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A letter from the New Hampshire State Library, 1898

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Here is a typed, hand-signed letter from Arthur H. Chase, Librarian at the   New Hampshire State Library , in Concord, NH in 1898.   The library letterhead includes a nice image of what the building looked like at that time. I found recent images of the library at the Web site for Meridian Construction , who did an extensive renovation on the building in 2009. The Web site included photos, as well as text, to document the changes. You'll notice that the upper-floor tower has been removed, but that may have happened well before the recent renovation project. Of Arthur H. Chase, I have very little information. His name pops up numerous times in Internet searches, but usually associated with library bulletins and reports that are in the archives. So even though there's not a lot to write about, I just liked this letter for its design (color and illustration) and origin. New Hampshire figures prominently in my family history. And it appears that family history was the su...

Ephemera from Sunny Intervals

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A nice, second-hand bookstore find three years go introduced me to a passionate bookman and popular Dartmouth professor of literature: Herbert Faulkner West. I wrote about it then on the Archaeolibris blog (pre-Bibliophemera), and have modified that piece for its fitting inclusion on this blog. The book I found is SUNNY INTERVALS: A Bookman's Miscellanea, London / San Francisco / Hanover , by Herbert Faulkner West (Westholm Publications, 1972), signed and numbered by the author in a limited edition of 400 copies. A serendipitous find, this book also had several pieces of ephemera laid in years ago by the previous owner (to whom I am very grateful!). Among the small cache of paper was a letter from the author, as well as correspondence from the book's previous owner, relating items about the author. There were several newspaper articles about West's death (1974) and long career in education as well as a thank you note from the Howe Library in Hanover, New Hampshire, regar...