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Lenox, James

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Lenox, James (1800–1880), heir to one of New York's greatest fortunes, spent much of his mature life in philanthropy, including the creation of the Lenox Library for his great collection of incunabula, Bibles, English literature, and for other sources of scholarship, including his own historical and bibliographical studies. Samuel Allibone was his librarian, and the library itself has become part of the New York Public Library. Henry Stevens, the bookseller, wrote Recollections of Mr. James Lenox of New York and the Formation of His Library (1886).

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James Lenox

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James Lenox , 1800–1880, American bibliophile and philanthropist, b. New York City. Lenox was a founder of the Presbyterian Hospital, New York City. He amassed a fine collection of paintings and books that, as the Lenox Library, became part of the New York Public Library in 1895 and in 1913 was moved to the central library. The Frick Collection stands on the library's former Fifth Avenue site.

Bibliography: See H. Stevens, Recollections of James Lenox and the Formation of His Library (1886, new ed. by V. H. Paltsits, 1952).

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