Wymberly Jones DeRenne

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The eldest son of Mary and G.W.J. De Renne, Wymberley Jones DeRenne became a more noted collector than either of his parents were. He gathered his Georgia library beginning in the 1890s, upon returning to Savannah after spending much of his life in Europe. His library comprised mainly historical works, supplemented by a large collection of Georgia governmental and institutional publications, legal codes, digests, session laws, maps, pamphlets, and newspapers. To preserve his collection and make it easily accessible to scholars, De Renne built a classical fireproof library building near Wormsloe House in 1907.

Wymberley Jones De Renne produced seven publications (most of which were Wormsloe editions), including two catalogs of his library. He also printed two of his manuscript collections—the memoirs of Georgia governor Wilson Lumpkin (1907) and previously unpublished letters and telegrams of Robert E. Lee (1915)—and was instrumental in publishing several of the Georgia Historical Society's Collections.

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