University of Virginia Library

Other Materials and Special Collections

Printed books, pamphlets, and serials are ignored in this report,
regardless of whether or not they are housed in the Division of Rare
Books and Manuscripts and even though they absorb most of our
funds available for purchases. The significant items among them are
recorded in the union catalogues and bibliographies. Our holdings
of public documents of Jefferson's administration, particularly valuable
for researchers in the manuscripts of that period, have been
increased this year through extensive purchases by the McGregor
Library and by a generous gift from Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach.

The annual reports of the Curator of the McGregor Library
(the most important of the special libraries constituting the Division
of Rare Books and Manuscripts) are not printed, a fact which
I personally regret, though they are sometimes mimeographed.
Readers who find this introduction too brief are urged to turn
from the paragraphs below this one to the following headings for
general and specific comment (similar to that in the last report) on
special materials of great importance to our collections: Broadsides,
page 117; Jefferson Papers, page 158; Maps, page 178, Microfilm,
page 182; Newspapers, page 190; Prints and Pictures, page 205; and
University of Virginia Archives, page 222.