“My mother maintained that the “seek and ye shall find” passage of Matthew 7:7 referred to reading, that most answers could be found in books.”
Beautifully done HF dual timeline 1918/1987: NYPL librarian Jesse Carson volunteers to go abroad to help conserve the ‘literary landscape‘ of France WWI. This was part of wealthy socialite Anne Morgan‘s program to rebuild communities close to the war front.
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