I wish Eric P. Newman would write a book on...
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His adventures in the hobby and healthy living as you really have to 
him as he turns 100 years old in two months and is still very active.
Heck I'd buy his book on healthy living alone!
him as he turns 100 years old in two months and is still very active.Heck I'd buy his book on healthy living alone!
To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
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<< <i>I've always wondered why his twin brother Alfred E. spelled his last name differently?
LOL!
My sense is that Eric Newman (and QDB for that matter) are too modest to write their autobiographies.
Also, they have lots of other research in progress and probably consider those more interesting.
I agree, though, it would be a great read.
When I last visited with him, I didn't have the opportunity to see the basement, but did get to ride with Eric in his elevator that is lined with full size pictures of books in bookcases. His wife Evelyn, cut out the spine of Eric's book, Early Paper Money of America, and pasted it in the middle of one shelf. It fit right in, and few would even recoginze that it was there.
In doing reserach for the upcoming Ford/Franklin Hoard book, I asked Eric if he could find his telegram from the U.S. Government telling him that the last J.K. Lilly hearing had been cancelled. With the help of his money museum curator, Tom, he went through numerous files that he had long forgotten about, and graciously sent me items such as a copy of the cancelled check for his airplane ticket (to Washington for the Lilly hearing) that was refunded, along with notes from a visit he made to Kenyon Painter in Phoenix during 1968, but alas, he could not find that skinny telegram amongst all of the other thousands of peices of paper he had saved during his lengthy involvement in American numismatics...
The man is a consumate researcher and collector, along with being a completely honorable gentleman. Words alone simply don't do justice to Eric P. Newman.