primers, transcriptions of title pages, and miscellaneous bibliographical information including lists of primers in Stone's collection.
Binding
Loose leaves in tan portfolio, typewritten paper label on cover. Housed in grey archival box.
Classification
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