Gerard Swope, quite an interesting fellow, was president of GE at the time
Owen D. Young was chairman. Young's book collecting proclivities and
escapades are well know. I'm trying to determine if Swope was also a
collector, but can't find anything in any of the usual (first) places I've
looked. Any information would be received with gratitude.
Thanks
Dave
PS A. Edward Newton -- who else, given who's writing? -- regularly sent his
Xmas "pamphlets" to Swope, which is the source of my curiosity. It could
be, however, that their friendship or acquaintanceship derived from common
business interests rather than from common avocational interests. (Newton
was the president of an electrical manufacturing company; may not have
been a great bibliographic scholar, but was a great negotiator; turned a
passel (sp?) of patent-infringement suits by GE and Westinghouse against
his company in 1907 into a supplier-customer relationship which kept him,
Newton, in cash and books the rest of his life.)