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eight photographs, and forty-eight printed items, such as leaflets,
brochures, and clippings, documenting their various activities.

Clarke bequest. The papers of the landscape architect Gilmore D.
Clarke, received by bequest, include more than two thousand
pieces of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and memor¬
abilia. There are files relating to Clarke's works on city planning,
the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair, and parkways and gar¬
dens in the New York City area. There are letters in the collection
from Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Archibald Mac-
Leish, Paul Manship, Robert Moses, Lewis Mumford, Richard M.
Nixon, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Franklin D. and Eleanor Roose¬
velt, and Harry S. Truman.

Cwtis Brown, Ltd., gift. The papers of Curtis Brown, Ltd., have
been considerably enriched with the recent gift from the literary
agency of approximately 110,000 letters, manuscripts, and pub¬
lishing documents, dating from the 1950s through the 1970s. The
author files contain extensive correspondence with numerous
American and English writers, including, among others, Michael
J. Arlen, W.H. Auden, Saul Bellow, Elizabeth Bowen, John Chee-
ver, Frederic Dannay, Lawrence Durrell, Erie Stanley Gardner,
Christopher Isherwood, Robert Graves, Ogden Nash, Julian Sy-
mons, and Eudora Welty.

Dannay gift. Messrs. Richard and Douglas Dannay have presented
a collection of 2,681 volumes from the library of their late father,
Frederic Dannay, co-creator and co-author of the Ellery Queen
mystery stories, a gift which establishes at the Libraries a resource
for the study of the modern detective story. There is a unique file
of 159 volumes of Frederic Dannay's own copies of the Queen
books which he signed with his two pseudonyms, Ellery Queen
and Barnaby Ross. Also included among the collection are: 223
books by Queen, comprising primarily first American and English
editions; 302 detective story anthologies edited by Queen; 113 first
and early foreign editions of Queen's books; and a set of Ellery