Background, conception and gift

Predecessor

By the opening of the twentieth century alarms had been issuing for many years about Harvard's "disgracefully inadequate"library, Gore Hall, completed in 1841 (when Harvard owned some 44,000 books)and declared full in 1863.Harvard Librarian Justin Winsor concluded his 1892 Annual Report by pleading, "";his successor Archibald Cary Coolidge

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