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>Date:         Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:33:38 -0400
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>From:         Richard Gorrie <rgorrie@uoguelph.ca>
>Subject:      British Library newspapers
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>Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 10:41:15 -0700
>From: David Fahey <Faheydm@muohio.edu>
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>A few days ago I read the _Daily Telegraph_ while travelling on British
>Rail from Aberdeen to London.  I was startled by Susannah Herbert's column,
>"The Sale of the Century's History," which I summarize here.  The opening
>paragaph: "The American novelist Nicholson Baker has blown his life savings
>on a century's worth of scandals, lies, exaggerations, advertising and raw
>history.  It occupies [in New Hampshire], he reckons, about the same space
>as 10 double-decker buses--7,500 brick-thick volumes of carefully bound old
>newspapers, each stamped 'Discarded by the British Library'."  These were
>auctioned on Seeptember 30, 1999.  Earlier Colindale had got rid of
>European, Russian and South American newspapers, replaced with microfilm.
>Baker's purchases include an uninterrupted 800-volume run of the _New York
>World_.
>
>David M. Fahey, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA <faheydm@muohio.edu>
>

Stephanie Swenson Towery
stowery@mail.law.utexas.edu

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