Our Growing Collections

ROLAND BAUGHMAN

Bflwcroff gift. Professor Margaret Bancroft (A.M., 1913) has pre¬
sented several items of memorabilia of Rachel Anne Kelly (later
Mrs. John Otis Given). The items are well-placed at Columbia,
because a substantial collection of Given papers relating to sea
commerce in the period 1845-1870 is in Special Collections.

BarzzOT gfff. Dean Jacques Baizun (A.B., 1927; A.M., i928;Ph.D.,
1932) has added significantly to the collection which he has estab¬
lished at Columbia of wiitings by and about Hector Berlioz. The
present gift consists of seventy-eight published works (eighty-five
volumes) and a series of six 16-inch acetate discs of recordings of
Berlioz music.

As a separate gift, Dean Barzun has begun the establishment of
the "H. M. Barzun Collection", in honor of his father. So far re¬
ceived are forty-five volumes of works on modern art and litera¬
ture, and forty-five issues of five serial publications.

Berol gift. iMr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Berol have presented a group of
fifteen letters and documents relating to the American Revolution.
The items are of such distinction, of such histoiical importance,
that mere listing cannot do them justice. It must suffice to say that
once again we aie indebted to Mi. and Mrs. Berol for a gift that
must stand among the finest that we have ever received, as any
leadei of the following summaiy will readily agree.

A letter from John Jay to Robert Alorris, transmitting a plan
suggested by Silas Deane for "plundering and burning Liverpool
and Glasgow", effecting "a most glorious revenge" on Great
Britain, August 23, 1777.

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