Chapter IX: The Collector’s Best Bet 264 (9)

_Dailey Meditations, or Quotidian Preparations for and Consideration
of Death and Eternity_ (Johnson, 1668), 77.

Dante (Foligno, 1472), 86.

Dare, Virginia, record of birth in Smith’s _Virginia_, 280.

Davies, Sir John, 52.

Day, Mahlon, 207.

De Bure, Guillaume-François, 214, 215.

De Puy, Henry F., 173, 174.

Deane, Silas, 176.

_Decades of the New World_ (Martyr), 273.

_Decameron_ (Boccaccio), 29, 90, 91.

Declaration of Independence, Gwinnett a signer of, 53, 54, 286;
certified copy of, 176, 288;
letter of another signer (Rodney), 288.

Defoe, Daniel, 59, 60.

Delaware’s signer of the Declaration, 288.

Denton, Daniel, 282.

Devonshire, Duke of, 89, 248, 256.

Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 89, 90, 91.

Dickens, Charles, letters about _Pickwick Papers_, 155, 157;
page from the MS., 156;
a gift to British Museum, 157;
_Haunted Man_, 158, 159;
MS. of his last letter, 160.

_Discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the Isle of Devils_
(Jourdain), 265.

_Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America_ (Hakluyt), 275.

Dodd, Mead and Company, 81.

Dodd, Robert, 81, 82.

_Don Quixote_, 100.

Drake, Francis, 275.

Dreer, Ferdinand J., 105.

Drinkwater, John, 26, 27.

Drury Lane Theatre, 14.

_Dying Sayings of Hannah Hill, Junior_, 182, 186, 187.

Eames, Dr. Wilberforce, 192, 193.

Eaton, John Henry, 6.

Edmunds, Charles, 51.

Electoral Library, Mainz, 215.

Eliot, John, 43, 44, 78.

Elizabeth, Queen, dedication of Genevan Bible to, 240.

Elizabethan Club library, 50, 255.

Elkins, William M., 202.

Ellsworth, James W., 219, 273.

Emancipation Proclamation, first draft of, 291.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Whitman’s tribute to, 152, 153, 154.

English Historical Manuscripts Commission, 258.

_Enough is as good as a Feast_ (Wagner), reprint of, 256.

_Epigrams and Elegies_, 52.

“Epimanes,” (Poe), 167, 168, 169.

_Epistles for the Ladies_, 20.

Estrées, Gabrielle d’, 68, 70, 72, 74.

Eton College library, 217, 218.

_Faerie Queene, The_, 148-151.

_Fall of Princes_ (Lydgate), 252.

Fenwick, T. FitzRoy, 223.

Fielding, Henry, 37.

Fillon, Benjamin, 100.

First folio Shakespeare, points on, 86;
printing of, 88, 89.

_First Laws of New York_, 64.

Fitzgerald, Edward, 175.

“Fitzvictor” (Shelley), 55.

Fleet, T. and J., 201.

Fletcher, John, letter to Countess of Huntingdon, 146.

Fogel, Johann, 218.

Folger, H. C., 53, 88, 256.

Forgeries, 98-133.

Forman, J. Buxton, 42, 95.

Fortescue, Hon. John, 217.

_Fortune’s Lottery_ (Paice), 77.

Foster, John, 281.

Fox, George, 191.

Fox, Joseph M., 18, 74.

Franklin, Benjamin, epitaph of, 66, 67;
letter of, 135;
work book of his printing business, 136-139;
MS. of his _Autobiography_, 142;
signature to the Declaration, 176;
children’s books, 189, 190, 191;
_Story of a Whistle_, 195, 196;
_New England Primer_, 196;
_Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth_, 196, 197;
letter to Jonathan Williams, 197, 198.

Frederick the Great, 176, 177.

Frederickson sale, 40.

French National Library, 215, 229, 245.

Freneau, Philip, 20.

Frick, Henry C., 80.

Fust, Johann, 216, 217, 221.

Garrick, David, _Prologue_ recited by, 14;
letter of Dr. Johnson to, 48, 49.

_General Advertiser_ (London), 14.

_General Historie of Virginia_ (Smith), 267, 278;
dedication of, 278, 279;
extracts from, 280.

_General Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts, collected out of the
Records of the General Court_ (1648), 63, 64.

_Gentleman’s Magazine_, 14.

George the Third, 246.

Gerson, Johannes, 28.

_Glass of Whiskey, The_, title and page of, 193, 194, 195.

Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, 40.

_Golden Legend_ (Caxton), 232, 233.

Goldsmith, Oliver, 202, 203.

Goodspeed, Charles, 66, 67.

_Goody Two Shoes_, 202.

Gower, John, 252.

Grammar, Lindley Murray’s, 6.

Grant, Gen. Ulysses S., letter to his father (1861), 297;
telegram announcing Lee’s surrender, 298, 299.

Gratz, Simon, 119.

Gray, Thomas, 13, 130, 217.

Green, Bartholomew, 200.

Green, T. (New Haven, 1740), 200, 201.

Greene, Belle da Costa, 217.

Greene, Robert, 146.

Grenville, Hon. Thomas, 246.

Gribbel, John, 160.

Grolier, Jean, 21, 22.

Grolier Club library, 50.

Gundulph, Bishop of Rochester, Bible of, 222.

Gutenberg, Johann, 213, 214, 216, 220.

Gwinnett, Button, autographs, 53, 54, 286.

Gwynne, Edward, 88.

Hakluyt, Richard, 275.

Hall, David, 139, 196.

Halsey, Rosalie V., 198, 204.

_Hamlet_, forged pages of, 126, 127, 128.

Hancock, John, Washington letter to, 9, 10, 11.

Handel, George Frederick, manuscript music of, 69.

_Hans Breitmann’s Party, and Other Ballads_, 6.

Hariot, Thomas, 275.

Harkness, Mrs. E. S., 220.

Harkness, Mrs. Stephen V., 220.

Harmsworth, Sir R. L., 256, 261, 299.

Harper, Lathrop C., 192, 193.

Harvard University, Widener Library, 45, 46, 66, 85.

Harvey, Gabriel, book given by Spenser to, 149.

Hathaway, Anne, forged letter to, 126.

_Haunted Man, The_ (Dickens), 158, 159.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 26;
MS. title-page of _Wonder Book_, 180;
his copy of Hubbard’s history of Indian wars, 280, 281.

Hawthorne, William, 281.

Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 41.

_Heavenly Spirits for Youthful Minds_, 193, 194.

Heber, Richard, 61, 62, 248, 252, 257.

Heminge, John, 88, 151.

Henkels, Stan V., 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 68, 80, 81.

Henry, Prince, Bible of, 239.

Herrick, Robert, 255.

_Hesperides_ (Herrick), 255.

Heywood, Thomas, 256.

Hispanic Society Library, 275.

_Historie of New England_ (Winthrop), 281.

_Historie of Plimouth Plantation_ (Bradford), 281, 282.

_History of America_ (Robertson), 20.

_History of America abridged for the use of Children of all
Denominations_, 206, 207.

_History of Ann Lively and her Bible_, 184.

_History of Little Fannie_, etc., 209.

_History of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Epitomized; for
the Use of Children in the South Parish at Andover_, 184, 185.

Hoe, Robert, 99, 176.

Hoe sales, 30, 77, 83, 176, 218.

Hogarth, Samuel Johnson’s epitaph for, 48, 49.

Holford, Robert Stayner, 248.

Holford, Sir George, 31, 53, 86, 249.

Holkham MSS., 222.

Hubbard, William, on the Indian wars in New England, 26, 280, 281.

_Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of_, 187.

Hunt, Leigh, 171.

Huntington, Archer M., 100, 275.

Huntington, Henry E., _The Book of Hunting and Hawking_, 30;
devotion to book-collecting, 33;
_Queen Mab_, 42;
collection open to the public, 44, 45;
Bacon’s _Essays_, 50;
_Venus and Adonis_, 52;
method of buying, 82, 83;
first folio Shakespeare, 89;
MS. of Franklin’s _Autobiography_, 142;
Arnold letter, 174;
the _Royal Primer_, 198, 199;
the Conqueror Bible, 222;
block books, 228;
Coverdale Bible, 236;
quoted, 252;
his collection, 253;
_Hamlet_, second edition, 255;
Columbus letter, 271, 272;
Cartier atlas, 275.

Huth sales (1912), 46, 50;
(1911), 238.

Independence, Declaration of, 53, 54, 176, 286, 288.

Independence Hall and Square, sale of, 177.

Indian wars in New England, William Hubbard’s story of the, 26,
280, 281.

_Inland Navigation_ (Brown), 20.

_Instructions for Right Spelling_, 191, 192.

Ireland, William Henry, 122-128.

Ives, Gen. Brayton, 40, 99, 267.

_Jack Juggler_, title page of, 247.

Jaggard, Isaac, 88.

Jaggard, William, 88.

Janeway, Rev. James, 189, 190.

Jansen, Reinier, 191.

Jennings, Samuel, attack on, 65.

Jersey, Earl of, 29.

Johnson, Jacob, 5, 183.

Johnson, Marmaduke, 77.

Johnson, Samuel, Prologue for Drury-Lane Theatre, 14;
A. Edward Newton’s enthusiasm for, 47;
Boswell’s _Life_, 47;
letter suggesting epitaph for Hogarth, 48, 49.

Johnson, W., 208.

Johnson and Warner, 183.

Jones, H. V., 269, 272.

Jones, John Paul, _Life_ of, 206.

Jonson, Ben, verses on Shakespeare, 88, 89.

Jordan, Mrs. (Dolly), 127, 128.

Jourdain, Sylvester, 265.

_Journal of the most Material Occurrences proceeding the Seige of
Fort Schuyler_ (Colbreath), 289.

Joyce, James, MS. of, 171.

“Judith and Holofernes” (woodcut), 233.

Kane, Grenville, 272.

Keats, John, Amy Lowell on, 39, 40;
his copy of Shakespeare, 40;
MS. of sonnet to Haydon, 41;
Shelley letter referring to, 42;
Wilde’s sonnet on sale of his love letters, 94;
Morley’s sonnet on sale of one letter to Dr. Rosenbach, 95;
MS. letter to Fanny Brawne, 96, 97;
advancing value of, 181.

Kemble, John Philip, 127, 128.

Kennerley, Mitchell, 65, 66.

Kern, Jerome D., 42.

Killigrew, Thomas, 259.

_King Edward IV_ (Heywood), reprint of, 256.

_King Lear_, forged copy of, 126, 128.

King-Hamy chart, 273.

Kingsborough, Lord, 223.

Kirby, Thomas E., 80.

Koster (Coster), Lourens Janszoon, 216.

Lamport Hall, seat of Ishams, discoveries at, 51.

Laud (William), Archbishop, 242.

Lawler, Percy E., 136-139.

_Laws of New York_ (Bradford, 1694), 19.

Lazarus, forged letter of, 120.

Lee, Gen. Robert Edward, letter resigning commission in U. S. Army,
294, 295;
letter after close of the war, 295, 296;
Grant’s announcement of his surrender, 298, 299.

_Legacy for Children, being Some of the Last Expressions and Dying
Sayings of Hannah Hill, Junr._, etc., 186, 187.

Leicester, Earl of, 222.

Leland, Charles Godfrey, 6.

Leningrad Library, 221.

Lenox, James, 84, 243, 244, 267, 271, 272.

Leonard, Zenas, 284.

_Lessons for Children from Two to Five Years Old_, 197.

Library, Ambrosian, 271;
British Museum, 50, 157, 221, 226, 244, 245, 246;
Cambridge University, 50, 245;
Congressional, 67, 176, 246;
Electoral (Mainz), 215;
Elizabethan Club (Yale), 50, 255;
Eton College, 217, 218;
French National, 215, 229, 245;
Grolier Club, 50;
Hispanic Society, 275;
Leningrad, 221;
Mazarin, 24, 211, 212, 214, 215;
National, of Brazil, 221;
New York Public, 84, 228, 236, 237, 271;
Newberry, 253;
Philadelphia Free, 237, 250;
Record Office, London, 146, 259;
Somerset House, 146;
Sorbonne, 23;
Spanish National, 100;
University of Michigan, 45;
University of Pennsylvania, 197;
University of Southern California, 45;
Vatican, 221;
Widener (Harvard), 45, 46, 66, 85;
Windsor Castle, 217;
Yale University, 220.
_See also_ names of individual collectors.

_Life of Samuel Johnson_, 14, 47.

Lincoln, Abraham, autographs of, 290;
first draft of Emancipation Proclamation, 291;
of Baltimore address, 291;
other addresses and letters of, 291, 292;
account of his death, 294.

_Little Truths_, 206.

_Lives of Highwaymen_, 206.

_Lives of Pirates_, 206.

_Lives of the Twelve Cæsars_, 206.

_Lord Jim_ (Conrad), MS. page of, 145.

Louÿs, Pierre, 116.

Lovelace, Richard, 255.

Lowell, Amy, 39, 40.

Lucas, Vrain, 117-121.

_Lucasta_ (Lovelace), 255.

Lufft, Hans, 236.

Luther, Martin, 235.

Lydgate, John, 252.

McCarty and Davis, 6, 183.

MacDonald, Ramsay, 246.

MacGeorge, Bernard Buchanan, 87.

Malone, Edmund, 127.

Malory, Sir Thomas, 29.

Manutius, Aldus, 21.

“Mark Twain,” 164, 165.

Marlowe, Christopher, 52, 146, 261.

Martyr, Peter, 273.

“Marvel, Ik” (Donald G. Mitchell), 6.

Mary Magdalene, forged letter of, 120, 121.

Mason, William, 130.

Mason, William S., 67, 196.

Massingham, H. W., 142, 143.

Mather, Cotton, 185, 190, 191.

Mazarin, Cardinal (Jules), 21, 23, 211.

Mazarin Library, 24, 211, 212, 214, 215.

“Meistersinger, Die,” MS. page of, 73.

Melville, Herman, 6, 26.

Mentelin, 231.

Menzies, William, 267.

“Messiah, The” (Handel), MS. page of, 69.

Michigan, University of, 45.

Millar, Eric G., 225.

Milne, A. A., 28.

Milton, John, 259.

Mitchell, Donald G., 6.

_Moby Dick_, first edition, 26;
presentation copy, 26, 27.

Molière (Boucher, 1734), 85, 86.

_Moll Flanders_, 206.

Morgan, J. Pierpont, 238, 239, 245.
_See also_ Morgan Library.

Morgan, Junius Spencer, 238.

Morgan, Pierpont, Library, letter of George Washington, 10;
Malory’s _Morte d’Arthur_ (Caxton), 29;
collection open to public, 45, 263;
Vespucci letter and commonplace book, 56, 57;
librarian of, 217;
MS. Bibles, 222;
Holkham MSS., 222;
block books, 228;
Lufft Bible, 236;
Coverdale Bible, 236;
He Bible, 239.

Morley, Christopher, sonnet on Dr. Rosenbach’s purchase of Keats’s
love letter, 95, 96, 97.

Morrison, Alfred, 100.

Morrison sale, 55.

_Morte d’Arthur, Le_, 29.

Mostyn, Lord, 256.

_Mother Goose’s Melodies_, 203.

_Motherless Mary, a Young and Friendless Orphan_, etc., 206.

Mourt, George, 282.

“Murders in the Rue Morgue, The,” 93.

Murphy, Henry C., 267.

Murray, Lindley, 6.

_Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England_ (Hubbard),
26, 280, 281.

_Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne_, MS. page of, 251.

_New England Magazine_, Poe’s letter to, 170.

_New England Primer_, 196.

_New England’s Prospect_ (Wood), 282.

_New York Cries_, 207, 208.

New York Public Library, 84, 228, 236, 237, 271, 272.

Newbery, John, 202.

Newberry Library, 253.

Newton, A. Edward, 47, 67, 237.

Nichols, Charles L., 288.

North, Lord (Frederick), Benedict Arnold’s letter to, 172, 173, 174.

Occleve, Thomas, _Poems_ of, 252.

_Ockanickon, an Indian King, The Dying Words of_, 81, 82.

_Odes_, Gray’s, 13.

_Old Dame Trudge and Her Parrot_, 209.

_Omar Khayyám_, MS. of, 175.

Paice’s _Fortune’s Lottery_, 77.

Paine, Philip, _Dailey Meditations_, 77.

Pallinganius’s _Zodyacke of Lyfe_, 77.

Palmart, Lamberto, 37.

_Pamela_, 204.

_Paraphrastical Exposition_, etc. (1693), 65.

Parker, James, 139.

Pascal, forged letter of, 118.

_Passionate Pilgrim, The_, 52.

_Patty Primrose_, 187.

Pellechet, Mademoiselle, 217.

Penn, William, 282, 283.

Pennsylvania, University of, 197.

Pennypacker, Samuel W., 8, 9, 10, 11, 91.

_Penrod_, 187.

Pentateuch, forged text of, 225, 226;
the Tyndale translation, 236.

Pepys, Samuel, 259.

Perry, Marsden J., 87, 128.

_Peter Piper’s Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect
Pronunciation_, 208, 209.

Pforzheimer, Carl H., 159, 219, 237.

Pfister, Albrecht, 220, 221, 229.

Philadelphia Free Library, 237, 250.

Philes, George P., 3.

Philley, John, 65.

Phillips, Samuel, 184, 185.

Phillipps, Sir Thomas, 222, 223.

_Pickwick Papers, The_, 155-159.

_Pilgrim’s Progress, The_, 31, 32, 33.

_Pirates, a Tale for Youth, The_, 206.

Pizarro, Francisco, chart used by, 274, 275.

Poe, Edgar Allan, 3, 4, 6, 93;
MS. of “Annabel Lee,” 164, 166, 167;
letters, 168, 170;
MS. page of “Epimanes,” 169;
advancing value of, 181.

Poitiers, Diane de, 57, 58.

_Political State of Europe, The_, 20.

Pollard, Alfred W., 245, 255.

Polock, Moses, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 17, 18, 19, 35, 36, 37, 104,
105, 181-184, 264, 265, 266.

Poor, Henry W., 79.

_Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson_ (Shelley), 55.

_Primer Improved_, 199.

_Pretty Book for Children, A_, 203.

_Prize for Youthful Obedience, The_, 206.

_Proceedings of the Convention_, 1775, Washington’s copy of, 288.

_Prodigal Daughter, or a strange and wonderful relation_, etc., 202.

_Progressive Primer_, 199.

_Prologue_ (Johnson) for opening Drury Lane Theatre, 14.

_Prophecies That Remain To Be Fulfilled_ (Winchester), 20.

_Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania_,
196, 197.

_Prose Romances_ (Poe), 93, 95.

Psalter of Fust and Schöffer, 217.

Ptolemy’s _Geography_, 58.

_Pudd’nhead Wilson_, 164.

_Pug’s Visit to Mr. Punch_, 209.

Putnam, Herbert, 246.

Quaritch, Alfred, 63, 64, 84, 85, 218, 238.

Quaritch, Bernard, 99.

_Queen Mab_, 40, 42.

Quentel, Peter, 235, 236.

Quinn sale (1924), 143.

Record Office, London Public, 146, 259.

Redgrave, G. R., 255.

Reed, John Watson, 89.

_Relation or Journal of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English
Plantation settled at Plimouth in New England_ (Mourt), 282.

Republican Party, Lincoln’s MS. speech about formation of, 291, 292.

Revere, Paul, 287.

_Reynard the Fox_, 11.

Ricci, Seymour de, 174.

Richelieu, Cardinal (Armand Jean du Plessia), 21, 22, 23.

Richmond, George H., and Company, 81.

Rio de Janeiro, national library at, 221.

Robertson, William, 20.

_Robinson Crusoe_, 59, 60.

Rodney, Cæsar, 288.

Rosenbach, A. S. W., purchase of a Washington letter, 10, 11;
_Reynard the Fox_, 11, 12;
Gray’s _Odes_, 13, 14;
Johnson’s Drury Lane _Prologue_, 14, 15;
Gutenberg Bible, 17;
inheritance from Moses Polock, 19;
books from Washington’s library, 20;
first edition _Adonais_, 25;
_Moby Dick_, 26, 27;
Shakespeare first folio, 27;
_The Book of Hunting and Hawking_, 30;
_Pilgrim’s Progress_, 31, 32, 33;
Keats’s copy of Shakespeare, 40;
Shelley’s own copy of _Queen Mab_, 40;
Baxter’s _Call to the Unconverted_ in Indian language, 43;
letter of Dr. Johnson to Garrick, 48, 49;
second edition _Venus and Adonis_, 53;
signature of Button Gwinnett, 53, 54;
letter of Amerigo Vespucci, 55, 56;
commonplace book of Giorgio Vespucci, 56, 57;
first edition _Robinson Crusoe_, 59, 60, 61;
book from Lamb’s library, 61;
Bradford’s _First Laws of New York_, 64;
first book printed in New York, 65;
Franklin’s first draft of his own epitaph, 66, 67;
Missal of Gabrielle d’Estrées, 68, 70, 71, 72, 74;
MS. of Handel’s
“Messiah,” 69;
MS. of Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger,” 73;
Lope de Vega’s _Carlos V_, 77;
first volume of verse printed in North America, 77, 78, 79;
_Unpublishable Memoirs_, 82;
first folio Shakespeare, 84, 85;
the Holford first folio, 86;
four folios from the Perry sale, 87;
volume of nine Shakespeare plays, 88;
Poe’s _Prose Romances_, 93;
MS. sonnet by Oscar Wilde on sale of Keats’s love letters, 94;
letter of Keats to Fanny Brawne, 95, 96, 97;
autograph letter of Cervantes, 100, 101, 102;
letter written by George Washington, 106, 107;
illustrated MS. letter of Thackeray, 110;
MS. of Wilde’s _Salomé_, 112, 113, 114, 116;
MS. dedication of Wilde’s _Sphinx_, 115;
forgery of a Shakespeare MS. by Ireland, 123;
Ireland’s confession, 128;
autograph letter of Franklin, 135;
Franklin’s work book of his press, 138, 139;
MSS. of Bernard Shaw, 142, 143;
MS. of Conrad’s _Victory_, 143, 144;
of _Lord Jim_, 145;
Shakespeare’s _Troylus and Cresseida_, 147;
presentation copy, first edition of _The Faerie Queene_, 148, 149,
150;
book given by Spenser to Gabriel Harvey, 149;
MS. of Walt Whitman’s “By Emerson’s Grave,” 152, 153, 154;
Dickens’s letter about beginning _Pickwick_, 155, 157;
MS. pages of _Pickwick_, 156, 157;
Dickens’s note in verse, 158, 159;
his last written letter, 160;
MS. poems of Burns, 161, 162, 163, 164;
MSS. of Mark Twain, 164, 165;
Poe’s “Annabel Lee” and “Epimanes,” 166, 167, 168, 169, 170;
MS. page of Joyce’s _Ulysses_, 171;
letter of Benedict Arnold, 172, 173, 174;
MS. page of the _Rubáiyát_, 175;
contemporary certified copies Declaration of Independence and
Articles of Confederation (U.S.), 176, 177;
MS. title page of Hawthorne’s _Wonder Book_, 180;
collection of old-fashioned books for children, 182-209;
Gutenberg Bibles, 212, 213, 218, 219, 220;
Pfister (Bamberg) Bible, 220, 221;
the 1462 Bible (Mainz), 221;
MS. Bible of eleventh century, 222;
Gospels of ninth century, 223, 224;
French illustrated Bible of fourteenth century, 224;
early English Bible pictures, 224, 225;
ancient block books, 227, 228;
Jenson Bible (1479), 231;
Caxton books, 232, 233;
annotated He Bible (1611), 239;
_Jack Juggler_ (1555), 247;
MS. of White’s _Selborne_, 251;
MSS. of Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and Occleve, 252;
the Battle Abbey Cartularies, 257, 258;
letter of Beau Brummell, 258;
MS. of Arnold Bennett, 262;
a tea-ship broadside, 266;
old Spanish MS. concerning Cortés, signed by Charles V, 268, 269;
Columbus letter (1493), German edition, 271, 272;
the King-Hamy chart, 273;
charts used by Cortés and Pizarro, 274, 275;
tailor’s bill to De Soto, 276;
first work of Captain John Smith, 277, 278;
Washington’s autographed copy of _Proceedings of the Convention_
(Richmond, 1775), 285;
signature of Button Gwinnett, 286;
pass for Paul Revere, signed by Joseph Warren, 287, 288;
Cæsar Rodney letter about signing of the Declaration, 288;
Lincoln letters, 290;
first draft of Emancipation Proclamation, 291;
Lincoln’s Baltimore address, 291;
his speech on formation of Republican Party, 291, 292;
his letter about the flag, 292;
Walker letters about Confederate flag, 292, 293;
notebook describing Lincoln’s death, 294;
Lee’s resignation of commission in U. S. Army, 294, 295;
letter to Beauregard; after the surrender, 295, 296;
letter of Grant to his father, 297;
telegram of Grant to Stanton, announcing Lee’s surrender, 298, 299.

Rosenbach, Philip H., 85, 112, 172, 176, 177, 268, 269.

Rosenbach, Rebecca, 183, 184.

Rosier, James, 277.

Rowley, Thomas (Chatterton), 129, 130.

Roxburghe, Duke of, 89, 90, 248.

_Royal Battledoor, The_, 203.

_Royal Primer_, 198, 199.

_Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The_, 175.

_Rule of the New-Creature. To be
Practiced every day in all the Particulars of which are Ten_, 188.

Rutland, Duke of, 259.

Rylands (John) Memorial Library, 229, 245, 263.

Santangel, Luis de, Columbus
letters to, 270, 271, 272.

Sassoon, David, 224.

_Sauvages, Des_ (Champlain, 1603), 66.

Savonarola, Girolamo, 229.

_Scarlet Letter, The_ (quoted), 281.

Schelling, Felix E., 259.

Schöffer, Peter, 216, 217, 221, 236.

_School of Good Manners Composed for the Help of Parents_, etc., 201.

Schoolmaster Printer, the, 30.

Scolenberg, Baron von, 177.

_Scotch Rogue, The_, 206.

Scott, Sir Walter (quoted), 252.

Scott, Gen. Winfield, Lee’s letter to, resigning commission, 294, 295.

_Search after Happiness, The_, 206.

_Second Part of the Tragedy of Amboyna_, 282.

Sedgwick, Theodore, 54.

Shakespeare, first folio, 27, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88;
second folio, 35;
Keats’s copy of, 40;
_Venus and Adonis_, 51, 52;
_The Passionate Pilgrim_, 52;
_Poems_, 87;
history of folios, 87, 88, 89;
Jonson’s verses in, 88, 89;
early sales of, 89;
forged MSS. of, 122-128;
_Vortigern and Rowena_ (forged), 127, 128;
_Troylus and Cresseida_, 147;
editorial comment on his MSS., 151, 152;
Trowbridge set of the four folios, 219;
earliest American purchase of a first folio, 244;
_Hamlet_, second edition, 255, 256;
_The Tempest_, 265.

Shapira, ----, 225, 226.

Shaw, George Bernard, 142, 143.

Shelley, _Adonais_, 25;
_Queen Mab_, 40, 42;
personal correspondence, 42;
notes, 42;
_Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson_, 55;
advancing value of, 181.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 128.

_Ship of Fools, The_, 22.

_Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and
Ireland, 1475-1640_, 255.

_Singularitez de la France Antartique, autrement nommée Amérique_, 58.

Skinner, Abraham, Washington letter to, 9, 10.

Smith, George D., 52, 83, 198, 199.

Smith, Harry B., 40, 155.

Smith, John, 267, 277, 278, 279, 280.

_Some Excellent Verses for the Education of Youth_, 200.

Somerset House, 146.

Sorbonne, library of the, and Richelieu collection, 23.

Sotheby sales, 31, 32, 33, 52, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 91.

Soto, Hermando de, 276.

Spanish National Library, 100.

Spencer, Earl, 90, 91, 245, 248, 263.

Spenser, Edmund, 148-151.

_Sphinx, The_ (Wilde), dedication of, 115.

_Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes. In either England: Drawn out of the
breasts of both Testaments_, etc. (1684), 188, 189.

Spitzer chart, 275.

Spring, Robert, 105, 106.

Stanton, Edwin M., 298, 299.

Stevens, Henry, 243, 244.

_Story of a Whistle, The_, 196.

Strawberry Hill Press, the, 13.

Streeter, Thomas E., 200.

Stuart, John T., 290.

Sussex, Duke of, 248.

Swann, Mrs. Arthur W., 54.

Sweynheym and Pannartz, 231.

Sykes, Sir Mark, 248.

Taft, C. S., 294.

Tea-ship broadside, 266.

_Tempest, The_, 265.

Thackeray, William M., forged notes of, 109, 111;
genuine MS. of, 110.

Thomas, Isaiah, 202.

Thomas à Becket, 232.

Thou, Jacques Auguste de, 21, 24.

_Token for Children, being an exact Account of the Conversion, Holy
and Exemplary Lives and Joyous Deaths of Several Young Children_
(1749), 189, 190.

_Token for the Children of New England or some Examples of Children,
in whom the Fear of God was remarkably budding before they died_,
etc., 190, 191.

_Tom Jones_, 36, 204.

_Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of_, 187.

_Tom Sawyer Abroad_, 164, 165.

Tower of London, architect of the, 222.

Travers, Clayton L., 191, 192.

_Treasure Island_, 122, 187.

_Treaties, Collections of_ (Jenkinson), 20.

_Troylus and Cresseida_, title page (1609), 147.

_True Relation of such Occurrences and Accidents of Noate as hath
hapned in Virginia_ (Smith), 277.

_True Relation of the most prosperous Voyage made this present year
1605 in the Discovery of the Land of Virginia, A_ (Rosier), 277.

Tunstall, Bishop Cuthbert, 234, 235.

Tyndale, William, 234, 235, 236.

_Ulysses_ (Joyce), MS. page of, 171.

_Unpublishable Memoirs_, 82.

_Utopia_ (More), 60, 61.

Van Antwerp, William C., 84.

Vatican library, 221.

Vega, Lope Felix de, 77.

_Venus and Adonis_, 51, 52, 53.

_Verses for Little Children, by a Friend_, 200.

Vespucci, Amerigo, letter of, 55, 56, 57.

Vespucci, Giorgio Antonio, 56, 57.

_Victory_ (Conrad), MS. page of, 144.

_Virginia Journal_, 19.

_Virtuous William_, 187.

Voyages, De Bry’s, 275.

Wagner, Wilhelm Richard, MS. of, 73.

Waldseemüller, Martin, 273.

Walker, Gen. Leroy P., 292, 293.

Walker, Matilda Pope, 293.

Wallace, Sir Richard, 248.

Walpole, Horace, 13, 14, 130.

Walton, Izaak, 30.

Warner, Benjamin, 5.

Warren, Gen. Joseph, 287.

Washington, George, letters of, 9, 10, 11;
locket with hair of, 15, 16;
books from library of, 19, 20;
MS. of, 106, 107;
forged correspondence of, 108;
autographed copy of _Proceedings of the Convention_
(Richmond, 1775), 285.

Washington, Martha, 20, 21;
letter written by G. W. for, 106, 107.

Webster, Noah, 6, 206.

_Wehkomaonganoo Asquam Peantogig_, 43, 79.

_West Indian Voyage_ (Drake), 275.

_When We Were Very Young_, 28.

White, Gilbert, MS. of, 251.

White, William A., 33, 157, 253.

Whitman, Walt, MS. of “By Emerson’s Grave,” 152, 153, 154.

_Who Killed Cock Robin_, 209.

Widekind, King, Gospels of, 223, 224.

Widener, Harry Elkins, 45, 46, 66, 85.

Widener, Joseph, 87, 218.

Widener Library (Harvard), 45, 46, 66, 85.

Widener, P. A. B., 45, 80, 218.

Wilde, Oscar, original and forged MSS. of, 94, 112;
_Salomé_, 112, 113, 114, 116;
dedication of _The Sphinx_ to Mrs. Campbell, 115.

_William Penn’s Conversion from a Gentleman to a Quaker_, 282, 283.

William the Conqueror, 222, 257.

Windsor Castle library, 217.

_Winnie-the-pooh_, 187.

Winship, George Parker, 288.

Winthrop, John (Governor), 185, 187, 281.

Wise, Thomas J., 42, 256.

Wolsey (Thomas), Cardinal, 234, 235.

Wood, William, 282.

Wrigley and Berriman, 206, 207.

Wroth, Lawrence C., 288.

Wynkyn de Worde, 62.

Yale University Library, 220.

Young, Owen D., 157.

_Zodyacke of Life, The_, 77.

Transcriber's Notes:

Italics are shown thus: _sloping_.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation are retained.

Perceived typographical errors have been changed.

The index entry of p156 for Marlowe, Christopher, has been corrected
to p146.