Found 5 collections related to Bibliographies

Alexandra David-Neel, a French writer and explorer, was the first woman to enter the forbidden city of Lhasa, Tibet in 1924. The collection consists of Michael and Barbara Foster's papers regarding their research from 1977-1991 for the publication of their biography Forbidden Journey: The Life of Alexandra David-Neel in 1987. The papers are mostly comprised of correspondence with various research contacts in addition to personal research notes and lists of David-Neel's published works. less

Samuel Austin Allibone was an American author and bibliographer, and from 1879 to 1888, a librarian of the Lenox Library, now the New York Public Library. His papers chiefly include correspondence, 1853-1899, including letters with George Putnam, Edward Everett, Robert Charles Winthrop, Ephraim Emerton, Horace Kephart, Charles W. Baird, R.C. Waterston, and others. Also included are a notebook, 1882, listing books on various subjects; and a library log marked "volume 2" kept by Allibone in the 1880s relating to books in the Lenox Library collection. Volume 1 is not present less

Collection consists of four letters written by Charles Dudley Warner, American journalist and author, along with an undated autograph bibliography of his works from 1852 to 1893, a clipped signature, and two portrait reproductions. Two letters to his publisher James R. Osgood, 1878, concern complimentary copies and promotion of his book Being a Boy. There is also an 1889 letter to a Mr. Rothschild declining an offer due to his many engagements, and a letter to John Shaw Billings, Director of The New York Public Library, introducing the son of his friend Cabell of Richmond, Virginia, 1897. less

Michael Horowitz (1938- ), an archivist, author, and publisher, was Timothy Leary's archivist and safeguarded Leary's papers following his 1970 escape from prison. The Michael Horowitz collection on Timothy Leary reveals Horowitz's role as archivist, the history of the archive (most notably its seizure by the FBI in 1975), and his relationship with Leary. Horowitz's position on the role of archivists and archival neutrality is well documented. Much of the correspondence and other writings are attributed to Leary. less