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day as a reform Democratic leader in Brooklyn. Mrs. Pulling has
recently added to her original benefaction nearly one thousand
letters, manuscripts and pamphlets bv, and relating to, Edward M.
Shepard, including the following groups: nearly five hundred let¬
ters to various political associates, of which two hundred were
addressed to R. R. Bowker from 18 80 to 1911; more than one hun¬
dred drafts and manuscripts of Shepard's speeches and articles; a
group of his early poetry and prose manuscripts; and sixty pamph¬
lets containing the published versions of Shepard's lectures and
addresses.

Rouse gift. Mrs. Betsy Gayle Rouse has donated a group of eight
letters written by Charles Hanson Towne to Alice Cole Hughes,
the donor's aunt. Dated in iMarch and April 1939, the letters from
the editor and poet deal with his classes at Columbia, his friendship
with Ellen Glasgow, and his visit to the recipient's home in Rich¬
mond, Virginia.

Saffron gift. Dr. Morris H. Saffron (A.B., 1925; A.M., 1949;
Ph.D., 1968) has presented a copy of The History of the Most
Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: And His Trusty Squire
Sancho Pancha, translated by John Phillips, and printed in London
in 1687. A nephew and godson of John iMilton, the translator is per¬
haps best known for his Maronides, or Virgil Travesty. His spirited
version of the novel by Cervantes was the second translation at¬
tempted in English, Thomas Shelton's being the first. The folio
edition donated by Dr. Saffron is illustrated with thirteen copper¬
plate engravings, one of which is a full-page frontispiece depicting
Don Quixote and his squire.

Snow gift. At the time of the annual meeting of the American
Electrotherapcutic Association at Atlantic City in September,
1926, the late Dr. AA'illiam Benham Snow (ALD., 1886) was the
guest of honor at a testimonial banquet in commemoration of his
twenty-five years as editor of Physical Therapeiitics. His medical