Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Anshen gift. Dr. Ruth Nanda Anshen has presented a collection
of nearly two thousand books from her library, comprising first
editions and scholarly publications in the fields of moral philos¬
ophy, literature, cultural history, and general reference, primarily of
the twentieth century, but including several rare eighteenth and
nineteenth century books. Dr. Anshen has also donated a group of
medical books and periodicals, mainly in the field of oral surgery,
from the collection of her husband, the late Dr. Ralph Brodsky.
More than 1,500 letters and manuscripts were also added by Dr.
Anshen to the collection of her papers, including files of letters
from Sir Bernard Lovell, Jacques Maritain, Lewis Mumford, Bill
Naughton, and Roger Sperry, among numerous other distin¬
guished philosophers and scientists.

B'edard gift. The papers of the late Pierre Bedard, noted diplomat
and educator, have been presented by Mrs. Bedard. The more than
2,400 letters, manuscripts, photographs, and memorabilia docu¬
ment Mr. Bedard's career as assistant secretary to the American
Delegation at the Versailles Peace Conference, radio news analyst
with the Columbia Broadcasting System, American counselor to
the French Military Mission in Washington, Director ofthe French
Institute in New York, and President of the Parsons School of
Design. Among the correspondence files are letters from a variety
of public figures and celebrities, including Charles Boyer, Dwight
D. Eisenhower, Paul Hazard, Cordell Hull, Alphonse-Pierre Juin,
Rockwell Kent, Henry Cabot Lodge, Andre Maurois, Edward R.
Murrow, and Thornton Wilder. Of special importance is the
lengthy file of transcripts of Mr. Bedard's broadcasts to France,
during the period 1937-1940, over the Columbia Broadcasting
System and the French national network. The photographs in
Mrs. Bedard's gift include an album from the First World War and
a series from the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919.

37