Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr. (March 28, 1910 – January 7, 2001) was an American bibliophile and the director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City from 1948 to 1969. Early life Adams was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, on March 28, 1910, and grew up in the family home at 8 East 69th Street in Manhattan and at their country home on Campobello Island in New Brunswick. He was the son of Ellen Walters (née Delano) Adams (a first cousin of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Frederick Baldwin Adams. Among his relatives were his sibling Laura Delano Adams (wife of Jack Eastman, Director of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture), and daughters Gillian Adams, and Ann Baldwin Adams. Among his large extended family was great-uncle were Henry Walters, the founder of the Walters Art Museum. Adams attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, before graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Yale College in 1932, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. After Yale, he attended Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, England. Career After Cambridge, he worked at the Air Reduction Company, a manufacturer of oxygen, acetylene, and other gasses and oxy-acetylene cutting and welding equipment, founded by his father and uncle, among others. At the company, he researched how New Deal legislation might affect the company. From 1948 until 1969, he was director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City, succeeding Morgan's longtime librarian Belle da Costa Greene. He served as president from 1959 to 1971, Governing Board 1952–, Yale University Press; Member, Yale Corporation, 1964–71; Yale University Council, 1949–58 and President of the New-York Historical Society. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1954. He was president of the Grolier Club from 1947 to 1951. After his third marriage in 1969, Adams resigned from the Morgan Library and moved to Paris with his wife after their marriage. There he served at president of the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, the most prestigious organization of bibliophiles in the world, from 1974 to 1983. His own collection, which included the largest holdings of works by Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost and an extensive collection of writing by Karl Marx, was dispersed at Sotheby's in London in November 2001. Personal life On June 10, 1933, Adams was married to Ruth Potter (1912–2005) at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Buffalo, New