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cists and mathematicians to the German physicist Arthur Korn,
including letters from Albert Einstein, Max Planck and Wilhelm
Roentgen; a handsome folio edition, Anatal Petrizky's Theatre-
Trachten, published in 1929 by the Staatsverlag der Ukraine,
which contains fifty-six mounted plates of highly inventive cos¬
tume designs for the theater; a group of eight Futurist manifestos
and leaflets on art, literature and the theater, printed in Milan,
1911-1919; and a collection of 405 letters written to Professor
Shapiro by James T Farrell from 1937 to 1979, in which the nov¬
elist discusses his writings, especially the Studs Lonigan trilogy,
current events, other writers and their publications, and his per¬
sonal Hfe.

Sherwin gift. Mr. James T. Sherwin (A.B., 1953; LL.B., 1936)
has presented the papers of his father, Oscar Sherwin (A.B., 1922;
A.M., 1928), professor of English at the College of the City of
New York and author of numerous critical and biographical
works. Included in the collection are correspondence, manu¬
scripts, notes for courses and printed materials.

Van Ravenswaay gift. Mr. Charles van Ravenswaay of Wilming¬
ton, Delaware, has presented a volume that was once owned by
the first president of King's College, the Rev. Samuel Johnson, and
as such has special significance. The volume, the collected edition
of the works of Lucius Coelius Firmianus Lactantius published in
Basle in 1524, has Dr. Johnson's signature and the date 1725 writ¬
ten at the head of the title page. Enclosed in a handsome case, the
volume is in a binding by Jehan Norvins done in Paris, ca. 1525.

Woods gift. Mrs. Louise T. \\'oods has established a collection of
papers of her husband, the late George D. A\'oods (LL.D., 1966),
a founder of the First Boston Corporation, an investment banker,
and president of the World Bank, 1963-1968. The papers deal al¬
most exclusively with his presidency of the World Bank, and con¬
sist primarily of volumes of speeches and articles, world economic
briefs and scrapbooks of clippings and photographs. There are let-