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Baylor U. library acquires new manuscripts

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From: University Wire
Date: 20070831
Author:Christine Bolanos

Christine Bolanos
University Wire
08-31-2007
(The Lariat) (U-WIRE) WACO, Texas -- Original letters by some of history's greatest Victorian poets -- Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and George Elliot -- will soon be available exclusively at Baylor University's Armstrong Browning Library.

Over the summer, Dr. Stephen Prickett, director of the Armstrong Browning Library, initiated the purchase of $70,000 worth of original manuscripts from Christie's, the international auction house in London.

"It is quite remarkable that Baylor should have a collection like this," Prickett said. "We ...

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