Group 263: Plimpton Press (Norwood, Massachusetts)

Group 263: Plimpton Press (Norwood, Massachusetts) | Collections | The Huntington

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1906-1944
Call number: mssMerrymount
Creator: Merrymount Press(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from John Bianchi, 1949.; Gift of Daniel B. Bianchi, 1958.
Associated people: Bianchi, John, (1874-); Brent, Charles Henry, (1862-1929.); Bullen, Henry Lewis, (1857-1938,); Carrington, Fitz Roy, (1869-1954,); Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (1840-1922.); Cortissoz, Royal, (1869-1948,); De Vinne, Theodore Low, (1828-1914.); Dwiggins, W. A. (1880-1956.); Einstein, Lewis, (1877-1967,); Farrand, Beatrix, (1872-1959,); Gardner, Isabella Stewart, (1840-1924.); Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, (1869-1924.); Goodspeed, Charles E. (1867-1950,); Greene, Belle da Costa. (1852-1942,); Kellen, William Vail, (1866-1948.); Kent, Henry Watson, (1867-1943.); Morgan, J. P. (1889-1967.); Morison, Stanley, (1870-1957.); Rogers, Bruce, (1883-1978.); Ruzicka, Rudolph, (1860-1941.); Updike, Daniel Berkeley, (1897-1986.); Orton, Vrest, (1894-1939.); Warde, Frederic, (1860-1928,); Warren, Edward Perry, (1862-1937.)
Associated organizations: American Institute of Graphic Arts,; American Numismatic Society (1907- ),; Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,; Club of Odd Volumes,; G. Schirmer, Inc.,; Harvard College Library,; Harvard University,; Hispanic Society of America,; Japan Paper Company,; John Carter Brown Library,; Oliver Ditson Company,; Oxford University Press,; Thomas Y. Crowell Company,
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