LONDON LIBRARY
! The opening of a new wing of tlif [ London Library recalls ilio founding of ! the library in IS4O through the efforts jof Thomas Carlyle and others. The | new wing was opened by Lord Crew?, whose father. Richard Monekton Millies, the first Lord Houghton, joined with Carlyle ill initial efforts to establish the library. The project was first discussed by Carlylc with Millies, Hallain, firote and Gladstone at a meeting held in the drawing room of Lady Stanley of Alderley. A second discussion was held eoon after and resulted in the forming of a committee consisting of Carlyle, Lord Eliot, Lord Lvttelton, Milnes, Lord Monteagle and Lord Clarendon, its president. Among the early members of the library were Tennyson, Huxley, Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Macau lav,. Gladstone, Napoleon 111., Guizot and Jusserand. The library, which is mainly for the student and serious reader, at first consisted of two rooms in Pall Mall, with 3000 books. Now it has more than 400.000 volumes, and adds new ones at the rate of about SOOO a year. Some ancjent and valuable volumes are contained in the library. Anion: them is a Theocritus dated 1495. with a portrait of Pireheimcr believed to be the work of Durcr.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 144, 20 June 1934, Page 5
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