Description
Print items, proofs, typescripts,
manuscripts, patterns, correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, ephemera, and other
materials relating to the work and life of printer, artist, and type designer Frederic W.
Goudy (1865-1947) and, in particular, his relationship with Scripps College. The materials
include print copies, manuscripts, typescripts, drafts, and proofs of writings and speeches
by Goudy, and original drawings, tracings, patterns of types, bookplates, lettersheads,
monograms, and ornamented initial letters designed by him. The collection also contains
broadsides, handbills, and other materials published by the Village Press, founded and
operated by Goudy and his wife, Bertha M. Goudy, from 1903 until 1939; keepsakes of the
"Pilgrimage to Deepdene", the celebration of the 35th anniversary of the founding of the
press (1938); examples of printings utilizing Goudy type by presses other than the Village
Press, in particular the Aries Press, Earl H. Emmons' Maverick Press, and the work of Howard
Coggeshall; printed keepsakes and tributes to Goudy, primarily on the occasion of his
birthday; and periodical and newspaper articles and short monographs written about Goudy,
including obituaries, appreciations, and tributes published in the years immediately
following his death in 1947. The materials also include the original drawings, cardboard
patterns, rubbings, lead sheets, and matrices Goudy created for the Scripps College Old
Style type (both Roman and Italic faces), and first proofs of the type; a small number of
materials relating to Bertha M. Goudy; photographs; and one of Goudy's cloth work
hats.