I went to the reopening of the University Library's Special Collections at lunchtime today. I seem to have blogged about the special collections often here, though I have yet to go there to consult J.G.Crowther's correspondence with Reg Birch. Perhaps the reason is that, as University Librarian Debby Shorley pointed out in a characteristically elegant and well-judged brief speech, Sussex's special collections are the envy of larger and better-resourced universities.
A display showed some of the books written using material from the collections, among them Simon Garfield's We Are At War, Jenna Bailey's Can Any Mother Help Me, Victoria Glendinning's Leonard Woolf and Alison Light's Mrs Woolf and the Servants
See Flickr for more pictures.
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