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Series II: Financial Correspondence and Records, 1888- 1936
Series III: Ginn and Company, 1877-1936
Series IV: Organizations, 1889-1936
Series V: Writings and Lectures, circa, 1850- 1947

George A. Plimpton Papers, 1634-1956

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Series VI: Collecting, 1693-1956

This series includes not only extensive correspondence related to Plimpton's collecting of rare books, manuscripts, and artifacts but also examples of the items he collected. The majority of the general correspondence retains the original folder names and general arrangement.

The remainder of the series contains several caches of material described only summarily by previous staff. One cache centers on penmanship and orthography, including handwriting samples, handwriting exercises, and an account book and general correspondence related to Alfred Manson, a Boston-based publisher of books on writing. Another cache of materials, dating from 1650-1869, centers on the American slave trade, including correspondence, documents, broadsides, pamphlets, and a slaveholder's account book.

The series also includes a cache of documents related to Plimpton's collection of Western medieval manuscripts. These documents include Samuel A. Ive's detailed notes on many of the manuscripts in Plimpton's collection as well as correspondence and proof sheets related to De Ricci and Wilson's Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (1935-1937).

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Box 44 Folder 1 Bookplates, undated

Box 44 Folder 2 to 3 Collection Descriptions and Notes, undated, (2 folders)

Box 44 Folder 4 Correspondence--Carpentier, Horace Walpole, 1902- 1936

Box 44 Folder 5 to 9 Correspondence, 1898-1935, (5 folders)


Box 45 Folder 1 to 3 Correspondence, 1935-1936, (3 folders)

Dealers--Correspondence

Box 45 Folder 4 to 10 A-N, 1901- 1934, (7 folders)


Box 46 Folder 1 Maggs Brothers--London, 1910-1934

Box 46 Folder 2 Medieval Manuscripts, 1905-1934

Box 46 Folder 3 to 4 O-Q, 1904-1934, (2 Folders)

Box 46 Folder 5 Quaritch, Bernard, 1901-1933

Box 46 Folder 6 R-S, 1910-1932

Box 46 Folder 7 Ricketts, C. Lindsay, 1911-1936

Box 46 Folder 8 Rosenthal, 1902-1933

Box 46 Folder 9 T-V, 1906-1934

Box 46 Folder 10 Voynich, Wilfred M., 1902-1930

Box 46 Folder 11 W, 1902-1930

Box 46 Folder 12 Exhibits, 1911-1936


Box 47 Folder 1 Exhibits, 1911-1936

Box 47 Folder 2 Plimpton Library, 1917-1938, undated, 1917-1938, undated

Box 47 Folder 3 Plimpton Library--Clippings, 1910-1923, undated, 1910-1923, undated

Box 47 Folder 4 Plimpton Library-- Requests to Visit and Talks, 1908-1936

Box 47 Folder 5 TO 6 Portraits, 1901-1956, (2 Folders)

Box 47 Folder 7 Portraits--Catalogues, 1905-1936


Box 48 Folder 1 Scrapbook--Mathematical Specimens, 1903

Box 48 Folder 2 Wellesley College, 1892- 1935

Penmanship, Calligraphy, and Orthography


Box 49 American Manuscript Specimens of Handwriting, [1860]-1875

Alfred Manson


Box 50 Account Book--Penmanship Samples, undated, 1873


Box 48 Folder 3 Forms Sent to Manson, 1887 -1888

Box 48 Folder 4 General Correspondence, 1872-1903

Box 48 Folder 5 National System of Penmanship --Working Copy--Payson, Dunton & Scribner,, 1879-1881

Box 48 Folder 6 Scribner, W. M., 1887- 1888


Box 51 Folder 1 Tracings, undated


Mapcase 14-H-6 Oversize, 1800- 1978

Mapcase 14-H-6 Oversize, Undated

Slavery


Box 51 Folder 2 Voyage of Judith Snow and Transcriptions, undated, 1906, undated, 1906


Box 52 Folder 1 Account Book--Oak Lawn Plantation, 1851- 1856

Box 52 Folder 2 Accounts--Slave Trading Ships, 1693- 1773

Box 52 Folder 3 Burritt, Elihu, undated, 1843, 1854, undated, 1843, 1854

Box 52 Folder 4 "Committee for the Address of Women of Great Britain and Ireland on Slavery in the United States," 1751-1776, 1852, 1751-1776, 1852

Box 52 Folder 5 Egyptian Papyrus--Photograph, 1930

Box 52 Folder 6 Lithograph--Cotton Plantation, undated

Box 52 Folder 7 Ordinance of Secession of the State of Alabama, 1861, facsimile


Box 58 Folder 1 John Johnston, Journal of an African Slaver, 1789-1792, facsimile edition published by the American Antiquarian Society, 1930

Box 58 Folder 2 John Johnston, Account book of slave trading expedition, 1791-1792

Facsimile edition published by the American Antiquarian Society in 1930, with an introduction by Plimpton: The Journal of an African slaver, 1789-1792

Printed Material


Box 52 Folder 8 Anti-Slavery, undated, 1860-1863, undated, 1860-1863

Box 52 Folder 9 Broadsides, 1728, 1769- 1773, 1728, 1769- 1773

Box 52 Folder 10 Pamphlets, 1789-1925

General Documents

Box 52 Folder 11 1678- 1697

Box 52 Folder 12 1728-1759

Box 52 Folder 13 1760-1769

Box 52 Folder 14 1770-1779

Box 52 Folder 15 1780-1789

Box 52 Folder 16 1790-1799

Box 52 Folder 17 1800-1809

Box 52 Folder 18 1810-1821

Box 52 Folder 19 1819-1829

Box 52 Folder 20 1830-1839

Box 52 Folder 21 1840-1849

Box 52 Folder 22 1850-1859

Box 52 Folder 23 1860-1869

Box 52 Folder 24 Undated


Mapcase 14-H-7 Oversize, Undated

Mapcase 14-H-7 Oversize--Broadside, 1950

Western Medieval Manuscripts


Box 51 Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada De Ricci and Wilson's,, 1935-1937

Box 51 Folder 3 Notes, undated, 1948, undated, 1948

Box 51 Folder 4 Proof Sheets--Plimpton Library, undated

Box 51 Folder 5 to 6 Revision Instructions, 1949, (2 folders)

Samuel A. Ives' Notes

Box 51 Folder 7 to 8 Ms. 58--Includes Transcription, undated, (2 folders)


Box 53 Ms. 2, 3, 17, 43, 47, 52, 58, 60, 63, 95, 98, 100, 101, 116, 119