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NMSU Library Special Collections

This guide features the book collections held by the New Mexico State University Library Archives & Special Collections Department

J. Phelps White III Collection

seven book spines titled Shakespeare's Works

This collection represents a look into the library of James Phelps White (1856-1934), a prominent rancher and business man in the southwest, particularly in the Roswell area. A number of these titles were previously owned by the industrialist, miner, and rancher J.J. Hagerman (1838-1909). The donation consists primarily of sets of literary and historical works from the middle and late nineteenth century, such as the works of George Eliot, John Ruskin, Carlyle, Dickens, the French historian Guizot, Longfellow, and a 48-volume set of British poets.