There's a short nice story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer about David Bell who owned Magus Books for decades here in Seattle before his death. He's left half of his estate (totally around $700,000) to the University of Washington Libraries, specifically to financially support the Special Collections Department.
"This endowment was kind of a surprise to us," UW Libraries rare book curator Sandra Kroupa said. "I think this is just one of those situations where you can never tell how much of an impact you make on someone's life."
The Special Collections Department IS special when you take into account their...
Book Arts Collection, that includes books dating to the 11th century.
Book Collections that includes historical children's literature.
And oodles of other collections including architecture of the Pacific Northwest, images of 19th century actors and documents highlighting the Klondike gold rush.
Ah, to have oodles of free time to visit and peruse these wonders! Alas, a small child at home wants to play freeze tag.
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