Scope and content Items relating to the "Edwards scrap," a fragment from an early draft of Edward Gibbon's autobiography that was acquired by George D. Edwards, and to Gibbons's copy of his Decline and fall of the Roman Empire, also acquired by Edwards. The items include the "Edwards scrap" itself; a letter from F. G. Kenyon at the British Museum (dated 1930) confirming the scrap's authenticity; a letter to Edwards from Nicolas Barker (dated 1997) confirming the authenticity of Kenyon's letter; a reprint of...