William Bird collection
Overview
The William Bird Collection consists of an audiotape of a talk given by William Bird at Trinity College (Hartford, CT) in June 1962; various newspaper articles written by Bird as New York Times correspondent on the S. S. Chantier polar expedition and as the New York Sun's Paris correspondent during World War II. Additionally, the collection contains miscellaneous newspaper clippings and ephemera relating to Bird and his Three Mountains Press (Paris, 1923-1928).
Dates
- Creation: 1889-1963
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open to the public and must be used in the John M.K. Davis Reading Room of the Watkinson Library, Trinity College Library, Hartford, Connecticut. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws when using this collection.
Conditions Governing Use
Digital surrogates may be provided in accordance with the duplication policy of the Watkinson Library.
Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs unless otherwise specified. It is the researcher's responsibility to secure permission to publish materials from the appropriate copyright holder.
Archival materials may contain sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal and/or state right to privacy laws or other regulations. While we make a good faith effort to identify and remove such materials, some may be missed during our processing. If a researcher finds sensitive personal information (e.g. social security numbers) in a collection, please bring it to the attention of the reading room staff.
Biographical / Historical
William "Bill" Augustus Bird (1888-1963) was an American expatriate publisher and newspaper correspondent. Bird graduated from Trinity College in the class of 1912. While in Paris in 1922, he established a hand-press operation called Three Mountains Press. In that same year, he wrote and published A Practical Guide to French Wines. Ezra Pound served as an editor for Three Mountains Press beginning in 1923. A leader among the literary notables, Three Mountains Press published Ezra Pound's A Draft of XVI Cantos, William Carlos Williams's The Great American Novel, and Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time. Remaining in Paris until 1940, Bird then moved to Spain and Tangier, after World War II. Until 1960, he edited the Tangier Gazette, a English-language paper in North Africa.
Extent
1 Cubic Feet (1 archival box)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source Unknown
- Title
- Guide to the William Bird Collection
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Eric C. Stoykovich
- Date
- 2020-04-15
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Watkinson Library - Archival Collections Repository
Trinity College Library
300 Summit St.
Hartford Connecticut 06106