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Hart gift. Professor Emeritus of Economics Albert Gailord Hart
has made a substantial addition to the collection of his papers in
his recent gift of approximately eight thousand letters, manu¬
scripts, memoranda and printed materials, comprising research
papers and professional publications, correspondence and papers
of other economists and of his students, and files dealing with the
Benjamin Graham Plan for basing a monetary standard on a "bas¬
ket" of primary commodities. Among the correspondents in the
collection are Arthur F. Burns, John .Maurice Clark, Paul H.
Douglas, Irving Fisher, Milton Friedman, John Kenneth Gal-
braith, Albert Bushnell Hart, John Maynard Keynes, Gunnar
Myrdal, Da\'id Rockefeller and Frank W. Taussig.

Kaufman gift. A little known publication by Dashiell Hammett,
author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, has been do¬
nated by Ms. Paula T. Kaufman (M.S. in L.S., 1969): The Battle
of the Aleutians: A Graphic History, 1^42-1^4^, published by
the Intelligence Section, Field Force Headquarters, Adak, Ala.ska,
and printed in Washington by the U.S. Printing Office in 1944.
Corporal Hammett co-authored this non-fiction work with Cor¬
poral Robert Colodny at the time they both were serving in Alaska
with the United States Army.

Keeler gift. Mrs. Thelma R. Keeler has presented the papers of her
late husband, tlie author and editor Harry Stephen Keeler, who
wrote nearly one hundred long and intricately plotted murder
mystery and adventure novels, which were published in English
from 1924 until 1953 and continued to appear in Spanish transla¬
tion after his death in 1967. The collection includes many of his
later unpublished book manuscripts, his writings on plot construc¬
tion, and biographical and bibliographical articles about Keeler, as
well as the manuscripts for many of his popular novels, such as
The Amazing Web, The Chinese Ticket Murder and Sing Sing
Nights. Some of the works were co-written with his first wife.