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Aims of
the Institution’s founders
What is now the Town Library Society
in Saffron Walden was founded in 1832 with the aims
of
“The promotion and diffusion of useful and scientific
knowledge. First by circulating books and periodicals
amongst the members and subscribers, and after such
circulation, to preserve them as a library for the
use of the Society. Secondly, by the production of
papers on miscellaneous subjects previously agreed
by the members, and lastly as soon as practicable,
by occasional public lectures”
At first the founders had difficulty
in choosing a name for their society. It was initially
called the Working Men’s Reading and Improvement
Society, then the Philosophical Book Society, finally
settling down as the Saffron Walden Literary and Scientific
Institute.
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