1 of 4 folders completely digitized. and The papers include autograph and typed letters, signed (arranged alphabetically by sender in boxes 1-2) to Richard Adams Romney from Leonard Bernstein, Paul Cadmus, Eva Le Gallienne, David Horner (including one sent on his behalf from Osbert Sitwell), Christopher Isherwood, Pavel Tchelitchew, John van Druten, Margaret Webster, and others dating from the 1940s to the 1970s, who write to him (often addressing him by his nickname, "Twig") with advice and news of their activities and that of other friends. The letters from Alice Delamar (circa 1946-1989) form the largest group of letters, and document their long and close friendship, travels, and the activities of mutual friends. Also included are photograph albums and loose photographs (boxes 3-4) documenting Romney's travels to Greece and Peru, and social gatherings in Connecticut and Palm Beach, Florida.
Description:
Purchased from Richard Adams Romney on the George Henry Nettleton Fund, 1999 and 2000, and the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2002. and Richard Adams Romney was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1918, and was a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard. He lived on the Upper East Side of New York City from 1945 to 1997, and worked in the real estate and insurance businesses. He was a gallery assistant at the Betty Parsons Gallery from 1950 to 1954. His friends and acquaintances included writers, artists, and musicians, including Leonard Bernstein, Christopher Isherwood, and Paul Cadmus. One of his closest friends was Alice Delamar, an American heiress and partner of the actress and director Eva Le Gallienne. Romney died in Troy, New York in 2009.
"[Bound] by Claudia in decorated paper over leather-edged boards with a leather spine and housed in a clamshell box."--Prospectus., "[More] than 600 examples of patterned papers from Europe, Asia and North America."--Prospectus., "Original samples of marbling, paste decoration, embossing, pulp manipulation, lithography, block and linocut printing, stencilling and airbrushing from the 19th and 20th centuries will be found, along with contemporary examples (some made specially for this book). A sampling of Dutch gilt and block-printed papers from the late 1700s to early 1800s will also be included."--Prospectus., "The book was designed and set in Bembo by Barbara Hodgson. David Clifford at Black Stone Press in Vancouver printed the text on Arches mouldmade. Rollin Milroy at Heavenly Monkey printed the specimen sheets. Claudia Cohen bound each copy in her Seattle studio. The edition is 30 numbered and six A.P. copies, each signed by the two authors."--Colophon., Includes bibliographical references., Issued in solander box (35 x 28 x 11 cm)., No. 4, signed by Claudia Cohen and Barbara Hodgson., and Table of contents sheet laid in to each volume.
Subject (Name):
Black Stone Press (Vancouver, B.C.), printer, Cohen, Claudia,--1953---Autograph., Heavenly Monkey (Firm), publisher, printer, Hodgson, Barbara, 1955- book artist, book designer, and Hodgson, Barbara,--1955---Autograph.
"[Bound] by Claudia in decorated paper over leather-edged boards with a leather spine and housed in a clamshell box."--Prospectus., "[More] than 600 examples of patterned papers from Europe, Asia and North America."--Prospectus., "Original samples of marbling, paste decoration, embossing, pulp manipulation, lithography, block and linocut printing, stencilling and airbrushing from the 19th and 20th centuries will be found, along with contemporary examples (some made specially for this book). A sampling of Dutch gilt and block-printed papers from the late 1700s to early 1800s will also be included."--Prospectus., "The book was designed and set in Bembo by Barbara Hodgson. David Clifford at Black Stone Press in Vancouver printed the text on Arches mouldmade. Rollin Milroy at Heavenly Monkey printed the specimen sheets. Claudia Cohen bound each copy in her Seattle studio. The edition is 30 numbered and six A.P. copies, each signed by the two authors."--Colophon., Includes bibliographical references., Issued in solander box (35 x 28 x 11 cm)., No. 4, signed by Claudia Cohen and Barbara Hodgson., and Table of contents sheet laid in to each volume.
Subject (Name):
Black Stone Press (Vancouver, B.C.), printer, Cohen, Claudia,--1953---Autograph., Heavenly Monkey (Firm), publisher, printer, Hodgson, Barbara, 1955- book artist, book designer, and Hodgson, Barbara,--1955---Autograph.