GladCAT is the digitized catalog of William Ewart Gladstone's library at St. Deiniol's. The catalog is devoted entirely to Gladstone's personal collection (as opposed to the entirety of St. Deiniol's Library) and is of particular interest because it incorporates most of Gladstone's annotations--which the user can also search. At present, users need a free PIN to access the catalog. The search interface is easy enough to use, and (an added plus) can generate results with e-mail links and in different citation styles; there doesn't seem to be any way of saving searches, but the catalog provides download and print options. Gladstone's annotations themselves are transcriptions, not images, which is probably just as well. My only caveat about the display format is that the catalog runs each volume's marginal notes into single-spaced paragraphs, which makes reading them somewhat difficult.
Using the catalog will not eliminate the need to travel to the library, because only the marginal notes make sense out of context; the catalog indicates pages with underlining, question marks, carets, and the like, but doesn't identify what has been underlined unless there's a marginal note attached. Still, online users can discover Gladstone's opinions about Fanny Burney's The Wanderer ("marvellously [sic] elongated") and inept poetry translations (next to one instance, he snaps "hardly one"). Gladstone also seemed given to collecting books about Eton. His Tennyson holdings, meanwhile, included a copy of Enoch Arden translated into...Latin?! (A reviewer was polite but dubious.)
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