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Thus began the trend of the "ornamental hermit." Wealthy elites advertised in newspapers for gentlemen willing to live in purpose-built hermitages on their estates. The conditions were strictly codified: The Chronicles of Peculiar Desires in the Briti...

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Many of the library’s most peculiar holdings exist because of individual collectors driven by their own consuming passions. These figures spent lifetimes and fortunes hunting down niche materials, which they eventually bequeathed to the nation. Many of the library’s most peculiar holdings exist

The hermit could not cut their hair, beard, or nails for the duration of their contract.

Flinders-Haig represents a specific British perversion: the substitution of human desire for taxonomic domination. If one cannot touch a lover, one can at least label a petal. If one cannot confess a sin, one can catalogue a stamen.