Mr. Figueroa still keeps his grandfather's worn correspondence books in his office.
Volcker, who is eighty-two years old, works at a polished granite desk covered with correspondence, books, and financial reports.
Scholars know how the literati traded thoughts across town that spring partly because one collector, Paula Peyraud, started gathering female Georgian writers' correspondence, books and portraits in the 1960s.
"There is a sense," he writes, "that anything goes throughout Mr. McGinniss's correspondence and book".
Ray Johnson with Michael Crane and Mary Stofflet's Correspondence Art book, San Francisco, 1984. .
In 1891 some descendants auctioned much of the family's memorabilia, which included items signed by George Washington, his shoe buckles, walking cane and violin, along with deeds, correspondence, account books, surveys and wills.
On Wednesday the National Heritage Memorial Fund in Britain said that it would give about $900,000 toward the purchase of Sassoon's archives, which include notebooks he kept on the Western Front during World War I, as well as correspondence, poetry books, photographs and love letters to his wife, Hester.
The Bryant collection consists, linearly, of 19.43 feet of "correspondence, writings, books, visual artwork, photographs, printed matter, and other material created and collected by Bryant during the last twenty years of her life from 1916 to 1936".
Together, they have published their correspondence in a book, Public Enemies, out next week.
(Much of his correspondence, as this book's title suggests, was on postcards).
