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William R. Thayer, the librarian, sends out a request for all sorts of Harvard material. Historical and biographical books pertaining to the College, and catalogues and reports are especially desired. It is the first purpose to collect as many books as possible about Harvard men autograph copies of works by Harvard authors, and complete files of every College magazine and paper. The second purpose is to assemble a library of several thousand volumes of the best books in many fields so that readers of the most diverse tastes will find something to interest them. The most desirable in this division...
There are, in the collection of about 150 volumes on exhibition, two unique volumes. One is an autograph album in which Milton signed his name in Geneva on June 10, 1639, on his return from Italy; the other is Milton's copy of Pindar; which contains copious annotations in the poet's hand. Of the works in print, the rarest is perhaps a copy of the "Obsequies of John Kean," in which Milton's Lycidas first appeared. There is also a copy of the first printed collection of his poems, dated 1645. A copy of the second folio edition...
From Mrs. Charles C. Smith, of Boston the Library has received two volumes to which interesting associations are attached. One is Antonio de Solis's "Varias poesias sagradas y profanas," Madrid, 1716, with the autograph and bookplate of the poet Southey; the other, Leigh Hunt's copy of Troya's "Del Veltro allegorico di Dante," Firenze, 1826, with manuscript marginal annotations in Hunt's hand. His autograph, from some other source, has been pasted on the title-page. A miniature edition of Solis's "Historia de la Conquista de Mejico," Paris, 1826, in three volumes, is also included...
Several of the pamphlets bear the autograph of William Adams, who graduated from the College in 1671, and was afterwards settled in Dedham, where he died in 1685. An inscription on the pamphlet, "God's Terrible Voice in the City of London, wherein you have the Narration of the Two late dreadful Judgements of Plague and Fire inflicted by the Lord upon that City," shows that it was bought of a printer. Samuel Green, February 29, 1667, at which time Adams was a Freshman in College. The volume was bound in its present form by William Adams's son, Eliphalet...
...excellent color portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm, reproduced from the famous original by Reiber, showing the Emperor in his uniform of the Garde-ducrops. The donor is Mr. G. Morse '70, who purchased the portrait in Ems. and through the assistance of Hon. Charle magne Tower '72 the Emperor's autograph was secured on the margin...