Box 3

The collection consists of correspondence with Daniel Berkeley Updike, correspondence between others related to Updike’s work as well as essays and manuscripts by Updike. The bulk of the collection includes correspondence between Updike and others related to his printing work and book collecting. While some of the letters are with his close peers and friends, the letters are not personal in nature.

Letter from Baring to Lewis David Einstein thanking him for sending draft of Leonardo DaVinci’s “Thoughts on Art and Life”. (1 item)

Correspondence, bills and price estimates related to commission of Benson to create a sign for Merrymount Press and for a calendar illustration. (10 items)

Correspondence between Daniel Bianchi and Providence Public Library librarians. (17 items)

Correspondence between Bianchi, on behalf of Merrymount Press, and John Howard Benson regarding various projects. (6 items)

Bianchi, on behalf of Merrymount Press, to A. Graham Carey regarding the publication of The Elements of Lettering. (3 items)

Letters from Bianchi to Raymond J. Holden regarding illustration for The Flowering of New England. (7 items)

Correspondence and manuscript of Foster related to Updike’s materials at the Providence Public Library. Items of note include a loan of autographs to North Kingstown Public Library, a loan agreement with the Colonial Dames of America regarding a Stephen Hopkins autograph and an inventory of Updike’s donation of autograph collection. Includes letter from George Parker Winship regarding the formation of the printing collection at PPL and its relationship to Brown University libraries.

Garnett to Edward O’Day of Town Talk regarding an article they had published about him. (1 item)

James to Riverside Press, Cambridge regarding the printing of his “lecture on mysticism”. (1 item)