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letters written to Miss Perkins by President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
dated from 1932 to 1945; and seventy-three letters, mostly social
notes, received by her during the period, 1940-1960, from various
statesmen and public and political figures, including the Duke and
Duchess of Windsor, Louis Brandeis, John Dewey, Felix Frank¬
furter, W. Averell Flarriman, Jacqueline Kennedy, Eleanor Roose¬
velt, Adlai E. Stevenson, Harry S.Truman and Henry A. Wallace.
Cohen gift. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Cohen have donated a group of
twenty-nine pamphlets and leaflets printed by John Fass at his
Harbor Press and Hammer Creek Press, including a copy of the
pamplilet, The Hammer Creek Press has engulfed The Hell-Box
Press, containing wood-engravings bv John De Pol of both hand-
presses used by the printer.
Dreyfus gift. In memory of Helen Macy, Mr. John Dreyfus has
presented a manuscript map drawn by T. M. Cleland, which had
once been owned by the Macys and left to Mr. Dreyfus in a be¬
quest from iMrs. Macy. The map, drawn by Cleland in ink and
crayon to direct visitors to his home, a "wdiite house with red
doors," south of Danbury, Connecticut, has notes in Cleland's
calligraphy as to towns, signs and landmarks along the route, in¬
cluding one comment at the bottom of the map concerning the
Saw Mill River Parkway "which is much the pleasantest, and saf¬
est way; and no longer than by the Merritt Parkway which is terri¬
ble—especially on a Sunday." .Mr. Dreyfus has asked that this
charming map be placed wdth other memorabilia in the George
Macy Memorial Collection.
Fitch gift. Professor Faiieritus James M. Fitch, founder of the
program in historic preservation in the School of Architecture,
donated to Avery Library his collection of books on modern ar¬
chitecture, particularly strong in material on historic preservation,
including books from Eastern Europe.
Gi?isberg gift. Mrs. Louis Ginsberg has donated, for inclusion in
the papers of her husband, the late Louis Gimsberg (A.M., 1924),