Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Whom Death in pity has not cruelly...
Parted. For Death has in his hateful sway...
Night comes like handmaid in the house of death...
...favour the thing to which favour is death...
...find that our Library has doubled within the last twenty years. Among the many prominent contributors of books was Charles Sumner, who during his lifetime gave to the Library more than two hundred and fifty maps, thirteen hundred volumes, and from fifteen to twenty thousand pamphlets; at his death he gave his own library of nearly four thousand volumes. In 1866, Charles Francis Adams gave a collection of forty-eight volumes printed in Great Britain in relation to the rebellion. The Library also contains one hundred and sixty-eight volumes of manuscripts used by Jared Sparks, the manuscripts and books...