Collecting Journals

Lillian’s Collecting Journals provide a wonderful link between the collector and her collection. As she would add a book to her collection, Lillian would painstakingly record all the information she had about the volume into her journals, adding a carefully drawn hand-copy of the title page to the entry. These records, covering best-selling American fiction from 1787 to 1947, fill eighteen small journals. The depth and breadth of the Collecting Journals demonstrate both Lillian’s dedication to her collection and her love of literature. In a way, Lillian’s work of copying each title page demonstrates an early concern with the type of preservation being carried out on the Collecting Journals today—the need to preserve a representation of the physical object itself, not just its content.

Volume I, 1787-1808
Volume II, 1809-1826
Volume II, 1834-1863
Volume III, 1827-1834
Volume IV, 1835-1840
Volume V, 1841-1850
Volume VI, 1851-1859
Volume VII, 1860-1869
Volume VIII, 1870-1879
Volume IX, 1880-1886
Volume X, 1887-1892
Volume XI, 1893-1900
Volume XII, 1901-1909
Volume XIII, 1910-1919
Volume XIV, 1920-1927
Volume XV, 1928-1935
Volume XVI, 1936-1940
Volume XVII, 1941-1945
Volume XVIII, 1946-[1947]