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Frederick Woodward Skiff -LRB- 1867 -- 1947 -RRB- , was an author , noted collector , bibliophile , expert on Americana , and founder of the Acorn Club .. bibliophile. bibliophile. Americana. Americana. Acorn Club. Acorn Club. Skiff traveled widely throughout the United States during his adult life , but is most associated with Connecticut and Portland , Oregon .. Connecticut. Connecticut. In 1899 , he founded the Acorn Club in Hartford , Connecticut , a membership organization of Connecticut historians which publishes fine press-work specialty books on American historical subjects .. Acorn Club. Acorn Club. Connecticut. Connecticut. Hartford. Hartford. Skiff wrote two books -- Adventures in Americana  : Recollections of Forty Years Collecting Books , Furniture , China , Guns and Glass -LRB- 1935 , Metropolitan Press , Portland , Oregon -RRB- and Landmarks and literature  : An American Travelogue -LRB- 1937 , ibid -RRB- .. Americana. Americana. Metropolitan Press. Binford & Mort. Over the course of his life , Skiff amassed one of the most important private libraries in the United States , with particular emphases on literature and history .. After his death in 1947 , the library 's contents were sold at auction by Butterfield & Butterfield -LRB- now Bonham 's -RRB- in San Francisco .. Butterfield & Butterfield. Butterfield & Butterfield. Many of the books made their ways into other important collections .. Countess Doheny purchased 800 books from Skiff 's library , becoming part of the Estelle Doheny Collection of American Literature , which was in turn auctioned off by Christie 's New York in 2001 .