Donald Frizell Hyde, 1909-1966 [scrapbook], [ca. 1965-1968]

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Donald Frizell Hyde, 1909-1966 [scrapbook], [ca. 1965-1968]

Includes printed memorial service program for Hyde held at Christ Church Methodist, New York, 11 March 1966; and ca. 32 letters and postcards addressed to Crawford from various correspondents regarding Hyde after his death, including correspondence from Hyde's wife, Mary Hyde Eccles.

Ca. 33 items ; 28 cm. and smaller

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SNAC Resource ID: 8233113

Grolier Club

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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 ...

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 This collection relates to her essay "Not in Chapman," a catalog of unpublished Samuel Johnson letters.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

John M. Crawford, Jr.

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Donald Frizell Hyde, a celebrated collector of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, on 17 April 1909. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1929 and from Harvard Law School in 1932. In 1962 he received the honorary degree of LittD from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and was appointed an honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Hyde took a central part in publications and/or societies devoted to Shakespeare, Johnson, Boswell, Keats, and Shelley; in th...

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...