Correspondence, memos, inventory lists, 1955-1975

1955 April 28 J. D. Mack Memo on Receipt of Robert Honeyman Collection (two typed pages carbon copy) 1955 October 31 Memo for Honeyman file (three handwritten pages on yellow legal size paper) 1955 November 4 Memo No. 1 on Browsing Room – Conversion of: “ Memo No. 2 on Browsing Room – shelf-capacity: [circa 1955]R. B. Honeyman Jr. Gifts to Library 1957 SCIENTIFIC AUTOGRAPH MATERIAL Sir Joseph Banks, James Watt the younger, Sir Thomas Brisbane, John Fleming, Sir George Mackenzie, Sir Henry Holland, J. Davy, H. John Playfair, Robert Bald, Robert Stevenson, J.H. Balfour, Sir John Robinson, R.J. Claridge, John James Audubon, W.F. Alizon, Alexander von Humboldt, Rene Just Hauy, William Phillips, Robet Jameson, H. Davy, J.S. Childres, Wm. Thomas Brande, Jean Baptiste Biot, Thomas Thomson, Michael Faraday, Peter Simon Pallas, Georges Cuvier, Baron Leopold von Buch, William Buckland, Richard Griffith, Leonard Horner 1958 (Small note re: Article on RBH in Lehigh Alumni Bulletin December) 1964 January (reprint of article “William Herschel and sidereal astronomy” Sent to Honeyman by the author) 1964 October (business card from Clifford Currie with note about Galileo Andrade and Strutt memorial edition of Technical Optics) 1966 July 19 (thank you note from Mrs. Honeyman to Mack) 1966 November “The Honeyman Collection” excerpt from Bancroftiana, newsletter from University of California, Berkeley 1967 December (booklet re: “The Founding Document of Mission San Juan Capistrano” 750 copies printed for the friends of Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. and Marian S. Honeyman Rancho Los Cerritos) [1967] The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Owners Valuation or Offering Price” [1967] Groliers Club’s One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature Marlow, Massinger, Montaigne 1973 April 30 to Mack from Honeyman re: (handwritten notes in red and blue ink about Radioisotrope Dating of Rock) 1973 July 14 (handwritten note about “Mineral Kingdom”) 1973 August 10 (handwritten note about “A Dream of Eagles” by Ralph A. O’Neill – according to Honeyman a classmate from Lehigh Class of 1920) 1973 September 9 (handwritten note about “Principi di Scienza Nuova”) 1974 February 12 to Lehigh University from North River Insurance 1974 February 13 North River Insurance Company Policy #IF 11 38 24 (47 pages typed alphabetical list of authors A through N apparently of books in Honeyman collection covered by previous insurance policy) 1974 February (handwritten note and attached copy of American Historical Review Vol. 79, No. 1, February 1974) 1974 March 8 to Mack from Honeyman (a small handwritten note about a shipment of books on sailing – oceans) 1974 May 1 David R. J. Arnold business card 1974 May 19 (handwritten note and enclosed New York Times book review About “Patton – a study in command” 1974 July 8 (handwritten notes about “incunables” printed of scientific nature) 1974 October 2 (postcard mailed from Switzerland) 1975 February 24 (envelope and enclosed photocopy of newspaper article about Princeton dance – Honeyman note asking if Lehigh is next!) 1975 April 22 (two photocopies of Wall Street Journal article about rare book Collectors) 1975 May 1 (Obituary for Philip Brooks, Rare-Book Dealer for Honeyman)