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Woolmer, J. Howard, 1929-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1929    

Biography

J. Howard Woolmer was born in Montreal in 1929. He moved to New York City in 1958, where he began a career as a professional bookseller in the early 1960s.

Found in 304 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from Laura Jackson to J. Howard Woolmer, 1975-12-22

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1976.004.2.1.016
Scope and Contents

"The check reached me Tuesday! Very pleasant, the sight of it - and pleasant, especially, your work for my having it by Christmas."

Dates: 1975-12-22

Letter from Laura Jackson to J. Howard Woolmer, 1975-12-29

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1976.004.2.1.017
Scope and Contents

"It interests me, of course, your having acquired copies of those 'leaves'. I shall tell you about them. They were printed for presentation. privately. As with all stock-on-hand of Seizin Press printings left in the Majorcan establishment, my property legally..."

Dates: 1975-12-29

Letter from Laura Jackson to J. Howard Woolmer, 1975-12-31

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1976.004.2.1.018
Scope and Contents

"I omitted per the last word (words) to you an inquiry I have had it in mind to make of you. How did you find the inscriptions of the last 50 copies of The Telling sent to you?"

Dates: 1975-12-31

Letter from Laura Jackson to J. Howard Woolmer, 1976-02-01

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1976.004.2.1.021
Scope and Contents "I have now sent to Miss Raiziss what I think is probably the last of the material for Chelsea #35. I have more ready, but I think it likely the length limitations of an issue will prove strained even with just what I have sent to her. There will be on the cover the title of an introductory piece, which by the form of its presentation may be take for poem, but it is not one: 'It Has Taken Long...'"..."...I may be quote wrong, but, despite the usual treatment my work...
Dates: 1976-02-01

Letter from Laura Jackson to J. Howard Woolmer, 1976-03-09

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1976.004.2.1.025
Scope and Contents

"I am content with all that your letter of March 3rd brought to me. Your report pleases me - and the gracious consullation as to those 19 copies; and it is good to have the check..."

Dates: 1976-03-09

Letter from Laura Jackson to J. Howard Woolmer and "Note for my Praeterita On several references to myself appearing in the third volume of Letters of Virginia Woolf", 1978-09-4

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 6
Identifier: 1976.004.2.6.031
Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter: "Here are the pages (the script) for my comments on the Woolf Letters for Praeterita, a book of momoirs treating of my literary-world experience." Typescript: "Elsewhere in these pages I refer to a manifestation to me of brutally unexplained ugly behavior on the part of Leonard Woolf, accompanied by an accusation having no foundation in or pertinence to anything within the compass of our relations - which had been, up to the occasion of personal encounter in question,...
Dates: 1978-09-4

Letter from Laura Jackson to J. Howard Woolmer, and Photocopied Letters between Laura Jackson and Jean Heard, 1978-08-6, 1978-07-25

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 6
Identifier: 1976.004.2.6.025
Scope and Contents Letter from Jackson to Woolmer: "I have decided to send you my copy of my letter - I am not sure as to just when I can get it xeroxed." Letter from Heard to Jackson: "The Friends of the Library of the Joint University Libraries are weeking to acquire Fugitive and Agrarian material not already held in the Jesse Wills Fugitive/Agrarian Collection. Because you were a distinguished member of the Fugitives, we would like to enlist your support." Letter from Jackson to Heard: "My thought on what...
Dates: 1978-08-6; 1978-07-25

Letter from Laura Jackson to Robert Brotherson, 1977-03-10

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 3
Identifier: 1976.004.2.3.024
Scope and Contents

"It is quite long since Mr. Woolmer proposed to me the idea of a limited edition of that manuscript material. Publication was scheduled for for The Sping. November was suggested as I remember, as a delivery date of my introduction. 25000 words was given me by how as, roughly, the size of introduction he thought could be commercialy handled for that size of book. I had counted pages, and lines (I mean, indicated about how many lines there were for a page)."

Dates: 1977-03-10

Letter from Laura (Riding) Jackson to Guy Logsdon, 1976-06-21

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 19
Identifier: 1976.004.1.19.002
Scope and Contents

"For my own general knowledge, and unto bibliographical needs, and also for assistance to the person I have authorized to make a bibliography of my writings, I request of you information as to what you have of manuscript material of mine, and some account of the proce[d]ure I should have to folow for the procuring of copies that I might feel I ought to see."

Dates: 1976-06-21

Letter from Laura (Riding) Jackson to J. Howard Woolmer, 1975-03-20

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 22
Identifier: 1976.004.1.22.001
Scope and Contents

"It has been a startling experience for me to be presented with a fact of all this material's being elsewhere than at Cornell Library, where I had it sent at request under most careful circumstances of security-control..."

Dates: 1975-03-20

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Type
Archival Object 294
Collection 8
Unprocessed Material 2
 
Subject
Authors, American -- 20th century 3
Novelists, American -- 20th century. 2
American Literature -- 19th century 1
Authors, American -- Correspondence -- 20th century 1
Authors, English -- 20th century 1