International World Who's Who proof sheet for Ellen Milliken FitzSimons, 1948–49 edition
Book 1, Page 489 ·1948
Transcription
A printed proof-sheet form on buff paper. The text reads:
PROOF SHEET
FROM
INTERNATIONAL WORLD WHO’S WHO
240 BROADWAY • NEW YORK 7, N. Y.
From the corrected and approved typed text of your biography, our printers prepared the following printed proof, as same is scheduled to appear in the 1948-49 issue of the INTERNATIONAL WORLD WHO’S WHO.
Please avoid any additions or corrections, unless of great importance, as any such changes involve costly type re-setting.
The Editor
In the central blank panel, a small pasted-in galley slip of typeset text:
GALLEY A5
FITZ SIMONS, Ellen Milliken, LL.D. Librarian. b. 1862, Mulberry Plantation near Charleston, S. C. ed. Mrs. Isabel A. Smith’s School, Charleston, S. C., Charleston Coll.,* New York Public Library.—Librarian, Charleston Library Soc., (founded in 1748) '98 to date.
Publs: Two addresses on the Quality and Character of Early Libraries in Charleston, S. C. (manuscripts published).
Address: 4 Savage St., Charleston, S. C.
*Not educated at College of Charleston. LL.D. conferred by College of Charleston.
A red-stamped overprint across the lower half of the form:
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Beneath the proof window, signature lines:
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At the foot of the form:
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AI Notes
A single sheet of buff letter-sized paper printed as a press-proof form by “INTERNATIONAL WORLD WHO’S WHO, 240 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 7, N.Y.” for the 1948–49 edition. The form is headed “PROOF SHEET” and bears the standard instruction to the biographee to avoid corrections. Pasted into the lower-centre rectangle of the form is a small white slip — the actual galley A5 entry for FITZ SIMONS, Ellen Milliken, LL.D., librarian of the Charleston Library Society — listing her birth at Mulberry Plantation, schooling, publications, and home address at 4 Savage St., Charleston. A footnoted asterisk explains that her LL.D. was conferred (not earned) by the College of Charleston. A red-ink overprint near the bottom of the form urges the recipient to return the corrected proof within a week. Galley text including “Mrs. Isabel A. Smith’s School,” “(founded in 1748) '98 to date,” and the publications note “Two addresses on the Quality and Character of Early Libraries in Charleston, S. C. (manuscripts published)” appears at the typeset clip; the red URGENT overprint is verbatim.
The biographee is Ellen Milliken FitzSimons, born 1862 at Mulberry Plantation, librarian of the Charleston Library Society for fifty years (1898 to 1948), who was awarded an honorary LL.D. by the College of Charleston on her retirement. The footnote correcting the impression that she had attended the College is a Who’s Who editor’s clarification. Her retirement papers are summarised on the facing album page (488); her acceptance letter is on page 490. The buff manila pocket mounted on page 488 — printed with the same New York return address — is presumably the mailing pocket in which this proof sheet was originally posted to her.