Word: keatsiana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Amy Lowell's library, bequeathed by her at her death last spring to the Widener Library, is at present being catalogued and arranged by the library authorities. In certain fields it is one of the finest private libraries in the world, her collection of Keatsiana being practically unique...
...will of Miss Amy Lowell, filed yesterday in the Probate Court, was found to contain among other provisions a bequest to the University of her entire personal library. Besides a number of other literary treasures, the library is expected to include Miss Lowell's unequaled collection of Keatsiana. Keats was the subject of much study on the part of Miss Lowell and the wealth of material which she had gathered on his life and works is not to be rivalled by that of any other collector...
...could accomplish it. It seems to me that as much energy goes into the preparation of a biography as into the founding of a business or the conduct of an important and complicated case at law. Miss Lowell has for many years been interested in the collection of Keatsiana. Her library safe holds one of the best groups of Keats manuscripts and letters in existence. She has not been content to allow any fact, however small, that it was in any way possible to obtain, to escape her, and has brought unusual powers of detection to bear in discovering...
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