George C. Mason letters (RLC.Ms.544)

This collection consists of four letters written by George C. Mason to Sidney S. Rider, a bookseller in Providence, Rhode Island, and G. P. Putnam and Son, a major book publisher in New York City. These letters generally concern the selling of Mason’s books, Newport and its cottages (published in 1875) and The old house altered (published by G. P. Putnam and Son in 1878).

The October 17, 1876 letter to Sidney S. Rider is a photocopy, the whereabouts of the original letter is unknown.