This small taught by the friends of the Princeton University Library, Cora Smalltalk. But we have 90 people registered this afternoon and that's large number compared to the number of members we could normally accommodate if these were in the living rooms of sum of a the scene council members, I would be willing to guess that number of people who've registered for this are not already members of friends. And so for you who are not, I'm here to tell you what the benefits of being members of the Friends are. Of course, we're in association of individuals that are interested in books, manuscripts in the graphic arts. We wish to enhance the resources of the Princeton University Library and promote research, scholarship and learning. And a variety of things we do include assistance in preservation and digitization of library materials. And we have a research grants program which allows scholars access to the collections to work on projects that require some of the resources of the friends ups gives me before its resources of the library. We have scholarly publications that are published and in a few weeks actually, starting this Thursday, distribution of the Princeton University Library chronicle will be sent to our members. And this will be the first issue and about four years, but others will be coming in. I won't say rapid succession, but certainly not with span time. That though, between the last one and the one we sent this week. So you'll be invited to is a member. You'll be invited to array of presentations and events to the plan by Programs Committee, Lorraine AC and will be speaking to you or she's chair of our program committee and about some of the things that are envisioned for the weeks ahead there also presentations by the bibliophiles and collectors group. This is a very robust group, which is me, which means jelly once a, once a month. I might also mention that friends will be invited to a panel discussion in April, on April 18th, which will focus on the letters the TS Eliot wrote to go to Emily hail, and that we're finally released, let's say in January of 2020. So that they run sealed at that time. And we'll have a panel moderated by downlink. And they will talk about these letters and the significance of them. So you certainly not want to miss that. I urge you to belong to the brands, to join the friends and membership is as low as $75 a year. And that there will be information before the meeting today is over on how you can most easily become a member of this, of this group. So if you'd like to be associated with a community that difference devoted to one of the world's finest research libraries, biology. I urge you to join us. So thank you very much. And now I will turn this over to Chair of the Program Committee, Lorraine, AKA. Now, welcome everyone. So glad to have you join us again this week. It was exactly a year ago that we friends, as Randy mentioned, we had a small talk which wasn't that small. We had about 60 or 70 people in absolutely. It was at my home. But as Randy said, it could have been at anyone's home. And we had Professor Robby George was a fun event. A musical event and was right after that, that I was asked to be the Chair of the Program Committee. And with that, the university close down. And we have been virtual ever since. And this has been such a difficult year. And it is no small thing that we hope everyone as well, and we're very pleased that you could join us today for this presentation. And if this one-year anniversary, I'm pleased to share our it's almost spring calendar of events. March 14th, Heather O'Donnel will speak on her experiences on book collecting and we're also very happy to have Alexis and took coli, assistant university librarian for special collections to facilitate that event. On March 28th, Harry Seymour will speak about the many lives of boss well with Laney Jones. And as Randy mentioned on April 18th, the friends annual meeting. And on May second, we'll have joan Wallach Scott, Professor Emerita, from the University of AMP, Advanced Study, beak on her newest book on the judgment of history. We also have a couple more ready to go and we're just putting them in as quickly as we can and we hope you'll joins. And now what I would like to speak for a moment on about Ronald smelt, sir, as Randy mentioned, Ronald is chairman of the bibliophiles and collectors committee. He joined the bibliophiles and collectors 25 years ago and for 23 years he has been chair. The collectors us come together and they share their experiences and their new finds every month. And it is like the most extraordinary show-and-tell, really something to, something to be part of. Ronald completed his undergraduate work at Bucknell and went on to graduate work and doctorate at Northwestern in the field of electrical engineering. Isn't author, scholar and a collector of as many collections. All noteworthy is collection on scientific instruments, including the earliest microscopes and telescopes, are his most prominent pieces. He is old and also an outstanding collector of 17th, 18th century Prince and engravings. His collections on books on science date back to the 15th, 16th century. Ronald was part of a groundbreaking exhibition at the grow your club shared with Robert Rubin and pull at rose. That feature to grow your club publication. Extraordinary women in science and medicine for centuries of achievement. Ronald, wife Susan, who's a professor at Villanova, and she also is an author on books, a nursing, including her most recent publication, which is the first to detail treatment on patients with disabilities. And now pleased to introduce Ronald to introduce our presenter. Thank you. Thank you Lorraine. Well, I'm pleased to have the opportunity to introduce today's speaker, Mark Samuels, last inner. Mark and I are long time acquaintances and we're fellow members of at least the growing or club, the Washington where a book group and the Delaware bibliophiles, very possibly we're fellow members of other book clubs that I don't know about that he's a member of, but I'm a member of another of others also. In the past. Most often I've seen mark at the girl your club. He was a commuter from Wilmington to New York for many of the evening events at the ruler club. Mark is now coming up to a member of the Friends of the Princeton University Library. And on the Council of that organization. He's a recognized authority on the art and literature of the late Victorian period, as you'll learn shortly. And his private collection developed over many years, form the basis of numerous exhibitions at various venues including Princeton and the Rotary Club. In 2016, Mark donated his entire collection to the University of Delaware Library, where he is now senior research fellow. And at this point I'll ask Mark to take on the program. Thank you, Ronald. Hmm. I am delighted to be here. This is a rather informal talk, although the pictures are probably better than anything. I'm going to have to say. I've been collecting books, graphics, manuscripts, letters, photographs for nearly 50 years now. And no institution with the possible exception of the Cordelier Club and the University of Delaware library has had such an effect on my activities as the Princeton University ivory. I've been on the Council defense for probably about 15 or 20 years. I am one of I'm going to say one of the few non alumna. But I have to say that when I've looked back over the years thinking of my Connect princeton, I suspect I might be in line for an honorary degree. I'll start at the beginning. As all things started. My interest in Victorian literature in the 19th century undoubtedly started with growing up in this house, a so-called summer cottage, leaks and all which my grandparents rented on Connecticut sure. In the 19 forties and lived in until the house was torn down in 1961. I believe that it is my nostalgia for the house, perhaps in psychiatry. A better term for it, which led me to collect the late 19th century. I always joke that I had pain Edwardian childhood in the 19 fifties. And it was kind of true. The house was actually built in 1898, thanks to the internet. I know that it was the work of Bruce Chao, But the designer of tuxedo Park was actually featured in an architectural magazine. How? Stating that it had, among others things, aesthetic decor and a study done in Japanese. A great influence on me as a child and later as a teenager, was an elderly friend of my grandparents, may Bradshaw Hayes, who was the daughter of the Australian Anglo Jewish Cambridge, educated folklorist and man of letters, Joseph Jacobs. Mrs. haze gave me all kinds of wonderful stories. Sadly, I didn't know enough that I should actually have written them all down. I did record a few in an article published in a tiny journal that no one has ever read. But she could talk about meeting Robert Browning of knowing William Morris and Edward Burn Jones. I should have asked, well, did you ever meet Oscar Wilde? But I did. And she had memories of 190s London that were truly, truly precious. Family moved to the United States in about 1903. She married here and never went back. But I loved her stories of the period. And when I graduated from college in 1974, at which point she was in her mid nineties. A box arrived with a few pieces of blue and white China, the remnants of the tea set that William Morris and his wife chain had given her parents when they were married. And to hand painted fireplace tiles, wedding gifts from Edward Burn Jones, the pre-Raphaelite painter. I would like to say that those were the start of the collection, but in fact, that's not entirely true. Because in 1967, my indulging grandmother took us on a trip to London as 15 years old. And because it misses Hayes course, I went off to see places associated with the late Victorians. Dickens house. They come Scott house where William Morris had live. I had a whole list of places to see. And as I treat, my grandmother allowed me to go with her in tow to look at a number of bookstores because I always ready keen on books, having a vision problem, men, that things that were small, that I could hold it, perhaps my face with things I enjoyed. And books were number one. And at Bernard courage at the age of 15, my grandmother purchased for me for 40 pounds a copy of the Coulombs got press Gothic architecture. This is the first item in the collection. Somehow it left my possession in the 19 seventies. Ended up in the name of Philadelphia. And thanks to their now retired director Philip Con, has re-emerged in the mark Samuels lastName collection. By the time I got to college, I was reading about the Victorians, reading their works and beginning to haunt secondhand bookshops. Early purchases included the famous Yellow Book Magazine with its Beardsley covers and illustrations. And as a graduation present to myself, I acquired a width or etching weary, which by the way, I have turned down several offers for over the years. One of them from a very well-known mystery writer to the tune of six figures. At Connecticut College, my alma mater says, hey, is not Princeton. I had the wonderful opportunity to work with a professor in our history, Charles Price, who was his crazed about the Victorians as I was. And I ended up writing surprise, an honors thesis on the influence of the British arts and crafts movement on the arts and crafts movement in the United States. My undergraduate academic work such that it was coincided with an exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum called the arts and crafts movement in America, 1876 to 1916, curated by Robert Judson Clark. And I went to Princeton for the very first time to attend a day-long seminar on the arts and crafts movement. I remember vividly having never been different before taking the train to Princeton Junction and having to ask, well, where's the university? Got on the dinky ended up in, I think it was Lecture was at the art museum. And went to the exhibition and bought the catalog, which is an enormous unwieldy volume, a massive piece of 96 seventies modernist design that no member of the arts and crafts wou, would have liked. Usually. And I think this was something that made me rather fond of Princeton. The exhibition included books as well as furniture, ceramics, and other decorative objects. This was very unusual in the 19 seventies. And here's a page for the catalog showing the altar book designed in the Com Scott style by Bertrand Grosvenor. Good whew publication also publications Copeland and day and standing Kimball. I started actually to collect American arts and crafts books, but didn't get very far because the pull of the country across the ocean was just far too great. Further trips to Princeton followed occasionally to do research in the special collections, I think believed it was then called the Department of rare books and special collections. And I had the opportunity to be once the gray collector, Robert H. Taylor, who was one of my mentors, though he didn't really know it. As a book collector. Bob Taylor's library, one of the gems, I was going to say diamonds are, for instance, collection was formed over about 50 years. English and American literature. In fact, he was called in a BBC interview, the greatest collector of English literature in the 20th. And I don't think anyone else would really argue with that description. Bob Taylor collected from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf, or perhaps more accurately from Chaucer, Ernest Hemingway. He had favorite authors it wonderful books and manuscripts. Among the treasures, the Taylor Collection. You don't know it. It's, the manuscript is shared in school for Scandal. Bulk of antique tribes manuscripts. Staggering numbers of autograph letters of figures like Keats, George Eliot Wolf, of course. And of course, a particular author became my great passion. Max beer, Bob Taylor's forte were unique items, association books, significant letters and manuscripts. Things that brought what he called the flavor of the period. And very typical of a tailor book is this copy of Robert Browning's the ring and the book inscribed to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. So I was pretty well interested in Victorian literature. But having seen Taylor's collection and even more, having read the essays in the special issue of the Princeton University Library Chronicle for nitrogen 77. I was hooked on the kind of books that Taylor had collected. The caricature rest, wit writer, broadcaster max beer. Bob is a central figure in the Taylor Collection. And he's become, in a sense, the central figure in my out of all the people in the past, he's the one I would most like to meet. Your bomb, 1872 to 1956, was active for half a century. He produced over 2500 original temperatures of literary, political, cultural figures, wrote a series of books HA, and is just the most delightful person to collect. The Taylor Collection has spectacular caricatures such as the one on the right, which is actually a reminiscence of Edmund Gosse telling beer bomb about Robert Louis Stevenson. And you can see Stevenson on the right cost next year and such figures as GK Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, and HG Wells. The trailer collection holds both manuscripts of beer bombs 1911 novel Zui could Dobson, which has been continuously in print since original publication, is one of the 100 best books of the 20th century in the modern library. Very typical of beer bomb manuscripts in which he inked out anything he didn't like. And they're always on his, in his manuscripts, detailed instructions to the printers and the publisher to follow his punctuation. Exactly. So in 1981, I really began to collect peer bomb, buying an original caricature of Shakespeare and Frank Harris. And then it black wells, finding a copy, one of the two copies known of Max beer bombs, first publication, a pamphlet produced while he was a school boy at Charterhouse. Kamen Macquarie and say. A latin poem making fun of his teachers. It was apparently printed edition of 25 copies. And until 1981, only one was thought to exist. Had Charterhouse school? Well, Charterhouse it found a second one and they sold it to blot it through black wells to me. Well, Bob Taylor found out about this because he saw the catalog entry where it was Mark sold. He had rather a fit. I understand. But I had what I would consider item number one in a bureau bomb bibliography. And I said about in the mid 19 eighties, to compile such a work. The bibliography of course, gave me an excuse to buy a wonderful beer bongs self caricature c. And here on the left for 1909, in which he says, they call me the incomparable, the inimitable, the witty. I wonder if I am with discarded sheets of manuscripts surrounding him. And in 1981, I had enough beer bomb to do a little bit of an exhibition in the entrance hallway, a Firestone Libor, a second Princeton connection. The bibliography grew apace and I made a number of trips up to Princeton to look at every item in the Taylor Collection. And then some here bombs bibliography is at once simple. He published books with no, mostly with normal publishers. But there are a lot of little pamphlets, exhibition catalogs, broad sheets, and complications such as these bindings on his second book of essays called more in 1899. And there are minute differences in the lettering and the spacing of the paper labels, as well as the cloth itself. So beer bombs, bibliography became in fact so complicated. But by the early two thousands, i didn't actually understand all of the 50-100 ages I had compiled. It's still around on a computer. And I hope someday someone else will finish it. Doing the bibliography gave me all kinds of excuses to add beer by material, including on the left, a caricature of the protagonist of x20 could opsins leaker herself, which has an uncanny resemblance to a page in the manuscript in Princeton's Taylor Collection. And I also acquired another book which I think Taylor would have like, except of course, he had the other similar copy. Here, bombs, Majlis, volume of parities, contemporary authors, christmas Garland from 1912. This is beer bombs own, improve, copy this. But how he referred to books in which he did sketches given to his mother, came back to him and given to a young soldier for his amusement during the Second World War. And hear beer bomb is illustrating his parody of Edmund Gosse in which gas is made to introduce the playwright Henrik Ibsen to the poet Robert Browning. They have no language in common in gases left with the problem of translating Gibson's comment that no woman could ever be a great poets to Robert Browning, the husband, I'm Elizabeth Barrett. And of course, Princeton has other great strengths in Victorian literature. There's a comment in a book about the Beinecke Library at Yale, which claims that Yale has the best collection of 19th century English Literature. And not sure they meant the United States or the world. But I would say that Princeton has a very, very good chance of being fully Yale's equal. One of the reasons is the Troxel collection of the rows. Hedis Janet camp Troxel was the daughter of Yale's famous football star. Somehow she ended up an aesthete. And from the 19 twenties to her death in the 19 eighties, she collected Dante Gabriel, Christina, will you, Michael Rose, Eddie, and every other offshoot in terms of their family and assistance? I actually knew Mrs. Troxel because my grandmother and Mrs. Troxel shared a doctor and as a child, maybe about ten or 11 years old, I recall for summaries and going with Dr. Silverberg and my grandmother to a house in New Haven, Connecticut, which have lots of pictures of very strange women on the walls. I had no idea what they were. Of course, they turned out to be drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. One of the truck sales rise was eddies lover if any, 1 fourth is now in my collection. In the late 19 sixties, Princeton acquire the Troxel collection. Literally thousands of autograph letters, proofs, manuscripts, books. He lifetimes, accumulation of Rosetta, material of it estimable scholarly value. Princeton published this in 1972. If two of the Princeton library Chronicle with essays about the Troxel collection. I think it's an important collection at Princeton when you get a whole issue of the Chronicle devoted to it. The centerpiece of any story about the rows eddies is of course, the exclamation of Dante Gabriel was eddies original poet tree manuscript from the grave of his wife, the poet and artist Elisabeth settle. When civil died of an opiate overdose in February 1862, rows Eddie buried his manuscripts with them in her cough, and seven years later decided to publish his work, partly in fear because of his eye sight deteriorating. He had the grave dug up, the manuscript removed, cleaned, and the poems were included in his book, simply called poems, published in 1817. In my collection there is a portrait by Rossetti of Elizabeth settle from 18551 of the three surviving autograph letters that she wrote to Georgiana Burn Jones. And this is in fact, we're sending her a bit of baby where that was intended for her. My daughter who was stillborn in 1861. Civils artwork is impressive and was much prized by her grieving husband, who hadn't had her drawings photographed in the early 18 sixties and preserved in an album which he gave to one of his friends, HV tabs. This is now at Princeton, has been added to the Troxel collection. And you'll see three images from the album, photographs and then the original drawing residuals, the willful victory. Now in my collection. Janet Troxel was very keen on recording the complicated publishing history of rows eddies poems 1870, acquiring a large number of successive proof sheets, manuscripts, correspondence, and other items relating to the book, including I think at least three or four presentation copies. Among the things in the Troxel collection that has always been astonishing are the proofs of the poems that we're zoomed from Elizabeth signals grave. And some years later, in my collecting career, the 990s, I was able to acquire another proof volume similar to the talk cell one in mine. There's markings on the left hand and the manuscript contents lists of several poems that were the ones taken from the exuded manuscript. And you see that the poem Jenny is among them. But in 2014, I acquired inadvertently the most astonishing thing imaginable. I was able to go out to Vancouver, British Columbia and go through in a sort of a warehouse storage facility, the collection in boxes, any shells of the pre-Raphaelite scholar and professor at University of British Columbia, William credible. Benjamin was a fanatical pre-Raphaelite, magpie. And he had all kinds of stuff. And I found letters, I found books, all kinds of material. And one of the items I bought, which I couldn't really seek, there's only about a 20 watt bulb in the sort of you haul. Walker was a plastic album, photograph album stuffed full of letters, ephemera and such. I got it back to my hotel room and began to go through it. And I found in one of the plastic sleeves in a plastic bag. This it's Elizabeth signals, hair clipped by her husband. And who's written the note? Ulysses hair, February 1862. I have to tell you, I could barely sleep. I thought, oh my god, I'm in a room with Elizabeth settles hair, the famous red hair of the pre-Raphaelite stunning. And also from the sediment collection is came a Lewis Carroll. Photograph of the Rosati family. Use here the four, the four siblings. Dante Gabriel, his sister, the poet Christina. Will you, Michael Rose, Eddie, the family chronicler. There's sister Mariah, who became an Anglican, none, and their mother francis. Fact this looks damage by, is that it was damage due to the chemicals used by Lewis Carroll in making the print. Princeton has in the parish collection, one of the great collections of Lewis Carroll photographs. And including one of rose eddies, but not this one, which turns out to be one of the rarest, if not the rarest Carol photograph in existence because it was spoiled in processing. Carol made only two prints leased. Only two prints are known, both of which he gave to Kristina Rose at the other one is in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Of course, the great pre-Raphaelite book that everyone has to have if you're interested in William Morris. The rows eddies. There circles the arts and crafts movement, the 190s. The illustrated book, fine printing is the Km Scott Chaucer. Printed at count Scott press, published in 1896. William Maris masterpiece illustrated 87 woodcuts by Edward Burn Jones. And this I finally was able to get in an auction in 2015. It is a presentation copy, one of 13 known. And because I love association books, I refused to buy an ordinary company to book that you can easily find the rare book market, all you need is enough money. So I'm very, very happy to have it, particularly as it's presented by William Morris just three months before he died, to Robert Patterson Smith. The artist who transferred Burne-Jones is original drawings, quad to photographic reproductions that we then worked over and then made into wood engravings. I should say, that we have at the University of Delaware two copies of the Comstock Chaucer. Princeton has, and I believe Robert and a lev C60 has given great details about these. Hadley, I least five copies. A third grade Princeton collector was Albert Eugene Gallatin, who started collecting in his teens with the work of Max beer bomb and ABE Beardsley, excuse me. Gallatin went on to become a great connoisseur writer on art and eventually a cubist painter himself, having discovered avant garde work in Paris during the First World War. He's beer bomb collection is at Harvard. His Princeton collection, the larger, his beard, Beardsley collection, the largest in the world, is it Princeton University Library for over a 100 original drawings, many, many letters, manuscripts, books recorded, at least the first part of it. And the Gallatin collection of all re Beardsley by Alexander Wainwright and a00 Gallatin. Gallatin is seen here at the opening of a beards, the exhibition at Firestone in 1948. He died in 1952. His collection of cubist and avant garde paintings and drawings went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art because he felt that New York really didn't deserve such a collection. Certainly not the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was Beardsley who brought me in touch with Alec Wainwright, began his career at Princeton in the 19 fifties and lived on the rest of his life, become curator of rare books and curator of the parish collection of Victorian novels. Adequate light was himself a collector of sorts, though he did not really compete with the library. He was an extraordinarily erudite and charming man. And I enjoy his company every time I came up to the university, I gave a book to the Paris collection in his honor, which I believe is the only book that has been added since the collection came to Princeton and 130s. Alec Wainwright and his catalogue of Beardsley was sort of my Guide to collecting the artist. But I found that there was much more to learn. And in the mid 990s, having sort of started on beer bomb, I decided that Beardsley was going to be the next figure that I would work on to create a bibliography. I actually finished beard slipped. A selective checklist, published work of AMI Beardsley with published in 1995. And it included a great many items, some well-described, some myths described. But it was based in large part on Princeton's Gallatin collection, including such rarity is as the first issue of George Edgerton's keynotes with its Beardsley cover, issued in pink paper wrapper is very unusual in 1893, this is the volume of feminist and short stories considered shocking and they're gay. And they dummy copy of the Yellow Book, volume five that was produced just before. Beardsley was sacked as art editor in the wake of Oscar Wilde's arrest. As with beer bomb, my Beardsley collection continue to pace, adding such things as this illustrated autographed letter, which spiritually is seen in the pose of Whistler, his mother. And the great poster for the avenue theater of 1894 when Don scam or another great Princeton friend, tremor, curator of manuscripts now retired. And I did an army Beardsley show. High in the galleries upstairs and Millward galleries. We had more than enough material to include what sadly, Gallatin never acquired this poster and could never figure out why it is very rare, but yet everything else. And he collected Beardsley from 1895 to 1952. I was eventually able to acquire the color lithograph. And I'm pleased to say that last year, Julie Mel B, and for me that Princeton had bought one. So Princeton's collection or beards, the posters and the mark Samuel's last or collection of Beardsley posters are both now complete. 1995, I was involved with the late Marry and Jensen and Michael Patton, who I understand is still continuing his distinguished teaching and theatre career, Princeton, to collaborate a little bit on their exhibition, Oscar Wilde or writer for the nineties. It's a splendid, splendid exhibition showing Princeton's eaten extraordinary strengths in the British literature in our, in the 190s. The Gallatin collection, the Taylor Collection. And I should mention the J Harris, the collection being the strongest. It's one of the great books in the Taylor Collection that had to be included in the exhibition was Wilde's poems of 1892, inscribed from Oscar to the guilt mail. Boy had Oxford and in June, a book which I have to say I'm rather jealous self. This exhibition led me to get to know Mary Hyde VI count is Eccles. And I had said made several visits to her collection at four Oxfarm. Mary Apple's had a long association with Princeton And I believe was the honored for being the surviving one member of the Friends of the Princeton University Library who attended both the opening of Firestone and its 50th anniversary. In 2001. The goal your club put on an exhibition of Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit, drawn entirely from the collections, help grow your club members. This exhibition could not have been held without loans from the Lloyd coats and collection of children's books. And I remember coming out to see materials with Andrew and will bringing out one Treasure after another. And you see some of the Quotes an items in the grill your club show. And we later produce this catalog, which includes while an introduction how by my partner Margaret stats. But the thing I want to take home from the coats and collection was the Peter Rabbit doll made for Beatrix Potter herself. Palm. I'm have to say that I got to at least touch it with while putting it in the exhibition case. Another thing I love with this tiny pamphlet, happy pair, Beatrix Potter's first published illustrations. And this is a legendary rarity, the kind of verity that actually turns up quite often in the book. And I was able to buy a number of years ago, the world's worst copy. It's rubbed, gets worn. It's clearly been held by a child or children, but at least the rabbits are still visible on the cover. My collection is not as good as Bob Taylor's, as large, as as large as Janet toxins, or as distinguishing this way as a egalitarians. But it's not bad. On there today. About 7 thousand books, manuscripts in letters, Archives, photographs, and pieces of femora. To give you an idea that is expanded from the pre-Raphaelite William Morris through the 190s to encompass really what I call the period roughly 1840 to 1900, after the 18th century and before the 20th century, said spook, covering all aspects of Victorian literature and culture in Harrison typical items including Julia Margaret Cameron, photograph of off Tennyson, camera, Tennyson's oodles of the king and scribe dipper, Lewis Carroll, first edition signed a portrait of Dickens by his daughter. And if you're collecting Victorian literature, you have to have a letter from within Victoria. The collection is now so large that almost any subject can be covered. And especially if you have an interest exam do in rabbits in here is plenty illustrated book by Nellie sear. It cover Wil William Morris spoke with rabbits on the spine. More rabbits on the front cover of Morris Hewlett, the forest lovers poster by John hassle for the wild rabbit. And a Beatrix Potter drawing of two rabbits gathering apples. In the early two thousands. The University of Delaware library approached me about the collection and they offered to have an exhibition called Beyond Oscar Wilde, portraits of writers and artists than the mark Samuel's last collection. And that's the kind of invitation collectors like and rarely turn down high. And following the exhibition, I was invited into the librarians office. And Susan bridges and the director of the library at the time, made me a proposal which was even better than the exhibition. If the collection came to the University of Delaware library, they would create a special. Space for it, collection had more or less outgrown and Washington DC apartment. And always, I felt that it really needed public face so that scholars, researchers, students, and others could use it. So 2 thousand for the collection travelled up to Newark, Delaware. And in 2008, the University of Delaware Press published, they sing the late Victorians, portraits of writers and artists from the Mark savviest last collection by Margaret distance, which made the collection even better know. In creating the space for, we thought of a particular library that had designated areas for the collections of collectors, notably the Princeton University Library. So we came up and spent a day looking at the Taylor rule, the Hilberg room, the Shi'i Library, and the Taylor rule. And we learn something from each of these. And I of course particularly impressed by the shiny library because it had so much Victorian furniture in it. And in the, in the space that was created at the University of Delaware, didn't look like anything. Princeton, but it had elements of all of the spaces that we saw. The green carpet, I have to say is in honor of the carpet in the Taylor room. I should also say Bean was Lee Mars his favorite colon. The furniture is not Victorian, but reproduction arts and crafts. And the yellow walls or reminiscences of the decor favored by James McNeill Whistler. When the collection came to the University of Delaware, John Bidwell, who was then Curator of graphic arts at Princeton and later theatre rare books of The Morgan Library. Describe B1 to someone as the bill shiny of Newark, Delaware. And it's the greatest compliment I think I've ever received as a collective because I admired Mr. shiny to a staggering amount. A man who devoted his life to the collecting rare, wonderful materials, made them available to scholars in the public and did so much else good for the world. And I have a little bit of a shady story to tell you about. After one of the friends of the Princeton University Library events, Mr. shied, he invited a little group of us to come back into his library. He said, I'll show you some books. We sat down at a long table. Can he went to a safe? Open it up and brought out a very large book portfolio, a very old book. And he put it on the table and he let us look at it. No gloves. And as far as I know, no security cameras, no slips you had to sign. You didn't have to give away your firstborn or give blood. We got to sit there, will leave through the Gutenberg Bible. He was an experience I could not forget. And I must say, I think the Princeton University Library for that wonderful, wonderful connection. Thank you.