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Haynes said it is more than legal necessity alone that induces officials to keep such books in the "Inferno." "From a purely practical point of view, books of such a nature must be kept locked up, or people would steal them...
...years, the notes were locked in the Cage for preservation. Patriotic blurbs and other notes from the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, the papers of the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety, and a collection of photographs of archaeological items have also found security in the "Inferno" stacks. Poor-paper books and those in shabby condition are labelled "XP" and put in the Cage for purposes of preservation...
...number of reasons the "Inferno" is used to shelter the erotic literature. Preservation is also a paramount consideration here. According to Haynes, studies like Freud's "interpretation of Dreams" and Havelock Ellis' "Psychology of Sex" are kept locked up because "the Library was continualy losing these looks...
...section that Haynes prefers to call "drug-store novels" was put in the"inferno" for quite a different reason. Several Years ago, when these cheaply-bound, cheaply-written books dotted the Library's modern literature sections, officials discovered that the strong attraction of the novels detracted from the efficiency of some librarians. Haynes himself usually assigns these works and others, most of which may be considered obscene, to the "Inferno...
Books that have been banned, either in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or throughout the country, are harbored in the "Inferno" for obvious reasons. All works on contraception are sent to the Cage, since they are banned in this State. The unexpurgated edition of D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterly's Lover," and Henry Miller's "Tropic of Capricorn," banned in the United States, find refuge here...