Talk:William Bragge

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A fact from William Bragge appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 June 2008, and was viewed approximately 711 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that William Bragge donated his 1,500 volume Miguel de Cervantes collection to the Birmingham library in 1873, but many of the books were destroyed during a fire?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/June.

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Sentence needs work from someone who knows about the donation

I just fixed up some of the language in the article, but the sentence "Bragge donated his collected items to the Birmingham Free Library, including his 1500 volume Cervantes collection in 1873 and study of tobacco collection." could use help. If the tobacco collection was donated at the same time as the Cervantes, just moving "in 1873" to the end would help a great deal; if not, something else should be done. Peter Delmonte (talk) 00:17, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]