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“Too late at the feast once more! Serendipity in reverse again!
Victorian biography : a collection of essays from the period
Not even a crumb from the table for me. I put it to any of you: does it not seem rather unfair for Brigham Young to make off with both Mrs. Lorimer and Colonel Enderby’s Wife? Greed, pure greed.”
Such was the reaction of Robert Wolff, a private collector of Victorian literature, upon hearing of BYU’s purchase of the Victorian collection that had been compiled by David Magee of San Francisco.
The book world of the 1960s was astounded by the news that Brigham Young University had purchased a collection of Victorian literature of such magnitude.
Victorian biography collection
As Robert Metzdorf, another private collector of Victorian literature, said:
“What a collection! When shall we look upon its like again? . . . In the end all must agree, however reluctantly, that the unattainable is a jewel of great value and that its final setting is no more than it deserves.”
That final setting is, happily, at BYU.
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