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/ The Least Successful Collector Betsy
| Baker played a central role in the
| history of collecting. She was employed |
| as a servant in the house of John
| Warburton (1682-1759) who had amassed a |
| fine collection of 58 first edition
| plays, including most of the works of
| Shakespeare. One day Warburton returned |
| home to find 55 of them charred beyond |
| legibility. Betsy had either burned
| them or used them as pie bottoms. The
| remaining three folios are now in the
| British Museum. The only comparable
| literary figure was the maid who in
| 1835 burned the manuscript of the first |
| volume of Thomas Carlyle's "The Hisory |
| of the French Revolution", thinking it |
| was wastepaper. -- Stephen Pile, "The
\ Book of Heroic Failures"