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Box 1

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Book Club of California -- Quarterly Newsletter, 1953, 1964, 1969

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Content From the Collection:

This collection is the research material collected by Roger Burford-Mason for his book Roy Vernon Sowers : a life in rare books (Toronto : Subway Books, 1997). It contains biographical material and requests for information about Sowers by Burford-Mason. The correspondence includes letters and interviews of individuals who knew Sowers, including his daughter and son.

The collection is arranged in thematic order.

Dates: 1953, 1964, 1969

Photocopies of Prospectuses

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents note

Includes covers of catalogs, a short biography of Sowers, and invitations to various events held by Sowers.

Dates: 1940-1996

Typed Memoir of Roy Vernon Sowers, early 1940s

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Content From the Collection:

This collection is the research material collected by Roger Burford-Mason for his book Roy Vernon Sowers : a life in rare books (Toronto : Subway Books, 1997). It contains biographical material and requests for information about Sowers by Burford-Mason. The correspondence includes letters and interviews of individuals who knew Sowers, including his daughter and son.

The collection is arranged in thematic order.

Dates: early 1940s

Photocopy of "An Excerpt from the Book Catalogues of Roy Vernon Sowers", 1980

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Content From the Collection:

This collection is the research material collected by Roger Burford-Mason for his book Roy Vernon Sowers : a life in rare books (Toronto : Subway Books, 1997). It contains biographical material and requests for information about Sowers by Burford-Mason. The correspondence includes letters and interviews of individuals who knew Sowers, including his daughter and son.

The collection is arranged in thematic order.

Dates: 1980

Correspondence, 1996

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents note

Includes a letter and memoir by Sowers' daughter, Lucia Frances Bridge Sowers Hyde, and other correspondence sent to Burford-Mason including a typed interview of Anthony Sowers (a son of Sowers).

Dates: 1996

Biographical material about Sowers

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents note

Includes photocopies of material from multiple sources.

Dates: 1940-1996

Correspondence, 1996

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Content From the Collection:

This collection is the research material collected by Roger Burford-Mason for his book Roy Vernon Sowers : a life in rare books (Toronto : Subway Books, 1997). It contains biographical material and requests for information about Sowers by Burford-Mason. The correspondence includes letters and interviews of individuals who knew Sowers, including his daughter and son.

The collection is arranged in thematic order.

Dates: 1996

Copy of Sowers collection finding aid from Stanford University, ca. 1996

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Content From the Collection:

This collection is the research material collected by Roger Burford-Mason for his book Roy Vernon Sowers : a life in rare books (Toronto : Subway Books, 1997). It contains biographical material and requests for information about Sowers by Burford-Mason. The correspondence includes letters and interviews of individuals who knew Sowers, including his daughter and son.

The collection is arranged in thematic order.

Dates: ca. 1996

Letter and two pamphlets, 1996

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents note

Includes a letter from Glen Dawson to Bruce Whiteman about Sowers. Also includes a brochure from the Huntington Library and a publications list from Dawson's Book Shop from 1905 to 1972.

Dates: 1996

Sowers List, 1972

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Content From the Collection:

This collection is the research material collected by Roger Burford-Mason for his book Roy Vernon Sowers : a life in rare books (Toronto : Subway Books, 1997). It contains biographical material and requests for information about Sowers by Burford-Mason. The correspondence includes letters and interviews of individuals who knew Sowers, including his daughter and son.

The collection is arranged in thematic order.

Dates: 1972