The archives are comprised of approximately of 1,120 items, specifically 400 flyer advertisements and approximately 654 letters / enclosures from 224 authors. The correspondence includes letters and exchanges with many authors, illustrators, historians, clergy, politicians, explorers, and educators. Included in the correspondence are many letters written by Archer Butler Hulbert regarding the company's first publication, a 16-volume collection on historical trails in the United States east of the Mississippi.

Established in 1902 in Cleveland and named for its founder Arthur Henry Clark (1868-1951), the Arthur H. Clark Company was a major publisher of books on the history of western United States. For three generations the company was a leader in its field, and received numerous awards for its work, including the Pulitzer Prize for American History. Born and raised in England, Clark attended the University of Oxford and then began an apprenticeship with the publishing house of Henry Southern & Company. After completing his apprenticeship, he moved to Chicago, where he took a job in the publishing house of A.C. McClurg and Company. In 1892 Clark established his own bookstore in Chicago. He was then recruited by Burrows Brothers of Cleveland, where he became manager of their rare book sales. In 1930 the company headquarters were relocated to Glendale, California. In July 2006, the company was acquired by the University of Oklahoma Press and relocated to Norman, Oklahoma, where it continues as an imprint...   Click for more information and photos;

Sally Benson was an American screenwriter and short story author, best known for her semi-autobiographical stories collected including the creator of Judy Graves, the awkward, ungainly yet curiously appealing adolescent heroine of the "Junior Miss" stories in The New Yorker and "Meet Me in St. Louis," published in 1942, which comprised pleasant fragments about a year in the life of a family of St. Louis. Hollywood made it into a popular musical in which Judy Garland sang "The Trolley Song."

The collection consists of 21 items dating from 1942 to 1949, specifically, 12 letters from her husband, 3 photos, 1 film script, 2 pieces of sheet music, 2 lobby cards, and 1 press kit for a movie....   Click for more information and photos;

1814. London, Thomas Lovewell & Co

First edition. 2 volumes in 1. xii, 273pp. & viii, 264pp. 8"x4". Rebound in 19th century half brown calf and black cloth, raised spine bands, ruled, titled, and decorated top edge in gilt. In attractive period rebinding with modest rubbing and a soil spot to bottom spine; two bookplates and one label with a poem affixed to front endpapers...Occasional foxing else very good+.

Two Bookplates. One of William Whateley Q.C., the treasurer of the Inner Temple, and  the other of Alfred Heacock Whittaker who wrote "Occupational Health in America" in 1962 with Henry B. Selleck...  Click for more information and photos;

1881. Boston, Hall and Whiting

6-3/4 x 4-1/4 inches, (6), [7]-356, [357]-376 appendix) Rebacked, red cloth with gilt title and elaborate black decorations with very minor wrinkling of cloth on back cover, new endpapers and one illustration as fronticepiece. Insides clean. Overall very good condition... Click for more information and photos;

 

4-1/2 x 7 inches, was folded to 4-1/2 x 1-3/4 inches to fit in envelope included with this letter. Autograph letter signed. Very good condition. Four pages, Undated.[but 1847]. To fellow author, Anna Maria Hall (1800-1881) an Irish novelist who often published as "Mrs. S. C. Hall". It reads: "I am sorry that when you made your arrangements you did not let me know, as I really matched a day  ...  Click for more information and photos;

6-1/2 x 8 inches unpaginated. New red leather spine with gilt type and new endpapers. Over 70 pages with one and up to 10 signatures per page - over 200 signatures. An autograph book covering over 50 years from 1894 to 1947. Very good condition.
 
Numerous signatures, remembrances, comments predominately by ranking officials in the Church. Interesting entries from Bishops, Archdeacons, and many others from all over the world including Asia, Africa, New Guinea and many other fascinating origins, in excess of 200  signatures. A number of loose autographs, notes and newspaper clippings throughout are also included....   Click for more information and photos;

COLIN CAMPBELL WAS LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF NOVA SCOTIA 1834-40

4 page holograph letter dated Portsmouth 3rd Dec 1828. 9-1/2 x 7-1/4 inches flat and 4-3/4 x 7-1/4 folded.
A most interesting letter from Major General Sir Colin Campbell while stationed as the Governor of Portsmouth, London (Portchester Castle) to William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington.
Apparently General Campbell in a recent previous note to W.L.Wellesley responding with Campbell...   Click for more information and photos; 

Two photos, one scrap book plus Robinson newspaper clipping note. sent to him  Original photograph, 6.25 x 8.25 inches. Signed on verso: "With all the Season's best Greetings, Yours very affectionately, C. Blackett Robinson. Xmas 1907". Photo by the studio of W. Notman & Son, Montreal. Christopher Blackett Robinson was a Pioneer Canadian publisher, writer and editor.
 ...   Click for more information and photos;

First US edition. Folded multi-panel promotional brochure meant for mailing (folded size 11 inches long and 3-1/2 inches wide). With orange, blue, and black poster cover with photographs showing scenes from the movie with text as follows:  Coming To This Theater. (This Is An Exact Reproduction Of Window Card).  The Norman Film Studios . Presents Black Gold.  Thrilling Epic Of The Oil Fields With All Colored Cast.  One Of The True Stories Of Living Colored Examples.  A Smashing Photo-Play Co-Starring Lawrence Criner and Kathryn Boyd, Original Lafayette Players. Steve Reynolds, "Peg" [,]  Alfred Norcom, United States Marshal, L.B. Tatums and The Entire City Of  Tatums, Okla.
 ...  Click for more information and photos;