Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Gifts

A.LG.A. gift. The American Institute of Graphic Arts has con¬
tinued its practice of placing a full set of each year's "Fifty Books
of the Year" award winners in Special Collections. The current
gift comprises the 1969 exhibition of books which had been pub¬
lished in 1968.

Academy of Political Science gift. The Academy of Political
Science in New York City, through the courtesy of Professor
Robert H. Connery (Ph.D., 1935), has presented a file of its let¬
ters received from prominent political figures who have been
elected to honorary membership in the Academy. The corres¬
pondents include Dwight D. Eisenhower, W. Averell Harriman,
Lyndon B. Johnson, Dean Rusk, Margaret Chase Smith, and Earl
Warren.

Brennecke gift. From the Library of her late husband. Professor
Ernest Brennecke (A.B., 1917; A.M., 1919; Ph.D., 1926), Mrs.
Brennecke has given to the Libraries a group of fifteen first edi¬
tions of works relating to literature and the arts, including a fine
copy of Charles Burney's A General History of Music, published
by the author in four volumes in London in 1776.

Brookfield gift. Mr. Henry Morgan Brookfield, Jr., has presented
a collection of fifty letters and documents relating to the Morgan
Family of Aurora, New York. The correspondents include Edwin
Barber Morgan, Christopher Morgan, Cornelius N. Bliss, Charles
Foster, Benjamin Harrison, Temple R. Hollcroft, Herbert Hoo¬
ver, Levi P. Morton, and William H. Seward.

Cary Trust gift. The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust has pre-

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