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March 16, 2005: Maryland Rare Book Collection Featured in Local Newspaper
"The books came from Thomas Bray, a highly educated Englishman with a big job in the Old World. As the Church of England's commissary for Maryland, he started a trans-Atlantic book club of sorts, shipping heavy volumes in Latin and Greek to the newly settled colony and its seaport city, Annapolis."
