Currie, Barton, 1877-1962

found: Dic. of amer. bk. coll., 1986(Currie, Barton; b. New York, N.Y., Mar. 8, 1877; d. Merion, Pa., May 7, 1962; reporter, book collector)

found: Wikipedia, January 14, 2015(Barton Currie; Barton Wood Currie; born March 8, 1877 in New York City; died May 7, 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; American journalist, author, and book collector; writer of hundreds of articles and stories for publications such as New York Evening World, New York Evening Sun, Harper's Weekly and Good Housekeeping in the early part of the 20th century, Currie went on to become the editor of Country Gentlemen, Ladies Home Journal, and World's Work; he also authored several books, including Officer 666 (1912), The Tractor and Its Influence Upon the Agricultural Implement Industry (1916), Fishers of Books (1931), and Booth Tarkington: A Bibliography (1932); Currie acquired an important collection of material related to Joseph Conrad when that author was out of favour in the 1920s; sometime around 1931, Currie acquired, via Gabriel Wells, the original manuscript for Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal)