{"id":623,"date":"2020-04-19T19:04:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T19:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/?p=623"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:34:55","slug":"robert-leslie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/robert-leslie\/","title":{"rendered":"About Bob Leslie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-2\"><em>Robert Lincoln Leslie, 1885\u20131987, founder (with Sol Cantor) of The Composing Room, instrumental in getting David Hebrew to Intertype.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-2\"><span class=\"smallcaps\">Trained as a medical doctor, <\/span>Robert Leslie changed course in 1920, co-founding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/the-composing-room\/\">The Composing Room<\/a> in 1927. From 1938, he employed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/hortense-mendel\/\">Hortense Mendel David<\/a> there as publicity director. Leslie facilitated communication and transactions between Ismar David and Intertype about David Hebrew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indentpara\">In 1960, Ismar and Hortense David created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/work\/?s=%22bob+keepsake%22\">keepsake<\/a> for Leslie&rsquo;s seventy-fifth birthday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-4\">\n<div class=\"rl-gallery-container rl-loading\" id=\"rl-gallery-container-1\" data-gallery_id=\"633\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery rl-basicmasonry-gallery rl-hover-effect-1 rl-hover-icon-1\" id=\"rl-gallery-1\" data-gallery_no=\"1\"> <div class=\"rl-gutter-sizer\"><\/div><div class=\"rl-grid-sizer\"><\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item rl-gallery-item-width-4\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rLeslie2.jpg\" title=\"Robert Leslie, undated.\" data-rl_title=\"Robert Leslie, undated.\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rLeslie2-768x521.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"521\" alt=\"Robert Leslie\" \/><span class=\"rl-gallery-caption\"><span class=\"rl-gallery-item-caption\">Robert Leslie, undated.<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rLeslie1.jpg\" title=\"Robert Leslie, undated.\" data-rl_title=\"Robert Leslie, undated.\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rLeslie1-768x521.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"521\" alt=\"Robert Leslie\" \/><span class=\"rl-gallery-caption\"><span class=\"rl-gallery-item-caption\">Robert Leslie, undated.<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rLeslie3.jpg\" title=\"Robert Leslie with inidentified people.\" data-rl_title=\"Robert Leslie with inidentified people.\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rLeslie3-768x521.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"521\" alt=\"Robert Leslie\" \/><span class=\"rl-gallery-caption\"><span class=\"rl-gallery-item-caption\">Robert Leslie with inidentified people.<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/RL-ID1.jpg\" title=\"Bob Leslie and Ismar David, undated.\" data-rl_title=\"Bob Leslie and Ismar David, undated.\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/RL-ID1-768x554.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"554\" alt=\"Bob Leslie and Ismar David\" \/><span class=\"rl-gallery-caption\"><span class=\"rl-gallery-item-caption\">Bob Leslie and Ismar David, undated.<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/RL-ID2.jpg\" title=\"Bob Leslie and Ismar David, undated.\" data-rl_title=\"Bob Leslie and Ismar David, undated.\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/RL-ID2-768x554.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"554\" alt=\"Bob Leslie and Ismar David\" \/><span class=\"rl-gallery-caption\"><span class=\"rl-gallery-item-caption\">Bob Leslie and Ismar David, undated.<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/memento.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-mf4ruBIn\" data-rl_title=\"Memento in honor of Robert L. Leslie, printed by the Ron Press.\" data-rl_caption=\"Memento in honor of Robert L. Leslie, printed by the Ron Press.\" title=\"Memento in honor of Robert L. Leslie, printed by the Ron Press.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"781\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/memento-1024x781.jpg\" alt=\"Memento from the Ron Press\" class=\"wp-image-1389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/memento-1024x781.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/memento-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/memento-768x586.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/memento-1536x1172.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/memento.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Memento in honor of Robert L. Leslie\u2019s 100th birthday, set in American Uncial and David Hebrew and printed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/lili-wronker\/\">Ron Press<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Lincoln Leslie, 1885\u20131987, founder (with Sol Cantor) of The Composing Room, instrumental in getting David Hebrew to Intertype. Trained as a medical doctor, Robert Leslie changed course in 1920, co-founding The Composing Room in 1927. From 1938, he employed Hortense Mendel David there as publicity director. Leslie facilitated communication and transactions between Ismar David [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4758,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/4758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}