salt lake city letter from Sven Arthur Wiman

An embossed letter from Sven-Arthur Wiman.

"Dear Sir: Undersigned here enclosed with my bookplates and with the same number in return, waiting to hear from you soon, with collectors regards."

The letter below was in the Robert McClure Snyder Jr. collection. Was is correspondence with Snyder Jr? Was it correspondence with Alfred Fowler?

Sven-Arthur Wiman was a member of the Svenska ExLibris Foreningen

Also, a member of Nordstjarnan Collectors Club in Stockholm, Sweden. More about Swedish emigrants in Utah, click HERE.























(Link to swedish emigrants in Utah, http://historytogo.utah.gov/people/ethnic_cultures/the_peoples_of_utah/scandinaviansaga.html, accessed Jan 2, 2014; photos of letter, courtesy of Robert M. Snyder Jr. Collection, LaBudde Special Collections, UMKC Miller Nichols Library, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, M0, accessed Aug 8, 2013)

miscellany editor writes to robert snyder jr

Stationary from the desk of Alfred Fowler. 

THE MISCELLANY, 
H. ALFRED FOWLER, EDITOR -

 17 BOARD OF TRADE BUILDING, 

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, U.S.A.: 

"26 January 1915  

Robert M. Snyder, Jr. Esq.          

Rockhill Manor, Kansas City, MO

  
To - 2 - Theatrical Bookplates "Autographed"
Your Order Dashed 25 - J - 1915
Per bookpost this day. 
The edition is now exhausted!
 F."

 H. Alfred Fowler corresponded with Robert M. Snyder Jr.

(correspondence courtesy of Robert M. Snyder Jr. Collection, LaBudde Special Collections, UMKC Miller Nichols Library, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, M0, accessed Aug 8, 2013)

robert snyder jr plate by Paul Avril

Robert Mc Clure Snyder Jr. was a member of the American Bookplate Society  in 1915.

His given address was 4550 Walnut, Kansas City, Missouri.

He collected bookplates.

Snyder's bookplate was done by the French artist, Paul Avril and was featured at the Grolier Club in New York in 1921 at the
Sixth Annual Bookplate Exhibition of Contemporary Bookplates. Engravings by Avril were well known to the Grolier Club as early as 1894, click HERE, then scroll down on article.

 
Photo of Robert Snyder, RIGHT.

Biography, Next.










 



















His bookplate, RIGHT, is # 562 in collection.

Double click on image to enlarge.

It was based on painting. From a postcard.

(images courtesy of Robert M. Snyder Jr. Collection, LaBudde Special Collections, UMKC Miller Nichols Library, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, M0, accessed Aug 8, 2013; Avril bio, Art Directory, http://www.paul-avril.com/; The Bookplate Annual of 1921, http://archive.org/stream/21bookplateannua00fowluoft#page/50/mode/2up; Grolier Club, New York Times, http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10A12F93E5515738DDDAB0994D8415B8485F0D3, accessed Jan 1, 2014)