Mary Hyde Eccles collection, 1903-2002 (bulk 1959-2002).

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Mary Hyde Eccles collection, 1903-2002 (bulk 1959-2002).

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Travel diaries, photographs, brochures, itineraries, catalogs and ephemera relating to the Grolier Club's "Gala Book Week" (May 1964) and its bibliophile journeys in Italy (1962), Scandinavia and the Netherlands (1967), and Germany and Austria (1969). Other material related to the Grolier Club includes: photographs of the reception given for Mary Hyde on the publication of her edition of the correspondence of George Bernard Shaw and Lord Alfred Douglas; photographs of the sale of the A. Edward Newton collection and 16 miscellaneous club publications. Also: an album of photographs documenting the farewell party given by Lord and Lady Eccles to participants in the Grolier Club's trip to Spain in 1997. Non Grolier Club material includes: a set of minutes of the Hroswitha Club; items documenting Mary Hyde's participation in the Fifth International Congress for Bibliophiles (Venice, 1967); photographs of receptions at Harvard on the occasion of displays of the Hyde Collection of Samuel Johnson; an album of thank-you letters from members of the Roxburghe Club to whom she sent copies her club publication, James Boswell's Book of Company in 1997, and an album of photographs documenting the dinner in her honor given by the Pierpont Morgan Library in September 2002.

4 boxes.Photographs ca. 810 : b x w and col. ; 18 x 24 cm. and smaller.Slides 9 : col. ; 5 x 5 cm.Negatives 10.

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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 This collection relates to her essay "Not in Chapman," a catalog of unpublished Samuel Johnson letters.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...

Austin, Gabriel

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Gabriel Austin was curator of the Grolier Club (a society for bibliophiles located in New York City) from 1963 to 1965 and librarian from 1965 to 1970. Jean Grolier was a French court official and bibliophile who served in various capacities under Louis XII, Francois I, Henry II and Charles IX. He was a patron of French and Italian scholarship and printing. Grolier's extensive library may have numbered as many as 3,000 volumes, and he commissioned elaborate bindings for many of them. The collect...

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...

Hroswitha Club

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The Hroswitha Club of women book collectors was founded in New York City in 1944 and took its name from a 10th century female German poet (Hrotsvitha, ca. 935-ca. 975). Meetings were scheduled three to four times a year during the winter months and held at the homes of members as well as at major libraries and private collections, mainly in the northeast. In 1948, the Club founded its Sarah Gildersleeve Fife Memorial Library (named after one of the Hroswitha Club's founders) consist...

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 ...