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Pl. no.: 5945 -- Ildefonso Alier

This is the bookplate of Myer Isadore Berman, a Massachusetts physician. Born around 1886 in Lithuania/Russia, Myer Berman immigrated to the United States in 1903. He received his medical degree from Tufts University in Boston and married Rebecca…

This is the signature of Jacob (also Jakob) Bernays (1824-1881), a German philologist and Hebrew scholar.

Bernays was one of the first organizers of the Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau. He was charged with formulating a method of study for…

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Typescript letter with autograph: signed by Wendell Berry to James Dickey, 1964: November 28; Berry is writing to make sure there are no hard feelings about a bad review that he gave to Dickey; he wants it to be known that he respects Dickey as a…

Photograph with written note: John Berryman James Dickey, 1957: December; Berryman family photo in Sevilla; he writes to Dickey to wish him the best and to thank him for his letter.

Typescript letter with autograph: John Berryman to James Dickey, 1957: June 26; Berryman updates Dickey on his life after the death of his friend Campbell; he also gives his opinion about some poems.

John Berryman to Isabella Gardner, June 8, 1963. Berryman writes to Gardner and Tate about being upset over Rosie's marriage. He questions if Rosie's new husband is a scoundrel. He asks that Gardner and Tate come to visit soon.

.John Berryman to Isabella Gardner, June 26, 1963. Berryman thanks Gardner and Tate for their good letters to him. He updates them on the writing of his poems. He is glad that Gardner was kind to Rosy's son. Berryman mentions that his baby daughter…