ALMANAC AAS NEWSLETTER • SUMMER 2003 • NUMBER 65
to our Conservation Department newspaper collection to expand by where the two sizes were separated, up to seventy percent. Few institu- cleaned, repaired, placed in archival- tions have the luxury of available quality wrappers and boxes, and space on site for newspaper volumes, shelved in our climate-controlled allowing volumes to be retrieved and stacks. The next week, a patron put in front of a patron in a matter using newspapers published near the of minutes rather than hours or days. North-South border during the Civil Since our founding in 1812 by War requested it. newspaperman Isaiah Thomas, AAS I have been calling the offices of has sought out runs of newspapers, other newspapers listed in Winifred and our collection contains over Gregory’s American Newspapers 2,000,000 original issues. The 1821-1936 (New York, 1937) and library has particularly strong find that less than twenty-five per- regional collections for New cent of the publishers still have their England, New York City, and early newspapers. Some have been Philadelphia, but it is weaker in given to local historical societies or other regions of the country and libraries, some have been lost to dis- especially outside the major metro- NEWSPAPER ACQUISITIONS asters, and unfortunately many have politan areas. So my aim is to track been destroyed. The goal of AAS’s down any existing files around the newspaper department is to contact country and fill those hundreds of n May 28, 1863, in the small 30, 2002, issue Judith Joy wrote, as many newspaper offices as possi- shelves for the benefit of our Otown of Centralia, Illinois “Although all copies of the newspa- ble in hope of obtaining files such as patrons. Because we collect nation- (seventy miles due east of St. Louis), per are on microfilm, it was with the Centralia Sentinel. I am also ally, a patron researching a topic that the first issue of the Centralia mixed feelings that the donation was contacting libraries, historical soci- was covered in multiple regions of Sentinel was published. J.W. and made. Perhaps the deciding factor eties, and individuals to see if they the U.S. can read newspapers from C.D. Fletcher started this newspaper was the realization that the newspa- are interested in depositing their all over the country under one roof: as a “Local Journal which shall dis- pers would be properly conserved, early newspaper files here to ensure ours. By obtaining more files, the seminate true and loyal sentiments, made available to scholars, and their availability to scholars and newspaper collection will become counteract the pernicious effects of a would be safe from fire, theft and their preservation. even more important for those who corrupt and disloyal Press, stir up possible vandalism.” As a result of the new book do their research under the AAS’s her business men to more enterprise The volume had two different stack, AAS fortunately has the space generous dome. and public spirit, advertise their sized formats bound together, and to expand the collection. We have Vincent Golden, Curator of interests, foster education, cultivate there was some soiling and tears. several hundred empty shelves in cli- Newspapers & Periodicals intelligence, and encourage morality Once it arrived at AAS, it was taken mate-controlled stacks, allowing the and religion.” This was the ninth attempt at a newspaper in the town. Eight previous newspapers were launched between 1856 and 1862, but all had quickly folded, leaving the town without one for over a year s a part of the spring meeting in New York, members when the Sentinel appeared. Starting visited the Harrison, N.Y. home of AAS Councilor Sid out as a weekly, it became a daily in A Lapidus, who explained how his collecting had 1884 and is still published today. In evolved from an interest in Thomas Paine to American 1888 T.L. Joy purchased it, and the Joy family remains its owners. Revolutionary War materials to a broader thematic concern A 1937 bibliography of with human rights and freedom. Sid showed his fellow AAS American newspapers noted that the members several prized items, ranging from his first acquisi- Centralia Sentinel had a file of its tion, made shortly after he graduated from college, of an edi- publication from the very beginning. tion of Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man through more recent After a couple telephone calls, I acquisitions related to the history of Jews in America. At the learned that the Joys still held a end of his talk, he presented to Nancy Burkett as a gift to bound volume containing the first the library a very interesting 1794 manuscript slave eman- four years of their newspaper. So last cipation document. Nicholas Davies, the owner who freed December on a trip to my home state, his slaves, was born in Wales in about 1708 and was in I detoured to southern Illinois to meet Virginia by 1733 when his first marriage the Joys. Judith Joy and her son Tom is recorded. Five years later he was grant- brought out a brown paper package ed 20,000 acres of land. One can only containing a bound volume with the first 207 issues from May 28, 1863, speculate why he freed twenty slaves just to May 16, 1867. I turned to the three months before his death in April 20, 1865, issue and saw a pic- September 1794. Pictured, Librarian ture of Abraham Lincoln with a black Nancy Burkett shows the newly acquired border around the edges, announcing document to University of Texas at the assassination; the news had Austin associate professor of history arrived from Springfield, Illinois via James Sidbury, who has spent the year at telegraph (see photograph). This vol- AAS as an A.W. Mellon Foundation post- ume of the Centralia Sentinel is the doctoral fellow, working on the topic only known copy of all but two of “Conceptions of Africa in Early African these issues, and the Joy family debat- American Culture, 1760-1830.” ed for quite a while before deciding to ( See related article on page 3.) donate it to AAS. In the December
AMERICAN ◆ ANTIQUARIAN ◆ SOCIETY New Members The following were elected at the spring meeting in April 2003.
Q. David Bowers WayBack: US History for Kids, a Web Sandra M. Gustafson George H. Merriam Wolfeboro, New Hampshire site that provides a window on Notre Dame, Indiana Alice Merriam A noted numismatist and founder of American history for middle-school Associate Professor of English, Notre Sterling, Massachusetts the Bowers and Merena Galleries, one students. She is a member of the edito- Dame University. Gustafson’s book Retired director of admissions at of America’s leading dealers in rare rial board of Common-place.org, an Eloquence Is Power: Oratory & Clark University and Fitchburg State coins. Bowers is the author of over on-line journal co-sponsored by AAS Performance in Early America was College and a retired school teacher. four dozen books, including works on and the Gilder-Lehrman Institute. published in 2000. The book traces Both George and Alice Merriam have rare coins and local history. the history of oratory in America from been active users (and faithful sup- Robert Fleck colonization through 1800, examining porters) of the AAS library for Robert C. Bradbury New Castle, Delaware the multiple traditions of sacred, decades. Their research interests Worcester, Massachusetts Founder and president of Oak Knoll diplomatic, and political speech. include American railroad history, Professor of health services manage- Books, specialists in antiquarian and genealogy, and local history. ment in the Graduate School of out-of-print titles on the history of Udo Hebel Management, Clark University, and a the book and the various book arts. Regensburg, Germany Ellen G. Miles collector, bibliographer, and dealer in Oak Knoll also distributes titles pub- Professor of American Studies, Bethesda, Maryland miniature books. In 2001, Bradbury lished by the Bibliographic Society of University of Regensburg. A Curator of painting and sculpture, published Antique United States America, the Private Library Peterson Fellow at AAS in 2000-01, National Portrait Gallery of the Miniature Books, 1690-1900, based Association, and the American Hebel is vice president of the German Smithsonian Institution. Her publica- on his thorough examination of the Antiquarian Society. Mr. Fleck has Association for American Studies and tions include Saint-Mémin and the miniatures in the collections of the served as president of the Antiquarian has been instrumental in establishing Neoclassical Profile Portrait in AAS and the Lilly Library. Booksellers Association of America, a a new fellowship for German scholars America (1994), American Paintings trade organization with 450 members at the AAS. His published works of the Eighteenth Century (1995), Catherine A. Brekus in the United States. include The Construction and George and Martha Washington: Chicago, Illinois Contestation of American Cultures Portraits from the Presidential Years Associate Professor of the History of and Identities in the Early National (1999), and Brush with History: Christianity, University of Chicago Period (1999). Paintings from the National Portrait Divinity School. A Jacob Hiatt Fellow Gallery (2001). at AAS in 1991-92, Brekus is the Woody Holton author of Strangers and Pilgrims: Richmond, Virginia Donald J. Ratcliffe Female Preaching in America, 1740- Assistant Professor of History, Durham, England 1845 (1998) and is currently working University of Richmond. His book, Emeritus reader in history at the Uni- on a book entitled Sarah Osborn’s Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, versity of Durham. A Haven Fellow in World (1714-1796): Popular Religion Slaves, and the Making of the 1983-84, a Research Associate in in Eighteenth-Century America. American Revolution in Virginia 1998-99, and a frequent reader at AAS, (1999), won the Fraunces Tavern Ratcliffe is the author of Party Spirit Richard Candee Museum Book Award (New York in a Frontier Republic: Demo-cratic York, Maine Sons of the Revolution) and the Merle Politics in Ohio, 1793-1821 (1998) Professor of American and New Curti Social History Award and The Politics of Long Division: The England Studies, Boston University, (Organization of American Origins of the Second Party System in where he is also director of the Historians). Holton was an AAS- Ohio, 1818-1828 (2000). Preservation Studies Program. Author After reading of Maria Ferrante's concert NEH Fellow at AAS in 1999-2000. Building Portsmouth: The Neighbor- of of songs discovered at AAS, Ed Sawyer of Andrew W. Robertson hoods and Architecture of New Michael Johnson Hamilton, New York Pittsfield, Massachusetts, sent programs Baltimore, Maryland Hampshire’s Oldest City (1992), Associate Professor of History, from Angela Talbot's concert-lecture, Candee has served as president of the Professor of History, Johns Hopkins Lehman College, City University of performed widely in the late 1960s and New England Chapter of the Society University. Author of a widely-adopt- New York. Robertson is author of early 1970s, including a performance for of Architectural Historians, the ed textbook (The American Promise) Language of Democracy: Political Society of Industrial Archaeology, the the American Philosophical Society. Her and editor of Reading the American Rhetoric in the United States and Past: Selected Historical Documents Vernacular Architecture Forum, and program featured "Lost Songs of the , Britain, 1790-1900 and an editor of the Portsmouth Athenaeum. Federal Period," largely found at AAS Johnson has most recently distin- Beyond the Founders: New when Pittsfield native and AAS Librarian guished himself with “Making of a Approaches to the Political History of Peter L. Crawley Slave Conspiracy: Denmark Vesey and Clifford Shipton, in Ms. Talbot's words, the Early American Republic. He has Provo, Utah His Co-conspirators (2001),” an "gave me unbridled access to the base- played an instrumental role in the Retired mathematics professor from important review essay in the William ment stores of sheet music and hand- Society’s “First Democratization Brigham Young University. Bibliogra- and Mary Quarterly. Project,” a massive compilation of pher of historical Mormon imprints, books of anacreontic songs. early American voting records. Crawley is the compiler of Notable Louis Masur New York, New York Mormon Books, 1830-1857 (1974) Christopher Grasso David Hackett Souter Professor of History at the City and Mormon Imprints in Great Williamsburg, Virginia Weare, New Hampshire, and College of New York. Masur is the Britain and the Empire, 1836-1857 Editor of the William and Mary Washington, D.C. author of a renowned study of capital (1987); In 1998, the first volume of Quarterly and Associate Professsor of Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme punishment, Rites of Execution his Descriptive Bibliography of the History at the College of William and Court. Before his appointment to the (1989) and 1831: Year of Eclipse Mormon Church appeared, covering Mary. His book A Speaking Supreme Court in 1990, Souter served (2001). He is also editor of The the years 1830-1847. Aristocracy: Transforming Public as attorney general of New Hamp- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Discourse in Eighteenth-Century shire and as a justice on the Supreme Donald Cresswell (1993) and “The Real War Will Connecticut was published in 1999, Court of New Hampshire and the Christopher Lane Never Get in the Books”: Selections and he held a Peterson Fellowship at United States Court of Appeals for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from American Writers During the AAS in 1999-2000. He is also coedit- the First Circuit. Long interested in Proprietors of the Philadelphia Print Civil War (1993). He was a Jacob ing a volume of documents and essays history, Souter is a trustee of the New Shop, leading purveyors of early Hiatt Fellow in 1982 83, a Peterson on religion and American culture, - Hampshire Historical Society and a American prints and maps. While Fellow in 1998 99, and has taught 1740-1845, and working on a book - member of the National Historical both are recognized as expert apprais- the AAS Summer Seminar. about American religious skepticism. Publications and Records Commission. ers (Antiques Roadshow), each has Elizabeth McHenry also contributed individually to schol- Ezra Greenspan New York, New York arship in the field: Lane with his Columbia, South Carolina Assistant Professor of English, New Impressions of Niagara and Cresswell Professor of English at Southern Correction York University. Ms. McHenry is with his The American Revolution in Methodist University in Dallas. the author of award-winning Drawings and Prints: A Checklist of Greenspan is author of Walt The following generous supporters of Forgotten Readers: Recovering the 1765-1790. Whitman and the American Reader the AAS Annual Fund at the Isaiah Lost History of African American (1990) and editor of The Cambridge Thomas Society level were omitted Margaret Drain Literary Societies (2002), an examina- Companion to Walt Whitman (1995). from the listing in ALMANAC, Boston, Massachusetts tion of the literary societies and the He is founding coeditor of a new Special Campaign Issue No. 4: Executive Producer, American reading practices of African annual, Book History, and in 1990 Experience, the acclaimed history series Americans from 1830 1940. As one he published the award-winning biog- - Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Dewey on public television. Drain also has review has noted, “This book is for raphy George Palmer Putnam: Mr. and Mrs. James N. Heald, 2nd been responsible for developing all those people who thought book Representative American Publisher. Frances and Howard Jacobson American Experience ONLINE and clubs began with Oprah.” Mr. and Mrs. Harold T. Miller has supervised the creation of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Stowe ONLINE CAMPAIGN EXHIBITIONS UPDATE
he American Antiquarian Society s of June 1, the AAS capital Thas very little space for exhibi- Acampaign is only $78,000 short tions within the building, but there is of its $12,000,000 overall goal. We plenty of room on the AAS website. A have exceeded the target amounts for fairly recent addition to the website, two of the campaign’s three goals, but the on-line exhibitions showcase a vari- there are still challenges to be met. ety of topics and collections from the Although we met and surpassed Society and give the virtual visitor a the $8 million goal for the building sense of the visual treasures that can project, we are still about $300,000 be found here. Currently showing is an SPRING MEETING short of the actual cost of financing exhibition titled The David Claypool the new construction and renovation Johnston Collection, which features rom the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, where AAS visiting artist project with 100% gift revenues. selected paintings, sketches, and engrav- Ffellow Pamela Keech showed us her installations, to the Gainsborough The total in gifts and pledges for ings by the well-known artist. An Studios building on Central Park South, where former Councilor Donald acquisitions endowment has exceeded upcoming exhibition features the topic Oresman shared his collection of 20th-century images of people reading, the $2,500,000 goal by $350,000; but “Summer Vacationing in New England.” and from the New York Times headquarters to the galleries and auction we still need about $140,000 in room of Sotheby’s, AAS members explored New York City with an pledge payments and new gifts in emphasis on the bookman’s world. The weekend led up to a visit to the hand by July 31 in order to complete Grolier Club where, over lunch, Michael Ginsberg gave a primer on book an NEH Challenge Grant. fairs for those who are not seasoned veterans in preparation for our after- The total for the outreach and noon visit to the New York Antiquarian Book Fair. The semi-annual meet- unrestricted goal is at about two- ing was held at the New-York Historical Society; and after the regular thirds of the $1.5 million target. business meeting and report of the Council, AAS members Leslie Hermann While sixty-four percent of AAS and David Brion Davis introduced their fellow members to highlights from members have made a special contri- the Gilder-Lehrman Collection. bution to the capital campaign, 267 The Annual Meeting in Worcester, October 16-18, will feature a one- members have not yet made a cam- man performance of Meriwether Lewis by noted historical interpreter Clay paign gift. Jenkinson. There will also be special workshops and the popular collectors’ The campaign runs through roundtable in addition to the Society’s business meeting where new officers December 31, 2003. It is not to late and members will be elected. Mark your calendars, and plan to join us for to make a gift or to add to the con- the festivities. tribution you have already made.
MEMBER NOTES
J. Kevin Graffagnino has recently been Laurie Kahn-Leavitt’s film (Paris, 1888-1902); Bibliographique par J.C. Brunet named the Director for the Vermont Tupperware! was premiered at Jody Shirley Gill: Alfred Hoffy, ed., (Paris, 1836); Historical Society. Dr. Graffagnino is Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts in The Orchardist’s Companion Charles J.Tannenbaum: John Jay, formerly the Executive Director for the April. Watch for its broadcast as a (Philadelphia, 1841-43); Autograph letter signed, to his Kentucky Historical Society, and before part of the American Experience William H. Helfand: Martin Lewis, Excellency William Greene, that, the Director of the Wisconsin series on PBS in 2004. The board of “Corner Shadows” (drypoint, 1930); Governor of Rhode Island (Paris, 4 Historical Society. Barbara A. Shailor, the Massachusetts Biomedical Cheryl Hurley: Adam Buck, “Portrait March 1783); Director of the Beinecke Rare Book Initiatives has named its business of a young gentleman in a blue coat G.Thomas Tanselle: Michael and Manuscript Library at Yale is leav- incubator in Worcester the Joseph R. holding a book” (pastel drawing, n.d.); Sadleir, Bibliography of the First ing that post to become Yale’s new Carter Biomedical Innovation Ricky Jay: Louis Nagel, “The Editions of the Prose Works of Deputy Provost for the Arts. In this Center in honor of the retiring board Highland Mammoth Boys” (litho- Herman Melville (London, 1923); new position, Dr. Shailor will oversee chairman. Carter, retired president, graph, ca. 1844-48); William B.Warren: Salomon the Schools of Art, Architecture, chairman, and chief executive of Jay I. Kislak: George Washington’s Keiner, Résidences Mémorables de Drama, Music and Divinity; the Wyman Gordon Company had manuscript diary, January-December, L’Incomparable Héro de Nôtre Siècle Institute of Sacred Music; the history served as MBI’s chair for nearly 1762, written in Virginia Almanack (Augsbourg, 1731-40); and of art, classics and music departments; twenty years. for the Year of our Lord 1762; Richard Wendorf: Giovanni Battista and the Yale University Art Gallery and Linda F. Lapides: Americans Piranesi “Tempio Antico” plate from When the Grolier Club mounted an the Yale Center for British Art. David Triumphant, Or John Bull in Distress Prima Parte (Rome, 1748). eclectic exhibition of members’ trea- S. Shields, has been appointed as the (New York, ca. 1828); sures, President emeritus of the AAS McClintock Chair of Southern Letters Leonard L. Milberg: Thomas Shotter Marcus A. McCorison offered his STAFF NOTES at the University of South Carolina. Boys, Original Views of London as personal copy of Isaiah Thomas’s Helen Horowitz’s book Rereading It Is (London, 1842); Printing in America (Worcester, Assistant curator of graphic arts Terri Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge Donald Oresman: A recipe in Emily 1810) and wrote of the author and Tremblay’s exhibit on “A Woman’s and Suppression in Nineteenth Dickinson’s hand (for Coconut cake, founder of AAS, “no one knew more Work is Never Done” was selected as Century America (Alfred A. Knopf) n.d.); about the native history of his craft.” an educational tool by the Social was awarded the Merle Curti History William S. Reese: Isaac Mendes Other AAS members and their trea- Service Information Gateway in Award from the Organization of Belisario, Sketches of Character, In sures represented in “The Grolier England. The SSIG is a free Internet American Historians. The Curti Illustration of the Habits, Occupation, Club Collects” included: service in Great Britain which pro- Award honors the best book published and Costume of the Negro Population Randall K. Burkett: book auction vides “trusted” sources of informa- in American social, intellectual, and/or in the Island of Jamaica (Jamaica, catalogue owned by Afro-Americana tion for students, academics, cultural history. Elizabeth L. 1837); collector Arthur A. Schomburg: researchers, and practitioners in the Eisenstein has been selected to receive Kenneth W. Rendell: Thomas Paine, M.Raetzel (pseud.), Catalogue des social sciences, business, and law. the American Historical Association’s Common Sense (Philadelphia Printed, Livres et Manuscrits de la John Hench, an AAS member as well Award for Scholarly Distinction. Norwich re-printed, 1776); Bibliothèque de feu M. Raetzel as vice president for collections and David McCullough delivered the Justin G. Schiller: Mao Tse-Tung, (Paris, 1836); programs, will deliver a paper on NEH’s annual Thomas Jefferson Mao Zhuxi Yulu [Chairman Mao Daniel R. Coquillette: Francis “Projecting America through Books in Lecture in May. New York Times Quotations] (Beijing, 1964); Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum or a Natural Post D-Day Europe” in July at the Publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. Betsy B. Shirley: Peter Piper’s History, 5th ed. [London, 1627?]; Society for the History of Authorship, received the Rensselaer Polytechnic Practical Principles of Plain and Lloyd E. Cotsen: Ottilia Adelborg, Reading, and Publishing conference in Institute’s Isaiah Thomas Award in Perfect Pronunciation (Philadelphia, Clean Peter and the Children of Claremont, California. The following Publishing, at a ceremony in April. The 1835); Grubbylea (New York [1901]); week he will begin a month-long visit- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Jay T.Snider: Philip Wells, Manuscript Joseph J. Felcone II: James Janeway, ing research fellowship awarded by Foundation recently named AAS mem- Map of New York Harbor (ca. 1683); A Token for Children (Burlington: the Friends of the Princeton bers, Catherine L.Albanese, Ira Roger E. Stoddard: Giovanni Giorgio reprint, 1772); University Libraries to continue his Berlin, and Karen O. Kupperman as Alione, Poésies Françoises . . . Avec Alan M. Fern, Henri Rivière, Les research on Overseas Editions, Inc. Guggenheim Fellows for the year 2003. une Notice Biographique et Trente-Six Vues de la Tour Eiffel Nonprofit Organization U. S. Postage PAID American Permit No 416 Antiquarian Worcester, Mass. Society 01609-1634 185 Salisbury Street Worcester Massachusetts 01609-1634
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collection of Paine family manuscripts. family Paine of collection
aid in ar in aid ranging the transfer of this valuable ar valuable this of transfer the ranging chive to AAS. to chive
graphs of the signers laid in. He also was one of the donors of our important our of donors the of one was also He in. laid signers the of graphs
library members. We are grateful to former Councilor Councilor former to grateful are We members. library for his for Donald Oresman Donald
, a two-volume, specially bound set, with auto- with set, bound specially two-volume, a , the Declaration of Independence of Declaration the
and background and for other things, such as, tracing the increase of women as women of increase the tracing as, such things, other for and background and
(1892) to to (1892) Elizabeth Ward’s Elizabeth Signers of Signers Massachusetts Shrewsbury, in Times Old
their employers, which in turn have potential for statistical research on the status the on research statistical for potential have turn in which employers, their
almost a hundred such volumes received from his estate. They range from range They estate. his from received volumes such hundred a almost
vide information about multiple purchases, ledger volumes list subscribers and subscribers list volumes ledger purchases, multiple about information vide
a chives dated November 1920 enumerates 1920 November dated chives ar AAS the in list A autographs. nd
AAS offer many new opportunities for research, e.g., the accession records pro- records accession the e.g., research, for opportunities new many offer AAS
books. He interleaved his books with prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, maps, photographs, prints, with books his interleaved He books.
m ore books than any other library in the country. The manuscript records now at now records manuscript The country. the in library other any than books ore
o o thr and life his ut ugh his will. His collecting passion was extra-illustrated was passion collecting His will. his ugh
ranked fourth among American libraries in size of collections, and circulated and collections, of size in libraries American among fourth ranked
ered for the Society.” He continued to donate materials to the library through- library the to materials donate to continued He Society.” the for ered
d aybooks and ledgers.” The institution was highly successful, and in 1870 it 1870 in and successful, highly was institution The ledgers.” and aybooks
for a large number of tracts, old and new, and other documents which he gath- he which documents other and new, and old tracts, of number large a for
rary article, “have never had much leisure to devote to any kind of books except books of kind any to devote to leisure much had never “have article, rary
, “W , acknowledgement appears in in appears acknowledgement e are also indebted to Mr. Paine Mr. to indebted also are e Pr oceedings
lish a circulating library for merchants’ clerks who, in the words of a contempo- a of words the in who, clerks merchants’ for library circulating a lish
Treasurer for forty-four years. In the year of his election, the following the election, his of year the In years. forty-four for Treasurer
mer cantile libraries in Liverpool (England) and in Boston. His plan was to estab- to was plan His Boston. in and (England) Liverpool in libraries cantile
d eath in January 1917. For sixty years he served on the Council and was and Council the on served he years sixty For 1917. January in eath
through the efforts of William Wood, an American who had previously founded previously had who American an Wood, William of efforts the through
was a member of AAS fr AAS of member a was om October 1860 through his through 1860 October om II. Nathaniel Paine Paine Nathaniel
i nstitution’s archives to AAS. The Mercantile Library was founded in 1820 in founded was Library Mercantile The AAS. to archives nstitution’s
Last year (2002), the New Y New the (2002), year Last fr came ork Mercantile Library directors transferred their transferred directors Library Mercantile ork library. Bentley’s om printed in America, the America, in printed IV . Bay Psalm Book Book Psalm Bay
m uch valuable material that is still at AAS. The Society’s copy of the first book first the of copy Society’s The AAS. at still is that material valuable uch
remains one of the premier collections of American cookbooks in the world. the in cookbooks American of collections premier the of one remains
fewer than four hundred titles—Bentley’s New England collection contained collection England New titles—Bentley’s hundred four than fewer
2 000 volumes. AAS continues to collect aggressively in this genre, and ours and genre, this in aggressively collect to continues AAS volumes. 000
bequest to AAS totaled about 1100 volumes. Although relatively small—certainly relatively Although volumes. 1100 about totaled AAS to bequest
, he reported AAS’s holdings as numbering about numbering as holdings AAS’s reported he , Years of Collecting Americana Collecting of Years
manuscripts, his German books, and his cabinet, paintings, and engravings. This engravings. and paintings, cabinet, his and books, German his manuscripts,
. When Clarence Brigham looked back on his his on back looked Brigham Clarence When . Fifty Cookery Books, 1742-1860 Books, Cookery
tion of books printed in New England, together with his collection of American of collection his with together England, New in printed books of tion
editions, and in 1972 the Society published her her published Society the 1972 in and editions, Bibliography of American of Bibliography
W illiam Bentley bequeathed part of his large library to AAS, including his collec- his including AAS, to library large his of part bequeathed Bentley illiam
Lowenstein updated the bibliography, adding 209 newly discovered titles and titles discovered newly 209 adding bibliography, the updated Lowenstein
. One of the first men elected to AAS membership, AAS to elected men first the of One . and John Adams John Jefferson
b ibliography. The next leading collection numbered 87 titles. In 1954 Eleanor 1954 In titles. 87 numbered collection leading next The ibliography.
t he time of his death in 1819 it was perhaps smaller only than those of of those than only smaller perhaps was it 1819 in death his of time he T homas
possessed, the library had 292 of the 490 titles of pre-1861 cookbooks in his in cookbooks pre-1861 of titles 490 the of 292 had library the possessed,
totaling more than 4000 volumes. At volumes. 4000 than more totaling
a dded to the few copies AAS already AAS copies few the to dded
Waldo Lincoln Waldo Bentley William Reverend
l argest personal libraries in America, in libraries personal argest
found that when his collection was collection his when that found
Bentley also collected one of the of one collected also Bentley
o f the AAS Council. Mr. Lincoln Mr. Council. AAS the f
a minister, journalist, and diarist. and journalist, minister,
is a current member current a is John Herron Jr. Herron John
of Salem, Massachusetts. Bentley was Bentley Massachusetts. Salem, of
of Massachusetts. His great-grandson His Massachusetts. of
was the the was Reverend William Bentley William Reverend
1812, and each served as Governor as served each and 1812,
l ibrary of AAS after Isaiah Thomas Isaiah after AAS of ibrary
members of AAS at its founding in founding its at AAS of members
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w ere both charter both ere L evi Lincoln Jr. Lincoln evi
ther ther and grandfather and 1961-present. Levi Lincoln Levi IV.
1 1 A 911-1960; 861-1910; pril of that year. His great-grandfa- His year. that of pril I I II. I.
was published in in published was history: its of eras in 1812-1860; I. Proceedings
a t nd compiled a bibliography, which bibliography, a compiled nd four the in AAS to come have hat
cookbook collection to the library the to collection cookbook we focus on outstanding collections outstanding on focus we
1907 to 1927, gave his extensive his gave 1927, to 1907 AAS’s eminent members. In this issue this In members. eminent AAS’s
President of AAS’s Council from Council AAS’s of President have looked at the lives of some of some of lives the at looked have
, 1929 In we ALMANAC, of editions recent In Waldo Lincoln Waldo III. AAS HERITAGE AAS