Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Gifts

Berol gift. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Berol have made significant
additions to the Arthur Rackham Collection which they estab¬
lished at the Libraries in 1956. Added recently were six fine
sketches in various media: a watercolor sketch, dated March 17,
1891, and docketed "Serjt. Bouncer" on the mat; an ink and wash
sketch, signed, entitled "A .Milk Cart," which was published in
the Pall Mall Gazette on July 16, 1891; an ink sketch signed and
dated 1889, depicting a view from the cliff of Cadgwith in Corn¬
wall; an ink and wash sketch, signed and dated 1889, showing
Arthur Freeman in a donkey-cart and Rackham closing the gate
behind, drawn in Cornwall; a highly-finished ink sketch, signed,
showing a construction scene with a wharf in the background and
figures and a horse in the foreground; and a water-color, dated
October 1905 by Rackham on the verso, of the Ponte \'^ecchio in
Florence at sunrise. Several of these drawings were displayed in
the Rackham Centenary Exhibition held at Columbia during the
winter.

Also included in the gift is an exceptional letter from Henry
Laurens to Patrick Henry, dated York Town, May 5, 1778. Writ¬
ten by Laurens when he was President of the Continental Con¬
gress, the letter calls Henry's attention to two Acts of Congress:
one relates to militia exemptions for persons making military
stores; and the other is concerned with protecting the western
frontiers. Accompanying the letter are steel engravings of each
man.

Carlson gift. Mr. and iVIrs. Randolph E. Carlson have presented a
large collection of manuscripts and correspondence of the poet

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