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would not be considered intrusive, I should like to testify my 

 appreciation of the public spirit of Liverpool, and especially of 

 its partnership in the free library movement. It has a great 

 record, having established a free library before the advent of the 

 Libraries Act, Besides this, I was deeply impressed by the 

 number of able citizens who give so much of their time, not to 

 aims that end with miserable self, but for good of the 

 community. 



I do not make a practice of volunteering. I depend upon you 

 and such of your other friends that I had the pleasure of meeting 

 to be sure the offer would be universally received with approval. 



Please be sure to consult the late Lord Mayor, my fellow- 

 countryman, in your counsels, and believe me, 



Always very truly yours, 



Andrew Carnegie. 



In compliance with this, an admirable site in the district of West 

 Derby has been selected, and plans and drawings for it are already 

 well advanced, and give promise of a building in every way adapted 

 for its purpose, and be at the same time worthy of the generous 

 donor, whose name the City Council have resolved it should bear. 



Considerable progress is made with the indexing and cataloguing 

 of the Library's extensive local collection of books, pamphlets, 

 drawings, maps, &c, which when completed and published cannot 

 fail to be of the greatest interest to Liverpool people generally. The 

 descriptive catalogue of the valuable Hornby collection of art books 

 is well advanced. The importance of this munificent bequest is 

 revealed more and more in the work of cataloguing it. 



The new "Wavertree Branch Library is so near completion that its 

 formal opening may be reasonably expected about the middle of May 

 next. Much of the private time of the Chief Librarian has been 

 occupied in writing a history of the Liverpool Libraries during the 

 past half century. 



