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Roberts, Arthur Schnitzler, Jerome Weidman and Sloan Wilson.
There is also an extraordinary file of 66 letters written to Simon
by his partner, M. Lincoln Schuster, dating from 1923 to Simon's
death in 1960, which cover the history of the firm from its found¬
ing. Simon's special interest in art, photography and music are
documented in his correspondence with Irving Berlin, Margaret
Bourke-White, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Philippe Halsman, Oscar
Hammerstaein 2nd, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and Richard Rod-
gers. The file of 22 letters which Simon received from Dwight
David Eisenhower from 1945 to i956reflect their long association.

Smith gift. In memory of the late Margaret Janvier Hort (M.S.
in L.S., 1947), Miss Bernice Stevens Smith has presented a collec¬
tion of 79 children's books of the nineteenth and twentieth cen¬
turies. Included are the works of such English and American
authors as Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, \\'alter
Crane, Dorothy P. Lathrop, Coventry Patmore, James Whitcomb
Riley and Pamela Travers. The volumes in Miss Smith's gift will
be added to the Historical Collection of Children's Literature.

Sommerich gift. Miss Jane Sommerich has donated 81 editions of
literary works, among which are first editions by Louis Adamic,
Waldo Frank, Graham Greene, Delmore Schwartz, Hendrik W'il-
lem van Loon and Stark Y^oung.

Stecher gift. Mrs. Emma D. Stecher has donated a collection of
130 portrait sketches drawn by Miss Lucie Ruth Kraft on the pro¬
grams of the Institute of Arts and Sciences during the 1930s. The
Institute sponsored lectures at Columbia by prominent authors
and public figures, and Miss Kraft sketched them while attending
the events. Included are portraits, many autographed by the sub¬
jects, of Gertrude Stein, Carl Sandburg, Stephen Vincent Benet,
iMark Van Doren, Rockwell Kent, Otis Skinner, iMax Eastman,
Sir Norman Angell, Pearl Buck, Robert Frost, Christopher Mor-
ley and many others.