Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Gifts

American Institute of Graphic Arts gift. Continuing a policy orig¬
inated in 1953, the A.I.G.A. has added the Fifty Books of the
Year, 1966, to the Libraries' complete depository file of the award
winners.

Atkinson gift. Mr. Brooks Atkinson has presented a file of The
Puritan, a literary periodical which he published occasionally from
1910 to 1916 in Melrose, .Massachusetts. A fine early example of
"little magazine" publishing. The Puritan contains poems, stories,
and critical essays, many of the latter written by iVIr. Atkinson.

Baughman gift. In memory of her late husband, Mrs. Roland
Baughman has presented a collection of
his manuscripts, correspondence, and
books. In addition to a large group of
modern press books and ephemera, the
gift includes a file of twenty imprints of
the Grey Bow Press, which Mr. Baugh¬
man operated with Gregg Anderson at
tlie Huntington Library, and four boxes
of notes and printed material dealing with his researches on the
Wise forgeries, a subject which the late Head of Special Collec¬
tions studied and wrote about during his long and distinguished
career as a rare book librarian.

Barzun gift. To our extensive Arthur Rackham Collection, Pro¬
fessor Jacques Barzun (A.B., i927;Ph.D., 1932) has added a copy
of the scarce catalogue of the Paris, 1912, Rackham Exhibition.

Bucher gift. On behalf of the estate of Dr. Walter H. Bucher, his

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