A Valuable Gift
THE MANTEL LIBRARY. COMPARABLE TO THE CREY COLLECTION. NOT YET READY FOR INSPECTION. (Per Press Association.) Wellington Aug. 18. Though not yet available for inspection or consultation, the Montell collection of books and manuscripts recently presented to the Turnbull Library is now so far arranged that the value of the gift is becoming apparent, being comparable to the Grey Collection in Auckland. Mr. W. B. D- Mantel! appears to have been in personal touch with most of the literary men of the Victorian era. There are autograph copies of Byron's early works, letters by Shelley, Mrs. Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Bulwer Lytten, Charles Darwin, Richard Owen, Charles Lyell and others. A Fifth Folio Shakespeare is among the treasures, also several quarto volumes of Ben Jonson’s plays and early editions of some of the works of Spenser. Mr. Mantell was well known to scientists in Britain, America and on the Continent, and the friendship involved a great correspondence. There are thousands of letters, including some from Lyell, Darwin, Owen, Tyndall. Deshayes, Soweriy, de la Beche and Dana.
The books include autograph copies of first editions of many of the scientific works of the day.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 205, 13 August 1927, Page 7
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195A Valuable Gift Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 205, 13 August 1927, Page 7
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