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Guide to the Edmund B. Thompson / Hawthorn House Collection
Printers Mss 19
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Title: Edmund B. Thompson / Hawthorn House Collection,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1920s-1984
Collection Number: Printers Mss 19
Extent:
.8 linear feet
(2 document boxes)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur
Language:
English.
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Edmund B. Thompson / Hawthorn House Collection. Printers Mss 19. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund B. Thompson, ca. 1965-1977, and Hobart O. Skofield, ca. 1970s-1984.
Edmund B. Thompson (1897-1974) began his career with William Edwin Rudge in the 1920s. In 1929 he joined Peter Beilenson as
a partner in the Walpole Printing Office (New Rochelle) but in 1932, suffering from poor health, he moved to the quiet of
Windham, Connecticut where he set up Hawthorn House in his home. There he and his wife set type by hand, printing for others
and publishing Thompson's own works such as
A Printer's Common-place Book (1937).
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains material relating to Edmund B. Thompson and his printing career, mainly at his Hawthorn House (Windham,
Connecticut). Included are checklists, correspondence, photographs, and printing specimens (mainly by Hawthorn House).
Additional copies of Hawthorn House imprints have been cataloged separately and can be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries
online catalog.
Related Thompson/Hawthorn House material also may be found in the Hobart Oliver Skofield Collection (Printers Mss 1).