Scope and Contents The Robert Burton 1577-1640 Collection came to The Libraries of The Claremont Colleges as one of three gifts from Paul Jordan Smith 1895-1971, literary editor of the Los Angeles Times during the 1940s, in memory of his wife, Sarah Bixby Smith 1871-1935. The first six editions of Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy 1621-1652, the 1927 edition edited by Smith and Floyd Dell, and original editions or contemporary versions of Renaissance Latin authors and others cited by Burton form the bulk of the...