Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Gifts

Aiues Gift. .Miss Rosemary Ames has presenred two letters to our
coUecrions. The first is from Columbia College's first president,
William Samuel Johnson, dated April 12, 1758, and the second is
from Jedediah Morse, dated December 18, 1820, in which he
writes of the names and locations of various Indian tribes in the
United States.

Appleton gift. Professor William W. Appleton (M.A., 1940;
Ph.D., 1949) has presented a collection of forty-two theatrical
letters, the majority dated in the early nineteenth century, ad¬
dressed to William Kenneth and James Winston, the former a
theatrical agent, and the latter a theatrical manager in England.
The letters provide insights into the theatrical profession of the
time, and particularly the growing influence of rhe theatrical
agenr. Also included in the gift is a fine letter from rhe Irish poet
Thomas .Moore, written to Richard Milliken on July 26, 1832,
in which he writes of his travels, his family, and the book on which
he is currently working. Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search
of a Religion.

Boni gift. Mr. Albert Boni has presented two important works
for inclusion in the F'pstean Collection on the history of photog¬
raphy: Johann Heinrich Schulze, Acta Physico-Medica Aca-
demiae Leopaldino-Carolinae, Naturae Curiosorum exhibentia
Ephemerides, Nuremberg, 1727, a study which contains an ac¬
count of one of the earliest experiments in the field of photog¬
raphy; and E. Balbus, Vues de Paris en Photographic, a volume of
photographs of Paris scenes taken ca. 1841.

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