All Other Private & Public Library Materials, 1866 - 2012

File — Box: 20, Folder: 3-4

Scope and Contents

17 pamphlets published by a variety of private and public libraries and their Friends groups in both the United States and United Kingdom, including exhibition materials, annual reports, catalogs, and lectures. Dates range from 1866 to 2012. Where necessary, the name of the affiliated Library is provided. Occasional manuscript material such as letters, leaflets, or other small pieces of ephemera are present along with individual pamphlets. The materials included are as follows.

United States

Forty-Third Annual Report of the Mercantile Library Company of Philadelphia, 1866

Seventy-Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of The Providence Athenaeum, 1911

Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition Commemorating the Anniversary of the Death of John Keats (1821-1921), Boston Public Library, 1921

C.R. Morey, The Landevennec Gospels: A Breton Illuminated Manuscript of the Ninth Century, New York Public Library, 1929

John Erskine and R.R. Hawkins, George Edward Woodberry, 1855-1930, New York Public Library, 1930

The Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum Annual Report for the Year 1968

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas, National Archives and Records Service, 1985?

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Annual Report 1991-1994

Baroness BlackstoneFrom Bones to Bytes: The Development of our Great Libraries, The American Trust for the British Library, 2012

United Kingdom

The Mount Sinai Manuscript of the Bible, British Museum, 1934

Sir H.C. Maxwell Lyte, Catalogue of the Manuscripts and other Objects in the Museum of the Public Record Office, 1938

T.C. Skeat, The Catalogues of the Manuscript Collections in the British Museum, 1953

J.M. Hussey, Ascetics and the Humanists in Eleventh-Century Byzantium, Dr. Williams’s Library, 1960

Neville Williams, John Foxes the Martyrologist: His Life and Times, Dr. Williams’s Library, 1975

Birmingham Shakespeare Library: A Brief Description, Birmingham Public Libraries, 1975

J.M. Hussey, Ascetics and the Humanists in Eleventh-Century Byzantium, Dr. Williams’s Library, 1960

Annual Reports and Accounts, The London Library and London Library Trust, 1996-7 and 1997-98

Dates

1866 - 2012

Conditions Governing Access

Most manuscripts collections at the Georgetown University Booth Family Center for Special Collections are open to researchers; however, restrictions may apply to some collections. Collections stored off site require a minimum of three days for retrieval. For use of all manuscripts collections, researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections in advance of any visit.