Harvard University -- Diplomas
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Daniel Berkeley Updike correspondence
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 004-02-01
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1878-1959
Large folio scrapbook titled "Recueil d'Essai Typographique etc. etc. etc. - Chiefly from the Collection of Antoine Augustin Renouard - Paris"
Item
Scope and Contents
Text of typed Index pasted into verso of front flyleaf:
Gazette Nationale. Jan. 4, 1793. Second year of the Republic. This newspaper which was printed by the government contains a record of the acts of the National Convention and the Defence of Louis XVI. It is interesting typographically because it is supposed to beve been printed from the characters of Baskerville which were purchased by Beaumarchais for his edition of the works of Voltaire. (The gift of Ralph Straus, author...
Dates:
approximately 1793-1950