At the Alderman Library, undergraduates facing final exams said the plagiarists should be punished, but some raised questions about the fairness of scrutinizing just one class.
A copy of the catalog for the Harding auction in 1833 is held by the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia.
Alderman Library is named in his honor.
He was named a Professor of English and had the title of "Consultant on American Literature to the Alderman Library".
The best-known library is Alderman Library for the humanities and social sciences, which contains 10 floors of stacks with many useful study nooks hidden among them.
Many of the books-including a large collection assembled to illustrate the history of cloth bookbindings-are on display in the McGregor Room of Alderman Library.
The "Elmer" manuscript is now at the Alderman Library, which owns many other manuscripts and typescripts of Faulkner, who in 1957 became the university's first writer in residence.
Copies are also available for viewing at the University of Virginia, Special Collections Department of the Alderman Library, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The manuscript later ended up as part of an exhibition of Faulkner manuscripts by the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia.
The heirs, who have not been identified, placed the collection on deposit at Alderman Library in 1985, unaware of the importance of the Appomattox note.
