Johnson, Richard Colles - Correspondence file 1964-1973.

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Johnson, Richard Colles - Correspondence file 1964-1973.

Incoming and outgoing correspondence with booksellers, private and university presses, and collectors, including G. Thomas Tanselle.

2 cubic ft. (2 cartons)

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Newberry Library

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Newberry Library. Office of the Collection Development Librarian.

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Although it has always been the responsibility of the Librarian to recommend acquisitions for approval by the Newberry Library Board of Trustees, over the years the Trustees have played a less active role, and daily responsibility for book selection has been placed in departments staffed by bibliographic specialists. From 1915 to 1931 a Book Selection, Ordering, and Receipt Department (headed by Pierce Butler, 1919-1931) handled acquisitions. In 1933, selection was place...

Tanselle, G. Thomas (George Thomas), 1934-

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G. Thamas Tanselle served for twenty-eight years (1978-2006) as the Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; since 1980 he has also been Adjunct Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Before his move to New York in 1978, he had taught at the University of Wisconsin for eighteen years and had held Guggenheim (1969-70), ACLS (1973-74), and NEH (1977-78) Fellowships. He has lectured widely and has published books and articles (amounting in al...

Johnson, Richard Colles

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Obtained M.A. in sociology and criminology at the University of Michigan in 1951. From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1955. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 238373974 Bibliographer and librarian at the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois. Richard Colles ("Rick") Johnson was born at Pestoskey, Michigan on September 7, 1939. After graduating from Yale University in 1961, he earned masters' degrees...