Anonymous handmade book Guide to the Anonymous handmade book MSS.16491

Guide to the Anonymous handmade book MSS.16491


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Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
URL: https://small.library.virginia.edu/

Initial record created by Rose Oliveira.

Repository
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Identification
MSS.16491
Title
Anonymous handmade book c. 1919
URL:
https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/148542
Quantity
.03 Cubic Feet, 1 letter folder
Condition Description
fair
Language
English .

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is minimally processed and open for research.


Content Description

This collection contains one original typed humerous in a handmade book. The book is bound with a faded silk tie at the spine, and made up of clippings, magazine pages, typed pages, and illustrations. A humorous epistolary story, it is told by a soldier stationed at Camp Lee outside Petersburg, Va., who falls in love with the voice of a woman who sells him a book over the phone from the longtime local booksellers T. S. Beckwith & Co.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Epistolary fiction
  • Petersburg (Va.)