Our Gro'wing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Appleton gift. Professor William W. Appleton (A.M., 1940;
Ph.D., 1949) has presented an item of unusual association interest,
the copy of Maxime Lalanne's Chez Victor Hugo, Paris, 1864,
which belonged to its author, and which is enriched by the addition
of two original photographs of Hugo taken by Felix Tournachon,
known as Nadar, the French caricaturist and photographer. One
of the photographs is signed by Nadar and inscribed with a note
stating that the photograph was taken the day after the first publi¬
cation of Les Miserables in 1862. Also tipped-in the volume is a
letter from Hugo to Lalanne, dated November 26, 1863, in which
the French novelist writes of the twelve etchings by Lalanne which
illustrate Chez Victor Hugo.

BiirzzOT giff. Professor Jacques Barzun (A.B., 1927; Ph.D., 1932)
has presented more than one thousand volumes from his personal
and professional libraries, covering primarily works published in
the fields of modern art, music and literature. Of particular inter¬
est are a privately-printed pamphlet by Raymond Duncan, Les
Muses, published in Paris in 1919, and an important association
copy of Ezra Pound's Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony, Paris,
Three Mountains Press, 1924, inscribed by the author to Professor
Barzun's father, the late Henri-Martin Barzun.

Class of 1^2^ gift. The College Class of 1923, with generous as¬
sistance from Messrs. Joseph Brennan, James Bernson and Harold
Kovncr, have presented an important literary work to the rare
book collection: the first edition of John Donne's Devotions upon
Emergent Occasions, and Several Steps in My Sickness, printed in
London in 1624. In this, Donne's best known work in prose, oc¬
curs the much-quoted passage, "No Man is an Hand intire of it-

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