HIDE AND SEEK

[VAM]

THINK ABOUT ALL THE NEAT PLACES AROUND COLLINSWOOD  AND COLLINSPORT TO HIDE THE COLLINS HISTORY BOOK. WHERE WOULD YOU HIDE IT? ?!?

[Raineypark]

Any one of the bathrooms....it appears no one ever went there.  

Raineypark

[VAM]

Any one of the bathrooms....it appears no one ever went there.  

Raineypark

The ins and outs of the bathroom...Knowledge is in and you know what comes out...

[Luciaphile]

WHERE WOULD YOU HIDE IT? ?!?

Hide, schmide.  I'd be torching that baby ASAP.  

Luciaphil

[VAM]

Hide, schmide.  I'd be torching that baby ASAP.  

Luciaphil

So we have a future librarian, who wants to torch a RARE title!

[Dr. Eric Lang]

Best hiding places: Quentin's room in the West Wing;
Secret bookcase room in Old House drawing room;
Secret passageway behind panel in Collinwood drawing room;
Secret room in Collins mausoleum;
Fishing shack where Laura Collins died in 1966

[Luciaphile]

So we have a future librarian, who wants to torch a RARE title!

(ahem)
Even librarians weed collections . . .   and this seems like a weeding situation if there ever was one, especially as it's probably contrary to the 1795 collection development plan (okay, I'll stop now with the librarian in jokes)

If I were in the shoes of Vicki "This isn't real" Winters and Peter "Send in your boxtops to become a lawyer" Bradford, the only intelligent thing to do would be to destroy the book.  

From an archival POV, there's no causal problem with destroying the book--there's no indication of who wrote it, but presumably the author must have either had it published professionally or paid a vanity press because there is publication data in the item, i.e. a date.  Destroying the book in 1795 doesn't mean the author never wrote it, just that the Collins family in the present would lose their copy.  And presumably they could get a replacement copy for their collection.



Luciaphil

[Cassandra]

How about bringing the book to the East Wing and just throwing it in one of those parallel time rooms. Maybe then, it will just whisk itself back to the present time.

[VAM]

How about bringing the book to the East Wing and just throwing it in one of those parallel time rooms. Maybe then, it will just whisk itself back to the present time.

Good thinking Cassandra!