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EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY' S SLAVIC COLLECTIONS: Era of A.C.Coolidqe, coOt. 1895 Harrassowitz purchase, cont. Significant number of relatively early imprints: 21% (495 titles) published 1850 or before 6.7% (155 titles) published 1800 or before 2.6% (60 titles) published 1700 or before .69% (16 titles) published 1600 or before The collection contains many bibliographies, descriptions of manuscripts and manuscript collections; editions of primary source materials; works of historiopraphy and ancillary historical disciplines; travellers' and e:p1orers' accounts; editions of belles-lettres, and critical and historical literary studies; ethiiography, folklore; general and specialized historical studies; descriptive and comparative lir.luistic studies, including grammars, dictionaries, and other fundamental reference works; studies of the arts; Biblical and liturgical texts---all in all enough to form the nucleus of a serious research collection overnight. Coolidge donated it outright. It arrived at Harvard in two shipments, registered in the handwritten accessions records: volumes pamphlets maps Total July 1, 1895: 1664 264 42 1970 Oct.29, 1895 415 180 -- 595 2079 444 42 2565 In the decades that followed, Coolidge was personally responsible for the addition of many thousands of volumes to the Harvard Slavic collections. Some examples: In 1919 he acquired 4,000 volumes on the history of Central and Eastern Europe while in Vienna working for the american Commission to Negotiate Peace. In 1921-22 while in Russia with the American Relief Administration, he acquired over 3000 volumes (30 cases' worth) not counting 10 cases of books for the Harvard Law School. In this he worked closely with one of his students, Frank Colder, who was acquiring a splendid coll.nction of materials on World War I and its aftermath for the Hoover Institution, whose first Director he was. He was largely responsible for increasing the Slavic coljections at Harvard from Ca. 2000 Volumes in 1890 to over 30,000 volumes by the time of his death in 1928. His work and influence were far broader and deeper than what is sketched above. For further discussion, see R.P. Byrnes, Awakening American Eduatjon to the World; The Role of.. .Coolidgc 1866-1928 (Metre Dame. Univ. of Notre Dame rrens, C 1982). 23
--Maudru. lmens raysonnés de la langue russe. 80 2 Iv.) --Xarjavifle, Erofée Remargues sur la langue russienne et sur son alphabet, ... SPb., 1791 --1audru, Jean Baptiste E1mens raisonns de la langue russe Paria, An. X [1801?) --X1rjsjofora Tsel].arja kratkoi latinskoi leksikon - Christopher Cellariuss' Latin Dict. 80 1 vol. --Karjavine. Remarques Sur la langue russienne. 8° 1. tv.] leksikon .. SPb., pri Imp. AN, 1746 11747] --Cellarius, Christoph, 1638-1707 KhriBtofora Teellarija kratkoi latinskoi --Rossjjskoi Psellarius. The Russian Cellarius. 8° 1 Iv.) --Vesmannov lekaikon. Weissmanns Lexicon. 40 2 Iv.] --Nouveau dictionnaire françoi, italien, allemand, latin et russe. 4 2 Iv.] 2. Second lot, mentioned in letier of 8 1une, of Barvard: --Heym. Nouveau dictionnaire russe, f rancois et allemana 4° 3 volumes --Gem, Ivan Andreevich, 1758-1821 Nouveau dictionnaire russe-françois & allemand Novyi rossiisko-frantsuzsko-nemetskii slovar' ... 1799-1802 3 V. --Sots, Ivan Vasil'evich, -1794 Nouveau dictionnaire françois, itlien, aliemand, latin et russe. Novyi leksikon iii Slovar' na frantauzaxom ... M., Un. tip., u N. Novikova, 1784-87 2 V. --Wcissmann, Ehrenreich, 1641-1717 Veismannov nemetskii leksikon S latinskim, prelozhennyi ma rossiiskii iazvk, ... SPb., pri Imp. AN, 1782 --Rlterhof, Franz, 1711-1805 Rossiiskoi 1!sellarius, iii £tiinologicheskii rosgiiskci leksikon, ,.. Der ruasische Ce].larius, ... [M.) pri Imp. Mosk. uri-te, 1771 [i.e. 17721 1810, JQA to Revd. Samuel Webber, President 1. First lot of books, mentioned in letter of 19 May, 1797, JQA to Revd. Joseph Willard, President of Harvard: list of 19 entries, 177 vols. stly in French. Le Clerc Ristoire de Rossie Le Clerc, Nicolas Gabriel Clerc, called, 1726-98 (et Atlas) 6 Iv.] Histoire physique, morale, civile et politique de Ia Russie ancienne et moderne. Paris, Frou1l, l783-(94] 6 V. (Atlas. Paris? 17- 3 Era of John Quincy Adams (1767-1848; Ambassador to Russia, 1809-1814) EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY' S SLAVIC COLLECTIONS:
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