boards death_date birth_place nationality parents birth_date known_for spouse article_title education name occupation
yale university press 7 january 2001 philadelphia , pennsylvania united states frederick baldwin adams ellen walters delano 28 march 1910 bibliophile marie-luise croÿ -lrb- m. 1969 -rrb- natalie engelberta ludmilla nancy julie , prinzessin von frederick baldwin adams , jr. .
 yale university , -lrb- 1933 -rrb- frederick baldwin adams , jr. . pierpont morgan library director
frederick baldwin adams , jr. .

frederick baldwin adams , jr. -lrb- march 28 , 1910 -- january 7 , 2001 -rrb- was an american bibliophile and the director of the pierpont morgan library in new york city from 1938 -- 1969 .
born in philadelphia , the son of ellen walters delano -lrb- a first cousin of president franklin delano roosevelt -rrb- and frederick baldwin adams , he married as his second wife on july 23 , 1969 , the swedish 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 pierpont morgan library , -lrb- new york city -rrb- , 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 elected a fellow of the american academy of arts and sciences in 1954 .
he was president of the grolier club , 1947-1951 .
adams graduated phi beta kappa from the yale university in 1933 , where he was a member of skull and bones 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 paris with his wife after their marriage .
there he served at president of the association internationale de bibliophile , the most prestigious organization of bibliophiles in the world .
his own collection was dispersed at sotheby 's in london , november 6 -- 7 , 2001 .
