Show NOAH WEBSTER USED IT This Desk Once the Property of the Dictionary Maker Kansas City IoA quaint lltlio mahogany writing desk owned by Douglas Gardner of this city once bo longed to Noah Webster of dictionary fnme Ink spots fondly I preserved on tho desk are said to have been mado by Webster A tradition In tho Gardner Gard-ner family says that Webster used the little desk part of the time when ho was editing his dictionary i Douglas Gardner Is a student at the University of Missouri In the sophomore sopho-more class His father Dorsey Gardner Gard-ner was one of the editors of an edition of Websters dictionary and It was through his connection with the publication that tho desk came Into the possession of the family Dorsey Gardners name Is given In the 1891 edition of Websters dictionary ns one of the associate editors He was a magazine writer of some note and the author of several books Douglas Gardner also owns a copy of one of the earliest editions of Web 1 4fftfjiJ tf 6 l l r I I y l Q I I II Desk That Once Belonged to Noah Webster filers dictionary and other mementoes memen-toes of the lexicographer The old dictionary Is in two volumes bound In I pigskin n |