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the early future the papers of Lewis Corey can be made available
to interested scholars.

Drake gift. Colonel Marston E. Drake and A'lr. James H. Drake
have presented a three-page letter from Edmund Gosse to "My
dear Uncle A\'illiam," dared at Cambrian House, Tenby, Sep¬
tember 18, 1856. The interesting circumstance connected with
this letter is that it bears a later annotation by Gosse on the last
page, "Dictated by me to my Mother aetat 7. E. G."

Eastern Colortype Corporation gift. Through the good offices of
Mrs. Irene De Voogd, Secretary to the Production Manager of
the Eastern Colortype Corporation of Clifton, New Jersey, we
have received an unusual gift of 71 patent sheets representing
patents obtained during the period 1904-1921 for stone litho¬
graphic designs for cigar box labels. Each patent sheet is accom¬
panied by a specimen printing of the label concerned. Anyone
familiar with this vanished phase of Americana will appreciate
the interest that this collection has; those who have never given
the matter much thought, but would like to be more knowledge¬
able in it, are referred to the illustrated arricle in Fortune, March,
1933, pages 66-70.

Eberstadt gift. Mr. Lindley Eberstadt (a.b., 1932) has presented
a remarkable collection comprising 113 original folio printings
of government proclamations containing the texts of treaties be¬
tween the United States and various American Indian tribes. The
treaties range in date from 1833 to 1870.

In the field of Americana few aspects of the subject exceed in
interest and importance the relationship between the whites and
the Indians, and the treaties are the written manifestation of that
relationship. These original folio proclamations were printed in
a few copies only, for official purposes, and rhey are not com¬
monly available today.

The scope of Mr. Eberstadt's gift is country-wide, and in-