Noel Lawson Lewis Collection

Collection — Box: VMF 10, Folder: 7

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf098

Staff Only

1935 August 19. Autograph letter signed from Lewis to an unnamed recipient, discussing the publishing history of Rudyard Kipling's On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art and noting the increase in value of the Rowfant Club edition in the nine years since it had been published. 2 pages

1936 January 23. Clipping from The New York Times describing the funeral services for Rudyard Kipling in Westminster Abbey

Dates

Creation: 1935-1936

Creator

Lewis, N. Lawson (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Conditions Governing Use

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Extent

2.00 items

1 folders

Additional Description

Biographical Information

Noel Lawson Lewis (September 30, 1876-May 1, 1950) wrote The Sculpture of Max Kalish (1933) and The Second Greatest Man (1925) with Samuel Johnson. He was also secretary of the Rowfant Club. The Rowfant Club of Cleveland, Ohio was organized in February, 1892, by a group of about twenty professional and business men for the purpose of getting together collectors and lovers of books, and also to publish, from time to time, privately printed editions of worth-while books. The moving spirit in the group was Paul Lemperly, whose admiration for Frederick Locker, England's leading book collector and authority on rare books, caused him to have the club named Rowfant after Locker's home at Crawley, Sussex.