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...York. Mr. Pyne's gift consists of a large number of autograph letters and documents, chiefly by famous graduates or relating to the college, but also including autographs of William of Orange and various documents executed by English kings. Mr. Morgan's gift includes various editions of the classics from the Aldine press including the very rare Princeps of Aristotle (1495-98) and the equally rare Princeps of Thucydides (1502) both in remarkably fine condition...
...Bowdoin College library has recently received from Hon. R. C. Winthrop of Boston, valuable autograph letters and documents of the Bowdoin family, relating to the foundation and early history of the college...
...charge of it for several years. It contains about 606 volumes, including encyclopedias and dictionaries of all kinds, and five sets of Roussean, Moliore and Voltaire. A the death of Professor Jacquinot in 1883, the library received many valuable books from him. Among other interesting things there is an autograph letter of Lamartine, given last year. But the library is in much need of gifts of books or money, by graduates or undergraduates...
General Sherman has presented a large photograph of himself to the college library, with his own autograph...
...small portion of your space for the purpose of recording the discovery of an autograph of John Harvard, and also of his brother Thomas, of whom I believe no other writing has been found. The brothers, as is known, held certain property by lease from the Hospital of St. Katharine, near the Tower of London. Communications were, therefore, opened with the present authorities of the Hospital, by whom they were very kindly received, and a thorough search of the very numerous monuments of the hospital was made by direction of Sir Arnold White, the Chapter Clerk of St. Katharine...