Collecting and Recollecting troduction to bookplate-collecting, and was immediately invited to lunch with him and Mrs. Baillie at the Gramatan Inn. This happy meeting introduced a wonderful, long-lasting friendship into my life. Mr. Baillie initiated me into the fine points and nuances of collecting, and an entire scrapbook of his correspondence attests to his concern for my education. When I added trade cards to my interests, he wrote on May 24, 1924, these disturbed lines: "My congratulations on your purchase, every single plate was well worth a place in your collection; but alas, I am sore afraid you are hankering after strange gods and dissipating a real affection for bookplates." However, he became reconciled, for on April 20,192 5, he advised: "Dear Lady of the many distracting occupations—In your increasing quest of trade plates has it ever occurred to you that hotels are in trade and that the pictorial cards they issue, might be safely included in such a collection as you are making. One hundred years from now they should be interesting." From London, in August 1927, after I had become intrigued by an aviation collection, Mr. Baillie addressed me: "Dear Lady Lindbergh-Landauer of New York: So as not to disturb your sensibilities I have mailed only a sheet from one of our magazines, with a distinct Lindbergh flavor that may be new to you, but for goodness sake, don't give me fits, if you already have it." J. M. Andreini, another eminent collector of bookplates, with a great spirit of camaraderie contributed vastly to my Eve and Sherborn ex-libris collection and later came frequently to note developments in my room at The New-York Historical Society. I travelled abroad each summer, and on one of my trips to Paris, became a member of the "Vieux Papiers" Society. Here I met Paul Flobert, president of that organization, an intense and brilliant collector of ephemera. Through him, I secured my French wine label collection, containing so many rarities, which I handed over in 1926 to William Ivins, Jr., at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Ivins, an authority on prints, did not fancy bookplates, but appreciated the collection of French and English 336