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Dates: during 1892-1892
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...attention has been called to a notice in your issue of yesterday of Cornell's acquisition of the "law library of the late Nathaniel Moak." With reference to this notice one or two corrections should be made. The statement that both Harvard and Leland Stanford Universities were trying to purchase it as it is, is inaccurate. Harvard University has made no attempt to buy the collection, as is stated, although there has been some correspondence concerning certain American reports that might perhaps have been bought as duplicates. There was no occasion to buy English, Irish, Scotch, or colonial reports, with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell's New Library. | 12/1/1892 | See Source »

Having seen and carefully examined the Moak collection since it was sold and knowing thoroughly the Harvard Law Library, I have no hesitation in saying that the statement that "Cornell now has the finest law library in the country" is very far from correct. Since the disposal of the Moak Collection a similar statement has been published in many papers and the following is quoted from the Boston Daily Advertiser of October 18: "This addition will make the Cornell Law Library, 23,000 volumes, the largest law school collection in this country." The Harvard Law Library at present numbers upwards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell's New Library. | 12/1/1892 | See Source »

...George R. Williams recently purchased the private law library of the late Nathaniel Moak and presented it to Cornell University as a memorial to Judge Boardman. This library, containing many rare and costly documents, cost over $100,000, and with the library Cornell already has, makes the finest law library in the country. Cornell was fortunate in securing it, as both Harvard and Leland Stanford Universities were trying to purchase it. The Moak collection contains about 13,000 volumes and its original cost was something over $100,000. Mr. Moak spent thirty years in gathering it and took great pains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell's New Library. | 11/30/1892 | See Source »

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