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| **Emily Driscoll** (11 November 1898 - 18 September 1992). Manuscript and art dealer. Member of the A.B.A.A. | **Emily Driscoll** (11 November 1898 - 18 September 1992). Manuscript and art dealer. Member of the A.B.A.A. |
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| Per the obituary notice published in the //[[https://dev.abaa.org/images/newsletter_pdf/Fall%201992.pdf|A.B.A.A. Newsletter]]// (Vol. 4, #1), Autumn 1992 (page 14), Driscoll had been a "self-employed arts and manuscript dealer" who was "in the business of paper antiquity, collection, appraising and selling letters, notes and autographs of famous people." Besides issuing catalogs and performing appraisals, Driscoll "once assembled, for a client, the largest collection of Napoleonic papers ever compiled." | Per the obituary notice published in the //[[https://dev.abaa.org/images/newsletter_pdf/Fall%201992.pdf|A.B.A.A. Newsletter]]// (Vol. 4, #1), Autumn 1992 (page 14), Driscoll had been a "self-employed arts and manuscript dealer" who was "in the business of paper antiquity, collection, appraising and selling letters, notes and autographs of famous people." Besides issuing catalogs and performing appraisals, Driscoll "once assembled, for a client, the largest collection of Napoleonic papers ever compiled." This client was [[Andre de Coppet]], for whom Driscoll was librarian from 1934 through at least 1946: see for instance [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/26400398 | Library Notes & Queries with Special Reference to Princeton]], April 1944. An article about De Coppet is (as of 31 March 2026) forthcoming from retired Princeton librarian Stephen Ferguson. (Private communication, 3/30/2026.) |
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| Driscoll "also helped organize and was secretary for the [[http://www.abaa.org| Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America]]." | Driscoll "also helped organize and was secretary for the [[http://www.abaa.org| Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America]]." |
