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Papers of department store owner and book collector Robert BorthwickAdam, consisting mostly of correspondence with fellow collectors and scholars,photographic portraits, and materials relating to the published catalogs of hismanuscript collection.

22 boxes and 4volumes (22.5 linear ft.)

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Adam, Lena Benjamin Stevens, 1879-1940

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Wife of Robert Borthwick Adam (1893-1940). Age 60 years. Late residence 780 West Ferry St, Buffalo. Died in Miami Beach FL....

Greene, Belle da Costa, 1883-1950

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was one of the leading literary figures of eighteenth-century England. He is best remembered for compiling the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, published in 1755. Prominent among his diverse other works, he also wrote the satirical History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759), edited The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (1765), and produced the important Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (first collect...

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)

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Harald Heyman

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Ruskin, John, 1819-1900

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Wife of Ruskin's physician, Dr. John Simon. From the description of Letter : to Mrs. John Simon, [18--] (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 31272017 British writer, artist, and critic. From the description of John Ruskin papers, ca. 1837-1904. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80934993 John Ruskin was born on 8 February 1819 in London. Ruskin was educated by his mother and by various tutors before attending Oxford University. H...

Isham, Ralph Heyward, 1890-1955

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Ralph Heyward Isham was born in New York City on July 2, 1890. He attended Cornell University (1908), Yale College (1910-1911), and New York Law School. He served in the British army during World War I, and following the armistice in November of 1918 he was named head of an intelligence unit which investigated and suppressed Bolshevik activities among militiary personnel. For his army service he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and retired at the rank of Lieutenant Colone...

Mr. Stebrovens

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Langton, Bennet, 1737-1801

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Epithet: of Add MS 38510 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001298.0x00006a Bennet Langton, English writer, and friend of Samuel Johnson. From the description of Bennet Langton manuscript material : 1 item, 1786 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 696631839 ...

Theodore Bolton

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William Brown (Firm)

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Sprague, Henry Ware, 1855-1932

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Wells, Gabriel, 1862-1946

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Richard Harris Barham was an English novelist, literary and drama critic, lecturer, and short-story writer. He wrote under the pseudonym Thomas Ingoldsby. From the guide to the Richard Harris Barham collection of papers, 1798?]-1930, 1827?-1845, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) ...

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Hannay, Neilson Campbell 1880-1962

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Cowan, Robert Ernest, 1862-1942

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Brick Row Book Shop (New York, N.Y.)

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Gabriel Wells

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Syndicate Trading Company

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Fackenthal, Frank Diehl, 1883-1968

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University administrator. From the description of Reminiscences of Frank Diehl Fackenthal : oral history, 1956. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309733041 ...

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Powell, Walter, 1874-1928

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Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861-1944

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Neurologist, psychiatrist, and professor emeritus of mental diseases at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, as well as a book collector who gave 19,000 volumes to the University Library in 1932. From the description of Collection : of autograph letters and documents, 1788-1932. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862715 ...

Connelly, John F.

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Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943

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Sargent, George H. (George Henry), 1867-1931

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Wheatley, George H.

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Frew, Robert (Robert McFarland)

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Crockett, W. S. (William Shillinglaw), 1866-1945

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Buffalo Public Library (Buffalo, N.Y.)

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Hewart, Gordon Hewart, Baron, 1870-1943

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R. W. (Robert William) Chapman

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Francis Edwards

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Gable, William F., 1856-1921

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Haynes, E. S. P. (Edmund Sidney Pollock), 1877-1949

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Baird, Frank B. (Frank Burkett), 1852-1939

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Pembroke College (University of Oxford)

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Brown, Walter (Walter L.)

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Mumford, Edward W. (Edward Warloch), 1868-1941

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Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, 1876-1963

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Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930

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Stevens, Henry M.

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Adam family

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Universal Engraving & Colorplate Company (Buffalo, N.Y.)

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Zucker, Hyman

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RBA II's wife.

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Toynbee, Paget Jackson, 1855-1932

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E. H. Ford.

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Maggs Bros.

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W. Roberts

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Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933

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English author and statesman. From the description of Good taste : an address delivered at a place of secondary education in England : autograph manuscript, [19--?]. (Peking University Library). WorldCat record id: 53203384 British author. From the description of Letter of Augustine Birrell, 1921. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32960300 From the description of Letter to "Dear Seton" [manuscript], 1921. (University of Virginia). WorldCat re...

Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, 1876-1963

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Epithet: of Yale University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000834.0x00011e A full biographical statement is provided in the register for the Chauncey Brewster Tinker Papers (GEN MSS 354) . From the guide to the Chauncey Brewster Tinker letters and manuscripts, 1900-1963, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) Chauncey Brewster Tinker, teacher, scholar and collector. Tinker was a membe...

Christopher Morley

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James Tregaskis (Firm)

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Johnson, Edith.

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Secretary to Ernest L. Wilkinson who was President of Brigham Young University. From the description of Oral history, 1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122351559 ...

Eccles, Mary Hyde

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Mary Hyde Eccles was one of the world's leading collectors of books and manuscripts from the 1940s until her death in 2003. She was also a distinguished literary scholar, and an important benefactor to numerous libraries and cultural institutions. This collection relates to her essay "Not in Chapman," a catalog of unpublished Samuel Johnson letters. As this project neared completion in 1964, a new cache of letters from Samuel Johnson to Charlotte Lennox was discovered in the vault of the British...

Wing, Donald Goddard, 1904-1972

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Donald Goddard Wing was born in Athol, Massachusetts in 1904 and attended public schools there. He graduated from Yale University in 1926 and received a master's degree in English from Harvard University in 1928. In that year, he joined the Yale University Library as an assistant reference librarian, and participated in the move of the Yale collections to the new Sterling Memorial Library. Wing spent his entire career at Yale as a librarian and bibliographer, retiring as Associate L...

Rosenbach, A.S.W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952

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Smith, Frederick Miller.

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Lamont, Thomas W. (Thomas William), 1870-1948

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Epithet: American banker British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001219.0x00036a Epithet: banker British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001191.0x000381 Masefield was a British poet and dramatist. From the description of John Masefield collection: additional papers, 1956-1963. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 81756769 ...

Norman, Thomas, 1977-

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Epithet: physician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000216.0x000375 ...

Jarrett, Edwin S.

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Henry Ware.

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Parke-Bernet Galleries.

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Auction house; New York, N.Y. From the description of Parke-Bernet Galleries auction catalogs, 1956-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122395181 ...

Robert Levet.

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Driver, Clive E.

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Oxford University Press, Inc., 1964, 1971

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R. Riviere & Son (Firm)

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Wood, William A. (William Allan), 1922-

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Spurr & Swift (Firm).

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Biron, Chartres, Sir, 1863-1940

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Savage, Ernest Albert, 1877-1966

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Sir Chartres Biron

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Frederick Vernon

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Brentano's (Firm)

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Edgar H. Wells & Co.

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Edgar Huidekoper Wells (1875-1938; A.B. 1897) operated Edgar H. Wells and Company, a rare book shop in New York City, from 1921 to 1938. From the guide to the Edgar H. Wells & Co. correspondence, 1924-1933., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Rolleston, Humphry Davy, Sir, 1862-1944

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British physician, Oxford professor, historian of medicine. From the description of Papers, 1882-1943. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35328759 Rolleston was a distinguished British physician who served as a consulting physician to the Royal Navy during World War I and was personal physician to George V. He was also an honorary fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and a consultant to the Army Medical Library. From the description of Centennial of the...

Matthews-Northrup Company

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Lee, Alfred P. (Alfred Pyle), 1871-1940

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Depew, Ganson.

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Nicholas Murray Butler

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Edmond de Goncourt

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Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940

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A. Edward Newton was an authority on book collecting during the first half of the 20th century. His correspondence with Alfred Blake Trott, president of Daniels & Fisher Company of Denver, Colo. from 1929-1944, details book collecting as well as travels, and reflects on the political and economic climate of the time in Europe and the United States. Newton also sent Trott copies of articles, most published in the Atlantic monthly between 1922 and 1938. Some articles were privately printed by ...

Adam, Thomas

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Epithet: witness of Wolley Ch vi.22 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000838.0x0003da Epithet: of Ashbourne British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000838.0x0003d8 Epithet: of Stowe Ch 137 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_1000000...

Harry F. Marks (Firm)

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Phyllis M. Clodd

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J. P. (John Pierpont) Morgan

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Beyer, Barnet J. (Barnet Julius), 1887-1947

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Robert Borthwick Adam, 1833-1904

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L. H. (Lyman Henry) Butterfield

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Harmsworth, Cecil, 1869-1948

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Dorothea Mary Roby Benson, Baroness Charnwood

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Grosvenor Library

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Roger Ingpen

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Burns, Robert, 1759-1796

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Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement, and after his death he became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism, and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish diaspora around the world. Celebration of his life and work became almost a national charismatic cult during the 19th and 20th centuries, and his influence has long been strong on Scottish literature. ...

Kennerley, Mitchell, 1878-1950

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Mitchell Kennerley served as the publisher for "Wine of the Puritans," "John Addington Symonds" and "The World of H. G. Wells." From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1909-1915. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 181337904 Mitchell Kennerley (1878-1950) was an American publisher and art dealer. He worked for various literary magazines and published several others. From 1916 to 1929 and 1937 to 1939 he was president of the Anderson G...

Lucas, E.V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938

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English essayist, playwright, and biographer of Charles Lamb. From the description of Friendship's gallery : AMs, [before 1930] / by E.V. Lucas. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122525226 From the description of Facets & angles : AMs, [between 1918 and 1930] / by E.V. Lucas. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122591792 Edward Verrall Lucas was an English author and editor. A remarkably prolific writer, he produced novels, ...

William H. Robinson, Ltd.

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Metzdorf, Robert F. (Robert Frederic), 1912-

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Yale University.

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E.P. Dutton (Firm)

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American book publishing company E. P. Dutton was founded by Edward Payson Dutton in Boston in 1852 as a bookseller. In 1864 Dutton opened a branch office in New York City and in 1869 relocated his headquarters there, where he began publishing as well as selling. In 1906, the company captured an important partner when it became the American distributor of the Everyman's Library series, published by the English firm J. M. Dent. Dutton remained at the helm of his company u...

Robert J. Usher

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Pleadwell, F. L. (Frank Lester), 1872-1957

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U.S. naval surgeon and medical historian. From the description of Papers, 1910-1953 and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35253597 ...

Scott, Geoffrey, 1885-1929

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B.F. Stevens & Brown, Ltd.

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Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961

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Historian of New York. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, New York to J.P. Morgan, [1916] Nov. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270903073 ...

A. W. (Arthur William) Evans.

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Jast, L. Stanley (Louis Stanley), 1868-1944

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L. E. Lynd

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Poole, Charles Henry

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Green, James Frederick, 1910-2000

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Hill, George Birkbeck Norman, 1835-1903

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Roscoe, Edward Stanley, 1849-1932

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Louis B. Hart

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Yale university. Library

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Eli Whitney was born in Westborough, Massachusetts in 1765. Even as a child he showed an aptitude for mechanical work, repairing violins and taking on other mechanical work as it presented itself. Whitney set up shop making nails and when the demand for nails declined, he changed his business to manufacture hat pins, a commodity with increasing demand. Whitney eventually enrolled at Yale College in May 1789, and graduated three years later. He intended to further his education and become a lawye...

Bernard Halliday (Firm)

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Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957

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American author and journalist. From the description of Letter to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1940 October 25. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810653 Christopher Morley was an American editor, an author, and a Rhodes scholar. Morley was one of the founders of the "Saturday Review of Literature," of which he was an editor from 1924 to 1940. A prolific author, he wrote more than 50 books. His novels include PANASSUS ON WHEELS (1917), THE HAUNTED BOOKS...

Harriet Adam Servis

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Edgar Munson

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John D. Rockefeller, 1906-

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Edward Clodd)

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Bernard Quaritch (Firm)

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Phillips Academy

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Smith College.

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Since 1900, Christmas at Smith College has involved the sending of cards, the singing of carols and the annual Vespers. Smith College's Christmas Vespers has allowed religious and non-religious students alike to come together and appreciate the music and spirit of the holiday season. At this annual candlelight ceremony, Smith College choral groups perform seasonal songs and religious readings. From the description of Records of Christmas at Smith College, 1900-[ongoing]. (Smith Colle...

Keogh, Andrew, 1869-1953

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Andrew Keogh: reference librarian, Newcastle (Eng.) Public Libraries, 1892-1898; librarian of Linonia and Brothers Library at Yale University, 1899-1900; Yale University reference librarian, 1900-1916; Yale Librarian, 1916-1938; librarian emeritus, 1938-1953; lecturer and then professor of bibliography, 1902-1938; professor emeritus, 1938-1953. From the guide to the Andrew Keogh papers, 1898-1938, (Manuscripts and Archives) ...

Scott, William, Baron Stowell, 1745-1836

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Stowell held a variety of position within the govenment including Advocate General for Lord High Admiralty (1782), Judge for Consistory Court (1788-1821), Privy Councilor (1798), and Judge of High Court of Admiralty (1798-1828). From the description of Letter to the vice-chancellor of Oxford University, 14 March 1807. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234337873 Judge of the High Court of the Admiralty. From the description of Autograph letter sign...

Charles Sessler (Firm)

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Hamlin, Chauncey J. (Chauncey Jerome), 1881-1963

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Chauncey Hamlin was a "...lawyer, civic benefactor, political leader, planner, and known the world over for his work in promoting museums." Hamlin was active in public service, including the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Niagara Frontier Planning Board, City Planning Commission, State Council of Parks, and the Legal Aid Society. Internationally, his service included the UNESCO, International Council of Museums, and Justice for Greece Committee. Locally, Hamlin is best remembered fo rhis w...

Fleming, John F. (John Francis), 1910-

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Florence Espe Bristol

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John T. Snyder

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Riviere & Son

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Brentano's

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Grolier Club

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The Grolier Club was founded in Jan. 23, 1884 by a group of seven New York City book collectors with the object, as stated in its constitution, "of literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books." From its early days the Club has maintained a library related to collecting, bibliography and books about books. A library endowment fund (sometimes referred to as the "Library Fund) for the Grolier Club was first proposed in 1921, and the first fund-raising campaign amo...

Henry C. Buswell.

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Roberts, S.C. (Sydney Castle), 1887-1966

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Macy's (Firm)

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Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

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New York Public Library

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The New York Pubic Library purchased Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of books, pamphlets, prints and photographs in 1926 with funds from the Carnegie Corporation and housed at the 135th Street Branch Library of The New York Public Library. L. Hollingsworth Wood was appointed in 1925 by the Board of Trustees of The New York Public Library to purchase and provide guidelines for the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature. Members of the Advisory Committee of the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection, i...

Babcock, Louis L., 1868-1956

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Lawyer, author, historian, soldier, and sportsman. Authority on McKinley assassination. From the description of Scrapbook, ca. 1880-ca. 1946 (bulk ca. 1940-1946). (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 38294085 From the description of Robert Cameron Rogers : typescript, Oct. 1948 / read before the Saturn Club by Gen. Louis L. Babcock. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 56550956 From the description of Thomas A. Budd : a forgotten worthy : typescrip...

Shearer, Augustus Hunt, 1878-1941

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Cornell University, Library

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The Book Collection Contest was instituted in 2003 continuing the tradition of the Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Book Collection Contest that was helf from 1966 to 1987. It provides Cornell students with the opportunity of displaying their aptitude in assembling and organizing book collections and articulate their interest in books and reading. In 2006 the contest expanded to include a separate category for graduate students. From the description of Cornell University Library and Li...

Reade, Aleyn Lyell, 1876-

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Harriman, Lewis G

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University of Houston

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Newton, E. Swift (Edward Swift)

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Red Cross club director in London during World War II. From the description of Letters, 1942-1944. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17725262 ...

Clifford, James L. (James Lowry), 1901-1978

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED James Lowry Clifford, 1901-1979, was a professor of English at Columbia University. He wrote two biographies of Samuel Johnson as well as works on the writing of biography. From the guide to the James L. Clifford papers, 1774-1978, (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) James Lowry Clifford, 1901-1979, was a professor of English at Columbia University. He wrote two biographies of Samuel Johnson as well as works on the writing of biography. ...

University of Michigan. Library.

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See the Library Records finding aid for the history of the University of Michigan library system. From the guide to the Library (University of Michigan) publications, 1881-2002, 1950-2001, (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan) The University Library system at the University of Michigan provides information resources and services to faculty, students, staff, and the public, and is comprised of undergraduate, graduate, and subject-oriented divisiona...

Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944

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Epithet: bibliographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x000146 ...

Burns Gillam

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Hurd, Walter C.

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Harper & Brothers.

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Correspondence (129 letters) and typescript (unsigned) revisions and notes, 1954, (23 p.) concerning the publication of The Scope of Total Architecture by Walter Gropius. Includes 22 letters from Gropius. From the description of Correspondence with Walter Gropius, 1952-1956. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612369957 Publishing firm in New York City. From the description of Harper & Brothers Records 1817-1929. (Columbia University In the City of New ...

National Geographic Society (U.S.)

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The eruption of Mount Katmai on the Alaska Peninsula in 1912 was one of the great volcanic events of modern history. The eruption covered the town of Kodiak with almost one foot of ash and the explosion was reportedly heard as far away as Juneau, 750 miles distant. To study this phenomena, the National Geographic Society launched several scientific investigating expeditions to Katmai and surrounding areas affected by the eruption. There was a brief expedition to Kodiak and Afognak Islands, led b...

Smith, David Nichol, 1875-1962

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David Nichol Smith (1875-1962) was Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford from 1929 until his retirement in 1946. He was an authority on English Literature from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. From the description of Correspondence [manuscript]. 1895-1959. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225810188 David Nichol Smith assisted Sir Walter Raleigh with the Arden Shakespeare Series for several years, authored a number o...

Princeton university. Library

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The Princeton University Library, consisting of the main Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library and 13 special libraries in locations around campus, is one of the world's most distinguished research libraries. Since its founding in 1750, the Library's collections have grown to include more than 6.2 million books, 6.3 million microforms, 36,000 linear feet of manuscripts, and impressive holdings of rare books, prints and archives. The origins of the Princeton University Lib...

Powell, Lawrence Fitzroy, 1881-1975

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Sharp, R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson), 1864-1945

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Milburn, John G. (John George), 1851-1930

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Prominent Buffalo lawyer; president of the Board of Directors of the Pan-American Exposition Company. From the description of Pan-American Exposition admission note, 1900 Oct. 16. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 33310825 ...

J. Homer Caskey

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Clement King Shorter

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Wilkins, Ernest Hatch, 1880-1966

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Ernest Hatch Wilkins was born in Newton Centre, Massachusetts on September 14, 1880. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College in 1900 and began his teaching career there, receiving the M.A. from Amherst in 1903. He taught at Harvard University from 1906 to 1912 while working towards the Ph. D. in Romance Languages, which he received in 1910. In 1912, he was appointed Associate Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Chicago and in 1923 became Dean of the university's College ...

Cowley, A.E. (Arthur Ernest), 1861-1931

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Hackett, Edmond Byrne, 1879-

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Edmond Byrne Hackett was born in Kilkenny, Ireland on June 8, 1879 and came to the United States in 1895. He was employed as a salesman by Doubleday Page & Company in New York from 1901-1907, and as manager of publishing by Baker & Taylor Company from 1907-1909. Hackett served as director of the Yale University Press soon after its founding in 1908. He was also the founder of the Brick Row Book Shop in New York. Hackett died on November 10, 1953. From the description of E. By...

Manchester Public Libraries (Manchester, England)

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Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937

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Epithet: of Add MS 38794 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001295.0x00005c Thomas James Wise was an English book collector, printer, bibliographer, and literary forger. From the description of Thomas James Wise collection of papers, 1876-1937. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122455235 From the guide to the Thomas James Wise collection of papers, 1876-1937, (The New York Public ...

Powell, Lawrence Fitzroy, 1881-1975

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Ulmann, Doris, 1882-1934

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Bertha A. Keyes

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Robert Burns.

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J. M. Winterbotham

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Andersen, Johannes Carl, 1873-1962

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Gay, George A., -1940

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Howard Memorial Library

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Lockwood memorial library

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Le Keux, John Henry, 1812-1896

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Epithet: Engraver British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000133.0x0003d0 ...

Beyer, Barnet J. (Barnet Julius), 1887-1947

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Nasmyth, James, 1808-1890

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James Nasmyth, writer in Edinburgh. From the guide to the Diary of James Nasmyth, 1688-1704, 1688-1704, (University of St Andrews) Title: 3rd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001297.0x000229 British inventor. From the description of Letter, 1861 December 17 : Penshurst, Kent. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852926 ...

James Boswell

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Vassar College. Library

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University of Rochester. Library

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Russell, Charles, Sir, 1863-1928

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Hayd, H. E.

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Axon, Ernest

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Resident of Derbyshire, England. From the description of Letter, 1939. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 34070077 ...

Rogers, Robert William, 1864-1930

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William M. Rice Institute

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Alexander Nasmyth

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Stowe, Franklin D. L., 1879-1964?

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Thomas, L. C. (Leslie Charles)

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A. D. Noyes

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Green, J. Frederick.

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MacKinnon, F. D. (Frank Douglas), Sir, 1871-1946

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Gladstone, Hugh S. (Hugh Steuart), 1877-1949

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English naturalist. From the description of Typewritten letter signed : Capenoch, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, to W.H. Mullens, 1913 Jan. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129945 ...

Pottle, Frederick A. (Frederick Albert), 1897-1987

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Frederick Albert Pottle, the foremost scholar of James Boswell, was born in Center Lowell, Maine, on August 3, 1897. He received his B.A. from Colby College in 1917, served in an Army evacuation hospital from 1917 to 1919, and then entered Yale University, earning his M.A. in 1921, and his Ph.D. in 1925. He became a full professor at Yale in 1930 and was named Sterling Professor of English in 1944. His work on Boswell commenced with his doctoral dissertation. After Yale acquired the rare Boswell...

Carman, William Warren

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Strickland Gibson

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W. A. Gough.

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Osgood, Charles Grosvenor, 1871-1964

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Hay, George Andrews

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Whibley, Leonard, 1862 or 1863-1941

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George D. Smith Book Co.

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E. Mathews (Firm)

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Bookselling firm founded in 1885 by Charles Elkin Mathews; the business began in the Cathedral Close at Exeter but moved to London in 1887 when Elkin Mathews and John Lane went into partnership. Within a very few years publishing became the principle interest of the firm, now Elkin Mathews and John Lane Ltd., with retail sales of books, old and new, taking a secondary place. The two men parted company in 1894 and Mathews, although continuing to publish, returned to a greater concentration on boo...

Babb, James T. (James Tinkham), 1899-1968

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Allen Gordon McArthur

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Edinburgh Public Libraries

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Hillard, Mary Robbins

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Liebert, Herman W.

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Herman Wardwell ("Fritz") Liebert (1911-1994), Yale Class of 1933, was a bibliophile, literary scholar and collector, author of several works about Samuel Johnson, and the first Librarian of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. From the description of Herman W. Liebert manuscript collection, 1604-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79259317 From the description of Herman W. Liebert manuscript collection, 1604-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702148485 ...

Blue, C. S.

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Buttrick, Ernest G.

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Sir Geoffrey Keynes

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Granniss, Ruth S. (Ruth Shepard), 1872-1954

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Librarian of the Grolier Club. From the description of Ruth S. Granniss correspondence, 1911-1914. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 470399492 ...

Sharpe, Charles

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E. H. Courville

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Schelling, Felix Emmanuel, 1858-1945

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Felix Emmanuel Schelling joined the faculty of the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania in 1886. He was curator of the H. H. Furness Memorial Library from 1933 to 1945. From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, [1895]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884799 From the description of Letters to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1890-1928. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884801 A.B., LL.B...

Malkin, Solomon M., -1986

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The Antiquarian bookman began as a feature in Publisher's weekly and became a separate publication in 1948 under the editorship of Sol M. Malkin. R. R. Bowker Co. was the publisher until July 1953 when Malkin became publisher as well as editor. In 1967 the title was changed to AB bookman's weekly. Malkin, assisted by his wife, Mary Ann O'Brien Malkin, ran the magazine until 1974. "AB" was a trade publication used by antiquarian booksellers to locate rare, out-of-print and scarce titles, and serv...

William Andrews Clark memorial library

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The library and its collections were built by William Andrews Clark, Jr., and named after his father, who had built a mining fortune in MT. The son, a prominent Los Angeles book collector and philanthropist, had a house at the corner of Adams and Cimarron Streets, and from 1924 to 1926 he constructed the present library on the same lot. Shortly afterwards he announced his intent to donate the collection, the buildings, and the square-block property to UCLA. When he died in 1934 the deed passed t...

Johnson Society

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Gomme, Laurence J. (Laurence James), 1882-

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Bookseller, of New York City; publisher of The Circus and Other Essays (1916) by Joyce Kilmer. From the description of Papers relating to Joyce Kilmer, 1915-1928 (bulk 1915-1918). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122429057 The Gommes were collectors of performing arts ephemera. Laurence Gomme was a bookseller, publisher and also an appraiser who evaluated collections of performing artists. Florence Cornell Gomme, his wife was an actress. From the guide to the Laure...

Swan, James A.

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Potter, Alfred Claghorn, 1867-1940

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Broadus, Edmund Kemper, 1876-1936

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Agnes Repplier.

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John Woolsey.

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Susan F. Albright

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Rosenbach Company

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The Rosenbach Company offered books, manuscripts, and entire collections for sale through their published catalogues and through typed lists and descriptions with more limited circulation. From the description of Collation files, [ca. 1903-ca. 1953]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122581004 ...

Dickson, William Kirk, 1860-1949

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William Kirk Dickon was born in Edinburgh on 24 November 1860. He was educated at Merchiston Castle School which he left in 1875. He studied at Edinburgh University where he obtained an MA in 1880. Dickson became an Advocate in 1887 and he was Keeper of the Advocates' Library 1905. He became the first Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, 1925-1931. He was awarded an Honorary LL.D. from St. Andrews University in 1912. His publications include The life of Major-General Sir Robert Murdoch...

Adelaide Underhill

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Louise F. Munson.

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W. A. Wood

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Chapman, R.W. (Robert William), 1881-1960

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Robert William Chapman (1881-1960) graduated from the University of Oxford, and was employed by the university's Clarendon Press from 1906 to 1942. He edited numerous scholarly editions of Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson. The culmination of his career was The Letters of Samuel Johnson, which he began researching in the mid-1920s, and completed in 1952. This remained the definitive edition of Johnson's correspondence until Bruce Redford's The Letters of Samuel Johnson in 1992. From the...

Gerould, James Thayer, 1872-1951

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James Thayer Gerould was Librarian of the University of Minnesota, 1906-1920. From the description of James Thayer Gerould papers, 1907-1918. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63301028 James Thayer Gerould, A.B. Dartmouth College (1895). Assistant, General Theological Seminary (1896-1897). Serials Supervisor, Columbia University (1897-1900). University Librarian, University of Missouri (1900-1906). University Librarian, University of Mi...

Abbott, Charles D. (Charles David), 1900-1961

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Charles David Abbott was born in 1900 in Milfold, Delaware. He received a B.A. from Haverford College and a M.A. from Columbia University. A Rhodes Scholar, Abbott received a B. Litt. from Oxford University. His thesis was on Christopher Smart. Authored book, Howard Pyle: A Chronicle. Pyle and Smart were research interests for the rest of his life. He taught at the University of Buffalo (1927-1930) and the University of Colorado (1930-1934). He served as Director of Libraries at the...

State university of New York at Buffalo

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Moule, Henry W.

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Starrett, Vincent

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Epithet: American author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x0000ef ...

Belden, Charles F. D. (Charles Francis Dorr), 1870-1931

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Dobmeier, Fred.

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Cole, George Watson, 1850-1939

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Epithet: Librarian Henry E Huntington Library British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000498.0x0000ab George Watson Cole: school teacher, 1872-1876; admitted to Massachusetts Bar, 1876, and practiced law until 1885; from 1885-1886 compiled the Classified Catalogue of the Fitchburg Public Library; in 1886 became Librarian of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn; from 1888-1891 worked for Newberry Library in Chicago; from 189...

Sedgwick, Ellery, 1872-1960

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Ellery Sedgwick was editor of The Atlantic Monthly. From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1920. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884345 ...

Birmingham public libraries

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Cornell University

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A. V. Houghton.

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Unwin, T. Fisher Thomas Fisher 1848-1935

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English publisher. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Alfred Hunt, 1878 Apr. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 771068056 ...

Tate, Cecil Whittier.

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Wood, William A.

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In Bulmer's Directory/Gazetteer for 1890, William Abel Wood is described as a major landowner and listed as the owner of Green Farm in the township of Lillings Ambo. He is also included as the Councillor for the Sutton-in-the-Forest division of the North Riding. From the guide to the Records of the firm of land agents William A. Wood of the East Riding of Yorkshire Valuers' Association, 1868-1960, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) ...

Lewis, W.S. (Wilmarth Sheldon), 1895-1979

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Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis was born in Alameda, California, on November 14, 1895. He graduated from Yale College in 1918. While at Yale, Lewis was editor of the Lit, and contributed to the Courant and the Record. He served in the army during World War I and in the OSS during World War II. He was a member of many societies and a contributor to multiple magazines, including Atlantic Monthly. He was also an expert and collector of the writings of Horace Walpole, the 18th century English writer. He was ...

Nicholson, Marjorie Hope

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John F. Connelly.

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Mitchell Kennerley.

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Theobald Mather

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Gookin, Edward L.

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Esdaile, Arundell James Kennedy, 1880-1956

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Esdaile was a scholar librarian who served a long tenure as the Secretary of the British Museum. Grierson was a Scottish literary scholar and critic. From the description of [Letter] 1928 Feb. 14, British Museum, London, W. C., 1 [to] Prof. Grierson / A. Esdaile. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 225162520 ...

Charles McCamic

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Hyde, Donald Frizell, 1909-1966

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Epithet: first husband of Mary Viscountess Eccles British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x000188 ...

Edgar H. Wells & Co., recipient.

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Swann, Arthur

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W. V. (William Vermillion) Houston

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Lockwood, Thomas B. 1873-1947

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Cross, Wilbur L. (Wilbur Lucius), 1862-1948

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Epithet: of the `Yale Review' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000284 Cross was Governor of Connecticut. From the description of Proclamation of Thanksgiving day for the state of Connecticut : DS, 1936. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26525875 Wilbur Lucius Cross was born in Gurleyville, Connecticut, on April 10, 1862. He received his B.A. from Yale in 1885...