Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Gifts

Arbuckle gift. From Mrs. Anne Holden Arbuckle, daughter of
the late .Mrs. Frank J. Holden, we have received a most generous
and significant gift of papers and other materials of her grand¬
father, Robert Underwood Johnson, comprising the following
groups: more than 250 engravings by Timothy Cole and seven¬
teen letters from the artist to Johnson; thirty-five volumes from
Johnson's library, including many signed and inscribed copies of
his own collections of poems; five letters and seven notes from
Nikola Tesia, as well as photographs, clippings, and a manuscript
in pencil inscribed "Diagram of Tesla's Wireless System dtawn by
himself for R. U. J., Aug. 14,1907;" a collection of correspondence
between Johnson and his wife and other members of the family,
numbering more than five hundred letters; and letters to Johnson
from Rudyard Kipling, James \Miitcomb Riley, Witter Bynner,
John Muir, Daniel Chester French, Mary Mapes Dodge, Helen
Hunt Jackson, and Emma Lazarus.

Barzun gift. To the collection of his papers Professor Jacques Bar¬
zun (A.B., 1927; Ph.D., 1932) has added his notes, manuscripts,
and correspondence collected in connection with his books The
American University and Science: The Glorious Entertainment.

Brand gift. iMr. Millen Brand (A.B., 1929) has presented, for in¬
clusion in the collection of his papers, his journal and correspon¬
dence for 1968, numbering well over five hundred items.

Brien gift. iMr. Donald G. Brien has presented a group of letters
written to Edna Kenton by Joel E. Spingarn, Brander Matthews,
Witter Bynner, Floyd Dell, i\'Iary Johnston, and other writers.

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