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News Of The Library And Library Associates, From Courier, Vol.Xi, No.1, Fall 1973, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Annual Meeting, May 4, 1973 -- New Secretary and Editor Named -- New Gifts -- Sol Feinstone Awarded the American Patriot's Medal

Courier, Vol.Xi, No.1, Fall 1973, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

George Fisk Comfort / David Tatham, p.3 -- The Libellus of Telesphorus and the Decretals of Gregory IX / Kenneth Pennington, p.17 -- Lord Byron at the Armenian Monastery on San Lazzaro / Arpena Mesrobian, p. 27 -- Edmund B. Chaffee and the Labor Temple / Dugald Chaffee, p.38 -- Thomas J. Wise: A Brief Survey of His Literary Forgeries / Thomas Gearty, Jr., p.51 -- From the Collector's Library: The First Illustrated American Book / David Fraser, p.65 -- News of the Library and Library Associates, p.71

From The Collector's Library: The First Illustrated American Book, David A. Fraser

The Courier

As a committed book collector, David Fraser searches for the first American illustrated book ever published in the United States in order to shed light on early American book publishing.

After an analysis of one candidate, Charlotte Smith's Sonnets, Fraser determines it does not quite fit the criteria of first illustrated American book. Instead, he nominates M'Fingal: A Modern Epic Poem in Four Cantos by John Trumbull.

Thomas J. Wise: A Brief Survey Of His Literary Forgeries, Thomas J. Gearty Jr.

The Courier

Thomas J. Wise was a renowned bibliographer and book collector of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as a reviewer and editor of The Bookman's "Notes." He was held in high esteem by his contemporaries, and was accepted in literary and intellectual circles as a respected scholar. His library is kept intact in a room off the King's Library Gallery in the British Museum.

But Thomas J. Wise also was a forger and a thief who stole leaves from books in the collection of the British Museum. David Foxon surmised that Wise began the thefts in the …

The Libellus Of Telesphorus And The Decretals Of Gregory Ix, Kenneth Pennington

The Courier

Ranke MS 90 is a parchment manuscript which was probably written in the last decade of the fourteenth century. It contains a work by a Franciscan hermit, Telesphorus of Cosenza, which has been given the title Libelus fratris Telefori Telesphorus was a follower of the twelfth-century prophet Joachim of Fiore (ca. 1135-1202). Joachim was not a figure of controversy during his lifetime, but after his death his writings and prophecies had an enormous impact on radical religious groups, particularly the spiritual Franciscans. Medieval men reacted differently to Joachim's writings. Pope Innocent III condemned Joachim's teaching on the trinity in 1215, …

George Fisk Comfort, David Tatham

The Courier

1973 marks the centennial of the founding of the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University, the first degree-granting college of its kind in America1 and in many respects the model for most of the American programs in fine arts education of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The College of Fine Arts no longer exists as an entity - it was formally dissolved in 1945 - but those schools, departments, and programs which carryon its work still bear something of the stamp of the college's founder, George Fisk Comfort (1833-1910). His long career, at Syracuse and elsewhere, as …

Edmund B. Chaffee And The Labor Temple, Dugald Chaffee

The Courier

The following article by Dr. Chaffee's son combines a brief account of Dr. Chaffee's Labor Temple years with his son's remembrance ofhim as both man and father.

Lord Byron At The Armenian Monastery On San Lazzaro, Arpena Mesrobian

The Courier

George Gordon, Lord Byron, arrived in Venice on November 11, 1816, a bitter and unhappy man at age 28. He had left England on April 24 in a cloud of controversy and scandal attending the breakup of his short-lived and unsatisfactory marriage.

Immediately after installing himself and his attendants in an apartment in Venice, the young poet sought solace and diversion, finding both in congenial social life and in what became an over-lapping series of ardent love affairs, all well known to the more tolerant Venetians. Eager, too, for mental exercise to distract him from his painful memories, Byron, with …

News Of The Library And Library Associates, From Courier, Vol.X, No.3, Spring 1973, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

The Ernest S. Bird Library was dedicated on April 6, 1973, with appropriate participation by the Library Associates. At the time of dedication, this issue of The Courier was in the printing process. Dedication events will be reported in the Summer issue. More than a hundred new members joined Library Associates in the first ten months of the 1972-73 membership drive. New interest has been raised among potential members by the imaginative approach, commitment to purpose, and hard work of the Membership Committee, enlarged to include an "advisory" group and led by Miss Betsy Knapp, Membership Chairman. ...

Courier, Vol.X, No.3, Spring 1973, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

The Paul H. Appleby Papers at Syracuse / Gladys L. Baker, p.3 -- Nietzsche and His Friends: Richard Wagner and Jakob Burckhardt / Meredith A. Butler, p.11 -- Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell: A Personal Album / William A. Sutton, p.18 -- Lester G. Wells: An Appreciation / Edwin H. Cady, p.40 -- The Feminist Movement as Reflected in the Gerrit Smith Papers / Judith Mesinger, p.45 -- News of the Library and Library Associates, p.55

Lester G. Wells: An Appreciation, Edwin H. Cady

The Courier

This intimate portrait of Syracuse's Lester G. Wells tells the story of a committed scholar, who contributed important scholarship on the famous and enigmatic author Stephen Crane, as well as works on the Oneida Communiry. Mr. Wells also organized the Lena R. Arents Rare Book Room in 1946, and became Syracuse University's first Rare Book Librarian.

The Feminist Movement As Reflected In The Gerrit Smith Papers, Judith Mesinger

The Courier

Judith Mesinger details the work and correspondence of famous abolitionist Gerrit Smith, with special emphasis on his support of the early feminist movement of the nineteenth century. The research was aided by the Gerrit Smith Collection in the Syracuse University Special Collections.

Nietzsche And His Friends: Richard Wagner And Jakob Burckhardt, Meredith A. Butler

The Courier

From November 1 to 10, 1972, Syracuse University's Bird Library was host to a unique exhibition of books, manuscript materials, photographs, and original graphics by and about Friedrich Nietzsche.

The section of the exhibition subtitled "Nietzsche and Friends" is given emphasis in this paper, which was based on materials from Syracuse University Special Collections. They detail Nietzsche's friendship with Richard Wagner and Jakob Burckhardt. As Walter Kaufmann wrote: "It was Wagner's presence that convinced Nietzsche that greatness and genuine creation were still possible, and it was Wagner who inspired him with the persistent longing first to equal and then to …

The Paul H. Appleby Papers At Syracuse, Gladys L. Baker

The Courier

The Paul H. Appleby papers in the Syracuse University Archives, a unit in the George Arents Research Library, offer the scholar insight into the achievements and quality of a man who made contributions to the fields of government and public administration as a government administrator, a theorist, a writer, and a teacher of public administration.

Margaret Bourke-White And Erskine Caldwell: A Personal Album, William A. Sutton

The Courier

Margaret Bourke- White presented her personal and professional papers, including hundreds of prints and negatives of her photographs, to Syracuse University before her death in 1971. Following her death, the Library received additional thousands of photographs and negatives from her estate. As a result, the Bourke- White Collection at Syracuse provides an invaluable store of research materials for photographers, journalists, and historians.

Dr. Sutton has chosen in this essay to portray Margaret herself during one seven-year period ofher life, with the addition of a few photographs from the books You Have Seen Their Faces and North of the Danube, published …

The Mayer Wetherill Collection: Music Of The Nineteenth Century, Peter Korff

The Courier

The Wetherill collection contains many reductions, adaptations, and arrangements of music by the major figures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. There are several bound collections of music for piano and violin based on "favorite opera melodies." There are also, of course, many works by the masters themselves. The true worth of this collection, however, is not to be found in anyone rara avis, but rather in the quality of the whole as representative of the chamber music of its time.

Inside Bird, Syracuse Library

The Courier

Library users at Syracuse University increased from 1500 to 7000 in the first two months after the opening of the Ernest S. Bird Library in September 1972.

Following are some typical scenes in the new building, as librarians, faculty and students pursue their common goal of excellence in education.

The Westcotts And David Harum, Richard G. Case

The Courier

In the 1890's, the Westcotts lived at 826 James Street, Syracuse. The man of the house was an occasional clerk, banker, and stock broker who worked for the Syracuse Water Commission. When he died, the obituary writer of a Syracuse newspaper described Edward Noyes Westcott as a "clerk," and added, "Mr Westcott was facile with a pen but never indulged himself in writing to any great extent."

Today, few of us recognize the name Edward Noyes Westcott, although we probably know the book he wrote, David Harum, A Story of American Life, which is, by almost any standard, fairly called …

What Poetry Knows, George P. Elliot

The Courier

Part of an address during the dedication of the Ernest S. Bird Library at Syracuse University, George Elliott describes the role of poetry in 1970s society, which he sees as both crucial and yet ignored by the younger generation in favor of popular music. He also argues the optimistic point that sociology and linguistic analyses have not added insight into poetry, which maintains an ineffable spirit in the modern era.

Romantic Chemistry, Cecil Y. Lang

The Courier

Part of an address during the dedication of the Ernest S. Bird Library at Syracuse University, Cecil Lang outlines his conception of "Romantic Chemistry," the distilled result of the monumental works of Romantic writers during the 18th century. Within this context, he discusses works from Milton, Goethe, and Bronte, among others.

The Romanian Village In Peter Neagoë'S Short Stories, Ioan A. Popa

The Courier

A Transylvanian immigrant at the beginning of the century, a painter turned writer in Paris in the late twenties, and an active force in the American expatriate movement there, Peter Neagoe (1881-1960) holds a special position in the history of letters. He was best known in the United States between 1930 and 1950 as a painter and writer, and also as the editor of an anthology of the writings of expatriates. However, because of the major theme of his novels and short stories, Neagoe belongs rather to Romanian literature. His main source of inspiration was the Transylvanian village at the …

[Introduction], From Courier, Vol.X, No.4, 1973, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

The Ernest S. Bird Library at Syracuse University was dedicated April 6, 1973. This commemorative issue of The Courier presents the six major addresses delivered on that occasion to the University community, its guests and friends.

William Pearson Tolley, Chancellor Emeritus of Syracuse University, spoke at the major dedication ceremonies in the new building on the morning of Dedication Day. At the luncheon in Hotel Syracuse, sponsored by Syracuse University Library Associates, the speaker was Richard W. Couper, President of the New York Public Library, New York City.

Donald A. Dike, Professor of English at Syracuse University, presided over an …

Open For Research... Notes On Collections ; News Of The Library And Library Associates, Courier, Vol.X, No.2, Winter 1973, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Open for Research... Notes on Collections -- News of the Library and Library Associates -- Board of Trustees Meeting, November 17, 1972 -- Fall Luncheon -- Dedication of the Ernest S. Bird Library -- Local Meetings, 1972-73 Season -- Honors to Members

Courier, Vol.X, No.2, Winter 1973, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

The Westcotts and David Hamm / Richard G. Case, p.3 -- The Romanian Village in Peter Neagoe's Short Stories / loan A. Popa, p.15 -- Inside Bird, p.25 -- The Mayer Wetherill Collection: Music of the Nineteenth Century / Peter Korff, p.36 -- Open for Research ... Notes on Collections, p.44 -- News of the Library and Library Associates, p.46

Courier, A Commemorative Issue On The Dedication Of The Ernest S. Bird Library, Vol.X, No.4, 1973, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Patience, Thanksgiving, and Opportunity for Learning / William Pearson Tolley, p.3 -- Research Libraries: Their Function, Friends, Funding and Future / Richard W. Couper, p.9 -- Syracuse in Literature / Donald A. Dike, p.17 -- The Lost Voice of Criticism / Hilton Kramer, p.24 -- Romantic Chemistry / Cecil Y. Lang, p.35 -- What Poetry Knows / George P. Elliot, p.47

Patience, Thanksgiving, And Opportunity For Learning, William Pearson Tolley

The Courier

Former Chancellor of Syracuse University, William Tolley, writes about the struggles of the library during the mid-20th century. This article was written amidst the dedication of the Ernest S. Bird Library in 1973. The main virtues needed of an academic administration in the trying times, he believes, is patience, thanksgiving, and the ability to utilize opportunities for learning.

The Lost Voice Of Criticism, Hilton Kramer

The Courier

Part of an address during the dedication of the Ernest S. Bird Library at Syracuse University, Hilton Kramer describes the bleak state of literary criticism in the early 1970s. He also relates his experiences under the tutelage of Professor Leonard Brown, who taught literary crticism.

Syracuse In Literature, Donald A. Dike

The Courier

Part of an address during the dedication of the Ernest S. Bird Library of Syracuse University, Donald Dike talks about the dying art of literary criticism, and also remarks on the impact of Syracuse professors and authors on the university.