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ings by Jacques de Seve. Both sets, bound in contempotary calf,
are in exceptionally fine state with wide margins and brilliant im¬
pressions of the engravings.

Saffron gift. From his personal collection Dr. Morris H. Saffron
(A.B., 1925; A.M., 1949; Ph.D., 1968) has selected, as his gift to
the Libraries, nearly 2,500 volumes in the fields of litetature, biog¬
raphy, religion and history. Approximately 250 first editions have
been designated for the rare book collection, including works by
Jacob Abbott, S. T. Coleridge, George Gissing, Bret Harte, Wash¬
ington Irving, James Russell Lowell, Bram Stoker, Algernon C.
Swinburne and Lew Wallace.

Sheehy gift. A first edition of William Plomer's novel, Sado, 1931,
has been donated by Mr. Eugene P. Sheehy. Published by Leon¬
ard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, the work, whose
locale is the Far East, is the author's second novel. The copy do¬
nated is autographed by the author on the title page.

Shrawder gift. Dr. Joseph Shrawder, Jr. (A.B., 1928; Ph.D., 1934),
has presented first editions of two works important in American
history: General George Armstrong Custer, Life on the Plains;
or, Personal Experiences with bidians. New York, 1874; and
Robert Proud, The History of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1797,
with the frontispiece portrait of William Penn in the first volume
and the folding map of the state and adjacent areas in the second
volume.

Treat gift. Mr. and Mrs. Asher E. Treat have substantially en¬
riched the Don Marquis Collection by means of their gift of let¬
ters and papers by and relating to Marquis collected by Mrs.
Treat's father, Rodman Gilder, who at the time of his death was
preparing a biography of the noted journalist and humorist. The
gift, which includes autograph letters, manuscripts and memo¬
rabilia, is notable for the following: seven letters from Marquis to
Rodman and Joseph B. Gilder, mostly concerning the publication