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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20000302
Author:The Rev Dr PAUL SHEPPY

Sir: Natasha Walter's celebration of the Carnegie Library in Herne Hill (Comment, 28 February) brought back memories of my introduction to reading.

I joined that library when I was five and three-quarters. I had to read to the junior librarian to prove my fitness to join before the usual age of seven. My tickets - two stiff pockets of yellow card - were the gateway to a world of adventure and imagination.

In my middle and late teens, the Carnegie did become for me a "street- corner university". Every day I read all the newspapers. I read all of John Galsworthy, all of Somerset Maugham, all ...

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