INTERNATIONAL FIRENDS OF THE LONDON LIBRARY
For over a century-and-a-half the London Library has quietly played a unique and vital role in the world of letters. From its wonderfully eclectic building in elegant St James's Square, it has served generation after generation of book-writers and book-lovers by providing a peerless literary refuge in the city and by generously lending material from its remarkable collection of over one million books and periodical volumes for use at home or the workplace. The Library is a rare testament of faith in the enduring value of the printed word, and books have never been discarded from its shelves merely because they are old, idiosyncratic or unfashionable, so that the fortunate browser of the famous open-access bookstacks can still enjoy the delights of discovering the ancient and abstruse alongside the latest publications.
BECOMING A FRIEND
"I am convinced that if this library disappeared, it would be a disaster to the world of letters, and would leave a vacancy that no other form of library could fill."
T.S. Eliot
President of the London Library
1952-1965
For many years the support of the Library's International Friends has been vital to its continued good-health. Administered from New York under a volunteer board of directors, the International Friends of the London Library is a registered 501(c) 3 charitable corporation. Donations made to it by U.S. taxpayers are fully deductible under the United States Internal Revenue Code. Gifts may be directed towards particular areas of the Library's work, such as preservation, acquisitions or building renovation, and there are a variety of options for the recognition of benefactors within the Library.
BECOMING A MEMBER
In addition, you may wish to consider joining the long list of readers and writers who have enjoyed membership of this unrivalled literary organization. For around $700 a year you too could then take advantage of the intimate seclusion of this treasure-house in the heart of the West End, and savour the extraordinary privilege of browsing among 15 miles of books.
Become part of a unique literary lifeline from the readers and writers of the past to the readers and writers of the future. Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Charles Darwin, Henry James, T.S. Eliot, George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, Winston Churchill. They did. Why don't you?
For more information, please contact:
John Spurdle, Jr.
International Friends of the London Library
515 Madison Avenue, Suite 3702
New York, NY 10022
Email: JSpurdle@aol.com
Telephone: +1 212-644-4858
