Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Ballou gift. Mrs. Hubbard W. Ballou (B.S., 1947) has donated a
copy of the first American edition of Charlotte M. Yonge, The
Heir of Redclyffe, two volumes, published by D. Appleton &
Company in New York in 1853. This romance, published earlier
the same year in London, was the novel which first brought the
writer popular success.

Barnouw gift. Miss Elsa Barnouw has presented a collection of the
papers of her father, the late Dr. Adriaan J. Barnouw, who was
the University's first Queen Wilhelmina Professor of the History,
Language, and Literature of The Netherlands, 1921-1948. The
papers, which document his research and writing on Dutch cul¬
ture and his affiliations with various Dutch-American organiza¬
tions, are comprised of the following groups of materials: corres¬
pondence, numbering more than one hundred letters, to Dr.
Barnouw from scholars, diplomats, and friends, including several
from President Franklin D. Roosevelt; typescripts of articles, lec¬
tures, essays, and poetry; a group of nventy-two Dutch legal
documents of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, written
on vellum; copies of his publications, including a full run of the
Netherland-American Foundation Monthly Letter, 1924-1961;
and numerous items of memorabilia documenting his distinguished
career. Also included in Miss Barnouw's gift is a portfolio of 105
engravings by the Dutch landscape artist, Jacob Ernst Marcus,
entitled Etudes Gravees, published in Amsterdam by \^an der
Beer from 1807 to 1816.

Beckerman gift. Dr. & Mrs. Bernard Beckerman have presented a
collection of nearly 150 first and fine editions from the library of
Mrs. Beckerman's father, the late Dr. Charles J. Brim (M.D.,
1912). The gift, made in memory of Dr. Brim, includes important

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