朱彝尊《列朝诗传》："钱谷字叔宝，少孤贫，游文侍诏门下，日取架上书读之。以其余力点染水墨，得沈氏之法。晚葺故庐，读书其中。闻有异书，虽病必强起，匍匐请观。手自抄写，几於充栋，穷日夜校勘，至老不衰。"钱谷手抄之书，一丝不苟，为后来藏家所重。陆心源皕宋楼曾藏有钱氏抄本《会稽掇英集》，后有文震孟跋说："《会稽掇英集》皆集唐宋名贤时文，宇内流传绝少，是其早岁所抄，无一惰笔，乃从宋刻本而录者，为世珍重可知矣。"钱谷家贫，故文徵明为题室名"悬罄"就是空无所有的意思。文震孟《姑苏名贤小记》："叔宝先生不为家，家逾贫。先太史过而题其室曰'悬罄'。先生笑曰：'吾志哉！'而其嗜读日益甚。收录古文金石书几数千卷。"
       看到文徵明收藏的典籍罗列，顿生羡慕之心，遂有志于藏书。先后购求及手录古籍至几万卷，闻有异书，虽病必强起借观，手自抄写，校雠至子夜不辍。所录古文、金石书近万卷，皆为当时佳本秘籍。建藏书室有“悬罄室”，由文徵明为其命名并题写匾额。老屋三间，藏书充栋。所藏多人间罕见版本。刘凤作有《悬罄室集》。又命名多处藏书、藏画室名如“十友斋”、“意远轩”、“红木轩”、“梦雉斋”等。藏书印有“句吴逸民”、“三吴漫士”、“吴越王子孙”、“中吴钱氏收藏印”、“钱谷手抄”、“百计寻书志亦迂，爱护不异隋侯珠。有假不还遭神诛，子孙不宝真其愚”、“钱氏叔宝”、“悬罄室”等。喜刻书，刻印有唐、宋秘籍众多，数千卷近百种。编有《续吴都文粹》、《静观室三苏文选》等，著有《三国类抄》、《隐逸集》、《南北史摭言》、《长洲志》、《吴中人物志》、《悬罄室杂录》、《悬罄室诗》、《苏州三刺史诗》等。子钱允治，亦酷喜藏书。
       钱允治（1541~？），字功甫，好书一如其父。钱曾《读书敏求记》说："功甫老屋三间，藏书充栋。白曰检书，必秉烛，缘梯上下。所藏多人间罕见之本。"《列朝诗传》则称："年八十余，隆冬病疡，映日钞书，薄暮不止。功甫殁，无子，其遗书皆散去。自是吴中文献无可访问，先辈读书种子绝矣。"
       二、[清]字子璧，号内史，晚号东海逸民，华亭（今上海市松江）诸生。诗、画俱工绝。清朝以来，松江以书名者，则有钱谷、曹思邈、沈楫。钱、曹皆名宿，而结构精劲当钱第一。晚年名益重，求书者巵尝满。《三冈识略、江苏诗徽、画家知希录》
       三、[清]号龙泓，浙江萧山人。善山水，不拘於绳墨而气格自高，其疏纵处近学罗牧，深郁处远师黄吾野。《越画见闻》。
四、清各州县官署名主办钱粮、赋税、会计的幕僚。俗称钱谷师爷，亦称钱粮师爷。
 

Money Valley, [Ming] (1508 to?) One for (1508 to 1572) word Shubao, since the number of hanging out room, Wu County (now Jiangsu Suzhou) people. Less solitary poor, out of school, 迨 Zhuang began to study. Home without classics, You Wenming Ming Men, the day to take shelves to read the book, with the rest of the work stained ink, they learn Xin Tong. Landscape cute and lovely, blue bamboo and wonderful, elegant and not the name of their teacher, and self-Teng Yu Yu public in the name of the public. Hand recorded ancient stone inscriptions tens of thousands of volumes. Good book, the law of the Soviet Union, the seal method of two Li, Xiaoxiaoyu, Europe, each of its wonderful in the French, the knowledge that thirsty Ji Ben Ben, leakage mark off trend. However, for the painting cover, the world knows who. According to the history of the Ming Dynasty with a text of the Ming and Ren Shen Shen (1572) Sixty-five died. Forbidden City Museum of the word possession of Wanli six years (1578) off Jinling Wang Shih-chuen for Lan bamboo volumes, when seventy-one. "Feng Yuancheng set, Ken Shi Wen Zhengming biography, biographies poems Biography, Suzhou House Zhi, Ming painting recorded, silent poetry history, the history of art history"