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James Lenox

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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). Author not available, LENOX, JAMES. , The Columbia... Read more
Lenox, James
Lenox, James (1800–1880), heir to one of New...philanthropy, including the creation of the Lenox Library for his great collection of incunabula...bookseller, wrote Recollections of Mr. James Lenox of New York and the Formation of His Library... Read more
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, novel by D.G. Phillips , written in 1908 and posthumously published (2 vols., 1917). Susan, the illegitimate... Read more

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