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Polf gift. Mr. \Mlliam A. Polf has donated Jeptha R. Simms, His¬
tory of Schoharie County, and Border Wars of New York, Al¬
bany, 1845, with a letter from the author, dated March 13, 1879,
laid in the \'olume.
 

Vignette of Candide in his garden from the first

edition of Voltaire^s philosophical novel, 1759.

(Rice gift)

Rausa gift. Mrs. Mary Torres Rausa (B.S., 1937; A.M., 1939,
T.C.) has presented the library of her late husband, Narciso C.
Rausa (B.S., 1933; A.M., 1938, T. C). The 2,750 volumes in the
gift relate primarily to Greek and Roman philosophy, archaeol¬
ogy, literature, cosmology, metaphysics, scientific thought, math¬
ematics and economics.

Reynolds gift. The literary agency Paul R. Reynolds, Inc., has
added to its collection approximately fifty-five thousand letters,
manuscripts and documents, including files relating to Margery
AUingham, Thomas Burke, Sir Francis Chichester, Howard Fast,
James T. Flexner, Sir Edmund Hillary, Eliot and Elizabeth Jane-
way, MacKinlay Kantor, Sax Rohraer and numerous other fiction
and non-fiction writers. While some materials date from 1916,
most of the files in the gift are from the period of the 1960s to the
early 1980s.