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February 20, 2008: Rare Book Collection Goes to University of North Carolina
"Today, 100 of Chason's books -- valued at $45,000 -- have a new home at UNC Charlotte in the Mary & Harry L. Dalton Rare Book & Manuscript Reading Room. Along with works by Walt Whitman, Phillis Wheatley and Mark Twain, they'll be available to readers in a controlled setting.Robin Brabham, UNCC rare books librarian and archivist, says the school's collection has featured American literature since 1971, when Harry Dalton donated a first edition of Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass.'"
