Greenstreet and the Library

Extract

Nobody who has paid attention to the acknowledgments of gifts to the Library during the past seven years will have failed to observe that Mr. Greenstreet was the most lavish and the most persistent of benefactors. The records of the books of which he, as he put it, unloaded his own shelves as soon as the Library was removed to Reading, occupy several pages of vols, xi and xii of the Gazette; his name is in many of the volumes which were in the Library before that time, and few months have passed since without evidence of his goodwill.