Justin Kaplan

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“A tireless reader and notetaker, Bartlett had made himself over the years an information bank for the local academic and literary community, a resource for someone wanting to know who said what, when, and where. ... By the time of his death in 1905 at the age of eighty-five, Bartlett had made his name as generic for quotations as Noah Webster's for definitions.”