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Call Number:
MSS 7
Creator:
Melcher, Frederic Gershom, 1879-1963
Title(s):
Letter from Frederic G. Melcher to Clare Leighton
Date:
[1952] June 9
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series IV: Correspondence
Part of Collection:
1, folder 32
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund, and Mr. and Mrs. Bart T. Tiernan LLB 1968 and Mr. and Mrs. Nigel Hamway. Ten of the Wedgwood plates are the gift of Judith and Norman Zlotsky, Yale Class of 1953.
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.

Scope and Content:
Dated: <geogname>R.R. Bowker Co., New York</geogname>. June 9. Encloses his check, "which seems the best money I have spent for a long time," and looks forward to receiving the plates.
Physical Description:
1 page : autograph letter, signed ;
Genre:
Correspondence , Pictorial works, Queen's ware, Graphite drawings, Letters, Photographs, and Wood engravings
Subject Terms:
Agriculture
Atlantic cod fishing
Cranberry industry
Grain
Ice industry
Lobster industry
Logging
Maple sugar industry
Marble industry and trade
Milling
Shipbuilding
Tobacco farms
Whaling
Wood-engraving
Associated People/Groups:
Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989 -- Correspondence
Melcher, Frederic Gershom, 1879-1963
Finding Aid Title:
Clare Leighton collection
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/33.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/6569
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/6569?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1