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A vain hope, all
My summer back in the UK will see me, as usual, trawling univ libraries
for what I can glean, and I usually plan this in advance, since there
are the unreasonable domestic interruptions of car and house
maintenance, and one needs to build around them.
This summer I find that I badly need to sit down for a few hours with
Caecilius Balbus' _De nugis philosophorum_ (Woelfflin's edition of 1855,
there is no other).
I see there are copies in the BL and the Bodleian, as one might expect,
but I detect nothing further north. Does anyone out there know of a copy
between the Mersey and the Tay? These rivers will limit my range this
summer -- I cannot see myself getting to either Oxford or else that
London place.
I have already found no fruit in Liverpool, John Rylands (!), Edinburgh
and Glasgow ... but surely this is a basic text?
My apologies to non-UK-based correspondents: the limitations by river
mean that I will go nowhere else apart from northern England and central
Scotland.
Angus, Oman
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