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...20th century endurance record as titleholder, a triumph only slightly tarnished by the fact that Milton can hardly be described as a hotly pursued property. Ex-Proprietor Boswell is himself now possessed by Yale's renowned scholar Frederick A. Pottle. Yale, in fact, has enough Johnson-Boswelliana to fill Yale Bowl, is probably the only college brash enough to claim a whole literary century-the 18th in England-as its very...
Boswell's London Journal of those nine months is part of the huge cache of Boswelliana uncovered by indefatigable poking into Irish and Scottish castles over the past quarter-century and now safely housed at Yale (TIME, Oct. 2). It is the first volume, and possibly the liveliest, of the entire 45-volume Boswell that Yale scholars are now projecting...
...latest batch of Boswelliana (more than 500 items) was discovered by the present Lord Talbot de Malahide, who launched a treasure hunt of his own after inheriting the title in 1948 from Boswell's great-great-grandson. In accordance with the arrangement his family had made, he sold the papers to Lieut. Colonel Ralph H. Isham, Manhattan Boswell collector who has purchased all the Malahide and Fettercairn finds. By last week the collecting colonel had sold them in turn to his old alma mater, Yale...
These days, Tink no longer teaches, but refuses to think of himself as retired. He still keeps his old routine, living in his apartment at Yale's Davenport College, surrounded by his books and Boswelliana. He is oddly chipper on foggy days ("It reminds me of London"), but whatever the weather, he still takes his daily stroll across the campus, stopping to chat with the Davenport gatekeeper, and then going on to Yale's great Sterling Memorial Library where he has been keeper of rare books ever since 1931. One of his objects, already far advanced under Tink...
...past 20 years, Lord Macaulay's colossal misjudgment has been reversed. With the rediscovery of a vast cache of notes and letters that the portly biographer spent a lifetime scribbling, Boswell has gradually but increasingly been getting his due. Last week in Manhattan, a new stack of Boswelliana was made public for the first time...