David A. Robertson was president of Goucher College during its tumultuous move from the downtown Baltimore campus to its current home on a hilltop in Towson. In October 1942, Robertson and his wife, Anne Knobel Robertson, were injured in an auto accident in Baltimore. He recovered from his injuries, but she, originally diagnosed with a concussion, died on November 4. President Robertson and his wife’s friends created a fund to donate books to the Goucher Library collection in her name, each identified by the “A.K.R.” bookplate on the verso of the front cover and a hand-printed pen dedication note from her husband on the facing free endpaper. They populate the Main Collection like Easter eggs, waiting for students to discover them and to be reminded of a man’s long lonely love for his wife. Continue reading Seigfried Sassoon (1886-1967), David A. Robertson (1880-1961), and Anne Knobel Robertson (?-1942)–Grief, Love, and Books
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Fun with “A Concordance to the Works of Jane Austen,” Peter L. DeRose and S. W. McGuire, compilers. 3 vols. (NY: Garland, 1982)
While cataloging this donation from the estate of JASNA founder J. David Grey, I noticed that in addition to the typical concordance’s listing, from A to Z, of every usage of every word in an author’s work or works in its phrase context, the third volume of this one ends with Jane’s entire vocabulary stacked in a usage frequency list. Continue reading Fun with “A Concordance to the Works of Jane Austen,” Peter L. DeRose and S. W. McGuire, compilers. 3 vols. (NY: Garland, 1982)
The St. Francis Missal. Baltimore, Maryland, The Walters [Exhibition]
Funded by the Mellow Foundation, the Walters Art Museum will hold the first dedicated exhibition of the St.Francis Missal, a 12th-century manuscript and relic of St. Francis of Assisi. Continue reading The St. Francis Missal. Baltimore, Maryland, The Walters [Exhibition]