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The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 19, May 6, 2001, Article 10 THE GENTLEST OF INFIRMITIES A note about the title of "A Gentle Madness", by Nicholas Basbanes (reviewed in the July 25, 1999 issue of The E-Sylum (v2#30). The following is taken from an online book review, originally printed in The Boston Globe. For the full text, see http://www.bates.edu/pubs/mag/97-Spring/bibliophile.html "The book's title comes from an affectionate description of Isaiah Thomas, the Revolutionary War-era patriot and printer who founded the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, repository of early American books. "At Thomas's funeral his grandson, Benjamin Franklin Thomas, said his grandfather had been touched early by `the gentlest of infirmities, bibliomania,'" Basbanes said."

Wayne Homren, Editor

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