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Robert Duncan Macleod 1885–1973
R.D. MacleodR. D. MACLEOD'S career can be summarized briefly. Born in Greenock, he joined the staff of the public library there in 1902. He moved to Glasgow and was a district librarian in…
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‘My Biographer, if I ever have one…’
A.E. DayROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON would have delighted in the deep irony of his own idle words, penned in a letter to William Archer in October 1887. His early death in Samoa, itself a…
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Acquisitions and Collections
William ReadyTHERE IS TREASON ABROAD in the world of learning; le trahison des clercs is rising among us today and is more virulent than was the original conspiracy. The current conspiracy is…
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Reading in Retirement
Trevor AllenWHEN A FRIEND OF MINE retired he had been like most businessmen, a reader of the lighter kind of book—thrillers, 'tecs, westerns—for evenings and weekends. Now he had most of the…
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