and they know -- and in st. a portion of their water now comes from the salinization which unit couple of decades ago was too expensive to consider. now they're able to desalinate vast amounts of the mediterranean, selling fresh water to their neighbors. so i would say all depends on what happens. if one of the things climate change @booktv we point out that eds in different parts of the world in different ways. the impact seems to be in the most unstable possible like the middle east, central africa, central asia if the environmental degradation salivates faster than people are able to find ways to deal with then i think that we should expect the likelihood of violence to go up another. on the other hand people do find ways to deal with it than we might be able to prevent it going that way having this conversation a hundred years ago, some doom

and gloom merchants are selling the population of the world will quadrupled. surely we will kill each other. if i said, hey, don't worry you would have thought i was insane been made and that is exactly what happened, although we did have two world wars are on the way. thank you for coming. [applause] serbs. >> is there and nonfiction of the robo queue would like to see featured? send us an e-mail. tweet us. post on our walls. >> as book tv continues we're now joined by the courts. what do you do here? >> i am curator of the berg

collection of american literature. >> out you get to that position? >> i looked in the public library in the past, and their robotic division and was later a curator. downtown at the general theological, sam marx library. and i have a doctorate and renaissance history at columbia. all of that led to my being here. >> along and be done within your public library? >> as a curator since september 2000. >> you brought some things out to show less than you have in the collection. >> i have. liberty is an enormous collection, about 2,000 feet of archive and manuals base. this is what i like to call the tip of the byrd his own service peak. here we have the only surviving manuscript of john

donne's holy sonnets july satires, paradoxes that was done in his own lifetime. it is not in his hand, but it is in and of his secretary and personal assistant. and this has the highest authority says drive directly from his own manuscripts. you can see changes in the differences between the text presented your and the mistakes and transcriptions that are made in the first edition and and perpetuated throughout the centuries prefer instance, in this audit all who more doors as eggs attorneys to all those two have been destroyed by this will be resurrected on the day of judgment. and this word birth was miss transcribed. and it was only in the

20th-century that it was read correctly and corrected a great poet. a great philosophical inquiry in order to create highly formal and complex sonnets and other forms of poetry. >> what else do you want to show? >> we have a wonderful collection. over 550 letters from all of the first editions. what is really remarkable is that we have our 13 performance copies, the copies he used to give public readings. this is the first one he ever gave, the first reading he ever gave was in 1853, and this is the prompt copy of the performance copy for a christmas carol.

he first read it in birmingham in 1853. this was not yet in existence, and he said about creating the text that could be short enough that people could listen to him for an hour, ten minutes or so. and so he had a binder tear out the leaves, but in these blank leaves, and then he went through over a couple of years, editorial passes, and you can see that he sometimes rewrote passages because if he would have deleted something and then it was referred to later, he had to somehow introduce a freshly. so that is what you see here. you also find pages were pasted together. he was not going to read it all. you can see postage stamps. these have broken off. he used these to turn to

pages quickly. the protruding in sabah and broken over much use dividend here we have a photo of him taken in new york. the last group of photos from the last group of photos that was ever taken company in new york 1867, the winter 67-68 tell his great second final reading to order the united states. >> how did the library did dickens material? >> well, the performance companies kids to the collection tool the purpose -- the purchase of tugrik is collections of english and american literature in private hands in a 20th-century. this was back in 1940-41. one was wgn is hell, i great but publishing magnate and cincinnati, a friend of the

irish literary renaissance and someone who just collected. he has some of these performers copies tsks. the other great collector who was time man of the year 1929 to migrate to finance your, founder of general electric building these performance couples came from their collection. these came from mount. >> one more this blocks to dickens. this pen. that is his inkwell. and this is his ivory letter opener which was given to him by his sister-in-law. and she had inscribed to cover engraved, gothic letters. he always put that on everything. and this is one of the forepaws of his recently

deceased cat and his story has it that dickens had trained about to put out his night candle with his paw. >> not to be terribly crash, says of his worst. >> well, we don't like to discuss prices, but in one sense it is invaluable data adelle like to think of it in terms of financial value. these are priceless objects that cannot be duplicated pervasively the minister of spirit as suppose one could find some place of the latter approach, although not one with dickens cat's-paw on it. he. >> all and should come by ticket clerks the library has insurance word yes. >> one more manuscript, sir. >> and this is the first volume of three men is crude volumes of virginia woolf's to the lighthouse. we have the vast majority of virginia was papers here. she was the -- virginia

woolf was one of the great pioneers of the modernist novels are around james joyce. this novel was published in 1927. this was in her own binding. she bounder on books. it is not a pretty binding. it is not meant to be. she could do that kind of thing and your, you can see she has names of characters which don't appear in the published version. she always drew up the crown line so that she could write masters of the issue along. now, in this particular case she has a couple of diary entries. in down here from march march 9th 1926 she writes, i observed today that i am writing exactly opposite lee for my other books will be very loosely at first, not

tied at first, which i will have to tighten finally instead of listening as dollars before. also, perhaps three times the speed senses are very tight, four productions. in this case often ungrammatical, unfinished, a cathartic experience for her beloved she was writing a letter childhood, adolescence, relationship of the parents. >> we will want to see one more thing over here been in the collection. doctor, is this available for everybody to see where are we getting a special tour? >> you are getting a special tool repair the collection is here for researchers who need to study the paper estimates could starbucks. >> what have to apply to see an? >> well, actually, those men is cribs we don't even bring

out for researchers because of the fragility believe we have it on microphone or use of the presentations and exhibitions. i do many presentations for reading groups for the public, for display, exhibition. that is of the general public gets access to these materials through those kinds of special presentations. >> would you like to see these nine initiatives that we just saw, would you like to see those on line? >> yes. and they were actually -- there is a very substantial and robust virginia woolf of sight which does contain those digital images, that is a type images of that manuscript and of other viejo will finish groups available. and here is one of charles dickens desks, his chair, as lamp which has been retrofitted for religious city and his calendar said

to the day he died, june 9th. the story goes that when the bird collection opened in october of 1940, mayor laguardia was invited. but we have it through oral tradition that the mayor velella velella robust digital bid, said in a chair and burst through the caning. and then it was retained perry's apparently that is the only non original part of this chair. >> but that is not a document is story. >> i have not seen it documented in any way, but that was passed to me in our tradition. >> thank you for sharing this part of your collection >> my pleasure. thank you for being here. >> you're watching book tv to let television for