Activities of the Friends

Meetings

Fall Meeting on October 50. As we go to press, plans are being
completed for the Fall A'leeting of the Friends, which will be held
on October 30 in the Alen's Faculty Club. Professor Harry T.
A^oore of Southern Illinois University will talk on "The Signifi¬
cance of D. H. Lawrence: the Why's and AVherefores."

On October 10 the Council of the Friends held a reception in
the Social Room of Butler Library to honor i\'Irs. Alfred Al. Hell¬
man whose recent gift of D. H. Lawrence manuscripts has made
Columbia one of the important repositories of this author's works.
 

Finances

We are now able to resume the practice of publishing in the
November issue the annual statement of the amount which has
been contributed by the Friends during the twelve-month period
ending on .March 3 i. During the year, $8,913 in unrestricted funds
and $3,691 for specified purposes were received, making a total of
$12,604. Such gifts from the Friends over the past years now
amounts to ,$278,799.

In addition to the monetary gifts, the Friends ha\e during the
year augmented the Libraries' resources for research by present¬
ing rare books, manuscripts, and other items having an estimated
value of $62,171. The principal items have been described in
"Our Growing Collections."

The comparative figures for gifts are indicated in the following
table (the Friends were formally organized on A'lay i, 1951).
 

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