Charles Davis sends us this article from The Guardian:
“Iris Murdoch’s working library was saved for Britain last night by the fundraising zeal of one of the newer universities, and the loyalty of a rare book dealer who refused fatter offers from the US. Kingston University in Surrey said it had bought the novelist’s library for a sum understood to be £120,000, though it was on the market for £150,000. The university managed to raise half of this in only a few months.”
Read more about it here.
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