Harry Mount

Oxford treasures

<strong>Beyond the Work of One — Oxford College Libraries and their Benefactors  </strong><br /> <em>The Bodleian Library, Oxford, until 1 November, admission free</em>

issue 28 June 2008

Beyond the Work of One — Oxford College Libraries and their Benefactors 
The Bodleian Library, Oxford, until 1 November, admission free

A few years ago, my old tutor, the much- missed Angus Macintyre of Magdalen College, gave me a letter that meant I could get into the Codrington Library — Nicholas Hawksmoor’s 1716 gem at All Souls: Gothic on the outside, classical on the inside.

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