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G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n sAnn-Christe Galloway

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Acquisitions

Retiring congressman G. K. Butter-
field has donated papers to the Univer-
sity of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s 
University Libraries. His personal 
collection of papers and photographs 
will become part of the Southern His-
torical Collection at the Wilson Spe-
cial Collections Library. Throughout 
his life as civil rights activist, lawyer, 
judge and legislator, Butterfield (NC-
01) has always been interested in his-
tory. He’s also a self-described “novice 
archivist” who has accumulated—and 
carefully labeled—boxes of materials 
from each chapter of his life. Butter-
field has represented North Carolina’s 
1st Congressional District for nearly 

two decades and is a past chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. He announced that he will 
retire from Congress at the end of the current term.

The University of British Columbia 
(UBC) has acquired a first edition of 
William Shakespeare’s Comedies Histo-
ries and Tragedies—a rare book pub-
lished seven years after Shakespeare’s 
death and credited with preserving al-
most half of his plays. The First Folio, 
as it’s also known, includes 36 of Shake-
speare’s 38 known plays, edited by his 
close friends, fellow writers, and actors. 
The 1623 publication is considered the 
most authoritative of all early printings. 
UBC purchased the First Folio, for-
merly owned by a private collector in the 

United States, through Christie’s New York with funding provided by a consortium of donors 
from across North America and with the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage. For 
further information, visit vanartgallery.bc.ca.  

U.S. Representative G.K. Butterfield visits Louis Round Wil-
son Library to examine some of his donated collection and 
meet with University and Library representatives. January 
3, 2022. (Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill)

Photo of William Shakespeare’s First Folio, published in 
1623, and gifted to the UBC Library.

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