Our Growing Collections
 

ROLAND BAUGHMAN
 

Authors' ■u/anuscripts. Mrs. Henry Beston (A.lVI. 1916) pre¬
sented additional manuscript material relating to her novel. Moun¬
tain Bride, published under rhe pen-name, Elizabeth Coatsworth.
Mr. Millen Brand (A.B. 1929) continued his policy of depositing
his correspondence, journals, and literary writings as these can
be released from his files. Through Miss Marjorie Griesser of
the \'iking Press and Professor James Gutmann, we have added
the original manuscript of Under Whatever Sky by the late
Professor Irwin Edman. Wilhelm Obkircher continued his prac¬
tice of lodging in Special Collections the typescript and manu¬
script copies of his music and literary work; most recently re¬
ceived was his Sannnlung der Gedichte, 1928. Professor William
A. Owens presented the manuscript of his recent novel, Walking
On Borrowed Ground.

Baum material. A member of the Class of 1916 presented funds
to be used for the purchase of certain unique materials for in¬
clusion in the current Library exhibition of the works of L. Frank
Baum. The gift included 27 original drawings by \V. W. Denslow,
illustrator of The Wizard of Oz, 3 original drawings by John R.
Neill, the illustrator of the later Oz books, a first edition of Baum's
Dot and Tot, 1901, with a page of the original manuscript, and
other items.

A member of the Friends of the Columbia Libraries presented
funds for the purchase of Baum's very scarce technical manual.
The Art of Decorating Dry Goods Windows, 1900.

Mr. John S. Van E. Kohn, a member of the Friends, presented
a scarce printing of some of the songs from the stage version of
The Wizard of Oz, ca. 1904.

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