[Notebook
By: Louis H. Sullivan, John H. Edelmann]
Contributors: Edelmann, John H., 1853-1900, author
Published: 1872
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Other titles: Lotos Club notebook.
Notes: Ms.

Written and drawn in a notebook bound in paper-covered boards with leather spine and corners.

Page numbers are pre-stamped, 1-217; many pages are blank, and many have been torn out.

Present collation: [4], 1-2, 23-50, [2], 55-94, 97-158, 161-172, 175-186, 189-190, 195-196, 199-204, 215-217, [1] p.

Sullivan's notebook containing miscellaneous notes and sketches by Sullivan, Edelmann, and other members of the Lotos Club.  Includes: Notes on Professor Ware's lectures on architecture; Catalogue of the library of the [Lotos Club]; Bodily measurements, walking tournament, [and other writings and statistics on athletics]; [Outline of a plan for] a cathedral for the diocese of Cleveland, Ohio [by Edelmann]; [Notes on tempra painting by Sullivan]; Poetical miscellaney selected by John Edelmann; Lists of books read in 1875; [Caricatures]

Includes penciled attributions of various pages and sketches.

Referred to as the Lotos Club Notebook--Cf. The Architectural ornament of Louis Sullivan ... / P.E. Sprague.  Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1968, p. 449.

Detailed description of the ms. in Louis Sullivan as he lived / Willard Connely. New York : Horizon Press, 1960, p. 19, 72 ff.

Gift to the Avery Library of Miss Andrienne F. Sullivan (niece), 1956.