Special Thanks

From time to time the library has been enabled to purchase important scholarly resources because of the generosity of private donors of funds. Two recent examples point up the utility of such funds to the library:
 

• an extraordinary and unpublished letter by A. C. Swinburne concerning his reputation, purchased on funds provided by Patricia G. England in memory of the greatest of Swinburne collectors, John S. Mayfield; and
• three of the universally rare 18th century English editions of The Office of the Holy Week According to the Roman Missal and Breviary ... Illustrated with Cuts, purchased on funds donated by Walter von Schmidt.