[C18-L] Q: "Upham ’s Collection of Newspaper Extracts"

[Wilson Gray]

Think nothing of it, Joel. They were pleased to be of service. :-)

-Wilson

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Joel S. Berson<Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> Stephen [and others],
>
> A correspondent elsewhere has given me the following information
> about "Upham's Collection":
>
>> Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â It is likely this is part of the Samuel Curtis Upham
>> Archive, noted at
>> <http://historical.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=6026&Lot_No=35016&src=pr>http://historical.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=6026&Lot_No=35016&src=pr
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>>".... other items in the archive are contained in an album, 9" x
>>12", with "News Cuttings" printed on the cover. Therein are 81 pages
>>to which have been mounted numerous well-preserved speeches, printed
>>essays, tickets, programs, presentations, poems, letters, over sixty
>>newspaper articles, ten patriotic envelopes, and four events ribbons.."
>>What is being sought is also referred to as "Upham's Collection of
>>English Newspaper cuttings"
>
> And Stephen Goranson found the letter itself in the London Evening Post.
>
> So, unless I feel a need to find the letter in an American newspaper,
> my query is answered -- I have a primary source.
>
> Joel
>
> At 6/24/2009 06:24 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>Can anyone help me identify something described as "Upham's
>>Collection of Newspaper Extracts"? Â It is cited as the source of a
>>"private letter" dated 1755 from "Trent Town" in an 1897 volume of
>>"Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New
>>Jersey" and the letter was supplied (for a section of newspaper
>>items related to NJ) by an Albert Matthews of Boston.
>>
>>Although the "private letter" presumably appeared in some newspaper
>>that Upham collected from, I have not found the text of the letter
>>itself using Early American Newspapers. Â For "Upham's Collection", I
>>have not found anything in WorldCat, nor via Google Web or Google
>>Books. Â But perhaps my search terms have not been imaginative enough.
>>
>>Joel
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