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firm of Delano and Aldrich, has directed to Avery Library a group
of 12 of his early sketches executed during his sojourn at the Ecole
des Beaux Arts in Paris. These will be added to the Delano Collec¬
tion already at Avery Library.

Drake gift. James F. Drake, Inc., presented three pamphlets of
early Columbia interest, two of them being by or about Dr. John
W.Francis (a.b., 1809, a.m., i8i2,m.d., i8ii,ll.d., i86ohon.),
and the third being by Dr. Samuel W Francis (a.b., 1857, a.m.
1860). Included in the gift is an autograph letter from Dr. Samuel
W. Francis to William Loring Andrews, dated 2 i March 1845 (?).

The Erskine Papers. Mrs. Helen Worden Erskine presented twenty-
three valuable letters which her late husband, John Erskine (a.b.,
1900, A.M., 1901, PH.D., 1903), had written to Melville Cane (a.b.,
1900, LL.B., 1903) in the period from July 11, 1899, to May 2, 1999.
These will be added to Mrs. Erskine's earlier gift of the papers,
writings, and memorabilia of John Erskine.

Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation gift. Fairburn Marine Ed¬
ucational Foundation of Center Lovell, Maine, has given a monu¬
mental work in six volumes entitled Merchant Sail, compiled by
the late William Armstrong Fairburn. The product of years of
devoted study, the set is an invaluable source work on "ships and
their relation to the development of the American colonies and
the United States."

Fri(?rfOT«72 ffi/'ty.Thenameof Mr. Harry G. Friedman (ph.d., 1908)
is seldom missing from these accounts of gifts. During the past
five months Mr. Friedman has shown his usual generosity by
presenting a number of items of interest and usefulness. Just re¬
cently, however, he presented a most exceptional group of fifteenth-
century works of rehgious and classical interest, numbering 23
titles in 21 volumes, plus two other works that were published in
the very early years of the sixteenth century. This is a most wel-