He laid the foundations for a library by purchasing from a wandering bibliophile first editions of Swinburne, Meredith, and Hardy, and a yellowed illegible autograph letter of Keats's, finding later that he had been amazingly overcharged.
他从一位流浪的藏书家那里购买了斯温伯恩、梅雷迪思和哈代的初版,以及济慈的一封发黄、难以辨认的亲笔信,为图书馆奠定了基础,后来他发现自己被多收了惊人的费用。