Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Alexander gift. The papers of the late translator and writer. Dr.
Ivan Morris, chairman of the Department of East Asian languages
and cultures, have been presented by Mrs. Annalita M. Alexander.
Among the approximately five thousand items in the gift are files
relating to Amnesty- International, the human rights organization
of xvhich Morris xx-as the American Section chairman. In addition
to personal correspondence and documents, the papers include the
notes and manuscripts of iMorris's research and publications in
Japanese literature and culture, and there are also correspondence
and drafts relating to his books on puzzles. The Lonely Monk and
Other Puzzles and Basil the Bookworm and Other Puzzles.

Beinecke gift. Mr. William S. Beinecke (LL.B., 1940) has pre¬
sented an important research work hitherto lacking from the Civil
War Collection: Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the
Union and Confederate Armies, Washington, 1891-1895. Com¬
piled by Capt. Calvin D. Coxvles and issued in three folio volumes,
the Atlas documents battles, military operations, and cities and
their defenses, and illustrates uniforms, firearms and equipment
used by both sides during the war.

Clifford gift. In 1978 Professor James L. Clifford (A..M., 1932;
Ph.D., 1941) presented three autograph diaries of Hester Thrale
Piozzi and two autograph diaries of her second husband, Gabriel
Piozzi. In a most generous gift his xx-idoxv has now added to this
collection two additional diaries, one kept by Gabriel Piozzi dur¬
ing 1808, and the other kept by .Mrs. Piozzi during 1815. The lat¬
ter, containing an exceptionally full and detailed account of her
activities, covers the period of the Battle of \\'aterloo and includes
numerous references to it. A number of other important literary
manuscripts have also been donated by .Mrs. Clifford: a draft of an

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