wheel. Over forty-six years, he wrote twenty books about papermaking, eight of which were hand-printed. In 1919, the Hunter family returned to Ohio and purchased the 1852 "Mountain House" in Chillicothe, which had been built for German winemakers. Hunter used a wing joined to the house for his letterpress printing studio, named Mountain House Press, where he produced eight handmade books, authored twenty books on the topic of papermaking, and was an active publisher between 1922 and 1956. In 1958 he published his autobiography, My Life with Paper. The year 1930 saw production start in a commercial one-vat mill, in a former iron foundry on the Salmon Fells Kill in Lime Rock, Connecticut, he had purchased and started transforming in 1928. It represented an expenditure, all told, of close to $35,000 dollars, about $ 488,000 USD in 2017 value. Although operating until 1933, it was a financial failure. Hunter opened the Dard Hunter Paper Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1939, which he considered his greatest accomplishment. It was moved to the Institute of Paper Chemistry in Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1954. The Robert C. Williams Paper Museum now comprises most of the collection of the Institute of Paper Science and Technology, on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Death and legacy Hunter died on February 20, 1966, at Chillicothe, Ohio, he was survived by two sons. His wife had died in 1951. Hunter is buried in Grandview Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. Members of his family maintain Dard Hunter Studios at the historic Mountain House, which are open to the public by appointment. The studio provides an online library. In addition to books written during his lifetime, Dard Hunter & Son is a tribute to the work of Hunter. The 1998 book was selected and exhibited in the New York Public Library's 2003–2004 exhibition Ninety from the Nineties. To promote and continue the tradition of hand papermaking and book arts, Friends of Dard Hunter was established in 1981. Hunter's books on papermaking were inspirational to papermaker Douglass Morse Howell. References Further reading External links Elbert Hubbard, Dard Hunter and the Roycroft Workshops Dard Hunter Studios Friends of Dard Hunter, a non-profit organization The Harrison Elliott Collection at the Library of Congress has the sample collection of 300 early American papers and the correspondence and memorabilia of Dard Hunter, an authority on the history of