The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 44, October 28, 2001, Article 3

U.S. COLONIAL "BOOKS" AT NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY    

  Mark Rabinowitz has an interesting article in the November 2001   
  issue of The Numismatist, published by the American Numismatic   
  Association.  "The Remarkable Collections of Emmet and Myers"   
  is the story of five bound volumes residing in the Rare Books   
  Division of the New York Public Library.   The books contain   
  two of the finest collections of U.S. Colonial Currency ever   
  assembled.    

  Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet (1828-1919), visited Philadelphia   
  with his family at the age of eight where he first saw the original   
  Declaration of Independence and "discovered a lifelong interest   
  in America's history."   It was on that trip, in the mid 1830's,   
  that he began his collection of colonial money, purchasing a   
  piece of Continental Currency for ten cents.   His currency   
  collection became part of a much larger collection of Americana,   
  containing more than 30,000 drawing, engravings, autographs,   
  and maps.    

  Theodorus Bailey Myers (1821-1887) was a lawyer who   
  built a library of 3,000 volumes related to early American   
  history.  His collection included documents bearing the   
  signatures of every signer of the Declaration of Independence.    

  How the collections came to rest in the New York Public   
  Library is a fascinating story.   

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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