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Merrymount Press Collection made by Max Farrand


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    Farrand, Max

    Manuscripts

    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.

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    Max Farrand

    Manuscripts

    The Max Farrand papers consist of letters, manuscripts, documents, and one scrapbook from 1816 to 1947. Many of the pieces are typewritten and photostatic copies of academic correspondence from and to historians and other scholars, Wesleyan; Stanford; Cornell; and Yale Universities; Commonwealth Fund, 1918 to 1927; Huntington Library, 1927 to 1941; American Historical Society; American Philosophical Society, etc. Included is primary source material for research in American history, particularly in politics of the revolutionary and early federal periods. Also included are materials relating to the drafting of United States Constitution and Benjamin Franklin and journals of travels in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and Maryland at the beginning of the nineteenth century. There is also material relating to Mary Cadwalader Jones, Farrand's mother-in-law and the author of Lantern slides (Boston, 1937). Also present are 16 Theodore Roosevelt letters to Max Farrand.

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    Max Farrand papers

    Manuscripts

    The Max Farrand papers consist of letters, manuscripts, documents, and one scrapbook from 1816 to 1947. Many of the pieces are typewritten and photostatic copies of academic correspondence from and to historians and other scholars, Wesleyan; Stanford; Cornell; and Yale Universities; Commonwealth Fund, 1918 to 1927; Huntington Library, 1927 to 1941; American Historical Society; American Philosophical Society, etc. Included is primary source material for research in American history, particularly in politics of the revolutionary and early federal periods. Also included are materials relating to the drafting of United States Constitution and Benjamin Franklin and journals of travels in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and Maryland at the beginning of the nineteenth century. There is also material relating to Mary Cadwalader Jones, Farrand's mother-in-law and the author of Lantern slides (Boston, 1937). Also present are 16 Theodore Roosevelt letters to Max Farrand, see Box 15 for details.

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    Max Farrand-Freund

    Manuscripts

    The Max Farrand papers consist of letters, manuscripts, documents, and one scrapbook from 1816 to 1947. Many of the pieces are typewritten and photostatic copies of academic correspondence from and to historians and other scholars, Wesleyan; Stanford; Cornell; and Yale Universities; Commonwealth Fund, 1918 to 1927; Huntington Library, 1927 to 1941; American Historical Society; American Philosophical Society, etc. Included is primary source material for research in American history, particularly in politics of the revolutionary and early federal periods. Also included are materials relating to the drafting of United States Constitution and Benjamin Franklin and journals of travels in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and Maryland at the beginning of the nineteenth century. There is also material relating to Mary Cadwalader Jones, Farrand's mother-in-law and the author of Lantern slides (Boston, 1937). Also present are 16 Theodore Roosevelt letters to Max Farrand.

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