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Luther S. Livingston and Flora V. Milner Livingston papers relating to Benjamin Franklin
Title
Luther S. Livingston and Flora V. Milner Livingston papers relating to Benjamin Franklin, 1913-1926.
Physical Description
0.63 linear feet (2 boxes)
Language
English; French
Notes
Related material: Yale Collection of Benjamin Franklin Manuscripts (GEN MSS 1457), Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Materials chiefly in English, with some portions in French.
Provenance
Gift of William Smith Mason, 1935.
Organization
Arranged chronologically by project.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Luther S. Livngston, born in Michigan in 1864, was a scholar, botanist, bookseller, and bibilographer. He worked with the booksellers Dodd, Mead, & Co. from 1897 to 1912, as well as in the separate partnership of Dodd & Livingston beginning in 1910. Shortly before his death from an illness in December 1914, he was appointed the first librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection at Harvard University. Among his final projects was Franklin and his Press at Passy. An Account of the Books Pamphlets, and Leaflets Printed There, Including the Long-lost 'Bagatelles', published by the Grolier Club in December 1914.
Flora V. Milner, born in Montana in 1862, married Luther S. Livingston in 1898. Following her husband's death in 1914 she was appointed assistant librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection at Harvard University under curator George Parker Winship, and succeded Winship as curator in 1926, serving until her retirement in 1947. Her major works include bibliographies of Rudyard Kipling and Lewis Carroll. Between 1916 and 1924 she also completed and brought to publication some of her late husband's works in progress, including reprints of several of Benjamin Franklin's pamphlets printed at Passy, France. Flora Livingston died in 1949.
Summary
Correspondence, notes and drafts relating to Luther S. Livingston's work on Benjamin Franklin's printing work in France. Material relating to Livingston's Franklin and his Press at Passy. An Account of the Books Pamphlets, and Leaflets Printed There, Including the Long-lost 'Bagatelles', includes correspondence with the Grolier Club, 1913-1914, regarding their publication of the work, as well as Livingston's research notes and drafts (Box 1). Also present are Livingston's notes and drafts, circa 1914, for an unrealized work on Franklin's The Way to Wealth (Box 1). Material documenting Flora Livingston's efforts, 1916-1926, to complete her husband's work to publish reprints of Franklin pamphlets includes correspondence, proofs, and notes regarding Parable Against Persecution (Box 1), Dialogue with the Gout (Box 2), The Story of the Whistle (Box 2), Franklin's letters to Madame Helvetius and Madame la Freté (Box 2), and the Story of the Ephemera (Box 2). Flora Livingston's correspondents include Carl P. Rollins of the Montague Press, George Parker Winship of Harvard University, and Franklin collector William Smith Mason, documenting their collaboration, and many others writing to acknowledge gifts of the reprints.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2022
References
Luther S. Livingston and Flora V. Milner Livingston papers relating to Benjamin Franklin. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Luther S. Livingston and Flora V. Milner Livingston papers relating to Benjamin Franklin. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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