Typed letter signed : London, to J. John Munson, 1935 June 26.

Symons, A.J.A. (Alphonse James Albert), 1900-1941

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Alphonse James Albert Symons was born in a suburb of London and privately educated, until apprenticed to a furrier at age fourteen. With little experience in the book trade, he founded the First Editions Club, and soon published a bibliography of William Butler Yeats. An avid collector, he was editor of the Book-Collector's Quarterly, establishing himself as an authority on literature of the 1890s with essays and lectures. He wrote several biographies, notably The Quest for Corvo, an innovative ...

Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986

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Gordon N. Ray, a graduate of Indiana University, was closely associated with the life and work of William Makepeace Thackeray. His four volume edition of the Letters and private papers appeared in 1945-1946 and his two volume biography in 1954-1955. From 1963 to 1985 Ray was president of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Ray was also an outstanding collector of English and French illustrated books. His collections formed the bases of two exhibitions held at the Pierpont Morgan Library that w...

Munson, J. John,

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