[Ads-l] Fw: ["EXLIBRIS-L"] Legman=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=unpublished Dictionary of Slang

[Jonathan Lighter]

First I've heard of this.

JL

On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> 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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> behalf of scheiner <exlibris-l at list.iu.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 6:04 AM
> To: exlibris-l at list.iu.edu <exlibris-l at list.iu.edu>
> Cc: Scheiner <drscheiner at att.net>
> Subject: ["EXLIBRIS-L"] Legman’s unpublished Dictionary of Slang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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