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3 6                                Kenneth A. Lohf

ings Institution, the Central Statistical Board in Washington and
the American Economic Association, as well as correspondence
with other economists, including John Maurice Clark, Irving
Fisher, Milton Friedman, John Maynard Keynes, Edwin R.A.
Seligman and Frank William Taussig.

Economougift. Professor George Economou (A.M., 1957; Ph.D.,
1967) has donated the 1983 Perishable Press edition of his trans¬
lation of the twenty-nine extant poems by the Epicurean philos¬
opher and writer Philodemos, whose verse is known for its elegant
and playful style. The handsome edition, comprising 143 copies,
is printed on five different hand-made papers. The gift also in¬
cludes Professor Economou's notebook of working drafts of the
poems.

Fertig gift. Mr. Howard Fcrtig has presented Norman A'lailer's A
Transit to Narcissus, 1978, a facsimile edition of the original type¬
script of the hitherto unpublished novel written by the author at
the age of twenty while awaiting induction into the Army and
some three years before he began writing The Naked and the
Dead. The handsome folio volume, published by Mr. Fertig, is
autograplied by the author on the front fly-leaf.

Goldwater gift. A group of thirty phamplets, known as Mazari-
nades, published in Paris in 1649, has been donated by Mr. Walter
Goldwater. These strengthen the collection that he presented in
1974-

Gotham Book Mart gift. The Gotham Book Mart, through the
courtesy of Mr. Andreas Brown, has presented the holograph
manuscript of a poem by Padraic Coluni in honor of the ninety-
fifth birthday of Miss Frances Steloff, founder of the New York
book shop that has been a gathering place for writers since 1920.
The poem, apparently unpublished, written on both sides of a
sheet that bears the Columbia University letterhead, begins,
"These upright flowers: until the chestnuts bloom/Such spire we
shall not see: the Hyacinths!"
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