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Evening Post where it was printed on October 27, 1841; and the
third to his daughter, Caroline Martha Phinney, also written from
New York, June 6, 1850, in which he discusses the various "com¬
missions" he has performed for her, the sale of his copyrights,
travel plans and the New York weather which he finds "hot, hot¬
ter, hottest."

Friends Endowed Fund. In addition to autograph letters by Wilkie
Collins, Benjamin Disraeli and Anthony Trollope, two manu¬
scripts were acquired on the Friends Endowed Fund: a heavily
revised manuscript leaf from Chapter II of James Fenimore Coop¬
er's The Water Witch, written ca. 1828, along with a signed note
from his daughter, Susan Fenimore Cooper; and the autograph
manuscript of Carl Sandburg's third book. The Plaint of a Rose, a
pamphlet privately printed at The Asgard Press in Galesburg, Il¬
linois, in January 1908. Among the printed items acquired was a
proof copy in yellow wrappers of D. H. Lawrence's Glad Ghosts,
1926, inscribed by the author to Catherine Carswell.

Mixer Fund. Drum-Taps, one of the few Walt W^hitman publi¬
cations hitherto lacking from the Whitman collection, has been
added by means of the Charles W. Mixer Fund. Printed in New
York in 1865, the volume obtained is one of the very few copies of
the first issue without the "Sequel." Also purchased was a group
of twenty-four matted portrait photographs by Ann Charters of
contemporary authors, primarily those of the Beat generation,
dating from the 1960s to the 1980s; a selection from the photo¬
graphs is reproduced in this issue of Columns.

Ulmann Fund. Among the press books acquired on the Albert
Ulmann Fund are two volumes printed in 1915 at the Omega
Workshops in London: A. Clutton-Brock, Simpson's Choice: An
Essay on the Future Life, with woodcuts by Roald Kristian; and
Pierre Jean Jouve, Men of Europe, translated by Roger Fry. An
exceptionally fine copy of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild's Livre
d'Or, edited by James Pope-Hennessy, was also acquired. Printed