A Guide to the Papers of Oliver Herford 1904 and n.d.
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 7399-d
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Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
Papers of Oliver Herford, Accession #7399-d , Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This collection was given to the Library on April 4, 1990.
Scope and Content Information
This collection consists of a telegram from Oliver Herford to "Kennedy" reminding him to meet at Howells at four, and two pen and ink drawings.
Contents List
On a Western Union Telegraph Company form reminding him to meet at Howells at four.
A man wearing a top hat and suit, seated upon the ground and speaking to an insect, apparently a wasp, and signed by Oliver Herford.
A parrot perched atop a T-shaped bar with a clenched claw and a necklace dangling from the bar, with the following statement in quotes, "sometimes I gnash my beak."