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General Collection (Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern) Collection of American Literature Collection of Western Americana Collection of German Literature Osborn Collection Note: This guide to the Beinecke Library collections is an online version of the Guide published in 1994. The printed version is available through the Administrative Services Department, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, P.O. Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06420-8240 for $6.50, prepaid by check in American dollars, Visa, or MasterCard. Acknowledgments: This second edition of the Beinecke Library Guide is a direct descendant of the first, published in 1974 shortly after the library's tenth anniversary. To Professor Louis L. Martz and to Kenneth N. Nesheim, director and associate director at that time, we owe the idea of a guide and its first successful realization. Many collection descriptions in the new edition are based on information compiled by the authors of the first Guide, and many of the collections we have described came to Yale because of the foresight and energy of the same individuals. The accomplishments, spirit, and even the words of our predecessors will be evident in these pages: Hermann W. Liebert, first head of the Beinecke Library; Marjorie G. Wynne, retired Edwin J. Beinecke Research Librarian; Donald C. Gallup, retired Elizabeth Wakeman Dwight Curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature; and Archibald Hanna, Jr. retired William Robertson Coe Curator of Western Americana. Our sincere thanks to these good and loyal friends. The printed edition of The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library: A Guide to the Collections was designed by Roland A. Hoover, University Printer, whose skill, enthusiasm, and humor have been a constant inspiration. -- Robert G. Babcock, Vincent Giroud, George Miles, Stephen Parks, Christa Sammons (editor), Patricia Willis  Comments:Ellen R.
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