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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Roswell Field
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
This collection contains of the business records of the Merrymount Press and the related papers of its founder Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941). The bulk of the collection consists of financial volumes; correspondence with customers, publishers, illustrators, craftsmen, and suppliers; bills; estimates; and scrapbooks with specimens of work. While the majority of the correspondence is comprised of letters, there are occasionally proofs, specimens, and cloth, paper, fabric samples, etc., found with the correspondence. The records reflect Updike's involvement with printing across the United States and in Europe, though much of his work was produced for clients in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York City. Some of the correspondence reflects Updike's personal interests including Rhode Island history and churches and charitable work with poor children as well as prison inmates.
mssMerrymount
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Manuscripts
The collection deals primarily with Edwin Bliss Hill's activities as a private printer, as a founder of the Frank Holme Memorial Group, and as a collector of books and manuscripts. There are 274 manuscripts including manuscripts by Hill and Frank Holme; poetry and prose to be printed by Hill; and biographical sketches of Holme. The materials by and about Holme were collected by Hill and others as part of the Memorial Group endeavors. There are 1,807 pieces of correspondence including letters to and from Edwin Bill Hill chiefly about private printing; Hill's press and materials to be printed; the Frank Holme Memorial Group; and Thoreau scholarship, texts, etc. and book and manuscript collection. There are letters to and from Frank Holme chiefly about the School of Illustration and the Bandar Log Press. There are 476 printed items including proofsheets from Hill's press; miscellaneous pamphlets, bookmarks, calling cards, etc.; and clippings. Persons represented by three or more pieces: Avery, Bertha Grant: 63 poems Babson, Joseph E.: 17 manuscripts and notes Hill, Edwin Bliss: 5 manuscripts Holme, Frank: 10 manuscripts, and 22 volumes of diaries Starrett, Vincent: 20 manuscripts, plus miscellaneous notes Adams, Raymond: 1928-1942. 6 pieces Ade, George [before 1905]-1942. 14 pieces Allen, Francis Henry: 1918-1942. 15 pieces Arizona. Dept. of Library and Archives: 1942-1945. 8 pieces Arizona. University. Library: 1934-1944. 10 pieces Avery, Bertha Grant: 1923-1933. 19 pieces Baldridge, Cyrus LeRoy: 1938-1944. 15 pieces Barber, George W: 1913-1914. 8 pieces Bay, J Christian: 1939-1947. 9 pieces Chalmers, Stephen: 1917-1926. 7 pieces Comfort, Will Levington: 1920-1932. 5 pieces Coolidge, Dane: 1912-1939. 6 pieces Cooper, Oswald Bruce: 1900-1938. 6 pieces Cuala Press: 1923-1941. 23 pieces Dean, Eva: 1908-1943. 75 pieces Dobell (Percy J and Arthur E) (firm): 1915-1945. 7 pieces Finch, Edward J: 1944-1948. 14 pieces Finger, Charles Joseph: 1920-1935. 6 pieces Fitzgerald, Percy: 1897 and undated. 5 pieces Foley, Patrick Kevin: 1919-1935. 8 pieces Forrest, Earle Robert: 1936-1949. 24 pieces Ganz, Charles: 1934-1948. 37 pieces Gjelsness, Rudolph H: 1938-1942. 7 pieces Hayden, Carl: 1939-1946. 6 pieces Hill, Edwin Bliss: 1918-1948. 35 pieces Holme, Frank: 1899-1904. 142 pieces Holme, Ida May (Van Dyke): 1930-1941. 21 pieces Jaques, Bertha: 1906-1941. 13 pieces Kitt, Edith O: 1933-1948. 5 pieces Kleiner, Rheinhart: 1944-1948. 7 pieces Lamb (Charles) Society: 1935-1948. 24 pieces Larremore, Thomas Armitage: 1938. 5 pieces LaShelle, Kirke: 1902-1946. 6 pieces Lockwood, Francis Cummins: 1934-1935. 10 pieces Marshall, Vause W: 1938. 6 pieces Mazzanovich, Anton: 1933-1934. 18 pieces Mighels, Ella (Sterling): 1930-1931. 19 pieces Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner: 1888-1896. 6 pieces Morris, Frank M: 1915-1925. 16 pieces Newton, Alfred Edward: 1918-1940. 18 pieces Phillips, Grace: 1945-1946. 6 pieces Plarr, Victor G.: 1894-1906. 5 pieces Ransom, Will: 1925-1948. 11 pieces Robinson, Grace (Perley): 1938-1943. 5 pieces Seymour, George Steele: 1919-1943. 5 pieces Shaw, Mary W: 1926-1927. 5 pieces Sloan, Charles H: 1931-1944. 73 pieces Starrett, Vincent: 1918-1948. 223 pieces West, Herbert Faulkner: 1940-1948. 21 pieces White, Viola C: 1935-1949. 6 pieces Williamson, Dan R: 1934-1940. 12 pieces Woollen, Frank David: 1918-1925. 114 pieces Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet: 1914-1939. 51 pieces Yeats, William Butler: 1918-1920 and undated. 6 pieces Some notable items include: Brown, Ray - letter to Francis Cummins Lockwood, Feb. 24, 1927, is a lengthy recollection of Frank Holme and includes many details of his life. Clemens, Samuel Langhorne - typescript of a suppressed chapter from Life on the Mississippi. Dean, Eva - letters to Edwin Bliss Hill contain recollections of Frank Holme. Eva Dean had been a student at Holme's School of Illustration. DeVinne, Theodore Low - two letters to Hill concerning printing. Emerson, Edward Waldo - letter to Francis Cummins Lockwood about Ralph Waldo Emerson. Forrest, Earle Robert - letters to Hill about Forrest's life as a cowboy and about the book he co-authored with Hill, Lone War Trail of Apache Kid. Hill, Edwin Bliss - list of books printed on his press; and a series of 29 letters and one postcard to Vincent Starrett (1918-1948) discuss Hill's printing and literary pursuits. Holme, Frank - letters written to Oswald Bruce Cooper in 1901, when Holme was away in Asheville, discuss the details of running his School of Illustration. Holme, Ida May (Van Dyke) - correspondence to Hill provides information and dates regarding Frank Holme's life. Jones, Haydon - letter of June 15, 1944, to Hill recalls events in Frank Holme's life. Starrett, Vincent - extensive correspondence with Hill concerning works of his printed by Hill, with enclosures of manuscripts, proofsheets and lay-outs. Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet - correspondence to Hill mentioning various members of the Yeats family and discussing her Cuala Press. Yeats, William Butler - an introductory essay addressed to Lady Gregory, 4 letters to Hill, and one letter to Lily Yeats.
mssHill papers