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Foreword, by Dumas Malone	vii
I. 1819–1826. THE FOUNDING OF THE LIBRARY	1
II. 1826–1861. FROM THE DEATH OF THOMAS JEFFERSON TO THE WAR OF 1861–1865
1. A Torpid Interval	12
2. The Prosperous 1850's	25
III. 1861–1895. FROM THE WAR OF 1861–1865 TO THE BURNING OF THE ROTUNDA
1. The War	33
2. Reconstruction	40
3. The Rotunda Fire	53
IV. 1895–1925. FROM THE BURNING OF THE ROTUNDA TO THE END OF THE LIBRARY'S FIRST CENTURY
1. Aftermath of the Fire	57
2. President Alderman	70
3. Gifts and the Status Quo	77
V. THE LIBRARIANS OF THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS
1. John Vaughan Kean, 1825	91
2. William Wertenbaker, 1826–1831, 1835–1857, 1865–1881	93
3. William Henry Brockenbrough, 1831–1835	101
4. Thomas Beverley Holcombe, 1857–1861	105
5. Robert Riddick Prentis, 1861–1865	108
6. William Aylett Winston, 1882–1886	110
7. James Biscoe Baker, 1886–1891	112
8. Frederick Winslow Page, 1881–1882, 1891–1903	115
9. John Shelton Patton, 1903–1927	118
VI. 1925–1950. THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE SECOND CENTURY
1. Graphs of the University and of the Library	123
2. Beginnings of Reorganization	125
3. The Alderman Library Building	132
4. The Catalogue	145
5. The Collections	154
6. The Staff	184
7. Phases of the Library Service	202
A Footnote	215
Sundry Acknowledgments	216
Index	217