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in counteracting the accusations of his enemies. But the cloud
remained over him until his death in 1789, and even to this day.
It was only partially dispelled by the act of Congress in 1842,
granting restitution to his heirs in the amount of $37,000, and
calling the original audit of his accounts "a gross injustice."

We were able to acquire this important document from a
Philadelphia dealer through the gracious act of the American
Philosophical Society in waiving their prior claim.

Thomas Strode, English Mathematician of the Restoration. Two
extraordinarily rare mathematical works by the little-known
English mathematician, Thomas Strode (ca. 1626-99), have
been added to the David Eugene Smith Library. They are:
A New and Easie Method to the Art of Dyallijig, in a unique
and unrecorded edition, London, 1698; and An Arithmetical
Treatise of the Combinations, Elections, Permutations, and Coin-
position, of Quantities, London, 1693, of which only one other
copy is known. The two works are bound together, and their ac¬
quisition for the Smith Library adds distinction to this collection.

Correspondence of Harry Thurston Peck. At the turn of the
century. Professor Peck was one of Columbia's most distinguished
Latinists and most brilliant teachers. He was a key figure in
American letters of his time. Our recent purchase of a collection
of some 200 letters written to him during the peak of his career,
1879-1910, was therefore eagerly negotiated. The collection con¬
tains letters from Columbia Presidents Frederick .A. P. Barnard
and Nicholas Murray Butler, and from such prominent literary
figures as William Dean Howells, the critic and novelist James
G. Huneker, and Edwin .Markham.