Woolmer, J. Howard, 1929-
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
"The check reached me Tuesday! Very pleasant, the sight of it - and pleasant, especially, your work for my having it by Christmas."
Letter from Laura Jackson to J. Howard Woolmer, 1975-12-29
"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..."
Letter from Laura Jackson to J. Howard Woolmer, 1975-12-31
"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?"
Letter from Laura Jackson to J. Howard Woolmer, 1976-02-01
Letter from Laura Jackson to J. Howard Woolmer, 1976-03-09
"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..."
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
Letter from Laura Jackson to J. Howard Woolmer, and Photocopied Letters between Laura Jackson and Jean Heard, 1978-08-6, 1978-07-25
Letter from Laura Jackson to Robert Brotherson, 1977-03-10
"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)."
Letter from Laura (Riding) Jackson to Guy Logsdon, 1976-06-21
"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."
Letter from Laura (Riding) Jackson to J. Howard Woolmer, 1975-03-20
"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..."
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