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The Henry Charles Lea Library, named in his honor, includes much of his personal collection of books and manuscripts.

Speakers at the opening dedication in 1925 included Professor George Lincoln Burr of Cornell University, who worked to complete the manuscript of Lea's Materials for a Study of Witchcraft ; Professor Dana C. Munro of Princeton University, vice president of the American Historical Association, who had used Lea's collections as a young scholar ; and Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia historian and former attorney general of Pennsylvania.