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Edward Francis Coffin, Correspondence, 1912-1915
Contents List
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FOLDER
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CONTENTS
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| 1 |
Notes on collection by
Clarence
S. Brigham
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| 2 |
Miscellaneous items
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Abbott - Ayer
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Barry, Theodore W.
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Bayley - Berkshire
(except Black,
Joseph E.)
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Black, Joseph E.
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Cajori - Conner (except
Clearwater,
Alphonse T.)
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| 8 |
Clearwater, Alphonse
T.
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| 9 |
Flint - Goodspeed
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Green - Hart
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| 11 |
Heartman - Jackson
(except Illinois
State Historical Society)
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Illinois State Historical
Society
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Jamaica, W.I. - Macbeth
(except
Lawrence, Charles H.)
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| 14-15 |
Lawrence, Charles H.
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Macmurphy - Malkan
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Manning, James H.
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Meserve - Morison
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Naval - Paine
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Pattison - Rehnee
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Rhode Island - Shays
(except
Ryder, D. G. H.)
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Ryder, D. G. H.
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Smith, George D.
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Steele - United
States
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Whittaker - Worcester
(except
Widmer, Frederick T.)
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Widmer, Frederick T. |
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| Edward Francis Coffin (1873-1949) was born in
Nashua, N.H., and died in Worcester,
Mass. He graduated from Wesleyan University in
1895 and
joined his father's Worcester firm, E. W. Coffin
Company,
which sold store fixtures. Coffin was also a
successful
book dealer. He was Secretary of the Worcester
Historical
Society, and gave many pamphlets, rare books, and
manuscripts
to the American Antiquarian Society.
This collection of correspondence, which is
arranged
alphabetically, deals exclusively with Coffin's
book
dealership from 1912 to 1915. Coffin
corresponded with
many well-known book dealers and autograph
dealers,
including Walter Romeyn Benjamin (1854-1943),
Patrick
Kevin Foley (1856-1937), Harriette Merrifield
Forbes
(1856-1951), Charles Eliot Goodspeed
(1867-1950), Stanislaus
Vincent Henkels (1854-1926), and James Hilton
Manning
(1854-1925). The subjects of the letters include
the
buying and selling of rare books and
manuscripts, autograph
letters, early Italian Art Prints, miniatures,
U.S.
stamps, antique silver and plate,
daguerreotypes, and
etc. Copies of autograph letters being discussed
are
sometimes included.
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