s
the Sky."
irv register are
The Sondley
Library
DR. SOXDI.FVS miicnirirnil be-
qu<‘4| tins rrcat<*d wldr InlrreM
and I*, proving of inlrnvr taluc
lo ihosr who arc inlrrcvlrd in
Ьоокч.
Ну
J. II. III4KI.I*
Til
К
aerniid mr opera tint
i ear* ihr i4nr, Suudlev Krf
of the late Hr.
»l<«i.t. bwrn.fer. hi-t-run ami
x'bolar of .\*hevil!e. the library re¬
vived more than <0.000 bound vol-
i of people from every wetioa u me*. aone 100,000 pamphlet* and
■ I ' State, ami *omc for-
тара,
valuable collection* of pie
siuatrii», who have rivaled tin* tun*.
41ч»,
itiincral. ami tin* likr,
1 ararrlt of information on many and
•«-'•,000
with which lo buy more
U. Student* preparing the*r* hook*. Tlr proporfiot, nrlwivr of
.in donor'* draw, have .ought tin.
«411,000.
arc valued ronw-rva lively
ial there, familira have turned at acre than $100.000.
1 .helve* in trace anectry and
Iry, writer, hare found needed Confederate Re<ords
T"- k*”1 <*f par" ww Ur Tatar and inter-t 1.
d a wealth of authentic data. frotI1 north of the Maum-
.....1 1H ion line ia the library'* rerr eom-
A Far-famed IntilatiM
рЫе
.helve. on hi-ory of the South,
en the library *rn* thrown open capreinlly during the period of the
public on October I, 1935, after War Between the State*. Hr. Sond-
i* of careful indexing nod *hclv- ley felt very atrongly about tbia civil
ider llie .killed direction of Mi»* conflict and nlwny* contended that
11a A. Hiekev, librarian, predic- the Confederate government wa*
■a* made on every *ide that the "found'd on tnith ami ju.tice, which
у
wa* defined to I -"-me a will mine day he
и—
1 a* the proper
- attraction for A*tarffle and form of
Петоегаот.-
rw North Carolina. Bat few
Л.
a lad. I*. Seedier rliml-d
d bow immediate and enthu.i Bewiaeateber Mountain to watrh a
■--old be the acceptance of the handful of Confederate homegu.rd
ition. Without advertising, roof a larger detachment of Federal*
ey Library teen me known to who had cut through the gorge from
v* in many di-tant section* of Tenne.*ce to destroy a munition* far-
wintry through visitors to thi* tory at Aahcville. When the battle
unity who called at the library »n^ over he haatened to the field of
etutned to their home, in other dtinniah ami gathered fragment, of
to marvel over the valuable .hell, that became the nueleu. of what
made there. ia believed to bo the met complete
me run. .lor,, lion, of colic— -t ion* ..... ... • \.ef„l,.,t.
(
> >
13L
»/
Ur. Forest Alexander Sondlcy,
donor of the Sondley Rcfcteii<c
Library at Asheville. The pietute
shows him as he appeared at the
height of h
ien expee ted. The re-
treating Federal* camp— I in the yard
of the historic family bometead.
"Monlrella" in the French Broad
valley, llie night after the battle. For
мине
unexplained rr»««>n, one of the
soldier* fired upon Young Soodley'*
pony. The little animal fell in it*
track* and died with it. y.niug ma¬
ter'. arm. atuut it. neck and hi. h«t
The Scree bate foe the “Yankee.-
that burned in hi* t»vi*h hew rt twel
lo— d with the nmlevtanding of man¬
hood, but he never accepted the Con¬
federacy a* a romantic dream, kept
alive only by fading grey uniform-
and the glamour of n "l«»t Cau*e."
He lieeame one of the niMt thorough
.Indent* of Confederate hiitory in
the South, and an eager collector of
Confederate relic*. Over hi. antique
fonr- potted l*d always bung a build-
tom Confederate Sag earned through
the Serve Battle of the Wildemeww.
The boob which be read and loved
while a chill were carefully laid
away as a beginning of the grewt
library which wa* one day to fill the
two large room* provide.1 at hi* home,
"The Kiel of the Road," and o.er
lion into the attic and cellar.
With the itxdu.iou of hi* own
book*. Hr. Sondley'. rolled ion on
North Carolina bi-mry U -aid to be
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