letter archive (5 risultati)

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".

Collection of over 30 letters, many with original envelopes and stamps, a few empty envelopes, letters folded, some staining, soiling and aging, a few tears at folds; generally very legible. This collection of letters belonged to Bernard Jordan who lived in Maine. A few different addresses in Maine, but the 1940 Census shows him living in Raymond, Cumberland, Maine, which is the address on many of the letters. While the archive spans many years, most of the letters are from the 1920s or earlier. Oddly, last item in the group is a phone bill from 1962. Most of the content is family related, and a letter from June 6, 1914 wishes him happy eighteenth birthday. The lot includes one postcard.

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.

Large archive of personal correspondence (1926-1927) documenting the student years of Glorian Duvall Devereux of Shelter Island, New York, offers concentrated evidence of women's finishing-school education, courtship, and upper- and middle-class white youth culture immediately preceding the Great Depression. Created during Devereux's enrollment at Lasell Seminary School in Newton, Massachusetts, the letters record the lived experience of a women's seminary founded in 1851 to educate socially established young women within carefully supervised moral and social boundaries. Correspondence from female classmates and friends and from numerous male admirers across Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, South Carolina, and Connecticut forms a geographically wide but socially cohesive network. The archive provides name-level documentation of how femininity, respectability, mobility, and heterosexual pairing were negotiated within the institutional structure of a New England finishing school during the late Jazz Age. Archive comprises approximately 175 handwritten and typed letters addressed to Glorian Duvall Devereux, dating from 1926 to 1927, accompanied by two small photographs, one Valentine, several business cards, and two pamphlets. Letters are written on personal and collegiate stationery and postmarked from multiple states, reflecting an interregional social circle tied to collegiate and fraternity life as well as to women's seminary education. Content centers on daily routine, academic life, social restrictions, romantic attachment, jealousy, fraternity culture, and anxieties about reputation. Devereux refers to Lasell ironically as the "cemetery," language echoed by correspondents who contrast her regulated environment with male collegiate autonomy. One Amherst fraternity member describes Lasell's institutional goal of producing "model and educated ladies" while recounting fraternity hazing practices, underscoring asymmetrical gender expectations. Female correspondents express reluctance about returning to school and frustration with confinement, while male writers assert emotional initiative and social mobility. Together the materials document gendered performance, courtship etiquette, and the social vocabulary of privilege among white American youth in the final years of national economic expansion. Produced two years before the financial collapse of 1929, the archive preserves the assumptions of stability and class continuity that characterized elite youth culture on the eve of economic dislocation. The letters situate women's education within broader systems of surveillance, marriage expectation, and family reputation that structured inter war gender formation. The enclosed photographs and ephemera deepen the evidentiary value of the correspondence by linking text to image and material culture. Moderate age toning throughout; occasional small edge tears from opening; folds and minor creases consistent with mailing; photographs with light silvering at edges but images remain clear; pamphlets lightly worn at extremities. Overall very good condition. A cohesive and substantial body of primary material documenting institutional women's education, regional courtship networks, and gendered social constraint in the final years before the Great Depression reshaped American youth culture and class security.