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.
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.
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.
Seventeen volumes with entries arranged by month of cash received and cash disbursements, listing transaction date, corresponding ledger page, account name, and amounts.
Twelve ledgers providing credits and debits for accounts, listing date, transaction, and corresponding page numbers in cash, sales, journal, and invoice books. Almost all of the volumes have an alphabetical index at front.
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.
