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44                                Kemieth A. I^ohf

Aaron Burr, Anton von Webern, Frank Wedekind, Alfred Drey¬
fus, Admiral George Dewey, Ezio Pinza and Harriet Beecher
Stowe.

Shrawder gift. Dr. Joseph Shrawder, Jr., (A.B., 1928; Ph.D.,
1934) has presented two important autograph letters. The first of
these is written by John Jay to the Revolutionary leader and law¬
yer, Peter Van Schaack, from Bristol, England, on January 8,
1784, giving news of his travels; and the second is a letter written
by the iVIarquis de Lafayette, Paris, January 6, 1815, recommend¬
ing a friend for a position in the government. Both of these docu¬
ments are handsomely framed under glass with engraved portraits.

Schreyer gift. Mr. Leslie J. Schreyer (A.B., 1967) and his wife,
Alice (A.B., 1968, B.; M.S. 1975), have presented, in memory of
the late Tibor Gergely, an extensive collection of approximately
ninety books for children illustrated by the Hungarian artist, be¬
ginning in 1925 and continuing for the next five decades. Nearly
all the volumes in the gift are from the Golden Book series, and
many of them were both written and illustrated by Gergely.

Scott gift. Mr. Barry Scott has donated, for inclusion in the John
Masefield Collection, a brief letter written by the poet to J. G.
Wilson concerning an exhibition, and a copy of A Generation
Risen, a book of poems published in collaboration with the artist
Edward Seago in 1942, inscribed by Masefield to Ada Galsworthy,
the widow of the novelist.

Sheehy gift, Mr. Eugene P. Sheehy has presented first editions of
Anthony Burgess's Enderby Outside, London, 1968, and One
Hand Clapping, London, 1961, the latter published under the
pseudonym, "Joseph Kell." The copy of Enderby Outside was
once owned by Martin Bell, who reviewed the novel at the time it
was published, and whose signature is on the front fly-leaf; and
laid in the volume is the handwritten account by Bell, dated April
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