Frederic Goudy:
‘I Hope Yet to Produce good work’ (2025)

While reading Dard Hunter’s memoir My Life with Paper (Knopf, 1958), I came across a partial transcript of a letter that Hunter received from the noted American type designer Frederic Goudy in 1923. Hunter operated a small paper mill in the neighbourhood of Marlborough, New York, between 1913 and 1917, which Goudy had viewed while property scouting in rural New York State with the intention of establishing his own microfoundry. Goudy was fifty-eight years old at the time he was embarking upon this major transition in his career. This little book includes the except from Goudy’s letter and a brief commentary written by myself.