The Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson is now catalogued on Library Thing. Thanks go to Chris Catalfo for his work on exporting the MARC Records from Harvard.

Jerry Morris
moibibliomaniac on LT

Nice. I added a pointer on the profile for SamuelJohnsonLibrary.

Jerry, is this library now "done"? Or is there still more to add?

Jeremy,

I wish! Although the Samuel Johnson Collection was their pride and joy, it wasn't the only collection of the Hydes.

I've already started cataloging Mary Hyde's Drama Collection from the auction catalogue, but won't devote full time to it until after we finish cataloging Boswell's library.

Mary Hyde, or Mary,Viscountess Eccles, as she is also known, bequeathed her Oscar Wilde Collection to the British Library. Counting a smaller George Bernard Shaw Collection, and some other unrelated books, The British Library received over 1350 books. All of them have been cataloged in the BL online catalogue. I'm going to try to get the BL to send us the MARC Records without charging for them. Wish me luck!

I have a catalog of an exhibit of the Henry Fielding Collection of the Hydes heading my way. The catalog contains only about fifty books, but I'm thinking I can find the rest in the Harvard online catalog. Yes, that collection went to Harvard as well.

When we get through with Boswell, Dave Larkin might try his hand at cataloging the Japanese Collection of the Hydes. He has a copy of the auction catalogue.

I have partial lists of several smaller collections, including books about books and architecture. I also have a number of reference books in my own library which were formerly owned by the Hydes, as well as Mary Hyde's copies of some of Logan Pearsall Smith's books. Seems I wasn't the only person who enjoyed reading his books.

In short, I wish we were done, but we are far from it.

Jerry

Heh. Okay :-)