Dr. Crenshaw,

Right. The New York Times story from Monday reads that Washington University’s library is now the third largest repository of Jefferson’s books after the Library of Congress and UVA. As far as I know the LVA has no plan to attempt to acquire these books. I doubt WU would want to give up its new distinction as the largest repository of Jefferson volumes west of the Mississippi. Thanks for reading!

-Dale Dulaney

My mistake; found at Washington U in St Louis.

R. W. Crenshaw, M.D.
Charlottesville, Virginia

Dale, any chance we can get the large collection of Jefferson books and papers found just this week somewhere, I think, in New England?

R. W. Crenshaw, M.D.
Charlottesville, Virginia

The best laid schemes o’ mice and men gang aft agley– Robert Burns.

W. J. Barrow’s pioneering research done in the old Virginia State Library (now the Library of Virginia) into the causes of the deterioration of paper was of the very first order of importance; unfortuanately, the process that he devised for preserving paper was not so good and had unanticipated ill consequences. There’s a very fine brief biography of Barrow in volume one of the Library of Virginia’s Dictionary of Virginia Biography.

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
brent.tarter@lva.virginia.gov