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The four articles reprinted from The Huntington Library Quarterly contained herein are from papers delivered during the celebration of the fifitieth anniversary of the founding of the library. They The Founder and His Library by James Thorpe; Arabella Huntington and the Beginnings of the Art Collection by Robert R. Wark; The Creation of the Gardens by James Thorpe; and, The Genesis of the Research Institution by Ray Allen Billington.