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Invoices and Correspondence – B (3 of 3), 1930-1939

 File — Folder: 0116.02, Folder: 05

Scope and Contents

Philip Brooks to Robert Honeyman 1930 April 7 re: left Brick Row Book Shop on friendly terms mentions “Paradise Lost” and “Regained” 1930 May 10 re: possible return of a set of Clarendon and a set of Drake 1930 July 21 re: previous 1930 August 1 re: Crozier, Falls, Du Maurier, Dana, Tarkington 1930 August 14 re: Melville “The Whale” 3 volumes 1st ed 1930 September 22 re: Wegelin, Lawrence “Lady Chatterly’s Lover,” Alcott Dana “Two Years Before the Mast” Mitchell “Reveries of a Bachelor” 1930 September 22 re: “The Decameron,” 1620 1930 October 24 re: Newton “Tourist in Spite of Himself,” West “Elegy” Spears “Liaison: 1914” Morley “Parnassus on Wheels” Huxley “Evidence Of Man’s Place in Nature” Proust “A La Recherche du Temps Perdu” 1930 October 28 re: “Two years Before the Mast” 1930 October 29 re: Moore “A Visit from St. Nicholas” Thompson “Green Mountain Boys” Hume “History of England” 1930 October 31 re: Burgess, Byrne, Kemble, Longfellow, McCrae, Norris 1930 November 14 re: Original pen and ink drawings for The Canterbury Tales by Rockwell Kent 1930 November 19 – December 3 re: American authors 1930 December 4 re: Crane “Maggie” 1st ed. 1930 December 8 re: Curll, Lone, Chadwick, Hawthorne, Ward, Paulding, Voltaire 1930 December 17 re: Lawrence “White Peacock” Hood, Northcote, Priestley, Dana, Trollope, Palgrave 1930 December 23 re: Shaw, Lawrence, Twain 1931 January 6 re: Aristophanes (In Greek), Thucydides (In Latin) (note says “Literature given to Lehigh”) 1931 February 2 re: Bullen, Cruise of the Cachalot, Darwin’s first book, Priestley The Agricola, Boethius Arithmetica, Kepler, Moxon, Tales of a Wayside Inn 1931 March 2 re: plans for a scientific library 1931 April 11 re: American authors 1931 June 8 re: purchase of autographed letters: Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Rene Reaumur 1932 April 22 list of to purchase at Fletcher sale 1932 May 10 re: purchases: Hope and Kennedy “Complete Course for Commercial Flying Licence,” Wise “A Pope Library,” Marx “Manifesto”,Adams “The Education.” Dumas “Les Trois Mousquetaires” 1932 May 14 re: query about science books Huygens “Systema Saturnium” and four page list of scientific books 1932 June 21 to purchase Pascal “Pensees” and Hugo “Les Miserables” 1932 June 29 re: Trollope “Barchester Towers” 1932 July 8 re: Brown “Alcuin” 1932 October 28 re: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1771 1932 December 8 to purchase Browning “Sonnets” Harte “Deacon Jones’ Experience” Morley “The Eighth Sin” 1936 July 14 re: J.F. Cooper “The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish” 1936 October 20 re: Cotta, Berkeley, H.F. West, I.R. Brussel, A.E. Newton 1937 April 29 re: Cortes “Praeclara de Nova Maris Oceani Hyspania Narratio” 1937 May 7 re: Porter “Thaddeus of Warsaw” 1937 November 15 re: Harte “M’liss” J. Webster “The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy” 1938 September 13 re: Florence Nightingale “Notes on Nursing” 1939 April 6 re Cortes “De Insulis Nuper Inventis” 1939 July 6 re: Darwin “Journal of Researches into Natural History during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle” Pope “An Essay on Man”

Dates

  • Creation: 1930-1939

Creator

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English

Conditions Governing Access

Collection housed remotely. Users need to contact 24 hours in advance.

Extent

From the Collection: 1.6 Linear Feet (3 Boxes)

Repository Details

Part of the Lehigh University Special Collections Repository

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