16 LIBRARIES. 
STOCKTAKING 
The stock of books in the Reference Library was checked during 
the year, and a report submitted to the Committee. 
Tut Moorr MSS anv DocuMEN's. 
The Calendar of Moore MSS and Documents compiled by 
Mr. John Brownbill has been typed, and an Index is now being made. 
By arrangement between the Libraries Committee and the Record 
Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, the Calendar will be printed in 
the Transactions of that Society. 
PRESENTATIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 
Early in the year the Committee received from the Executors of 
the late Henry Young, Bookseller, of Liverpool, the original MS 
of the Moore Rental, which that gentleman had bequeathed to the 
Public Library. 
Mr. Henry Nicholson, of Windermere, presented a handsomely- 
bound volume of letters which had passed between his kinsman 
Matthew Nicholson, of Richmond Row, Liverpool, and Mrs Felicia 
D. Hemans, her mother, and her sister Harriet Browne. 
These two volumes are valuable historical records of Liverpool 
in the 17th and early part of the 19th centuries, and their addition 
to the important local collection already in the Library is a matter 
for sincere congratulation. 
As in former years the Committee have had the pleasure of 
expressing thanks to Miss Hornby for her generous gifts of books 
in Braille type for the use of Blind readers. 
Revision oF LenpinG Lipraries’ STOCKS. 
The work of improving the condition of the stock at the Branch 
Libraries has been continued, and during the year 3,235 volumes 
were withdrawn and cancelled, while 5,172 worn-out volumes were 
replaced. The larger number of these volumes were from the stocks 
in the Toxteth and Everton Libraries. Needless to say, this is a 
