Our Gro'wing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Berliner gift. Mrs. Constance Hope Berliner, foimder of Con¬
stance Hope A,ssociates, a firm representing concert and opera
artists, has presented the extensi^-e files of papers, correspondence,
photographs and memorabilia documenting her association with
performing artists during the past forty years. The more than
three thousand letters and papers and two thousand photographs
relate to the careers of some of the most important musical artists
of the twentieth century, including Rose Bampton, Jascha Hei-
fetz, Lotte Lehmann, Erich Leinsdorf, George London, leanette
MacDonald, Alicia Markova, Lauritz Melchoir, Grace Moore,
Jan Peerce, Ezio Pinza, Lily Pons, Eleanor Steber, Italo Tajo and
Alfred Wallenstein.

Cane gift. Mr. Melville Cane (A.B.,i9oo; LL.B., 1903) has added
the following to the Library's collection of his literary papers:
the manuscripts and drafts for his poetry lectures; letters and
manuscripts relating to his recently-published volume of poems.
Snow Toward Evening; a group of twenty-five letters from AVil-
liam Jovanovich, Muriel Rukeyser, Lewis Mumford and other
writers and editors; seventeen books and issues of periodicals con¬
taining his poetry and prose contributions; and sixty first editions,
including copies inscribed to the poet by Sinclair Lewis, Gorham
Munson, Lewis iMumford and Jan Struther.

Carver gift. Mr. John A. H. Carver has presented a group of
eleven first and fine editions of literary and historical works rang¬
ing from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Noteworthy
among the works donated are the following: Samuel Butler, Hudi-
bras Compleat, London, 1700; Hugh Hamilton, Philosophical Es-

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