Vrest Orton Papers
Scope and Content Note
Collection contains correspondence, book manuscripts, scrapbooks, publisher's files of the Countryman Press, and other papers of Vrest Orton, founder of the Vermont Country Store and the Countryman Press. Included are printing ephemera, a Robert Louis Stevenson als, and correspondence with prominent political personalities in Vermont.
Dates
- 1869-1984
Creator
- Orton, Vrest (Creator, Person)
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Manuscripts.
Extent
5.6 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Collection contains correspondence, book manuscripts, scrapbooks, publisher's files of the Countryman Press, and other papers of Vrest Orton, founder of the Vermont Country Store and the Countryman Press. Included are printing ephemera, a Robert Louis Stevenson als, and correspondence with prominent political personalities in Vermont.
Arrangement note
Collection is unprocessed.
Location
Library Research Annex; contact uvmsc@uvm.edu for access.
- Title
- Guide to the Vrest Orton Papers
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Vermont Libraries, Special Collections Repository
Silver Special Collections Library
48 University Place, Room B201
Burlington Vermont 05405 U.S.A. US
(802) 656-2138
(802) 656-4038 (Fax)
uvmsc@uvm.edu
