In honor of his birthday this month, Typocurious digs once again into the Lawson-Provan file of the American printer and historian Daniel Berkeley Updike (14 February 1860–29 December 1941). 

Today’s Updike-related post is a brief letter written by Updike on 16 March 1925 to one H.W. Kent, Esq., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. Properly date-stamped “received 17 March 1925” by the Metropolitan’s secretary’s office, it is three pages of a beautiful half letter-size sheet displaying “D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press | No. 232 Summer St. Boston | D.B. Updike · John Bianchi | Cable Address Updike Boston | Telephone Liberty 1922.” 

Who knew Updike had a sense of humor?

Here is “Very faithfully yous, D.B. Updike.”

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