Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Memoir of William John Potts
The printed rules of the Library, he wrote, state that to be a reader one 'must have the letters of two house holders or a person of note these are the words. I con olude the Librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania must be a great personage. Twenty minutes after I gave your letter (mr. Stevens not being asked for, though I said I could get one from him), I was sitting at one of the desks in that profound library, a Reader for se (only think of it I); the great dome above, twenty thousand reference volumes surrounding me, two assistants crowding round me, smiling most graciously and asking, How many would I like to have - one million three hundred thousand printed books waiting to be called for, with many thousands of manu scripts.
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