She worked for the magazine, which later renamed itself AB Bookman’s Weekly, as administrative assistant, copy editor and – as "Grandma Lynch" – a features writer, posing as a book collector who lived in the mountains of Frugality, Pennsylvania, and who kept her books in caves (good humidity) with bear traps in front of each cave (inexpensive security).

The program gave participants an opportunity to present unpublished research and to acquaint members of the Society with new work on bibliographical topics.

After MAM's death, the BSA raised endowment funds to institutionalize her annual subsidy; one of the New Scholars grants is named in her honor.

nor I collected books seriously during our AB days", she wrote in recollections published in the newsletter of The Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies.

[9] She soon had a substantial collection of dance notation books, thanks in large part to English dealer Richard Macnutt, who represented her at the 1979 Jack Cole Sotheby's sale in London.

[10] Other dealers who helped her form her collection include Bennett Gilbert, Gordon Hollis of Golden Legend, the Lubranos, Bruce McKittrick, the Sallochs, and Stephen Weissman.

She was the principal lender to Madison U. Sowell's 1993 exhibition at Brigham Young University, The Art of Terpsichore: From Renaissance Festivals to Romantic Ballets, mounted in conjunction with a meeting of the Society of Dance History Scholars.

M. and Mary Ann O'Brian Malkin Lecture in Bibliography, given on July 27 by Richard Wendorf, then the Director of the Boston Athenæum, and to attend a dinner in her honor.

She seemed tired but well when she returned to New York City on Friday, July 30, and in a telephone conversation on Sunday night she gave a lively account of her visit to RBS to a friend; but she died, aged 92, apparently in her sleep, later that evening.