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I See Dead People's Books

Description: A group for those interested and involved in entering the personal libraries of famous readers into LibraryThing as Legacy Libraries.

If you'd like to join a Legacy project already underway, please use the contact information listed below, or contact jbd1.

If you'd like to start a new Legacy project, visit the Cataloging Guide and learn how to get started. Also see the wiki page for more info.

Questions? Comments? Additions? Contact jbd1.

NB: This is an LT standing group, so there's no need to join. Just jump right in and participate!

Libraries-in-progress

Benjamin Franklin. See this group. Contact Katya0133 or pdxwoman.
James Joyce. Contact rfb.
Carl Sandburg. See this thread. Contact KCGordon.
Sir Walter Scott. See this thread. Contact thorold.
Gerald Gardner. Contact sailordanae.
Daniel Garrison Brinton
Eeva-Liisa Manner
e.e. cummings. Contact jburlinson.
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
Rose Wilder Lane
John Dee. Contact jbd1.
John F. Kennedy. See this thread.		Willa Cather. See this group.
Franz Kafka. See this thread.
Basil Henry Liddell-Hart. Contact jmnlman or donogh.
W. B. Yeats. See this thread.
T. E. Lawrence. See this thread.
William Congreve. See this thead. Contact prosfilaes.
Leonardo da Vinci. Contact sophies_choice.
Mary, Queen of Scots. Contact spookykitten.
William Faulkner. Contact thf4.
Adam Smith. See this thread.
Charles Darwin. See this thread. Contact lorax.		Rembrandt. Contact BarkingMatt.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. See this thread. Contact cssoares.
Flannery O'Connor. See this thread. Contact wordancer.
James Boswell
Daniel Webster
Herman Melville
Samuel Gardner Drake
Aaron Copland
George S. Patton, Jr.
Marilyn Monroe. See this thread.
Harry Truman. See this thread.
Franz Bopp
Emily Dickinson

Completed libraries*

Thomas Jefferson
Danilo Kis
Tupac Shakur
Wolfgang Mozart
Isabella Stewart Gardner
Sylvia Plath
Marie Antoinette		Susan B. Anthony
Alfred Deakin
Walker Percy
John Adams
W.H. Auden
Ezra Pound
Ernest Hemingway
Henry Lee		James Smithson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Muir
Mather Family (Increase, Cotton, &c.)
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Roth
Joseph Smith		Charles Lamb
Dabney Carr
Comte de Fortsas
Theodore Dreiser
Robert E. Howard
Joseph Priestley
Elbridge Gerry
William Wilberforce

*"Completed" is a relative term. If you know of additional works which belong in these libraries, please let us know, so that they can be added.

Created: Sep 3, 2007 by jbd1; Language: English

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Sir Walter Scott 16JamesBoswell, Sunday 11:58amignore
Franz Bopp is here 2jbd1, Saturday 9:52pmignore
Emily Dickinson: "Replenishing the Shelves" at the Dickinson Homestead 2merry10, Saturday 1:19amignore
Karen Schneider notices group, wonder why no women? 28nbtOO, Saturday 12:03amignore
Favorite Library? 1Katya0133, Friday 4:54pmignore
Marilyn Monroe lot numbers 28jbd1, Friday 2:28pmignore
Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) 2BarkingMatt, October 7ignore
James Boswell's Library 1moibibliomaniac, October 6ignore
William Wilberforce 15jbd1, October 6ignore
Adolf Hitler? 1benjclark, October 6ignore
Link from Author page 17jbd1, October 5ignore
Living libraries? 9jbd1, October 3ignore
Name Ideas 37karen5l, September 30ignore
Sir Richard Francis Burton 3jbd1, September 30ignore
Aaron Copland progress and help needed. 6BarkingMatt, September 30ignore
Harry Truman 18ErnestHemingway, September 29ignore
Problen adding books 43infiniteletters, September 25ignore
Longer titles now possible! 21thornton37814, September 24ignore
Trotsky 6BGP, September 24ignore
New library source found 21moibibliomaniac, September 24ignore
New legacy library: T. E. Lawrence 15BGP, September 23ignore
JFK's Library 15timspalding, September 22ignore
Standard practice for handling translations? 5Katya0133, September 13ignore
The Book-Loves of Statesmen 5jbd1, September 10ignore
Joe DiMaggio lot numbers 7Katya0133, September 9ignore
Lewis Carroll 1Lewis_Carroll, September 9ignore
Anyone up for Charles Darwin? 12lorax, September 6ignore
Benjamin Franklin library updates 13Katya0133, September 5ignore
Long titles 2jbd1, September 4ignore
Happy "Birthday"! 3sqdancer, September 4ignore
Anniversary Ideas 9BOB81, September 3ignore
Starting Sandburg's library - general questions 28staffordcastle, September 3ignore
Minimal Info 14jbd1, September 2ignore
Owen Wister and Family 6jbd1, September 2ignore
Rembrandt 13BarkingMatt, August 31ignore
Bookmarks? 2staffordcastle, August 31ignore
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas 5lquilter, August 30ignore
TJ's Library, Corporeally 5jbd1, August 30ignore
Presearching books in WorldCat 9Katya0133, August 26ignore
Any Book in Hemingway's Library, $200 4jjlong, August 25ignore
William Butler Yeats 24Michael_P, August 25ignore
Updates and Status Reports 44timspalding, August 24ignore
Aaron Copland 5benjclark, August 21ignore
Samuel Gardner Drake 2jbd1, August 19ignore
William Gladstone 6benjclark, August 18ignore
Jorge Luis Borges 5benjclark, August 14ignore
Theodore Dreiser? 18Katya0133, August 12ignore
Gen. Patton's Library 9Katya0133, August 11ignore
Ezra Pound 18deniro, August 11ignore
The 10 August Surprise 5sabreuse, August 10ignore
Flannery O'Connor 3timspalding, August 10ignore
William Congreve's library 5prosfilaes, July 31ignore
John Dee's Library 24staffordcastle, July 31ignore
Machado de Assis's Library 12jbd1, July 29ignore
Call for Volunteers 8jbd1, July 28ignore
Robert E. Howard 3Michael_P, July 28ignore
Adam Smith's library 8jbd1, July 28ignore
Joseph Smith's, books 6Katya0133, July 26ignore
Jefferson active again? 8jbd1, July 25ignore
Matthias Corvinus (King of Hungary 1443-90) 6jcbrunner, July 24ignore
Henry VIII 3benjclark, July 24ignore
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 6Katya0133, July 24ignore
after death editions in dead people's libraries 5thorold, July 22ignore
Franz Kafka Library 10LolaWalser, July 21ignore
Some private libraries from the Internet Archive 7jbd1, July 19ignore
Daniel Webster 2jbd1, July 19ignore
Art Garfunkel 6jbd1, July 19ignore
Off topic? 7Katya0133, July 18ignore
Andrew Carnegie's Private Library- A Tough Nut 1benjclark, July 18ignore
Pepys' Library 4benjclark, July 15ignore
Published library catalogs 10jjlong, July 15ignore
This group is written about in The Guardian! 6timspalding, July 15ignore
Agatha Christie? 3benjclark, July 14ignore
OSCAR WILDE 4moibibliomaniac, July 14ignore
How many books 4GabrieldeGuzman, July 2ignore
"Catalogue of the library of" searches in Google Books and Internet Archive 3nevillebook, June 27ignore
Jared Sparks 1nevillebook, June 27ignore
Jared Sparks 1nevillebook, June 27ignore
GEORGE CARLIN 2timspalding, June 26ignore
Jefferson/NPR alert 4jbd1, June 25ignore
Charles Sumner's Association Copies 17jbd1, June 19ignore
Patrick Henry 1benjclark, June 16ignore
Eeva-Liisa Manner 7Anneli, June 13ignore
Herman Melville 1Katya0133, June 2ignore
What's Your Motivation? 9jjlong, May 30ignore
Kenneth Rexroth's Library 5Katya0133, May 27ignore
Moribunds 3Katya0133, May 23ignore
Rose Wilder Lane 4rosebunting, May 22ignore
Charles Lamb's Library 1moibibliomaniac, May 20ignore
What About? 3Katya0133, May 20ignore
Freud 2antimuzak, May 18ignore
Legacy Libraries and Wikipedia 7Katya0133, May 16ignore
How Can I Join Group 2jbd1, May 16ignore
Tolstoy? Я нуждаюсь в помощи 10Katya0133, May 14ignore
Doctor Johnson 12jbd1, May 12ignore
Goethe and Nietzsche 10jbd1, May 9ignore
Kurt Cobain's books, anyone? 9christmasmudkip, May 8ignore
Publicity for This Group's Project 4jbd1, May 4ignore
I See Living People's Books 1timspalding, May 4ignore
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