Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1934, Page 19

| tion copies” of George Washington, | John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Na- thaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irv- | ing, James Russell Lowell, Walt Whit- EMERSON VOLUME PUT ON EXHIBITION Sage of Concord’s Personal Copy of Shakespeare Is at Folger Library. BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. Ralph Waldo Emerson's personal copy of Shakespeare's plays has been | made available for exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library, East| Capitol street. The donor’s interest in Shakespeare began with Emerson. It was a lec- ture on the Bard of Avon given by the Sage of Concord in 1864, which first prompted Henry Clay Folger's enthusiasm for the great Elizabethan poet. But the text which Emerson | had owned and used appeared to have been lost, and such search for it as| Mr. Folger later was able to make| failed to bring it to light. Copies of the plays read and an-| notated by other eminent men, Mr.| Folger purchased as they successively | were offered at rare book sales | At the time of his death in 1930 he had in his possession the “associa- | Jansbu NO CONNECTION WITH ANY OTHER WASHINGTON STORE man, Edwin Booth, Charlotte Bronte, Robert Burns, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Samuel Taylor Coler- idge, John Dryden, George Eliot, Thomas Gray, Leigh Hunt, Alexan- der Pope, Willlam Morris, Dante Ga- briel Rossetti, Sir Walter Scott, Rob- ert Southey, Sarah Siddons, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Lord Alfred Ten-| nyson, Horace Walpole, Bayard Tay- lor, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stev- enson, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Willlam Makepeace Thackeray, Walter Savage Landor, David Garrick, Samuel John- son, Charles Lamb, T. H. Buckle, Charlotte Cushman, Augustin Daly, Richard Mansfield, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Bernard Shaw, Louis XVI, Napoleon III, George III, George IV, William IV and Queen Victoria. But he was not content. The one volume which he especially wantedl was missing. Book dealers on both sides of the Atlantic ransacked their shelves in quest of it—in vain. Search Not Abandoned. The search, however, was not aban- doned. His widow and others who were designated by Mr. Folger to carry on his work took up the problem where he, perforce, relin- quished it. On September 12, 1932, Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, speak- ing for the library, said to The Star: “There is one association copy missing from our collection. No one seems to know where it is. I refer to the copy of Shakespeare’s plays 1qhs THE SUNDAY BSTAR, WASHINGTON, D. | owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mn{‘ his children take to school and use Folger, I know, is anxious to have it | in their studies.” added to our treasures, for it was Emerson who inspired Mr. Folger to begin his quest of Shakespeareana. Possibly The Star may be able to help us to find it.” And yesterday Dr. Adams announced that the book has, indeed, at last been located. Moreover, it has been lent to the library and is on display in the exhibition hall of the library building. Dr. Adams explained in his state- ment that unfortunately the volume is not subject to purchase. It is the property of the Emerson Memorial Association, and that organization has no power to sell it. But through the courtesy of W. Cameron Forbes, Emer- son's grandson, the association has consented “to make a loan” of the treasure for “an indefinite period.” Placed in Honored Post. “The book,” Dr. Adams said, “has been given a post of high honor in the gallery, flanked on one side by the Routledge handy-volume edition of the dramatist, which Mr. Folger constantly used, and on the other side by a photogra) of the inscription from Emerson, which Mr. Folger caused to be carved over the great fireplace in the library reading room.” Mr. Forbes, remembered in Wash- ington as a former governor general of the Philippines and Ambassador to Japan, added to Dr. Adams’ announce- ment: “This copy of Shakespeare is one which Emerson kept in his bed room, and from certain annotations it is obviously the one which he let 7™, 8™and E Mail and Phone Orders Filled. District 7575 Mrs. Folger has expressed her grati- fication to both Mr. Forbes and the Emerson Association. ——— BAR GROUPS TO HOLD CONFERENCE RECEPTION D. C. and Federal Associations to Be Hosts December 10 at Dance and Supper. Delegates to the Attorney General's crime conference to be held here will be the guests of the District and Federal Bar Assoclations at a recep- | tion, dance and buffet supper at the | Pan-American Union December 10 af, | 9:30 pm. J. Bruce Kremer of the District| group is chairman of the Arrange- ments Committee for the reception. Other members are Dean Justin Mil- ler, solicitor in the Attorney General's office; William R. Vallance of the Federal Bar Association, and J. Ed- ward Burroughs, jr, of the District association. Samuel Beach was named treasurer of the general committee. The Invi- tations and Tickets Committee com- prises Edmund M. Toland, Guilford 8. Jameson and Willlam J. Rowan, jr. Music will be furnished by the United States Marine Band Orchestra | Give him the shirts he would select him- self if he bought his own presents Just in Time for Xmas! 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