Our Growings Collections
 

ROLAND BAUGHMAN
 

IN making the presenration of the Gibbon and Poe volumes
that are more fully described hereafter, Mr. Solton Engel
(AB 1916) remarked that they are "presents for a nice old
lady on her two-hundredth birthday." The Bicentennial has en¬
couraged many generous gifts to the Libraries from alumni and
friends, and birthday packages are being heaped about the feet of
Alma Mater in growing numbers.
 

Gift Collections

Adams Papers: The gift by Mrs. Adams of the correspondence and
papers of the late James Truslow Adams was noted in these pages
recently. In order to provide adequate background material for a
projected biography of Adams, we have senr out requests to his
known correspondents to present to the collection whatever
Adams letters might be in their files, or to lend them to us to be
copied. To date some seventy letters have been presented by nine
individuals (Messrs. Jacques Chambrun, Hawthorne Daniel,
Thomas E. Dewey, Harold Ginsberg, Lawrence H. Gipson,
Henry Hazlitt, Orrin G. Judd, Arthur Krock and Thomas S.
Lamont). The returns are as yet by no means complete, many
persons having promised to search their files when the opportunity
arises. In addition several recipients either have sent photostatic
copies (thirty-nine from Mr. Paul AA'. Garrett on behalf of the
General Motors Corporation) or have lent for copying originals
which they wisli to keep for personal or other reasons.

ArchitecturalDrawings: Mr.Henry Killain Murphy has presented