University of Virginia Library

Dear Sir:

Alderman Library grows less and
less satisfactory every day. I was
dismayed several days ago to find
that the browsing room has been
stripped of nearly all of its books.
The collection which had been kept
there was of very high quality and a
pet project of former librarian
Harry Clemons.

It had afforded many a student
a pleasurable hour and it is a shame
that the present librarian, or
someone under him, saw fit to
disperse it through the stacks and
replace it, adding insult to injury,
with yet another collection of Life
magazines.

Ross Laughlin
Coll. II.