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OLD MANUSCRIPTS ON EXHIBITION

Widener Collection Will be Open to Public.

An exhibition of some of the most highly prized books of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection is now being held in the Widener Room of the Library. The exhibition is open to the public, and will continue until next Wednesday.

There are many original editions and manuscripts in the collection, among which are Shakespeare's First Folio, published in 1632, a letter from Dickens to Thackeray and the latter's reply, Robert Louis Stevenson's autobiography in handwriting, and manuscripts of Robert Burns, Illuminated books of the fifteenth century, and the first edition of the Decameron novels of Boccaccio are also a part of the collection.

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