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The library is on the third coast (Texas)...they own a 
room full of writer's chairs besides Poe's, undoubtedly 
authenticated. Also the entire wardrobe from Gone with the 
Wind, and the oldest photograph. I was working there when 
Darrell Royal's son swiped the Einstien relativity papers, 
quite the scandal. It's a very interesting place. Tony 
Randall was friends with the curator at the time and often 
came to visit. They have expanded the building since my 
days and have much more on display. The people who worked 
there were just as odd and interesting as the collections 
they tended.

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/

--Sage




On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:58:05 -0700 (PDT)
 bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> Poe's Armchair ?  ;-)  Books are easily authenticated, 
> but how in the world did they authenticate the armchairm 
> of a man who died drunk and penniless on a baltimore 
> streetside?
>
> Shape notes.  That's how Mother mabele taughter the 
> Carter sisters to read music.....
>
> Houdini, early magicians have monied cult followings. 
>
> I've talked my way into visiting a stack or two similar 
> to what you describe.
>
>  I owned a whole box of errol flynn's letter to (can't 
> remember , now, 'sold them too d*man cheap, too).  
>
> I have western ephemera that I've never seen anything 
> else like ( insane asylum  admission papers from Oregon 
> from 1890's --a man could lock up his wife or daughter 
> for misbehavin  :-0 .  Pay-slip from turn of the centry 
> nevada made out to chinamen signed (endorsed ) with an 
> 'X". (they made them "print" their names in chinese 
> characters, but then sign with an "X", like they were 
> illiterate....  
>
> Somewhere, I have an early 18th century handwritten will 
> from New England,  The man left his son land and animals. 
> Left his daughter bunch of animals; left his wife one 
> pig, because she had left his bed xx years before.  What 
> a hoot.  
>
> I'll bet the curator that bought the poe chair  bought 
> G. Washington's axe , too.  Of course the head had been 
> replaced twice, and the handle, thrice ....   :-) 
> ....bobford
>
> p.s. I always liked steinbeck.  I like the extra-wordy 
> word pictures he sometimes used.   I'm trying to place 
> that library -- but you've described east coast-- west 
> coast
>
>
> --- On Sun, 10/26/08, eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net> 
> wrote:
>
> > From: eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Homestead] Old books
> > To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Date: Sunday, October 26, 2008, 4:30 PM
> > In my early life, during grad school, I worked for a 
> > rare 
> > books library for a couple of years. It was a surreal 
> > experience. During that time I helped catalog shaped 
> > note 
> > hymnals, make archival copies of early jazz recordings, 
> > and oddly, proofread LOC cards for the multitude 
> > versions 
> > of Steinbeck books translated into Turkish. In those 
> > days, 
> > as an insider, one was allowed to roam the stacks and 
> > check out anything for perusal at one's desk. I saw a
> > lot 
> > of the medieval books with original bindings as you 
> > describe. I read the handwritten notes in Houdini's 
> > personal collection, held Ravel scores, touched Poe's 
> > armchair, etc. I understand the stacks are now closed to 
> > the librarians. What a pity, the adventure made up for 
> > the 
> > exceedingly low wages.
> >
> > --Sage
> >
> > On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:15:04 -0400
> >   "Don  Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
> > wrote:
> > >> I do love the beauty in old volumes, the
> > leather,the rag 
> > >>paper, the copper
> > >> engravings and chromolithograths.  But, the ideas
> > -- I 
> > >>can find , most ,
> > >> now, on the internet .  The computer is cheap, and
> > takes 
> > >>little space.
> > > 
> > > I have several old books, mostly on the early design
> > of 
> > >the reaper and the
> > > resulting fights over patents and estates.  They are 
> > >great to read and the
> > > information is often available only in those books.  I
> >
> > >have an 1892 reprint
> > > of an 1860s pamphlet that was used to show the
> > inverter 
> > >of the reaper was
> > > Robert McCormick in the court case against Cyrus 
> > >McCormick's estate.  I also
> > > have an 1850s book on the Obed Hussey and Bell
> > reapers. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I also have some very early copies of both the
> > "ABC and 
> > >XYZ of beekeeping"
> > > and "The hive and the Honey Bee". 
> > Fascinating reading 
> > >of the knowledge and
> > > problems of beekeeping around WWI.  The sections on
> > the 
> > >legal problems of
> > > bees and horses makes you realize that they had a 
> > >different set of
> > > challenges then.
> > > 
> > > I bought them many years ago and some have astounded
> > me 
> > >in their increase in
> > > value.
> > > 
> > > Here in the trailer I have an 1897 copy of Ropp's 
> > >Commercial Calculator.
> > > http://www.nzeldes.com/HOC/RoppCalc.htm
> > > 
> > > While looking for information on the above book I 
> > >discovered that Google has
> > > copies of the American Bee Journal online.  This 1894 
> > >issue gives away the
> > > Ropp's as a premium and has an article on
> > stingless bees 
> > >from Costa Rica.
> > > Interesting in light of the Africanized Honeybees from
> >
> > >Brazil.
> > > 
> > >
> > http://books.google.com/books?id=1WZaAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA578&lpg=PA578&dq=%22ropp%
> > >
> > 27s+commercial+calculator%22&source=bl&ots=7EPxJjpCl0&sig=wARkNQDr5g4T_AXRvP
> > >
> > _RI0rqWhA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result#PPA29,M1
> > > 
> > > I have a friend who does high end book binding and 
> > >restoration.  Every time
> > > I go visit he digs out something for me to see.  One 
> > >time he had a medieval
> > > chained book.  Another time he had the complete set of
> >
> > >photographs of the
> > > front line in October of 1918.  He makes storage boxes
> >
> > >for rare books and
> > > one time he showed me a complete set of signed books
> > by 
> > >Ted Geisel.  Mr
> > > Geisel rarely signed his books, these came from a 
> > >neighbor of his in La
> > > Jolla.
> > > 
> > > Don Bowen  KI6DIU
> > >
> > http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
> > > 
> > > 
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