Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Barzun. gift. University Professor Emeritus Jacques Barzun (A.B.,
1927; A.M., 1928; Ph.D., 1932) has added to the collections more
than one hundred books and approximately two thousand letters
and papers, including correspondence with Mortimer J. Adler,
Clifton Fadiman, Norman Podhoretz, Arthur .M. Schlesinger, Jr.,
and Lionel Trilling.

Beeson gift. Professor Jack H. Beeson has donated two literary
editions: Washington Irving, Chronicle of the Conquest of
Granada, New York, 1893, the Agapida Edition, handsomely
decorated in the iMoorish style; and Samuel Putnam Avery, Mrs.
Partington's Carpet-Bag of Fun, New York, 1854, inscribed by
the author who was the benefactor of the Avery Architectural
Library.

Belmont bequest. In 1962 Mrs. August Belmont presented a col¬
lection of more than two thousand letters and 250 inscribed books
which she had received over the years from writers, playwrights
and public figures. Shortly after her death on October 24, 1979,
we received \^-ord that she had left to Columbia her personal li¬
brary of some nine hundred volumes, including first editions and
books inscribed to her during the past twenty years by Robert
Bridges, May Sarton, Samuel Eliot Morison, Robert Frost, Ller-
bert Hoover, Archibald MacLeish and Marianne Moore. Frost
inscribed his Complete Poems "To Eleanor Belmont for all her
friendship meant to my great friend Edwin Arlington Robinson."
Among the first editions are the writings of many of Mrs. Bel¬
mont's favorite authors, including John iMasefield, Theodore
Roosevelt, Rudyard Kipling, Ellen Glasgow, Edith Wharton,
Victoria Sackville-West, Robert Louis Stevenson and H. G.

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