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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 42 pages. Illustrated. Diana Bloomfield "A Fearful Joy Transcript of a Talk about Wood-Engraving with Particular Reference to Bookplates" / P H Muir "The Making Of Maigret" /Louis Ginsberh "An Open Letter To A Beginner Bookseller" / Rigby "The Foulis Archive Press" / J Fischer Feldmann "A Brewhouse Press Exhibition In America". …

Present in the archive is the extremely rare privately printed original screenplay written by H.G. Wells for the film Things To Come entitled at this working stage - Whither Mankind? Most films scripts of the period are simple mimeographed pieces. Wells went and had his script typeset by a printer and printed like a book in a tiny quantity: ÒThis is the property of Mr. H.G. Wells.PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL.FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY.Ó Bound in plain green wrappers. Laid in is an Autograph Letter Signed from H.G. Wells to the film director of Things To Come, William Cameron Menzies, in which he tries to take Menzies to account and assert his control over the film: ÒPrivate and Confidential. Oct. 9. 34. Dear Menzies. This is all wrong. Get it in full perspective. This is an HG WELLS film!!!! And your highest and best is needed for the complete realization of MY treatment. Bless you. The very casting of Ômachines to the design of Mr. MenziesÕ will be a casting out. Again bless you, H.G.Ó Accompanied by a remarkable detailed pencil quarto size Autograph Letter Signed H.G. Wells written to actor Raymond Massey, the lead star of Things To Come. Wells's obsession with exerting his desires are well shown in the letter where Wells takes Massey to task on aspects of his performance in a key scene with Ralph Richardson telling him that it should be re-shot and Wells has drawn 4 pencil sketches showing how he thinks the scene should be filmed. This letter was then given by Massey to director Menzies. Additionally, present is a typed carbon copy of a letter to H.G. Wells from actor Ralph Richardson who played the role of The Boss in the film. Apparently, Wells was unhappy with Richardson's performance as well and Richardson in the letter suggests it can be improved by reshooting and that Wells should speak to Menzies as director. This carbon was sent on to Menzies to give him a heads up. And there are four original black and white still photographs from the film including a terrific image of H.G. Wells on the set with actors Raymond Massey and Ann Pearl Argyle in their futurist costumes. All the material is in very good to fine condition enclosed in a custom morocco and cloth clamshell box. Things To Come was the first great science fiction picture in the sound film era and its treatment approach and stunning design has influenced generations of motion pictures.…

Archive of 7 letters totaling 18 pages spanning the years 1845-1900. The letters detail the administration of women's seminaries during a time when these institutes were being created to offer educational opportunities for female students as they prepared to become teachers. One admissions letter addressed to the father of two students reads, "Dear Sir, I am happy to inform you that your daughters can be admitted to the Seminary agreeably to your request. And that rooms will be selected and and reserved for them. The next term will commence on Thursday the 15th." In a series of letters written between teachers, cheerful complaints are detailed, " I like teaching very well, though I think I have found more pleasure in studying. I like it so long as I can keep my class interested. Sometime I can easily do this, at other times I find it more difficult then it is that I get discouraged, and think that it would be easier for me to learn a lesson and recite it myself than to see that a half dozen mischievous girls get theirs." During the mid-nineteenth century female seminaries were a cultural phenomenon succeeded the family-like environment of boarding schools to be structured more like men's colleges. The development of the female intellect was seen as a responsibility, one educators took seriously. In one somewhat humorous letter on the rigor of examinations, a professor writes "I have been more busily engaged than even you can imagine. I took it into my head to get up a semi-annual Examination which draws heavily upon my time and energies and to cap the whole I narrowly escaped the loss of one of my eyes. A piece of red hot burning coal few into it." A letter written from a professor to student reveals the mentorship fostered in these institutions, "Dear Madam, I am entering your name as a candidate for the Classical Scholarship. The examination will take place on Wednesday, Thursday & Friday the 14th, 15th, & 16th of March at Newnham College. You will have to come to Cambridge on Tuesday probably in time to read for the examination on Wednesday morning, but most likely you will ? & leave on Friday afternoon. If you would like us to arrange for board and lodging for you please let us know. It will cost you 3 / b per night." The seminaries were private institutions without public funding, so finding donors was imperative. In one letter, a John P.LeRoy writes to a friend asking for such an investment, "Mr. Boyd of the Monroe Female Seminary said that if you could furnish capital enough he did not know but he would like to take you as a partner in his school but as I supposed from what he intended that he would want a partner with some three thousand dollars at least to invest." In a letter written by one headmaster after being let go from his position, the administrative structure of the seminary is alluded to, "I regard the action of the Committee as neither just, kind, nor courteous.Up to the meeting of the Comm. In May, I had never received any intimation that the Comm. or the patrons of the school were dissatisfied with my administration." And in one snapshot of student life during a measles outbreak in Ohio, dated 1873, a student writes to her mother, "I thought I would write and ask you if I have ever had the Measles as we have them in school now. If I have not I don't want to have them here. One of the girls is going home Saturday. She is exposed and has never had them & she is going home to have them. This is a mighty poor place to get sick. I never thought the Measles ended in such serious things as they do sometimes, that is if you get cold. The girls were talking about the different way in which they effect persons. The mumps are raging too." These letters give a unique portrait of the administrative obstacles and successes across a small set of female seminaries during these institutions burgeoning years.…

U.S. Navy correspondence, 1904 to 1907, of Gilbert Harold Kelly, documenting enlisted life aboard the newly commissioned armored cruiser U.S.S. Maryland during the expansion of American naval power after the Spanish American War. The letters document his movement from the recently established base at Guantánamo and Atlantic Fleet maneuvers through Naval Militia training ,to the ship's transfer to the Asiatic Station amid continuing American rule in the Philippines, unrest in China, and the altered Pacific balance following the Russo Japanese War. One letter documents Kelly's 1905 scarlet fever infection in a letter from the hospital to his mother saying that her son was "seriously ill at this hospital with Scarlet fever," with a later follow up "now out of danger, improving." Other letters include Kelly's perception of the status divide between regular sailors and the Massachusetts Naval Reserves, explaining that the reserves were "to the Navy what the State Militia is to the Army" before adding, "We Real Sailors don't like to have much to do with Naval Reserves." An undated letter written before the ship's eastward deployment describes "coaling ship and getting in stores preparatory to our China trip," an enlisted sailor's formulation for the deployment that carried Maryland through Mediterranean ports toward the Asiatic Station. Correspondence archive of 10 handwritten and typed letters, 16 leaves with 25 pages written, chiefly 1904 to 1907, sent from U.S. Navy stations and U.S.S. Maryland to Mount Gilead, Ohio. Kelly writes from Gardiners Bay, Provincetown, Guantanamo Bay, Palermo, Honolulu, and at sea, describing naval work and the routines surrounding it with unusual specificity. At Provincetown he reports that Maryland had come "to standardize our propellers on the Government course," while at Guantanamo he records fishing and sailing parties, boat and swimming races, a smoker on the forecastle, and a fleet water carnival judged by three admirals in which Pennsylvania took first prize and Maryland second. "The Maryland gave a continuous vaudeville show," he writes, describing a stage rigged across two boats, towed by a steam launch, with the ship's band and sailors dressed as sideshow performers. His Mediterranean correspondence records liberty in Palermo, the city's catacombs and architecture, and the commercial attention drawn by American crews: "Of course the Americans are spotted for easy marks and the price take a raise at sight of the U.S. ships." He then places the squadron in motion with the concise report that "the Colorado is with us, while the W.V. and Pennsy are at Naples" and that the ships would meet the flagship at Piraeus, Greece. By September 1907 Kelly was writing from Honolulu after leaving Yokohama, explaining the International Date Line to his mother and calling the passage "the longest cruise we have ever taken, 3,500 miles without a stop," during which "Not a single ship was sighted during the entire trip." Several envelopes retain stamps, naval and civilian cancellations, and addresses to Mrs. B. C. Kelly at Mount Gilead; the Naval Hospital correspondence instead names Lina S. Kelly, preserving two forms of address within the family papers. Kelly's correspondence follows U.S.S. Maryland through the overseas naval network created in the aftermath of the Spanish American War, from maneuvers at the recently established Guantánamo station to the ship's 1906 transfer to the Asiatic Station and passage across the Pacific. The U.S.S. Maryland, a 13,680 ton Pennsylvania class armored cruiser commissioned on April 18, 1905 under Captain Royal R. Ingersoll, entered the Atlantic Fleet that October, participated in the 1906 winter maneuvers off Cuba, and carried Massachusetts Naval Militiamen on a summer training cruise before preparing for transfer to the Pacific and Asiatic Station. Kelly's letters supply the enlisted perspective behind that chronology, moving from technical trials and reserve training to Guantánamo fleet culture and the squadron's passage east. A contemporary State Department report confirms Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Colorado together in the Bay of Phaleron on October 2, 1906 and records their departure "for the East" four days later, closely matching Kelly's Palermo account and his reference to meeting the flagship at Piraeus. The scarlet fever notices belong to an earlier and more precarious stage of his service: federal mortality statistics for 1905 recorded a scarlet fever death rate of 6.8 per 100,000 within the national registration area, giving the hospital's promise to telegraph Lina Kelly if her son became critical a contemporary medical gravity absent from later antibiotic era experience. Fold creases throughout, light to moderate toning and scattered soiling, with small paper losses to several sheets and postal covers; envelopes show expected opening and age wear. Letters remain clear and legible. Overall in very good condition.…

Large archive comprising approximately 175 handwritten and typed letters addressed to Glorian Duvall Devereux of Shelter Island, New York, during her enrollment at Lasell Seminary School (now Lasell University) in Newton, Massachusetts, in the academic years 1926-1927. Founded in 1851 as a women's seminary and established as a prominent New England finishing school, Lasell provided young women from socially established families with an education shaped by contemporary expectations concerning class, femininity, and social conduct. The correspondence comes from a geographically dispersed network of female classmates and friends and numerous male correspondents, with letters originating in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, South Carolina, and Connecticut. Taken together, the archive provides a sustained, name-level record of white upper- and middle-class youth culture in the late 1920s, documenting friendships, education, romance, mobility, social expectations, and the negotiation of gender and reputation. The letters capture the friction between the expanding social freedoms associated with the Jazz Age and the highly regulated environment of women's education. Devereux refers to Lasell ironically as the "cemetery," a characterization echoed by correspondents who contrast her restricted routine with the greater independence associated with male collegiate life. One Amherst fraternity member describes Lasell's stated objective of producing "model and educated ladies" while recounting fraternity hazing rituals that underscore the differing expectations placed upon male and female students. Female correspondents write of returning reluctantly to school and express desires for travel, romance, independence, and a life beyond institutional supervision, while male correspondents write openly of attraction, jealousy, courtship, and possessiveness. The letters consequently document the gendered conventions governing emotional expression and social behavior: men asserting initiative and mobility, while women negotiated intimacy and personal choice within the constraints of reputation and propriety. Written only two years before the stock-market crash of 1929, the correspondence preserves the social assumptions and aspirations of a generation immediately before the economic upheaval of the Great Depression. The archive is accompanied by two small photographs, a Valentine, business cards, and two pamphlets, providing additional material evidence of the correspondents and their social world. The letters are generally in very good or better condition, with moderate age toning, occasional small edge tears from opening, and folds and minor creasing consistent with mailing. The photographs show light silvering at the edges but retain clear images; the pamphlets have light wear at the extremities. A substantial and cohesive primary-source archive for the study of women's education, courtship, gender norms, and privileged youth culture in the United States during the final years of the 1920s.…