Items from the Personal Collection of Melville Bell Grosvenor

[Richard Kennedy]

Melville Bell Grosvenor was the president of the National Geographic Society and editor of The National Geographic Magazine from 1957 to 1967. He was the grandson of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell. His parents were Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, the first editor of The National Geographic Magazine, and Elsie May (née Bell) Grosvenor, the daughter of Alexander Graham Bell.

National Geographic collectors have a unique opportunity to purchase some items owned by the former Society president. Initially, a bound set of National Geographic Magazines from 1896 to 1980 containing either his gold stamped name or bookplate will be available. Serious inquiries may be made to natgeo[at]whovian.name.