Benson, John Howard, 1930-07 - 1930-12, 1930
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Updike and Benson regarding the commission of an altarpiece for St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Wickford RI as well as Nathaniel Thayer room built by Ruth Simpkins Thayer. Also included is a memorandum by Updike concerning the altarpiece and a sketch of letting for it by Benson. Letter from Aug. 1, 1930 includes a list of Spanish bookdealers. Letter from Oct. 27, 1930 concerns Bickham’s The Universal Penman (1743). (22 items)
Dates
- 1930-07 - 1930-12
- 1930
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open under the rules and regulations of the Providence Public Library, Special Collections department.
Creator
- From the File: Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941 (Person)
- From the File: Benson, John Howard, 1901-1956 (Person)
- From the File: Bianchi, John, 1874- (Person)
- From the File: Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962 (Person)
- From the File: De Vinne, Theodore Low (Theodore Low), 1828-1914 (Person)
- From the File: Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison), 1880-1956 (Person)
- From the File: Farrand, Max, 1869-1945 (Person)
- From the File: Foster, William E. (William Eaton), 1851-1930 (Person)
- From the File: Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947 (Person)
- From the File: Holden, R. J. (Raymond J.), 1901- (Person)
- From the File: Horne, Herbert P. (Herbert Percy), 1864-1916 (Person)
- From the File: Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925 (Person)
- From the File: Miller, William Davis, 1887-1959 (Person)
- From the File: Nash, Ray, 1905-1982 (Person)
- From the File: Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 (Person)
- From the File: Rogers, Bruce (Albert Bruce), 1870-1957 (Person)
- From the File: Ruzicka, Rudolph, 1883-1978 (Person)
- From the File: Smith, Julian Pearce (Person)
- From the File: Sherman, Clarence Edgar, 1887 (Person)
- From the File: Smith, Julian Pearce (Person)
- From the File: Walker, Emery, 1851-1933 (Person)
- From the File: Wharton, Edith (Edith Newbold Jones), 1862-1937 (Person)
- From the File: Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952 (Person)
- From the File: Morison, Stanley (Stanley Arthur), 1889-1967 (Person)
- From the File: Sherman, Stuart C. (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Providence Public Library Repository
Contact:
150 Empire Street
Providence RI 02903 United States of America
401-455-8021
special_collections@provlib.org
150 Empire Street
Providence RI 02903 United States of America
401-455-8021
special_collections@provlib.org