The John Carter Brown Library : a History
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The Corporation of the University, at its meeting in September of that year, accepted the conditions of the gift and appointed a Committee of Management to take charge of the ere6lion of the Library building and the transfer to it of the books, and to diredl the administration of the colledlion. This Committee, which has continued unchanged, consists of Mrs.
John Nicholas Brown, President William Herbert Perry Faunce, Robert Hale Ives Goddard, Wil- liam Vail Kellen, and Stephen Ostrom Edwards.
...The spirit with which the Committee of Man- agement entered upon its responsibilities is shown by one of its first a6ls, by which the members agreed to provide by personal subscription such funds as might be needed for desirable purchases before the income from the endowment fund be- came available. They were joined in this subscrip- tion by Colonel William Goddard, the Chancel- lor of the University and the senior member of the firm of Brown & Ives. The money provided by the Committee enabled the Library to secure an autograph letter of Roger Williams, a copy of Ptolemy's " Cosmographia " of 1482 which con- c; 59 ] JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY tains a world-map otherwise unknown, and a large colle6lion of the official publications of the Con- tinental Congresses of 1775-1783.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The Corporation of the University, at its meeting in September of that year, accepted the conditions of the gift and appointed a Committee of Management to take charge of the ere6lion of the Library building and the transfer to it of the books, and to diredl the administration of the colledlion. This Committee, which has continued unchanged, consists of Mrs.
John Nicholas Brown, President William Herbert Perry Faunce, Robert Hale Ives Goddard, Wil- liam Vail Kellen, and Stephen Ostrom Edwards.
...The spirit with which the Committee of Man- agement entered upon its responsibilities is shown by one of its first a6ls, by which the members agreed to provide by personal subscription such funds as might be needed for desirable purchases before the income from the endowment fund be- came available. They were joined in this subscrip- tion by Colonel William Goddard, the Chancel- lor of the University and the senior member of the firm of Brown & Ives. The money provided by the Committee enabled the Library to secure an autograph letter of Roger Williams, a copy of Ptolemy's " Cosmographia " of 1482 which con- c; 59 ] JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY tains a world-map otherwise unknown, and a large colle6lion of the official publications of the Con- tinental Congresses of 1775-1783.
What to read after The John Carter Brown Library : a History?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc to read onlineMoreLess
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