Our Growing Collections

Recent Notable Gifts of Books and Manuscripts
to the Columbia University Libraries

ROLAND BAUGHMAN
 

Adams letters. Professor Francis AV. Coker of Y'ale University
presented eight typed letters, mainly signed, which had passed
between him and the late James Truslow Adams, for inclusion
in Columbia's growing collection of Adams' correspondence.

Authors' •mamiscripts. .Mr. Millen Brand (A.B. 1929) has con¬
tinued his practice of placing at Columbia the manuscripts and
scarcer publications of his writings. iMr. Hiram Haydn (Ph.D.
1942) presented the corrected typescript of his The Counter
Renaissance.

Autograph letters. An anonymous gift of ten autograph letters of
prominent figures of the 19th and 20th centuries reached Special
Collections just at Christmas time. Included are letters from
Thomas Campbell, John Drinkwater, Maria Edgeworth, W. E.
Gladstone, Thomas Hughes, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Mary Russell
Mitford, AVilliam Morris, Arthur O'Shaughnessy, and John
Ruskin.

Blau gift. Professor and Mrs. Joseph L. Blau presented several
items of unusual interest: Christopher Morley's Kathleen, first
edition, 1920, inscribed by Morley to Hugh AValpole; an auto¬
graph letter from Israel Zangwill to Joel Blau (Professor Blau's
father), dated Sussex, 20 May 1925; a microfilm of three works
by the 17th-century British occultist, Robert Fludd, and a copy

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