xt7qjq0stw34_2818 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection A. Edward Newton letter to Dr. L. G. Deitchman text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. A. Edward Newton letter to Dr. L. G. Deitchman 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_27/Folder_41/Multipage9574.pdf 1930 March 13 1930 1930 March 13 
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 section false xt7qjq0stw34_2818 xt7qjq0stw34 A.EDWARD NEWTON

501 N,19".‘ STREET

PHILADELPHIA,PA.,U.S.A. MarCh 15th, 1930

Dr. L. S. Deitchman,
412 Dollar Bank Building,
Youngstown, Ohio.

My dear Dr. Deitchman:

Acknowledginor your letter of March
thh. I am glad ”This Book 80 lecting Game" has ‘
given you pleasure. There are several others in the
same series; I venture to give the titles, thinking
you may be interested:

"The Amenities of Book Collecting"
”A Ma nificent Farce" .
"The reatest Book in the World".

Ever librar has to have a certain
number of standard se 8, and should not_adVise you
to follow the course suggested; that of giVing them
to the Salvation Army. ooks in sets are not to be
confused With collec ors' items.

. _ _ You are quite right in regard to the
”Origin of SpeCies”. It is a very important book.
A few years ago it could.have been bought for almost
nothing: now it is assuming its proper place as a
collec ors' item.

. As I have said somewhere, it takes
a.1ong time for a book or an author to secure its or
his final pos1tion. For a long time Tennyson could
be had for almost nothing: he Will soon be fashionable,
and the same thing applies to SWinburne.

. American first editions are bringing
ten times what they did three years ago.

In regard to your specific question
about the Bud e publication of the Boswell.Letters.
There are, I ear, only a few co ies of this book now
available. The set is, I unders and, bringing nine.
hundred dollars.. You_tell me that you are thirty-five
or thereabouts: you W111 see this book bring five
thousand dollars Without a doubt. It is ver inter»

esting; fascinating, in brief, especially af er you
have read Boswell's Life of Johnson; and it is one
of the most beautiful books published in America,

or, indeed, anywhere else.

Yours sinc::el

 

 A . EDWARD NEWTON
501 N. 1’8"".l STREET

PHILADELPHIA, PAUU, S. A.

Dr. L. S. Deitchman,
412 Dollar Bank Building,

Youngstown, Ohio.