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ited by Dr. Anshen, including those for books written by Liebe F.
Cavalieri, Sir Bernard Lovell, Norman D. Newell, i\'lorton Smith,
Samuel Terrien and other prominent scholars and philosophers.
There is also a file of twenty-two letters received by Dr. Anshen
from Jacques Maritain, dating from 1946 to 1965, in which the
French philosopher writes of the publication of his Raissa's Jour¬
nal and other works, his lectures in America and elsewhere, the
translation of his writings, and personal and family matters. Of
special importance is the file of papers relating to Dr. Anshen's
election in December 1981 as a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Arts of Great Britain, an honor that has been bestowed on few
Americans and never before on an American woman philosopher.

Bel/iwiit gift. .Mr. August Belmont of Easton, Maryland, has pre¬
sented the papers of his distinguished family. The approximately
13,000 items in the gift document the history of the family from
1799 to 1930 and relate primarily to August Belmont I (1813-
1890), banker, political figure and American associate of the
Rothschild family, and to his son August Belmont II (1853-1924),
financier and sportsman. The papers, comprising correspondence
files, letter books, documents, manuscripts, financial records and
photographs, deal with the varied Belmont family interests, in¬
cluding finance and banking, the United States Navy, Commodore
Matthew C. Perry and his expeditions to Mexico and Japan, Bel¬
mont's embassy to The Netherlands from 1853 to 1857, the Dem¬
ocratic Party and New York City politics. There are also papers
covering the family's social life in New York and Newport, Euro¬
pean travel, horse breeding. The Jockey Club, polo, the Remount
Association for cavalry liorses in the First A\ orld War, fox hunt¬
ing, dog breeding and yachting. The New York subway construc¬
tion, railroads, the Cape Cod Canal and aviation are also among
the activities represented in the collection. The extensive letter
files contain correspondence with nine United States Presidents
from Franklin Pierce to Warren G. Harding, including a four
page Abraham Lincoln letter written from AA'asliington on July