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Gazette of the Grolier Club Volume 11, No. 6 April, 1946 GAZETTE OF THE GROLIER CLUB CONTENTS The Emily Dickinson Exhibition. The Jonathan Swift Exhibition. Swift Manuscripts in America. Seven Cen- turies of Music. Architectural Prints; Printmaking in the Service of Architecture. Letter-book of Mary Stead Pinckney. Contributions to the Library Fund. THE EMILY DICKINSON EXHIBITION Manuscripts, books and memorabilia relating to Emily Dickinson, assembled from many libraries and collections, were on exhibit at The Grolier Club from October 18 to November 7, 1945. Central in this dis- play were manuscript poems by Emily Dickinson in several styles of her penmanship; letters from Miss Dickinson written at various periods of her life, and also from her family; her father, Edward Dickinson, when he was a memberof Congress; her sister Lavinia; 170 her brother Austin, his wife and daughter; also letters from the first editors, Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd; and from the publisher, Thomas Niles of Roberts Brothers. Included were prints and photographs of early Amherst, both town and college, of the Dickinson family and their houses; first editions of all published poems by Emily Dickin- son and many about her, with bibliographies; Mabel Loomis Todd’s manuscript note-books, scrap-books of clippings half-a-century old; and other memorabilia. To open the exhibition, an address, New Light on Emily Dickinson, was given by Millicent Todd Bing- ham, editor of Bolts of Melody, therecently published book of new poems of Emily Dickinson. The address revealed a living and real Emily Dickinson; obviously as a person she cannot be separated from her writings. To understand her Mrs. Bingham interpreted her poems: the “new light” shines from the poems. The address was divided into two parts. The in- cidents of Miss Dickinson’s life and its setting, the family and the community were presented, with a summary of events leading to the discovery and publi- cation of the poems, first issued in 1890, four years after her death. Mrs. Bingham made it clear that the reasons for Miss Dickinson’s becoming a recluse are not to be found, as has too often been assumed, in an unhappy love affair. On the contrary, she merely with- drew from an uncomprehending environment in order to occupy herself with things that interested her more. Her life was given to the discovery of truth and 171 to its expression in poetry. The second part of Mrs. Bingham’s paper expounded this idea. It revealed in Miss Dickinson’s own words an account of her life- work, the setting down of her discoveries about truth and beauty and eternal goodness. By reading from the poems Mrs. Bingham showed that although Miss Dick- inson lived as a recluse, she was in fact an intrepid adventurer into the remote fastnesses of the human spirit. Three topics were chosen by way of illustration: the world of nature in its various aspects; the nature of truth, a subject of transcendent importance to Emily Dickinson; and the stark sequence underlying life itself—pain, suffering, death, immortality. Some of her greatest poems dealing with her effort to under- stand these themes were read, as convincing evidence that she was not a whimsical eccentric, but a woman of genius. In introducing Mrs. Bingham to the members of the Club and their guests, the President said: The Grolier Club welcomes you to an eventful eve- ning. We celebrate the work of a great American poet under the tutelage of a painstaking and brilliant schol- ar. What Mrs. Bingham has done in rediscovering, ed- iting and publishing over 660 new poems of Emily Dickinson, many of her maturest period, is a signifi- cant contribution in American literary history. It fol- lows zealously and logically the work of Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd, Mrs. Bingham’s mother. Mrs. Todd was Emily Dickinson’s first editor; without her the poet might have remained unknown for many years. 172 As to Mrs. Bingham’s book, many of the poems in her Bolts of Melody are among Emily Dickinson’s best. These include the three groups of philosophical poems and the incomplete and unfinished poems of Part a, among which is that iridescent couplet, Soft as the massacre of suns By evening sabers slain. But Mrs. Bingham has done even more than to give these poems to the world. In her Ancestors’ Brocades, Mrs. Bingham by an explicit narrative supported by convincing evidence, explains why the publication of the poems ceased in 1896, after the issuing of the three small volumes which comprise the poems of 1890, the second series of 1891, and the third series of 1896.Mrs. Bingham also explains the colossal difficulties in col- lating and reading the troublesome manuscripts even when they were in the form of the fascicles which you will see in the case to my left. For this poetry is “pure poetry,” in Professor Santayana’s words, and by his norms these poems are pure experiment and spon- taneity. Here we find that the poems were born on the backs of old envelopes, on business circulars, on strips and scraps and morsels of paper. And thus they remained in the famous Chinese box of camphor wood for a generation until Mrs. Bingham turned the key, heard the little tune of the tinkling bells and saw the manuscripts of the poems which she has rediscovered for us. But more than that, Mrs. Bingham has inves- 173 tigated and told the drama of the clash of personalities which postponed the publication of the poems for almost fifty years. She has scrupulously analyzed the lawsuit and the decree which seem so extraordinary. I doubt whether any two books taken together are more unusual or more American in the history of modern poetry. We are greatly privileged to have Mrs. Bingham with us—a distinguished scientist and author, with a background of liberal tradition, train- ing and culture and a meticulous regard for accurate, objective standards of judgment. THE JONATHAN SWIFT EXHIBITION To commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the death of Jonathan Swift, which occurred on October 19, 1745, the Club held an exhibition com- prising manuscripts and printed books by Swift and several books from his library. The exhibitionwas not intended to be definitive in any sense, but it is be- lieved that it brought together as choice a selection of Swift items as has ever been shown in this country. The exhibition was opened at a regular Club meeting held on the evening of November 15, 1945, at which Dr. Herbert Davis, President of Smith College, pre- sented an address on Swift Manuscripts Owned in America. Dr. Davis is the author of important works on the Dean of St. Patrick’s and an editor of his writ- ings. We are happy to be able to present in the follow- ing pages the complete text of Dr. Davis’s address. 174 Besides the manuscripts and annotated volumes mentioned in the address, many important first and other editions of Swift’s writings were exhibited, in- cluding: A Tale of a Tub, 1704. A famous Prediction of Merlin, 1709. Baucis and Philemon, Imitated from Ovid, 1709. A Meditation upon a Broom-stick, 1710. The Virtues of Sid Hamet the Magician’s Rod, 1710. The Examiner, 1710-1714. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, 1711. A new Journey to Paris, 1711. Peace and Dunkirk, 1712. A Proposal tor Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue, 1712. T 1 nd’s Invitation to Dismal, 1712. The Importance of the Guardian Considered, 1713. A Proposal tor the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture, 1720. The Bubble: a Poem, 1721. The Journal [? 1721]. Broadside. The Drapier’s Letters. 5 pamphlets, [1724]. An excellent new Song upon his grace our good Lord Arch- bishop of Dublin, 1724. Travels into several remote Nations of the World ... by Lemuel Gulliver, 1726. Several copies. Cadenus and Vanessa, 1726. A short View of the State of Ireland, 1727-8. An Answer to a Paper. Called a Memorial of the poor In- habitants [&c.] ... of Ireland, 1728. The Intelligencer, 1728. The Journal of a modern Lady, 1729. A modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of poor People from being a Burthen to their Parents, 1729. 175 An Examination of certain Abuses, 1732. On Poetry: a Rapsody, 1733. A complete Collection of genteel and ingenious Conversa- tion, 1738. Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift written by himself, 1739. Three Sermons, 1744. Works, 1742-1743. 9 volumes. Lord Orrery’s set, with his annotations. SWIFT MANUSCRIPTS IN AMERICA Dr. Herbert Davis addressed the Club as follows: Jonathan Swift died on October 19, 1745. This bi- centenary year is being recognized this fall, here and in England, by some small exhibitions of his works as well as by articles in literary journals and papers at one of the meetings of the MLA this Christmas. I am grateful to The Grolier Club for inviting me to speak on the occasion of this exhibition, and I hope it is fitting I should speak to such an audience about the MSS of Swift which are now in America. They are the most valuable and intimate memorials that we have of him, these pages upon which his hand rested as he wrote letters and verses to his friends, these vol- umes from his library marked with pencilled com- ments often expressingvigorously his private criticism of what he was reading. These memorials are not the less interesting though they reveal him only in his more intimate relationships and show his mind at work in his less formal compositions. For you will notice that we do not possess and we are not likely to 176 discover any of the drafts of Gulliver’s Travels, or of A Tale of a Tub, or of his political pamphlets.
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