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Collection related to Stanley Morison's 60th birthday

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Call Number:
F0989
Repository:
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Extent:
7 item
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
MSS 0099, F0989, Carter, John, compiler., Collection related to Stanley Morison's 60th birthday, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Date:
1949-1968 (inclusive)
Creator:
Carter, John, 1905-1975
Form:
Letters (correspondence) and Envelopes
Abstract:
Collection of six items related to a dinner held at Brown's Hotel on May 6, 1949, to honor Stanley Morison on his 60th birthday. Includes the envelope lettered by Will Carter of Rampant Lions Press, sealed with a large stamped wax seal, bearing John Carter's name, which contained the other items.

Collection of six items related to a dinner held at Brown's Hotel on May 6, 1949, to honor Stanley Morison on his 60th birthday. Includes the envelope lettered by Will Carter of Rampant Lions Press, sealed with a large stamped wax seal, bearing John Carter's name, which contained the other items. The enclosed items include an imitation eighteenth century leather book cover or board on which is stamped in gold S.M., and on the verso is printed the menu for the evening, as well as a prospectus for John Carter's

A Handlist of the Writings of Stanley Morison, Prolegomena and Curriculum Vitae of Stanley Morison, and A Selection of Types Produced by the Monotype Corporation under the Guidance of Stanley Morison. Also included is a note between John Carter and Jake (Blanck?) describing the contents of this envelope.

Box 69, F0989: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.

Purchase, 2014.

Processed and encoded by George Apodaca, February 2016.

This item forms part of MSS 0099 Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

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Publisher
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Finding Aid Date
2016 February 3
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Collection related to Stanley Morison's 60th birthday.
Box 69 Folder F0989

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