These letter books contain copies on onion-skin paper of the Merrymount Press and D.B. Updike's outgoing correspondence. The volumes have alphabetical indexes at their fronts; corresponding job numbers have been written on the letters.
Volumes containing copies on onion skin paper of receipts generated by the Merrymount Press to customers. The volumes have alphabetical indexes at their fronts; corresponding job numbers have been written on the receipts.
Thirty-five volumes containing entries listing jobs completed by the Press with job number, customer and brief description of job and number of copies, and itemized charges. The first eighteen volumes each have alphabetical indexes of customer names at their fronts; subsequent volumes (for jobs 8232-17910, dating from 1916-1949) do not have individual indexes, and instead share one typescript alphabetical index of customer name and corresponding job number.
Note: Volumes 122-125 are disbound and boxed.
This letter book contains copies of correspondence between Updike and various individuals, presumably bound separately for confidentiality purposes. Much of the correspondence relates to Updike's involvement in various plans to develop a press for Harvard University, or sell or accept loans for the Merrymount Press and includes letters to James Loeb, C.E. Norton, and Eliot Norton, and others. There is also some miscellaneous correspondence related to the estate of Updike's grandmother and property in Worcester, Massachusetts, and additional letters to recipients including Madame Fauchery (of E. Fournier & Company), Edward P. "Ned" Warren (Lewes, Sussex, England), a few letters to Jane Addams (Hull House, Chicago).
Seventeen volumes with entries arranged by month of cash received and cash disbursements, listing transaction date, corresponding ledger page, account name, and amounts.
Twenty-one invoice books containing entries arranged by month and listing the day, corresponding ledger page, seller, goods purchased, debits (with columns for merchandise, expense, and plant), and credit to account payable.
