Archives & Manuscripts #14 - International League of Antiquarian ...

21 Harry S. Truman. The Harry S. Truman Library in Historic Independence. (Independence, Missouri: Junior
Service League 1957). $450
Brochure for the Harry S. Truman Library Inscribed by President Truman along with a typed secretarial signed letter and some assorted ephemera.
Stiff stapled glossy wrappers. Octavo. 62pp. Very good with the outer wrap pulled loose at both staples, a bit rubbed and a stamp on the rear wrap
that reads “Leland Publishers Inc. May 16 1958”; remaining items fine. The brochure is Inscribed by Truman beneath his Presidential portrait
to Wilma S. Leland, the wife of Minnesota publisher, Leland S. Leland, and additionally Initialed under his wife’s portrait on the facing page
thusly: “Mrs. Harry Truman by H.S.T.” Accompanying the brochure is a typed letter signed in a secretarial hand, dated June 5, 1970, on Truman’s
letterhead with mailing envelope, thanking Leland for her good wishes on his 86th birthday. Also present are eight post cards from the Truman
Library and two newspaper clippings. [BTC #383656]
22 John Hall Wheelock. [Manuscript]: “Reminiscences
of an Editor”. 1967. $1250
Typewritten manuscript. [13]pp. Carbon transcript typed rectos only secured with a
paperclip. Folds as mailed else near fine in original envelope with author’s notations.
A transcript from the latter half of John Hall Wheelock’s career for “Reminiscences
of an Editor,” which was broadcast on The Third Programme on BBC radio, July
1967 and directed by Geoffrey Bridson. All pages are heavily edited with notations
in Wheelock’s hand. An essay on his long tenure as an editor at Charles Scribner’s
Sons, where he took over from Maxwell Perkins, and was a discoverer of new talent.
“What an exhausting job it is to be an editor! Like teaching, it is a creative activity
and involves the same areas of energy and imagination that are involved in writing.”
Known as the “cultural boss of the BBC,” D.G. [Geoffrey] Bridson, worked until
1969 producing over 800 programs including The Third Programme, which was
aimed at “high brow” audiences and aimed to promote “something fundamental to
our civilization.” [BTC #383562]