Anonymous / Columbia College / Melvil Dewey, Early library handwriting postcard, back, Feb 7 1887

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Anonymous / Columbia College / Melvil Dewey, Early library handwriting postcard, back, Feb 7 1887


The Library has received from you
Thirty-eighth Annual
Report of the Trustees of the Astor
Library for 1886.
a gift for which grateful acknowledgement is made.
The gift itself, with its label, our records and our next
report will permanently witness your interest and our
appreciation. Will you not again remember us whenever
you can send any book or pamphlet?
Madison Av. and 49th St.
New York.
Melvil Dewey
Chief Librarian
7 F '87

Writer / Assigned to / Related to

Melvil Dewey
Caroline (Carrie) F. Pierce
Melvil Dewey is not presumed to be the writer of this, but it is a style often assigned to him. The initial letterforms are said to have been designed by Caroline (Carrie) F. Pierce.

See the article written on the topic of library handwriting and its origins. [[1]]

Date written
February 7, 1887
Paper
cm x cm in x in
Pen
black
Penmanship Style
early library handwriting
Collection
Astor Library records collection, R. G. 1, Box 37, General Correspondence 1887, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library [2]
File name
Library handwriting 1887-02-07
Links

Melvil Dewey Columbia postcard Feb 7 1887 back.jpg