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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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