Foley, Patrick Kevin, 1856-1937.
Letter to G. S. Payson from Patrick Foley, Boston, Mass. - 1898 April 23.
1 leaf.
Owner of Hamilton Place, a famous bookshop in Boston, Mass., P.K. Foley was an authority on American first editions. His work, American Authors, 1795-1895: A Bibliography, published in Boston in 1897, was a pioneer and authoritative reference work.
The fonds consists of a single holograph letter from Patrick Foley to G. S. Payson discussing a point of issue of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Doctor Grimshawe's Secret", dated April 23, 1898 (Boston, Mass.).
Title from the content of the fonds.
Received as part of the Verbeke collection which was purchased in 1969.
Call number: GA16
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