About every other week, sharp-eyed collectors read a two-inch news item about a man named Huntington who buys things. Last week it was a collection of the letters of Mary Queen of Scots, and her son, James I of England. Other items have announced that this Mr. Huntington bought Gainsborough's "Blue Boy," and the best Gutenberg Bible in existence, and that very rare object, a first folio of Shakespeare, and a first edition of Hamlet, and . . . But the "Blue Boy" and the Bible aside, what sort of man, people have...
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