Notes On Contributors
Norman Holmes Pearson is Associate Professor of English and director of the
undergraduate program in the Department of American Studies at Yale University. In reference
to his experience as a literary executor, he says only that he has been an "interested and
sympathetic observer."
Thomas H. Johnson is Chairman of the English Department of The Lawrenceville School
and recipient of a three-year grant from the Guggenheim Foundation to edit the poems and letters
of Emily Dickinson in a variorum edition for the Harvard University Press.
Harris Chewning received his doctorate from the University of Virginia and is at present
Chairman of the Department of English at Queens College, Charlotte, N.C.
Eloise Pafort, assistant in charge of post-incunabula publications at The Pierpont Morgan
Library, is making the study of Wynkyn de Worde her specialty.
Richard E. Hasker is studying for his doctorate at the University of Virginia with a
dissertation on the text of Richard II. He is Associate Professor of English at Randolph-Macon College.
Irby Cauthen, Jr., received his doctorate from the University of Virginia with a
dissertation on the text of King Lear. He is Assistant Professor of English at Hollins College.
William B. Todd, Chairman of the English Department at Salem College, and this year a
Fulbright Fellow for Advanced Research in the United Kingdom, is the author of numerous
articles on 18th-century bibliography.
Donald F. Bond, Professor of English at the University of Chicago, is preparing a critical edition of the Spectator for the Clarendon Press.
Philip Gaskell attended King's College Cambridge and did research there as Austen-Leigh
Student under A. N. L. Munby for his doctorate. He is at present editor of
The Book Collector.
W. R. Keast is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University. He is preparing an
edition of Johnson's critical essays.
Campbell R. Coxe, Yale '17, has been a book collector for many years and is now turning
to the investigation of special problems in twentieth-century printing.
Curt F. Bühler, Curator of Books at The Pierpont Morgan Library, is an authority on
incunabula and their bibliographical analysis.
Sarah Dickson is the Librarian of the important Arents Tobacco Collection in the New
York Public Library.
Marion H. Hamilton, Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley College, received her
doctorate from the University of Virginia with a dissertation on the text of Dryden's
State of Innocence.
Fredson Bowers, Professor of English at the University of Virginia and Professorial
Lecturer in English at the University of Chicago, is this year a Fulbright Fellow for Advanced
Research in the United Kingdom.
Raymond A. Biswanger, Jr., received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania
and is at present Instructor of English at the Cortland State Teachers College, part of the State
University of New York.
Jeanne Masengill, at present resident with her husband in Thailand, received her
doctorate from the University of Virginia with a dissertation on the text of selected plays of
Fielding.
Oliver Steele is a graduate student in the Schools of English at the University of Virginia,
where he is studying for his doctorate.
Allen T. Hazen, the noted bibliographer of Walpole, is Professor of English in the School
of Library Science at Columbia University.
Arthur Friedman, Professor of English at the University of Chicago, is preparing an
edition of Goldsmith's collected works.
Robert R. Rea, Assistant Professor of History at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, is the
author of several articles dealing with the English press during the reign of George III.
Kenneth Curry is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. He has
recently prepared an edition of the unpublished letters of Robert Southey.
Coolie Verner of Teachers College at Columbia University and Fulbright Fellow in the
United Kingdom for 1952-53, is making a thorough study of Jefferson's Notes.
P. J. Conkwright, Typographer to the Princeton University Press, is best known to
bibliographers for his work on the firm of Binny & Ronaldson, Scottish-American typefounders of Philadelphia, whose typefaces have survived in the present-day face called "Monticello," now
being used to produce the Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
Walter Harding, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is Secretary of the Thoreau Society.
Rudolf Hirsch is the expert on incunabula for the University of Pennsylvania Library.
Howell J. Heaney is librarian for Thomas W. Streeter, collector of Americana and
bibliographer, of Morristown, N. J.
Ernst Kyriss, of Stuttgart, Germany, has an international reputation for his identifications of early book bindings.
