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r + <br /> Falmouth, Mass.,Friday,November 9, 1984 <br /> �I�E Yi6E <br /> _Mashpee Library Acquires <br /> Thornton Burgess Boobs <br /> q, Peter Rabbit, Old Mother wich. <br /> West Wind and Chatterer the Each yearforthe past six <br /> -Squirrel are new residents of years,the society has donated a <br /> ,Mashpee Library, thanks to a setof20 books to libraries a- <br /> gift from the Thorton W. cross the United States and <br /> urgess Society in Sandwich. . Canada. <br /> nB,.A set of 20 hardcover books by Mashpee librarian Diane A. <br /> author and conservationist 'Kingsley requested the books. <br /> „Thornton W.Burgess were don- This year.23 libraries will re- ' <br /> Iated to the library by the socie- ceive books.including libraries <br /> ty,which is celebrating the 75th in Florida,Arizona.New Hamp- <br /> birthday of Peter Rabbit, who shire and Oregon. <br /> 'y appeared in Mr. Burgess's first Librarians or any of the socie- <br /> i book,Old Mother West Wind, in ty's 2,500 members in the Un- <br /> 1910. ited States and Canada can re- <br /> "A lotof people think of Beat- quest donations. <br /> s- <br /> rix Potter's Peter Rabbit, but "We ask members to ask their <br /> Thornton Burgess wrote of librarians <br /> to brit letters." id <br /> ianother Peter Rabbit, some- Mrs. <br /> Titnt is that the books <br /> times called Peter Cottontail," 4 <br /> said Nancy E.Titcomb,director must be for circulation. We <br /> of the Burgess Museum in Sand- want them to be read. <br /> c "Thornton Burgess wanted to <br /> �— inspire a reverence for wildlife <br /> and concern for the natural en- <br /> vironment. He was teaching all <br /> the time," said Mrs. Titcomb. <br /> Mr.Burgess's books are out of <br /> print,but the society,has a large <br /> collection in stock. <br /> Little Brown & Company, a <br /> Boston publishing company, <br /> will reprint the golden <br /> anniversary edition of Old <br /> Mother West Wind in hardcover <br /> this December,in time for Peter <br /> Rabbit's birthday. <br /> Mr. Burgess wrote more than <br /> 170 books and 15,000 stories for <br /> children. <br />