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Bookstores -- Connecticut -- Litchfield

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Anonymous account book

00-1973-68-7

 Collection — Box 01
Identifier: 00-1973-68-7
Scope and Contents

Anonymous Account Book (1973-68-7) is a book that appears to have been kept by a bookstore or general store. The items mentioned in the account book are items mostly related to books. The entries in the book are organized chronologically, and each entry provides a date, name of customer, and cash received. Most notably, one page has a heading that reads, “McFingall Sold in the Office.” McFingall is a mock epic written by John Trumbull.

Dates: Created: 1782 Sept. 6 - 1784 Jun.; Other: Date acquired: 01/08/1973

Ann Borzilleri collection

00-2008-01-0

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 00-2008-01-0
Scope and Contents

Two issues of "The Bantam Bugle," 1979; menu for Hattie's Family Restaurant; two bookmarks from Cobble Court Bookshop; receipt for prescription signed G. M. Woodruff, 1873; "Breakfast Dinner & Tea" advertisement pamphlet "compliments of Wessels & Gates, Litchfield, Conn.," circa 1880.

Dates: Created: 1873-1979; Other: Date acquired: 09/01/2008