"Perhaps there is not much you yourself can do with it. But, let me offer you this: Books written by hand in this day and age are rare. Things that are printed by hand will one day become a relic coveted by someone in the future. Things that happen today become history, eventually. So even while something may not seem a worth to you; they are precious things that eventually become priceless to others."

He's a historian, thru and thru.

"What you do with it after I give it to you is your choice."