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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
E. Gordon Duff Papers
- Description
This collection consists of letters addressed to Edward Gordon Duff which relate primarily to Duff's interests in early English printing and stamped bookbindings (in the letters of W.H. James Weale and William Younger Fletcher). Correspondents include: Harry Gidney Aldis, Thomas Graves Law, Ronald Brunlees McKerrow, Alfred W. Pollard, Robert Proctor, Charles Edward Sayle, Alistair N.D. Taylor, Sir Henry Thomas, and W.H. James Weale. Additional subjects in the collection include the preparation and publication of Duff's writings and that of his associates; the John Rylands Library (1893-1900); and Duff family genealogy (see the letters of Alistair Taylor).
Persons represented by five or more pieces:
Aldis, Harry Gidney: 18 pieces Allnutt, William Henry: 7 pieces Amery, George Douglas: 6 pieces Bailey, John Eglington: 5 pieces Bennett, Richard: 5 pieces Blades, Rowland Hill: 5 pieces Bosanquet, Eustace Fulcrand: 13 pieces Bullen, Arthur Henry: 19 pieces Chawner, George: 5 pieces Claudin, Anatole: 11 pieces Cock, Alfred: 8 pieces Davenport, Cyril James Humphries: 7 pieces Delisle, Léopold Victor: 8 pieces Dziatzko, Karl Franz Otto: 5 pieces Ellis, Frederick Startridge: 5 pieces Fletcher, William Younger: 10 pieces Franks, Sir Augustus Wollaston: 7 pieces Gibson, Strickland: 15 pieces Gordon, Cosmo: 7 pieces Graves, Robert Edmund: 8 pieces Gray, George John: 7 pieces Greenwell, William: 13 pieces Haeghen, Ferdinand van der: 9 pieces Hall, Joseph: 9 pieces Hessels, Jan Hendrik: 5 pieces Hughes, Charles: 6 pieces Huth, Alfred Henry: 7 pieces Johnston, George P.: 12 pieces Johnstone, James Fowler Kellas: 9 pieces Law, Thomas Graves: 20 pieces Lawley, Stephen Willoughby: 7 pieces Lee, Sir Sidney: 7 pieces Leighton, Stanley: 5 pieces Lewis, Samuel Savage: 5 pieces Lovett, Richard: 10 pieces McKerrow, Ronald Brunlees: 20 pieces Murray, A. G. W.: 16 pieces Nicholsons, Edward Williams Byron: 7 pieces Pearson, J., & Co.: 14 pieces Plomer, Henry Robert: 15 pieces Pollard, Alfred William: 18 pieces Prideaux, Sarah Treverbian: 5 pieces Proctor, Robert George Collier: 21 pieces Rylands, John Paul: 7 pieces Sampson, John: 11 pieces Sayle, Charles Edward: 23 pieces Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig: 5 pieces Scott, Edward: 5 pieces Scott, John: 5 pieces Sidgwick, Frank: 11 pieces Stevenson, John Horne: 7 pieces Taylor, Alistair N. D.: 25 pieces Thomas, Sir Henry: 22 pieces Thompson, Henry Yates: 7 pieces Weale, William Henry James: 15 pieces Winship, George Parker: 13 pieces Wordsworth, Christopher: 9 pieces Worman, Ernest James: 5 piecesSome notable items include:
Aldis, Harry G. 1903, Oct. 3. Re: Scottish National Library Cockerell, Sir Sydney C. 1897, Feb. 10. To Charles Rowley. William Morris library (110 manuscripts, 800 printed books, exclusive of the modern ones) for sale at ¥20,000. Would like to see collection go to John Rylands Library. Gibbs, Henry Hucks, 1st Baron ALDENHAM. 1890, Mar. 17. "I am not without hope that, with your help, my saffron-colored prayer-book may yet be found in Bradshaw's chaos." Hessels, Jan Hendrik. 1887, June 28. "But I really hesitate taking every book away from Gutenberg as I should like to let him exist as a printer." Holme, Strachan. 1897, Nov. 9. Requests Duff to prepare a valuation of the Bridgewater Library for insurance purposes. Pollard, Alfred W. 1913, Jan. 9. "What I can't stomach is that these British Isles should be put on a level with Spain, as the only other country to which the Commission is sending a man of its own instead of the work being done by the natives. I dislike it even for the foreign incunabula in British libraries; but that it should be done for our own English books seems to me damnable." Proctor, Robert. 1899, Nov. 23. "She [Mlle. Pellechet] is a most estimable person but has no eye at all for types." Reed, Talbot Baines. [1892, July?] Re: the founding of the Bibliographical Society. Rosenthal, Ludwig. 1899, Nov. 11. The price of the Missal Speciale set at ¥15,000. Winship, George Parker. 1900, Feb. 5. Asks questions about the new John Rylands Library building. Wright, Joseph. 1896, Dec. 16. Pleasfor support of the English Dialect Dictionary.
