DeWitt & Snelling Letter
A description of the letter at Syracuse University
Finding aid created by: LMD
Date: 8 Mar 2010
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Finding aid created by: LMD
Date: 8 Mar 2010
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Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | DeWitt & Snelling |
| Title: | DeWitt & Snelling Letter |
| Dates: | 1911 |
| Quantity: | 1 folder (SC) |
| Abstract: | Letter sent by DeWitt & Snelling, booksellers, concerning their publication of Mark Twain's Letter to the California Pioneers. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
DeWitt & Snelling was a bookseller and occasional-publisher in Oakland, California. The company was owned by James F. Snelling and Frederic M. DeWitt.
The DeWitt & Snelling Letter is a handwritten letter dated 1 Aug 1911 and addressed to Merle Johnson of Douglaston, New York. In the letter, DeWitt and Snelling request information about Mark Twain's Letter to the California Pioneers, which Johnson held in his private collection. Johnson was a book collector interested in Twain memorabilia. DeWitt & Snelling were planning to publish a version of Twain's letter in 1911, and needed to ask Johnson a bibliographic question about it.
Single item.
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Special Collections Research Center holds other collections related to Twain, including the Mark Twain Collection and the Cyril Clemens Papers.
Persons
DeWitt, Frederic M.
Johnson, Merle De Vore, 1874-1935.
Snelling, James F.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. -- Letter to the California pioneers.
Corporate Bodies
DeWitt & Snelling.
Subjects
Book collectors -- United States.
Places
Douglaston (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
Oakland (Calif.) -- History.
Genres and Forms
Correspondence.
Occupations
Booksellers and bookselling.
Publishers and publishing.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
DeWitt & Snelling Letter,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Correspondence
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| SC 405 | 1911 | ||||||||||