Box 3

Correspondence from Rogers. Item of note includes letter to Emily Conner at Marchbanks Press which describes the positive reception of a poem written by Updike and distributed at a dinner in his honor. (3 items)

Letter from Roosevelt to Edith Greenough Wendell comparing Updike’s Tacitus to Livy in the 15th century. (1 item)

Correspondence between Sherman and Paul Standard and a letter from Ray Nash. (4 items)

Correspondence and papers of Smith. Items of note include a letter from William Addison Dwiggins, correspondence and a clipping related to an exhibit of Updike’s work at the Grolier Club, as well as a letter from Max Farrand with an enclosed copy of the bookplate for the Collection of Merrymount Press books at the Huntington Library. (6 items)

Letter from Updegraff to George A. Zabriskie regarding Zabriskie’s gift of his privately printed A Bon Vivant’s Companion. (2 items)

Includes various manuscript materials by Updike as well as items related to his donations to Providence Public Library. Includes addresses, essays, eulogies and inventory lists.

Includes (7 items): eulogy for Susan Dexter; eulogy for Anna Lyman Gray; eulogy for Mary Cadwalader Jones; address in honor of Henry Watson Kent, printed in “Addresses given at the opening of the exhibition of Metropolitan Museum Printing, 24 October 1938”; appreciation of Beatrice Warde, printed in “Bombed but unbeaten”, 1941.; eulogy for Edith Greenough Wendell; essay on Edith Wharton.

Includes various manuscript materials by Updike as well as items related to his donations to Providence Public Library. Includes addresses, essays, eulogies and inventory lists.

“Gutenberg and his relation to printers today”. Speech delivered at 500th anniversary of the invention of printing. “Bruce Rogers and his Lectern Bible” “Lecture on University Presses”, lecture delivered at Harvard University, 1940.

“Address given before the Massachusetts Historical Society" “Recollections of the Athanaeum, 1878 and 1879"