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[^1]: I would to thank my PhD supervisor Hendrik Lenstra for his help.
On Monday 9 January 1854 the Marylebone Free Library opened its reading rooms for the first time. Situated at 27 Gloucester Place, New Road, in north-west London, it offered free admission to anyone above the age of fourteen from 10 in the morning until 10 at night every day except Sunday.

Morning Post 4 January 1854 British Newspaper Archive

The Library was stocked with more than 3,000 volumes, comprising ‘works of interest and utility to every class of reader’. It relied entirely on voluntary subscriptions and donations of cash and books. Amongst those responding positively to an appeal for book donations ‘for the information of the Working Classes’ was the East India Company. Below is the front page of the letter sent to the Company by E A Somers of