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Smith's donation was aoapanied by a printed catalogue as wall as
by a card catalogue, which In the systmn of catalogui.og described above,
iade his collection scinethln7 like a "closed collection" aixi thanks to this,
easily accessible. In total, althoui not a sian of great means, Smith
donated about $12, 000 in books an soney to the Slavic aM iiusic
collections. It was an lressive start, bot ten years after Smith gave
the collection to Yale, the University Librarian reported that further
additions to this collection were to be limited mainly to periodicals.
Interesting data abc,it Joel Sumner Smith are revealed in his letters to
frieuds aM family, which were presented to Yale by his grarxison in 1964..
The real beginnln aM steady grwth of the present Slavic aM East
Eurcean O,llecticn did not take place ustil after the Secoed World War.
Until that tire, there was no Slavic Departsent aM even no courses
connected with Slavic studies offered within the fraimaork of other
language, literature, or history departments. Because of this, additions to
the Smith collection were accidental aM occasional only, meet deperxiin
mainly on the casual interests of lxdividual faculty marbers, especially
such people as Rostcivtseff aM Petrwkevith, who in nection with thefr
own origins may have had interest in a or another title in one of the
Slavic languages or subjects.
Thus, Smith's fc*iMation st fnxi its real appreciation only after
the Seoord World War.
Bibliogray by aM about Joel Sumner Smith:
Catalogue of Book. (Slavica in the of Yale University. cai. by
Joel Stnmer Smith.] Leipzig: privately printed, 1896.
Smith, Joel Suitrier. "Benedic, anise sea. Praise the Lord, 0 nrf soul."
New York: C.S. Elliot aM cc., 1897. (vocal score for four partsj
Joel Sumner Smith Papers. Yale University Library. (pertalnlx to
Slavica, see especially: Smith to A. Van Name, 26 February 1897,
aM Smith, Miaecrardum, 3. July, 1902, Librarian (Van Name)]
"Slavic transliteration: a further word." Yale Univesitv LibrarY
Jcurn4. January 1902.
"Transliteration frcau the ajssian: what's in a name?" New
Ehqlaixier aM Yale Review , Nay 1891. pp. 431-47.
Nekrasov, Nikolai ),lekseivicb. The Red-Nosed Frost. trans. by Joel Sumner
Smith. Boston: Ticknor ard co., 1887.
Yale University Library. A list of newsuaners in the Yale University
Library. op. by Joel Sumner Smith. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1916.
Yale University Library. Lirrmian aM Brothers' Library. Cataloque of the
LbY'nian SM Brothers' Library. Yale llece. caip. by Joe]. Sumner
Smith. New Haven: Thttle, I4orehouse aM Taylor, printers, 1873.
Yale University School of Music Library. Ir,.zell Mason Library of Music:
Catalogue of Authors. caip. by Joel Sumner Smith. New Haven:
189-?
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