which Bartlett estimated consumed 16,000 hours of his time, was compiled with his wife Hannah, the daughter of Sidney Willard, a professor of Hebrew at Harvard, and the granddaughter of Joseph Willard, president of Harvard. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts aged 85 and is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Note John Bartlett should not be confused with John Russell Bartlett. Honors Bartlett received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1871. In 1892, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His Familiar Quotations is now in its seventeenth edition and is still published by Little, Brown. Notes References Morgan, M.H. Daedalus: proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 41 California: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1906. Further reading Jones, Emma C. Brewster. The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907: a Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower," ruling elder of the Pilgrim church which founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. New York: Grafton Press, 1908. James Gleick. "Bartlett Updated". New York Times Book Review. August 8, 1993. 3. External links Thacher Island Association Online copy of the 10th edition (1914) at Bartleby.com (text pages, searchable) Online copy of the 12th edition (1951) at Archive.org Online copy of the 14th edition (1968) at Archive.org (PDF, OCR text, TIFF) 1820 births 1905 deaths American book editors American book publishers (people) Writers from Cambridge, Massachusetts People from Plymouth, Massachusetts American people of English descent Chess writers Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery Businesspeople from Cambridge, Massachusetts 19th-century American businesspeople