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Cary Trust gift. Adding to their series of important gifts, made
to the Libraries since 1968, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable
Trust have recently presented a fine copy of Johannes Chrysos-
tomus, De reparatione lapsi, published in Cologne, ca. 1468, by
Ulrich Zel, a priest of Mainz who established the first press in
Cologne. The work, of which only one other copy is recorded in
an American library, is printed by Zel in a type based upon the
first small font used by Johann Gutenberg in his Catholicon of
1460. This copy contains initials painted in red throughout, and
is bound in an elaborately blind-stamped black morocco.

Class of i<)2} gift. On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the
Columbia College Class of 1923 presented two John Jay manu¬
scripts of great historical importance. The first of these is the
manuscript diary kept by Jay during the period, June to Decem¬
ber, 1782, when he served as a peace negotiator in Paris. The re¬
sultant treaty witli Great Britain represented one of the great
achievements in American diplomacy, and Jay's contributions are
documented in this diary, the only one known to have been kept
by him. The second mansucript is Jay's notebook recording his
conversations in 1783 and 1784 with Benjamin Franklin, who also
served as a peace commissioner. Franklin, then 78 years of age,
reminisced wittily about various American Colonial personalities,
among them, Lewis .Morris, Robert H. Morris, George Thomas,
Andrew Hamilton, and Elias Boudinot. The gift of these two dis¬
tinguished documents was made in memory of Gerard Tonachel
(B.S., 1923), who served as president of the Class for twenty years
before his death in 1971.

Cole gift. Dr. Charles W. Cole (A.AL, 1928; Ph. D., 1931) has
presented a collection of seven volumes of notes written by his
father, the late Charles Buckingham Cole (LL.B., 1889), for his
course in Common Law and Equity Pleading at the New York
Law School from 1902 to 1914. Cole was a prominent New York
lawyer, and the notebooks reflect his wide knowledge of the legal