Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Bradley gift. Mrs. Jenny Surruys Bradley has established a collec¬
tion of the papers of her late husband \\'illiam Aspenwall Bradley
(A.B., 1899; i\.M., 1900), the distin£;uished writer, poet, editor,
translator and literar\' agent, who lived and worked in Paris from
1919 until his death in 1939. The nearly three hundred manu¬
scripts in iMrs. Bradle\''s gift include: writings while a Columbia
student; poems and short stories based on Kentucky mountain
lore; translations of Paul \'alcry and other French authors; and
writings on printing and the graphic arts, etching and printmaking,
and health subjects, an interest stemming from his service as a first
lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps of the United States Army during
the First AVorld ^Var. There are also numerous photographs of
Bradley, documents and awards, and first editions of his books,
several of which are inscribed to his mother and his wife.

Com/mriiity Service Society gift. The Board of Directors of the
Community Service Society has added nearly seventy thousand
pieces of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, financial
records and photographs, dating from 1939, wdien the Society
was established by a merger of the Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor and the Charity Organization Society, to
i960. There is correspondence from numerous public figures,
among whom are Harry Harkness Flagler, Fiorello LaGuardia,
Margaret jVIead, Charles E. Merrill, Jr., Robert Moses, Lawson
Purdy, John D. Rockefeller III, Francis Cardinal Spellman and
Felix AI.A\'arburg.

Cook gift. Professor George Cook has presented the following
works by the Congregational clergyman and author John \\'ise

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