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Climb into the attic of Dover’s home in the village of Dulwich just south of London. A profusion of books range upon long wooden shelves and pile, one upon the other, like pyramids. Small rectangular windows offer whatever daylight the London sky affords. As you peruse titles, what at first appear to be a jumble of random tomes will begin to take shape. Here is no mere collection of volumes. Here is an order, a way of seeing the world. Here is a library and a life.2
Would she, I wonder, like my faded snapshot of her feeding the swans by the Lake? Would it make her feel, as I do, that there is no end to things begun, unless one can really begin again?
—Cedric Dover, in his diary, Nottingham, England, January 19451
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George Padmore, ed., History of the Pan-African Congress: Colonial and Coloured Unity, a Programme of Action (London: Hammersmith Bookshop, 1963).
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Randolph Bourne, “Trans-National America,” Atlantic Monthly 118 (July 1916): 86–97.
Frederick Douglass, “Pictures,” quoted in John Stauffer, The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001), 45;
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Cedric Dover, “Terrick Hamilton: A Forgotten Orientalist,” The Calcutta Review 133, no. 3 (December 1954): 199–211.
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