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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edwin Booth's last cigar. But its more significant treasures are the great numbers of early printed books, many of them dating from before 1500, and its "author" collections. Quite a number of books are on view. (behind glass) in the Library's lobby or in the lavish exhibition room...
Author collections may contain anything, from a writer's first editions to his private diary--letters, manuscripts, and critical works about him. Houghton's most famous is the Keats' collection, the world's best, much of which is one exhibit in the Library's special Keats room. The collection has many of the poet's letters and the manuscripts of a number of his poems, notably "The Eve of St. Agnes" and "To Autumn." Other collections range from John Donne and George Herbert to E. A. Robinson and Thomas Wolfe. Philip Hofer's Graphic Arts Collection is another prize feature...
...dateness to the efforts of the director, Professor William A. Jackson. There are ticking devices that look like seismographs to keep tabs on the temperature and humidity, ultra-violet equipment and a comparison microscope for scrutinizing documents, and microfilm scope for scrutinizing documents, and microfilm viewers in the reading room for use with the Library's 1000 microfilms...
Then two Council members tried to destroy the quorum and hence invalidate any more Council action by walking out of the room. A quorum remained, however, and a roll call vote favored the adoption of the rule by a vote...
...administered. One candidate actually helped supervise the counting; the fact that some ballots were improperly marked and thus void was not discovered for a full day after the results were announced; candidates were allowed to review the honesty of the count, but disinterested parties were not allowed in the room...