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Thomas Cooper Library recently received a collection of materials pertaining to the American nature writer John Burroughs (1837–1921).
The collection, which includes more than 100 volumes by Burroughs as well as original photographs and memorabilia, was presented to the library by G. Ross Roy, professor emeritus, English.
Called the W. Ormiston Roy Collection of John Burroughs, collection honors Roy's grandfather. The elder Roy knew Burroughs and served as a consultant on the landscaping of Burroughs's estate in the Catskills. Many of the books carry inscriptions to Ormiston Roy from Burroughs or from his literary executor Clara Barrus.
Burroughs is increasingly recognized as a pioneer in raising consciousness of conservation issues. As a follower of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, and a friend of Walt Whitman, he also has a significant role in American literary history.
The collection is of especial interest to Thomas Cooper Library because it complements the Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, a major research collection on the American Transcendentalist writers acquired by the library in 2001.
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