Saunders, Henry Scholey, 1864-1951

Toronto cellist and collector of Walt Whitman material.

From the description of Collection of Walt Whitman, 1877-1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122691947

BIOGHIST REQUIRED Henry Scholey Saunders was born in 1864 in London, Canada. He married Georgina Helen Taylor on October 10, 1887 and they settled in Toronto for the rest of their lives. They had two children, a son, Harry Ernest, and a daughter, Ruth Mercer, who died at the age of two.

BIOGHIST REQUIRED Saunders was a Toronto cellist, collector, bibliographer, and independent Walt Whitman enthusiast. He was a self-taught bookbinder, painter and typesetter, skills he used to write and produce his own books on Whitman's poems in limited quantities, which he gave to friends and kept for his own Whitman collection. His method of publishing was unique: he typed, bound, and carefully catalogued these books by hand. He ultimately sold his collection to Brown University in 1932. His only published work was Parodies on Whitman (1923).

BIOGHIST REQUIRED Saunders died on October 25, 1951 at the age of eighty-eight.

From the guide to the Henry Scholey Saunders papers, 1884-1951, [Bulk Dates: 1911-1947], (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)