ABSTRACT
The successive editions of all publications should be sought; every librarian knows how many changes occur from edition to edition, and the latest is not always the best, or the best from the local point of view. Some collections include Trade Tokens, Medals issued to commemorate local events, or issued locally to commemorate national ones, etc., which are perhaps “museum” objects. The speeches and other writings of parliamentary candidates or representatives are worthy of consideration, and in some cases of inclusion because they have often a definitely local focus, and the parliamentary representation of a place is obviously part of its history and cannot be studied completely without such speeches. Accounts of local trials, the speeches of counsel, and the summings-up must be kept, even if their makers have no other associations with the reader.
