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Lilly Library

The Lilly Library, located on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, is an important rare book and manuscript library in the United States. At its dedication on October 3, 1960, the library contained a collection of 20,000 books, 17,000 manuscripts, more than fifty oil paintings, and 300 prints. Currently, the Lilly Library has 8.5 million manuscripts, 450,000 books, 60,000 comic books, 16,000 mini books, 35,000 puzzles, and 150,000 sheets of music.

Not to be confused with the library of the same name in the Duke University Library System.

Lilly Library

Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.

1960 (1960)

N/A

Approximately 450,000 books, 8.5 million manuscripts, 60,000 comic books, 16,000 mini books, 35,000 puzzles, and 150,000 pieces of sheet music.[1]

Library does not publicly circulate

48,514 faculty, staff, and students at Indiana University Bloomington, additional scholars, and members of the public

Joel Silver

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[1]

New Testament of the

Gutenberg Bible

The first printed collection of Shakespeare's works (the )

First Folio

Birds of America

Audubon's

One of 26 extant copies of the "First Printing of the Declaration of Independence" (also known as the "") that was printed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776

Dunlap Broadside

's letter accepting the presidency of the United States

George Washington

's desk from his law office and a leaf from the famous Abraham Lincoln "Sum Book" ca. 1824-1826

Abraham Lincoln

letters to his son

Lord Chesterfield's

The manuscripts of Robert Burns's ""

Auld Lang Syne

The , manuscript written c. 1595 which contains illustrations of ethnic groups in the Philippines at the time of their initial contact with the Spaniards.

Boxer Codex

J. M. Synge's ""

The Playboy of the Western World

J. M. Barrie's ""

Peter Pan

Typescripts of many of 's James Bond novels

Ian Fleming

Two locks of 's hair, one sent by Poe in a letter to Sarah Helen Whitman, and the other cut on his deathbed[6]

Edgar Allan Poe

American animator , known for his work on Pinocchio and Mr. Magoo, donated his personal archives and papers to the Lilly Library.[23]

Willis Pyle

donated their collection of approximately 1,200 children's books to the Lilly. Peter and Iona Opie are the authors of The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1952) and The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959).[24]

Peter and Iona Opie

The Gosling Mandrovsky Playing Card Collection

[25]

author of A High Wind in Jamaica.

Richard Hughes

398 books and periodicals from the collection of Elizabeth Gamble Miller

[26]

Most of the papers of the Scottish author, critic and journalist [27]

Richard Curle

Library location[edit]

The Lilly Library is located on the southern side of a small square in the heart of the Indiana University Bloomington campus. Showalter Fountain is in the middle of the square. Indiana University Art Museum and Indiana University School of Fine Arts are on the opposite (northern) side of the square. Indiana University Auditorium is on the square's eastern side.[28]

David A. Randall

Video Tour of the Lilly Library

Lilly Library