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Spotted in a news article about Madeline Kripke
'She owned “dictionariana,” from the world beyond the books. Kripke had pictures of dictionary makers, images from matchbooks and cigar boxes. Noah Webster is usually shown as an elderly gentleman, but Kripke had a cigar-box-cover drawing of him as a young man with flowing brown hair. In her collection is a shot of Allen Walker Read, hanging off the side of a Midwestern windmill. She had a letter written by Walt Whitman, then a newspaper editor in Brooklyn, asking for a free copy of Webster’s dictionary, which the poet said was owed him after giving it a favorable review.'
https://archive.is/20230207122217/https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-mistress-of-slang#selection-2195.0-2203.81
the Kripke collection has moved to Indiana and is now being unboxed according to this blog: https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2023/02/08/unpacking-the-kripke-collection/
February 12, 2023