Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Gifts

Cane gift. The eminent poet and lawyer Mr. .Melville H. Cane
(A.B., 1900; LL.B., 1903) has established a collection of his liter¬
ary papers in the Libraries. His career includes important achieve¬
ments in the fields of copyright law, book publishing, and the
writing and publishing of poetry; his correspondence files embrace
the American literary scene from 1901 until the present. Included
in his arcliivc, numbering more than 2,200 items, are letters from
Eranklin P. Adams, William Rose Benet, Van AVyck Brooks, John
Ciardi, Padraic Colum, Norman Cousins, Babette Deutsch, Richard
Eberhart, John Erskine, Felix Frankfurter, Robert Hillyer, B. W.
Huebsch, Robert Underwood Johnson, Carl G. Jung, Amy Love-
man, Harriet iVlonroe, Christopher Morley, Lewis and Sophie
M umford, J ohn Crowe Ransom, Henry Morton Robinson, William
Saroyan, Upton Sinclair, Jan Struther, James Thurber, Louis
Untermeyer, Mark Van Doren, Jessamyn West, and John Hall
Wheelock. Of special Columbia interest is the scrapbook of news¬
paper articles by Mr. Cane, written chiefly for the New York
Evening Post. He served as the Columbia correspondent during
1901 and 1902, at which time he \vas also studying for his degree
at the School of Law.

Cary Trust gift. The .Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust has pre¬
sented a large and significant collection of books, manuscripts,
correspondence, and memorabilia b\' and about the late Professor
George E. Woodberry, the poet and critic who taught compara¬
tive literature at Columbia with great distinction from 1894 to
1901. The collection includes more rhan five hundred letters from
Woodberry and approximately fifteen hundred letters to Wood-
berry, and relating to him, from Harry Harkness Flagler, Louis

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