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Biographical Sketch
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ring, is the idea of stewardship and faithful service. Have library ideals yet reached the standard set by old John Dury?
Dury set forth his notions of "librarie-keeping" in two letters to his friend, Samuel Hartlib, that philanthropic writer on education and husbandry, to whom Milton addressed his treatise on education. Hartlib published the letters, together with Dury's Supplement to the Reformed-School, a Latin description of the Wolfenbüttel Library, and John Pell's Idea of Mathematics, in 1650, the year of Dury's appointment at St. James's. The tiny volume was printed by William Dugard,
