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Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie, London, 1869; and the first
edition of Emerson's Poems, Boston, 1847, inscribed, "Elizabeth
Hoar from her affectionate brother Waldo. 25 December, 1846."
Hoar became an adopted sister of the Emersons on the death of
their brother, Charles, to whom she was engaged; she was a confi¬
dante of Emerson and a touchstone for his ideas.

Weil gift. Mr. James L. Weil has donated two editions of poems by
English romantic poets that he has published: Percy Bysshe Shelly's
Ozymandias, one of fifty copies, a keepsake marking the bicenten¬
nial of the birth of the poet on August 4, 1992, handsomely printed
by the Kelly-Winterton Press on Velke Losiny paper from Emerson
and Augustea types; and John Keats's ' Dear Reynolds," one of fifty
copies printed on the Officina Bodoni handpress in a variant of the
Dante type by IVlartino Mardersteig, 1991.