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Aberdeen | The Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen, UK |
Alberta | University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
BL | British Library, London, UK |
Bodleian | Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK |
Cambridge | Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK |
Chicago | University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA |
Columbia | Columbia University, New York, NY, USA |
Cornell | Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA |
Duke | Duke University, Durham, NC, USA |
Emory | Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA |
Florida | University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA |
FLP | Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
Harvard | Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA |
HL | Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, USA |
Illinois | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA |
Indiana | Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA |
Iowa | University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA |
Kansas | University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA |
LC | Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA |
Lilly | Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA |
Michigan | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
Minnesota | University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
MSU | Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA |
Newberry | Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, USA |
NLS | National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK |
NYPL | New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA |
OSU | Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA |
Princeton | Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA |
PSU | Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA |
Ransom | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA |
Rice | Rice University, Houston, TX, USA |
Senate | Senate House Library, University of London, London, U. K. |
Stanford | Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA |
TCD | Library of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
Texas | University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA |
Toronto | Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada |
UCB | University of California Berkeley, CA, USA |
UCD | University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA |
UCLA | University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
UNC | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA |
UQ | University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia |
Virginia | University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA |
Wisconsin | University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA |
Yale | Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA |