“… to adorn their lives so much in need of ornament; or, in the day of your triumph, when romance is utterly driven out of their souls, and they and a bare existence stand face to face, Reality will take a wolfish turn, and make an end of you.” Charles Dickens ‘Hard Times’

Some of them are, yes.

Exactly. I mentioned it to an administrator there and I’m not sure he was aware they were there!

I believe so. They seem to be the repository Charles Vess’ papers.