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...fulfilment of the great faith of the East in the West from the early decades of the nineteenth century on; and it will be a place where all students of American History will find gathered together for convenient use a great mass of books, pamphlets, newspapers, and manuscript material showing the embodiment of this faith in the growth of the West. There will thus be collected in Harvard University Library, as a single storehouse, the means necessary for defining the part played in the making of the West by the foresight of Eastern men in the past...
...scope of the plan is large. It aims to collect all the material possible, books, pamphlets, newspapers, reports of societies or railroads or other business concerns, and manuscript material whether letters, old accounts or business reports. Such collections would not only exploit the development of the West, but also make it possible to trace out more exactly and comprehensively the many ways in which the East has participated in the building up of the West...
...Johnson, Goldsmith, Gray, Keats, and Shelley--indeed, all the great names of the last four centuries. The volumes of modern authors--Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, Meredith, Stevenson, and the others--are further distinguished by being in many instances copies personally associated with their authors, some with presentation inscriptions, others with manuscript corrections and annotations...
Among these are a copy made from the Tanner Manuscript of the Bodleian Library, probably the one from which Ferrar printed the original text in 1633, a copy made from the one in Williams Library, Gordon Square, London, which probably dates back to 1629, a copy from the Rawlinson Manuscript of the Bodleian Library, dating 1714, a note-book used by Professor Palmer in the preparation of his own edition, and various London editions of George Herbert's poems dating 1799, 1806, 1835, 1836, 1846, 1853, 1854, 1859, 1863, 1869, 1876, 1883, 1885, 1899 and 1904, and American editions...
...extension lecturer. His more important historical works are "The Rise of Democracy", "The Life of Napoleon I" and "The Life of William Pitt the Younger." He offered suggestions based upon his own experience for the guidance of American students intending to engage in historical research in England. Historical manuscripts are to be derived from five general sources, the Public Record Office, the manuscript department of the British Museum, the archives of Oxford and of Cambridge University, and various private collections. After securing access to the necessary documents and gathering the material wanted, the student must get it into readable, literary...