Papers, 1846-1948 (inclusive), 1918-1939 (bulk).

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Papers, 1846-1948 (inclusive), 1918-1939 (bulk).

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The correspondence in Series I is between Adam and various writers, scholars, book dealers, and collectors. Key correspondents include R.W. (Robert William) Chapman; J.P. (John Pierpont) Morgan; A.S.W. (Abraham Simon Wolf) Rosenbach; and Chauncey Brewster Tinker. The most regular correspondent was Adam's friend and fellow Johnson collector, A. Edward Newton of Philadelphia, mostly discussing their respective collections of Johnsoniana, but also touching upon contemporary American politics and economics. The Lawrence Gomme correspondence file in Series II all relates to the negotiations over Adam's Johnsonian collection after his death, from 1941 until its sale to Donald and Mary Hyde in 1948. Series III consists of invoices, receipts, and other documents relating to Adam's acquisition of books and manuscripts. The bulk of Series IV relates to the publication of Adam's library catalogs. The series also contains an annotated proof of Augustine Birrell's rare Aphorisms on Authors and their Ways. Another important piece is Adam's annotated copy of George Birkbeck Norman Hill's Index to Boswell's Life of Johnson, used for organizing Adam's extra-illustrated sets of Johnsoniana. Many of the photographs in Series VI are inscribed to Adam by friends. Series VII consists of eight boxes of printing plates from Adam's published catalogs.

22 boxes and 4 v. (12.5 linear ft.)

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Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library)

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Adam, R. B. (Robert Borthwick), 1863-1940

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Robert Borthwick Adam was a prominent manuscript collector. He was born in England in 1863 as Robert Borthwick Adam Scott, son of John Scott and Jean (Adam) Scott. In 1872, he was brought to Buffalo, N.Y, and adopted by his uncle, Robert Borthwick Adam (1833-1904), a prosperous department store owner. He assumed his uncle's name and eventually inherited the department store, as well as a substantial collection of British rare books and literary manuscripts, many of them relating to Samuel Johnso...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Hill, George Birkbeck Norman, 1835-1903

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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...

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...

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

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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 ...