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Box 3

 Container

Contains 16 Results:

Correspondence with colleagues regarding binder's tickets, with accompanying album containing a compilation of the binder's ticket images sent to French, 1966-1982

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).

Dates: 1966-1982

Reprints of French's monograph "John Roulstone's Harvard Bindings," with related notes and correspondence, 1967-circa 1980

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

This monograph was originally printed 1970 April, and became chapter 5 of Bookbinding in Early America.

Dates: 1967-circa 1980

New England bookbinders' wills and inventories, notes and documents from the Suffolk County Court, 1967

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).

Dates: 1967

List of early American newspapers and genealogical publications for sale, 1967

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).

Dates: 1967

French's lectures: Radcliffe presentation, 1968

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).

Dates: 1968

Connecticut Historical Society correspondence and research regarding Israel Johnson, 1968-1969

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).

Dates: 1968-1969

Correspondence regarding Fredick August Mayo bindings, 1969-1979

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Specifically regarding the 1823 Renouard edition of Ciciero, the 1778 edition of Cortes, and the 1818 Seybert.

Dates: 1969-1979

Articles and notes on the bookseller Benjamin Gomez, circa 1969

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).

Dates: circa 1969

French's offprints: Caleb Buglass, Review of Bookbinding in America, and John Roulstone, 1970-1984

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).

Dates: 1970-1984

French's handwritten research notes for Bookbinding in Early America (1 of 2), circa 1970-1985

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

French takes notes on a wide variety of materials, including in used examination booklets, but the booklets have presumably had the used section removed and her notes are all that remain. Booklets appear to be from classes French taught at Simmons College in Boston. Includes rubbings.

Dates: circa 1970-1985