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To commemorate the tercentenary of the birth of Samuel Johnson
(1709 1784), whose influence on his time was as monumental as his
legacy is enduring, Harvard University s Houghton Library presents
this exhibition catalogue of items drawn from the Donald & Mary
Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson, bequeathed to the library in
2004 by Mary Hyde Eccles. This copiously illustrated catalogue
documents sixty years of assiduous and painstaking effort on the
part of Lady Eccles, initially in collaboration with her first
husband, Donald F. Hyde, and later with the encouragement and
support of her second husband, David, Viscount Eccles, to assemble
one of the world s finest collections of eighteenth-century English
literature. The catalogue, including essays on Johnson s literary
durability and on Donald and Mary Hyde s life as collectors, pays
tribute to a great literary icon and to a remarkably generous woman
who devoted her life to collecting an astonishing array of books,
manuscripts, prints, and other rare artifacts relating to his life
and times.
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