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Biever-Bishop

Description: The collection contains over three hundred folders of correspondence that are arranged alphabetically by correspondent in fifty-eight boxes. The collection ranges from 1878 to 1972, with the bulk of the correspondence being from the years 1900 to 1979. The correspondence includes letters, telegrams, postcards, photographs and one record disc (box 26). The correspondence is mainly related to the library collection itself or to the library as an institution. The letters include commentary on the collection, the acquisition and transfer of items, inquiries about the holdings of the library, letters of thanks and congratulations from visitors, financial transactions, and letters between members of the staff. Box 52 contains miscellaneous files labeled as crank files which are often unsolicited.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1922-1959
Call number: HIA 31.1
Creator: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

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Provenance

In Library, unknown date.

Associated people

Bliss, Leslie Edgar, (1889-1977.)

Cole, George Watson, (1850-1939.)

Dougan, Robert O. (1869-1945.)

Farrand, Max, (1850-1927.)

Huntington, Henry Edwards, (1900-1961)

Schad, Robert O.

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