Box 62

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A soft-cover lined notebook, bound in blue cloth, belonging to C.S.B. Buckland of Merton College, Oxford, and containing what appears to be a translation of Erasmus’ Epistles. The book is inscribed with the dates December 1919 and January 2020 and is titled “Erasmus I”; there does appear to have once been a second volume, as the translation simply cuts off, but it has apparently been lost or otherwise separated from the first.

Scope and Contents A book created by the Hide and Wool Trade of Chicago memorializing their long-time member Daniel H. McDaneld following his death in 1901. The text takes the form of several resolutions recognizing McDaneld’s contributions to the field, extending sympathy to his widow, and laying out their plan to create the memorial volume itself. The book is made of ten gilt-edged board pages with highly decorative calligraphy in at least 4 separate scripts, bound into a black leather cover with gold...

Scope and Contents A student notebook of lined paper, quarter bound in red leather with marbled paper covers, containing notes on English literature from Beowulf to Pope’s The Rape of the Lock. The text is handwritten in a neat cursive with quotations in a squared script and titles and important names in a decorative faux-Gothic style in red, blue, gold, and silver ink. The name of the writer, Frederick E. Fowle, Jr., is on the first page in the same Gothic script in blue and gold. The cover is detached at...

Scope and Contents A ledger from the library of the United Service Club in London, containing both purchases and suggested purchases for “circulating and permanent library books” between 1947 and 1969. When opened from the front, there are 30 pages of proposed book titles with the date, proposer’s name, title, remarks, and whether it was received. In 1951 a space for each book’s author was added, but suggestions dwindle markedly in the mid-60s. Inverted from the back are two pages of purchases for the...

Scope and Contents A diary belonging to Eric von Dembinski, a member of an aristocratic Polish family who claimed – among other things – a relationship to the British throne, despite living in relative poverty. The contents cover late August 1952 through the beginning of June 1953, and are written in the third person (ie: “Eric rose early…”) describing the daily life of Eric and his sister Madeleine (“Mad”), the self-styled Prince and Princess von Dembinski, in Belchamp Walter near Sudbury on the...

Scope and Contents A mid-19th-century “gift book” belonging to a young American woman named Elizabeth Wolcott, who appears to have lived in Philadelphia. A decorative title page reads “Album of Shakspeare’s Heroines” published by Willis P. Hazard in Philadelphia, 1853, and there are full-color plates of various figures throughout, some with protective tissue paper. The remainder of the album is blank, and Wolcott has filled about two-thirds of it with notes, drawings, and quotations inscribed by friends...

Scope and Contents An unbound sketchbook containing 16 images in various stages of completion, 11 of which are finished with watercolor. Contents are townscapes and landscapes, likely English, and several trees. An image of a bridge surrounded by mountains bears a strong resemblance to Ashness Bridge in Keswick, in the English Lake District, and the sketchbook may have been created there. A loose watercolor of a horse is also included. The bridge image is signed “R.M.” Likely first half of the 20th century,...

Scope and Contents A notebook belonging to American politician and minister Roland D. Sawyer. On the front is written in black marker “Note Book in which I List Further Things of Interest after My Mss. on History of Kensington was finished” followed by Sawyer’s signature and the date October 7th, 1943. Stickers on the front cover further indicate this is notebook 116. The pages are numbered 1 through 120, though not all are used, and the contents are written in various inks and red pencil, mixed with typed...