I’ve turned up some letters that shed a little light on the closing paragraph of the memorial I posted the other day. In July 1940, Frances sent a copy to Ralph Lutz at the Hoover War Library at Stanford. She wrote: Here is one of the documents I said I would send you. You will [...]
In Memoriam
After Binkley’s sudden death in April, 1940, he was memorialized in the various communities in which he participated. A committee of his colleagues at Flora Stone Mather College wrote a memorial of his career, which is reproduced below. The copy I have is stenciled and bound in a duotang folder; I don’t know whether or [...]
College for Women
Robert C. Binkley came to Western Reserve University in 1930 as the head of the History Department of the College for Women (which changed its name to Flora Stone Mather College the following year). The main building, Mather Hall, had received an extension the year before. View Larger Map Binkley’s office, room 224, was at [...]
A Summer in Italy, 1929 (Part 4)
Extracurricular Activities During the Congress sessions in the first half of June, Frances took advantage of the opportunity to see Rome. While Bob attended the Library Congress, I wandered about the town, finding the way to various monuments. The city is not appealing at first. It is much too warm for comfortable walking in the [...]
A Summer in Italy, 1929 (part 3)
Incidents at the Congress A few snippets illustrative of the Congress and Bob’s place in it: It seems that some papers were read outside the official section meetings, to whatever audience could be assembled. Bob refers condescendingly to one read by “a little girl from the Morgan Library who … had written her paper as [...]