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I'm having some difficulty parsing "Wilson had a traditional approach to his role and concentrated on the expansion of the library, and he had a substantial private library. The library received the substantial library from Alexander Turnbull, who bequeathed his "55,000 volumes of books, pamphlets, periodicals and newspapers, and thousands of maps, paintings, drawings, prints and manuscripts" to the New Zealand government". I may be mistaken, but it seems ambiguous as to whether Wilson looked after his own personal library and also Turnbull's, or whether it refers to the one same library. So, to clarify, do both "substantial private library" and "substantial library" refer to the same or different libraries? -- Ohc ¡digame! 02:59, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]