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>"Every copy of his wife’s memoir seemed to have disappeared. Even the copy at the New York Public Library had vanished sometime in the 1970s. I eventually trac
by rl3 12y ago
>"Every copy of his wife’s memoir seemed to have disappeared. Even the copy at the New York Public Library had vanished sometime in the 1970s. I eventually tracked down what seems to be the only remaining copy, in the Library of Congress, ..."
Assuming it hasn't already been digitized, this seems like a minor historical emergency.
- GeneralMayhem 12y agoI don't disagree, but it's definitely a minor one - if there's only one copy of a historically significant book in the world, I can't think of any better place for it to be held than the Library of Congress. It's unlikely they've digitized it, though - I'm pretty sure the digitization effort there prioritizes the oldest books first, to make sure it gets done before they reach a condition that makes it impossible.
- dalke 12y agoHe married Caroline Greenwold https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FFT4-FVG https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FFT4-FVG . https://books.google.com/books?id=qLXytSDc5YIC&pg=PA202&lpg=PA202&dq=Caroline+Rothstein+memoir&source=bl&ots=UfS3VOTGO5&sig=ooKuwGESAJAiRlLD9sviTX-FTU8&hl=sv&sa=X&ei=hAf0VJemO-X5yQPjyYGgBQ&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Caroline%20Rothstein%20memoir&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=qLXytSDc5YIC&pg=PA202&lpg=... says the memoir was published in 1934. ("Black Sox in the Courtroom: The Grand Jury, Criminal Trial and Civil Litigation" by Lamb.) https://books.google.com/books?id=6nSAnkWiy_IC&pg=PA103&lpg=PA103&dq=Caroline+Rothstein+memoir&source=bl&ots=nM0Dxl-maT&sig=PfrqHWMcWJaXr9l7zJtgqagawek&hl=sv&sa=X&ei=hAf0VJemO-X5yQPjyYGgBQ&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Caroline%20Rothstein%20memoir&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=6nSAnkWiy_IC&pg=PA103&lpg=... has an excerpt from the memoir. ("Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series" by David Pietrusza) https://books.google.com/books?id=b-uFZl4g8ZkC&pg=PT234&lpg=PT234&dq=Caroline+Rothstein+memoir&source=bl&ots=UzlRbaq7fw&sig=c9hI7YGpmfnl229vcuSONO3JPYg&hl=sv&sa=X&ei=hAf0VJemO-X5yQPjyYGgBQ&ved=0CFoQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=%20memoir&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=b-uFZl4g8ZkC&pg=PT234&lpg=... says "As Mrs. Carolyn Rothstein Behar, she granted Fox Film a $2,500 option on the rights to a memoir she proposed to write on her life with the man Damon Runyon dubbed "The Brain."" ("Spencer Tracy", by James Curtis) However, despite all that information, I am unable to find that memoir in the Library of Congress or Worldcat. On the list of historical emergencies, this is very low.