Afterword

There are many donors, booksellers, and other friends whose names have not appeared in this exhibition— space permits only so many objects to be shown and whole collections remain unmentioned. George C.A. Boehrer, professor of history, arranged for our acquisition of a remarkable collection (acquired in 1968 from Américo F. Marques of Lisbon and named for Boehrer after his death) of manuscripts from the Liberal period of Portuguese history. In 1982 the Library acquired from William Griffith, also of the History Department, his collection of Guatemalan imprints and manuscripts from the late 18th century to about 1920, the fruits of forty years of collecting in Guatemalan history and culture, with particular emphasis on printed ephemera, regional Guatemalan newspapers, and the history of education. Paul G. Roofe, of the Anatomy Department, arranged for the gift of the archives of C. Judson Herrick, founder of the American school of neurology. Jonathan Hill, Jordan Luttrell, Jeremy Norman, Edward A. Quigley, and many others of the younger generation of booksellers have found wonderful books for us in recent years to add to the prizes provided by E.P. Goldschmidt, Giorgio Capucci, Maggs, Renzo Rizzi and dozens of other dealers. Our list of individual donors and supporters of the department would extend to several pages. This exhibition and the celebration it memorializes are intended to thank all of them.