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Purchases during the previous academic year included the following older or rare items: a rare edition (1601) of the French translation of the Dialogues of Vives, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Esprit, maximes, et principes (1764), Lamartine’s Œuvres (1828), a single folded sheet containing four poems from Victor Hugo’s Châtiments (1853) printed for postal distribution to friends in France and as a means of avoiding the censor there, first editions of Verlaine’s Amour (1888) and Bonheur (1891), Maurice Blanchot’s Comment la littérature est-elle possible? (1942), Robert Brasillach’s Poèmes de Fresnes (1945), and autographed copies of works by Régnier, Jouve, Chamson and Cassou.

"The acquisition by the Library of manuscript and autograph material has depended over the last hundred years much on the interpretation by the Curators of the responsibilities of the Taylor Institution and probably more on the availability of funds. Faced with heavy pressure on their meagre income, some Curators, certainly before the introduction of modern research degrees, contended that the acquisition of all manuscript research material should be the concern of the Bodleian, though, as Sir Edmund Craster has pointed out in his 'History of the Bodleian Library 1845-1945', this view was obviously not shared by the Bodleian Curators at the time of the founding of the Taylor Institution.