Fans have got in touch over the years, wanting a full list of all of the books which Helene bought from Marks & Co.  Here's the list, as compiled by fellow fan Diane Gross, should you wish to try to recreate Helene's library for yourself.

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​Requested books (in A-Z order):

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1. Austen, Jane - Pride & Prejudice

2. Beloc, Hilaire - essays

3. Beowulf (mentioned, but HH said she had no interest in reading)

4. Book Lover's Anthology

5. Cassell's dictionary

6. Cattulus - Loeb classic edition; (Latin text; verse trans. by Sir Richard Burton, prose trans. by Leonard Smithers--HH not a fan as the translators "cleaned up" the language)

7. Chaucer - Canterbury Tales ("a modern English verison, not Old English or Anglo-Saxon")

8. Chesterfield - essays

9. de Coverely, Sir Roger - papers

10. Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

11. De Tocqueville - Journey to America

12. Donne, John - Complete Sermons (p.78 - FPD says the sermons an only be found in the 40-vol. complete works)

13. "Elizabethan poets"

14. Goldsmith - essays

15. Grahame, Kenneth - Wind in the Willows (w/Sheppherd illus.)

16. Greek New Testament

17. Hazlitt - Selected Essays

18. Horace - Loeb classic edition

19. Hunt, Leigh - Essays

20. Johnson on Shakespeare (Oxford pr. ed.)

21. Jonson - love poems

22. Lamb - Essays of Elia (MacDonald Illus. Classics); Tales from Shakespeare

23. Landor, Walter Savage - Works & Life of (includes "Imaginary Conversations;" one is Aesop & Rhodope)

24. Latin Bible

25. Latin New Testament (Anglican Vulgate; dictionary to Vulgate)

26. MacDonald Illustrated Classics

27. Memoirs of (Louis the) Duke de Saint-Simon - trans. by Francis Arkwright

28. Newman, John Henry - Ideas of a University

29. Oxford Book of English Prose

30. Oxford Book of English Verse

31. Oxford Dictionary ("Shorter")

32. Plato - Four Socratic dialogues (Oxford pr.)

33. Plato - minor dialogues

34. Pepys, Samuel - Diary

35. Quiller-Couch - The Pilgrim's Way

36. Sappho - Loeb classic edition

37. Shaw, George Bernard - dramatic criticisms; music criticisms; correspondence with Ellen Terry; 30 vol. Standard ed.

38. Stevenson - Virginibus Puerisque

39. Tristram Shandy (MacDonald Illus. Classics)

40. Walton - Compleat Angler, Lives

41. Woolf, Virginia - Common Reader (2 vols)

42. Wyatt - love poems.

Requested vocal scores:

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1. Bach - St. Matthews Passion

2. Handel - Messiah

3. Coates, Eric - London Suite

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