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George Henry Carter Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS-MS-ms024

Scope and Contents Three scrapbooks covering Carter’s trip to the International Congress of Master Printers in Gothenburg Sweden, June 4, 1923, and his subsequent travel in England, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Monaco, and Belgium. Correspondence relates to the purpose and results of the International Congress of Master Printers, government reimbursement for trip expenses, travel plans, personal observations, daily affairs of the Government Printing Office,...

Found in: Manuscripts

Cartographic Manuscript Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms140

Scope and Contents Consists of maps or engravings by Theodore de Bry, John Ogilby, Phillip Baldeeus, Jean Baptiste B. d'Anville, Jean Barbault, Jacques Nicholas Bellin, Rigobert Bonne, Frederik Ludvig Norden, Richard Pococke, Robert Sayer, Thomas Stackhouse, Adam Black, Adrien Hubert Brue, John Dower, Geographisches Institut, Victor Levasseur, John Pinkerton, John Thomson, Philippe M.G. van de Maelen, John Carry, Auguste Henri Dufour, Samuel Dunn, William Faden, Thomas Jefferys, Alexander Keith Johnston,...

Found in: Manuscripts

Jan Garden Castro Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms136

Scope and Contents The Jan Garden Castro papers consist primarily of research materials, writings, and correspondence related to Castro's extensive career as a literary and art critic and her roles as a civic arts activist and co-founder/former Executive Director of River Styx literary magazine in Saint Louis, Missouri. Included are numerous original transcripts of Castro's interviews with notable artists and literary figures, as well as typescript drafts, photocopies and clippings of published book and art...

Found in: Manuscripts

Michael Castro Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms151

Scope and Contents The Michael Castro Papers consists of books (estimated 170 volumes) by mostly St. Louis area authors, journals and little magazines, cassette tapes and CD's (estimated 400 items) largely of poetry readings, often by their authors. Also includes are materials from Castro's editorial work and own literary career, ephemeral items including advertisements and posters for local literary events, correspondence including Ira Cohen, John Brandi, Maurice Kenney, Phil Sultz, and Madeline Morningstar...

Found in: Manuscripts

Benjamin Martin Chandler Letter

Collection — Box: VMF 17, Folder: 14

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf205

Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed to "My dear old Chap" from "BM" on stationery of "Hidcote House, Campden, Gloucestershire, [England]." 1 page. The author, Benjamin Chandler, sends his friend a copy of the book 'I fioretti del glorioso poverello di Cristo S. Francesco di Assisi,' an important example of craft printing from the Ashendene Press, saying "This book is in better company in your library than in mine."

Found in: Manuscripts

Guy Patterson Chapman Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-MS-ms025

Scope and Contents The Guy Patterson Chapman Papers consists chiefly of letters from C.K. Scott Moncrieff to Guy Patterson Chapman, 1923-25 and 1929, 19 autograph letters signed, 31 typed letters signed, 3 autograph postcards, 1 typed postcard and 2 typed letters signed [carbon] from Chapman and 2 letters from Lloyd's Bank. Many letters deal with Moncrieff's translation of The Letters of Abelard and Heloise for Chapman. Moncrieff discusses the difficulties of translation, of...

Found in: Manuscripts

Chinese Imperial Edict Scroll

Collection — Box: VMF Chinese Imperial Edict Scroll

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf116

Scope and Contents Nineteenth century Chinese family tree scroll written in Manchu and Mandarin Chinese. Approximately 480 cm x 36 cm. Painted on silk fabric of 5 colors: yellow, white, black, blue, and red, with white borders decorated with dragons. The Chinese and Manchu texts run from right to left, respectively.The scroll describes the various honors bestowed upon a family by the emperor, starting September 18, 1821, when Emperor Daoguang (sixth emperor of the Chʻing dynasty) awards grandfather...

Found in: Manuscripts

C.G.W. Chinser Letter

Collection — Box: VMF 3, Folder: 6

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf026

Scope and Contents

Autograph card signed from Chinser [name uncertain, partially illegible] to R.N. Green-Armytage concerning a book published by Daniel Press which Chinser had obtained for Green-Armytage. The copy obtained is "of ordinary issue" but Chinser says the difference between it and other issues are minor, and notes them. 1 page.

Found in: Manuscripts

Chouteau Family Collection

Collection — Box: VMF 3, Folder: 7

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf027

Scope and Contents Correspondence, 1903 January 9 - 1913 February 3. Correspondants include members of the Chouteau family, Judge Walter B. Douglas, and novelist Winston Churchill, discussing family and business affairs. Autograph letters signed, 8 items.Miscellany, 1883 September 9 - October 1918. Miscellany includes a receipt signed by Henry Chouteau, wedding invitations and calling cards [12 items], newspaper clippings [42 items] and newspaper and book photographs of the Chouteau, Papin, Cabanne...

Found in: Manuscripts

R. Walston Chubb Collection

Collection — Box: VMF 3, Folder: 8

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf028

Scope and Contents

Autograph essay initialed E.B.B., concerning the philosophy of Charles Renouvier, with special reference to the last reflections he dictated to his secretary and follower, L. Prat, in the days just preceding his death. 9 pages.

Found in: Manuscripts

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