Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr.

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Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr. (March 28, 1910–January 7, 2001), bibliophile and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City from (1948–1969).

Born in Greenwich, Connecticut, the son of Ellen Walters Delano (a first cousin of the President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Frederick Baldwin Adams, he married as his second wife, July 23, 1969, the Belgian Princess Marie-Luise Natalie Engelberta Ludmilla Nancy Julie Prinzessin von Croÿ daughter of Nancy Louise Leishman and Karl Rudolf Engelbert Phillipp Leo Herzog von Croÿ.

He was Director Emeritus of the Pierpoint Morgan Library, (New York City), 1948-69; President, 1959-71, Governing Board 1952-, Yale University Press; Member, Yale Corporation, 1964-71; Yale University Council, 1949-58 and President of the New York Historical Society.

He was graduated from Yale University in 1933 and inducted into the Skull and Bones in 1932 as his father had been in 1900. He amassed one of the largest personal holdings of works by authors Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost, as well as one of the leading collections of Karl Marx and left-wing Americana. Adams resigned from the Morgan Library and moved to Europe with his wife after their marriage. His own collection was dispersed at Sotheby’s in London, November 6–November 7, 2001.