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James V. Compton (1928- )
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Soon after he retired Professor Compton decided to donate his collection of books on American history to Edinburgh University Library as a 'contribution to benefit present and future generations of students in the study of United States history at Edinburgh'. The 1,800 books in the collection comprise a carefully selected and balanced library on the whole of the period since the founding of the Anglophonic colonies. They are catalogued online and housed in the Compton Room with the Kirkpatrick (History) Library in the William Robertson Building, George Square. Copies of the printed catalogue of the Compton Collection may be consulted in the Main and History Libraries. | |
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