Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Battin gift. Mrs. Patricia M. Battin has donated, for addition to the
Plimpton Collection, a copy ofthe 1824 Philadelphia edition of
Murray Lindley's Introduction to the English Reader, one ofthe most
popular schoolbooks ofthe time, whose compiler, also the author
of numerous successful grammars, studied law with John Jay and
practiced among the Quakers.

Butcher gift. Fifteen first editions and approximately four hundred
manuscript items have been donated by Professor Philip Butcher
(Ph.D., 1956) for addition to his papers and the George Washing¬
ton Cable Collection. Included are inscribed copies of William S.
Braithwaite's Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1927 and The Negro
Caravan, 1941, edited by Sterling A. Brown, Arthur P. Davis, and
Ulysses G. Lee, as well as correspondence, manuscripts, and
printed materials relating primarily to George Washington Cable,
Adelene Moffat, and William S. Braithwaite.

Cantor gift. Mr. Eli Cantor has made a substantial addition to the
collection of his papers that he established in the Rare Book and
Manuscript Library two years ago. The recent gift includes more
than fifty manuscripts and drafts pertaining to his recent fiction
writing. Of special importance in Mr. Cantor's gift is the group of
approximately 4,450 printed or mimeographed publications issued
from 1942 through 1959 by the Research Institute of America,
Inc., a New York based research organization devoted to business
and financial affairs; Mr. Cantor served as editor-in-chief for the
various series of the Institute's reports, policy memoranda and
letters, and economic analyses.

Gordon family gift. The Abraham Lincoln Collection formed by the
late I. Cyrus Gordon (A.B., 1924; LL.B., 1926) has been presented
in his memory by his children, Mr. Donald J. Gordon and Mrs.
Susan Gordon Ross. The printed materials include some 1,022
 

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