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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There have been exceptional years in the past, the most recent being 1924, when a graduate gave a considerable number of rare works of English literature for which he is known to have paid considerably over $100,000, so that the year's total was double the normal amount...
...English literature will always be the field of first importance in judging the comparative importance of our University Libraries, and it is in this subject that Harvard has forged ahead, most impressively during the past year Chiefly through the generosity of Mr. William A White's children and other members of his family, the Library has added 268 titles from his remarkable collection of contemporary Elizabethan literature. These include his exception ally full series of first editions of BenJonson's plays, which heretofore has been one of the noticeable weak spots in the library. For nearly all the other dramatists...
Midway in time between these two extremes, the ear has brought to Harvard a large collection of eighteenth century English fiction Some of these books have been "collector's items," additions to the shelves devoted to the outstanding literary lights, but by far the more important portion comprises long forgotten novels by equally un known authors, who were none the less the writers who in their own day supplied the reading matter for the larger part of the book buying public. The eighteenth century is the period of English literature where Harvard's position is challenged most dangerously by Yale...
There is always a danger that the obvious importance of English literature, like that of American history will induce neglect of writings in other languages, or on other parts of the political world. But nothing is plame than that Englishmen have always been influenced very greatly by Kahan writers, and that an acquaintance with Italian literature is an essential back ground to a full appreciation of that of Britain. This has long been recognized as one of the subjects which was inadequately represented at Cambridge, and the realization of this added to the deep disappointment a few years ago, when...
...Emma, Lady Hamilton, saved Nelson from seeming more than human Mr. Husband's collection brought to Harvard last October fifty letters and documents signed by Nelson, and half as many by Lady Hamilton, together with over a hundred other documents connected with the career of the greatest of English seamen. Other documents, some of them of out-standing importance, have already begun to add themselves to those brought together by Mr. Husband as a nucleus for what is certain to become in time a great collection on Naval History...