>> guest: yes, and there actually is a very stamm, robust -- substantial, robust virginia woolf web site which does can contain those digital images, the ding tased images of those manuscripts and other manuscripts available at present. and here is one of charles dickens' desks, his chair, his lamp which has been retrofitted for electricity, and his calendar set to the day he died. june 9th. the story goes that when the berg collection opened in october of 1940, it was a big event, and mayor laguardia was invited. that's all fact. but we have it through oral tradition that the mayor, being rather robust gentleman, sat in this chair and burst through the caning. so -- and then it was recaned. so supposedly, that's the only non-original part of this chair. >> host: but that's not a documented story? >> guest: i have not seen it documented in in any way, but that's what was passed to me in oral tradition. >> host: thank you for showing us part of your collection. >> guest: my pleasure. thank you for being here. >> here's a look at -- >> next booktv is live with steve almond, author of "agai

and if you look at the total number of pages, because they say how stamm -- how substantial are these articles that are there, you find an even bigger increase in the number of pages in medical journals because the average article on firearms became longer. so there was more of them, and the average became longer. so if length of articles is related to how substantial they are, then that would seem to go against that claim. so neither the number of studies, nor the pages on research have fallen. the average for the length of studies has gone up. you know, why do we need government funding for research? i've done some of the largest studies that have been done on gun control, i think by far in terms of the most data. you look at a lot of these medical journal studies, they'll have what we call 50 on vegases. you look at 50 states in one year. i don't know how you pick one year to look at, but they do. people who have looked at my books know that i'll look at all the counties in the united states or all the cities in the united states by year for as many years as that data's available a