48                                 Rohriid Baughman

of History (1939-64) and Dean of Columbia College (1943-50).
The files comprise professional correspondence, lecture notes,
and a bibliographical card index of American and European his¬
tory. There are numerous files relating to Dean (barman's partici¬
pation and membership in the New York City Board of Higher
Education (1938-64), the New York State Board of Mediation
(1941-55), and the Japan American Committee on Intellectual
Exchange. Also present are many of the working papers for Dean
Carman's Preparation for Medical Fidiication in the Liberal Arts
College (published 1953) -awA liesurvey of Preprofessional Edu¬
cation in the Liberal Arts College (published 1961).

A particularly touching item in the collection is the manuscript
Civil War diary of one Richard Brown, sergeant in Company I
of the i3tli Regiment, New Jersey \'olunteers. The 13th Regi¬
ment was under the command of Colonel Ezra Ayers Carman—
and that is probably why the diary was present in the Carman
Papers.

The diary represents thirty-nine days of \'aried action from
June 16 through July 24, 1864. During that time the Regiment
was involved in several engagements—Kulp's Farm (near Mari¬
etta, Georgia) on June 22, Nancy's Creek on July 18, Peach Tree
Creek on July 20, and the start of the siege of Atlanta on July 22.
The account ends most abruptly with the night of July 24—"our
20 lb. Parrot is throwin Shot and Sliell every 5 minutes to the
City." In Samuel Toombs's Reminiscences of the War (1878)
we read that "Ricliard Brown, Sergeant, Died at Marietta, Ga.,
July 29, 1864, of wounds received in action near Atlanta, Ga.,
July 27, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, Marietta, Sec. A,
Grave 712."

Class of i<j2^ gift. Readers of these pages will recall the an¬
nouncement (May, 1959) of the generous gift by the Columbia
Class of 1923 of an extraordinary Elizabethan manuscript, Ar¬
thur Golding's rendering of Aesop's Fables. Now again the Class