UCD LIBRARY CULTURAL HERITAGE COLLECTIONS
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Librarians have a very mixed attitude to markings, underlining, or scribbling on books. In most cases it is frowned upon. In one infamous case from the 1960s, the British playwright Joe Orton served six months in gaol for defacing books from Islington Public Library. However, in other cases, far from being viewed as vandalism, ‘markings’ …
A letter left within a book may have been put there for any number of reasons. A forgotten bookmark perhaps, or, was the letter kept with the book as both were linked in some way? Such a letter tucked into a limited edition of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé would almost certainly fall into the latter category. …