Our Growing Collections
 

ROLAND BAUGHMAN
 

i UMMERTIME for many people may be a time for relaxa¬
tion—but not so in libraries, at any rate the Columbia
Libraries. Each autumn when we survey for the Columns
the gifts of books and manuscripts that have come in since the last
issue, it seems that for donors, too, summer is a busy time. And
we forget our own busyness in gratitude for theirs.

More than two dozen gifts are hereafter described. They range
from single titles to collections numbering hundreds of volumes
and whole files of manuscripts. And elsewhere in these pages is
described another sort of gift—the rehabilitation of our exhibit
cases and the manning of our exhibitions program. The summer
months have indeed been fruitful, as the ensuing paragraphs show;
and for this future generations of students and scholars will be as
grateful as we are.

Authors' Manuscripts: Since .May i, six original manuscripts by
contemporary authors have been added to our growing file. Pro¬
fessor Adriaan J. Barnouw presented his Pageant of Netherlands
History; Professor Jacques Barzun gave not only his Teacher in
America, but also twelve letter-files containing his correspondence
pertaining to the book; Mr. Milieu Brand (AB 1929) continued
his program of placing with us the manuscripts and documents
related to all of his current writings; Mr. John Brick presented his
The King's Rangers; and Mr. ^Vilhelln Obkircher gave several
titles, Wahl, Wilhehn Kuhner, Unschuldig, Opfer, Kurt und
Marianne, and Falscher Griff. From Mrs. Eleanor Metcalf came
the corrected typescript of the late Professor Raymond M.
Weaver's Herjnan Melville, Mariner and .Mystic, 1921. This item
is a welcome companion to the original manuscript of A\'eavcr's
work, which was recently purchased for the Libraries.

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