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attended to, the Library has suffered great defalcations and damage. The Books presented by the China Branch of the Asiatic Society are of considerable value - and these two Loans would supply a most useful foundation for a tolerably complete Library of reference in matters connected with China and the contiguous regions - while there is an institution principally supported by and circulated among the contributions of the middle classes consisting of several thousands of volumes. It is my purpose to unite these three Libraries, to place them under proper Superintendence, - to provide for their safe keeping, make them generally accessible and to appropriate to a desirable purpose a portion of that public building I have in contemplation, which I intend a reading room shall be attached to a Museum.
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