"…As Safe as in the British Museum": Paul de Lagarde and His Borrowing of Manuscripts from the Collection of Robert Curzon

Paul de Lagarde's papers, which form the basis of this article, are kept in the Department ‘Handschriften und seltene Drucke’ (Manuscripts and Rare Prints) of the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen. I wish to thank Helmut Rohlfing, director of the department, for allowing me to study Lagarde's correspondence and for granting permission to publish the letters reproduced here, and Bärbel Mund for her help during my stays in the reading room. Stephen Emmel most kindly provided information, advice, and copies of his own publications. Finally, I am indebted to Patricia Usick for searching for possible traces of Lagarde's letters to E. A. W. Budge in the British Museum archives.