John Gideon Wilson Correspondence
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 619 letters written to John Gideon Wilson by American and British authors, publishers, and clients regarding both the buying and selling of books as well as personal matters.
Dates
- 1893-1959
- Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1968
Creator
- Wilson, John Giedon (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Items in this collection may be subject to copyright restrictions. In most cases, the Boston Public Library does not hold the copyright to the items in our collections. It is the sole responsibility of the user to make their own determination about what types of usage might be permissible under U.S. and international copyright law.
Biographical / Historical
John Gideon Wilson (1876-1963) was chairman and managing director of J. & E. Bumpus, Ltd. Bookshop on Oxford Street in London between 1941-1959.
Extent
619.00 Items
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
Method of Acquisition
Purchased from Winifred A. Myers in 1968.
Processing Information
Finding aid written by Rare Books and Manuscripts Department staff.
Processing Information
This electronic finding aid is transcribed from legacy data. In many cases, transcriptions were not verified against collection materials at the time of transcription. As a result, this finding aid could be incomplete and might only reflect a partial understanding of the material.
Statement on harmful description
Archival description reflects the biases of time periods and cultures in which it was created and may include direct quotations or descriptions that use inappropriate or harmful language. Creator provided descriptions may be maintained in order to preserve the context in which the collection was created and/or used. Legacy description and potentially offensive content may be made available online until a collection can be reprocessed because the access that they provide to primary source materials is uniquely valuable to the research community at large. Our efforts to repair outdated descriptions and to describe our collections more equitably are iterative and ongoing.
- American Authors — Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Booksellers and bookselling Subject Source: Local sources
- Novelists, English — 20th Century — Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- John Gideon Wilson Correspondence
- Date
- 09/12/2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2013-06: Updated by Bethany Hersh, June 2013.
About this library
Part of the Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections Repository