Activities of the Friends

MEETINGS

The Fall dinner meeting was held on November 9th at the
Men's Faculty Club. Robert Halsband, Adjunct Professor of
English, addressed the members and guests on the subject: "Rare
Books and Manuscripts: Luxury or Necessity?" Mr. Hugh
Kelly presided. Selections from Columbia's more recent acqui¬
sitions of rare materials, taken from the current Butler Library
exhibition, "Rarities for Research," were brought to the meeting
for display to the guests during the cocktail hour and after the
address.

The annual meeting of the Friends of the Columbia Libraries
will be held on the evening of March 8th at the Men's Faculty
Club. Mr. Alfred A. Knopf will speak on the work of the late
Blanche Knopf, and examples of her correspondence with fa¬
mous authors will be on view. Mr. Knopf will be introduced by
Professor Justin M. O'Brien of the French Department.

The Bancroft Dinner will be held in the Rotunda of Low
Memorial Library on the evening of April 19th.

CREDITS

Credit for some of the illustrations and for one long quotation is ackno'wl-
edged as follows: (1) Article by Dorothy Sturgis Harding: The photo¬
graph of Mark Twain and the three young girls is from Albert Bigelow
Paine's Mark Twain (N. Y., Harper & Bros., 1912); the one of Mr. H. H.
Rogers and .Mark Twain is from Elizabeth Wallace's Mark Twai?? and the
Happy Island (Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Co., 1914); the description of
the introduction of Samuel Clemens to "Mark Twain" at a dinner at the
Tavern Club in Boston is reprinted, "with permission of the Club, from
M. A. DeWolfe Howe's A Partial (and Not hnpartial) Senji-Centennial
History of the Tavern Club, IS84-1934 (Boston, The Tavern Club, 1934).
(2) Article by Te~kong To7ig: The Photograph of the Empress Dowager
is a Keystone View Co., von Harringa Collection picture.

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