Letter : Boston, Mass., to [Frederick Webb] Hodge, 1909 Jan. 11.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1946

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Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956

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Frederick Webb Hodge was an ethnographer, archaeologist, editor and museum director. Hodge's first exposure to archaeology was as secretary of the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition. When the project was over he returned to work at the Bureau of American Ethnology as Librarian. His work as editor began with the revitalization of the American Anthropologist and carried through his 2 vol. set of the Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, to the famous 20 vol. set by Edward S. C...

Douglas-Lithgow, R. A. (Robert Alexander), 1846-1917

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Physician, poet, and author of the Dictionary of American-Indian place and proper names in New England (1909), as well as works on poetry, medicine, the history of Nantucket, etc. Born in Ireland in 1846 and educated there, Douglas-Lithgow practiced medicine in London, where he also was an officer of the Royal Society of Literature of Great Britain and Ireland. In the late 1890's, Douglas-Lithgow must have emigrated to Boston, where he continued his writing on regional t...