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tions, memorabilia and photographs which document the history
of the organization from its beginning in 1912 as an auxiliary of
the National American Woman Suffrage Association through
1977. The general files, minutes and reports reflect the varied ac¬
tivities and interests of the League, including apportionment,
court reform, education and voting rights. Among the corres¬
pondents represented in the papers are Thomas E. Dewey, Her¬
bert H. Lehman, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Alfred E. Smith.

Liebmann gift. A major poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the
first example by the renowned artist in the Libraries' collection,
has been presented by Mr. and iMrs. William B. Liebmann. En¬
titled "La Revue Blanche," the lithograph in colors was printed
in Paris in 1895 by Charpentier et Fasquelle and measures 52 '/z by
38 inches. The poster features a portrait of Misia, the wife of
Thadee Natanson, co-director of the influential art and literary
review. La Revue Blanche.

Menger gift. The library of the late Howard Kenneth Clark
(A.M, 1933), comprising nearly four thousand volumes of liter¬
ary and historical interest, has been presented by his daughter Mrs.
Sydney Clark Menger, who, in making the gift, noted her father's
long association with the University and the Graduate Schools
Alumni Association. The collector's special interest was the work
of Robert William Chambers, whose horror stories and historical
novels made him an enormously popular writer during the first
three decades of this century. Among the nearly four hundred
Chambers editions in the collection are the following interesting
association copies: The King in Yellow, Chicago and New York,
F. Tennyson Neely, 1895, a pristine copy of his most famous book
inscribed with an eight line poem to his friend Frances Laird; The
Haunts of Men, New York, 1898, inscribed to his wife Elsie on
their wedding trip to New York, July 14, 1898; With the Band,
New York, Stone & Kimball, 1896, inscribed to Augustin Daly