The Enoch Pratt Free Library Of Baltimore City Letters And Documents Relating To Its Foundation And

This book is a collection of letters and documents relating to the founding of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland. The library was established in the late nineteenth century by Enoch Pratt, a wealthy businessman who believed in the importance of free public libraries. The book includes letters from Pratt, as well as other documents related to the library's founding and early history. It provides a fascinating glimpse into the history of public libraries in America. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Excerpt from The Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City: Letters and Documents Relating to Its Foundation and Organization With the Dedicatory Addresses and Exercises, January 4, 1886 I have for some years contemplated establishing a Free Circulating Library, for the benefit of our whole City, and in pursuance of this plan I have entered into a contract to erect a fireproof building on my Mulberry street lot, capable of holding 200,000 volumes - my purpose being to have branches connected with it in the four quarters of the City, under the same management. The excavation for the foundation has been commenced, and the building will be well advanced this year, and completed in the summer of 1883. It will cost, when ready for occupancy, about two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars ($225,000), and upon its completion I propose to deed it to the City. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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