Word: walpoliana
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Delicious Dust. In a consuming search for Walpoliana, Lewis alerted bookmen, placed ads in newspapers and spent endless hours in libraries and bookstores. "I have had my share of dust," he says, "and it has been delicious. I saw all the unwanted Walpoliana lying about and felt like Sinbad in the Cave of Diamonds." He gleefully made off with prints once owned by Walpole that he saw hanging unrecognized in friends' houses. Once he tracked down 400 letters Walpole had written to a lady friend; they had languished in a London attic wrapped in old corset strings...
...spiders, from servomechanisms (socalled slave machines) to cancer and carbon 14 (the radioactive isotope that dates objects up to 30,000 years old). In its library (4,000,000 volumes), scholars are now in the process of editing the fabulous Boswell papers and the Wilmarth S. Lewis collection of Walpoliana. The "Boswell Factory" and the "Walpole Factory" alone make Yale the custodian of the most impressive collection of 18th Century English literature in the world...
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