Talk:George Peabody Library

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"While the majority of the collection dates to the 19th century, the library also has a strong assortment of early printed books, works on natural history and exploration, and a marquee collection of Don Quixote editions." I removed this reference after searching for a source and not finding it. IF you can find a source, please restore the statement.--Rlhuffine (talk) 16:30, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

"At the time of the original founding of JHU in 1876, by the will and bequest of local merchant/banker/financier and also later noted philanthropist Johns Hopkins, (1795–1873), who expected that his university would be located at his northeast Baltimore rural/suburban estate at Clifton. Following his death, his board of trustees along with their new recently recruited president Daniel Coit Gilman, (formerly of the University of California at Berkeley), for reasons of unexpected costs overdrafting the then considerable endowment bequest based on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company stock which was then enduring financial difficulties, so decided to temporarily locate the academic buildings of the new style higher level university among the developed city streets in the downtown and Mt.Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood, just west near North Howard, West Centre and West Monument Streets. This was also adjacent to the city's premier public high school, The Baltimore City College, whom Gilman viewed as a suitable preparatory school but especially just a few blocks from this Peabody Library then just moving into its newly expanded quarters in order to take advantage of its already considerable reputation as literary and academic resources. Here Hopkins education remained for the next quarter-century before moving to its present Homewood campus in the north central city by 1914. Since the 1980s, the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University continues to add books to the historic collection." I have moved this from the collections section to the history section. I do not see a source for it, if you have created this section please add a source. The first sentence is unclear. Anna C. Noah (talk) 18:02, 6 April 2022 (UTC)