Word: collector
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down a gangplank to Manhattan last week there strode a youngish man carrying a suitcase. He? Col. Ralph Isham, book collector, Boswellian, millionaire?was not surprised to find reporters crowding around him on his arrival from England. In his little suitcase he had some old pages, scrawled over in a faint curlicue handwriting, which he had recently purchased. These old pages, now bound into heavy leather volumes each stamped with the Scottish crest, were old letters and manuscripts, mostly unpublished, mostly written in the thin legible penmanship of James Boswell...
...Significance. Called by some "the most important literary find of the century," these papers alone probably surpass any other existing collection of Boswelliana, of which the finest hitherto have been those owned by Robert B. Adam, Buffalo (N. Y.) collector, and by Alfred Edward Newton of Philadelphia. The value of the collection varies widely in different estimates. It is insured for about $100,000; experts agree that on the market it would bring from $20,000 to $150,000. But to Boswellians and students of 18th Century letters, these documents are undoubtedly beyond price...
...five minutes' cordial applause somehow connotes complete triumph over Fortune, and a crisp five-dollar bill in the hand the equivalent of Croesus' sceptre, she has arrived at old age forlorn. Her house in Paris is tenanted by people who for two years have eluded the rent collector. She is in this country in an effort to recover her sight. Her foster son has deserted her. Her jewels are pawned. She has only the memory of her contemporaries, whose past brilliance still can cause her cataract-dimmed eyes to light up a little. Talking about them, she emphasizes...
MOSQUITOES-William Faulkner-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). A dozen mosquitoes gather on a yacht in southern waters. The mosquitoes are: unctuous Mrs. Maurier, queen mosquito, owner of the yacht, collector of eccentric celebrities; over-mannered Mr. Talliaferro, who carries a malaria germ of artistic small talk; Jennie and Pete, lower order of flies-by-night invited on the party by Patricia, a young mosquito who, none the less, administers the most powerful sting. Other insects-an author, a smalltime poet with a dull buzz, a sculptor-swarm drowsily in the lethargic air. Love affairs, talk, small business, occupy their time until...
...final collection of books for the Phillips Brooks House Text Book Loan Library will take place tomorrow afternoon. The collection will be from 2 o'clock until 4 o'clock. During these hours a truck will go from dormitory to dormitory to gather the books, and each collector is asked to put any books which he may have collected outside his door in case he himself will not be in at the time...