[Ads-l] Fw: ["EXLIBRIS-L"] Legman=?Windows-1252?Q?=92s_?=unpublished Dictionary of Slang

[Shapiro, Fred]

There's a very interesting posting on the exlibris-l listserv, a listserv focused on rare books (see below).  Ben, Jesse, Jon, anyone else, do any of you know anything about the Legman index cards ?

Fred Shapiro


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Subject: ["EXLIBRIS-L"] Legman’s unpublished Dictionary of Slang

3/12/25
I am trying to track down all the index cards created by the late folklorist George Alexander (Gershon) Legman for his planned but never published two volume Dictionary of Slang.

I am reliably told that the Lilly Library, via the Kripke collection, and the Kinsey Institute, via donation from the Legman literary executor, have some. Perhaps people from these institutes could contact me directly about specifics of their holdings.

Do other institutions or individuals have any? I have so far traced about 5000 (of what I estimate would have been about 7000) of the index cards in private hands.
Thank you.
C.J. Scheiner, MD, PhD

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