Word: ashburnham
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Concerning the disposal of Lord Ashburnham's famous collection of manuscripts now offered for sale, the Oxford Magazine thinks that "the subject is one on which Oxford ought to have an opinion and to express it. Surely it would be misplaced parsimony to allow such a mine of wealth for the scholar and antiquary to pass into the hands of Germany or America...