Catalog to an exhibition of collections donated by John Davis Batchelder to the Library of Congress.
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"The John Davis Batchelder Collection." REP. LIBR. CONGR. pp. 24-25
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"Gifts." ANNU. REP. LIBR. CONGR. pp. 347-348
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"Library of Congress Footnotes: The Library of Congress has learned with regret of the death of John Davis Batchelder." INFORMATION BULLETIN, v. 17, no. 32: 449-450
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"All ages represented in collection library received: life work of John Davis Batchelder gave value to books and manuscripts of many corners of world." Evening star. January 09, 1938, Page C-4.
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John Davis Batchelder, Obituary, July 3, 1958.

Autographs, letters, official documents, writings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers of prominent historical figures in the arts, sciences, and politics of the Western world. Persons represented in the collection include Honoré de Balzac, Catherine II (Empress of Russia), Albert Einstein, Henry VIII (King of England), Louis XIV (King of France), Peter I (Emperor of Russia), Auguste Rodin, and presidents including Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and George Washington.

The John Davis Batchelder Papers (relating to music) primarily consist of autographs and letters of nineteenth-century composers and opera singers. They also contain a lock of Beethoven's hair, Beethoven's corrections of the proofs of his Piano Sonata op. 111, two caricatures of John Batchelder by tenor Enrico Caruso, manuscripts from Gesang der Friedensboten and Rienzi signed by Richard Wagner, a forgery by Tobia Nicotra of an Amen by Georg Friedrich Handel, and a 1779 bank draft signed by Francis Hopkinson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Over 800 prints, reproductions, and postcards pertain chiefly to the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, and the theater. Also, visual materials related to Japan and other subjects.