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Bray Collection

MSA SC 3585
Dates
Medium	Original, microfilm
Restrictions	RESTRICTED: Contact Department of Special Collections for access to original volumes.
Storage	00/64/07; 02/51/06 through 02/71/07, [oversized] 00/64/07, 00/65/07/01 through 00/65/07/24; 00/65/09/13 through 00/65/09/17; 00/72/11/37 through 00/72/11/40
Film Number(s)	SCM 527
Description
Bray Collection. Consult MSA SCM 527, microfilm index to collection for titles of original volumes in collection. The Reverend Thomas Bray (1656-1730) is remembered as the founder of what may be called the earliest public libraries in British North America: the thirty-nine libraries attached to various Anglican parishes and colonial centers from Massachusetts to Georgia to the West Indies. These were established by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) because Bray recognized a need for books in parishes that were largely surrounded by dissenters, and because most of the young clergymen who could be induced to cross the Atlantic were unable to provide themselves with books (The best general account is Henry P. Thompson's Thomas Bray [London: SPCK, 1954].)

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