Our Growing Collections
 

ROLAND BAUGHMAN
 

NCF, before in these pages attention was called to the
fact that library exhibitions, by revealing both strengths
and lacks in the collections from which they are drawn,
often stimulate gifts of valuable and unusual items. Several in¬
stances of this are to be noted in the following paragraphs. .Mr. and
Mrs. Solton Engel, for example, knowing of our desire to hold an
exhibition of children's literature next year, have presented a
number of key pieces, the latest being the "Peter Rabbit" books
described below. The James F. Drake firm presented an original
drawing by Palmer Cox for rhe Alexander Hamilton exhibit, but
because it was received just as the exhibit was to be closed, it is
being held for the children's books display. The decision to hold
during the coming summer an exhibition concerning develop¬
ments that have come about since the Wise-Forman pamphlet
forgeries were first exposed twenty years ago has resulted in the
gift of fifteen of the forgeries—three from Mr. Howard .Mott and
twelve presented anonymously.

Adams Papers: Additions continue to be made to the correspim-
dence of the late James Truslow Adams (Litt.D. 1924), the main
part of which was presented by Mrs. Adams. Recently two im¬
portant additions were received. iMr. Orrin G. Judd presented
fourteen letters written to him by Adams between 1934 and 1942;
and Mr. Henry Hazlitt added three which he had received during
1930.

Architecture: Mr. William Partridge (1887 Architecture) com¬
piled for and presented to the Avery Architectural Library his
manuscript recollections of the work of the architect AJcKim in

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