Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Abrahamsen gift. The distinguished psychiatrist and psychoan¬
alyst Dr. David Abrahamsen has established a collection of his
papers with the gift of nearly three hundred letters and manu¬
scripts, many of which pertain to his writings and publications in
the field of criminal pathology. Of special interest are the letters
from, and the interviews with, members of the family of President
Richard M. Nixon and his school and college friends wdiich Dr.
Abrahamsen received and collected at the time he was writing his
Nixon vs. Nixon: An Emotional Tragedy, 1977. Dr. Abraham-
sen's gift contains letters from numerous authors and public fig¬
ures, including Samuel Hopkins Adams, Felix Frankfurter, Karl
Menninger, Clare Boothe Luce, Lewis Mumford, Alfred Kinsey,
Adlai Stevenson, Nathan Leopold and Otto Weininger. Of special
interest are the 167 typed and handwritten letters sent by David
Berkowitz to Dr. Abrahamsen from Attica Prison during 1979-
1981.

Clifford gift. AJrs. \^irginia Clifford has presented three items for
inclusion in the collection of her husband, the late Professor James
L. Cfifford (A.M., 1932; Ph.D., 1941); a detailed Parisian dress¬
maker's bill made out to Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi, dated October
5, II and 27, 1775; iMrs. Piozzi's copy of a devotional book QzMWe
Dialogues, Paris, 1684, inscribed on the front flyleaf, "Hester
Lynch Salusbury/her book 24th May/1756"; and Professor Clif¬
ford's autograph journal kept while visiting England from Octo¬
ber 1958 to April 1959, which is especially important for the rec¬
ords he kept of interviews with biographers about their craft, in¬
cluding conversations with Raymond iMortimer, Lord David
Cecil, Elizabeth Jenkins, Sir Harold Nicolson and Edgar Johnson.

Coggeshall gift. Approximately five hundred letters and manu-
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