That were ever taken, new york 1867, the winter of 186768 which was his second final reading tour of the united states. [inaudible] how did the library get the dickens materials a . Well, the Performance Company came to the berg collection through the purchase of the greatest collections of english and American Literature in private hands in the 20th century. This was back in 194041. One was a great Book Publishing magnate from cincinnati, and a friend of the irish renaissance. A real friend of literature. He had some of his performance copies, including the other great collector who was man of the year, 1929. Founder of the general electric, rca, rather. On more i do want to mention one thing. This belonged to dickens. Here is his pen which you may want to hold. Thats his ink well. This is his ivory letter opener which was given to him by his sisterinlaw, georgina, and she had inscribed, or engraved, in gothic letters, in memory of bob, 1862. This is one of the forepaws of his cat, recently deceased cats, bob. The story has it dickens had trained about to put out his nightstand with his paws, so maybe that is the same. Not to be terribly crass, how much is all this worth . We dont like to discuss price, but in one sense its invaluable. I dont like to think of it in terms of financial values because hes were priceless objects. They cant be duplicated. I suppose someone could find a letter opener although not one with his cats paw on it. [inaudible] spent the library has insurance, yes. One more manuscript. And this is the first volume of three manuscript volumes of virginia walls white house. We have the best virginia walls white house. She was Virginia Woolf was one of the great pioneers of the modern if not along with james joyce. This novel was published in 1927. This is in her own binding by the way. She bound her own books. Its not meant to be pretty. She could do that kind of thing in her private press. Here you can see names to be used. She has names of characters, some of which dont appear in the published version. She always wrote, she always drew a blue crayon line on the left and margin so she could write little notes to herself as she went along. In this particular case she has a couple of diary entries. Down here march 9, 1926 she writes i answered today that im writing exactly opposite from other books. Very loosely at first. Will have to tighten up a finally. Most overdrafts, grammatical sentences are complete, very tight, formal productions. In this case the sentences are often ungrammatical, unfinished. It was an experiment for her. She was writing about her child, her adolescence, her past. We want to see one more thing over here in the berg collection. Doctor, is this available for anybody to see or are we getting a special to her . You are getting a special tour. The collection is your for researchers who need to study the paper, the manuscript, the rare books. Does one have to apply to see if Virginia Woolf manuscripts . Actually the bound manuscript we dont even bring out for researchers because for chili dip we have a microphone. Would you like to see these manuscript so we just saw, would you like to see was online so everybody can see them . Yes. And there actually is a very substantial, robust Virginia Woolf website which does contain those digital images of the manuscript, and of other manuscripts available. And here is one of the Charles Dickens desk, his chair, his lamp which is been retrofitted for electricity, and his calendar set to the date he died, june 9. The story goes that when the berg collection opened in october of 1940, it was a big event, the mayor of laguardia was invited to consult back but we have it through oral tradition that the mayor, being rather robust gentlemen, sat in this chair and burst through. And then it was fixed. Supposedly thats the only nonoriginal part of this chair. But thats not a documented historic . I have not seen a documented in any way, but thats what was passed in oral tradition. Thank you for showing us part of the berg collection. My pleasure. Booktv takes a look at the miami herald for this weeks list of best selling nonfiction books. The list was originally published in the los angeles times. For more information visit miami herald. Com and tune in to booktv cspan2 this weekend for our live coverage of the Miami Book Fair. And welcome to day to as live coverage of the 2014 Miami Book Fair civil. This weekend our 17th year in a row of live coverage by the way, 25 authors in 20 hours of live coverage. Today, panelists include New York Times book review editor pamela paul, Walter Mosley, matt bai, charles grow, among others, and to offer College Opportunities for you today. Randall kennedy of harvard is most recent book is called for discrimination and David Rothkopf irans Foreign Policy magazine will be talking about u. S. 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