THE NEWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE THOMAS FISHER RARE BOOK LIBRARY

ISSUE No. 19, June 1997 ISSN 0840-5565

"It was a very good year"

It is always difficult to know how to begin Another to be hoped for reincarnation English Patient among others. We are each year's tally of the generosity of the is that of the Coach House Press, whose most grateful for this addition to our Friends of the Fisher Library, so I shall publishing arm closed down last summer. Canadian literary manuscripts holdings. start off with my favourite donation. Author and editor, David Young, for many Mr. Alan Hughes also added to our Professor Peter Dyson donated a certificate years associated with the Press, was Canadian literary papers. Some of you may of sale for a theatre box in the Teatro La generous enough to donate files from his remember the book reviews of Isabella Fenice, Venice, following the burning of Coach House Press years, and the exten- Hughes in The Globe and Mail in the the original theatre. (Many of you will sive television scripts on which he worked 1950s, but may not have realized that she remember the disastrous fire that again (Fraggle Rock, Edison Twins, ENG), his was a fine novelist also, producing four devastated this historic building last year). many manuscripts and screenplays and books: Serpent's Tooth (Toronto: Collins, The deed features a delicate printed other smaller projects. The authors whose 1947), Time in Ambush (Toronto: Collins, border and some printed text, with the work he helped edit include those whose 1949), Lorma Tetforth (London: P. Davies, remainder to be completed in manuscript, papers are already held by this Library: 1952) and The Wise Brother (Toronto: starting with the date, Wednesday, the Margaret Atwood (Liking Men and Un- Ryerson Press, 1954). The collection 23rd of February, 1790. The rest of the earthing Suite) and Dennis Lee (Difficulty contains notes and drafts of her published clearly written document goes on to state Living on Other Planets and The Thing). works as well as several unpublished that the sale has been allowed after a For Michael Ondaatje, Young worked on a novels and shorter works. Our thanks to public hearing held by the President and stage adaptation of Coming through Mr. Hughes for this donation of his members of the "Society of the New Most Slaughter and a radio adaptation of The mother's papers. We thank as well the Noble Theatre", discusses the price to be paid over the period of the contract, and the conditions under which the box is to be used. In flowing sentences, we are assured that both the Society and the purchaser are doing this of their own free wills. Finally we learn that, after a vote of the Society - 77 ayes, 19 nays - the purchaser has been allotted box E in the third level. Included in the gift is a hand- coloured holographic architectural plan of the yet-to be-erected theatre showing the position of the boxes, signed by the architect Giannantonio Selva, who also advises purchasers that the fourth level of boxes will feature the same numbering; and a broadside listing the prices of the various seats and boxes from the previous theatre and the prices for the same in the reincarnated version. It is a delightful manuscript with wonderful ties to the Fisher Library's Italian Play and Libretto Collections, as well as being a prime example of an Italian legal contract of the eighteenth century. Let us hope a twen- Above: Certificate of sale for a theatre box in tieth century Teatro La Fenice will rise the Teatro La Fenice. from the ashes as did its eighteenth Left: Plan showing theposition of the boxes. century counterpart. The gift of Pro/ Peter Dyson. following for their continued generosity in which held a great many eighteenth and adding to their papers already held here: nineteenth century travel books. Since that Ms. Margaret Atwood, Mr. Douglas time we have tried to add to these hold- Petherling, Mr. David Donnell, Mr. Graeme ings and this year, through the generosity Gibson, Mr. Stephen Gilbert, Professor of Dr. William Johnston, we now have a Phyllis Grosskurth, Mr. Crad Kilodney, Mr. copy of a rare work by Michel Adanson: A David Mazierski, Ms. Karen Mulhallen, Mr. Voyage to Senegal (1759) and Thomas Prank Peers, Dr. Malcolm Ross, Mr. David Pennant's View of Hindoostan (17971, as Solway, Professor Rosemary Sullivan, Dr. well as several travel books describing Josef Skvorecky, Mr. Vincent Tovell, and visits to Canada and the United States. All Mr. Paul Wilson. Additional papers of the works donated by Dr. Johnston Professor Robert Finch were received from contain complete maps and plates which his estate as well as from Professor Victor are often lacking in collectable items such Graham, who turned over to us his as these. This gift also included a 1481 extensive correspondence with the late commentary on Aristotle, which not only Professor Finch. Professor Jay Macpherson is a valuable addition to our Incunabula found two drafts of Margaret Atwood's and Aristotle collections, but is also a fine Lady Oracle on which she had done example of rubrication and early Venetian editorial work, and through her generosity, printing, and therefore a significant artefact we were able to add these to the Atwood illustrating the history and development of Papers. printing. The Fisher Library was also very Mr. John Cambridge also made a pleased to receive the files of the Collected valuable contribution to our travel litera- Works of Thomas Hardy Project from ture holdings - a 1556 edition of De Professor Michael Millgate. These letter totius Africae descriptiones by Johannes files, typescripts, holograph notes and Titlepagefrom a manuscript volume of Leo Africanus, a very early description of various stages of page proofs represent poetry by the seventeenth century poet, what was then a relatively unknown area. important background material to the Francesco Massucci. The gift of Mrs. Mr. Cambridge's donation included An published seven volume set produced by Florence Drake. Appeal to Reason, written by Robert Boyes Professors Millgate and R.L. Purdy. and published in Devizes in 1774. This is I began with my favourite manuscript to rabbinic authorities, with their re- only the second eighteenth century donation; let me end this section with sponses), and other works of Jewish law. imprint from that town to be held by the another. Each Saturday from 1974 to 1994, Also noteworthy are the nine editions of Fisher Library. Other donors were just as a must-read for many was the Toronto Star Sefw Hasidim, an important mediaeval generous in giving us early imprints, from column written by Donald Jones. He ethical work, and the seven editions of Mr. and Mrs. John Sabean's collection we brought to life the people who were a part Sefer Mitsvot gadol, an important mediaeval acquired Peter Lombard's In Totum of historic Toronto and made us see what compendium of Jewish religious practice. Psalterium ... Commentarii (Paris, 15411, they had created. Torontonians learned a A limited edition of the Collected Works and Postilla, seu, Diuina Expm'tio in great deal about their city from him, and of Galileo, annotated by Dr. Stillman Dauiticum Psalterium by Hugo de Santo his impeccably conducted tours drew Drake, the recognized authority on that Charo (Paris, 1539), both early commen- hundreds of attendees eager to see for scientist, was the high-point of a collection taries on the Psalms. From Ms. Mary themselves the original buildings or, in the donated this year by Mrs. Florence Drake, Williamson, we received a very interesting case of all too many, the original sites. Mr. and will be an outstanding addition to the edition of L'histoire du Vieux et du Jones this past year made the first in a Library's Stillman Drake Galilee Collection. Nouveau Testament (Paris, 1688). Addi- ' planned donation of papers, which will Our manuscript and Italian collections will tions to our British imprints were made by consist of over one thousand separate files also benefit. Included in Mrs. Drake's gift Professor John Beattie, who donated a for his columns and walking tours as well was a version of Giovanni Baptists Zupi's collection on British justice, politics and as his extensive research notes and other De sphaera tractatus, written in 1651 by government; Mrs. Julia Fenn, who gave works created by him over a span of Gabriele Tontoli, of which no published eighteenth century British imprints from twenty years. We are most grateful. edition is known; Urbano d'Aviso's the library of her husband, the late Robert In the last issue of The Halcyon, you Trattato delta sfwa di Galileo Galilei, Few, Professor Peter Heyworth, from will have read about the collection of rare written circa 1656, which was published as whom we received eighteenth century Hebraica donated by Mr. Albert D. pages 1-120 of the edition that appeared in editions of the Works of Joseph Addison, Friedberg; now we are pleased to an- Rome in that year; and a manuscript Biogruphia Britannica, and an 1806 nounce that the estate of Rabbi Abraham volume of poetry by the seventeenth edition of William Camden's Britannia: A. Price has turned over to this Library the century poet, Francesco Massucci, which and Mrs. Joan Winter, who allowed us to Rabbi's collection of over three thousand will enhance our Rime Collection. Her select works from her family's collection. volumes of works of rabbinic literature, donation of a letter, telegram and a Continental imprints were also well spanning six centuries. The gift includes typescript by Bertram Russell will join represented: Mr. Leon Katz donated a 1766 one inclinable and over three hundred other Russell items held by the Fisher edition of Pierre Charlevoix's Alkemeine works printed before 1850, and is espe- Library. Geschichte von Neu Frankreich, which cially strong in responsa literature (ques- Many years ago, the Library acquired enriched our Canadiana holdings, while tions on matters of Jewish law addressed the private library of a Danish family Professor Simon Langlois continued to donate valuable additions to our Voltaire holdings. From Professor Ralph Stanton's vast collection, we received over two thousand works, primarily from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of English, Continental and Classical litera- ture, predominantly in English, but also in French and Latin, which will extend the Fisher Library's collections in these areas. The gift includes a 1522 edition of Cicero's Opera and Epistola (1538) as well as numerous additions to our Shakespeare and Swift holdings. Some years ago, through the generosity of the Ontario Architectural Association, we were able to acquire the Storm Collection of architectural books, and since that time have been able to make only small additions to our holdings in that subject. This year, however, through the generosity of Mr. Howard Chapman, Professor Thomas Haworth and Messrs. Andrew Mathers and Douglas Haldenby, the Fisher Library's collection in that field has been noticeably enhanced. The two Two dust jackets and one coverfrom Mr latter donated circa Fivolumes from Ritchie Clark's $3 of novels by AM. their company's working library, while the Chisholm. former expanded the Fisher Library's holdings in architectural periodicals, as Wadell, who donated eleven original, well as adding to our general collections previously unknown, photographs of his in this area. aunt as a child and young girl. During the past summer the Library Nine works given by Dr. Raymond received an exciting gift of correspon- Heimbecher found shelf space in our dence, donated in commemoration of the already extensive medical collection. The seventy-Fifth anniversary of the discovery gift included works by important authors of insulin. One of the first diabetics to such as Philippe Pinel and Hermann receive insulin was fourteen year old Boerhaave as well as a volume of lectures Elizabeth Hughes, daughter of Charles on anatomy from the University of Evans Hughes, then the American Secre- Edinburgh medical school. Dr. John tary of State. Elizabeth, who weighed only MacKay added to both our Wing holdings forty-five pounds when she arrived and and Hannah Medical Collection, by giving could scarcely walk for extreme weakness, us a 1678 edition of John Shirley's A Short was brought to Toronto in August 1922 Compendium of Chirurgy. and placed under Dr. Banting's care. Once Fine art was also well represented. The she began receiving insulin her condition Polish-Canadian painter, Kazimierz Glaz, improved dramatically and she became Dr. donated nine of his books. Mr. Alan Home Banting's star patient, a wonderful living added to his previous donations of demonstration of the effectiveness of the examples of British book illustration, by extract. Elizabeth spent three months in turning over more books and additional Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Toronto, and during that time wrote over personal correspondence with contempo- Condition of the North American Indians Fifty letters home to her mother, describing rary artists. Dr. Roberta Markus added to (London, 1841) and a copy of the first her treatment and the astonishing im- our French art holdings with her donation book printed in Latin in Canada, Officium provements in her health. These moving of 62 Psaumes et vetsets de la Bible - a in Horn Domini NostriJ.C., printed by and eloquent letters were carefully saved! limited edition illustrated by Benn. Mrs. Fleury Mesplet in Montreal in 1777. by Elizabeth's family and now, fifteen "Audrey Simpson increased our holdings of Another significant gift of Canadiana was years after her death in 1981, have been Thoreau MacDonald items by giving us donated by Mr. Harry J. Smith and Mrs. donated to the Fisher Library by her her collection of works either created by Gwen Smith. It consisted of the publica- husband, William T. Gossett, and her three or associated with him. tions of the Radisson Society, and included children, W. Thomas Gossett, Antoinette For the past several years, Mr. Louis engravings, ephemera, manuscripts and G. Denning, and Elizabeth Evans Karaman. Melzack has most generously added to our correspondence relating to this Society, In the fall the Library received a generous Canadiana holdings. Among the works whose aim was to re-publish the master gift of additional Elizabeth Hughes donated this year are the Fist issue of the works of Canadian authors. Several other material from Elizabeth's nephew, Edward first edition of George Catlin's Letters and gifts of Canadiana were received. A rare and early map of the Muskoka Lakes Other generous Friends were Mrs. history. Another facet of publishing history (Toronto, 1899) came to us from the estate Hilary Nicholls and Mr. John Mappin, who long collected by this Library is that of of Mrs. J.A. Maclean, and Mr. Ritchie Clark again this year donated items of Canadian private press books. This year we were donated eight books by the Canadian interest, as did Ms. Elvi Aer, Mr. Graham offered sixteen tides printed by the author, A.M. Chisholm, none of which Anthony and Ms. Eleanor Parke. Tragara Press of Edinburgh as well as were previously held by the Fisher Library. With the arrival of the Cooper and several more tides issued by British private This British Columbian writer is relatively Beatty gift in 1992, this Library was able to presses. These were most welcome and unknown and we were very pleased to be increase its holdings in the history of we thank Sarah Anson-Cartwright for this able to add these volumes to our Canadian publishing, both here in Canada and donation. Sarah's father, Hugh, also literature holdings. abroad. So we received with pleasure one continues to increase our holdings of An important period in Canada's early of the more unusual gifts this year through Penguin books, as does Dr. Robert history has gained prominence in this the generosity of Mr. Harold Kurschenka. Brandeis. Library since the donation of Dr. Peter It is the 1979 Christmas greeting sent to This year the Library received a major Charlebois' extremely comprehensive special clients of Cooper and Beatty. But gift in a new subject field, that of media Louis Riel Collection. This assemblage of this is no ordinary Christmas card; it is a studies. Mr. Moses Znaimer donated his books, pamphlets and related materials printed card accompanied by the typeset collection of papers, audiotapes, films, will be kept together and will be named forme in a plastic case. Items of this sort videos and other materials documenting the Charlebois Family Collection in are very fragile and we thank Mr. his various projects in Canadian television memory of Dr. Charlebois' late father, Kurschenka not only for keeping it in a and the arts. The collection includes a Philip, and a great uncle who was hanged very fine condition, but also for allowing wealth of documentation on CITY-TV, by the soldiers at Battleford in 1855. us to add this unique item to our Cooper from its first inception by Mr. Znaimer in Two other collectors of Canadiana were and Beatty archives. 1972 to its present operation. There are generous to this Library; Mr. Glen Frank- The Fisher Library's holdings in also extensive files on MuchMusic (set up furter gave up a major part of his library to publishing history abroad were further in 1984) and its French counterpart, enrich ours. Noteworthy were copies of Sir augmented by a gift of editions of British MusiquePlus (19861, on Bravo (1994) and George Back's Narrative of the Arctic Land writers issued by Tauchnitz. This German on several other TV, film, theatre, and Expedition (London, 1836); The Report of publisher had a very important impact on entertainment projects. Mr. ~naimer's the State TriaIs before a General Court both European publishing history as well personal papers are also included in the Martial held at Montreal in 1838-9 as on English literature. His aim was to gift. (Montreal, 1839), and Pierre Charlevoix's make English literature as universally The collections at the Fisher Library are Journal of a Voyage to North America known as possible beyond the limits of many and varied. We remain amazed how Undertaken by Order of the French King the British Empire. In this he succeeded our Friends continue to be able to in- (London, 1761). Mr. John Hare donated admirably, producing at times three or crease, enhance and enrich so many every five broadsides of the Acts of Upper four titles a week and generally issuing year. To all our donors, those named and Canada, and annotated catalogues of the works soon after their first English editions those unnamed, our sincere thanks. You Canadian antiquarian bookseller, P. Gag- appeared. Tauchnitz imprints present have caused 1996 to be a very good year! non, from 1885 through to 1900. This is an fascinating bibliographical challenges to important addition to our growing collec- the researcher and we are grateful to Mr. Luba Frastacky tion of Canadian antiquarian booksellers' Scott Thompson for his donation of an Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library catalogues and a valuable resource tool. important part of European publishing

Donors of Gifts in Kind to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Libra y, 1996

Elvi Aer John Cairns Julia Fern Douglas Haldenby Anonymous John D. Cambridge Douglas Fetherling John E. Hare Graham Anthony Howard Chapman Estate of Robert Finch Raymond Heirnbecher Hugh Anson-Cartwright Peter Charlebois Glen M. Frankfurter Peter Heyworth Sarah Anson-Cartwright Estate of Mattie Clark Alan J. Home Arthur Armstrong Ritchie Clark Graeme Gibson Thomas Howarth Arts and Letters Club Eleanor Cook Stephen Gilbert Alan Hughes Margaret Atwood Violet Cowell Kazimierz Glaz Colin Hughes

Gordon all Antoinette G. Denning William T. Gossett William Johnston Jane Banfield David Donnell W. Thomas Gossett Donald Jones Howard Banting Florence Drake Victor Graham John M. Beattie Peter Dyson Julius Gfith Jana Kalish Joseph Black Phyllis Grosskurth ~lizabethEvans Kararnan Robert Brandeis Crispin &Jan Elsted Leon Katz (5^ For sale by the candle, at the New-York coffee-house in Sweeting 's Alley, Cornhill, on Thursday the 19th day ofMarch, 1772; at ten of the clock in the forenoon. Thefollowing goods, viz. Skins

This most fascinating piece of Canadiana term for beaver; the casks would have was recently acquired by the Fisher been filled with a bitter tasting, strong- Library. It is a 12-page auction catalogue smelling, reddish-brown substance. This of skins for sale by Samuel Robinson and was obtained from two sacs in the inguinal Co., Brokers, of London in England. The region of the beaver and was used in catalogue measures 14 3/4 inches long by medicine and in perfumery. 6 inches wide. The goods for sale are A series of cryptic letters in manuscript printed, but condition, prices, and buyers (possibly the consigners) run down the have been added in manuscript. A note in middle of each page, for example: FHN, manuscript on page 2 reads: "1772. H. TD, PFN, EH, DF, PFL, T, H4B with xx Bay. Beaver Prices". It is followed by under the "4" and IBS. Some are followed ^' names and prices (see illustration). This by a name (possibly the agents) such as catalogue is, therefore, also a source for Carlton, Smith and Love. the history of the Hudson's Bay Company. Copies of the catalogue could be Each lot was auctioned by inch of bought at Samuel Robinson's Warehouse, candle, that is, bids were accepted only in Aldermary Church-Yard, Watling Street, while a small piece of candle was burning. at Three Cranes Wharf, the bottom of I The skins have interesting names, "parch- Queen Street, at St. Antholin's Church ment beaver", "coat beaver", "silver hair Yard, Watling Street, at Messrs. Watson coney", "deer in the hair", and "elk". and Rashleigh, merchants, Garlick Hill, The skins are variously described as Bow Lane, and of Samuel Robinson and "very good of the HE kind", "of the HB Co. Brokers. kind but som heavy", "Canada fresh This is a prime area for research if good", "Clowdy heavy", "Rough, dry but anyone is interested in searching in the heavy", "Good fresh Canada, rough in archives of the Hudson's Bay Company or general thin", and "Fine". Buyers include, in the Public Record Office in London. among others, Mavit & Co., Hunter, Page from the 12-page auction catalogue Hopkins, Strettell, Eliz. Patterson, and Anne Jocz of skins for sale by Samuel Robinson and Davis & Co. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Co., Brokers, of London in England, 1772. Finally, there are listed "4 casks, &c. castorum, in 4 lots". "Castor" is the Latin

Elizabeth Kettlewell Roberta Markus David Rempel Bessie Touzel Crad Kilodney Andrew S. Mathers Hilda Rodda Vincent Tovell Harold Kurschenka David Mazierski Malcolm Ross Louis Melzack Victoria University Jay Lambie Michael Millgate John Sabean Pratt Library Richard Landon Karen Mulhallen Colin Savage Simon Langlois Roger Savory Ted Wadell Emil Lehouck Hilary Nicholls Audrey Simpson Mary F. Williamson Richard D. Lloyd Josef Skvorecky Lela Wilson Eleanor M. Parke Gwen Smith Paul Wilson Sally MacDonald Alec Pathy Harry J. Smith Joan Winter Irene McGuire Frank Peers David Solway John P. MacKay Richard Pennington Ralph Stanton David Young Estate of Mrs. J.A. Maclean Willard Piepenburg Marie Eva Subtelny Jay Macpherson Abraham A. Price Rosemary Sullivan Elaine Zinkhan Kenneth Macpherson Mildred Price Moses Znaimer John Mappin Peter J. Potichnyi Scott Thompson Margaret Atwood Society Q^^-- -.- - The T.G.H. Drake Collection on the History of Paediatrics

From April to August of this year visitors the Fisher Library, where they now form a at Venice; and a fragment of Mathaeus to the Fisher Library will have the oppor- valuable adjunct to the Jason A. Hannah Silvaticus's Liber Pandectarum Medicinae tunity to view some of the highlights from Collection in the history of medicine. (Venice, 1488), which includes a splendid the collection in the history of paediatrics, The Drake Collection consists of illuminated initial and trailer. Three of the formed by Dr. Theodore George Harwood approximately 1500 printed books and incunables are displayed in the exhibition. Drake (1891-1959). The establishment of a pamphlets, making it one of the largest The fifty-plus books in the Collection great collection of paediatric literature was and most comprehensive collections on with sixteenth-century imprints include a only one of the major achievements of Dr. the history of paediatrics in the world. number of editions of classical medical Drake. During an illustrious career as Although the bulk of the Collection authors: Galen (1548); Celsus (1551); and paediatrician and researcher at The consists of works with nineteenth- and Oribasius (1554). The paediatric writings of Hospital for Sick Children, Dr. Drake, twentieth-century imprints, the most the major medical figures of Byzantium together with Frederick F. Tisdall, devel- interesting and valuable part are the early and Islam are represented by the works of oped the infant formula Pablum, and Paul of Agina (1512 and 1532); ^tius Sunwheat biscuits. During World War I1 (1552); Rhazes (1508); and Avicema Drake and Tisdall received the Order of (1556). The collection also has several the British Empire in recognition of their important paediatric "firsts", notably a rare valuable service in designing food parcels copy of the first work on the diseases of for Canadian prisoners-of-war. In his children in French - Simon de Vallam- retirement years Dr. Drake was able to bert's Cinq livres de la maniere de nourrir devote his energies to his great passion - et governor les enfans des leur naissance the collection of medical artefacts and (Paris, 1565); and the first work on books relating to the history of paediatrics. paediatrics to be written in English by an Dr. Drake's outstanding collection of Englishman -Thomas Phaer's The Boke medical artefacts is well known, and for of Children. The latter was appended to many years formed the basis of the the author's translation of a popular Museum of Medicine, exhibited at the French work by Jean Goeurot, L'entretene- Academy of Medicine of Toronto. In 1991, ment de vie, rendered in English as The when the Academy vacated its premises Regiment of Life. The Collection boasts on the corner of Huron and Bloor Streets, four editions of Phaer's charming little provision was made to house the Museum book, all issued in the sixteenth century. at The Toronto Hospital, where it is now Other books of special interest include a known as the Canadian Museum of Health French edition (ca. 1510) of the life of and Medicine. At the same time, Dr. Saint Marguerite, the patron saint of Drake's collection of books and docu- women in childbirth. Copies of her life ments, together with die Academy's other printed books. They include five were said to have been kept close at hand rare book collections, were deposited at incurables, the earliest being by women during labour. B-atth&lffittisa^~iwelUhg?-Ps'-ÈiOfSfmwt , derjungen ~inder,printed at Aagsburg in 1473 -the first book on paediatrics to be printed in a vernacular language. There is also a 1487 edition of the first book ' devoted excIusively to the diseases of children - Paolo Bagellardo's De Egritttdinibus & Remediis Infantiurn, first published in 1472. The remaining incunables are: an edition of A.C. Celsus's DeMedicina, printed at Venice in 1493; a 1496 edition of the works of the mediaeval Islamic physician, Avenzoar, also printed

Left: Titlepagefrom Nils Rosen uon Rosenstein 's The Diseases of Children (London, 1776). Centre: T.G.H. Drake with an artefactfrom his collection, ca. 1952. Right: Titlepagefrom The Countessse of Lincolnes Nurserie (Oxford, 1622). written by Louise Boursier, midwife to the French royal household. The close association between obstetrics and paediatrics is evident in several other works of the seventeenth century, notably Jacques Guillemeau's De l'heureux accouchement desfernmes (1609), and Francois Mauriceau's Les maladies des fmmes grosses et accouchc?es(1668), both of which are represented in the Collection in several French editions and English translations. The end of the century saw the publication of Walter Harris's De Morbis

Seventeenth-century books in the the Collection, is but one of the many Collection number more than one hun- eighteenth-century landmarks in the dred. The widespread appearance of history of paediatrics acquired by Dr. rickets in England at the beginning of the Drake. Others include Nicolas Andry's century gave rise to a number of works on comprehensive textbook, L 'orthopkdie, in what was thought at the time to be a new which the term "orthopaedics" was used disease. The pioneering contributions to for the first time; Joseph Hurlock's A the subject by Daniel Whistler, Arnold Practical Treatise upon Dentition, the first Boate, John Mayow, and, most impor- English book devoted entirely to teething; tantly, Francis Glisson, form a valuable Nils Rosen von Rosenstein's influential The component of the Collection, and are Diseases of Children (translated from the supplemented by a number of other works original Swedish); and William Buchan's on rickets from later periods. The promi- Domestic Medicine. Greater concern over nence of books on rickets in the Collec- the question of infant hygiene and nursing tion reflects a major professional interest was largely due to the enormous influence of Dr. Drake, who did extensive research of William Cadogan's An Essay upon into rickets and vitamin D deficiency. Nursing, several editions of which are in It is a curious fact that extremely few the Collection. The long process of works in the history of paediatrics, and the separating specific childhood diseases related discipline of obstetrics, were from general complexes of symptoms, written by women. Two works from the begun in the seventeenth century with seventeenth century are especially note- Thomas Sydenham's classic accounts of worthy in this respect. The first, The scarlet fever, measles, and chorea, contin- Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie (Oxford, ued at an accelerated pace during the 1622), written by a noblewoman who bore eighteenth century. Classic accounts of eighteen children, only one of whom diphtheria by Francis Home; chicken-pox survived infancy, is a passionate plea in Acutis Infantum in 1689, which became by William Heberden; mumps by Robert favour of maternal breast-feeding. The the standard textbook on childhood Hamilton; meningitis by Robert Whytt; and second, entitled, Observations diverges sur diseases throughout the eighteenth poliomyelitis by Michael Underwood are la sterilitt?, perte defmict, foeconditc?, century, superseded only in 1784 by all represented. The century was also accouchements, et maladies des femmes, & Michael Underwood's A Treatise on the significant for the establishment of various enfants nouveaux naiz (fist published in Diseases of Children. The Collection has institutions for the care of children, 1609; reprinted in 1626 and 1653), was three Latin editions of Harris's work, as notably the London Foundling Hospital, Â well as two editions of the French transla- tion, and three different English versions. During the eighteenth century, \ paediatrics began to emerge as a special- ized branch of medicine. Underwood's treatise, of which fourteen editions are in

Top left and right, bottom left and right: Four engravingsfmm Les jeux et plaisirs de l'enfance (Paris, 1657) by Jacques Stella. Centre: Illuminated initial and trailerfmm Mathceus Silvaticus's Liber Pandectamm Medicinae (Venice, 1488). created in 1741 through the efforts of Thomas Coram, and the Dispensary for the Relief of the Infant Poor, established by George Armstrong in 1769. The Collection The Friends of the Fisher Library is rich in primary and secondary materials relating to the London Foundling Hospital, Events for 1996- 1997 and to the establishment of hospitals, the care of foundlings, and the regulation of From insulin to papermaking, from The great artist's adventurous life and wet-nursing in France, much of it in paediatrics to bibliomaniacs, it was an impressive art were set before the audi- manuscript. Four eighteenth-century interesting year for the Friends of the ence with simultaneous slides. Professor bound manuscripts in French, and five in Fisher Library. Five lectures and four Lank presented the artistic accomplish- Latin are also part of the Collection. exhibitions entertained and delighted the ments of Audubon by contrasting his Although the care of infants and the Friends in 1996-1997. depiction of animal art with the previous treatment of childhood diseases provide During the summer Friends had the tradition of animals in art. The impressive the principal focus of the Dr. Drake's opportunity to view From Cavalcanti to slides of Audubon's birds, depicted life- interest, other aspects of the life of the Calvino: 500 Years of Italian Editions and size and in their natural environment, child are also reflected in the Collection. English Translations. This exhibition, brought home to us his immense accom- The enchanting Les jeux etplaisirs de prepared by Robin HeaIey, gave a glimpse plishment. I'enfance (1657) by Jacques Stella illus- into the depth and breadth of the Italian On Wednesday 2 October, the exhibi- trates children at play in a series of fifty holdings in the Fisher Library. tion The Discovery of Insulin at the beautiful engravings. John Locke's Some In a witty and entertaining lecture on University of Toronto was opened. Pre- Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) is 18 September, David Lank gave the pared by Katharine Martyn, this exhibition one of the many works on pedagogy in Friends many insights into the life and attracted many visitors. They were fasci- the Collection. Other works treat general accomplishments of John James Audubon. nated by the scientific documentation and questions of sanitation and public hygiene, against the background of bubonic plague and other epidemic diseases, which, though not exclusively paediatric in nature, nevertheless took an enormous toll on the lives of the young. Dr. Drake was also a keen collector of medical caricatures, especially those by William Hogarth, James Giay, Thomas Rowlandson, and George Cruikshank. Individual prints by these artists are part of the impressive print collection of the Canadian Museum of Health and Medicine, while bound volumes have remained with the book collection, including a huge two-volume edition of the works of James Gillray Carole Moore and (1849). Robert Prichard The Fisher Library is fortunate to have a with Albert and collection of such breadth and depth, with Nancy Friedberg. enormous potential for research in this relatively neglected field of the history of medicine. The exhibition, which runs until the 15th August, displays many of the items described above. For reasons of manageability and space, it has been necessary to restrict the scope of the exhibition to pre-1800 works. while none of the significant landmarks in paediatrics from the nineteenth and twentieth centu- ries are included in the exhibition, most of them, too numerous to mention here, are present in the Collection. The display of books is accompanied by artefacts and Albert and Nancy images lent by the Canadian Museum of Friedberg with their Health and Medicine. An 88-page illus- daughter, Sara, trated catalogue is available. and her husband, Yaakov Rzidman. Philip Oldfield Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library moved by the telling photographs and Some of the more advanced stages include notes from the young children who were the bibliophile who is master of his books saved by this miracle drug. and the bibliomaniac who is slave of his Later in the month Michael Bliss books. An indication of Basbanes' obses- captivated the audience with his first hand sion with the topic became obvious when account of the thrill of the researcher he confessed that the original contract for uncovering the documents relating to the his book was for 90,000 words and he discovery of insulin. Having located all the ended up with 250,000. The personal 1921 research laboratory notebooks except vignettes of great living collectors such as the crucial first one, Professor Bliss Haven O'More, and William Scheide recounted the excitement of reading offered fascinating insights into their Banting's notes for the earliest experiments minds. Basbanes' account of his relation- carried out in May and June of 1921 in the ship with Stephen Blumberg gave the "missing link" first notebook located in the Friends an intriguing profile of the famous Academy of Medicine Collection. The tale book thief who stole over 24,000 books of the growth of the Fisher Library's from across the continent for his private collection was interwoven with Professor library set up in a house in Ottumwa, Bliss's discoveries, as new caches of Iowa. Blumberg, who "collected over material such as the Collip papers and the 50,000 antique doorknobs and 10,000 University's records of the Insulin Commit- stained glass windows in addition to his tee (four filing cabinets rescued from the book "acquisitions", was a truly obsessive basement of the last secretary of the collector. Following the talk, Basbanes Committee) came to light. The discovery John Bidwell delivering the Gryphon graciously wrote delightful, personal of additional materials far afield in the Lecture. inscriptions for many Friends on their British Medical Research Council and the treasured copies of his book. Nobel Archives, and, close at home, definitely has not lost). As he moved from In the third annual Gryphon Lecture on through interviews with the secretaries of book to book, the audience learned of his the History of the Book on Thursday 20 the researchers, reflected the thoroughness love of George Herbert and his efforts at March, John Bidwell gave the Friends a of Professor Bliss's efforts. The final collecting Newfoundlandia, where he soon tour of the Brandywine papermill in 1808. discoveries related were the most moving learned of the dominance of the great Relying upon a wealth of surviving ones, for the pictures and letters of the collector Joey Smallwood, whose collec- records, he walked us through each room young children who were saved vividly tion even extended to the second oldest of the mill, enlivening the processes with portrayed their miraculous recoveries. chair in Newfoundland. Fraser's deep quotes from the detailed reports of the The activities for the month of October interest in China was reflected in a manager, Mr. Greatrake. The skills of the culminated in the celebration of one of the censored copy of Chairman Mao's Little vatman and the sizer and their accompa- most significant gifts the Fisher Library has Red Book and his Book of the Month Club nying status within the mill were related. received. President Robert Prichard was on book on China which was elevated to the One vatman arbitrarily took a long hand to personally thank Albert D. Fried- dazzling heights of the Book of the Month weekend vacation in the spring and again berg and his family for the tremendous gift Club reliquary for one month. The in the fall, with no repercussions. At the of rare Hebraica. This exceptional collec- Champlain Society, hymn books, Saturday other end of the social hierarchy were the tion of Hebrew manuscripts and rare Night publications and Saturday Night in indentured apprentices, some of whom printed books (described in The Halcyon Chinese rounded out the delightful tour of tried to run away. Professor Bidwell's rich no. 18) places the Fisher Library on the this collector's library. descriptions evoked the sights, sounds and international map of major Hebrew rare On Tuesday 21 January, Friends smells of the Brandywine mill in his book collections. Professor Eli Birnbaum attended the opening of the exhibition The fascinating account of a mill on the brink gave the audience an eloquent description StuffDreams Are Made Of: The Art and of the industrial revolution. of the significance of the collection, and Design of Frederick and Louise Coates. The Friends' year concluded with the the President, Chancellor Rose Wolfe and Prepared by Paul Makovsky with the opening of Tending the Young: From the Chief Librarian Carole Moore each con- assistance of Hrag Vartanian, this exhibi- T.G.H.Drake Collection on the History of veyed their deep appreciation to the tion rediscovered the art and design of Paediatrics on Tuesday 22 April. Richard Friedbergs. Fred and Louise Coates for another Landon remembered T.G.H. Drake as a On a Thursday night in November John generation of Canadians. collector, and Philip Oldfield spoke on the Fraser, Master of Massey College, enter- On a cold night in February, Nicholas preparation of the exhibition catalogue. tained a packed audience with a survey of Basbanes warmed a full house of Friends Many Friends took the opportunity to view his life-long love of books entitled "My with a witty and entertaining account of a world class collection in the history of Brief Careers as a Collector". After recount- how he came to write A Gentle Madness. paediatrics. ing an early insight into the disease of Beginning with the tide, which came from On the completion of this enjoyable bibliomania which occurred in front of the a description of Isaiah Thomas, whose year the Friends look forward to an windows of Britnell's on a Sunday mom- collection formed the core of the American equally diverse range of fascinating topics ing, the tour through the "Quixotic" library Antiquarian Society's library, Basbanes for 1997-1998. of the Master of Massey College began described several levels of fascination with with his Upper Canada College prize book books. "You've arrived when you buy a for public speaking (a skill which he book which you know you'll never read." Manuscript Use in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Libra y's Reading Room, and Beyond, May 1996 to April 1997

One hundred and two different manuscript from England, who is preparing a book on River, and a National Film Board video on collections were examined at least once tlie work of Thomas Bewick, looked at the the Yukon, as well as being consulted by during this period. Some were consulted Charles Fothergill Papers, Fothergill having researchers interested specifically in tlie through an exchange of letters and conimissioned Bewick to cut wood blocks history of Dawson City. Photographs of through telephone calls. Readers came for one of his books on natural history. native people in the Yukon taken by from four continents and stayed for Several researchers read the papers of the Tyrrell were reproduced for a member of varying periods of time, froni an hour to Royal Canadian Institute, one for a lecture the White River First Nation who was more than a year. to the Institute about tlie meeting of tlie researching the history of her band. As it was the seventy-fifth anniversary British Association for tlie Advancement of Several of Tyrrell's Yukon photographs year for tlie discovery of insulin at die Science held in Toronto in 1897. A volunie were also published in Murray Lundberg's University of Toronto, the papers of the of nleniorabilia froni tlie Institute papers book on the Windy Arm Mines and co-discoverers, Banting, Best, Macleod and was displayed at the lecture. The Agnes Conrad City, Fractured Veins &Broken Collip, were frequently consulted. A total Cliamberlin Collection of botanical Dreams, published in 1996. In 1996 J.B. of twenty-two researchers used these watercolours includes over thirty water- Tyrrell was inducted into the Canadian papers. In addition, copies of photographs colours of western wildflowers by Agnes's Mining Hall of Fame. A brief slide show froni the papers were requested for a daughter, Geraldine Moodie. These were illlustrating his life and achievements was textbook, a film cassette, a video being examined by a researcher froni Medicine prepared, using photographs from the made in Denmark, the publication of a Hat, where Geraldine Moodie had a Library's collection of his papers. These special newsletter in the Netherlands, and photographic business, and were repro- papers, as well as the Champlain Society several other projects. The Discovery duced to illustrate a lecture on Moodie to Records and tlie George Wrong Papers Channel spent two days filming original be given in June at the Northern Encoun- were read by a scholar preparing a lecture documents for a special hour long docu- ters Circumpolar Festival, and for an for die Hakluyt Society. mentary on die discovery of insulin. This exhibition at Colborne Lodge, Toronto. The Market Gallery at 95 Front Street in programme was shown several times in The collections of Canadian literary' Toronto borrowed an architectural May 1996. Copies of documents were also papers continue to be popular with drawing by William Thomas from the used in commemorative exhibitions at die students and scholars. The seventeen collection of plans in tlie William Tyrrell Toronto Hospital and at the Banting people who read the papers of Margaret Papers for its current exhibition, "William Museum in London, Ontario, and tlie Atwood came from Colombia, Denmark, Thomas, Architect, 1799-1860". Entitled originals were displayed in an exhibition England, Germany, Scotland, Singapore, "Design for Three Houses for H.J. Bolton", at this Library, from October to December, the United States, and, of course, Canada. the drawing is dated August 28, 1856, and 1996. Twenty original sketches by Banting A professor from Universitk RenneS 2 - signed by Thomas. were lent to the London Regional Museuni Haute Bretagne, in France, which has a David Thompson's Narrative, also a gift and Art Gallery for its exhibition, "Banting programme in Canadian studies, spent from J.B. Tyrrell, was consulted for an and Jackson: an Artistic Brotherhood, time studying the short stories of Ernest article that appeared in a March 1997 issue held from 28 May to 3 August, 1997. In Buckler for a possible collected edition, as of the weekly magazine NOW. A photo- June, the Eli Lilly Company, which still well as for a critical study. The Leonard graph of one of David Thompson's produces insulin, arranged for two groups Cohen Papers were consulted by Ira Nadel sketches, "Great Mountains east side and of physicians and researchers from the for his biography of Cohen, Various near the Kootenae Lake", was reproduced United Kingdom, with Michael Bliss as Positions, published in 1996. Two groups in Don Beers's book on the trails and guide, to see a special display of docu- of third and fourth year students studying history of Jasper National Park and Mount ments, including slides, charts, and Margaret Atwood's Cut's Eye and Leonard Robson Provincial Park, Jasper-Robson; a photographs froni these collections. A high Cohen's Beautiful Losers examined the Taste of Heaven, published in 1996. school teacher arranged for his OAC class holograph manuscripts of these novels. The correspondence in the Alan Jarvis to come to the Library to gather material Collections of non-Canadian literary Papers was read for a biography of Sir for an assignment on Banting. papers were also examined. A scholar Stafford Cripps, as Jarvis served as Sir Thirteen of the manuscripts in the preparing an edition of the collected Stafford's secretary during the Second Academy of Medicine Collection were correspondence of William Sharp ('Fiona World War. The seven readers of the used for research papers and future books, Macleod') discovered letters from Sharp in Robert Kenny Papers included a scholar including a biography of William Osier, a the Janies Mavor Papers, the Douglas preparing a book on the Workers' Unity book on the Hannah Institute, and an Duncan Collection, and in the general League and an article on the Popular article on T.G.H. Drake. The collection of manuscripts collection. Front. Six researchers consulted the papers Florence Nightingale letters was consulted The J.B. Tyrrell Papers continue to be of Sir Edmund Walker for correspondence by a writer for a play about this most consulted for a variety of projects. During about the British Empire Exhibition, famous of nurses. tlie past year thirteen researchers used this information on the Canadian Bankers' Collections in natural history and collection. Tyrrell's photographs were used Association, and other topics. One of the science were also consulted. A scholar to illustrate a pamphlet on the Yukon continues on page 12 Members of the Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Libra y 1996-1997

Patron Margaret Atwood*, Joseph Brabant*, Albert Dov Friedberg*, Gordon Private Client Corp., George B. Kiddell, Louis Melzack*, Hilary Nicholls, Alec Pathy, John Slater*, Ralph Stanton*, Moses Znaimer*

Associate Dr. Claude Bissell, Suzanne Gayn, Patrick Hart Green, Mark McLean, Ron Peters, Joseph Pope, Wentworth D. Walker, Michael Walsh

Sponsor Jane Armstrong, David Boyd-Thomas, Marion E. Brown, Janet Dewan, Janet Hutchison, Marie Korey, Richard Landon, Jim Rainer, Bruce Vance, Bruce M. Westwood

Supporting Harry P.M. Ade, Marian F.K. Ade, M.E. Louise Beck, Stan Bevington, Cicely Blackstock, Hartwell Bowsfield, D. Grant Brown, Graham R. Butler, John D. Cambridge, J. Geoffrey Chick, Eleanor Cook, Malcolm E. Davidson, James Doak, C. Jane Dobell, Florence Drake, Marie A. DunSeith, George Dutton, William Edwards, Ingrid & David Epp, Elizabeth Ann Falconer, Paul F. Ferley, Brian Fitzgerald, Patricia &John Fleming, John Fraser, George J.M. Gale, Gayle Garlock, John N. Giannone, Victoria Grant, Ian Gray, William M. Gray, Phyllis Grosskurth, Chester & Camilla Gryski, Damian Gryski, Mitzi Hamilton, Kevin Hannafm, Kent M. Haworth, Carol S. Helrnstadter, Richard Helmstadter. Robert A. Hendry, Alan J. Horne, William Humphries, Nicholas Hunter, James Ireland, Ken Johnston, Kyle Jolliffe, Donald S. Jones, Leon Katz, W.J. Keith, Brian Kennedy, David B. Kotin, Michael Laine, David M. Lank, Sylvia Lassam, John B. Lawson, Larry Levenstein, Katharine Lochnan, Paul Lockwood, Mary Lund, George MacCready, Leslie Maclean, Elizabeth MacRae, Edward F. Maeder, Marion Magee, Dina Gordon Malkin, Dr. & Mrs. I.J. Markens, David Mason, John T. Mayhall, Paul J. McCulloch, Duncan McLaren, James D. McLean, Philip Meany, Paul C. Michaelis, J. & M. Millgate, Dorothy Millichamp, Kathryn Mills, Carole Moore, Ralph A. Nablow, David Newel, Peter Noble, Richard O'Connor, Eleanor M. Parke, Jack H. Parker, Ernilio Passani, Robin Patterson, John Pepall, Jennifer Puncher, Enrico Rota, Carol Rothbart, Robert Rothgeb, Robert Russel, Christopher Ryan, Roger M. Savory, Keith Schmeidel, Thomas T. Schweitzer, Dorene Seltzer, Mark Seltzer, Etta Sherman, Stephen B. Smart, Patricia E. Stone, Richard & Virginia Storr, Anne Sutherland, Steven Temple, Dana Tenny, Virginia Tenny, Harry Underwood, Guy W. Upjohn, Nancy van der Poorten, Bram Verhoeff, Jean V. Wheeler, Brenda Whitlock, Sean Wilrnut

Individual Mary Allodi, Ernest J. Aplin, John H. Astington, John L. Ball, Elizabeth Ballard, K.R. Bartlett, Bernard Baskin, John Beckwith, Linda Bissinger, R.H. Blackburn, Michael Bliss, William Blissett, Harald Bohne, Virginia Brown, Jennifer S. H. Brown, Dan Calinescu, Harry campbell, ~aul Catling, Vera Chau, John Collins, A.W. Conn, Jane Cooper, Reed Cooper, Linda Corman, Paul Davies, Natalie Z. Davis, Elizabeth Derbecker, Leslie G. Derbecker, John G. Dimond, Ann C. Douglas, W.M. Drake, Susan Duff, Gail Edwards, Peter B. Edwards, Betsy Palmer Eldridge, Eric Etchen, William Feindel, Gillian Fenwick, Greg VJ. Fisher, Marion Franklin, Barbara Gallivan, Arnold B. Gardner, Nadina Y. Gardner, Greg Gatenby, Kathleen Gilling, Elaine Granatstein, Antonia Greenwood, Julius Griffith, Rachel Grover, H. Donald Guthrie, Peter and Edna Hajnal, Franress Halpenny, Sydney M. Harris, David M. Hayne, Robin Healey, Grace Heggie, Franklyn Hicks, Elmar Hodsoll, F. David Hoeniger, Heather Holmes, Leslie Howsam, Ann M. Hutchison, J.R. de Jackson, Heather J. Jackson, Nancy Jacobi, Frances E.M. Johnston, Helen R. Kahn, Karin Kattai, Donald G. Kendall, Ian Lancashire, Michael Large, Portia Leggat, Lucia Le Guen, Douglas LePan, Malcolm Lester, Kurt Levy, Bruce Lewis, Rolph Loeber, Enid Maclachlan, Margaret C. Maloney, Bruce C. Marshall, Albert Masters, Elizabeth Mathews, Linda K. McKnight, Randall McLeod, Helen McNeil, Mary McTavish, Karen Mulhallen, Russ Musgrove, Sandra Okada, Harvey Ohick, Jim Parr, David ~elteret,tuba Pendzey, Leith Peterson, Henri Pilon, Phyllis Platnick, Mildred Price, R. Gerald Prodrick, Joan R. Randall, Helmut Reichenbaecher, David Alan Richards, Eric Robertson, Marian A. Robertson, Andre Rosenbaum, S.P. Rosenbaum, Michael Rosenstock, John Rush, Judith St. John, Peter J. Savage, Gordon Sawa, Sheila Serio, Michael J. Sidnell, Solange Silverberg, Helen B. Smith, John Robert Smith, Wiebke Smythe, Carl Spadoni, Robert Stacey, Donald B. Sterling, C. Duff Stewart, William Stoneman, Almos Tassonyi, Adrienne Taylor, Michael R. Thompson, Douglas Thomson, Leslie Thomson, Leslie Tomlinson, Frederick Turner, Karen Visser, Michael Visser, G.T. Warkentin, Leon Warmski, Peter Watson, Peter Webb, John Whaley, Kenneth Whyte, Mary Williamson, Roger D. Wilson, Joan Wiearls, F.E. Winter, Doug Woods, Robert Wright, James Yates, Jay Yedvab, Sheila Yeomans, Anthony Zambataro

We also wish to thank all members who wish to remain anonymous.

* Gift in Kind members are listed only at the Patron level. continuedfrompage 10 exhibition and symposium on the Jews of Kaifeng to be held later this year at the Editor's Note four readers who examined the James Institut Monumenta Serica in Sankt Mavor Papers was from Yasnaya Polyana', Augustin, Germany. This issue was edited by Gayle the State Memorial Museum of Leo Finally, a photocopy of a letter from Sir Garlock and Anne Jocz, and de- Tolstoy. Another studied Mavor's involve- Joseph Banks to Mr. Nicol in the William signed by Maureen Morin, with ment in the Arts and Crafts Movement in S. Shelden Collection is being used to photographs by Dorian Sirnos. Canada. One of the six researchers reading assist in the Banks Archive Project spon- Comments and/or suggestions should the Woodsworth Memorial Collection sored by the Royal Society and the Natural be sent to Gayle Garlock, Director, gathered material for a documentary on History Museum in London. Development and Public Affairs, the Stelco strike in 1946. A scholar from University of Toronto Library, Germany had copies made of photographs Edna Hajnal Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5 (416) 978- from the W.C. White Papers for an Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library 7655. The Halcyon: The Newsletter of the Friends of The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library is published twice a Mark your calendarfor upcoming events... year in November and June. Halcyon includes short articles on recent Exhibitions 1997 - 1998 Planned Events 1997 - 1998 noteworthy gifts and acquisitions of All exhibition openings begin at 5:00 pm. All lectures begin at 8:00 pm. the Fisher Rare Book Library, recent exhibitions in the Fisher Library, 22 April - 15 August Tuesday 7 October activities of the Friends and other Tending the Young: From the T.G.H. "Book Collecting as a Critical Time short articles of interest to the Friends. Drake Collection on the History of Bomb." Professor J.R. de Jackson, Members of the editorial board of Professor of English, Victoria Univer- Paediatrics Halcyon are Gayle Garlock, Editor, sity in the University of Toronto Anne Jocz from the Fisher Library, 10 September - 19 December and Maureen Morin from the Infor- 'so precious a foundation' Wednesday 12 November mation Commons. The Library of Leander van Ess Kenneth Rendell, North America's Exhibition Opening: Tuesday 16 leading manuscript dealer, will speak September on forgeries, literary and historical. 19 January - 21 March Tuesday 3 February The British Experience in India Sebastian Carter of the Rampant Lions Exhibition Opening: Thursday 22 Press will speak on book design. January Thursday 5 March Professor Adrienne Dora Hood will speak on Dora Hood and her influ- ences.

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