Kripke, Madeline

found: New York times WWW site, May 4, 2020(in obituary dated April 30, 2020: Madeline Kripke, doyenne of dictionaries, born Madeline Faith Kripke on September 9, 1943 in New London, Connecticut, died April 25, [2020] in Manhattan of complications from the coronavirus; she kept one of the world's largest private collection of dictionaries, begun with a Webster's College dictionary that her parents gave her in the fifth grade; she worked as a welfare case worker, teacher, copy editor, and proofreader, but was primarily known for her book collection, one that she read and knew intimately)

found: Walt Whitman quarterly review, 2020:volume 38, issue 2, pages 118-125 (A newly discovered 1849 Whitman letter to the "Messrs. Merriam", [signed] Madaline Kripke, Ed Folsom; Madeline Kripke died in April 2020)