primers, catechism and school books printed in America from 1700 to that date. It also
has files of several children’s periodicals published early in the nineteenth century, such
as Juvenile Magazine (1802–1806).
In Salem, Massachusetts, the Peabody and Essex Museum (formerly the Essex
Institute) owns over 5,000 children’s titles, excluding textbooks, from the eighteenth
century to 1875. Its periodical holdings include The Nursery (1867–1880).
The Osborne Collection in Canada, collected by Edgar Osborne in England, became a
part of the Toronto Public Library. The donor was promised a catalogue, the first volume
of which The Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books 1566– 1910: A Catalogue, was
published in 1958. A Japanese publisher recently printed facsimiles of a selection of
early English books using originals from this collection. Selected early books from the
Osborne have been exhibited in Tokyo on several occasions.
The Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood in London, England now owns the 75,000
volume Renier Collection of early English children’s books reflecting Britain’s political
and social history of the period from 1780 to 1840. In Oxford is the Bodleian Library,
with a recent acquisition of the Opie Collection of Folklore and Nursery Rhymes. An
international fund-raising effort helped bring the collection to the Bodleian; staff and
volunteers have now organised it. These libraries have excellent representation of
Randolph Caldecott, Walter Crane and Kate Greenaway illustrated books, engraved and
printed by Edmund Evans.
The Book Trust (formerly the National Book League) in Wandsworth near London
holds several collections; some 280 original drawings by Beatrix Potter are in its Linder
Collection.
ContemporaryThe Mary L.Schofield Collection of Children’s Literature, at Stanford University in Palo
Alto, California, totals more than 10,000 volumes. Along with the historic Thomas Day’s
The History of Sanford and Merton (1786–1789), it holds a complete Tasha Tudor
Collection.
At Wheaton College in Illinois is the Wade Collection. Begun in 1965, it holds works,
papers, and related materials of C.S.Lewis, J.R.R.Tolkien, and nineteenth-century writer
George MacDonald. Even the wardrobe from Lewis’s home, an inspiration for his book
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), is among the artefacts in the Wade
Collection.
Ezra Jack Keats’s books, manuscripts and illustrations including The Snowy Day
(1952) are in the extensive de Grummond Collection at the University of Southern
Mississippi.
The University of Minnesota’s Kerlan Collection houses manuscripts by Carol Ryrie
Brink, Marguerite Henry, Newbery Award recipients Katherine Paterson (for Jacob Have
I Loved (1980) and Bridge to Terabithia (1977)) and Lois Lowry (for Number the Stars
(1989) and The Giver, (1993)) and several hundred other authors. In addition, there are
thousands of illustrations by Wanda Gág, Marie Hall Ets, Caldecott Award recipient
Barbara Cooney, and hundreds of other artists.
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