Call Number:

MSS 0148

Repository:

University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Extent:

.6 linear foot (2 boxes)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

MSS 0148, Samuel Loveman correspondence, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

Date:

1911-1976 (inclusive) and 1932-1968 (bulk)

Creator:

Loveman, Samuel, 1887-1976

Form:

Letters (correspondence), Business letters, and Cards (information artifacts)

Abstract:

The Samuel Loveman correspondence consists of letters from various literary figures to American book dealer and publisher, poet, and editor Samuel Loveman (1887-1976).

American book dealer and publisher, poet, and editor Samuel Loveman (b. 1885?–1976) was proprietor of Bodley Book Shop in New York City, and associated with Dauber & Pine Book Shop and Gotham Book Mart.

In partnership with David Mann, as the Bodley Press, he published

Loveman edited the magazines

Loveman died on May 14, 1976.

Bowden, Jane A. (ed.) Contemporary Authors. Volumes 65-68. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1977. p. 372. Biographical information derived from correspondence in the collection.

This collection of letters from various literary figures to American bookseller Samuel Loveman spans from 1911 to 1976, the year of Loveman's death. The letters are chiefly acknowledgments of poems and books received from Loveman; but also include business letters in connection with Loveman's career as a book dealer.

Correspondents include historian Jacques Martin Barzun, author James Branch Cabell, composer Vernon Duke, novelist Waldo Frank, chemist and author John Uri Lloyd, columnist Benjamin DeCasseres, poet Robert Loveman, and artist Prentiss Taylor.

Some of the letters include enclosures, such as photographs, clippings, offprints of articles, several pamphlets, typescript excerpts from articles or books, and one pen and ink drawing by Prentiss Taylor.

The Prentiss Taylor folder (F35) also includes several Christmas/New Year's cards designed by Taylor. In addition, three photographs of Taylor, two of which were taken by noted photographer Carl Van Vechten, were also enclosed in Taylor's letters to Loveman.

A photograph of Cosima and Siegfried Wagner was enclosed in a letter from Wellington Sloane to Loveman.

The approximately 150 items in this collection are arranged alphabetically by correspondent, then chronologically.