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unique quality of these two pages, for the autographs of Secretary
Udall, President Kennedy, and Frost appear above the printings
of their names.

The first American edition of The Waste Land, 1922, was in¬
scribed for the collector by Eliot in 1958. The copy of The Con¬
fidential Clerk, 1954, presented by the poet to John Middleton
Murry, stands on the shelf that includes twenty other first editions
of Eliot's plays, essays, and poems.

The California poet, Robinson Jeffers, is represented by more
than a score of limited signed and inscribed editions, the most im¬
portant being his first book publication. Flagons and Apples, 1912,
inscribed for Cortlandt Schoonover. Marianne Moore's first book.
Poems, 1921, is inscribed to the poet, Robert Gathorne-Hardy,
and the copy bears some forty manuscript corrections by jMiss
Moore throughout the text. One of the greatest contemporary
treasures in the Library is W. H. Auden's first book. Poems, pri¬
vately printed by hand by Stephen Spender in 1928 during a sum¬
mer vacation, and dedicated to the poet's friend, Christopher Isher-
wood. Although a statement in the little pamphlet claims that
"about 45 copies" were printed, it is believed that very few have
survived. This copy, in the original orange wrappers, once be¬
longed to the English novelist, William Plomer, and he has writ¬
ten his name on the front end paper.

In this summary of the Library only a few of the manuscripts
were singled out for separate mention. It is important to note that
autograph manuscripts for complete poems, essays, and stories are
present for C. Day-Lewis, Edith Sitwell, Logan Pearsall Smith,
A. E. Coppard, Ronald Firbank, and Elizabeth Bowen. Few of the
manuscripts of Ivy Compton-Burnett, the highly subtle and
sophisticated chronicler of upper-cla.ss English society, have found
their way to this side of the Atlantic. However, Jack managed to
acquire a choice one for his Library—the corrected typescript, on
409 pages, of Elders and Betters, dated 1943, considered by many
critics to be among her best novels. Her handwritten warning on
the verso of the title leaf, "N.B. Please do not alter my speUing or