TY - JOUR AB - When, eleven years ago, I retired from the service of the Trustees of the British Museum, I was honoured by two or three invitations to write my memoirs. I declined, on two grounds: that I had been born in neither of the purples, the princely or the proletariate; and (for at that time young people in their early twenties were publishing their autobiographies) that I did not think I was young enough. VL - 13 IS - 2 SN - 0024-2535 DO - 10.1108/eb012165 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012165 AU - ESDAILE ARUNDELL PY - 1951 Y1 - 1951/01/01 TI - Bookmen of the British Museum T2 - Library Review PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 90 EP - 96 Y2 - 2024/09/19 ER -