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 Title:  Annual report on historical collections University of Virginia Library  
 Published:  2006 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE GIFT of the Richard Henry Lee Papers to Mr. Jefferson's uncompleted University Library one hundred and twenty-two years ago was the first of the many gifts which in the second quarter of the twentieth century have resulted in making the University a center for historical studies. In that first session of the University, the Founder was occupied in assembling for the library a collection of books which, though not the largest in America, would he hoped be second to none in value. Under his exacting supervision, funds for the original library were doled out only for the choicest editions; and even before his appropriation was fully spent, he began issuing in the newspapers appeals for library gifts. Acknowledging donations of books from "public spirited citizens" of Boston and London, as well as of Virginia, he assured prospective donors, in a notice of April 28, 1825, that "their talent shall not be hidden in the earth". It is to such public spirited citizens that the University owes the rapid expansion of its historical collections during the two years covered by this report.
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