Word: guttenberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upkeep of the Memorial Room is paid by the Widener family and only family members are allowed to add books--a privilege rarely used. The most valuable book in the collection, however, was donated after Widener's death, by a family member. His grandfather bought a Guttenberg Bible when Harry was in London. The grandfather wanted to surprise him, but Harry never returned. After a stay in the Widener family, the book was donated to the collection...
Visitors to the Room are not awed by the Guttenberg or any other of the books which caused the University to insure it for $4,000,000. "What they all want to know," says Mrs. Ford, the Curator, "is whether Harry read every single one of those books...