Henry Beetle Hough papers, 1841-1994

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Series VII: Books

All books were gifts of Edith Graham Blake.

Per the original typed finding aid, books were boxed as follows - Books by Hough: Box 48: A-O; Box 49: P-S; Box 50 T-Z. Box 50 also contains: Books with Contributions by Hough and Books Re: Hough Family. The books were then listed in the finding aid without box numbers being assigned to the individual books. In converting the finding aid to an EAD document, box numbers were assigned to the individual books in the list based on the original statement.


Subseries VII.1: Books by Hough



Box 48 All Things are Yours: A Novel. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1942

1st edition. Inscribed to Pinkie and Jack.


Box 48 Great Days of Whaling. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958

Part of a 1989 addition to the collection.


Box 48 The heath hen's Journey to extinction, 1792-1933. Compiled by Henry B. Hough, photographs by Dr. Alfred G. Gross. Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, undated


Box 48 Lament for a city. New York: Antheneum Publishers, 1960

Inscribed to Pinkie and Jack.


Box 48 Long anchorage : a New Bedford Story . New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Company, circa 1947

Inscribed to Pinkie and Jack.


Box 48 Martha's Yineyard, sunmer resort : after 100 years. Edgartown, MA: Privately printed for Avery's, circa 1966

2nd edition. Inscribed to Pinkie and Jack.


Box 48 Melville in the South Pacific. Henry Beetle Hough, illustrated by Frank Nicholas. Boston: Hough Mifflin Company, 1960

North Star Books; 22. Inscribed to Pinkie and Jack.


Box 48 Mostly on Marthas Vineyard : a personal record. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, circa 1975

Inscribed to Tyna


Box 48 The New England story : a novel. New York: Random House, 1958

Inscribed to Pinkie and Jack.


Box 48 Once more the thunderer. New York: Ives Washburn, circa 1950

Inscribed to Irene Landers.


Box 48 Once more the thunderer. New York: Ives Washburn, circa 1950

Inscribed to Pinkie and Jack.



Box 49 The Port. New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1963

1st edition. Inscribed to Pinkie and Jack.


Box 49 The Road. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, circa 1970

Inscribed to Pinkie and Jack.


Box 49 Roosters crow in town. New York; London: D. Appleton Century Company, circa 1945

Inscribed to Pinkie and Jack.


Box 49 Singing in the morning : and other essays about Martha's Vineyard . By Henry Beetle Hough; illustrations by Will Huntington. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951

First printing. Inscribed to Jack and Pinkie.


Box 49 Singing in the morning : and other essays about Martha's Vineyard . By Henry Beetle Hough; illustrations by Will Huntington. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951

First printing. Autographed.


Box 49 Soundings at Sea Level. Henry Beetle Hough; drawings by Donald Carrick. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980



Box 50 Thoreau of Walden : the man and his erentful life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956

First printing.


Box 50 To the harbor light . Henry Beetle Hough; drawings by Donald Carrick. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Compay, 1976

Inscribed to Pinkie and Jack.


Box 50 To the harbor light . Henry Beetle Hough; drawings by Donald Carrick. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Compay, 1976

Inscribed to Elva Wolcott.


Box 50 Tuesday will be different : letters from Sheriff's Lane. New York: The Dial Press, 1971

First printing. Inscribed to Jack and Pinkie.


Box 50 Wamsutta of New Bedford, 1846-1946 : a story of New England enterprise. New Bedford, MA: Wamsutta Mills, 1946

Inscribed to Henry Hough by C.F. Broughton, Board of Directors, Wamsutta Mills.


Subseries VII.2: Books with Contributions by Hough


Box 50 On the Vineyard : with photographs. By Peter Simon; contributions by Evelyn Ames, Robert Brustein, [et al]. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1980

1st edition.



Box 43A The publishers' weekly : the American book trade journal. New York: The Weekly, circa 1940

Vol. 138; No. 2. July 13, 1940. pp. 118-121. Filed in Box 43A in folder: Subject Files--Miscellaneous.



Box 50 Eisenstaedt, Alfred. Martha's Vineyard. Photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt; text by Henry Beetle Bough. Viking Compass ed. New York: The Viking Press, 1975

A studio book. Autographed by Henry Beetle Hough.


Box 50 Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association. Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association, 1835-1985. Compiled and written by Sally W. Dagnall; Foreward by Henry Beetle Hough; drawings by Audrey L. Dagnall. [Martha's Vineyard, MA]: The Association, circa 1984

Inscribed to Henry Beetle Hough by the Board of Directors of the Association.


Box 50 Shaw, Alison. Remembrance and light : images of Martha's Vineyard. Photographs by Alison Shaw. Text by Henry Beetle Hough; forward by James Reston. Harvard and Boston: The Harvard Common Press, circa 1984


Box 50 Whiting, Emma Mayhew. Whaling Wives. By Emma Mayhew Whiting and Henry Beetle Hough. [Edgartown, MA]: Dukes County Historical Society, 1965

Inscribed to Pinkie by Henry Beetle Hough.


Box 50 Vineyard Gazette Reader. Edited by Henry Beetle Hough. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, circa 1967

Inscribed to Jack and Pinkie by the editor.


Subseries VII.3: Books Re: Hough Family


Box 50 The Fifth Avenue Auction Rooms. Administrator's sale of the valuable historical library of the late Franklin B. Hough […] To be sold by auction October 17th to 20th, 1900.. New York: The Auction Rooms, 1900

Sale 591.


Box 50 Hough, George A., 3rd. Structures of modification in contemporary American English. The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1971

Janua linguarum ; studia memoriae Nicolai Van Wijk dedicata / edenda eurat C. H. Van Schooneveld ; series practica, 126. Inscribed to HBH [Henry Beetle Hough].