Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Gifts

Brown, Andreas, gift. For inclusion in our collection of theatrical
autographs, iMr. Andreas Brown has presented two letters from
Laurence Harvey, four from Tyrone Power, and six from Alex¬
ander Woollcott. The last, dated from 1932 to 1941, relate to
WooUcott's acting career on Broadway and the films. Mr. Brown's
gift also contains signed photographs of George Meredith and
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Brown, James Oliver, gift. The gift of the James Oliver Brown
Papers was reported in the November, 1971, issue. To the collec¬
tion Mr. Brown has now added nearly twenty thousand pieces of
correspondence and manuscripts, covering primarily files from
the 1960's. Included are the correspondence and records of Louis
Auchincloss, Carlo Beuf, Frank Buck, Erskine Caldwell, Herbert
Gold, Charles A. Lindbergh, Richard Lockridge, Alberto Mor¬
avia, Katherine Anne Porter, James Purdy, Ernest J. Simmons,
Jean Stafford, and Deems Taylor.

Clifford gift. To our literature holdings Professor James L. Clif¬
ford has added a valuable group of thirty-six volumes of eighteenth
century pamphlets and printed books, mostly of poetry, includ¬
ing works by Mark Akenside, John Arbuthnot, William Bromley,
William Mason, Arthur Maynwaring, Thomas Pennant, Henry
Skrine, and William Somervile. Of special interest are the copies
of Lady Mary Wortley Montague's Six Town Eclogues, London,
1747, and The Works of Mr. George Lillo, London, 1775, in two
volumes. The latter set is from the library of the Scottish novelist,
Henry MacKenzie, and contains his signature on the title-pages
of both volumes.

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