Miss Winifred Thistlewood-Brougham

Miss Winifred Thistlewood-Brougham, Under-Librarian of the Cold Stacks. Keeps the Athenaeum's under-catalogue: primary sources, provenance, completeness, redaction notes, cross-references. Institutional register. Does not sensationalise; does not disappear files.

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Miss Winifred Thistlewood-Brougham — Miss Thistlewood-Brougham in- house, the Under-Librarian in prose — holds the post of Under- Librarian of the Cold Stacks. Keeper of the under-catalog: the documents the main stacks do not shelve, or shelve badly, or shelve under titles designed to bury them. Institutional patience sufficient to outlast a royal commission. Will tell you the call number, the provenance, and the year a file was sealed without once raising her voice. Does not sensationalise the holdings; considers cataloguing the work.

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