Collection consists of autographs collected by Charles Eliot Goodspeed (1867-1950), a Boston bookseller, and dating from 1660 to 1865.

Charles Eliot Goodspeed was a Boston bookseller, author of Yankee bookseller; being the reminiscences of Charles E. Goodspeed. Goodspeed was born in Cotuit, Massachusetts on May 2, 1867. He was a member of the Club of Odd Volumes, American Antiquarian Society, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and Massachusetts Historical Society. Goodspeed once served as a Baptist deacon. He died on October 31, 1950.

2.59 Linear Feet (1 box, 1 expansion folder)

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