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3 2                            Our Growing Collections

Also included with Dean Barzun's gift are six letter boxes
containing administrative and academic papers. These are being
added to related materials in Columbiana.

Dana gift. iMrs. Richard H. Dana has presented to Avery Lib¬
rary a most valuable collection of 342 photographs recording
the extensive architectural work of her late husband.

East Asian Library. The East Asian Library reports that it has
received more than 800 government publications from the Na¬
tional Diet Library of Tokyo. The gift, which covers the period
1960-65, includes surveys, reports, and statistics relating to his¬
tory, religion, politics and government, economics and finance,
education, social welfare, agriculture and industry, national de¬
fense and the like. Such materials provide a rich source of basic
data for the study of Japan in recent times.

Frankel gift. Professor Charles Frankel (A.B., 1937; Ph.D. 1946)
has presented the manuscript and corrected galley proofs of his
distinguished book. The Love of Anxiety, which was published
by Harper & Row in 1965.

Frantz gift. iMr. Harry W. Frantz of Bethesda, Maryland, has
presented a collection of some 400 books, manuscripts, notes,
and memorabilia to the Library of the Graduate School of
Journalism, in memory of the late Francis A. Jamieson. Included
in the gift is Mr. Frantz's carefully documented list of the items.

Grimm gift. iMr. Peter A. Grimm (A.B., 1911) has presented
three distinguished sets. One comprises the London, 1821, edi¬
tion of the works of Lord Byron in five volumes; another is a
nine-volume edition of Shakespeare, London, 1767, with the
bookplates of Lord Cornwallis; and the third is a collection in
twelve volumes of the works of Jonathan Swift, London, 1755-
68. The bindings of the last set bear the arms of George IV.
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