Papers relating to gifts and collections for retiring members of the book trade
Scope & Content:
Includes papers relating to collections for Mr Cooper (retired from Sotheby’s book room in 1957), Howard Nixon (retired from the British Museum Library in 1975), and Frank Girdler (retired from Sotheby’s book room in 1976).
General business correspondence of Alan Gradon Thomas
Scope & Content:
Includes correspondence and papers relating to Thomas’s purchase of H. G. Commin's bookshop in Bournemouth in 1936. The 1941 letters include correspondence with publishers and customers relating to the practicalities of Thomas maintaining his business whilst away with the armed forces.