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this country. The author's poems were first published in London
in 1773 on the occasion of her visit there, and that edition was
widely distributed and copies are not uncommon, but the Ameri¬
can edition of the Poe7ns is of the greatest rarity, only six other
copies being recorded. Also acquired on the Mixer Fund was a
first edition of the three decker by Arthur Conan Doyle, The
White Co7iipany, London, 1891, and a collection of seven auto¬
graph and typewritten letters written by Tennessee Williams to
his friend, the poet Frederick Nicklaus, from 1962 to 1970.

Ul7na7i7i Fund. A group of nineteen illustrated books and produc¬
tions of private presses, acquired on the Albert Ulmann Fund,
includes publications of the Plough Press, Rainbow Press, Officina
Bodoni, Red Ozier Press and Observer Books, among others. Two
handsome productions of the Officina Bodoni, Leonard Baskin's
To Colour Thought, 1967, and Hugh .MacDiarmid's Selected
Lyrics, 1977, were acquired, bringing the holdings of this distin¬
guished press nearer to completion. The authors represented
among the books added include Ruth Fainlight, William Faulk¬
ner, Muriel Spark and Rupert Brooke, the latter being represented
by the impressive limited, facsimile edition of Four Poe7ns, pub¬
lished by the Scholar Press in London in 1974, signed by the edi¬
tor Geoffrey Keynes.